The two teams suing NASCAR over an antitrust complaint said Saturday they will compete in 2025 as “open teams” after the sanctioning body removed anticompetitive release claims that will allow them to race while the legal process continues.

Bobby Allison, founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Saturday.

Reigning NASCAR champion Ryan Blaney paced the first practice session at Phoenix Raceway.

NASCAR President Steve Phelps defended the four drivers racing for the Cup Series championship even though others had better statistics than the finalists.

A federal judge has denied a motion by two NASCAR teams — one owned by Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan — to be recognized as chartered teams as they proceed in an antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series and chairman Jim France.

NASCAR heads into its championship weekend locked into a federal antitrust lawsuit with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.

NASCAR has issued $600,000 in fines and suspended nine team members from three different teams for alleged race manipulation at Martinsville Speedway.

There is no clear favorite among NASCAR's four championship contenders as they had to Phoenix Raceway for Sunday's winner-take-all finale.

Retired NBA great Michael Jordan and his fellow owners of two NASCAR teams headed to federal court for a hearing in their antitrust fight against the stock car series over what they say is an unfair business model.

Ryan Blaney earned a chance to defend his NASCAR championship with a victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway that pushed the Team Penske driver into the winner-take-all season finale.

The hardest hit that Tyler Reddick took at Homestead-Miami Speedway wasn’t from a bounce into the wall or from another driver crashing into him.

Michael Jordan won a championship in Phoenix in 1993.

Frankie Muniz finished 33rd on Saturday in his first Truck Series race since the “Malcolm in the Middle” star announced he will become a full-time NASCAR racer next season.

Knocked out of the playoffs this time last week, Joey Logano seized on his reversal of fortune to become the first driver locked into NASCAR’s championship finale.

Kyle Larson has been lucky of late in Las Vegas, where he opens the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs on top of the Cup Series standings and the favorite to win Sunday’s race.

Hendrick Motorsports says it will not appeal Alex Bowman’s disqualification at Charlotte Motor Speedway that eliminated him from NASCAR title contention.

NASCAR says it is aware of allegations that an engineer for a Cup Series team accessed proprietary information and shared it with another team.

Kyle Larson raced to his Cup Series-high sixth victory of the season Sunday to easily advance to the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs, winning on the hybrid road course/oval at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The two teams suing NASCAR have asked for a court order to compete under the 2025 charter agreement as their antitrust case moves through federal court.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snapped a 65-race losing streak by winning in overtime at Talladega Superspeedway after a late crash collected more than half the field, including eight of the 12 championship contenders.

It’s most fitting that NASCAR this weekend races at Talladega Superspeedway, site of one of the first major disputes between drivers and the top stock car series in the United States.

Time is running out for Kyle Busch to stretch his remarkable winning streak to 20 consecutive NASCAR seasons with at least one victory.

The final six weeks of the NASCAR season will play out under the shadow of a lawsuit filed by the 23XI team and Front Row Motorsports against the series.

IndyCar has finalized a charter system for 25 entrants that pales in comparison to the contentious deal reached between NASCAR and its teams but does give 10 open wheel organizations some guarantees.

NASCAR champions Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. were among the first four drivers knocked out of the playoffs at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Kyle Larson cruised to an easy victory.

Chris Buescher won Sunday at Watkins Glen International, leading a string of five non-playoff drivers to the finish in a NASCAR Cup race marred by late wrecks, shredded tires, and busted parts among the championship contenders.

Hendrick Motorsports and Arrow McLaren Racing scheduled a Tuesday afternoon news conference in which they are expected to announce Kyle Larson will run the Indianapolis 500 again in 2025.

23XI Racing says it skipped a deadline to sign a new charter agreement with NASCAR because “it did not have an opportunity to fairly bargain” for a new contract.

NASCAR's 10-race playoffs begin Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway under something of a cloud.

