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By AMANDA VINCENTNASCAR Cup Series regular Kyle Larson parlayed a substitution role for the injured Connor Zilisch with JR Motorsports into a NASCAR Xfinity Series race win Saturday in the Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was Larson’s second win in three Xfinity races this season; his previous two races were with Hendrick Motorsports. “Obviously, I wish Connor were in the car, but it means a lot that they thought of me to call up to run this thing,” Larson said.

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By AMANDA VINCENTFor the second-consecutive week, NASCAR Cup Series qualifying produced a first-time pole sitter. Carson Hocevar claimed his first Cup pole with a /8.175-second/191.659 mph lap Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway in qualifying for Sunday’s Wurth 400. “I’ve been excited to get to Texas and now even more excited to be able to return to the Craftsman Truck Series,” Hocevar, who also ran the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas on Friday night, said ahead of the race weekend.

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By AMANDA VINCENTCorey Heim, the only multi-time winner, so far, in the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season, added to his tally with his third win in the first eight races of the year Friday night in the SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway. He led 96 laps of the 174-lap race. “Man, I can’t believe how many restarts we got, there, in the end, but went into turn one pretty much in the worst possible position I could be in – three-wide middle,” Heim said.

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By AMANDA VINCENTRain at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday resulted in the cancellation of NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying for Saturday’s Andy’s Frozen Custard 300. The race starting grid was set by a metric based on the previous race’s finishing order and car owner points, putting Austin Hill on the pole. “Texas Motor Speedway is a very unique race track,” Hill said ahead of the race weekend. “It’s a different mile-and-a-half than most of the intermediate tracks we go to.

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By AMANDA VINCENTAustin Cindric claimed his third-career NASCAR Cup Series win Sunday in the Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. “I’m just so proud of this team,” Cindric said. “We talk about it in every single one of those meetings, why we haven’t won one of these races. Just really proud of the effort.”Ryan Preece finished second, followed by Hendrick Motorsports drivers Kyle Larson and William Byron in third and fourth. Joey Logano rounded out the top-five.