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Should NASCAR teams limit what drivers are allowed to do away from their primary occupation?

The topic of what sorts of activities race car drivers should engage, or perhaps better said, be allowed to engage in away from the track has been discussed for quite some time. This past week, the subject was again brought to the forefront when it became known that 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott had sustained a broken leg in a snowboarding accident. As a result, it appears as if the sport’s most popular driver will be sidelined for multiple weeks. The impact of driver missing races, especially such a noteworthy star as Elliott, can be far reaching. Team…

Austin Hill makes it two-for-three with Xfinity win in Las Vegas

Dramatic late pass lifts Austin Hill to NASCAR Xfinity win at Las Vegas March 4, 2023 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS—Austin Hill ran down rookie pole winner Chandler Smith from three seconds back, passed him as the cars approached the white flag and held on to win Saturday’s Alsco Uniforms 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The victory was the second of the year for Hill, who won the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. The driver of the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet won for the first time at Las Vegas…

Kyle Busch cruises to Truck Series victory in Vegas

March 3, 2023 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS—Kyle Busch revels in changing circumstances. Five days after winning at Auto Club Speedway in his second NASCAR Cup Series race in a Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, Busch powered his own Kyle Busch Motorsports Chevy to victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. Despite a couple of twitchy moments in traffic, Busch dominated Friday night’s Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading 84 of 134 laps and beating runner-up Zane Smith to the finish line by 4.981 seconds. The victory was Busch’s first of the season, the…

Did you expect Kyle Busch to win so soon? He didn’t

Kyle Busch is an extraordinary talent in a race car and Richard Childress Racing proved last year that they are a competitive organization once again by winning a total of four races and placing drivers Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick in the NASCAR Playoffs. Even with all of that taken into consideration, winning a NASCAR Cup Series race in only their second outing together might seem to be a bit of a stretch. After all, every aspect of the new pairing was foreign to all parties. Busch only joined RCR during the most recent off-season after parting ways with Joe…

Did the first “real” race show that Chevrolet has taken the lead with the Next Gen?

The Next Gen car proved to be a bit of a puzzle during its first year in competition as no particular team appeared to get a handle on the new machine put in use on the NASCAR Cup Series in 2022. No particular driver or even manufacturer just completely dominated the season as had sometimes been the case during the Gen 6’s run as the primary racer being used at the sport’s top division. A total of 19 different pilots steered into victory lane over the course of last year’s campaign to demonstrate that the car either truly had brought…

After two races, are enough people watching?

The grandstands at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California this past Sunday were obviously not filled to capacity although there was a very solid crowd there to attend the Pala Casino 400. Earlier in the day, however, the track had reported that the NASCAR Cup Series race was a sellout, and it very well could have been. Perhaps some tickets were sold to companies who did not use them all or perhaps the cool and rainy weather(it snowed there on Saturday) caused some southern California natives to opt for the warmer and drier environment of their living rooms instead of…

Starting Lineup for the Pala Casino 400 at Auto Club Speedway

The NASCAR Cup Series will be racing this weekend in the Pala Casino 400 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. It will be the last event held on the current 2-mile configuration as the track will be converted to a short track afterwards. The race will be aired live on Fox at 3:30(ET). Practice and qualifying were cancelled due to weather. Kyle Larson won at Auto Club in 2022. Here is Sunday’s starting lineup:

JTG-Daughtery working to carry Daytona momentum into the remainder of the season

The last three Daytona 500s have produced surprise winners with the most recent version doing exactly that when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was deemed by NASCAR Cup Series officials as the victor when they ruled that the JTG-Daugherty Chevrolet was ahead of the pack when a race-ending yellow flag waved. It was only the third career win for the Olive Branch, Mississippi driver with both his other triumphs having come back in 2017 when he drove for Roush Fenway Racing. Stenhouse’s JTG-Daugherty team had only won one other Cup race prior to last Sunday with driver A.J. Allmendinger in 2014 on…

Turn 2 Blog: Evaluating Fox’s coverage & Daytona finishes

*Turn 2 Blog is a regular feature on InsideCircleTrack.com. Here, site operators Michael Moats and Richard Allen take turns offering their thoughts on the NASCAR and pavement short track racing topics of the day. What are your thoughts on how all three races at Daytona finished? Richard: All three races in Daytona had a dissatisfying ending in that none of them actually took the checkered flag at speed to conclude the race. Although the finish of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race was out of the hands of the officials because of weather conditions, it is always disappointing to have…

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. achieves Daytona 500 underdog victory

February 19, 2023 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In the longest DAYTONA 500 in NASCAR history, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got help from an unexpected source and won the sport’s most prestigious race when a wild wreck froze the field in the second overtime. Stenhouse and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano were battling for the lead on Lap 212 when contact from Aric Almirola’s Ford started Travis Pastrana’s Toyota spinning in Turn 2. Pastrana’s Camry clipped the Chevrolet of Kyle Larson and set it rocketing into the outside wall. Tires screamed, sparks flew and…