February 21, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – It’s easy to spot a trend where Kyle Busch is concerned. Put Busch in one of his own Kyle Busch Motorsports trucks, and he’s all but certain to win. That’s been the case for seven straight starts in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, counting Friday night’s victory in the Strat 200 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his home track. Busch led seven times for 108 of the 134 laps in the 200-mile race. About the only difficulty he had was clearing Sheldon Creed on consecutive restarts in…

February 15, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It was a first for Noah Gragson. It was more of the same for Dale Earnhardt Jr. When a wreck on the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway ended Saturday’s NASCAR Racing Experience 300, Gragson was in the lead, and when the driver of the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet crossed the finish line under caution, he claimed his long-awaited first victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. What was a novel experience for Gragson was old hat to Earnhardt, who won at the 2.5-mile track for the seventh time as…

February 14, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Grant Enfinger held off charging Jordan Anderson on the final lap of overtime Friday night at Daytona International Speedway to win the NextEra Energy 250 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race by .010 seconds. Enfinger got his shot at the win after a massive wreck on Lap 98 of a scheduled 100 took out his ThorSport Racing teammate, Ben Rhodes, and a baker’s dozen of other contenders. Enfinger had the lead for a restart on Lap 105, but on the final circuit, Anderson made a move to…

November 21, 2019 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson’s two young daughters Genevieve, 9, and Lydia, 7, introduced their father and his team owner Rick Hendrick to a sizable audience of Hendrick Motorsports teammates, Johnson’s family and friends and the motorsports media gathered outside Charlotte, N.C. Thursday afternoon. His children’s involvement in this important event was a fitting life-bridge for Johnson’s retirement press conference. The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion announced Wednesday that the 2020 season will be his last fulltime competitive run in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. His time afterward will instead be focused…

November 21, 2019 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service Perhaps a future NASCAR Xfinity Series or maybe even a future Monster Energy NASCAR Cup champion will be crowned Saturday night in Charlotte as the industry celebrates 115 champion drivers from its thriving regional, local and international series at the Charlotte Convention Center. Competitors from the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour to both of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series – East and West – to NASCAR’s Pinty Series and the hugely popular NASCAR Whelen Euro Series will be duly celebrated alongside the best in short track local racing that compete in the NASCAR Whelen…