Heim had built a more than 8-second lead before a bizarre incident – Marco Andretti lost the entire rear-end housing off his truck – brought out a late-race caution and brief red flag.Heim and his Tricon Garage teammate Taylor Gray were running first and second and both were close onContinue Reading
Byron, who was fastest overall in Saturday’s extended practice, carried that speed into qualifying. He was fastest in the first round and his average lap speed of 94.696 mph was good enough to top Gibbs (94.685 mph), who was the last car to complete a lap.The pole is Byron’s firstContinue Reading
Byron, who won the pole for this race a year ago, was among the last cars to complete laps at the end of 1½ hours of practice and with time already expired registered the fastest average lap speed of the day at 94.415 mph.Teams were split into two groups andContinue Reading
The 34-year-old and three-time Supercars champion was fastest in Xfinity Series practice on Friday but came up one spot short in qualifying for Saturday’s race at Circuit of the Americas.Cup Series regular Kyle Larson, in a part-time Hendrick Motorsports entry, put up a solid average lap speed of 92.946 mphContinue Reading
The 17-year-old Trackhouse Racing development driver put on an impressive display in Friday’s Truck Series qualifying session at the Circuit of the Americas.Making the first of what is expected to be three series starts this year with Spire Motorsports, Zilisch advanced to the final round of qualifying with a trackContinue Reading
In a wild Bristol race featuring extreme tire wear, Joe Gibbs Racing prevailed with Denny Hamlin taking victory over Martin Truex Jr. as they battled through slower traffic. Another veteran, Brad Keselowski, finished third.Truex is now tied with Kyle Larson for the regular season points lead as the series headsContinue Reading
Since retiring from full-time NASCAR Cup series competition after the 2017 season, Earnhardt Jr. has run select Xfinity races every year since.He normally picks short tracks, such as Martinsville Speedway, Richmond Raceway, but also Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway. Last year, he ran two races, including one at Bristol MotorContinue Reading
Although he has three top 10 starts in five races this season, Cindric’s fourth place finish at Atlanta is his only finish better than 22nd and finds himself mired in 21st in the series standings.Cindric and his No. 2 Ford team have had speed, they’ve just not been able to getContinue Reading
The biggest issue I found with Sunday’s tire conversation-dominated event was who to thank for it because still today, nobody seems to know the exact reason how it came about.A tire combination used last fall at Bristol with no problems on the same cars suddenly decided this spring not toContinue Reading
Although Goodyear brought the same tire combination as was used in last September’s race at the track, it became clear early in the race the tire fall-off was laying no rubber on the track, which resulted in unusually excessive tire wear.Teams quickly discovered they couldn’t go more than 47 toContinue Reading