Yet, Gabehart has also been around professional sports, NASCAR especially, long enough to know a strong run of success eventually comes to an end. Trying to delay or mitigate the downward spiral appears to be one of Gabehart’s most important roles as crew chief of Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team. Hamlin, 43, … Read more
With his victory Sunday at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway, Hamlin earned his series-best third NASCAR Cup win of the 2024 season in the first 11 races. Oddly enough, however, Hamlin’s victories are also his only top five finishes of the year. And he has just one other finish in the top 10 – an eighth at … Read more
Zilisch, who owns LMP2 class victories in the Daytona 24 and Sebring 12 this year, took the lead for the first time on lap 108 of 150 after getting into William Sawalich while the two raced side-by-side for the lead. Sawalich, who started on the pole and led 67 laps, hit the wall hard and … Read more
In what was an expected penalty, Calvin Teague and Brandon Johnson, both pit crew members for Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 5 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson, have been suspended for the next two races. Teague and Johnson are suspended due to Larson suffering a loose wheel in Sunday’s race which came off on track while the … Read more
Hill is an accomplished NASCAR Xfinity Series driver with eight victories over the last three seasons. He finished a career-best fifth in the championship standings in 2023, narrowly missing the Championship 4. Previously, he competed in the Truck Series, where he also won eight races. A member of RCR’s NXS program since 2022, Hill does … Read more
NASCAR approved the use of wet weather tires at some oval tracks ahead of the 2023 season but had yet to utilize the package in a Cup Series points-paying race. The only previous use came last year in a Truck race and the non-points All-Star Race, both at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. An afternoon of … Read more
While Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron (two) and Kyle Larson have together won three of the series’ first six races, Bowman struggled with a three-race stretch of no finish better than 18th. He snapped that streak with a solid fourth place finish last week at Bristol and followed it up with another fourth Sunday at Circuit … Read more
Bell and Byron clearly had the two fastest cars throughout Sunday’s 68-lap race on the 3.41-mile, 20-turn road course but the two ended up on slightly different pit strategies. Bell and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team adapted a two-stop strategy in the race and the benefit was Bell ended up one of last cars … Read more
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 Championship 4 the last two seasons. What Bell and his No. 20 Toyota team have not … Read more
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 won both Phoenix races last year and Ford accomplished the same feat in 2022, … Read more
