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Hamlin on modern NASCAR: "You adapt or you die"

Hamlin made his NASCAR Cup Series debut in 2005, and has had a front row seat to how the racing has evolved over the last two decades.

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Reddick beats Busch for NASCAR Cup pole at Richmond

Reddick’s average lap speed of 113.689 mph in the final round of Saturday’s qualifying session was enough to hold off the Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet of Kyle Busch (113.636 mph) and win the pole for Sunday’s race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.

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Spire names new interim crew chief for Cup driver Ty Dillon

Veteran crew chief Kevin “Bono” Manion has been named interim crew chief for Dillon, 31, and the No. 77 Chevrolet team beginning with this weekend’s race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Manion replaces Kevin Bellicourt.

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Denny Hamlin: "Fandom doesn't give me trophies"

While fans expressing displeasure with Hamlin isn’t new – especially since his public on-track run-in with Chase Elliott in 2017 – Sunday’s demonstration was particularly vocal.

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NASCAR Cup Pocono: Hamlin pushes Larson into the wall for 50th career win

After the final round of green flag pitstops, Larson and Hamlin battled for the lead on a restart with seven of 160 laps remaining – just after Alex Bowman lost control of his car racing Hamlin and crashed at Turn 3.

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Busch: Van Gisbergen the favourite for Indy NASCAR race

Van Gisbergen shocked the motor racing world earlier this month when he became the first driver in modern NASCAR history to win on debut.

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Busch: Van Gisbergen favourite for Indianapolis NASCAR race

Van Gisbergen shocked the motor racing world earlier this month when he became the first driver in modern NASCAR history to win on debut.

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Kyle Busch spells out his NASCAR retirement "dream"

Busch, 38, has made no secret of his hope to one day race in NASCAR competition with his son but unveiled a very detailed plan of how he hopes it will all go down in an appearance on SiriusXM Business Radio’s show, “Cars Culture with Jason Stein.”

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NASCAR 2023 Pocono schedule, entry list, and how to watch

Martin Truex Jr. dominated at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, leading 254 of 301 laps on his way to his third win of the 2023 season. The race was run on Monday after extreme weather forced NASCAR to postpone the event.

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Truex: Winning Cup title "all that matters right now"

Truex, 43, has yet to decide whether he will return to his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team next season or retire at season’s end – it was about this time a year ago when he decided to return for 2023.

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NASCAR Cup New Hampshire: Martin Truex Jr dominates delayed race

In the previous nine races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Truex had led 768 laps – including winning the pole last year – but had never finished better than third.

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Spain’s snap vote: Catalans fear right-wing takeover

Final opinion polls project that the right-wing PP party will win a majority in a coalition with the far-right Vox.

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Despite being rain-shortened, Atlanta Cup race draws rave reviews

Desperately needing a repave, Atlanta was also reconfigured in the 2021 offseason. The banking was increased from 24 to 28 degrees and the track width decreased from 55 feet to 40 feet in the corners.

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NASCAR celebrates 'remarkable' and 'historic' Chicago race

Both the Xfinity and Cup Series raced on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course created through Grant Park in downtown Chicago and the biggest hurdle faced by NASCAR ended up being battles with the weather.

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NASCAR Cup Chicago: Van Gisbergen takes dramatic win on debut

With NASCAR celebrating its 75th anniversary, van Gisbergen stunned the motorsport world by winning the rain-delayed first street race in Cup series history.

Motorsport

Shane van Gisbergen takes dramatic NASCAR Cup win on debut

With NASCAR celebrating its 75th anniversary, Van Gisbergen put an exclamation point on the sport’s global motorsports reach by winning the rain-delayed first street race in Cup series history.

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Button "pretty happy" with top-10 NASCAR qualifying effort

Button, 43, is making his second NASCAR Cup Series start this weekend on the streets of Chicago.

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Worker dies in accident while setting up NASCAR's Chicago Street Course

In a statement Friday, NASCAR confirmed an employee of a private contractor working on the construction of the Chicago Street Course suffered a “fatal medical emergency.”

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NASCAR's Chicago Street Course: A turn-by-turn analysis

The front straightaway and pit road areas are located on South Columbus Drive and run along a two-block stretch that will take the Xfinity and Cup fields past the iconic Buckingham Fountain, a Chicago landmark dedicated in 1927 and one of the largest in the world.

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Catalonia’s Town Councils To Be Constituted For 2023-2027 Term Amid Political Party Agreements

Parties work to finalize governance deals in key municipalities; disagreements prevent pro-independence unity in some areas

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Conor Daly to run NASCAR Truck Series race at Mid-Ohio

Daly, 31, has a handful of starts across all three national divisions of NASCAR.

Motorsport

Kobayashi: "To race in NASCAR was my dream" as a child

Following the Project 91 initiative from Trackhouse Racing, there has been a sudden push by Cup teams to bring in international racing stars for one-off starts.

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First NASCAR Cup start "means the world" to Carson Hocevar

Hocevar, who has competed fulltime in the Truck Series since 2021 and made his Xfinity Series debut earlier this season, has been tapped by Spire Motorsports to make his Cup debut Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis.

Autosport

NASCAR Cup Charlotte: Blaney caps Penske's big weekend with Coke 600 win

Coming one day after Josef Newgarden won the Indianapolis 500 for Team Penske, Blaney won out in a race delayed one day by rain after beating William Byron's Hendrick Chevrolet at a restart with 20 laps to go.

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NASCAR's Coke 600 at Charlotte postponed due to rain

The 600-mile NASCAR Cup race was originally scheduled to go green at 6:21 p.m. ET and cap a day of giant motorsports events following the Formula 1 race at Monaco and the Indianapolis 500.

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