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Josh Berry scores Las Vegas Xfinity win in replacement role

September 25, 2021 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Josh Berry seized opportunity and drove away from the competition Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Tabbed to substitute for injured JR Motorsports driver Michael Annett, the Tennessee late model champion Berry earned his second win of the NASCAR Xfinity Series season claiming an impressive 4.396-second victory in the Playoff opener. Berry, 30, led a 1-2-3 JR Motorsports team sweep in the Alsco Uniforms 302 – besting his teammates Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson, whose second and third place finishes were tops among the 12 Playoff eligible…

Daniel Hemric to drive for Kaulig Racing in 2022

LEXINGTON, N.C. (September 25, 2021) – Kaulig Racing announced today the addition of Daniel Hemric to its 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) lineup. Hemric, who has made 113 starts in the NXS and earned 39 top five and 66 top-10 finishes, has signed on to pilot the team’s flagship No. 11 Chevrolet full-time to compete for the 2022 NXS championship. “The belief that Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice have in me to come drive their notable, No. 11 car means the world to me,” said Hemric. “Equally, I believe in their program, their vision, and what they’re building at Kaulig Racing….

Christian Eckes leads ThorSport Truck Series parade in Vegas

September 24, 2021 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service For the second consecutive week the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series crowned a first-time winner. Christian Eckes, a 20-year old New York native, took the lead on a final restart with four laps remaining to claim his first trophy and lead a historic 1-2-3-4 finish for the ThorSport Racing team. Eckes teammate Ben Rhodes finished .272-seconds back, followed by Playoff driver Matt Crafton and veteran Johnny Sauter who completed the ThorSport four-of-a-kind at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Todd Gilliland finished fifth after leading a race best 66 laps. Although understandably excited…

Starting Lineups for NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series at Las Vegas

Here is the starting lineup for Sunday’s South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Here is the starting lineup for Saturday’s Alsco Uniforms 302 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway:

Here’s why Las Vegas may be the most important race in the NASCAR Playoffs

Whoever is crowned as the NASCAR Cup Series champion on November 7th at the Phoenix Raceway may very well look back at the South Point 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway as the most important of the races within his NASCAR Playoffs run. After all, this race on the 1.5-mile layout located in the Nevada desert could very well be considered the only “normal” race within this ‘Round of 12’. Besides the race in Las Vegas, this Playoff round consists of a race at the Talladega Super Speedway and the Charlotte Motor Speedway ‘Roval’. Both of those tracks bring…

Concrete better than Dirt for NASCAR at Bristol

The sister site to this one, InsideDirtRacing.com, is obviously dedicated to the coverage of dirt racing so the title of this piece may get this writer in trouble with some of his readers. But this past weekend clearly demonstrated that, for NASCAR at least, the concrete surface at the Bristol Motor Speedway made for better racing than the clay surface installed around the half-mile oval back in the spring. As a matter of fact, it would be hard to image a better collective trio of races than those contested by the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series,…

Kyle Larson wins crazy elimination race in Bristol

September 18, 2021 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Kyle Larson celebrated victory in Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race with a burnout on the frontstretch at Bristol Motor Speedway, as tempers flared between Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott on pit road. With an assist from Elliott, who took Harvick’s line at the .533-mile concrete track and slowed his progress, Larson made the winning pass on Lap 397 of 400 and sealed his sixth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season. At the other end of the spectrum, Aric Almirola, Tyler Reddick, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell…

Allmendinger takes Xfinity win and Regular Season title in wild Bristol finish

September 17, 2021 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – With cars bouncing off each other like pinballs through two laps of overtime, AJ Allmendinger took his No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet three-wide to the bottom, passed Justin Allgaier and Austin Cindric on the final lap and won Friday night’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The victory gave Allmendinger the NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship by 10 points over Cindric, who held the race lead when the 10th and final caution flag flew on Lap 297 of 300 after Allgaier turned JR Motorsports teammate Sam…

NASCAR releases 2022 Cup Series schedule

September 15, 2021 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service In 2022, the NASCAR Cup Series will return to the Last Great Coliseum after visiting one of the first great coliseums for the first time. The series will make its first trip to the shores of the Mississippi under the shadow of the Gateway Arch. And the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs will have a new look, with Homestead-Miami Speedway moving back into the postseason and each round featuring a shakeup of the participating tracks. For the first time in its history, the Clash, the season-opening exhibition race, will leave Daytona International…

Bristol’s track surface could play a role in deciding the first Playoff cuts

The first round of cuts in the NASCAR Playoffs will take place this Saturday night following the NRA Bass Pro Shops Night Race at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Four of the original sixteen drivers who earned their way into the title chase will lose the opportunity to be crowned champion at the end of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. As a result, the pressure is on for those involved in the stretch run toward the championship as the first round draws to a close at one of the sport’s toughest and most exciting tracks. Potentially adding to the high-banked…