Both Elliott and Byron have a Cup Series win at COTA while Larson visited victory lane in the NASCAR O'Reilly Series in 2024. Bowman, meanwhile, is one of only two drivers to have finished in the top 10 in all five Cup races at the complex, and his average finish of 5.2 is also second best.

At a glance, the common ground between the motorsports realm of NASCAR and the winter sport of luge should seem small. Then again, after a season-opening exhibition race for the stock-car crowd that faced snow and ice this past week, maybe more overlap ...

It’s street-racing time, with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series hitting up the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, on Saturday for an 80-lap contest (noon ET, FOX, NASCAR Racing Network Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

The “Great American Race” was initially scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. start. The start time has been moved up to 1:30 p.m., with the green flag set for 2:13 p.m. The change comes as the National Weather Service forecasted a 50 percent chance of rain Sunday ...