Tag Archives: William Byron

Byron and KBM team up once more for three NASCAR Truck races

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William Byron will compete in 3 races this year under the ownership of his first NASCAR Truck Series team. Byron will come back to Kyle Busch Motorsports this season to compete in three races in the No. 51 Chevrolet after making his NASCAR national championship debut with the team in 2015. Byron, who currently races exclusively in […]

Kyle Larson: Losing two consecutive weeks’ worth of chances to win “a bummer”

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Kyle Larson has been in contention to claim the victory late on two weeks in a row, but both times he lost to the same Hendrick Motorsports teammate. The previous week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Larson had the lead before a late-race caution put the race into overtime. William Byron, another member of the […]

The Watkins Glen NASCAR Cup race’s beginning was postponed by lightning

Watkins Glen NASCAR Cup

The NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen on Sunday has been postponed. Lightning is a different matter, despite the fact that rain tyres are available and NASCAR races in the rain on road courses. Everything was placed in a 30-minute lightning hold due to a strike within eight miles of the racing circuit as […]

William Byron dominates Saturday’s Cup practice in New Hampshire

William Byron New Hampshire 2022

In his 4 profession NASCAR Cup Series outings at New Hampshire, William Byron has never placed in the top 10 yet he was in the driver’s seat for Saturday’s lone practise. In the end, Kyle Busch ranked 2nd overall (127.371 mph), and Chase Briscoe was third (127.222 mph). The first 20 minutes of the morning’s […]

Hendrick Motorsports and William Byron extend their contract

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Hendrick Motorsports has extended its contract with William Byron, the only racer to emerge victorious various races in the NASCAR Cup Series this season. The new contract, which was revealed on Thursday but signed on Monday, would maintain Byron as the No. 24 Chevrolet racer for the team until 2025. His existing contract with HMS expired at […]

William Byron: NASCAR is “heading through a positive development”

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William Byron’s timing could not be greater, because he is off to the strongest beginning, and NASCAR is witnessing increasing at-track crowds and TV viewership. Hendrick Motorsports has extended the 24-year-old Cup Series racer’s deal for another three years, keeping him as the racer of the No. 24 Chevrolet through the 2025 season. When a result, Byron will be in a position to negotiate his new contract just as NASCAR’s existing 10-year television runs out at the end of […]

Logano triumphs from the pole position in the NASCAR Cup Darlington race

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Following an incident with William Byron in the waning stages of the race, Joey Logano grabbed the Darlington Cup. Several candidates dropped out of the race, making it a chaotic one. After dominating double digit circuits, Ross Chastain, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. fell out. Logano closed the gap on Byron in the closing […]

Joey Logano kicks Byron out of the lead and wins the Darlington Cup

Joey Logano

For one circuit left, Joey Logano chased down William Byron and bumped him out of the way to claim his first NASCAR Cup Series race of the 2022 season. On Lap 268 of 293, Byron took the chance to take the lead, but Logano was swiftly closing up on him as the race progressed. Logano raced […]

“He’s just an idiot,” says William Byron of the Logano accident

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At Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, a late-race collision involving William Byron as well as Joey Logano set up a contentious ending. With 25 of 293 circuits remained, Logano lined up in front of Byron and Tyler Reddick on the last start. During Turn 2, Logano thought Byron pushed him up the track to accomplish an overtake […]

William Byron: “During the last laps, “there was nothing I could do”

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William Byron felt fending off Martin Truex Jr. would be enough to clinch the Richmond championship, but an unexpected challenge proved too much for him in the closing moments. At the end of the competition, Byron tried a bold one-stop strategy, stretching the tyres approximately 100 laps to the finish line. As Byron battled to […]