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Layne Riggs has won twice the number of races than any of his Chase competitors but now must rally in order to win the 2026 truck championship. Riggs, with six wins this season, sits second in the standings at 37 points behind Kaden Honeycutt. Honeycutt earned his third win of the year a couple of weeks ago at Kansas Speedway. The other Chase drivers have combined for three wins...

Math, even in an engineering-based sport such as NASCAR, is apparently hard. When most of the competitors in any NASCAR series talk about The Chase and the new format, it often includes some version of winning is important. Yeah, of course. A win earns a driver 55 points. Second is worth 35 points. If a driver sweeps both stages and wins and earns the point for the fastest lap, ...

Kasey Kahne didn’t like the way his full-time NASCAR career ended. So he hopes he can finish it off with something that makes him smile — nine years after his last full-time season. The 46-year-old Kahne will compete full time in NASCAR’s truck series in 2027, as he drives the No. 77 for Spire Motorsports. Kahne’s last full-time NASCAR season came to an abrupt end in September 2...

Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Las Vegas) — Denny Hamlin, an avid golfer, used a golf analogy to explain his 2026 championship hopes midway through The Chase. "You’ve just got to play the ball from where it lies," Hamlin told me and other reporters after a disappointing 16th-place finish at Las Vegas. "And where it lies is we’ve got a little gap we’ve got to make up. "So we’ve got to...

Kyle Larson potentially could have put a huge gap between himself and the rest of the Chase field with a win, but Chase Briscoe was able to hold him off Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The defending Cup champion certainly remains, though, the definitive Chase favorite halfway through the 10-race postseason. Here are my championship contender rankings going into the Charlotte...