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The third race of The Chase gets the green flag this weekend, as the NASCAR Cup Series stops at Bristol Motor Speedway for the night race at 7:30 p.m. ET. Now that the postseason is here, every competition comes with the ultimate stakes. Going into Bristol, Denny Hamlin sits atop The Chase leader board. However, Kyle Larson is right on his wheels. Will Hamlin keep the distance between himself and […]

Only three drivers were able to cut into Denny Hamlin’s margin in a wild race at World Wide Technology Raceway. The 1.25-mile track — located across the river from St. Louis and commonly referred to by its previous Gateway name — featured a race where nearly all Chase drivers were involved in an incident one time or another. Here are my Chase contender rankings with eight races left, the next […]

The next race on The Chase calendar runs on Sunday, Sept. 13 at World Wide Technology Raceway, also known as Gateway. The field will get the green flag at 3 p.m. ET. Will one of the drivers tied atop the oddsboard get into Victory Lane or will a long shot emerge from the field? Here are the odds as of Sept. 13 via DraftKings Sportsbook. This page may contain affiliate […]

The 2026 INDYCAR season has ended and Alex Palou has captured his fifth series championship. That fifth title — which is also his fourth consecutive — keeps the debate alive about where Alex Palou sits among the sport's greats. If you've been keeping up, then you already know that he's not on my Mount Rushmore. But he is moving on up. Here are the 10 best INDYCAR drivers of all […]

Carson Hocevar swears he won’t change. He will use the same style for The Chase that kept him above The Chase cutline for the entire regular season. The same style that got him his win at Talladega. The Spire Motorsports driver has appeared to stop caring about what other people say and think. "We raced how we raced, and I think we've done a pretty good job with it," Hocevar […]

Denny Hamlin can’t have more days like the one he had at the Southern 500. A bad pit stop dropped him into the pack, and he got caught up damaging his car while battling for position. He made the most out of what could have been a disastrous day and only lost 13 points off his lead. But another one of those and he’s no longer at the top of […]

Christopher Bell had a simple plan on how to win races in a year when he has had seven runner-up finishes and no victories. "The same way that we finished second seven times, that’s how we’re going to win in The Chase," he told me Wednesday. He did just that on Sunday night. He took our tires on a pit stop and outdueled the competition over the final 24 green-flag […]

The new NASCAR Chase is actually a little bit old. NASCAR has gone back — mostly — to the championship system it had from 2004-2013, where the eligible drivers compete in a 10-race mini-season and the driver with the most points wins the title. But the 2026 version is different. Back in the "OG Chase" era, no one had even heard of stages and stage points. Plus, a victory being […]

Charlotte Convention Center (Charlotte, N.C.) — Much of the talk of the 2026 Chase has been about the format, Denny Hamlin and Carson Hocevar. So, in our annual anonymous survey of Chase drivers, we asked questions that centered primarily around those topics. Drivers filled out the one-page form in front of one of our producers, who then took the sheet, folded it and put it in a little tote bag. […]