Richard Childress Racing Race Preview: Watkins Glen International

Richard Childress RacingRichard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Watkins Glen International… The NASCAR Cup Series returns to Watkins Glen International this weekend for the Go Bowling at The Glen, marking the 42nd Cup Series appearance at the 2.45-mile road course. Richard Childress Racing boasts two NASCAR Cup Series wins among eight top-five finishes, 23 top-10 finishes and three poles, having led 275 laps. Robby Gordon won the 2003 event, leading the final 30 laps and scoring his third victory with RCR over the span of three seasons. Kevin Harvick captured the 2006 race, edging Tony Stewart for the victory, and claiming his first win at Watkins Glen. The victory was Harvick’s first on a road course and came in his 200th career Cup start. Dale Earnhardt won three poles (1990, 1992, 1996) for the Welcome, N.C.-based organization. Last year at The Glen, Austin Dillon started 23rd and finished 28th, while Kyle Busch began the race 13th and finished 30th.

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NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Opportunities Are Diminishing With Three Races Left In The Regular Season

Watkins Glen NASCAR Cup Series Go BowlingWith only three regular season NASCAR Cup Series races remaining to decide which 16 drivers will compete in the 2025 Playoffs, the intensity is picking up and Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen (2 p.m. ET on USA Network, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) road course event will undoubtedly be full of the kind of action expected at this point in the season.

The question is whether a driver currently below the Playoff cut line lands the ultimate big moment and claims the win Sunday?

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NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Races At The Glen For Third Time In Last 25 Years

NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Mission 176 At The GlenFor the first time in five years and only third time since 2000, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will compete at Watkins Glen International with the Mission 176 at The Glen Friday afternoon (5 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to start NASCAR’s tripleheader weekend.

Current NASCAR Xfinity Series championship contender Austin Hill won the last truck race at the iconic New York road course in 2021 fending off now-NASCAR Cup Series driver John Hunter Nemechek and Hill’s fellow Xfinity Series regular Sheldon Creed for the trophy. You have to go all the way back to 2000 for the previous truck race at The Glen, won from pole position by Greg Biffle.

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Doubleheader Weekend At Riverhead Features I LOVE AMERICA Night Fireworks Saturday, NASCAR Modifieds Sunday

Riverhead RacewayAs the 2025 season hits the homestretch at Riverhead Raceway, the historic track is going to be a very busy place over the final two months of its 75th Anniversary season that kicks off with a doubleheader of racing excitement and family entertainment this Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Headlining the Saturday portion will be the annual I Love America Night Fireworks spectacular, while the NASCAR Modifieds take center stage in the Sunday matinee, the third attempt at running a program originally scheduled for June 7th.

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Patrick Emerling Runs it Back in the Big Red Machine Tribute to take 750th NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Checkers in front of Packed Thompson Speedway Grandstands

Patrick Emerling wins NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at Thompson Speedway
Patrick Emerling celebrating his Thompson 150 win on Wednesday night with crew and the legendary Geoff Bodine, original driver of the famed Big Red Machine #1 back in the 1970s. (Jim DuPont photo)

Thompson, CT — An incredible flood of fans entered Thompson Speedway on Wednesday night for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour’s annual midweek Thompson 150 with plenty of magic in the air. Along with a much anticipated visit from Geoff Bodine and the original Big Red Machine #1 from his stellar 1978 campaign, the NASCAR touring teams battled in the Tour’s 750th event back where it all began in 1985.

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Shannon Slaughter Explains The Emotions Behind Her Historic Win At Grandview Speedway

Shannon Slaughter Grandview Speedway
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Shannon Slaughter and her family bought her Sportsman Modified car in May.

Just a couple months later, she found herself with that car in Victory Lane.

On July 26, Slaughter won the T.P. Trailers Sportsman race at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania for not only her first victory at the track, but also her first in a modified. The 22-year-old became the first female driver to win a feature race at Grandview, a NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series track.

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NASCAR Cup Series Racing At Watkins Glen On USA Network Headlines NBC Sports’ Motorsports Coverage This Week

NBC SportsSTAMFORD, Conn. – Aug. 7, 2025 – NBC Sports’ motorsports action is headlined this week by the NASCAR Cup Series’ Go Bowling at The Glen from Watkins Glen, N.Y., this Sunday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m. ET on USA Network and Pro Motocross from Ironman Raceway in Crawfordsville, Ind., this Saturday, Aug. 9, at 1 p.m. ET exclusively on Peacock.

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