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Predicting how the 2023 NASCAR Cup playoffs will unfold

Martin Truex Jr. and William Byron enter the playoffs at the very top of the standings, equal with 36 bonus points each.

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JGR locks out front row for Southern 500 with Bell on pole

Bell, who was fastest in Saturday’s practice, capped the day by winning the pole for Saturday night’s playoff opener at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.

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Christopher Bell leads Darlington Cup practice

Bell’s top average speed of 168.428 mph came in the first 20-minute session, as did four of the top-five overall speeds.

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Power ranking the NASCAR Cup Series playoff drivers

The NASCAR Playoffs begin at Darlington, but which drivers have the best shot at the 2023 Cup Series championship? See our full rankings.

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NASCAR Cup Daytona: Buescher wins, Wallace takes final playoff spot

The race was sent into a two-lap overtime following a horrific crash involving Ryan Preece that resulted in the Stewart-Haas driver being sent to hospital, with Kevin Harvick in the lead on his final outing at the superspeedway.

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Button encouraged by pace on NASCAR return despite "messy" Indianapolis race

Making his third and final planned Cup appearance of the season in a Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang after taking in the Circuit of the Americas rounds and the Chicago road course, Button started 31st in the 39-car field and endured an eventful race to finish a lap down on…

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Van Gisbergen leads ringers with top-ten finish at Indianapolis

Van Gisbergen started eighth in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, but quickly moved up to seventh after some contact at the start with Christopher Bell.

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Reddick beats Busch for NASCAR Cup pole at Richmond

Reddick’s average lap speed of 113.689 mph in the final round of Saturday’s qualifying session was enough to hold off the Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet of Kyle Busch (113.636 mph) and win the pole for Sunday’s race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.

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NASCAR Cup Pocono: Hamlin pushes Larson into the wall for 50th career win

After the final round of green flag pitstops, Larson and Hamlin battled for the lead on a restart with seven of 160 laps remaining – just after Alex Bowman lost control of his car racing Hamlin and crashed at Turn 3.

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NASCAR Cup New Hampshire: Martin Truex Jr dominates delayed race

In the previous nine races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Truex had led 768 laps – including winning the pole last year – but had never finished better than third.

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NASCAR Cup Chicago: Van Gisbergen takes dramatic win on debut

With NASCAR celebrating its 75th anniversary, van Gisbergen stunned the motorsport world by winning the rain-delayed first street race in Cup series history.

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NASCAR Cup Chicago: Van Gisbergen leads Hamlin and Button in practice

Van Gisbergen, the three-time Australian Supercars champion making his Cup debut this weekend in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, set a blistering pace throughout the 50-minute session.

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Van Gisbergen leads Hamlin and Button in Chicago Cup practice

Van Gisbergen, the three-time Australian Supercars champion making his Cup debut this weekend in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, set a blistering pace throughout the 50-minute session.

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‘He’s always going to rag on you’: NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace on driving for Michael Jordan

Jordan is a co-owner of 23XI Racing, which will have a pair of drivers — Wallace and Tyler Reddick — in Sunday’s Grant Park 220 downtown street race.

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NASCAR in Chicago is the epitome of a culture clash

Are those cars and drivers ready for us? Are we ready for them?

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Power ranking every 2023 NASCAR Cup Series title contender

With just 10 races left to go before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, we're ranking all the 2023 title contenders.

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Kyle Larson leads the way in Sonoma Cup practice

Larson had the fastest overall average lap speed at 91.019 mph, which he set in the first 20-minute session.

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Cindric: "I do not enjoy having my character in question"

While battling for position late in Sunday's race at Gateway, Dillon got turned off the nose of Cindric, spinning up the track and collecting Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

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NASCAR Cup Gateway: Kyle Busch survives multiple restarts to triumph

Busch dominated much of the race – leading 121 of the 243 laps – but had to wait a near two-hour weather delay for lightning with the race just five laps old.

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NASCAR Cup at Gateway under delay due to lightning

One lap after taking the green flag, the race was placed under caution when Tyler Reddick got spun in Turn 1 after contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

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NASCAR Cup Charlotte: Blaney caps Penske's big weekend with Coke 600 win

Coming one day after Josef Newgarden won the Indianapolis 500 for Team Penske, Blaney won out in a race delayed one day by rain after beating William Byron's Hendrick Chevrolet at a restart with 20 laps to go.

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Blaney caps off big weekend for Penske with Coke 600 win

Despite a race marred by 16 cautions and delayed a day by rain, Blaney got away on the final restart with 20 of 400 laps remaining and held off William Byron by 0.663 seconds to win Monday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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Rain cancels Coke 600 qualifying; William Byron on pole

NASCAR officials were still trying to get Saturday’s Xfinity Series race started when it pulled the plug on all track activity around 3:45 p.m. ET.

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2023 Darlington throwback schemes, and the stories behind them

Throwing it back to Dale Jarrett's 2001 season with the colors, and even the sponsor as UPS will adorn the hood of the championship points leader.

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Martin Truex Jr. beats Bubba Wallace for Darlington Cup pole

Truex, whose No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, had not shown to be particularly fast in Saturday’s practice session, rocketed to the top of the final round of qualifying with an average lap speed of 169.409 mph.

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