Author: Kelly Crandall, RACER

Wiliam Byron controlled most of the final two stages at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday and won for the second time in 111 Cup starts.

Denny Hamlin, the defending race winner at Homestead, earned the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race with Joey Logano also on the front row.

Toyota confirmed its partnership with 23XI Racing, the new NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin with Bubba Wallace behind the wheel.

A member of the 2010 inaugural NASCAR Hall of Fame class, Junior Johnson was lovingly considered a racing hero and legend.

Mike Stefanik, a nine-time champion between NASCAR’s Whelen Modified and K&N Pro Series East series, has died in a plane crash. He was 61.

Austin Wayne Self, 23, will have to participate in the NASCAR Road to Recovery program before being reinstated.