Following a race that featured a track record 33 lead changes – including three different drivers in the final three laps – this Sunday’s final NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway is teed-up to settle a dramatic Championship Four set-up.
An emotional Austin Hill climbed out of his No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the Homestead-Miami Speedway frontstretch to celebrate one of the most significant race wins of his burgeoning career.
Denny Hamlin’s three Homestead wins is most in this weekend’s field and a fourth trophy on Sunday would essentially salvage a challenging Playoff run for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver.
Joey Logano’s victory in last week’s Round of 8 Playoff opener at Las Vegas Motor Speedway earned him the first automatic bid into the Nov. 10 Championship Four at Phoenix Raceway.
Last week’s Las Vegas runner-up, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell conceded his near miss – by a slight .662-second to Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who gambled and won on fuel strategy – definitely stung.
The regular season championship leaders will start alongside one another on the front row for Sunday’s Straight Talk Wireless 400 Playoff race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The first race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs’ pivotal Round of 8 is in the books with a thrilling ending on track producing a dramatic turn of the Playoff standings.
It was the first NASCAR Xfinity Series trophy of the season for A.J. Allmendinger but the timing was on point…
Chase Elliott likes his chances for a second title too.
Richard Childress Racing driver Kyle Busch did not qualify for this year’s Playoffs…