Brad Keselowski, in a contract year and trying to increase his value as a potential free agent, gave team owner Roger Penske a victory on what should have been the most celebrated day in motorsports but was instead just a six-plus hour NASCAR show.

Chris "Pops" Bowyer sat in a lawn chair wearing a plain white T-shirt and drinking a beer alongside wife Jana and their friends outside of their motorhome a few hundred yards from Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The roaring engines and flying dirt pellets briefly brought Gas City I-69 Speedway back to life Sunday, but despite being on center stage with nearby Indianapolis Motor Speedway still silent, everyone sensed something was missing.

The Monaco Grand Prix was canceled. The Indianapolis 500 is postponed until August. Only the Coca-Cola 600 is still scheduled as planned.

Come Sunday, Tennessee residents Harry and Judy Wiley plan to walk down their driveway in Johnson City, climb inside their 39-foot motorhome, flip on the television and do the best they can to enjoy NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 — a staple of their Memorial Day weekend for decades.

Simon Pagenaud knows what he should be doing right now.

NASCAR had been planning sweeping changes for 2021 in hopes of finding new fans and adding some energy to a staid, stale schedule.

Robin Trivette is a popular person this week with the Coca-Cola 600 approaching, and it has nothing to do with her bubbly personality.

NASCAR driver Chase Briscoe was grateful to bring a moment or two of happiness to wife Marissa in the worst week of their lives.

Kyle Busch is NASCAR's reigning Cup Series champion and the resident villain of the series. Chase Elliott has been voted most popular driver the past two years.

Denny Hamlin won NASCAR's first Wednesday race since 1984 when rain stopped the Cup Series event with 20 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway.

Noah Gragson couldn't wait to get back to Xfinity Series action at Darlington Raceway.

This was a 400-mile drive unlike any other in modern day NASCAR.

NASCAR will not be as you remember it when racing returns Sunday at one of the circuit's beloved old tracks, egg-shaped Darlington Raceway.

Crew chief Chad Knaus won't get a look at the car Hendrick Motorsports built for Darlington Raceway until he arrives there Sunday morning, a few hours before William Byron gets behind the wheel to race.

Harold Brasington III recalls riding around the infield at Darlington Raceway as a youngster with his grandfather, the man who built the track, watching as his namesake said hello to the likes of Dale Earnhardt, David Pearson, Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough.

Brad Keselowski celebrated his first pole position of the 2020 season — and perhaps the most memorable of his racing career — from afar.

It will be a summer in the South for NASCAR: The stock car series announced Thursday it will stick to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee for June races — all of them without fans.

Jeff Gordon thought his wife, a former model, was kidding when she asked the NASCAR Hall of Famer to color her graying roots.

The NASCAR Cup Series season started with the Secret Service doing a security check on the firesuit-clad pole-sitter for the Daytona 500 and thousands of fans waiting hours in line to pass through a metal detector.

Kerry Tharp spent nearly four decades in the sports media relations world, helping promote student-athletes at Tennessee, Oklahoma and South Carolina before leaving the college realm to enhance NASCAR's communication efforts.

NASCAR is scheduled to resume real racing May 17 at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway without spectators.

IndyCar has gotten the green flag to finally start its 2020 season, which it will do in Fort Worth with a June 6 night race minus spectators.