Last weekend seemingly hogged a lot of the spotlight. The Xfinity 500 marked the penultimate race of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, with a lot of drivers’ fates on the line.

Prior to Friday's Cup Series session was practice in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Corey Day is back in the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet this weekend and was fast off the truck, turning in the fourth-best lap time at 28.143 seconds.

Freeway Insurance to also become title sponsor for the 2026 fall NASCAR Cup Series Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR today announced that Freeway Insurance, a division of Confie and the largest independent personal lines agency and broker in the U.

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Chase Briscoe’s hometown of Mitchell, Indiana, is throwing a watch party in hopes of seeing its native son win his first NASCAR Cup championship on Sunday. Briscoe will race against Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and William Byron for the title at Phoenix Raceway. NBC and Peacock will broadcast the race.

NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha said Tuesday that they had lost over $8 million in a life insurance scheme.

Christopher Bell was digesting the disappointment of a second consecutive year of being eliminated from NASCAR Cup Series championship contention at Martinsville Speedway when he offered an astute observation about those who are title contenders.

Rick Ware Racing — Good news: Cody Ware finished 24th at Phoenix in March, his best finish in eight Cup starts there. Bad news: Ware has finished 30th or worse in the last six races.