BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) – Carl Edwards won his second straight pole at Bristol Motor Speedway, leading Joe Gibbs Racing’s Olympic-style sweep of the top three spots in qualifying Friday for the Saturday night race. Edwards had a fast lap of 131.407 mph on the concrete surface of the half-mile track. He bested teammates Denny Hamlin in second and Kyle Busch…
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) – Three days after signing Martin Truex Jr. to a contract extension, Furniture Row Racing announced Sunday that it was adding a second car to its Sprint Cup lineup to be driven next season by Xfinity rookie Erik Jones. Team owner Barney Visser said the contract with the 20-year-old Jones is for one year with the…
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) – Chris Buescher waited out a foul-weathered end on pit road to become a stunning winner in Monday’s Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway. Buescher, who drives for underfunded Front Row Motorsports and hadn’t finished better than 14th all season, was the beneficiary of bad weather on a rare Monday race that had been postponed a…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – NASCAR has suspended the crew chief for Kevin Harvick for an improperly installed lug nut at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Rodney Childers will not appeal the suspension or his $20,000 fine. He will miss Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway. Childers is the fifth crew chief suspended over a lug nut rule instituted by NASCAR earlier this season….
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss two more races as he recovers from concussion-like symptoms and retired NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will replace him at Indianapolis and Pocono. The announcement came Wednesday from Hendrick Motorsports, which said Earnhardt has not been cleared by doctors to drive. He missed last weekend’s race in New Hampshire and was replaced by…
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) – Jimmie Johnson turned a lap of 133.971 mph and won his first pole of the season Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Johnson could use a boost after a five-race slump where he hasn’t finished better than 13th. He has crashed out of his last two races, finishing 35th at Daytona International Speedway and 32nd last…
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) – Jeff Gordon is open to succeeding Michael Strahan as Kelly Ripa’s new “Live” co-host – so long as he could continue his new job as a NASCAR analyst. Gordon is calling his final race of the season Sunday for Fox Sports and then will head into the first significant downtime of his professional career. The four-time…
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) – Carl Edwards has won the pole for Sunday’s road course race at Sonoma Raceway. Edwards ran a lap at 95.777 mph around the 10-turn, 1.99-mile track in Saturday’s qualifying session to put his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in the top starting spot. AJ Allmendinger qualified second with a lap at 95.676 mph in his JTG Daugherty…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – The Sprint Cup team of Kyle Larson has been punished by NASCAR for the second consecutive race. Interim crew chief Philip Surgen was fined $25,000 and the Chip Ganassi Racing team lost 15 driver points and 15 owner points for infractions at the race in Michigan last weekend. The No. 42 Chevrolet failed a post-race inspection,…
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) – Joey Logano posted a lap of 199.557 mph Friday to win the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway. Logano will start first on Sunday for the second time this year and the 16th time in his career. Martin Truex Jr. will begin second, his ninth start among the top 10 this…
