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Officially they are known as NASCAR's "Next" but the reality is more like NASCAR's "Now."Dylan Kwasniewski, Ben Kennedy and Darrell Wallace Jr. led a crop of young, up-and-coming talented identified by NASCAR as future stars but the future turned out to be a lot closer to the present.The...

CommentaryBy Ryan McGee | ESPN The Magazine Welcome back to another edition of Dr. Racy Ryan, the Internet's only NASCAR lifestyle advice columnist. After a court-forced hiatus during an investigation by the Coalition of Undeterred Curative Kinesiologists Of One's Sharpness (C.U.C.K.O.O.S.),...

Posted by Darin Gantt on April 18, 2014, 10:49 AM EDT When it's the offseason, NFL coaches are limited in the work they can do with players, so they have to learn from each other.But instead of turning to other football coaches, Panthers coach Ron Rivera spent time with NASCAR crew...

RELATED: Play NASCAR Fantasy Live " Sign up for RaceView todayNASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France and NASCAR Fuel for Business were honored at the Cynopsis Sports Awards Thursday at the Yale Club in New York City.NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner Rick Hendrick presented France...

It's a Hendrick Motorsports 1-2 in this week's NASCAR power rankings.The Lady in Black has a deserved reputation for being a cruel mistress and she didn't disappoint on Saturday night. There were 11 cautions and an infinite number of drivers earning Darlington stripes. While the...

Swan Racing is re-evaluating its two-car venture in NASCAR's premier series after sponsorship failed to materialize.The Sprint Cup team, which has fielded Toyotas for rookies Parker Kligerman and Cole Whitt, released a statement Thursday that said Swan was "in the process of reviewing...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR announced today that Marcus Jadotte, vice president of public affairs and multicultural development, will be leaving the organization. Jadotte will serve as a consultant as NASCAR continues to evolve its diversity and multicultural development initiatives...

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. -- So just what is it that Chase Elliott does best, already at age 18, to dazzle all of NASCAR the past two weeks, to set the siren blaring as of yore atop the Dawsonville Pool Room, drawing folks from the outlying Blue Ridge foothills into town to celebrate at midnight?He...

Standing in his Roush Fenway Racing trailer at Texas Motor Speedway, Greg Biffle smiled widely at the suggestion that he may just be NASCAR's "greenest" driver.Having grown up in southern Washington state in the small town of Vancouver -- located on the Columbia River, alongside...

Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR this week:Turn 1: Which driver and team most need this week off?Ed Hinton, ESPN.com: Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus need to take a breath after four straight weeks of dire disappointment. They almost sneaked...

Kevin Harvick wins Sprint Cup race at Darlington in overtime.The 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has been one of feast or famine for Kevin Harvick-and on Saturday night at Darlington Raceway, Harvick enjoyed the delectable taste of victory.Passing Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the next-to-last...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Five hundred miles at Darlington Raceway. It's a challenging, exhausting endeavor -- and on Saturday night, the Southern 500 needed overtime. Of course it did.In a busy storybook weekend of NASCAR and TUDOR United SportsCar Championship racing, that was the...

A month's worth of frustration vanished for Kevin Harvick Saturday night at Darlington.Under the old format, frustration would have been almost unavoidable. As would the finger pointing. All likely followed by self-doubt and wondering whether it really was good idea to leave Richard...

The frustration had been mounting for Kevin Harvick since he won the second race of the season.But Harvick, who had endured a series of mishaps and poor finishes in the past five weeks, took out those frustrations on the field Saturday night at Darlington Raceway, dominating the...

DARLINGTON, S.C. - Kevin Harvick capped his biggest weekend at Darlington Raceway with his first Southern 500 victory Saturday night, passing Dale Earnhardt Jr. two laps from the end of the longest race in the track's 65-year NASCAR history.Harvick earned his first pole here Friday...

Kevin Harvick won Saurday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway getting past Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the second green-white checkered restart of the night.The driver of the No. 4 Budweiser Chevrolet crossed the start finish line ahead of Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie...

In one of the most entertaining races of the year thus far from the world-famous Raceway, it was Kevin Harvick and the No. 4 car that took the checkered flag and won the 2014 Bojangles' Southern 500.HARVICK AND THE NO. 4 @BUDWEISER TEAM WIN!- Budweiser Racing (@BudweiserRacing) April...

The date may be different but Darlington is still Darlington and a Southern 500 victory is something to covet.As the majority of the sports world focuses its attention on The Masters, 150 miles northeast another longstanding southern tradition is being staged.While it's no longer...