Christopher Bell passed Joey Logano with nine laps remaining and cruised to victory in an action-packed NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway on Sunday night.

The fate of the NASCAR All-Star Race largely rests on the whims of Marcus Smith, who is giving few hints about how he’ll deploy a new “Promoter’s Caution.”.

One of NASCAR’s top track owners deleted social media posts he made in a back-and-forth spat with top driver Denny Hamlin that began when Hamlin criticized the repaving of Sonoma Raceway in California.

Music City on the NASCAR schedule means texts fly to see who’s spending an extra day or two to enjoy all the town has to offer.

NASCAR Hall of Fame promoter and track Bruton Smith has died at the age of 95.

Cole Custer won the first pole of his career Saturday through a formula designed for qualifying via heat races at dirt-covered Bristol Motor Speedway.

The dirt covering Bristol Motor Speedway is still too dusty for drivers liking ahead of Sunday's race on the Tennessee bullring.

It was quite the weekend in motorsports, which is typically the bit player on the massive stick-and-ball sporting landscape so eager for its own time in the spotlight.

Race fans at The Last Great Colosseum will soon be able to quench their thirst in a new way. On Wednesday, Bold Rold announced its partnership with Speedway Motorsports to launch the Bold Rock Bold Race Day Experience, offering the hard lemonade and hard tea drinks at races at Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway. Bold Rock launched the drinks late last year and starting in late March, race fans will be able to buy the “Official Hard Tea and Hard Lemonade” of each track during races. Fans can look for the new drink choices at the following races:Food City Dirt Race on March 28Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race on Sept. 18There, race fans will have the chance to win future race tickets, prizes and try out a wide selection of Bold Rock drinks. Fans can also win a VIP race experience by entering the Bold Rock Hard Tea and Hard Lemonade consumer sweepstakes at select grocery and convenience stores in the local race markets.

(AP Photo/Larry Papke, File)FORT WORTH, Texas The massive grandstands at Texas Motor Speedway are 2/3 of a mile long and were empty for the last race there. On Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series race becomes the first major sporting event in Texas in more than four months to allow spectators. Speedway Motorsports, which owns Bristol and Texas, is a private company like NASCAR, and does not release official attendance numbers. Texas hosted the IndyCar season opener June 6 without any spectators, then submitted and received approval by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office to have fans at the NASCAR race.

Tennessee officials permitted Bristol to sell up to 30,000 tickets less than 20% of its capacity of 140,000-plus as NASCAR slowly begins to reopen the gates. The All-Star race debuted at Charlotte in 1985 and this year marked just the second time it was not held at that track. "NASCAR and Bristol Motor Speedway showed the future of safe, live sporting events with an electric night.The event was not without glitches. Both NASCAR and Speedway Motorsports are private companies and do not release attendance figures, but Bristol appeared to have at least 20,000 spectators. Texas Motor Speedway may not have that many Sunday, but Speedway Motorsports can adjust protocols if needed.