By Staff Writer Andy DeLay For the first time in a long time, NASCAR felt alive again at Charlotte. Not manufactured alive. Not TV-camera-angle alive. Not “let’s hide the empty sections with different colored seats” alive. Real alive. The kind of alive where you look across the grandstands and see people. Families. Flags. Old-school race fans. New fans. Folks who came to watch stock cars, hear engines, honor the fallen, and feel like NASCAR still belongs to them. Charlotte Mo

When the checkered flag waved at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, Chris Buescher once again delivered a result that has become his trademark: steady, efficient, and easy to overlook at first glance. Driving for RFK Racing, Buescher secured a fifth-place finish—his second top-five of the 2026 season. While that number may not jump off the page, the momentum behind it certainly should. The result followed a runner-up finish at Talladega Superspeedway the week prior, marking back

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. One person has died and another remains hospitalized following a large house fire Sunday night at a property connected to NASCAR star Denny Hamlin in North Carolina. According to a Facebook post from the Lucia-Riverbend Fire Department, multiple fire departments from surrounding counties were called to the scene to battle the blaze. Photos shared by the department showed the main portion of the home fully engulfed in flames, with significant structural l

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — A residential fire in Gaston County resulted in two individuals being hospitalized and the complete destruction of a home belonging to the parents of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin. The incident occurred at a residence on Blacksnake Road northeast of Stanley, where emergency responders demonstrated unwavering dedication. Initially, officials reported that one person was trapped within the home, but ultimately, two individuals were transported to the hospital