In the last three races of the ARCA Menards Series West season, the winner was decided by a last lap pass. And on Friday's Kyle Busch Classic presented by Star Nursery at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, that streak continued with a chaotic finish. Driving the No. 17 MMI Services Chevrolet SS for Cook Racing Technologies, Taylor Mayhew made a classic bump-and-run move on Robbie Kennealy in a one lap shootout, moving him to the outside and sneaking past in the final corner to pick up his first career ARCA Menards Series West victory.

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It appears that Kasey Kahne’s NASCAR career isn’t quite finished yet. The 46-year-old driver is reportedly coming out of retirement to compete full-time in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series in 2027, driving for Spire Motorsports, according to a report from Jordan Bianchi and The Athletic. Per Bianchi, Kahne is “closing in on a deal” to return to full-time NASCAR competition.

Josh Berry, driver of the No. 21 eero Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Wood Brothers Racing, will have an interim crew chief for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Zach Sturniolo of NASCAR.com reports. Berry, who won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Spring 2025 while driving the iconic No. 21 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, will have Jefferson Hodges, the NASCAR Team Manager for Team Penske, serving as shot-caller for the Hendersonville, Tennessee-native.

Spire Motorsports is paying tribute to the late Kyle Busch in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series’ return trip to Charlotte Motor Speedway next weekend, running a pair of throwback schemes to honor Busch’s impact in the series, though his team, Kyle Busch Motorsports. The multi-truck NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series operation, whose presence in the series was kickstarted by the purchase of Kyle Busch Motorsports at the end of 2023, revealed two special throwback paint schemes on Friday that highlight two important moments in the history of the series’ winningest team.

It doesn’t appear that Kaulig Racing, which fields entries in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series, is the destination for Brad Keselowski, after his recent split with the team formerly known as RFK Racing. Keselowski won’t drive the No. 6 Ford Mustang Dark Horse in 2027, leading many to speculate about his future plans, figuring that Kaulig Racing, with its connection to Stellantis and its project to (eventually) return Dodge to the NASCAR Cup Series, would be the perfect fit.

After nearly a decade of extending its race-winning pedigree into the ARCA Menards Series, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), the only NASCAR Cup Series team with a direct line to ARCA, is shuttering its program at season’s end, the championship-winning organization tells JosephSrigley.com. The No. 18 Toyota Camry will hit the track one final time on October 17 at Phoenix Raceway.

2026 ARCA Menards Series East champion Tristan McKee will be taking on an expanded slate of NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series events in 2027. The 16-year-old development driver for NASCAR Cup Series team Spire Motorsports will be piloting one of the organization’s trucks in several events next season. The organization did not, however, confirm in its announcement Wednesday which truck McKee will drive, or the races in which he will compete.

NASCAR has dropped the hammer following last Saturday’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway, where several members of the Chad Bryant Racing crew went after Corey Heim following the Late Model Stock Car event – doing so near the Martinsville Hot Dog Stand. SEVEN CREW MEMBERS have received a penalty of some sort following the incident, and have been penalized as follows:

In an absolute bombshell announcement on Tuesday, RFK Racing and Brad Keselowski confirmed that they would be parting ways at the conclusion of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series campaign, leaving both a Chase-caliber seat and championship-winning driver up for grabs. Following the November season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Keselowski will no longer serve as the driver of the No. 6 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, a ride that he’s held since joining the ownership group of what is now RFK Racing at the start of 2022.

Jake Garcia is joining Front Row Motorsports (FRM) as the driver of the No. 38 Ford F-150 in the NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series for the 2027 season and beyond, the organization confirmed on Tuesday morning. “We’re excited to have Jake join us next season,” said Jerry Freeze, General Manager of Front Row Motorsports. “He displayed it at Bristol, and over his entire Truck Series career, he has the talent, abilities, and personal motivation to keep our No.

Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing and Brad Keselowski are parting ways after the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series campaign, with Keselowski ending his tenure as driver of the No. 6 Ford Mustang Dark Horse. “We are big fans of Brad as a person, driver, and colleague. The impact Brad has made on our organization has been felt by everyone associated with RFK Racing; he’s undoubtedly been a terrific representative of our collective efforts both on and off the track,” said Chip Bowers, President of RFK Racing.

Last week's winner at Bristol Motor Speedway, Joey Logano, was in line for a 12th-place finish before a right-front tire came apart at Kansas Speedway with 3 laps to go. On the replay, Logano drifted up high off Turn 4 near Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s car. Stenhouse posted on X that the two cars did not make contact. Logano rode around for the rest of the race with a right-front tire that was coming apart.

