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The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest. Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend's Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night.

Yarborough was born in the small town of Timmonsville, South Carolina, in 1939. His father was killed in an airplane crash when Cale was just 12-years-old, and as the oldest of three sons, he was forced to grow up fast.

The weekend began with the sudden passing of 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran, and ends with the death of four-time Daytona 500 winner Cale Yarborough. The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion was undefeated between 1976 and 1978.

Richard Petty holds the record for most wins in NASCAR Cup Series history at 200, while Kyle Busch leads active drivers at 63.

NASCAR just uploaded more than 1,000 classic races online, and fans can relive history for free.

Jimmie Johnson is one of the most successful NASCAR drivers in history - but he wasn't a unanimous first-ballot Hall of Famer.

The fascination with racing vehicles started for young William Sawalich of Eden Prairie when he was 2. The thanks for that would be the cartoon movie "Cars," released in 2006 and followed by sequels.

Kevin Harvick, 47, will make his 800th career Cup start when he takes the green flag for Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega – just the 10th driver in NASCAR’s 75-year history to reach the mark.

Kyle Busch has taken the outright record for wins in most consecutive NASCAR Cup seasons as he triumphed at the final race at Fontana on its current layout.

Now with a new team, Kyle Busch continued his NASCAR record-setting ways while winning Sunday’s Cup race at Auto Club Speedway.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — What a show it was in front of a sellout crowd of 150,000 at Daytona International Speedway and millions more on national television.