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11-04-2025
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How to renew tickets for 2026 Pennzoil 400 NASCAR Las Vegas race
The Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway ended up being an exciting race, and a memorable race for the NASCAR Cup Series drivers. Josh Berry made the race a perfect memory, taking the checkered flag to win his first NASCAR Cup Series race in his second season. Las Vegas will host another race in the fall, a NASCAR Playoffs event, but it's time to get ready for the 2026 Pennzoil 400. Here's what to know about renewing tickets for the NASCAR Las Vegas race. Renew your Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets Josh Berry, a Hendersonville native, won the Pennzoil 400 to earn his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory. The 2026 Pennzoil 400 date and time has yet to be determined. It will be announced when the entire 2026 NASCAR schedule is released this fall. Fans are able to renew their tickets for the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway by visiting the track's website and selecting the option that is right for them. There are payment plans available, including paying in full, monthly payments or four equal payments to renew tickets. Renewing tickets allows fans to gain priority access to keep their same seat or relocate if they so choose. Renew your Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn't influence our coverage. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Las Vegas race: How to renew tickets for 2026 Pennzoil 400
Miami Herald
22-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Michael McDowell wins 7th career pole at Pennzoil 400
LAS VEGAS -- Spire Racing's Michael McDowell captured pole position for the seventh time in his career during Saturday's qualifying session for the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. McDowell's previous six poles all came during the 2024 season, his 17th in the Cup Series. Joey Logano will start Sunday's race alongside McDowell on the front of the grid, qualifying in the top two at Las Vegas for the third time in five races. Austin Cindric will start third, while Vegas native Kyle Busch starts in fourth. Christopher Bell qualified in 13th position as he searches for that elusive fourth consecutive win. Lackluster qualifying hasn't been a deterrent for Bell thus far, as he started 19th before winning at Circuit of the Americas and 32nd before winning at Atlanta. --By Will Despart, Field Level Media. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
22-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Christopher Bell eyes 4th straight win; drivers eager for Las Vegas test
LAS VEGAS -- Christopher Bell is seeking a historic fourth consecutive win on Sunday as the NASCAR Cup Series descends on Sin City for the Pennzoil 400. With a win, Bell would become the first driver since Jimmie Johnson in 2007 to win four straight Cup races. Only eight drivers have achieved the feat in NASCAR's modern era (post-1972) and five of those drivers went on to win the championship, including Johnson in 2007 and Jeff Gordon in 1998. Bell, 30, has never won a race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, though he's finished second in two of the last three races held at the track. With Las Vegas being the first intermediate track on the 2025 schedule, the race gives both Bell in his No. 20 Toyota and the rest of the field their first real opportunity to gauge their car on the style of race track on which a large portion of the schedule is contested. Some of those races are among the most important on NASCAR's schedule, including October's South Point 400 in Vegas. "Vegas is a true barometer of the intermediates," Bell, the Joe Gibbs Racing standout, told the NASCAR Wire Service. "It's kind of like the last style of track that we haven't been to yet this season. It's an important race because you have a lot of points to be gained or lost on the intermediate-style tracks, but what makes Vegas even more important is that it's in the Round of 8 (of the Playoffs). "That race, when you come back in the fall, is super important to have a really solid points day and contend for a win. That fall Vegas race is everything, and there's no better tune-up for it than the spring Vegas race." Perhaps the greatest threat to end Bell's hot streak on Sunday is 2021 Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, who has won at the "Diamond in the Desert" three times since joining Hendrick Motorsports before the 2021 season. Larson's first win with Hendrick came at Las Vegas in March 2021 and Larson has claimed two of the previous three races held at the track, winning the South Point 400 in October 2023 and the Pennzoil 400 in March 2024. "I think since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021, it's probably been our best race track," Larson said. "Getting a few wins, I think two other second-place finishes in that time has also been really good. The track is great but getting to come to the city and have fun on the strip and all the stuff that it has to offer, it probably makes it one of my three favorite races to get to." Like Bell, Larson is also is looking forward to getting a true feel for the kind of car he has this season on an intermediate track. "The way schedule is now, you go to Daytona, then you go to Atlanta and then you go to a road course," Larson said "You almost have to wait a whole month to realize how your season might be and how you'll be on speed. I think all of us teams are really, really excited to get on track for practice, get back into the more bulk of the schedule with this style of race track." Despite Bell's hot start to the season, it's actually William Byron who enters Sunday's race in the points lead by 13 points over Bell. Byron won the season-opening Daytona 500 in February and earned the pole on his way to a sixth-place finish in Phoenix, in addition to finishing