Joe Gibbs is quite used to winning championships. He did so thrice in the NFL, winning three Super Bowls as the head coach in Washington. He's won five NASCAR Cup Series championships as a car owner. But Gibbs' NASCAR team hasn't won a Cup Series title in six years, with Kyle Busch's 2019 title being the last time JGR was on top of the pile.
The two-time Daytona 500 champion needed a win at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday to advance to the Championship 4.
It's been nearly four years since Hendrick Motorsports last won a NASCAR Cup Series championship. For most teams, a four-year title drought isn't a drought at all.
The stage is set for a thrilling finale in what is possibly the final "championship race" in NASCAR history.
The fourth year of NASCAR's Next-Gen car will be the first year that Team Penske does not win the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
Without a win at Martinsville in 2018, Joey Logano likely wouldn't have gone on to win his first NASCAR Cup Series title later that same year. But on Sunday at Martinsville, when he needed another clutch win, the three-time Cup Series champion didn't have enough.
For the second year in a row, Martinsville Speedway ended Christopher Bell's NASCAR championship hopes and ripped his heart out.
For the second year in a row, a podium effort from Chase Elliott in the penultimate race of the NASCAR Cup Series season wasn't enough for NASCAR's most popular driver to make the Championship 4.
Kyle Larson's day at Martinsville Speedway wasn't particularly flashy, but in the end, it didn't need to be.
Ryan Blaney, needing a win to advance to the Championship 4 for the third consecutive year, had won the previous two Martinsville fall races and appeared to be on his way to doing so again.
William Byron drove the best race of his NASCAR career when he needed to the most.
A pair of NASCAR Cup Series playoff drivers had engine issues during Sunday's playoff race at Martinsville Speedway.
Taylor Gray had been in this position before: leading a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway on the final lap with Sammy Smith behind him.
On Sunday, the stars of the NASCAR Cup Series will take on the half-mile Martinsville Speedway in the penultimate race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Daniel Suarez has found a NASCAR Cup Series ride for 2026.
On Tuesday, NASCAR revealed the course for the 2026 San Diego street race at Naval Base Coronado.
Joe Gibbs Racing has gone from locker-room turmoil to the brink of a NASCAR Cup championship — a turnaround its three-time Super Bowl champion namesake should appreciate.
In his fifth Cup Series season and first with Joe Gibbs Racing, Briscoe knew a championship run was possible.
As Chase Briscoe celebrated his victory in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, another, more subdued celebration was taking place on pit road.
Bubba Wallace showed why he's earned a reputation as one of NASCAR's best superspeedway racers at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
Joey Logano was understandably frustrated after Sunday's YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
Superspeedway racing can be inherently frustrating for everyone involved in NASCAR racing. Cup Series playoff driver William Byron found out why on Sunday.
Following the YellaWood 500, here's what the NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings look like.