The NASCAR Cup Series season informally began with the Cook Out Clash exhibition race on Sunday at the quarter-mile Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the best of stock car racing was on ...

The Clash got a jolt of energy at the North Carolina short track. Will it return in 2026, or will NASCAR look elsewhere?

NASCAR fans have called out the Cook Out Clash action at the Bowman Gray Stadium after the race became a "demolition derby" ...

The NASCAR Cup Series season informally begins with Sunday's Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem. The non-points paying race is the annual opening exhibition in the Cup season ...

Chase Elliott is on the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. Elliott won Heat 1 to ...

When NASCAR first announced that it was hauling its high-octane roadshow into the tight confines of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum in 2022, the sport’s purists reacted as if someone had suggested ...

But if this was NASCAR of only five years ago, then Chase Elliott's dominating victory in the preseason Clash would make him ...

NASCAR Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, featuring a historic short-track format and intense heat races, promises an ...

The future of the Clash, a surprisingly good run at Bowman Gray Stadium and more chatter from Sunday's exhibition race.

"Hurry up and wait" isn't just for the DMV or doctor's office. That remains the early-season NASCAR strategy — for now, and ...

It’s safe to say that the stars of the NASCAR Cup Series delivered. With the Cook Out Clash behind us, here are the major storylines from the season-opening exhibition. Ryan Blaney is still ...

Dale Jarrett is the only driver in NASCAR history to win the Clash and the Daytona 500 in the same year twice. The North Carolina-born driver didn't start on pole but managed to take the win at ...