A woman from Davidson County has been awarded $850,002 by a jury in North Carolina for an alienation of affection lawsuit lobbied against former NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver Jennifer Jo Cobb, according to court records. Following the conclusion of a three-day trial, the jury determined that Cobb was successful in causing alienation within the marriage of Tracey M. Hughes and her husband, Clayton Hughes, who served as a long-time spotter for Cobb in the NASCAR Truck Series.

Tyler Reddick, Billy Scott, and all 23XI Racing are, no doubt, scratching their heads after Kansas. Despite finishing 11th in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400, the No. 45 Rockstar Energy Toyota Camry XSE unloaded from the trailer as one of the slowest race cars in the 36-driver NASCAR Cup Series field, and with no practice or qualifying, the first laps on-track came when the green flag dropped.

The final laps of Sunday’s race at Kansas will likely replay in Chase Briscoe’s mind for a while. Not just because the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) driver missed out on his second NASCAR Cup Series victory of 2026, but because, looking back on the Chase, it may end up being the final nail in the coffin for his championship hopes.

Austin Hill had heard enough from his spotter while racing Shane van Gisbergen at Kansas Speedway during the NASCAR Cup Series race. The duo has history. At Chicagoland Speedway earlier this year, van Gisbergen made contact with Hill, ending Hill's day. On lap 110 of the race at Kansas, van Gisbergen, in the No. 97 car, drifted up off the exit of turn 2 while Hill, in the No.

Austin Cindric, for the first time in his NASCAR Cup Series career, has notched a top five on a traditional mile-and-a-half racetrack, finishing second to Kyle Larson in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. Behind the wheel of the iconic No. 2 Team Penske Ford Mustang Dark Horse, Cindric had one of his best all-around showings as a Cup Series driver on Sunday, showcasing legitimate race-winning pace across all 400 miles.

Are Kyle Larson and the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet peaking at the right time? The two-time and defending NASCAR Cup Series champion dominated Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway in HISTORIC fashion – beating his own record for the most laps led at the mile-and-a-half racetrack with 235. But there was a 20-lap stint during the final run, where the Hendrick driver looked doomed to finish second.

Erik Jones is stating with LEGACY MOTOR CLUB for the foreseeable future, the team announced on its fan-driven platform “The Club” on Sunday. Jones, a native of Byron, Michigan, has been the driver of the No. 43 since 2021, when the team was still under the Richard Petty Motorsports banner. The announcement rounds out LEGACY’s driver lineup for 2027, with Erik Jones, Josh Berry (No. 42) and Riley Herbst (No. 84).

Hailie Deegan had two consecutive third place finishes in the last two races of the ARCA Menards Series West season, and during Saturday's Madera 150 at Madera Speedway, she was able to improve that position by two spots. Driving the No. 16 5.11 Tactical Chevrolet SS for Bill McAnally Racing, Deegan started out the day by earning the third fastest time in Sioux Chief PowerPEX qualifying.

Defending Brickyard 400 winner Corey Heim got a little more than he bargained for when agreeing to run the Valley Star Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway, one of the most prestigious Late Model Stock Car (LMSC) events in the country. The Marietta, Georgia-native piloted the No. 22 Nelson Motorsports Toyota Camry to a runner-up finish in the 300-lap contest, but that was, honestly, the least exciting part of his trip to the half-mile paperclip in Hampton, Virginia.

Kaden Honeycutt has taken control of the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Chase. The Willow Park, Texas-native catapulted his No. 11 Safelite Toyota Tundra TRD Pro to the top of the NASCAR Truck Series point standings after a long afternoon (and evening) on Saturday, winning the Race to Stop Suicide 200 at Kansas Speedway. Honeycutt was – without question – the dominant driver in the second event of the seven-race post-season, leading an incredible 114 of 134 laps on the way to his third career victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and the 39th for crew chief Scott Zipadelli.

The NASCAR Cup Series (for the second consecutive weekend) will have its first laps of on-track activity for the weekend when the green flag drops for Sunday’s event, after Mother Nature forced the cancellation of practice and qualifying from Kansas Speedway. It’s quite the anomaly that NASCAR has on its hands, as well, with the last five NASCAR National Series qualifying sessions (all three series at Bristol, and both Cup and Trucks at Kansas) have been axed due to inclement weather.

Ryan Blaney walked into the Kansas Speedway media center on Friday afternoon with an impossible-to-miss black eye -- the result of the former NASCAR Cup Series champion “ a two-piece” in a fight last Saturday at Bristol with Carson Hocevar. Aside from that visual reminder of last week’s altercation sitting underneath his left eye, there was nothing different about the Team Penske driver, keeping that typical Ryan Blaney demeanor: calm, cool, collected, and unfazed by questions about the incident, or the 23-year-old Spire Motorsports driver that he tussled with just six days ago.

