After ending the 2023 season as one of top performing teams, 2024 has been a bit of a rollercoaster for the 31-year-old native of Prosper, Texas. Buescher has gotten caught up in wrecks in the season opener at Daytona and at Las Vegas...
At Phoenix, Toyota drivers absolutely dominated, leading all but 14 laps with Christopher Bell ultimately taking the checkered flag. Chris Buescher was second and Ty Gibbs third in the final running order. Fresh off his third consecutive...
Again this season, the iconic 0.625-mile track will host two days of racing, a Truck Series race on May 18 followed by the Cup Series’ all-star race on May 19. Last year’s events – the first NASCAR races at the track since a...
Kobayashi, 37, became the first Japanese driver to run a Cup race in 20 years when he made his debut at the Indianapolis Road Course last year. He started 28th and finished 33rd after being involved in a few incidents during...
Since joining the Cup series full-time in 2020 – and especially since moving to Joe Gibbs Racing the following season – Bell has been a fairly consistent performer, winning half a dozen races and he has even advanced to the...
After four races, Gragson and his No. 10 Ford team are SHR’s most consistent performers, and it’s much welcomed by the driver and team. Gragson’s 26th-place position in the series standings is deceptive, as it includes a...
Under the current playoff format, a driver needs to either win or run very well at Phoenix, which also requires leading laps. In the last two years – spanning four races – that’s been a scarcity for Toyota. While Chevrolet drivers...
The start of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season has been a difficult one for Buescher, who was one of the top performing drivers at the end of last season. Entering Sunday’s race, he had just one top 10 finish and had wrecked out of...
Bell, who advanced to the Championship 4 last season with a chance to win the series title at Phoenix, blew a brake rotor early in the race and never was in the fight. Sunday, Bell rallied to win Stage 2, then drove from 20th to first...
Chastain dominated last fall’s race at Phoenix, leading 157 of 312 laps, but had already been eliminated from the playoffs, which allowed runner-up finisher Ryan Blaney to claim the Cup Series title. Still, the victory, plus the...
Hamlin ended up fastest in Round 1 of Saturday’s qualifying and repeated the effort in the final round, earning the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race with an average lap speed of 132.655 mph. Hamlin, who was second fastest in Friday’s...
During much of last season, Toyotas struggled on shorter tracks, with Hamlin scoring the manufacturer’s only victory on an asphalt track a mile in length or less (fall Bristol). The group, and Hamlin in particular, have had...
Logano, in his No. 22 Team Penske Ford, topped the speed chart with an average lap speed of 131.166 mph with Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota just behind him at 131.080 mph. Fords have won the first three poles of the season...
Kyle Larson held off a charging Tyler Reddick to win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with Chevrolet winning all three races to start the new year. It was Larson's 24th career victory. Larson also won both stages in Vegas, and has taken...
On lap 27 of the 267-lap race, Buescher crashed into the Turn 1 wall after losing the right-front wheel. The impact required a red flag to repair the wall. The wheel came off in pieces, and Buescher explained later that...
The latter was apparent in last weekend’s NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, when Briscoe ran consistently up front and appeared to have race-winning speed until he picked up some damage with a run-in with Ryan Blaney...
Hendrick drivers have won two of the 2024 season’s first two races, with William Byron winning the Daytona 500 and Kyle Larson dominating in a victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. With Daniel Suarez’s win at Atlanta...
In a gamble, Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet team elected to take just two new tires when the field pit under a late-race caution for a wreck involving Corey LaJoie. Chastain came off pit road second behind Kyle Larson, who had dominated...
Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota clearly had the speed in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to keep up with eventual winner Kyle Larson but hobbled with issues on pit road, a lack of track position made his...
While Larson statistically dominated the race – winning both stages and leading 181 of 267 laps – the end of each stage came down to a one-on-one battle between Larson and Reddick. Larson led the way late in the final stage...
Busch finished 12th in the season-opening Daytona 500 before coming just 0.007s shy of victory at Atlanta. Unfortunately for Busch, that narrow margin was still only good enough for third place. Between those two results and the stage...
