For Chase Briscoe, Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway may have had one of the season’s longest closing laps. A seemingly peaceful road course race descended into trouble as two late cautions completely altered Chase Briscoe’s chances of making the playoffs. Briscoe wasn’t in contention for victory as the race entered […]
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To say that this season’s NASCAR Cup Series playoffs have been wild for Christopher Bell would be a big understatement. Bell, 27, had one victory and two stage wins during the regular season and was seeded 10th (out of 16 racers) going into the 2022 playoffs. But during the first round, he excelled, finishing in […]
Alex Bowman has recently missed a race this season due to concussion-like symptoms, making him the 2nd NASCAR Cup Series racer to experience this. Bowman will miss Sunday’s playoff race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, according to an announcement from Hendrick Motorsports, “after experiencing concussion-like symptoms following an accident in the Sept. 25 event at Texas Motor […]
Christopher Bell wanted a playoff boost after a difficult week at Texas, and he received one on Saturday. On Sunday’s playoff race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Bell defeated Kyle Larson by holding on to the lead. Bell almost outperformed Larson with an average lap pace of 180.591 mph (180.516 mph). Third place went to Denny […]
After surviving a frantic last-lap collision and a NASCAR review, Matt DiBenedetto was eventually declared the victor of Saturday’s Truck Series race at Talladega. Deliberately bringing out the late caution, for which Carson Hocevar was fined, forced a two-lap overtime with Christian Eckes leading and DiBenedetto in third. Corey Heim smashed into the outside wall […]
Kyle Larson had just expressed his frustration with his inability to win a superspeedway event earlier this week. Larson seemed to be in great spot to end the drought late in Sunday’s race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. Erik Jones dominated the race into the last 188 circuits, with Larson right behind him and Ross Chastain […]
At Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. will make an interesting visit as a special guest analyst in the FOX booth. Earnhardt is a long-time member of the NBC broadcast crew, so the announcement came as a shock. Along with Mike Joy and Clint Bowyer, FOX has used a variety of broadcast booth […]