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About NASCARCelebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2023, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 16 of the nation’s major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR consists of three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series™), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series™, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour™), one local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series™) and three international series (NASCAR Pinty’s Series™, NASCAR Mexico Series™, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series™). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat (‘NASCAR’).

William Byron edges Joey Logano for the Cup Series pole at Phoenix

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By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Daytona 500 winner William Byron climbed out of his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on Phoenix Raceway pit road with a huge smile after claiming his first pole position in nearly a year — the last car to turn a qualifying lap.

The 27-year-old North Carolinian conceded he wasn’t expecting his chart-topping lap of 133.680 mph but is ready to seize the strong start for Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

“I did not hit my marks, I was sideways and carried a ton of entry speed, missed the middle of the corner, and coming off the dogleg I was so loose,’’ Byron said of his fast lap on the one-mile Phoenix oval, the 14th pole of his career. “I was just going to try to commit to the exits and see how much I could get out, even though I missed the center [of the turn].

“Just a fast car,’’ said Byron, who leads the NASCAR Cup Series championship and has two top-two finishes in the season’s first three races. “Thanks to my whole team. They’ve been bringing fast cars, and we’ve been doing a really good job of executing. So definitely want to go out there and have a great day tomorrow.’’

Team Penske’s Joey Logano will start alongside Byron, marking his third front-row start in four races this year. The three-time and reigning series champion turned a lap of 133.195 mph in his No. 22 Ford Mustang in Saturday’s single-round NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session.

“I don’t like William Byron anymore,’’ Logano said with a laugh. “Man, that stinks. I just got through telling [crew chief] Paul [Wolfe] that it would really suck if the last car beat us.

“That was going to be Penske’s 700th pole across all motorsports, so we’ll have to go try and do that next week. But overall, proud of the effort.’’

Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar will start his No. 77 Chevrolet third, leading an impressive weekend for the Spire team. For the first time ever, all three of its cars will start among the top eight on the grid. Michael McDowell (No. 71) and Justin Haley (No. 7) will start seventh and eighth, respectively.

Wood Brothers Racing’s Josh Berry was fourth quickest in the No. 21 Ford, followed by Legacy Motor Club’s Erik Jones in the No. 43 Toyota.

Defending Phoenix spring race winner Christopher Bell, who brings a two-race winning streak into Phoenix, was 11th quickest Saturday afternoon.

Katherine Legge, making her NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend, qualified last among the 37 cars. However, she improved her practice speed in the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet by more than 2 mph in qualifying — a strong sign of progress for the sports car and open-wheel driver.

Logano, who won the last NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix in November, is the last driver to win a race from the pole at the desert one-miler, claiming that win in fall 2022. Hendrick Motorsports drivers Kyle Larson (2021) and Chase Elliott (2020) are the only other active drivers with a Phoenix victory from the pole.

Hocevar was not only quick in qualifying but also fastest in Saturday afternoon’s practice using Goodyear’s “option” tires. His Spire Motorsports Chevrolet teammate McDowell was second-fastest, with 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick (Toyota), Team Penske’s Austin Cindric (Ford), and Roush Fenway Keselowski’s Chris Buescher (Ford) rounding out the top five.

Teams tested the option tire in the 45-minute practice session to evaluate its impact in race trim. Race conditions are expected to differ, with temperatures forecasted to be at least 10 degrees warmer. Every team will have two sets of the option tire and six of the Goodyear primary sets.

“I don’t know, but it’s definitely a much faster tire and pretty strong as well,’’ Larson said of running practice laps on the option tire. “It’s going to be interesting.’’

NOTES:

Legge makes history: Legge will become only the eighth woman to start a NASCAR Cup Series race in the sport’s modern era (post-1972) and the first since Danica Patrick competed in the 2018 Daytona 500. The 44-year-old is driving the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet, owned by B.J. McLeod and his wife, Jessica. Legge has four IMSA class wins and has started four Indianapolis 500s. She has made five career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, with a best finish of 14th at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in 2018.

Cindric penalized: NASCAR issued a major penalty to Team Penske’s Austin Cindric for intentional contact with Kaulig Racing’s Ty Dillon early in last week’s race at Circuit of the Americas. The penalty includes a loss of 50 driver points and a $50,000 fine, dropping Cindric from 11th to 35th in the standings entering Sunday’s race.

Briscoe’s penalty overturned: NASCAR’s Appeals Panel overturned a 100-point penalty issued to Chase Briscoe, reinstating his points and placing him 14th in the standings, tied with Carson Hocevar.

Bell eyes three-peat: Defending Phoenix spring race winner Christopher Bell is attempting to become the first driver to win three consecutive races in the NextGen car era. Eleven times in modern NASCAR history, a driver winning three straight has gone on to win the championship the same year.

Tire strategy at play: NASCAR is allowing teams to choose between Goodyear’s primary “yellow” tire, designed for longevity, and the grippier but faster-wearing “red” option tire. Teams will receive six sets of primary tires and two sets of option tires.

Logano returns to championship site: Logano, a four-time Phoenix Raceway winner, acknowledged the special memories of his title-winning performance last fall but said he’s focused on moving forward.

“Lots of good memories here. It is cool being back for sure,’’ Logano said. “Even going out there earlier and seeing the [track] wall with the sticker on it, because we won this thing last time. It's a lot of special moments, but I've been saying it’s in the past, right? You gotta keep moving forward.”

Logano has led the most laps this season (126) but has yet to record a top-10 finish through three races. He sits 12th in the standings, primarily due to stage points earned.

