Did you notice the first three drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series point standings haven’t won a race yet? William Byron (fourth) is the first driver with a victory in a competitive year where no single driver has stood out seven races in.
Roughly 24 hours after Sunday’s (April 3) NASCAR Cup Series event at Richmond Raceway, there was one lasting image from the first short track race of the season.
It wasn’t Denny Hamlin celebrating atop his No. 11 Toyota after scoring his first win of 2022.
It wasn’t Ryan Blaney and Ross Chastain trading bump-and-runs.
It was…..Clint Howard?
Denny Hamlin led the final five laps at Richmond Raceway Sunday (April 3), propelling him to his first NASCAR Cup Series win of 2022 in the Toyota Owners 400.
For the first 128 laps at Richmond Raceway, all signs pointed toward Ryan Blaney dominating Sunday (April 4) afternoon’s Toyota Owners 400.
Ryan Blaney claimed the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway. Blaney clocked in with a lap of 119.782 mph, beating out William Byron‘s 119.585 mph lap. It is Blaney’s third pole of the season and the ninth of his career. It’s his second consecutive pole. “I will say (Richmond’s) definitely not …
In the 2022 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, Ross Chastain broke through. Chastain won at Circuit of the Americas after a last-lap duel with AJ Allmendinger.
Ryan Blaney, in his fifth full-time season with Team Penske in Cup, isn’t the first name that comes to mind when thinking of exceptional road-course racers.
Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney recovered from a crash in practice to win the pole for Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Texas Grand Prix.
Strong competition at Atlanta Motor Speedway set new NASCAR records in 2022. Joy Tomlinson delves into the numbers, including another Ryan Blaney tough break.
See why Ryan Blaney and others here should be on your daily fantasy NASCAR DraftKings radar for Atlanta.
Chase Briscoe held off Tyler Reddick and Ross Chastain on a late-race restart to claim his first career NASCAR Cup Series win at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday.
If fans love a first-time winner and a blue-collar driver who came through the ranks the hard way, they should be ecstatic about Sunday’s Ruoff Mortgage 500.
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