1. Is it too soon to panic about the Next Gen car ruining short track racing? Houston, we have a problem. Or rather, Martinsville, we have a problem. As NASCAR has shuffled around its schedule the past few years, a common refrain among fans was that more short track races would be a good thing. …
Where will Dale Earnhardt Jr. finish in the Xfinity race at Martinsville? Plus, will the paperclip be the place of Ryan Blaney’s first Cup win of the season?
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.
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