Dramatic victory at COTA gives Christopher Bell second straight NASCAR Cup win

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March 2, 2025

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

AUSTIN, Tex.—Christopher Bell was prophetic.

After winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Feb. 23, Bell said 2.4-mile, 17-turn Circuit of Americas was a track he had circled for another potential victory.

Sure enough, after passing Kyle Busch for the lead and staving off defending race winner William Byron over the last five laps at COTA, Bell was a back-to-back winner in the Cup Series for the first time in his career, having claimed victory in Sunday's EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix.

Bell beat Byron to the finish line by 0.433 seconds, as the reigning Daytona 500 winner raced Bell cleanly over the closing laps. Pole winner Tyler Reddick was third, followed by Chase Elliott, who made a miraculous recovery from a Lap 1 spin in Turn 1 resulting in a broken toe link.

Busch fell to fifth on the final lap after side-to-side contact with Bell’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota during the battle for the lead which took all the juice out of Busch’s No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

The victory was Bell’s first at the Texas road course and the 11th of his career.

“Whenever Kyle was leading, I was just trying to be so cautious,” said Bell, who spun Busch’s car in Turn 1 in the 2024 race. “Obviously, we know what happened last year. I didn't want that to happen. I wanted to pass him clean. He was just doing such a good job at running his race, and he could get off the corners just good enough that I couldn't get inside of him.

“But there I started peeking a nose, and he bobbled and allowed me to get out front. Whenever I did, I'm, like, ‘Okay, just don't beat yourself.’ Those were about the five or six sloppiest laps I've ever run.

“Just super proud for everyone on this DeWalt No. 20 team. We didn't count (on) last week. Last week was a speedway. We didn't have that one circled. We definitely had this one circled. I'm ready to keep adding to it.”

Having pitted two laps earlier than Bell during the final cycle of green-flag stops, Busch, who led a race-high 42 laps, held a 2.6-second margin over Byron and a 4.0-second advantage over Bell on Lap 78 when Denny Hamlin locked his brakes into Turn 6a and knocked Austin Dillon’s Chevrolet into a gravel trap to cause the third and final caution.

Busch took command on the restart on Lap 83, but Bell had superior tires and an arguably superior car. With a run off Turn 20 on Lap 90, Bell had the lead before the cars reached the start/finish line. At the top of the Hill in Turn 1 on Lap 91, Byron followed into second place, and Reddick soon had third.

“Yeah, it was really close,” Byron said of his attempt to challenge Bell in the late going. “I felt like the battle between (Bell) and Kyle was just kind of sitting there waiting for one of them to bobble or slide their tires. Bell got by him. I felt like once he got clear, his car was super loose, and it kind of gave me a couple of shots at him, and I just couldn't ever get beside him.

“We've always raced really well together, so I didn't want to like move him blatantly and all that kind of stuff. Just sliding around a ton at the end… So just sucks to be so damn close, right? You can be on the bumper of the guy coming to the line, and that sucks. A lot of races ahead, and hopefully we can just keep bringing the speed.”

Busch rued both the inopportune caution and the effect of the tire disparity after the final restart.

“I wish we could have had a little bit more there at the end,” Busch said. “I feel like maybe the two-lap fresher tires the 20 had was the difference… But I also hated to see that yellow that came out.

“I felt like we had a little bit of a gap there that I was protecting my tires, and I could run the lines I wanted to run. I didn’t have to run defensive lines and use up my stuff even more so, (which I did) when the 20 was right on me.

“I’ll give Christopher credit, though, where credit’s due. He ran me really hard, and I was a complete butthead. But he did a great job working me over and just doing it the right way and being able to get by.”

Elliott fell to the back of the field when contact from Ross Chastain’s Chevrolet sent him spinning in the first corner of the first lap. When the majority of the field came to pit road before the end of the first stage, Elliott stayed on track to collect fifth-place stage points.

Pitting during the stage break to repair the toe link broken in the accident, Elliott restarted 36th and worked his way forward. Crew chief Alan Gustafson’s call for fresh tires during the final caution allowed Elliott to charge to fourth place.

“Yeah, it was just a crazy day, really,” Elliott said. “I got run over, I felt like, there in the first corner. I’m curious to see it. I still haven’t seen it to know whether or not I did something wrong. I’m happy to own it, if I did. I just felt like it was the first corner of the first lap, and it’s just a bummer to get behind, and then we had damage.

“Alan and the guys did a great job fixing it and getting it that close. We got behind on a restart there and just had to play major catchup there. Alan made a great call there at the end to put tires on it. We were rolling up through there really good at the end.

“Obviously, when you have a good car like that, I would have liked to have been in the fight with those guys, but it was a great recovery from where we were at during the end of the second stage.”

Shane van Gisbergen, Chris Buescher, Noah Gragson, Alex Bowman and Todd Gilliland completed the top 10.

The Cup debut of 18-year-old road course phenom Connor Zilisch came to an early end in a violent collision with Trackhouse Racing teammate Daniel Suárez on Lap 50.

Charging through Turn 19, Suárez’s Chevrolet bounced off the curbing and spun wildly as cars behind him scattered to avoid calamity. As Zilisch steered to the right, Suarez’s car spun into his path, and Zilisch plowed into his teammate and careened into the outside SAFER barrier.

Both cars were too badly damaged to continue. The wreck ended a valiant rally by Zilisch, who was collateral damage when Chastain dive-bombed into Turn 1 and turned Elliott on the first lap.

