Articles filed under Auto Racing
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Briscoe tries to move past devastating penalties and Blaney to start on pole in NASCAR Atlanta raceFeb 22, 2025 6:27 pm - A massive fine left Chase Briscoe facing a huge points deficit heading into Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Even so, Briscoe insists he feels no new pressure. He says he already felt an urgency to win this week because those are the expectations at Joe Gibbs Racing, his new NASCAR home.
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William Bryon survives late wrecks to win 2nd straight Daytona 500Feb 16, 2025 9:00 pm - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla — William Byron raced to his second straight Daytona 500 victory, surviving a string of late-race wrecks that knocked out a chunk of contenders and sen...
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NASCAR star Kyle Larson is on a tear in 2025. Can he keep it going with a Daytona 500 win?Feb 15, 2025 8:34 pm - Kyle Larson will try to snap a 0-for-11 skid in the Daytona 500, and The Associated Press will be embedded with his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team. Daytona has never been good to Larson despite three poles.
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Final Daytona 500 practice is paced by Keselowski as Fords dominate session 17 drivers skippedFeb 15, 2025 8:22 pm - Ford led the final Daytona 500 practice with Brad Keselowski pacing the field as he attempts to snap a 15-year winless drought Sunday in "The Great American Race." Keselowski co-owns the Ford that went 193.307 mph in Saturday's 55-minute final tune-up session.
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With tears flowing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets another shot at the Daytona 500 as a team ownerFeb 14, 2025 6:44 pm - Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment hit him at Daytona International Speedway — a track bursting with triumph and tragedy for his family — that he was, with a country star and a NASCAR champ in tow, back in the Daytona 500.
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Oh, baby! Bubba Wallace celebrates his 1st win at Daytona with his newborn son and a new outlookFeb 13, 2025 9:22 pm - Bubba Wallace won the first of two qualifying races for the Daytona 500. He showed enough speed to make him one of the favorites heading into "The Great American Race." Wallace will start third in the Daytona 500 behind pole-sitter Chase Briscoe and Austin Cindric.
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What’s the difference between racing Indy 500 and Daytona 500? Drivers who have tried both explainFeb 13, 2025 3:08 pm - They are the signature spectacles in each racing series, the Indianapolis 500 and all its pageantry with more than a century of tradition and milk drinking in open wheel racing, and the Daytona 500, NASCAR's season opener run under the Florida sun at the unofficial home of the "birthplace of speed."
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Briscoe gives Toyota its first Daytona 500 pole as Johnson and Truex also lock into NASCAR openerFeb 12, 2025 9:54 pm - Chase Briscoe led a banner night for Toyota in qualifying for the Daytona 500 by winning the pole for NASCAR's "Great American Race." It is the first Daytona 500 pole for Briscoe, who moved to Joe Gibbs Racing this season when Stewart-Haas Racing closed at the end of 2024.
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NASCAR’s lone Black Cup driver Bubba Wallace ‘couldn't care less’ if Trump attends Daytona 500Feb 12, 2025 5:23 pm - Bubba Wallace said he "couldn't care less" if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series' only Black full-time driver of perpetrating "a hoax" when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall.
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Edwards and Rudd walked away from NASCAR and never looked back. Their reunion is at the Hall of FameFeb 06, 2025 5:29 pm - Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap in their respective NASCAR careers. Edwards only entered the the elite Cup Series in 2004 — a mere 67 races before Rudd ended his 32-year career — so the two never got a chance to know one another. But two things tie Edwards and Rudd together — when each decided to retire, both essentially vanished from the NASCAR scene, and, on Friday night they will return to their old racing community as inductees of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.