Sunday's Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway promises another fast 1.5-mile chess match, with Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick anchoring the favourites list and Hendrick Motorsports continuing to dominate Fort Worth at the front end of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season.
Carson Hocevar claimed his first NASCAR Cup Series win at Talladega in his 91st start, holding off Chris Buescher by inches and celebrating with an iconic ride out the driver's window after surviving a 26-car Big One.
Dale Earnhardt Jr has launched a public broadside at NASCAR over speculation the third-tier O'Reilly Auto Parts Series could move toward an electric CUV body, calling the idea a 'massive, massive mistake' that would destroy a category currently on the rise.
NASCAR has refused to approve Cleetus McFarland's entry into the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Talladega, citing his lack of mile-and-a-half experience. The YouTube star will instead run Saturday's ARCA 200 at the superspeedway and head to Nashville next month for his second tier-two start.
Team Penske's Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney top the Talladega favourites for Sunday's Jack Link's 500, but Kevin Harvick has gone against the Ford grain and picked three-time track winner Denny Hamlin.
Denny Hamlin came within a lap of ending his 2026 win drought at Kansas, only for Tyler Reddick to execute the exact late-race crossover move that he admits has caught him out before.
John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones head to Sunday's Jack Link's 500 at Talladega convinced that Legacy Motor Club's superspeedway form and the new shortened stage format can put them back in victory lane.
Kyle Larson admits he was nervous and plowing when Tyler Reddick swept past for victory at Kansas, while Chase Briscoe rode a lucky late caution and four fresh tyres from 10th to third in a salvaged Bass Pro Shops weekend.
Tyler Reddick dived under Kyle Larson on the final lap of overtime to steal the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway, handing 23XI Racing its fifth win of 2026 and matching Dale Earnhardt's 1987 benchmark. Team co-owner Michael Jordan hailed his driver as "on fire" after a restart he admitted he thought was lost.
Tyler Reddick continued his blistering start to the 2026 NASCAR Cup season with his third pole of the year at Kansas, edging team principal Denny Hamlin by 0.019 seconds and heading a Toyota lockout of the front three rows.
Taylor Gray held off Sheldon Creed to win a dramatic Kansas Lottery 300 that began with Carson Kvapil's terrifying lap-three flip and featured a 12-minute red flag for damage clean-up.
Team Penske has swapped key members of Ryan Blaney's No. 12 pit crew for this weekend's NASCAR Cup race at Kansas after a rough run of pit-road errors compromised the 2023 champion's title defence.