Zilisch pitted with a flat tire and fell back to 33rd, but by the end of the second stage he had worked his way back to 14th, his original starting position. On the restart lap after the second stage break, however, Zilisch’s race ended against the fence.

“All I saw was a cloud of smoke, and by the time I saw him (Suárez), it was way too late to do anything,” said Zilisch, who won Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at COTA. “I saw him spinning off to the left and I thought he was going to keep going in that direction or stay there.

“I guess he flipped back right and he started coming towards me. Really unfortunate way to end my Cup Series debut. We were one of the top-five fastest cars in the second stage there. I went from outside the top 30 to 14th, and I felt really good about our Chevy. We made a lot of gains from practice and qualifying. It’s just an unfortunate way to end it.”

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NASCAR Cup Series Race - EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix

Circuit of The Americas

Austin, Texas

Sunday, March 2, 2025

1. (19) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 95.

2. (15) William Byron, Chevrolet, 95.

3. (1) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 95.

4. (3) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 95.

5. (8) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 95.

6. (6) Shane Van Gisbergen #, Chevrolet, 95.

7. (24) Chris Buescher, Ford, 95.

8. (17) Noah Gragson, Ford, 95.

9. (21) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 95.

10. (10) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 95.

11. (16) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 95.

12. (9) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 95.

13. (4) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 95.

14. (18) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 95.

15. (26) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 95.

16. (29) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 95.

17. (31) Riley Herbst #, Toyota, 95.

18. (22) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 95.

19. (25) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 95.

20. (2) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 95.

21. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 95.

22. (33) John Hunter Nemechek, Toyota, 95.

23. (30) Cole Custer, Ford, 95.

24. (23) Joey Logano, Ford, 95.

25. (36) Austin Cindric, Ford, 95.

26. (35) Josh Berry, Ford, 95.

27. (32) Erik Jones, Toyota, 95.

28. (34) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 95.

29. (20) Zane Smith, Ford, 95.

30. (12) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 95.

31. (37) Cody Ware, Ford, 95.

32. (7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 95.

33. (28) Ryan Preece, Ford, 95.

34. (13) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 95.

35. (27) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, Accident, 80.

36. (5) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, Accident, 50.

37. (14) Connor Zilisch(i), Chevrolet, Accident, 49.

Average Speed of Race Winner: 73.025 mph.

Time of Race: 3 Hrs, 7 Mins, 20 Secs. Margin of Victory: 0.433 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 4 for 15 laps.

Lead Changes: 20 among 9 drivers.

Lap Leaders: T. Reddick 1-8;S. Van Gisbergen # 9-17;T. Reddick 18;B. Wallace 19-22;S. Van Gisbergen # 23-24;K. Busch 25;S. Van Gisbergen # 26;K. Busch 27-34;S. Van Gisbergen # 35-42;A. Allmendinger 43;R. Preece 44-46;M. McDowell 47-49;K. Busch 50-53;A. Allmendinger 54;K. Busch 55-68;C. Bell 69-70;S. Van Gisbergen # 71-73;K. Busch 74-81;W. Byron 82;K. Busch 83-89;C. Bell 90-95.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Kyle Busch 6 times for 42 laps; Shane Van Gisbergen # 5 times for 23 laps; Tyler Reddick 2 times for 9 laps; Christopher Bell 2 times for 8 laps; Bubba Wallace 1 time for 4 laps; Ryan Preece 1 time for 3 laps; Michael McDowell 1 time for 3 laps; AJ Allmendinger 2 times for 2 laps; William Byron 1 time for 1 lap.

Stage #1 Top Ten: 23,22,88,8,9,45,5,99,24,16

Stage #2 Top Ten: 60,12,71,8,88,16,24,23,20,99

Off to a strong start, Christopher Bell is poised for a breakout season

March 4, 2025

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

AUSTIN, Tex. — If you’re looking for a subtitle for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, try “Christopher Bell Unbound.”

Freed from the embargo that prevented him from racing on dirt for three years, Bell is competing with joy this season—and with performance to match.

On a windy, temperate Sunday at the auspiciously shortened road course at Circuit of the Americas, Bell won his second straight race in NASCAR’s premier division and indicated, without boast, that there likely are more victories to come.

“I’m ready to keep adding to it,” Bell said after the race.

That prospect isn’t far-fetched. In fact, given the speed in his No. 20 Toyota and the flawless execution by his team, it’s not inconceivable that Bell could extend his winning streak to three or four races.

He’s the defending winner of this Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM). In last year’s season finale at the same one-mile flat track, Bell led a race-high 143 laps before finishing fifth.

In two of the last three races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where the Cup Series will race on Mar. 16, Bell has finished second after winning the pole. In the 2024 Playoff event at the 1.5-mile track, Bell led a race-high 155-laps but finished second to Joey Logano by 0.662 second.

If any race was emblematic of Bell’s performance in 2024, it was that close call at Las Vegas. The No. 20 car often had winning speed, but Bell and his team all too often failed to deliver the coup de grace.

This season seems vastly different. A dirt-track Prometheus unchained from team owner Joe Gibbs’ prohibition against extracurricular racing, Bell entered 2025 with renewed confidence, steeled determination and, yes, unbridled joy.

Before turning a lap in a NASCAR Cup car, the 30-year-old from Norman, Oklahoma, won the 55-lap Non-Wing Outlaw feature at the Tulsa Shootout in a photo finish over 2021 NASCAR champion Kyle Larson.

