Alfredo has logged countless simulator laps around Phoenix preparing Hendrick Motorsports for championship races. Now he’ll find out how well that preparation translates when the green flag drops Sunday.
Tyler Reddick arrives at Phoenix Raceway for Sunday’s Straight Talk Wireless 500 feeling confident and hopeful…
Vertigo knocks the Hendrick driver out of Phoenix, leaving Anthony Alfredo in the car and Bowman watching from the sidelines at a time he’d rather be proving a point.
Three straight wins to open a NASCAR season is the sort of thing that lives in barroom hypotheticals and video games—until Tyler Reddick actually goes out and does it.
Connor Zilisch didn’t win, didn’t have a clean race, but reminded everyone watching that speed, determination, and sheer audacity can be more entertaining than a checkered flag.
Some drivers sulk in second; van Gisbergen smiles like he’s already planning how to take the win next time.
In a sport built to stop streaks, Tyler Reddick just shrugged and opened the season with three straight wins — and wrote his name in NASCAR history while he was at it.
With five laps left and common sense politely excused from the building, Shane van Gisbergen dove four-wide into Turn 1 at Circuit of the Americas and turned a restart into a coronation.
The inaugural downtown throwdown for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series at St. Petersburg had everything: sunshine, concrete walls and a fuel light blinking like a cheap motel sign.
Now that Connor Zilisch and Shane van Gisbergen share space at Trackhouse Racing, the expectation is civility. The reality is they’re still racing drivers.