Coming into Friday's Menards 150 at Kansas Speedway, Jake Bollman held a 16 point lead over his Nitro Motorsports teammate Thomas Annunziata for the ARCA Menards Series championship. All Bollman needed was a clean race and no major issues to secure the title. However, his day went from promising to disasterous As for the race winner, driving the No. 28 Whelen Chevrolet SS for Pinnacle Racing Group, Carson Brown outdueled Gio Ruggiero in the final restart, and after some contact on the final lap, he was able to pull away and earn his fourth win of 2026.

The 2026 ARCA Menards Series championship battle has gotten a little messy. Jake Bollman, driver of the No. 20 SynerFuse Toyota Camry, entered the night with a 16-point advantage over his Nitro Motorsports teammate Thomas Annunziata in the championship standings, but after three separate incidents, the title picture has been flipped on its head. The first instance of contact came at Lap 16, when Bollman and Annunziata were racing side-by-side for a position inside the top 10, maneuvering around a lapped car of Ed Pompa, when Bollman washed up the racetrack and made contact the No.

Thomas Annunziata will not return to the ARCA Menards Series in 2027 – at least full-time. The Colts Neck, New Jersey-native revealed in a media availability on Friday, just hours before the ARCA Menards Series season finale at Kansas Speedway, that he won’t be returning to the series next season – indicating he’s solidified his plans for next year, elsewhere.

For the second straight week, and the fifth time this season, NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series qualifying has been cancelled, due to inclement weather. As per the series’ Rule Book, NASCAR’s Performance Metric will determine the starting lineup for Saturday’s event. Nick Sanchez, who was tapped to drive the No. 77 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Silverado RST for this weekend’s Race to Stop Suicide 200 at Kansas Speedway, will lead the field to green on Saturday afternoon (1:00 PM ET on FOX Sports 1).

The NASCAR Cup Series rolls into Kansas this weekend for the first of three consecutive high-speed mile-and-a-half racetracks. It's been a while since the field has been to this style of intermediate, and that gap matters. Typically, when the schedule returns to a mile-and-a-half racetrack after a long break, there is somebody in the field that flashes a look that we haven't seen all season.

After spending more than a decade competing part-time in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series with FDNY Racing, Bryan Dauzat is gearing up for one last ride in the No. 28 FDNY / OB Builders Chevrolet Silverado RST. FDNY Racing confirmed on Thursday that the 67-year-old driver from Alexandria, Louisiana, will be retiring from NASCAR Truck Series competition following the October 23 event at Talladega Superspeedway.

After a disappointing run in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series season-opener at Daytona International Speedway, Tony Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, is back for a second race with Kaulig Racing at Talladega Superspeedway. Stewart will once again pilot the No. 25 RAM 1500 for Kaulig Racing. “Anytime you can get into a Ram truck and go racing at a place like Talladega, you jump at it,” Stewart said.

Former NASCAR Cup Series team owner and renowned businessman George Gillett, Jr. passed away on Tuesday, September 22, at the age of 87. According to The Vail Daily newspaper, Gillett passed away at a memory care facility in Denver, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. In the NASCAR industry, Gillett was known for his short stint as an owner at NASCAR’s highest level, purchasing a controlling stake in Evernham Motorsports in August 2007 from team founder Ray Evernham to form Gillett Evernham Motorsports.

Darrell Waltrip, a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and former NASCAR on FOX Analyst, will be stepping further away from the public limelight, he and his family announced in a statement distributed on Wednesday. The 79-year-old legend of NASCAR has recently been diagnosed with Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) complicated by Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which is likely the result of injuries sustained throughout his career in racing.

Jeremy Bullins will join LEGACY MOTOR CLUB for the 2027 NASCAR Cup Series campaign. Bullins, a veteran crew chief across the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, will be paired with Riley Herbst as the shot-caller for the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE, beginning with the season-opening event at Daytona in February 2027. “I’m very excited to get the opportunity to work with everyone at LEGACY MOTOR CLUB with everything that is being built here,” said…

Jeffrey Earnhardt, the grandson of seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt, is working towards returning to NASCAR’s National Series on a full-time basis in 2027, he said Tuesday in a social media post. Earnhardt, who hasn’t made a start in any of NASCAR’s top three divisions since a three-race stint with Sam Hunt Racing in 2025, says he’s secured sponsorship to run part-time in “competitive equipment”, but is looking for additional funding to make it a full-time gig.