On Jan. 13, he dominated the Chili Bowl Race of Champions against world-class midget race car drivers. On February 6, after finishing 12th in the Cook Out Clash for Cup cars at Bowman Gray Stadium, Bell won his first World of Outlaws winged sprint car feature event since 2019.

Success on dirt no doubt has contributed to Bell’s sanguine posture entering the Cup Series regular season. But why would Gibbs relax his long-standing ban on moonlighting in other forms of racing?

“I think as much as anything, we have three of our guys (Bell, new hire Chase Briscoe and grandson Ty Gibbs) heavily involved in dirt stuff,” Gibbs said. “I felt like that the thing that I probably made the decision on, they're really focused just on racing.

“They love it, and they talked about the offseason, being able to get a chance to race some dirt stuff would help fill their time and get them excited about things. We'll kind of see where he leads, but I made that decision, and we'll kind of see what happens with it.”

So far, so good.

After victories at Atlanta and COTA, Bell will try for three straight at Phoenix, a feat no Cup driver has accomplished since NASCAR introduced its Next Gen Cup car in 2022. Larson is the last driver to have won three consecutive Cup races, which he did twice during his 10-victory season in 2021.

Bell knows it won’t be easy, given the way the Next Gen car has leveled the competition.

“Back in the day, I remember it was the big three,” Bell said. “Everyone had the big three. It was Kyle (Busch), Martin (Truex Jr.) and (Kevin) Harvick there for a little bit, and different guys would come and go. It seemed like those teams had a little bit extra.

“Now, with the Next Gen car, you can't really get that advantage. Winning has certainly become harder. More guys are capable of it. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is debatable, but it's the sport that we live in and compete in right now.”

This year, Bell does seem to have something extra, but it comes from within. He appears more resolute, with higher expectations.

“It’s time to start putting it all together," he said. “I’m sitting here 30 years old and (have) the opportunity of a lifetime in front of me. I’ve had this team for a long time, and I haven’t been performing to the standards that I hold myself and this team holds everybody.

“So, we need to start today, and we’re off to a good start this year.”

Another win at Phoenix certainly isn’t out of the question. Neither is a victory at Las Vegas, though winning four straight is a long shot for any competitor.

In NASCAR’s modern era (from 1972 to present), only eight drivers—Cale Yarborough (1976), Darrell Waltrip (1981), Dale Earnhardt Sr. (1987), Harry Gant (1991), Bill Elliott (1992), Mark Martin (1993), Jeff Gordon (1998) and Jimmie Johnson (2007)—have won four straight races.

Five of those drivers—Yarborough, Waltrip, Earnhardt, Gordon and Johnson—won championships in the years they established the streaks.

Bell could be next in both categories, if the last two races are any indication.

“I think it’s a testament to this team,” Bell said. “They have no weaknesses. We can win at any race track at any time… I feel like we may have a ride. I don’t want to speak too early, but doing good so far.”

NASCAR Weekend Preview: Circuit of The Americas

February 27, 2025

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

NASCAR Cup race at COTA should highlight Shane van Gisbergen’s strong suit

AUSTIN, Tex. — The NASCAR Cup Series race at the Circuit of The Americas brings a new day on a “new” track.

For Trackhouse Racing driver Shane van Gisbergen, it brings a new and welcome opportunity.

After less than satisfying finishes in drafting track races at Daytona and Atlanta (33rd and 23rd, respectively), the road course ace from New Zealand comes to COTA as the betting favorite for Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (3:30 p.m. on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

The Cup Series will race on a shorter “National” circuit this season, with the section from Turn 7 through the Turn 11 hairpin eliminated. That reduces the course from 3.41 miles (the Formula 1 circuit) to 2.40 miles.

Accordingly, the race will feature 95 laps instead of 68, meaning more trips past the main grandstand and more adventures in treacherous Turn 1.

Van Gisbergen surprised most of the other Cup competitors when he triumphed in his series debut in the 2023 Chicago Street Race. Now the three-time Australian Supercars champion is a known quantity.

“I miss that—going there and no one knows who I am; I could kind of fly under the radar and do my own thing,” van Gisbergen said. “Obviously, there are expectations now, but I’m pretty good at keeping that under control myself and focusing on my own thing.”

SVG understands the reasoning behind shortening the course and shouldn’t have difficulty adapting to the new circuit.

“I did like the long track, but I see why they shortened it,” he said. “More time past the stands and more action. And the cut-through that’s done (from Turn 6), we don’t lose any passing spots. That extra bit (Turns 7 through 11), there’s only one real passing spot, and they’re kept one with the cut-through.

“More laps, too. I think it’s probably a good thing, a shorter track.”

Sunday’s race also is noteworthy as the Cup debut of Connor Zilisch, who won at Watkins Glen last year in his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. Doing double duty this weekend, Zilisch will drive a fourth entry for Trackhouse Racing, the No. 87 Red Bull Chevrolet, in Sunday’s Cup race.

“Going into my first Cup race at COTA, it’s going to be a big challenge for me,” Zilisch said. “A lot of question marks, but I just want to go in and enjoy it and have fun. You only get to make your debut in the Cup Series once.

“I feel like it’s going to be a good experience for me to go learn and run all the laps. I think that’s what I’m honestly looking forward to the most, just running all the laps and making the most of the experience.”

It’s not as though the road course aficionados won’t have stout competition from the rest of the Cup Series stars. William Byron and Christopher Bell, who won at Daytona and Atlanta, respectively, to start the 2025 season, finished 1-2 at COTA last year.

