Kyle Larson won the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship on Nov. 2 at Phoenix. Here are our winners and losers from the race.

Everything was lining up for Hamlin to claim his elusive first NASCAR Cup Series title. Then came another cruel twist of fate.

The 20-year veteran driver won pole at Phoenix Raceway for Sunday’s winner-take-all NASCAR championship finale.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” Paulo Coelho famously once wrote in The Alchemist. And for Denny Hamlin, the 2025 NASCAR season felt like living proof of that idea.

Denny Hamlin isn’t talking about pressure this week. He’s talking about perspective. At 44 years old, the Joe Gibbs Racing

Denny Hamlin pondered the idea of whether or not he would step away from full-time NASCAR competition if he were to win the Cup Series championship on Sunday (Nov.

Denny Hamlin’s ride with Joe Gibbs Racing has stretched nearly two decades, a rarity in NASCAR, where drivers often chase fresh starts. Since joining in 2006, he’s racked up 60 Cup wins, three Daytona 500s,