second at the first Daytona Duel and at the Circuit of the Americas on March 2. Bell qualified in 13th position. Lackluster qualifying hasn't been a deterrent for Bell thus far, as he started 19th before winning at Circuit of the Americas and 32nd before winning at Atlanta. Spire Racing's Michael McDowell captured pole position for the seventh time in his career during Saturday's qualifying session for the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. McDowell's previous six poles all came during the 2024 season, his 17th in the Cup Series. Joey Logano will start Sunday's race alongside McDowell on the front of the grid, qualifying in the top two at Las Vegas for the third time in five races. Austin Cindric will start third, while Las Vegas native Kyle Busch starts in fourth. Logano is the most recent winner at Las Vegas, as his victory at the South Point 400 in October 2024 propelled him to his third NASCAR title. --Will Despart, Field Level Media Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
22-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Josh Berry nabs first career Cup Series win at Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- Josh Berry of Wood Brothers Racing pulled ahead of Daniel Suarez with 14 laps to go and earned his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory at the Pennzoil 400 on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Berry's win is the 101st in the NASCAR Cup Series for Wood Brothers Racing, their second win in 17 races after Harrison Burton ended a seven-year drought at Daytona last August. Berry entered the race coming off a career-best fourth-place finish at Phoenix last week, and his first career win comes in just his fifth race with the Wood Brothers. Berry had 40-to-1 odds to win entering Sunday's race. Considering Berry made his name as a Tennessee short track ace, it was a bit ironic that he earned his first career victory on an intermediate track. Regardless, it was a symbolic victory for all of the drivers cutting their teeth on regional tracks across America. 'Five years ago, I felt like I was going to be a career short-track racer,' Berry said. 'I wanted to be Bubba Pollard. I wanted to be with the greats on the short tracks. JR Motorsports gave me an opportunity to go drive an Xfinity car, we won a race and then we won another race. Then I get an opportunity in the cup car, and that goes well. And here I am now. Those grassroots are important to NASCAR.' Even if Berry rose to prominence on the short tracks, he has always felt good about his chances in Las Vegas. 'I think, for one, this has been a really good track for me,' Berry said. 'I have two Xfinity wins, two really big moments in my life. This place has been really special, and it's been a good racetrack for me. 'I can't say, obviously, with my experience on the short tracks, that you think that that's where you're going to win. But if I've learned anything in this sport, you never know what day can be your day. You just have to put your head down and be there to capitalize.' Suarez, Ryan Preece, William Byron and Ross Chastain rounded out the top five. Berry's victory also ended Christopher Bell's winning streak at three races. Bell finished the race in 12th. A six-car wreck took Ryan Blaney out of the race on Lap 194, ending a disappointing weekend for the No. 12 team. The wreck also took Kyle Larson out of first place after a dominant effort to that point, pushing him to 18th place on the restart. Larson was unable to make his way back to the top of the field, finishing ninth on a day where he led 61 laps with the clearly best car. Larson pushed ahead of Byron with three laps remaining in the second stage. The No. 5 car took control early in the stage, passing Bubba Wallace on the 100th lap of the race with a strong push off Turn 4. Larson asserted himself for the remainder of the stage, regaining the lead twice after cautions and ensuing pit strategies briefly knocked him out of the top position. Wallace led the field to start the second stage, beating Austin Cindric and Chase Elliott off pit road. Cindric narrowly held off Alex Bowman to win the first stage, preventing Bowman from making a move in the 15 laps before the stage caution. Joey Logano led 16 of the first 17 laps until a caution on Lap 34 halted what was poised to be a dominant stage victory. The caution in question occurred when Chase Briscoe lost his left rear wheel in the middle of a green flag pit cycle, forcing several drivers to go a lap down and use a wave-around. Kyle Busch also lost his wheel later in the race on Lap 113, forcing his car into the wall. Both Briscoe and Busch were handed mandatory two-lap penalties for their respective incidents and the offending pit crew members are subject to a two-race suspension. Busch finished the race 35 laps down as a result of his incident, while Briscoe eventually made it back to the lead lap from as many as four laps down to finish in 17th. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
22-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Pit-crew members suspended for runaway wheels in Vegas
NASCAR handed down suspensions Wednesday to members of the pit crews for Kyle Busch and Chase Briscoe for detached wheels in last Sunday's Cup Series race in Las Vegas. The two-race suspensions were issued to members of Busch's No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet team and Briscoe's No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team after wheels became unfastened during the Pennzoil 400. The suspensions will cover Sunday's race at Miami and the March 30 race at Martinsville for No. 8 crew members Dylan Moser (jack) and Shiloh Windsor (rear-tire changer) and No. 19 crew members Caleb Dirks (jack) and Daniel Smith (rear-tire changer). Briscoe finished 17th in the race won by Josh Berry in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford. Busch's day ended after 35 laps. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