Pato O’Ward remained in the headlines Saturday by winning the first race of a doubleheader at the Milwaukee Mile, where he has spent the weekend questioning IndyCar leadership for allowing NASCAR to beat the series to a race in Mexico City.

When NASCAR announced this week that it would race in Mexico City next year, IndyCar drivers were stunned that another American series had beaten them into a fertile market that is starving to see their most popular driver.

Bubba Wallace believes he can have success at Darlington this weekend and make the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs for a second straight season.

NASCAR will take its top Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States next year with a June stop in Mexico City.

Martin Truex Jr. should feel safe heading to Darlington Raceway for the NASCAR Cup Series’ regular-season finale.

Harrison Burton won a wild Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen will drive full time in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2025 for Trackhouse Racing.

NASCAR docked Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin 75 points and 10 playoff points, eliminating any shot he had at winning the regular-season title and making his path toward a championship more difficult.

Ryan Blaney thought he was perfectly positioned to win Sunday's Brickyard 400.

Kyle Larson's double attempt in May drew the attention of racing fans everywhere.

Team Penkse is on a hot streak.

Alex Bowman secured a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs when he held on for the victory on a rainy street course in downtown Chicago.

NASCAR has unveiled its first electric racecar in Chicago.

Christopher Bell stamped himself a legitimate contender to win the NASCAR Cup Series championship this season after he navigated the wet weather at New Hampshire to win for the third time for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Christopher Bell mastered the NASCAR Cup Series’ first race ever that ended with cars running on rain tires and pulled away after a 2 hour, 15-minute weather delay to beat darkness and win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Christopher Bell spoiled the surprise when he accidentally revealed Chase Briscoe would become his teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing in 2025.

Fox Sports has acquired the rights to broadcast IndyCar starting in 2025.

Kyle Larson celebrated NASCAR approving his participation in the playoffs with his third Cup victory of the season.

Kyle Larson was finally granted the waiver this week he needed from NASCAR to remain eligible to race for a second Cup championship.

Welcome back to fast and slick Sonoma Raceway, where the first repave in over two decades has created impressive speeds and concerns about the durability of the new asphalt.

Retired NASCAR driver Tighe Scott, his adult son and two other Pennsylvania men are facing felony charges stemming from confrontations with police during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol.

NASCAR has granted Kyle Larson the waiver he needs to remain eligible to compete in this year’s playoffs despite missing the Coca-Cola 600 because he instead ran the Indianapolis 500.

Front Row Motorsports has purchased a charter that will expand the NASCAR team to three cars in the Cup Series in 2025.

Stewart-Haas Racing will close its NASCAR teams at the end of the 2024 season.

Kyle Larson spent a year preparing to run the double.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has cooled off and no longer plans to wreck Kyle Busch at the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday.

Kyle Larson's bid to race both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday has plenty of supporters.

Chase Elliott is criticizing NASCAR for fining driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. $75,000 for punching Kyle Busch following Sunday night’s All-Star Race after it had used video of the fight on social media.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has been fined $75,000 by NASCAR for fighting with Kyle Busch after the All-Star race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

The most compelling part of Sunday night’s All-Star Race wasn’t on the racetrack at North Wilkesboro Speedway but rather in the infield afterward.

Kyle Larson has arrived at North Wilkesboro Speedway for the start of Sunday night’s All-Star Race following a busy afternoon in which the NASCAR star qualified fifth for the Indianapolis 500.

Kyle Larson completed every lap of the Indianapolis 500, finishing 18th in the NASCAR star’s debut in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” despite a pair of rookie mistakes that cost him a chance to be in the mix at the end.

The first half of NASCAR's regular season ended Sunday with Brad Keselowski ending his three-year winless drought at Darlington Raceway.

Brad Keselowski moved to the front when Chris Buescher and Tyler Reddick hit each other with nine laps left and held on to win the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday.

Denny Hamlin is off to one of the best starts of his two-decade career, with three wins for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Michael Jordan’s new life suddenly seems just as satisfying as his old one.

