Latest news with #TheTrackTooToughToTame
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Kyle Larson to have a new pit crew at Darlington
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Despite four consecutive top-10 finishes, including a win two weeks ago, Kyle Larson will have a nearly new pit crew at Darlington Raceway this weekend. Jafar Hall replaces Blaine Anderson as front tire changer. Mike Moss replaces Calvin Teague as rear tire changer. Allen Stallings replaces RJ Barnette as tire carrier. Eric Ludwig replaces Brandon Johnson as jackman. Advertisement Teague and Barnette were both on Larson's pit crew when he won the 2021 championship. Only fueler Brandon Harder remains the same for the No. 5 team from last week's race at Martinsville. NASCAR: Goodyear 400 How to watch Sunday's Cup race at Darlington Raceway: Start time, TV info, weather 'The Track Too Tough To Tame' kicks off its 75th season of playing host to Cup Series races. Hall and Ludwig were with Larson's team at Phoenix and Las Vegas when Anderson and Johnson served NASCAR-mandated two-race suspensions for a tire coming off the No. 5 car on the course at COTA. Hall and Ludwig have been with Justin Haley's team in the other races this season. Moss and Stallings have been with Haley's team all season. Hendrick Motorsports supplies pit crews to Spire Motorsports. NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix - Qualifying Ross Chastain calls Joey Logano's comments about him at Martinsville 'pretty disappointing' Advertisement Ross Chastain discussed Wednesday the comments Joey Logano made last weekend. Hall, Ludwig, Moss and Stallings were a part of a crew with Haley that has turned in some of the quicker pit times among those in the Hendrick camp in recent weeks. 'We've looked at a lot of different factors of really not what the old (No.) 5 group was doing wrong, but what this other group was doing right,' crew chief Cliff Daniels said Saturday morning at Darlington Raceway about the change. 'We've been working really hard within our pit department of just pushing, pushing the edge of performance and whatever that takes to keep moving the needle Certainly a lot of teams are performing at a very high level on pit road.' Daniels said that the previous No. 5 pit crew had been 'solid' in recent races, which has seen Larson finish third at Phoenix, ninth at Las Vegas, first at Homestead and fifth at Martinsville. 'Solid is certainly a great word to use,' Daniels said of the crew's performance lately. 'But we weren't outstanding over-the-top of times. … Over the course of this season and over the course of the end of last season, the incoming group has really been putting up really fast times, very consistent, performing at a high level.'
NBC Sports
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- NBC Sports
How to watch Sunday's Cup race at Darlington Raceway: Start time, TV info, weather
As the Cup Series returns to Darlington Raceway, the top two finishers from last May are looking to recapture their form. Brad Keselowski ended a 110-race winless streak at Darlington with his 36th career victory in Cup but has been mired in a 30-race victory drought since. The 2012 Cup champion is having the toughest start of his career in 2025. Dustin Long, Through seven races, Keselowski has no top 10s for the first time since 2011 and an average finish of 25.1 that would rank as his lowest ever. Ty Gibbs, the runner-up to Keselowski last year at Darlington, hasn't fared much better. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver is ranked 31st in points (one spot behind Keselowski) with no top 10s and average finish of 23.857. They'll be looking for a spark at 'The Track Too Tough To Tame,' which is celebrating 75 years of playing host to Cup Series races. The 1.366-mile oval opened with the Southern 500 in 1950. Denny Hamlin, who is coming off a Martinsville win that snapped a 31-race winless streak, leads active Cup drivers with four victories at Darlington. Erik Jones and Keselowski each have two wins there. Details for Sunday's Cup race at Darlington Raceway (All times Eastern) START: The Wood Brothers family will give the command to start engines at 3:02 p.m. ... The green flag is scheduled to wave at 3:12 p.m. PRERACE: The Cup garage opens at noon. ... The drivers meeting will begin at 2 p.m. ... Driver introductions will begin at 2:25 p.m. ... Former driver Lake Speed, the 1988 Darlington Raceway TranSouth 500 winner, will deliver the invocation at 2:54 p.m. ... The 282nd Army Band from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, will perform the anthem at 2:55 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is 293 laps (400.2 miles) on a 1.366-mile oval. STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 90. Stage 2 ends at Lap 185. ENTRY LIST: Click here for the 38 cars entered TV/RADIO: FS1 will begin its race broadcast at 3 p.m. Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will have radio coverage. FORECAST: WeatherUnderground: Cloudy in the afternoon with a chance for evening showers. High of 89 degrees and winds from the south to southwest at 10 to 20 mph. It's expected to be 86 degrees with a 3% chance of rain at the start of the Cup race. LAST TIME: Chase Briscoe led the final 26 laps to win the regular-season finale and qualify for the playoffs in the final season for Stewart-Haas Racing. A YEAR AGO: After Chris Buescher and Tyler Reddick made contact while battling for the lead, Brad Keselowski went from third to first and hung on for his first victory
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
How to watch Saturday's Xfinity race at Darlington: Start time, TV info and weather
How to watch Saturday's Xfinity race at Darlington: Start time, TV info and weather The Xfinity Series will draw some high-profile entrants for its 200-lap race at Darlington Raceway. Cup Series stars Chase Elliott, Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain will compete in the Xfinity Series at "The Track Too Tough To Tame." Advertisement Bell, who will be driving the No. 19 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, won the most recent Xfinity race at Darlington last August. Elliott, who is driving the No. 17 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, also is a former Xfinity winner at Darlington with a victory in 2014 as a rookie. This will be his only Xfinity start this season. NASCAR Xfinity: LiUNA 300 NASCAR penalizes Sammy Smith for actions on last lap of Martinsville Xfinity race NASCAR docks Sammy Smith 50 points and fines him $25,000. Chastain, who is driving the No. 9 Chevy for JR Motorsports, is making his second of five Xfinity starts in 2025. Justin Allgaier won the Xfinity race at Darlington a year ago. The last five Xfinity races on the 1.366-mile oval have featured five different winners. Details for Saturday's Xfinity race at Darlington Raceway (All times Eastern) START: The command to start engines will be given at 3:30 p.m. ... The green flag is scheduled to wave at 3:40 p.m. Advertisement PRERACE: The Xfinity garage opens at 8:30 a.m. ... Practice starts at 10 a.m. ... Qualifying begins at 11:05 a.m. ... Driver introductions are at 3 p.m. ... The invocation will be given by Pastor Donald Gilbert, The Free Will Baptist Bible Church, at 3:22 p.m. ... The anthem will be performed by the Darlington High School marching band at 3:23 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is 147 laps (200.8 miles) on the 1.366-mile oval. STAGES: Stage 1 ends at Lap 45. Stage 2 ends at Lap 90. ENTRY LIST: Click here for the 40 cars entered at Darlington TV/RADIO: The CW Network will broadcast the race starting at 3:30 p.m. ... Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will have radio coverage. Advertisement FORECAST: WeatherUnderground — Mostly to partly cloudy skies with a near-record high of 88 degrees and winds from the south to southwest at 10 to 15 mph. It's expected to be 87 degrees with no chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity race. LAST TIME: Christopher Bell held off Cole Custer on an overtime restart to win last August. A YEAR AGO: Justin Allgaier dominated by leading 119 of 147 laps last May.