Byron also will run the Xfinity Series race on Saturday in Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 17 Chevrolet.

“I’m more than ready to get to COTA,” said Byron, who escaped a last-lap crash to win the DAYTONA 500 on Feb. 16. “We’ve always been fast there, and last year really showed what this team is capable of.

“The course will be shorter this time, but that’s where the extra laps in the Xfinity car should help. After the last two weekends of drafting, I’m happy to be going to a road course that takes such technique.”

Austin Hill aims to extend Richard Childress Racing’s domination

So far this season, Richard Childress Racing is batting 1.000, having swept all available Playoff points in the first two races of the year.

Jesse Love won the season opener at Daytona in the No. 2 RCR Chevrolet. A week later, Austin Hill put the No. 21 RCR Camaro in Victory Lane at Atlanta for the fifth time in the last six races at the 1.54-mile drafting track.

In addition, Hill swept the first two stages of both races. He dominated at Daytona before falling out of the race because of a rear end gear failure.

Though Hill has never won a road course race, he cautions against discounting his chances in Saturday’s Focused Health 250 at the Circuit of The Americas (2:30 p.m. ET on CW, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

“I’ve been so close to winning one of the road courses,” said Hill, who gave team owner Richard Childress his 99th Xfinity Series win last Saturday. “I hope going into COTA that we can be the one on top, and we can be sitting here talking to all of you (reporters) and have that 100th win.

“It would be extremely special.”

Hill’s path to Victory Lane won’t be an easy one. Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series winner at COTA, William Byron, is driving the No. 17 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet that carried Kyle Larson to victory in last season’s Xfinity Series race.

Ross Chastain, who won the Cup race at COTA in 2022, is pulling double duty, and talented road course racers Connor Zilisch and Sam Mayer also are likely contenders for the victory.

NASCAR Cup stars take in the sights and sounds of Mexico City

February 25, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

MEXICO CITY – This is not the pina colada Cancun of your cruise ships but a vibrant, sprawling, city center full of busy international vibes; welcoming and interesting. Smiling friendly people with places to be.

Beautiful snow-covered mountain peaks loom over Mexico City. Small, colorful taco stands decorate every corner, busy with lunch regulars. The sidewalks are filled with people and the traffic lanes filled with mopeds and cars, door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper. Car horns and dog barks fill the air. It is full sensory.

And the first big billboard rising out of the Mexico City airport? It advertises Chevrolets.

It all speaks to the warm reception NASCAR has already received and is sure to get again for the June 15 NASCAR Cup Series race at Mexico. The warm-hearted locals cannot wait for stock car’s summer arrival. Race organizers expect three days of sell-out crowds, eager to see this brand of racing at one of the world’s great road course venues, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

“I feel like you are coming to my house for the very first time," a smiling Mexico-native Daniel Suarez said Tuesday as he joined three other NASCAR Cup Series stars – Sunday’s Atlanta race winner, Christopher Bell and series champions Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott for a tour of the course and the city and its offerings.

“I love racing in the United States and it feels like home to me now, but there is no one race track I can call home – Texas, Miami, Phoenix, California are all like home because there are a lot of my fans - but it is not home. I grew up racing here. I have won races here.

“For me this is a very special place. My very first win in the NASCAR Mexico [Series] came here at this track on the oval [configuration].

“It’s fun having people here," the Trackhouse Racing driver said. “It’s a different culture but they are very excited for the race track and for NASCAR."

Each of the four drivers joined track management and other local dignitaries for a golf cart ride around the course, stopping at various points to look specifically at the layout.

They saw the slight variations NASCAR will use in its races, eliminating a series of turns the Formula One series uses – one of several changes to the course since the last time NASCAR was here in 2005-08 for Xfinity Series races. Kyle Busch (2008) and Denny Hamlin (2006) are the only current drivers to have hoisted trophies here - each with a win on the former circuit configuration.

On Tuesday, the drivers were noticeably impressed by the paddock and famous massive grandstands that border Turns 11-14 – just a single portion of the track where 30,000 fans will sit. The facility expects upwards of 80,000 people a day in full, for the three-day event.

The track is in a green space in the middle of the busy city but inside the gates sit those massive permanent grandstands, a huge staging area used for concerts – Paul McCartney just last week – that will serve as Victory Circle. There’s even a baseball stadium adjacent to the actual track.

“Honestly, I’ve been really impressed," said 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. “My initial thoughts are that is a pretty incredible property as a whole for the way they are able to rotate through events."

“There’s the stadium section hosting concerts in an intimate way and the park section for bike riders. It’s really unique and the track I think is a pretty cool layout too. I feel like it’s got a little bit of everything and it’s been a fun experience so far. I’d never been to Mexico City and this is pretty neat."

The response and embrace since NASCAR announced its return to the city has been nothing short of overwhelming. Nearly 200 of the country’s media outlets are expected for a press conference with the four drivers and track officials on Wednesday.

After a day of karting around the track, topped by a special taco stop at on the city’s most renowned eateries, Atarantados, the four drivers were headed to a Luche Libre show after dinner.

The city, the venue, the people all seem enthusiastic to welcome NASCAR. And judging by the smiles and energy from this visit, the feel-good is reciprocated.

“First time at the track, first time in Mexico City," said Blaney, the 2023 NASCAR Cup Serie champion and driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford. “I had super high hopes before we even got here and being here and seeing it all and hearing the plan got me even more excited to come here [and race]. I think they are going to do a great job and I hope everyone’s going to really enjoy it from a fan perspective.

