nascar

We can all pretty much agree that football, baseball, soccer, basketball and hockey are "sports" and those who play those sports are athletes. But for many years some people have refused to accept that car racing is a sport and that drivers are athletes...

Fasten your seat belts, because we want to put you on a fast groove to Las Vegas to watch three days of NASCAR racing this March! Qualifying laps start as soon as you get entered! If we pick your entry, you and a friend will win Neon Garage pit passes at the Kobalt 400, the BoydGaming 300 and Stratosphere Pole Day...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jimmie Johnson won his fourth consecutive fall race at Texas, overcoming Brad Keselowski's dominating Chase-contending car with three laps to go Sunday. Keselowski led a track-record 312 of 334 laps and worked hard to hold on to the lead after the final restart with 18 laps left in a race he felt he needed to win to get one of the four spots in the Chase of the Sprint Cup

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Matt Kenseth is trying to overturn his two-race suspension, but NASCAR apparently will contend he altered the outcome of a race when he intentionally wrecked Joey Logano. Kenseth delivered payback after being spun by Logano three races ago...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Matt Kenseth has been suspended for the next two races for intentionally wrecking Joey Logano in an act of retaliation that threatens to affect who wins the NASCAR championship. The penalty was levied Tuesday...

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Joey Logano completed a sweep of the second round of NASCAR's playoffs by winning in a controversial finish Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR said earlier this week it would make just one attempt to finish the race under green-flag conditions, and Logano was the leader on what was supposed to be the final restart...

Joey Logano led 227 laps and won the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina on Sunday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tony Stewart will announce he's retiring following the 2016 season at a news conference Wednesday, The Associated Press has learned. Stewart-Haas Racing said Sunday night that Stewart and team co-owner Gene Haas will hold a news conference at the team shop this week...

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Jeff Gordon has set the NASCAR record with his 789th consecutive start. Gordon was behind the wheel of the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports and became the sport's Iron Man on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway...

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Matt Kenseth pushed Kevin Harvick down the stretch and took the lead for good when the defending series champion ran out of gas Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the second race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship...