Sam Hornish made it look like he never left the NASCAR XFINITY Series on Sunday afternoon at Iowa Speedway, putting on a Father’s Day clinic as he led 183 of 250 laps to score the win in the American Ethanol e15 250.
William Byron was able to fight back from a late-race pit road miscue and drive through the field, making a daring three-wide pass of Cole Custer and Ben Rhodes in turns three and four with 10 laps to go and holding off Custer on a green-white-checkered restart to win his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race of the season Saturday night at Iowa Speedway.
For the eighth time this season, Joe Gibbs Racing swept the top three positions in NASCAR XFINITY Series qualifying and left the rest of their competition searching for answers — led by Erik Jones, who toured the .875-mile Iowa Speedway in 23.204 seconds (135.752 mph) to grab the 21 Means 21 Pole Award for Sunday’s American Ethanol E-15 250.
Recent ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards winners Myatt Snider and Grant Enfinger will headline the latest episode of the Stock Car Steel/SRI Motorsports Show, airing tonight at 7 p.m. ET on the Performance Motorsports Network.
A fire that broke out in the early hours of Monday morning has damaged the 100,000 square foot ThorSport Racing shop in Sandusky, Ohio.
Stewart Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch stormed to his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of the season in Monday’s rain-delayed, rescheduled Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 at Pocono Raceway, leading the final 32 laps of a fuel-mileage run and holding off fan-favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. by 1.127 seconds at the checkered flag.
Denny Hamlin made a furious rally in the closing stages of Saturday’s Hisense 4K TV 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, ultimately climbing from sixth on the two lap sprint, passing Joey Logano exiting turn two on the final lap and holding off Austin Dillon coming back to the checkered flag for his first XFINITY win of the season.
For the sixth time this season, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas swept the NASCAR XFINITY Series qualifying podium, with rookie Erik Jones taking his fourth pole of the season and seventh of his career in the No. 20 Gamestop Camry.