Hendrick motorsports

Hendrick Motorsports has promoted Corey Day to a full-time ride in what will be the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series next season.Day, 19, will drive the No. 17 Chevrolet with sponsorship from HendrickCars.com. Adam Wall will be the team’s crew chief.“Corey impressed us with how quickly he adapted this year,” Rick...

Rick Hendrick is now a 15-time championship-winning car owner in the NASCAR Cup Series, but the newest one accomplished a first.“This is definitely the most unexpected championship,” Hendrick said Tuesday. “I had conceded, and in my mind, it was over because Denny [Hamlin] had about a three-second lead and a...

Chase Elliott has been voted NASCAR’s most popular driver in the Cup Series for the eighth consecutive season. The results were announced Tuesday night during the NASCAR Awards celebration in Scottsdale, Arizona. Elliott received 56 percent of the total votes cast. The other top five drivers in the voting, in...

The agony of defeat saturated the air on pit road Sunday night at Phoenix Raceway.It battled the tire smoke and the cheers from Kyle Larson and Hendrick Motorsports as they celebrated the NASCAR Cup Series championship. It brought tears to the eyes of those wearing Joe Gibbs Racing logos, both...

Jeff Gordon was all too happy to welcome Kyle Larson into the multi-time NASCAR Cup Series championship club on Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Raceway.Gordon, the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports, celebrated with, and for, Larson in multiple ways. The first being as a teammate and friend, and the second as...

Kyle Larson had a moment while celebrating his second NASCAR Cup Series championship when his mind drifted elsewhere. “Iit kind of hit me like, ‘Oh, man, I can't imagine what he's feeling right now,’” Larson said of fellow championship contender Denny Hamlin.

“It just doesn’t seem right, you know?” Byron said. “He had beaten us, and we’re running second, and it’s four laps to go, and you go into the wall and cause a caution. I don’t want to be that guy..."

When William Byron hit the Turn 3 wall with bone-jarring impact on lap 310 of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race, the gut punch it delivered to Denny Hamlin was exponentially more painful.The resulting caution and strategic call by crew chief Cliff Daniels allowed Kyle Larson to snatch the Cup...

NASCAR’s Cup Series title race is old hat for William Byron.“When I hear you say that – third straight – it’s really cool,” Byron said of his consecutive appearances in the Championship 4. “We should take pride in that as a team, honestly, because it’s hard to do, especially with...

Cup Series drivers with more than three years of full-time experience will be allowed to enter a maximum of 10 races in the O’Reilly Auto Parts (currently Xfinity) Series and eight in Trucks in 2026.