With his home country fans cheering, Daniel Suarez went from last in a backup car to win Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. The crowd roared when Suarez took the lead with 19 laps to go after Ty Gibbs and Connor Zilisch crashed racing for the lead and triggering a 13-car crash.

Fifteen years after the Pac-12 tried to woo the Longhorns, the conference is circling back for a different kind of Texas takeover. The Legislature passed laws allowing smaller homes on smaller lots and making it harder for neighbors to block new housing.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez this weekend, with qualifying at 10:35 a.m. ET on Saturday on The CW App.

NASCAR fastest laps with points standing positions, percentage and total fastest laps:

The NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway, set for August, is once again a sellout, despite declining attendance elsewhere on the circuit.

Ross Chastain fondly remembers winning the NASCAR Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway in 2019. The 32-year-old driver from Florida, who comes from a family of watermelon farmers, led 54 of 60 laps for a dominant victory. After the checkered flag fell, he did his trademark celebration.

1. Connor Zilisch, 4. 2. Taylor Gray, 2. 2. Jesse Love, 2. 4. Christopher Bell, 1. 4. Alex Bowman, 1. 4. Kyle Larson, 1. 4. William Sawalich, 1. 4. Sammy Smith, 1. The Legislature passed laws allowing smaller homes on smaller lots and making it harder for neighbors to block new housing.

The buildout and breakdown of the pop-up racecourse in Grant Park have been reduced to 25 days, shaving nearly two weeks off last year’s construction schedule for the July Fourth weekend event.