“I know all the teams are excited to come down and it was a nice little treat today to be able to come and see the plan. I’m definitely looking forward to coming back here in the summer to race.”

Team Penske’s Missed Opportunities: Dominance without victory in 2025

February 25, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

HAMPTON, Ga. – For the second consecutive week, the NASCAR Cup Series has produced three-wide racing and a thrilling finish – with Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell taking a dramatic last lap overtime victory on the Atlanta Motor Speedway high banks.

It was a can-do answer to the season-opening DAYTONA 500 thriller a week ago when Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron became only the fifth driver in the celebrated race’s 67-year history to win back-to-back trophies.

Bell’s answer Sunday night at Atlanta marked his first ever NASCAR Cup Series victory in a drafting-style track and the two dramatic season-opening weekends bode well for this weekend’s highly-anticipated road course race, the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas (Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

One of the season’s early common themes is a late race rush for the trophy – and missed opportunity for each race’s most prolific organization, Team Penske. The three Penske drivers – reigning and three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano, 2023 series champ Ryan Blaney and 2022 DAYTONA 500 winner Austin Cindric – have combined to lead 334 of the 467 laps run to date.

That’s an absolutely dominant 72 percent of all laps in 2025.

Yet the kind of unpredictable drafting competition failed to produce a trophy for the dominant trio.

"As a team, as Fords, we had the best cars here this weekend," said Cindric, whose 47 laps out front in the No. 2 Team Penske Ford at Atlanta were second only to Logano’s race best 83 laps led.

“We put ourselves into position to win the race and got used up and into the fence and didn’t win the race. It’s a shame. Two weeks in a row I feel like we have had the car to beat and haven’t done it. One way or another, it is disappointing.”

That’s putting it mildly for these three.

Despite his laps led total, Cindric finished 28th at Atlanta, nine laps down, after being collected in a late-race incident while running among the top-five. At Daytona, he led a race best 59 laps, but finished eighth.

Logano leads the series with 126 laps led in the two races, including a race best 83 laps out front at Atlanta only to finish 12th. At Daytona, his No. 22 Team Penske Ford led 43 laps but crashed out and took a 35th-place finish for his effort.

Blaney put his No. 12 Team Penske Ford Mustang on pole position at Atlanta, but led only a single lap there as Cindric – who started alongside him on the front row – took the top spot immediately. Still Blaney, who spun after contact with second-year driver Carson Hocevar, finished a team best fourth-place.

The big upside for the popular former champ is that his Atlanta showing combined with his seventh place finish at Daytona – including 23 laps led – has put him into the NASCAR Cup Series championship lead by 12 points over Byron.

“It was a good comeback," Blaney acknowledged. “I just fell back from getting spun there and I was able to pick our way through and ended up scrounging a good finish out of it.

“It was a little bit of a struggle getting to the front after I lost some track position in the first and second stage, and then we got spun by the 77 [Hocevar] when I finally got track position and we were able to make it back up and run forward, so it was an up and down day, that’s for sure. I’m happy we were able to make a recovery.”

Although the finishes have been frustrating for a team that has dominated the opening two races, the good news is that they arrive in Austin this week, the odds-on favorites once again. The three drivers are some of the series’ best on road courses and the world-renowned COTA circuit absolutely gives them another prime opportunity to reverse missed opportunity, seize on the season’s mastery to date.

Logano scored a road course win at Watkins Glen, N.Y. in 2015 and has a career best third-place showing at COTA in 2021, where he led 14 of the 54 laps.

Cindric has five NASCAR Xfinity Series road course wins on five different tracks and is widely considered to be one of the very best road course drivers in the sport. He has a pair of top-10 finishes in four COTA starts with a best showing of sixth-place in 2023.

Blaney has a win at the Charlotte ROVAL and won the pole position and finished a career best sixth-place at Austin in 2022.

William Byron is the defending COTA winner.

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NASCAR Weekend Preview: Phoenix Raceway

March 6, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

Can anyone catch Christopher Bell's fast start?

AVONDALE - Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell undoubtedly starts the NASCAR Cup Series two-race Western Swing as the driver to beat. The 30-year-old is the defending winner of Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, FOX Deportes, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) and has won two of the first three series races this year, including the last two.

A victory Saturday would make Bell the first driver to win three consecutive races in the Next Gen car era. His dominance extends beyond 2025—he leads all drivers with 10 top-five and 12 top-10 finishes in the last 15 races dating back to August. No other driver has more than seven top-fives in that span.

“I don't really have a message to send to any of them, but it's nice to be able to capitalize on race wins," Bell said after winning last week in Austin, Texas. “Last year, there were so many race wins that got away whenever I had the fastest car. The last two weeks at Atlanta and here, I kind of won without the fastest car, so it's really nice to get those back that I lost last year.

"I'm excited about what's to come. We have high expectations, high hopes, and goals for this year. Frankly, the last couple of years being at Joe Gibbs Racing in this No. 20 car, I haven't been living up to the standards that I hold for myself. Our goal going into 2025 is to do that, or my goal is to do that for myself. I know Adam Stevens feels the same way. He believes we're capable of a lot of great things. We haven't done that yet in the NASCAR Cup Series season. Maybe 2025 will be the year.”

There is no doubt that Bell’s JGR teammates are hoping his early season success becomes contagious. Three-time DAYTONA 500 winner and perennial championship contender Denny Hamlin sits 17th in points. The driver of the No. 11 Toyota started this race from the pole last year and has a pair of wins in the desert (2012, 2019).

