Daytona 500
Thursday was a day of great mourning and sadness in the world of NASCAR. In the morning, news broke that veteran and highly respected NASCAR writer Al Pearce had ed away. Then, several hours later, it became known that longtime public relations professional Jon Edwards — a Hendrick Motorsports employee and mainstay of the NASCAR […]
Wednesday was a busy news day around the NASCAR industry. First, the sanctioning body handed down a major but relatively mild penalty to Team Penske driver Austin Cindric. Later, Chase Briscoe and Joe Gibbs Racing saw their penalty from Daytona taken back. Coincidentally, as seen in the photo above, Briscoe and Cindric shared the front […]
Once considered the NASCAR Cup Series’ resident road course king, Chase Elliott hasn’t been to Victory Lane on a road circuit since the debut of the Next Generation Cup Series car in 2022. That’s pretty hard to believe when considering Elliott’s overall record at tracks that require both left-hand and right-hand turns. Will this be […]
While the NASCAR Cup Series season is off to an amazing start for some drivers, others — including three heavy hitters, in particular — have fared quite poorly. Let’s quickly review what’s gone wrong so far in 2025 for Chase Briscoe, Brad Keselowski and Ty Gibbs. Chase Briscoe Briscoe’s season — at least unofficially — […]
William Byron started the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season in the greatest way possible: winning the Daytona 500. But what are the Hendrick Motorsports driver’s odds of backing up that victory with a trip to Victory Lane in Sunday’s Ambetter Health 400? Historically-speaking, not very good. Drivers rarely make it a clean sweep of the […]
Last weekend’s Daytona 500, the official kickoff to the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, didn’t go as Chase Elliott wanted. While the outcome couldn’t have been any more favorable to Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron, who captured his second consecutive win in The Great American Race, Elliott was an afterthought in the final analysis. […]
An already blockbuster week for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and JR Motorsports culminated in style at Sunday’s Daytona 500. After qualifying for The Great American Race with a ninth-place finish in Thursday’s Duel at Daytona, Justin Allgaier — a full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series driver for JR Motorsports — delivered another ninth-place finish for the company in […]
By any objective analysis, all the stars had to align perfectly for William Byron to win Sunday’s Daytona 500. But Byron, whose No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was five rows back coming to the white flag, bristles at any suggestion that his second consecutive victory in The Great American Race was some kind of fluke. […]
As a NASCAR Cup Series driver for Hendrick Motorsports, Jimmie Johnson rang up 83 victories and a record-tying seven championships. Along the way, Johnson rarely wore his emotions on his sleeve but instead kept his proverbial head down and focused on winning — which he did with regularity. After a two-year break from the sport, […]
Making his only scheduled start of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, Martin Truex Jr. entered Sunday’s Daytona 500 with one objective: win. Unfortunately for Truex, who retired from full-time driving at the end of 2024, his unfinished business in NASCAR’s most prestigious race remains just that — unfinished business. For the 21st time in […]
