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2 months ago | 
motors-addict.com | Dustin Albino |Tyler Reddick |Joey Logano |Denny Hamlin
By Dustin AlbinoThe three-month wait is finally over. It‘s officially Daytona 500 race week, with the Great American Race kicking off the 2025 NASCAR season in style. Points are on the line in Thursday evening‘s twin Duel races, which could pay dividends throughout the regular season. While winning is optimal, points do matter. Such has been the case since the introduction of the Next Gen car in 2022, when Martin Truex Jr., who finished fourth in the regular season standings, missed the Playoffs.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
athlonsports.com | Denny Hamlin |Kyle Dalton
Chase Elliott won the NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver Award on Nov. 22, the seventh consecutive season fans voted for the Hendrick Motorsports driver.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Denny Hamlin |Joey Logano |Kyle Busch |Kyle Larson
Nothing lasts forever. That include Kyle Busch’s streak of 19 consecutive winning seasons in the NASCAR Cup Series, as 2024 marked the first winless season of his career. He had a few chances to extend that number to 20 (see Atlanta Motor Speedway’s three-wide photo finish and races at Daytona International Speedway, Darlington Raceway and Kansas Speedway in the summer), but the best result he could muster was a pair of runner-up finishes in what can only be described as a nightmare of a year.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
nascar.com | Dustin Albino |Denny Hamlin |Ross Chastain |Chase Elliott
Championship Weekend is beginning to feel like the last two seasons. In 2022, Joey Logano dominated at Phoenix Raceway from the pole position. Last year, Ryan Blaney overcame a mid-field starting position to hoist the Bill France Cup. Those story lines are appearing again, with Logano qualifying second and Blaney starting 17th. Throw in William Byron qualifying eighth and Tyler Reddick in 10th, and it’s a challenge to handicap to the Championship 4.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Chase Elliott |Denny Hamlin |Ryan Blaney |William D. Byron
Mark Kristl: In the NASCAR Cup Series race, it is largely dependent on qualifying because passing at Martinsville Speedway in the Next Gen is tough. William Byron has two wins, including the most recent one, and he has finished better than he qualified nine times in his 13 starts there. He’d be my best bet to win there. Even though there is usually drama in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville, with Aric Almirola in the field, good luck to his competitors.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Denny Hamlin |Kyle Larson |Ryan Blaney |William D. Byron
In the 17 years I’ve had the pleasure of writing a column in this special little corner of the motorsports universe, I’ve lost count of the time I’ve written some variation of “there’s nothing that ails NASCAR that a trip to Martinsville Speedway can’t fix” ahead of a weekend visit to the oldest, smallest and slowest track in NASCAR. This week, I’m not sure I feel quite the same way.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Denny Hamlin |Alex Bowman |William D. Byron |Jeff Gluck
1. Taking StockBut is it really a "surprise" elimination if people anticipated the possibility? Sure, they were both big names - future Hall of Famers and former NASCAR champions. Neither had been running well enough to make anyone think they could make a championship run, though, and they were joined on the chopping block by the only two drivers in the field who were making first-time playoff appearances (Ty Gibbs and Harrison Burton). Ultimately, the results from Round 1 ended up dropping the Nos.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
rotowire.com | Denny Hamlin |William “Bill” Byron |C.J. Radune
This article is part of our NASCAR DFS series. Location: Bristol, Tenn. Course: Bristol Motor SpeedwayFormat: 0.53-mile ovalLaps: 500The first elimination race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series is on tap this Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. A chaotic road course visit last week to Watkins Glen shook up the standings as none of the 16 championship contenders finished in the top five while Chris Buescher and Shane van Gisbergen battled to the finish line.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
motors-addict.com | Chase Elliott |William “Bill” Byron |Denny Hamlin
A chaotic Watkins Glen race led to a significant reshuffling of the NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings. Tyler Reddick remains No. 1 but there are four new drivers in this week's top 10, including Watkins Glen winner Chris Buescher. The series heads to Bristol (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday on USA Network) for the cutoff race in the first round. Four playoff drivers will be eliminated. 1.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
rotowire.com | William J. Byron |Denny Hamlin |C.J. Radune
This article is part of our NASCAR DFS series. Location: Darlington, S.C.Course: Darlington RacewayFormat: 1.37-mile ovalLaps: 367The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series playoff picture got more complicated with Harrison Burton's victory a week ago at Daytona. His win took one more spot away from drivers vying to make the championship battle on points.
