Following Christopher Bell's win at Phoenix — his third straight — the NASCAR Cup Series shifts its focus to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the running of the Pennzoil 400. This week's stop at the 1.5-mile Nevada track is the fifth race of the season and will be the first contested on a traditional intermediate track,

The most famous words in motorsports carried some extra weight with them Sunday, as legendary actor and narrator Morgan Freeman gave the command to start engines for the NASCAR Cup Series' Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

For the second-straight weekend, Chevrolet earned the pole position in NASCAR’s top division. Laying down a lap of 28.883 seconds, at 186.961 mph, Michael McDowell and the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet team earned the top position of the qualifying speed chart and will lead the field to the green flag in tomorrow’s Pennzoil 400 - - March 15,