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.

Jimmie Johnson is at the win-or-else stage of his playoff push as he hits his favorite track.

The Indianapolis 500 has been stripped almost to the bone for the 104th running of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

What do you do when the entire world believes you are a racist?

Racing the road course at Daytona International Speedway could have been a debacle.

Chase Elliott was already stock car racing royalty, a prince as the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott and the sport's reigning most popular driver. Now he's also the road king.

No practice. No qualifying. Just climb through the window and go — as fast as you can through a tricky layout with unknowns all around. No biggie.

Kevin Harvick won just about everything he could in a stellar weekend at Michigan International Speedway, although fittingly, Denny Hamlin was the last driver to pressure him.

It takes a lot to beat Kevin Harvick these days — especially in Michigan.

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.