The NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway was postponed Sunday night after 52 laps on a misty day in which the conditions slowly deteriorated to drizzle.

Scott Dixon controlled his own fate and simply needed a smooth Sunday drive to win a sixth IndyCar championship.

After growing up watching Michael Schumacher's triumphs on television, Lewis Hamilton now stands above him and alone in Formula One history with 92 career victories.

Joey Logano spent the final 40-plus laps of Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway keeping an eye on Kevin Harvick in his rearview mirror.

Kyle Busch, leading a race he had to win, not once believed he was driving toward victory lane.

Staying back helped Denny Hamlin finally return to the front.

After two decades of the same left turns at the same tracks over and over again, NASCAR finally upended its stagnant calendar with a 2021 Cup Series schedule that is radical in its renovation.

In a city of gamblers, the best strategy might be to play it safe. That's a difficult position for Kyle Busch, who feels intense pressure to run well at his home track, where he has just one win in 18 Cup Series starts.

Feeding off one of the largest crowds at a sporting event during the coronavirus pandemic, Kevin Harvick zipped into the second round of the playoffs in pursuit of a championship that is clearly his to lose.

Brad Keselowski entered the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs certain he has as good a chance at the 2020 season championship as favorites Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin.

There was no doubt which of his two Darlington Raceway victories this year Kevin Harvick enjoyed more.

There are two clear favorites for the NASCAR Cup Series title as the 10-week playoffs begin Sunday at Darlington Raceway.

A NASCAR race is far more than 500 miles of left turns. It's a turbo-charged miniature Mardi Gras of booze-soaked infield campsites, concerts, fireworks and patriotic displays.

NASCAR has decided it will not grant COVID-19 relief during the Cup Series postseason, meaning a positive coronavirus test could end a driver's bid for the 2020 championship.

Jimmie Johnson sat on pit road in his mangled mess during a red flag and surely realized the "storybook ending" he talked about a day earlier was gone.

Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O'Ward before the event at World Wide Technology Raceway finished under caution.

William Byron snaked his way through a smoky crash scene late Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, then narrowly avoided another melee a few laps later.

Racing at Daytona International Speedway always comes with a hefty dose of drama.

At an eerily empty Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Takuma Sato snatched a second Indianapolis 500 victory in an odd and unsatisfying finish to the latest edition of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin have emerged as the clear contenders to win it all in the Cup Series this year, and again they proved their mettle in a doubleheader.

Marco Andretti will lead the field to green Sunday as the first Andretti in pole position for the Indy 500 since Mario in 1987.

Denny Hamlin crossed Dover International Speedway off the meager list of tracks where he had yet to win a NASCAR race, then turned his ambitions toward one more goal he'd like to scratch off the docket.

Dover Motorsports Inc. announced the hire before Saturday's Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway.