Category: 36×36
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Ty Gibbs and his tough race at Richmond
A winless rookie season wasn’t anything to stress about if Gibbs demonstrated progress in his second year. And yes, through six races, Gibbs is certainly creeping closer and closer to that first win. The Easter Sunday Richmond race started (after a slight delay) with the debut of wet weather tires…
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Nemechek, Legacy Motor Club, stumbles in first road race of 2024
Through the first five races of 2024, John Hunter Nemechek had completed all but two of the 1,539 laps run by the NASCAR Cup Series. Nemechek has finished no worse than 25th in his return to NASCAR’s premier series. In race six, the tour stopped at Circuit of the Americas…
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Buescher survives (and thrives in) Bristol tire madness
Chris Buescher entered Bristol weekend as one of the favorites to win. The dirt was gone and the Cup Series could get back to two races a year on the paved high-banks. In the two NextGen era Bristol pavement races, Buescher won and finished fourth.
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Briscoe, SHR’s new lead driver, collects 30 points in Phoenix
Phoenix presented itself as an opportunity for Briscoe. The uniquely shaped short track is where Briscoe won in early 2022 and collected top ten finishes that fall and in spring 2023.
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‘Money stop’ pit penalty costs Busch in Vegas
Mistakes in Las Vegas, nothing out of the ordinary. Richard Childress Racing number 8 car pit road penalties in 2024, nothing out of the ordinary. For the third week in a row, the 8 car was assessed a penalty on pit road, but this one (at his home track with…
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Chase Elliott and 9 team rebound from lap two crash to 15th place finish
Of all the stat categories Chase Elliott could lead in Atlanta, I doubt “involved in the most cautions” would be the top choice for the 9 team. Elliott shared the honors with Denny Hamlin; both drivers were involved in three of the nine cautions for cause on Sunday.
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