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.

Christopher Bell will let others decide if his win on Daytona’s road course was a statement, but Bell knew the move back to Joe Gibbs Racing was big.

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.

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

Glen Wood, a NASCAR Hall of Famer who died Friday at 93, and his brother founded Wood Brothers Racing, one of NASCAR’s longest-running teams.