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By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer The constant shuffling of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Charters continues. The latest recipient of a Charter that will guarantee a starting position for the 2018 season is StarCom Racing. Derrike Cope will drive the team’s No. 00 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in the 60th running of the Daytona 500. StarCom Racing debuted with Cope in 2017 at Kansas Speedway. The team debuted just weeks after Cope parted ways with Premium Motorsports. In their second and most recent start at ISM Raceway, Cope finished a respectableRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Kyle Busch has wasted no time in ruffling some feathers before the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season has even begun and the young drivers he targeted with his comments are having none of it. During the annual pre-season Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour, Busch was asked how he felt about the sanctioning body’s marketing push toward the up and coming drivers in the sport and in true fashion, his comments set off a firestorm. “It is bothersome,” Busch said. “We’ve paid our dues,Read More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Editor’s note: Motorsports Tribune will be previewing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season for the top-30 drivers in the series leading into next month’s 60th running of the Daytona 500. Age: 21 Years in Cup: One Career Wins: Nine Xfinity Series wins and seven Truck Series wins Biggest Accomplishment: 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion A year after making his full-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut with Furniture Row Racing, Erik Jones is headed home to Joe Gibbs Racing and the No.Read More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer  * Editor’s note: Motorsports Tribune will be previewing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season for the top-30 drivers in the series leading into next month’s 60th running of the Daytona 500. Age: 27 Years in Cup: 10 Career Wins: 18 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Victories The 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season is one that Joey Logano likely wants to forget. Although the Team Penske driver scored one victory at Richmond Raceway, it was ultimately encumbered. That eliminated Logano’s guarantee to make the Playoffs, a goalRead More

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer Premium Motorsports acquired its biggest asset in team history Monday. Danica Patrick will pilot the No. 7 GoDaddy Chevrolet for her final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series start in the 60th Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 18. The Jay Robinson owned operation went all in on making their 500 effort its best yet with Richard Childress Racing supplying ECR Engines for Robinson and pairing Patrick with Tony Eury, Jr. as her crew chief. Danica won’t have to worry about racing her wayRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – Get ready for a road-course Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race on a layout unlike any other. That, at least, was the way reigning series champion Martin Truex Jr. put it. When he tested on the Charlotte road course in October, Truex described the road course/oval track hybrid as “all kinds of craziness going on.” That was before the track made tweaks to the 2.28-mile course that should make it faster and more intense, lopping as much as 20-seconds offRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief Keeping with tradition, Texas Motor Speedway has once again brought innovation to the fan experience. The 1.5-mile oval will be starting construction to create an area designated as the Restart BAR Zone Club, which will be located at the beginning of the dogleg on the frontstretch. The expectation is that the new indoor/outdoor lounge will be ready for use for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series comes to town April 6-8. The development comes roughly a year after the facility elected to undergo a reconfiguration andRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor One piece of the “Danica Double” has now fallen into place as Patrick announced on Monday that she would be running the Daytona 500 with Premium Motorsports. Patrick first entered NASCAR driving a No. 7 GoDaddy sponsored Chevrolet back in 2010 and that’s exactly how she’ll finish out her NASCAR career, by piloting the same car number, make, and sponsor as her early days in the sport. Tony Eury, Jr., who served as her crew chief in the NASCAR Xfinity Series from 2010 to 2012Read More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer One year after being one of the ‘Cinderella Stories’ of the Daytona 500, D.J. Kennington and Gaunt Brothers Racing will return for the 60th running of The Great American Race. Once again, Kennington will pilot the No. 96 Lordco Auto Parts / Castrol Toyota Camry in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Last year, Kennington raced his way into the Daytona 500 in the second Budweiser Duel. By doing so, Kennington became the first Canadian to make the 500, a feat recognized in the CanadianRead More