NASCAR Cup Series winner Daniel Suarez and his wife, Julia Piquet, have welcomed their first child the world, a boy with the name Otto Suarez Piquet, the couple announced via social media on Tuesday, September 22. The couple, who were married in July 2024, announced earlier this year, in April, that they were expecting their first child together. Julia is the daughter of three-time Formula One World Driver’s Champion, Nelson Piquet.

Sam Mayer is returning to JR Motorsports in 2027. The Franklin, Wisconsin-native will return to the championship-winning organization for the 2027 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series campaign, piloting the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro – the same vehicle he piloted during his first stint with JRM from 2022 to 2024. “I’m looking forward to working with Sam again,” said Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Dawson Sutton is skipping Saturday’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series event at Kansas Speedway, Rackley WAR confirmed Monday in a social media post, to compete in a Super Late Model event at Five Flags Speedway – in preparation for December’s Snowball Derby. Sutton, the son of Rackley W.A.R. co-owner, Curtis Sutton, has served as the primary driver of the team’s No. 26 Chevrolet Silverado RST for the last two seasons in the NASCAR Truck Series, and will return to competition in October at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney said in an appearance on Denny Hamlin’s ‘Actions Detrimental’ podcast Monday that he regrets everything that unfolded with Carson Hocevar following the checkered flag in Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol. And that’s not because Blaney “got ass kicked,” but moreso because the post-race chaos that ensued on pit road doesn’t match his moral compass, and the example that he tries to set for the people who look up to him as a professional athlete.

Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar will NOT be penalized for their actions following Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR confirmed on Monday. Steve O’Donnell, CEO of NASCAR, talked about the incident on Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour Podcast on Monday, and regarding the incident, says NASCAR will not intervene with any kind of post-race penalty – a welcome change from previous iterations of pit road fights.

Jeremy Bullins and RFK Racing have parted ways, effectively immediately, the organization confirmed in a statement on Monday. Bullins, a veteran crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series, has spent the last two seasons serving as the shot-caller for the No. 6 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, driven by 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski. Together, leading the No. 6 team, Bullins and Keselowski have recorded eight top-fives and 19 top-10 finishes.

Joey Logano emerged with the victory in Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, his third win of the 2026 season and first of the Chase, after sneaking into the top spot late in the 500-lap contest. The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion led 93 of the race’s 500 laps, but only seven of those came after Lap 130, when the driver of the No.

Joey Logano won the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol, but as he was celebrating, the attention quickly shifted from the three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion to the scenes on pit road, where Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar were engaged in a good old-fashioned brawl. Blaney was upset with Hocevar over an incident in the race’s final stage, in where the two were battling for second place, made contact off Turn 4, and the No.

Samantha Busch, the wife of the late Kyle Busch, and their two children, Brexton and Lennix Busch, are in attendance for Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race, as the M&M’s colors return to the racetrack via Ty Gibbs and the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry XSE. For the first time since her husband’s passing in May, Samantha addressed the public in-person, speaking to the crowd at Bristol Motor Speedway before Saturday’s event.

What’s up, everyone — and welcome back to the weekly betting value article on JosephSrigley.com. I’ve been a NASCAR fan my entire life. My earliest memory is Geoff Bodine taking the checkered flag in the 1986 Daytona 500. I stepped away for a stretch, then came roaring back through fantasy racing and sports betting. That return forced me to build my own data-driven ranking system from raw lap-by-lap data.

Sheldon Creed isn’t in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase to finish second. The driver of the No. 00 Haas Factory Team Chevrolet, who went a staggering 137 races without winning a single event in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, now has three victories in his last 26 starts after winning Friday’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

It’s been almost four months since the world lost Kyle Busch. The unexpected passing of the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion meant that the motorsports community lost one of its fiercest, no-nonsense competitors, the NASCAR garage and industry lost one of its all-time greats and most beloved humans, and Samantha, Brexton, and Lennix Busch lost a loving husband and father.

Mother Nature has gone three-for-three in NASCAR National Series qualifying from Bristol Motor Speedway, with a lightning hold (and a brief rain shower) forcing the cancellation of NASCAR Cup Series practice from “The Last Great Coliseum”. Just like the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, whose sessions were also cancelled due to extended lightning holds, the starting lineup for Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race will be decided by NASCAR’s Performance Metric.

Jesse Love, the defending NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series champion and the winner of the series’ most-recent event at WWT Raceway, will lead the field to green in Friday’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, after an extended lightning hold forced the cancellation of time trials. The starting lineup for Friday’s 300-lapper at Bristol, the third race in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase, will be set by the Rule Book, which dictates that NASCAR’s Performance Metric will be used to determine the lineup.