Chase Briscoe, who earned the DAYTONA 500 pole in his first start for JGR, is ranked 15th after the No. 19 team won a penalty appeal from NASCAR this week. Ty Gibbs, who won the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Phoenix, is 36th in the standings and is still searching for his first top-10 of the season.

Despite Bell’s strong start, DAYTONA 500 winner William Byron leads the Cup Series standings entering Phoenix, holding a two-point lead over Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney, who won the series championship at Phoenix two years ago. Last year’s regular-season champion, 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick, is third in the standings, five points behind Byron. Bell and Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott are both 21 points back.

Eight different drivers have earned top-10 finishes in two of the first three races, but no one has placed in the top 10 in all three. Byron, Reddick, and Bell are the only drivers with two top-five finishes.

While the season has already produced a repeat winner, competition has been intense, with a series-record 125 lead changes in the first three races.

Two-time series champion Kyle Busch has emerged as a frontrunner after a difficult 2024 season. He led late in last week’s road course race and has two top-10 finishes this year. His 55 laps led in the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet rank fourth this season, a positive sign after missing the playoffs and failing to win a race for the first time in 20 years.

Busch leads all active drivers in laps led at Phoenix (1,190) and pole positions (four) at the one-mile desert track.

“I would like to think we're ahead of the game there," Busch said. “We're in a better spot or in a better position. We had some good hires over the offseason—some good engineers and some good people from other teams—to kind of up our performance. Anytime you do that and you chase good people, that's what you're going for, right? You're going for the performance that they can bring to the table. So fresh ideas, different things, and whatnot.

“They're not going to outwork us, that’s for sure," Busch added. “But I think the next test is definitely going to be the next two weeks—going to Phoenix, the short track, a place where we have struggled lately—to see how we can turn that program around.”

Team Penske’s Joey Logano leads all drivers with 126 laps led this season but has yet to post a top-10 finish. His teammate Austin Cindric has led 106 laps but has just one top-10 result. Wood Brothers Racing’s Josh Berry has led 56 laps but is still searching for a top-10 finish.

Beyond Bell’s quest for history, British driver Katherine Legge will make her NASCAR Cup Series start, becoming just the eighth woman to start a race in the modern era (since 1972) and the first since Danica Patrick in the 2018 DAYTONA 500.

Legge will drive the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet, replacing regular driver BJ McLeod for the weekend. The 44-year-old has prior stock car experience, most recently competing in the ARCA season opener at Daytona, where she finished 39th after an early accident. She also has five NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, dating back to her 2018 debut at Mid-Ohio.

A veteran of open-wheel and sports car racing, Legge has raced two full IndyCar seasons (2006-07) and made four Indianapolis 500 starts, with a best finish of 22nd in 2012. She has more than 100 IMSA starts, earning four class wins and 18 podiums from 2007-2024. She made her Chili Bowl Nationals debut this year and is the first female driver inducted into the Long Beach Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Patrick was the last female driver to race at Phoenix, making 11 Cup Series starts at the track, with a best finish of 16th in 2015.

Opening practice is Saturday at 2:05 p.m. ET, followed by Busch Light Pole Qualifying at 3:10 p.m. ET—both sessions available on Amazon Prime. Hamlin won the pole for this race last year.

Xfinity Series: Eight different winners in last eight Phoenix races

Teenage sensation Connor Zilisch became the third driver in as many races to earn a NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff berth after dominating last week’s race at Circuit of The Americas in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet.

History suggests Saturday’s GOVX 200 at Phoenix Raceway (5 p.m. ET on the CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) could produce another new winner. The last eight Phoenix Xfinity Series races have had eight different winners.

Recent races at Phoenix have been defined by dominance, with the driver leading the most laps winning the last six races at the track. Last year’s spring winner, Chandler Smith, led 88 of 205 laps, taking an overtime victory. In the fall, Riley Herbst led 167 of 213 laps to win in overtime.

Richard Childress Racing is just one win away from its 100th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory, a milestone reached only by Joe Gibbs Racing (215 wins) and Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing (138 wins).

Practice begins Saturday at 11:35 a.m. ET, followed by Kennametal Pole Qualifying at 12:40 p.m. ET—both available on the CW Network App.

Circuit of the Americas Weekend Notebook

March 1, 2025

By Reid Spencer

NASCAR Wire Service

Tyler Reddick leads 23XI Racing sweep of front row at COTA

AUSTIN, Tex.—Tyler Reddick led 23XI Racing to a front row lockout for Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas (3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Chased by teammate Bubba Wallace during the Group 2 session of time trials, Reddick turned a lap in 98.076 seconds (88.094 mph) in his No. 45 Toyota to top Wallace by 0.224 seconds for the top starting spot in the third NASCAR Cup Series race of the season.

The Busch Light Pole Award was Reddick’s second at COTA, his first of the season and the 10th of his career, four of which have come on road courses.

“Going into (Turn) 1, I’m like, ‘Dang, I wish that he (Wallace) would have gapped himself a little bit more,’ because I felt like I was messing his lap up, for sure,” said Reddick, who won the 2023 Cup Series race at COTA and has an average finish of 5.0 at the track.

“Talking to him after the fact, his focus was to go out and follow me and kind of see what I was going to do and try to mimic it. Certainly, he’s on the path to getting better at the road courses.

