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21-05-2025
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NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying order for Charlotte Motor Speedway
The NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, with qualifying at 12:10 p.m. ET on Saturday (The CW App). QUALIFYING ORDER: Coca-Cola 600 | Xfinity Series | Craftsman Truck Series Forty drivers are vying for 38 spots, meaning two cars will fail to qualify for Saturday's race (4:30 p.m. ET, The CW, PRN Radio, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio). Advertisement RELATED: Weekend Schedule The qualifying order below is determined via metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%). Qualifying will be one lap and one round. # denotes series rookie (i) denotes ineligible for driver point
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Automotive
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Live post-race show: Inside the Race to break down all things Bristol
Live post-race show: Inside the Race to break down all things Bristol Can't wait any longer to go Inside the Race following each NASCAR Cup Series event? Visit our NASCAR YouTube page post-race to get live, immediate breakdowns and analysis from veteran crew chief and broadcaster Steve Letarte, alongside additional co-hosts and reporters from the track. Advertisement MORE: Full Bristol preview | Speeds, pit stalls, more Following today's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Jeff Burton will join Letarte to dissect the winning and losing moves, plus other top story lines. NASCAR reporter Alex Weaver will also join the show, providing insights and observations directly from the track. Watch today's Cup Series race (3 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), then tune in for immediate analysis on NASCAR's YouTube page.
Reuters
13-04-2025
- Automotive
- Reuters
Alex Bowman soars to pole in Bristol qualifying
April 13 - BRISTOL, Tenn. -- A little ray of sunshine was all Alex Bowman needed to secure the pole position for Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Well, not quite all. Bowman also had to turn a blistering lap in his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet during Saturday's time trials at the 0.533-mile short track, and he did just that. Bowman covered the distance in 14.912 seconds (128.675 mph) -- the fastest lap ever run at Bristol in the NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen car. That was good enough to hold off fellow Chevrolet driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (128.563 mph) by 0.013 seconds to secure the top starting spot for the ninth Cup Series race of the season. It wasn't just the Busch Light Pole Award that had Bowman salivating. Extensive tire wear in the practice session that preceded qualifying compared to last year's spring event in Thunder Valley, where tire fall-off was a crucial aspect of the competition. "I think we're all much more prepared than we were last spring," said Bowman, who ran his lap under favorable cloud cover -- with the sun coming out shortly after his qualifying attempt and warming the track slightly on an otherwise chilly day. "I'm excited for a tire management race. It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll see what we've got," he added. "We started practice with rubber already on the track from the Xfinity cars, peeled it right up and sawed the tires right off. Yeah, confusing why we're doing it again when we didn't do it in the fall. "It's going to be warmer tomorrow. Maybe that changes it. It's really difficult to say. I think it's going to be like that (the spring race), but we'll find out together, I think." Kyle Larson (128.511 mph) qualified third, after winning the pole position for Saturday's Xfinity Series race earlier in the day. Denny Hamlin, winner of the last two Cup events, was fourth in the fastest Toyota at 128.460 mph, and Ryan Blaney topped all other Ford drivers with a fifth-place qualifying lap at 128.305 mph. In seven of the last eight Cup races at Bristol, the winner has come from the top five spots on the starting grid -- two from the pole and two from the second starting position. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Ty Gibbs and Christopher Bell claimed the sixth and seventh starting spots, with AJ Allmendinger, Carson Hocevar and Justin Haley claiming eighth, ninth and 10th, respectively. Kyle Busch was 15th fastest in qualifying, but he spun off Turn 4 on his second lap and flat-spotted his tires. Joey Logano, who qualified immediately after Busch, broke loose off Turn 2 and smacked the outside wall with the right rear of his No. 22 Team Penske Ford. Logano will start 38th on Sunday. Xfinity Series regular Jesse Love qualified 19th for his Cup Series debut on Sunday in the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Hyak Motorsports' Ricky Stenhouse Jr. topped the leaderboard in practice at 128.082 mph ahead of Team Penske drivers Blaney (127.571 mph) and Austin Cindric (127.140 mph). Larson (126.737 mph) and Chase Elliott (126.520 mph) rounded out the top five for Hendrick Motorsports. Brad Keselowski (126.495 mph), Hamlin (126.461 mph), Busch (126.337 mph), John Hunter Nemechek (126.187 mph) and Bowman (126.121 mph) completed the top 10. --Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level Media.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
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Alex Bowman soars to Busch Light Pole in Bristol qualifying
Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman soared to his second Busch Light Pole Award of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season for Sunday's 500-lapper at Bristol Motor Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Bowman's No. 48 Chevrolet will lead the field to green after topping the charts at 128.675 mph. Advertisement RELATED: Starting lineup | At-track photos: Bristol Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (128.563 mph), Kyle Larson (128.511 mph), Denny Hamlin (128.460 mph) and Ryan Blaney (128.305 mph) rounded out the top five. Ty Gibbs (128.305 mph), Christopher Bell (128.185 mph), AJ Allmendinger (127.903 mph), Carson Hocevar (127.758 mph) and Justin Haley (127.665 mph) completed the top 10. Kyle Busch and Joey Logano both ran into trouble on their qualifying runs. On his second flying lap, Busch's No. 8 Chevy spun in Turn 4 but did not hit anything. Busch's qualifying time on his first lap was good enough for 15th fastest at 127.098 mph. Advertisement Logano got loose on the bottom of Turn 2 on his first of two laps, traveled up the track as the rear right smacked the wall. Logano was still able to complete both qualifying laps, but he will roll off the grid in 38th place (117.899 mph). Stenhouse fastest in practice Hyak Motorsports' Ricky Stenhouse Jr. topped the leaderboard in practice at 128.082 mph ahead of Team Penske drivers Ryan Blaney (127.571 mph) and Austin Cindric (127.140 mph). Kyle Larson (126.737 mph) and Chase Elliott (126.520 mph) rounded out the top five for Hendrick Motorsports. MORE: Practice results | Moran explains PJ1 process, Bristol tire expectations Brad Keselowski (126.495 mph), Denny Hamlin (126.461 mph), Kyle Busch (126.337 mph), John Hunter Nemechek (126.187 mph) and Alex Bowman (126.121 mph) completed the top 10. After experiencing extreme tire wear in last year's Bristol spring race, Cup Series drivers dealt with similar conditions in practice. This story will be updated.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
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Jesse Love details preparation, emotions for Cup debut at Bristol
BRISTOL, Tenn — Two thousand laps. In preparation for his Cup Series debut Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), Jesse Love quadrupled the scheduled 500-lapper on the simulator leading up to the Thunder Valley trek. Advertisement The 20-year-old Californian hit the number to challenge his physical and mental capabilities before climbing into the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet for the first time. RELATED: Bristol schedule | Best photos from Thunder Valley 'Just ran a lot of laps, trying different things,' Love said in his Saturday morning media availability at Bristol. 'One thing I did this week was run one or two 500-lap races by myself on iRacing just to kind of condition myself to the mental drain it's gonna take to run 500 laps. Obviously, it will be the longest race in my life so this is gonna be different for me in a lot of ways. 'I feel like the fitness side of it is gonna be fine. Obviously, had to step up my game leading up to this race a little bit. But more importantly, I feel like getting the mental side of it squared away.' Advertisement Love added that he's felt he could race 'a little bit longer' after every Xfinity Series race this season — a testament to where his physical fitness currently is. With two-time premier series champ Kyle Busch being a part of the RCR organization, Love has been able to lean on the 20-year Cup veteran and 22-time Bristol national series winner in the build-up for his first Sunday run. 'It'd be dumb of me to not go ask some questions and pick his brain whenever I can,' Love said. 'He's been helpful, for sure, and I always feel like Kyle's been an open book. I will say Kyle's probably the toughest competitor in the garage. I do know it's a little bit different so I'm asking him questions when I'm not racing against him, but I am racing against him, right? Then we ask a lot of people questions. I'm really close with all the Cup drivers on the Front Row [Motorsports] side of things like Todd [Gilliland], Zane [Smith] and Noah [Gragson], and even ask the questions like, 'what's your procedure getting in the pit box?' Again, I just go into neutral when I come to my pit stall because we're an H-pattern. Never had to deal with a sequential shifter, so that was interesting.' There's some sentimental attachment to Bristol for Love as he described the feelings on the windy climb through the Tennessee Valley Divide. Advertisement 'I was driving up here and kind of got all my emotion out on the way up here,' Love said. 'Driving up here is very mountainous and it was like driving to Baylands [northern California], which is where I grew up racing quarter midgets. So that was a pretty cool emotional experience for me. When I was five, six, eight years old, running quarter midgets with my dad driving up this windy path, one-lane road up to the go-kart track, and then now doing the same kind of thing for a Cup race. That was a really cool full-circle moment for me.' As the weekend rolls along, the emotions and realization of a stock-car racer's dream will set in for Love the closer Sunday's green flag approaches. But for now, the young prospect is as stoic and poised as if he's been a multiyear Cup veteran. 'I feel like once I got all that out, I feel like I have a little more clear head,' Love said. 'There's been so many sacrifices from my friends and my family, and even myself throughout the whole career to have a chance to race on a Sunday and that day's come. All the emotions are real and they're valid and still a really cool thing. But because I'm kind of present in the moment and understanding of trying to keep those emotions in check and not get too wrapped up in the moment, I feel like I'm pretty calm going into this weekend. Don't have a lot of expectations. All expectations I have is that I execute what the car is capable of and what I'm capable of, and I think if we do that, we can have a good show.'
