Ryan Newman has been released from a Florida hospital two days after a frightening crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is awake and speaking with family and doctors a day after his horrific crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Roush Fenway Racing released an update on its driver Tuesday, about 20 hours after Newman’s car slammed into the wall at nearly 200 mph, flipped, got T-boned by another car, flipped several more times and...

At the finish line, Denny Hamlin made history with a second straight Daytona 500 victory in an overtime photo finish over Ryan Blaney, a celebration that quickly became muted as word of Newman’s wreck spread.

Former race-car driver John Andretti has died at the age of 56 after battling colon cancer.

Robert Glenn “Junior” Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as “The Last American Hero” by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88....

NASCAR announced the death of Johnson, the winner of 50 races as a driver and 132 as an owner. He was a member of the inaugural class inducted into the...

NASCAR has fined three car owners $50,000 each and penalized their teams for manipulating the season-ending Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in an alleged scheme to collect a higher bonus payout. Jay Robinson (Premium Motorsports), Rick Ware (Rick Ware Racing) and TJ Puchyr (Spire Motorsports) were fined. Each team penalized had cars fall out of the race, apparently to...

President Donald Trump popped off a few impeachment jokes as he continued the 30-year-old tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey. Trump’s latest act of clemency Tuesday benefits Butter, a 47-pound turkey wished a “lot of luck” by the president. Trump also said he was sparing Bread, Butter’s partner, from being served up on a Thanksgiving table near you.

Busch emerged from the Joe Gibbs Racing juggernaut as NASCAR’s latest champion, winning his second title Sunday after teammates Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. were slowed by pit-road gaffes.

Three of the four finalists for the title – Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick – raced for the championship last season and all have won NASCAR’s top honor since the format changed to its current system.

The three-day event – with each of the sport’s three levels known as the Monster Energy Series, the Xfinity Series and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series – kicks off Friday for the 18th straight time being the final weekend of the season.

NASCAR and NBC Sports are set to launch a new streaming service that will include exclusive motorsports events and an extensive library of archived documentaries and films.

The race was the first event held at the Homestead-Miami Speedway back in 1995 and has been the final race of the season since 2002 for the Xfinity Series.

The event, which kicked off Tuesday morning and runs until 4 p.m. Wednesday, was designed to allow the public to interact with the Xfinity brand and other company products while getting to know members of the NBCUniversal family.

Christopher Bell led 101 of the 200 laps, claimed both stages and won the NASCAR Xfinity race at Texas on Saturday night to secure one of the four spots to race for the series championship.

Hazy, hot and humid conditions continue across South Florida. A few more days without showers or thunderstorms.

Martin Truex Jr. seemed to have a ‘pinch me’ moment as he climbed from his car in Victory Lane. Nudged off the lead with 87 laps to go, Truex rallied Saturday night, ultimately passing teammate Kyle Busch with 25 laps to go and winning his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race. That it came in the series’ playoffs in Richmond,...

Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. They say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it...