In a wreck-filled 2022 Daytona 500 race, Penske rookie driver Austin Cindric brought the famed 2 car back to Victory Lane…. on Roger Penske’s birthday, yet!
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Joey Logano Wins the Crash… er… Clash at the Coliseum
For the second time in his career, Joey Logano won the season opening Busch Clash. This was also the premier race for the new Next Gen car with a composite body and vendor-supplied parts.
Kyle Larson Wins His First NASCAR Cup Championship
Things weren’t looking all that rosy for the driver with the most wins this season. Even after winning Stage 2, Kyle Larson fell back a few seconds of the leaders. But two late race cautions turned things around. With Chase Elliott leading, a caution bunched up the field and put Larson back in contact with the leaders but he still didn’t have the speed and clean air Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex, Jr. enjoyed.
Bowman Ruins Hamlin’s Day; Championship Four Set For Phoenix
Martinsville gave us all we could want in a cut off race and more. The two drivers that led the most laps are moving on, but they didn’t win. A non-championship driver and three time race winner, not a hack, stayed competitive and saw a chance to win at the end and went for it. Lap after lap Alex Bowman and Denny Hamlin raced hard side by side before Bowman got lose after driving his car in too deep and sent Hamlin spinning. (more…)
Kyle Larson Puts His Boot to the Neck at Kansas
What do you do when you want to eliminate threats to winning a championship? You go out and win races, that’s what.
Kyle Larson has won both of the first two races in this round and has out the other drivers vying for a title on notice. (more…)
Can Anyone Beat Kyle Larson For The Championship?
Of course they can!
But it is an interesting look at the way the playoffs are shaping up.
Take Texas for instance. Kyle Larson dominated the race and a few playoff drivers kept their hopes alive but the Top 5 was actually dominated by drivers who have already been eliminated and 5 of the Top 10 drivers aren’t even in the playoffs. (more…)
Wild Roval Race Tamed By Kyle Larson
You wanted drama in a cut off race? We’ll you certainly got your fill at the Charlotte Roval on Sunday. Let’s start with race winner Kyle Larson. (more…)
Bubba Wallace Wins His First Cup Race at Talladega
After a rain delayed the race for a day, NASCAR hoped to get in a full race on Monday and put on a good show. Well they certainly got one of the two wishes. With rain headed to the track area, teams knew that the race just might get called early. Passing halfway made the race official and after light rain that hit just one end of the track, Mother Nature unloaded on the entire tack forcing NASCAR to call the race just shy of the end of Stage 2.
Denny Hamlin Sets the Pace With Las Vegas Win
Denny Hamlin showed why he has to be considered a top threat to win it all at Las Vegas, leading a race high 137 laps and dominating the final portion of the race. (more…)
Kyle Larson Wins Old-School Bristol Cup Race
If you turned on the race Saturday night, you might have first thought you were tuning into watch another manufactured playoff race. Instead, you got to see an old-school Bristol race.