Category: Cup

Legacy Motor Club appeared to be an organization on the rise in the NASCAR Cup Series heading into the 2023 season. There was reason to be optimistic after a solid 2022 campaign and the addition of a young and talented rookie driver as well as partnering with one of the sport’s all-time legends in the person of seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson as a co-owner and part-time driver. Legacy already had 27-year-old driver Erik Jones, who was entering his third year with the No. 43 team, in the fold. The Byron, Michigan native was coming off a season in which he…

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There’s no question that Kyle Larson is an immensely talented race car driver. The Elk Grove, California native has shown that he can win in virtually any type of machine and on any type of surface. At the same time, the 31-year-old driver has been fortunate enough to work with some tremendous crew chiefs including Paul Silva leading his Sprint Car efforts and Kevin Rumley preparing Late Models for the driver known as ‘Yung Money’. Larson has also experienced great success with his current NASCAR Cup Series pit boss Cliff Daniels. The duo has been together since Larson joined Hendrick…

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Brad Keselowski became a co-owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing prior to the start of the 2022 season. Since that time, the organization has risen from the ranks of the mid-pack to front runners. The numbers clearly bear that out with the most obvious improvement coming from the fact that both of their cars have earned a spot in the NASCAR Playoffs which was the first time either of their teams had entered the “post season” with a chance for the championship since Ryan Newman in 2019 and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in 2017. This past Saturday night, Chris Buescher drove…

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About this time last season, Christopher Bell’s focus was on the drivers he was battling to earn a spot in the NASCAR Playoffs. Even with his win in New Hampshire, nothing was certain as the cutoff race in Daytona approached because so many different drivers had won a race that there seemed to be very few guarantees until the sixteen driver lineup who would compete for the championship was officially set. Bell spent much of his time in 2022 hovering around the Playoff bubble on the verge of not making it onto the list of contenders. His New Hampshire win…

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These photos were taken during a pit stop by the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team for Kyle Larson during the Ally 400 at the Nashville Super Speedway. This was their second pit stop of the day and it occurred during the first stage break of the race. Everything demonstrated in the photos below takes place in 12 seconds or less. The No. 5 team had the last stall on pit road, or the first stall from the driver’s perspective. Larson turns into the pit stall slowing from the pit road speed of 45mph. Only five crew members are allowed across the…

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Here are some headshot photos of numerous NASCAR personalities taken during the Ally 400 weekend at Nashville Super Speedway:   Please consider watching: Respond to this post on Twitter by following @RichardAllenIDR and @MichaelRMoats or by liking the InsideCircleTrack.com Facebook page.  Also, dirt racing fans can check out InsideDirtRacing.com for more racing content.

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As he did on Sunday in Las Vegas, William Byron has shown during his relatively short NASCAR Cup Series career that he can win races for his Hendrick Motorsports team. The 25-year-old driver now has a streak of at least one win in each of the past four seasons. But the bigger questions surrounding the driver who hails from Charlotte are can he become a regular front runner and multiple-time winner during each campaign and can he seriously challenge for a championship at the sport’s top level. The 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion’s best result in the final series standings…

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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…

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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…

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How could a driver who has amassed seven championships and 83 victories at the NASCAR Cup Series level over the course of a stellar career have anything to learn? When that driver has not turned a single competitive lap in the Next Gen car and has been out of this form of racing since the end of the 2020 season, the answer to that question is quite a bit. Jimmie Johnson retired from full-time competition in NASCAR two seasons ago to pursue racing in IndyCar. After finding only marginal success in open-wheel machines, the 47-year-old star is now back as…

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