“He’s learning and if he keeps it up here soon, I’ll be having to try to battle him head-to-head for these poles. It’s been really nice to see his growth and him improve and embrace the way we have to do things…”

Chase Elliott qualified third on his second lap at the 2.4-mile road course, which has been shortened this year, resulting in a race that will feature 95 laps instead of the 68 run last year.

Carson Hocevar posted the fourth fastest lap, followed by fellow Chevrolet drivers Daniel Suárez, Shane van Gisbergen, Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch and Ross Chastain. Todd Gilliland was 10th in the fastest Ford.

Connor Zilisch qualified 14th in anticipation of his first NASCAR Cup Series start.

Great Expectations for Connor Zilisch’s Cup Debut? Not on his part

Connor Zilisch’s logic was inescapable. He doesn’t know what to expect from his NASCAR Cup Series debut on Sunday, so how can he have expectations?

“Yeah, it's hard to set expectations when you haven't done it before, right?” said Zilisch, who will wheel the No. 87 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet at Circuit of the Americas in his maiden voyage in NASCAR’s premier division.

“The car is new. I'm racing against probably 25 drivers I've never raced against before. Yeah, there's a lot of variables that I just don't know. So for me, setting expectations is really tough, right?

“I don't want to set a goal of, you know, I want to go out and finish top five, and then I get a speeding penalty or my pit crew has a loose tire and I finish 15th because of something out of my doing, right? Because then I'll be upset that I didn't meet my goal.”

However, it’s not as if Zilisch is traveling into the complete unknown. In Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying on the newly configured 2.4-mile “national” course at COTA, he won the pole.

Ross Chastain and defending Cup race winner William Byron, both pulling double duty this weekend, were the only drivers within a second of Zilisch’s pole-winning time.

And though Zilisch won his first Xfinity Series race in his first start last year at Watkins Glen, he’s taking a large step up in class on Sunday.

“For me, my expectation is I expect to be reasonably fast,” he said. “I don't want to say that I'm going to be really fast, but I do expect to not be way off on speed. But the biggest thing is going to be execution on Sunday and making the most of the race and not making mistakes. If the pit road speed is 50, expect me to be doing 48, right?

“I'm not going to be pushing the limit. I just want to take it easy and make sure I run all the laps and don't get a penalty. That's going to be the biggest thing when it comes to the race. But I feel like when it comes to speed, I feel confident in myself that I'll be able to run fast enough laps to be at the front.”

To get to the front on Sunday, Zilisch will have to advance from the 14th starting position he earned during Saturday’s time trials.

After a strong start to the season, John Hunter Nemechek faces road course challenge

In Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas, John Hunter Nemechek will start to get the true measure of his performance.

Nemechek and Ryan Blaney are the only two drivers to score top-10 finishes at both Daytona and Atlanta this season. Fifth in the Daytona 500 and 10th a week later, Nemechek is tied for sixth in the NASCAR Cup Series standings with Kyle Larson.

Success on drafting tracks, however, doesn’t always translate to speed at other venues, and Nemechek is eager to see how his No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota performs at COTA on Sunday.

“I think that the first two races for us this year were about survival and putting ourselves in good spots to have good finishes and have shots to contend for a win,” Nemechek said. “I think that for us, coming into COTA, there’s a lot of unknowns. I feel like last year, we really struggled at road courses. That’s probably one of the areas that we lacked speed the most and the cars didn’t drive very well, didn’t have very much speed.

“It just wasn’t very good for us. But, with the changes over the offseason (with new crew chief Travis Mack and major turnover on the crew), there’s a lot of new personnel and a lot of new ideas. Different cars, I would say--hopefully, faster race cars than we had last year. I’m looking forward to seeing where we stack up as far as the road course program goes and how much improvement and gains we’ve made over the offseason.”

On Friday, Nemechek indulged in a sort of “branding” different from typical sponsor relations. He went shopping for boots and burned his initials into the leather with a branding iron.

He did the same with a pair he bought as a gift for wife Taylor.

Nemechek must have a heavy foot on Sunday after qualifying 33rd for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix.

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2025 NASCAR CUP SERIES SCHEDULE

Date	Race / Track
Sunday, February 2	Clash (Bowman Gray)
Sunday, February 16	DAYTONA 500
Sunday, February 23	Atlanta
Sunday, March 2	COTA
Sunday, March 9	Phoenix
Sunday, March 16	Las Vegas
Sunday, March 23	Homestead-Miami
Sunday, March 30	Martinsville
Sunday, April 6	Darlington
Sunday, April 13	Bristol
Sunday, April 27	Talladega
Sunday, May 4	Texas
Sunday, May 11	Kansas
Sunday, May 18	North Wilkesboro (All-Star Race)
Sunday, May 25	Charlotte
Sunday, June 1	Nashville Superspeedway
Sunday, June 8	Michigan
Sunday, June 15	Mexico City
Sunday, June 22	Pocono
Saturday, June 28	Atlanta
Sunday, July 6	Chicago Street Race
Sunday, July 13	Sonoma
Sunday, July 20	Dover
Sunday, July 27	Indianapolis
Sunday, August 3	Iowa
Sunday, August 10	Watkins Glen
Saturday, August 16	Richmond
Saturday, August 23	Daytona
Sunday, August 31	Darlington
Sunday, September 7	World Wide Technology Raceway
Saturday, September 13	Bristol
Sunday, September 21	New Hampshire
Sunday, September 28	Kansas
Sunday, October 5	Charlotte Roval
Sunday, October 12	Las Vegas
Sunday, October 19	Talladega
Sunday, October 26	Martinsville
Sunday, November 2	Phoenix (Championship)

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