With about 70 laps to go in his back-and-forth battle against Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin radioed in to his team: "This is awesome racing." Imagine how Keselowski felt.

Suddenly, Denny Hamlin is carrying around the tag of "best NASCAR driver never to win a Cup Series championship."

These days, three straight finishes outside the top 10 in a NASCAR Cup Series race counts as a rough patch for Denny Hamlin.

Blake Lothian's background in racing doesn't appear too different from those who have ascended to the summit of the NASCAR world.

Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie teammate Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

Josef Newgarden was seething Friday after a fifth-place finish in the first of two IndyCar races on back-to-back nights at Iowa Speedway, insisting he had the best car and it was merely misfortune that cost him the win.

Kevin Johnson became enamored with NASCAR as a kid, decades before billion-dollar broadcast deals and in a time when auto racing shared precious air time with barrel jumping and demolition derby.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the retired NASCAR Cup Series driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 incident released by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Chase Elliott put his face mask on and went into the grandstands at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday to watch the qualifying event for the NASCAR All-Star Race, with the eventual winner of that night's main event briefly becoming a part of the largest group of spectators at a sporting event in the United States since March.

Cue the siren at the Dawsonville Pool Room. Another Elliott victory is in the books.

Hendrick Motorsports said Johnson tested negative on Monday and Tuesday and will return to the No. 48 Chevrolet on the 1.5-mile tri-oval in Sparta, Kentucky.

NASCAR's layered relationship with Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday.

Kevin Harvick turned up the pressure on Denny Hamlin late in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and as the oval cooled, Hamlin's worn tires simply gave out.

The formerly frosty schism between the two biggest racing series in the United States has finally thawed, and the result is a blockbuster event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — even without fans.

As the Rev. Greg Drumwright watched members of his ministry crowd the fence at Talladega Superspeedway to cheer for Black driver Bubba Wallace, he realized his first NASCAR race was the start of his immersion into stock car racing.

Round 2 at Pocono Raceway went to Denny Hamlin, who again stepped into the spotlight at the Pennsyvania track — and not just in a figurative sense.

He is seen as a hero to some. To others, the 26-year-old NASCAR driver represents something else entirely, and he has seen plenty of haters out on social media over his career. It has intensified in recent days.

Kevin Harvick snapped an 0-for-38 drought at Pocono Raceway, taking the checkered flag Saturday at one of two tracks where victory had eluded him on stock car racing's top circuit.

The billboard at the entrance to Pocono Raceway has photos of Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott with "First-Ever NASCAR Doubleheader" written in bold letters.

NASCAR will eventually have to wrestle with whatever headaches are caused by the stubborn Confederate flag holdouts once the gates are again open to all fans.

Declaring "the noose was real," NASCAR officials have released a photo of the rope found last weekend in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace.

NASCAR has defended its reaction and insisted it would call the FBI again.

Track president Steve Page said a "piece of twine tied in what appeared to be a noose" was found hanging from a tree Saturday behind a former administrative office, news outlets reported.