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Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Jesse Love Conquers Fuel Save and Late Cautions to Win in NASCAR's Return to Rockingham
NASCAR Xfinity Series, formerly the Busch Series, returned to Rockingham Speedway, or The Rock, after 21 years to the delight of fans Saturday night, as Jesse Love survived late race shakeups to take his second victory of the year and first career Xfinity Series victory not on a superspeedway. "These fans are amazing, what an incredible race track this is right up my alley," Love said from the frontstretch. "It's hammer down and you have to be in the gas good today." Love last pitted with 90 laps to go, in the final 60 laps after the 11th caution, Love was chasing Ryan Sieg, who pitted 10 laps before him, and hanging back knowing that his No. 10 Richard Childress Racing car had a higher chance of making it to the end. For the fifth time this year, the end of the race came out of regulation with a green-white-checkered finish. With 18 laps remaining, Love was setting up Sieg to pass him on the inside when Daniel Dye went around collecting Kasey Kahne. This was the second spin that caught Kasey Kahne in his NASCAR return after being retired from the sport for eight years. William Sawillich collected the retired driver along with Katherine Legge in her first Xfinity Series start of the year, to bring out the first yellow of the race back in stage one. Sieg held the lead based on when the yellow came out, according to timing and scoring. On the restart, with 12 to go, Sieg started up front when he misfired low on fuel and could not maintain speed under the caution. On the restart, Sammy Smith took the lead from Love as Love fell back to third. The No. 16 failed to fire and collected eight cars in the middle of the pack, including Justin Allgaier, Sieg, Nick Sanchez, and Carson Kvapil. Love was told he was 13 laps to the good with six laps remaining. Smith controlled the next restart, and with three laps remaining in regulation, a final caution came out as multiple cars started to run out of fuel, spin, and finally cause enough potential damage for the 14th caution of the race to be thrown. With the amount of cleanup and speedy dry that needed to be placed as the sun began to set over Rockingham, the race was red-flagged for the second time, and after a five-minute stoppage, went back green. On the restart, Love pushed Smith to the lead, and then out of the way to reclaim the lead. You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car Sign in to access your portfolio
NBC Sports
18-04-2025
- Climate
- NBC Sports
How to watch Saturday's Xfinity race at Rockingham: Start time, TV info and weather
The Xfinity Series will race at Rockingham Speedway for the first time in over 21 years Saturday. The gap is so long that 'The Rock' was slightly longer when Jamie McMurray won in the most recent race in the Xfinity Series (then called the Busch Series) on Feb. 21, 2004. After the track went dormant for nearly a decade, Rockingham now welcomes the return of NASCAR as a 0.94-mile oval. McMurray's win — the last of four consecutive at Rockingham from 2002-04 in the series — came during his second year in the Cup Series. The are no Cup regulars entered in Saturday's race, but Indy 500 veteran Katherine Legge will be starting her first Xfinity race since 2023. Details for Saturday's Xfinity race at Bristol Motor Speedway (All times Eastern) START: The race will begin shortly after 5 p.m. PRERACE: The Xfinity garage will open at 6:30 a.m. ... Qualifying will begin at 11:30 a.m. ... Driver introductions are at 3:25 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is 250 laps (235 miles) on the 0.94-mile oval. STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 60. Stage 2 ends at Lap 120. ENTRY LIST: Click here for the 40 cars entered at Rockingham TV/RADIO: The CW Network will broadcast the race starting at 4 p.m. ... Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will have radio coverage. FORECAST: Wunderground — Overcast with a stray shower or possible thunderstorm and a high of 83 degrees with winds west to southwest at 5-10 mph. It's expected to be 82 degrees with a 15% chance of rain at the green flag of the Xfinity race. LAST TIME: Jamie McMuray led the final 21 laps to beat Martin Truex Jr. by 0.411 seconds on Feb. 21, 2004.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Todd Bodine Says It's Time for Change in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Two-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Todd Bodine says that even though the truck series is healthy, the business model for it needs to change within the next five years. 'We need to refine what we're doing and try to figure out how to save money,' Bodine says. 'There's a lot of local short-track teams that would love to be involved more heavily in the truck series, but a guy that has a local plumbing business can afford to race short tracks and he can maybe run a couple of truck races, but that's all he can do.' The 61-year-old Chemung, New York, native who now is an analyst on Fox Sports truck telecasts, notes people always want more money in the race purses. However, 'as in any sport, it does have to grow and refine as we go.' Bodine notes the series is different now than when it began, because initially it was comprised of drivers who were at the end of their careers such as himself, Ron Hornaday, Mike Skinner and Jack Sprague. 'We'd already had success,' Bodine says. 'We'd been in the Cup Series, Xfinity or Busch Series. We were there (truck series) because we wanted to race and have fun. We wanted to do it as long as we could, and the truck series afforded us that opportunity.' Today, it's different because most of the series drivers are at the beginning of their careers. 'They're trying to make a name for themselves,' Bodine says. 'Look at the guys that have come out of the truck series in the last five, six, even 10 years. We've got champions in the Cup Series and guys winning races in the Cup Series and Xfinity Series. It's just crazy to see these good drivers coming out of the truck series. We've got 10 or 12 drivers that are just outstanding, that probably will move to Xfinity or get their opportunity in the Cup Series.' Bodine cited Cup Series rookie Carson Hocevar as one who 'bulldozed his way through the truck series and got right into the Cup Series.' 'These kids come through the truck series to try to learn race craft, the right and wrong things to do with their trucks in traffic, out of traffic, drafting, all these things that they didn't grow up learning on short tracks,' Bodine says. 'It's a different era, different world, different mentality. It's just as good as it was back then. It's just a little different.'
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
NASCAR loses Xfinity 'series' while gaining Xfinity 'fastest lap'
Some of the old-timers never quit calling it the Busch Series. Others had eventually gotten accustomed to saying Xfinity. Now we'll once again need to learn the new name of NASCAR's second-tier racing league. Xfinity, part of the Comcast family, has had its name attached to the series for the past decade, but after this year, its naming rights disappear — though Xfinity is still very much involved with NASCAR. The company will remain one of NASCAR's 'premier' partners, along with Busch Light and Coca-Cola (Geico dropped its premier sponsorship last season). Buy our Daytona 500 book here Also, Xfinity will gain visibility in the big-league Cup Series. Announced this week, the driver who turns the fastest lap in each race will earn one bonus point for turning the 'Xfinity Fastest Lap' — the same incentive is being enacted in the Xfinity and Trucks series. Name changes are nothing new for the Xfinity Series, which was born as the Sportsman Division in 1950, NASCAR's third season as a sanctioning body after its founding in Daytona Beach in late 1947. A rundown of the name changes: 1968: Late Model Sportsman Series 1984: Busch Grand National Series 2003: Busch Series 2008: Nationwide Series 2015: Xfinity Series 2026: ??? Who's next? Maybe no one. In 2020, after a few name changes of its own during this century, NASCAR's top division, which had been the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series since 2017, dropped all corporate attachments and became the NASCAR Cup Series. June 19, 2003: NASCAR entered a new era when they announced that Nextel would replace Winston as Cup Series title sponsor — nascarman (@nascarman_rr) June 19, 2024 Keeping the 'Cup' in the name traces back to the change to Winston Cup in the early 1970s. If there isn't a new corporate naming-rights deal, what name will NASCAR run with? Well, chances are, there will be another corporate label for the series. But there's no doubting this: All options for 2026 and beyond are being discussed in the corner offices, even before the 2025 season begins. This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR Xfinity Series going away (in a way). Bring back Busch Series!