Chase Elliott pulled ahead and cleared Ross Chastain on the first lap after the second restart in overtime at Texas Motor Speedway, ending a 42-race winless streak for NASCAR’s most popular driver.

One of NASCAR’s top track owners deleted social media posts he made in a back-and-forth spat with top driver Denny Hamlin that began when Hamlin criticized the repaving of Sonoma Raceway in California.

Hendrick Motorsports has a lot to be happy about as the team barrels toward its big 40th anniversary celebration in two weeks.

Five races into NASCAR’s 2024 season and Ford is in a funk.

Denny Hamlin was booed in celebration again.

Denny Hamlin has won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway after passing Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. in the final laps.

Chevrolet dominated the start of the NASCAR Cup Series by claiming three straight wins, starting with William Byron’s Daytona 500 victory.

Kyle Larson won his second consecutive race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday to keep keep Chevrolet undefeated and give Hendrick Motorsports its second victory in the first three NASCAR Cup Series races of the season.

Two weeks into the new NASCAR season, Chevrolet heads into Las Vegas Motor Speedway undefeated.

Michael McDowell says his first NASCAR Cup Series pole in his 467th career start wasn't a surprise.

In a story published February 22, 2024, about new rules for blending ethanol with gasoline, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a biofuels advocacy organization.

Jimmie Johnson was collected in a wreck only six laps into the Daytona 500.

Alex Bowman never saw how the big wreck started that marred the end of the Daytona 500.

William Byron launched Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th anniversary season by snapping the team’s nine-year Daytona 500 losing streak with his Monday win in the rain-postponed “Great American Race.”.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Pitbull and DJ Khaled represented South Florida at the Daytona 500.

NASCAR has postponed the season-opening Daytona 500 until Monday because of two days of rain at Daytona International Speedway.

Actor Frankie Muniz will try to make his Xfinity Series debut in the No. 35 Ford for Joey Gase Racing at Daytona International Speedway.

Jimmie Johnson and Creed are headed to the Daytona 500.

It could be months before Martin Truex Jr. figures out his racing future.

No one needs to remind Kyle Larson about his record at Daytona International Speedway.

Kyle Larson is coming off the longest test session of his IndyCar career.

Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus will be inducted into NASCAR's Hall of Fame together in a fitting celebration for one of the most dominant pairings in history.

Cale Yarborough, considered one of NASCAR’s all-time greatest drivers and the first to win three consecutive Cup titles, has died.

Roger Penske has a chance for a NASCAR championship three-peat after racer Ryan Blaney won the organization's second straight series crown this year, following teammate Joey Logano's title in 2022.

Police said two women operated like a “NASCAR pit crew” at a Coconut Creek Sephora store, but this pit crew was clad in long skirts — and not as a fashion statement.

The playoff beard had been shaved off well before fresh-faced Ryan Blaney arrived in Nashville to celebrate his first NASCAR championship.

Ryan Blaney already has his eyes on another prize.

Bubba Wallace acknowledged it was difficult for him to find joy in best friend Ryan Blaney’s first NASCAR championship.

NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season.

The Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday night is expected to set Formula One and motor sports wagering records at Caesars Entertainment and BetMGM.

NASCAR says Sunday’s championship finale has plenty of pizzazz.

The oddsmakers named Kyle Larson the favorite to win the NASCAR championship, but half the field believe the person with the best chance to celebrate Sunday will be a spectator at Phoenix Raceway.

The rivalry hardly reaches the heights of Petty versus Pearson or Earnhardt against Gordon as one of NASCAR’s great competitions.

Ryan Blaney began to doubt himself and his ability to compete at NASCAR’s top level as he was mired in a 59-race losing streak and all his buddies he’d grown up racing against were thriving in the Cup Series.

Ryan Blaney will race for his first Cup championship after qualifying for NASCAR’s title-deciding finale with a Sunday win at Martinsville Speedway.