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Chevrolet NCS at Talladega 1: Post-race Report – Speedway Digest

TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-10 RESULTS: POS. DRIVER 3rd – Kyle Larson 4th – William Byron 7th – Chase Elliott 8th – Carson Hocevar 9th – Alex Bowman · Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson led Chevrolet to the checkered-flag at Talladega Superspeedway – collecting a third-place finish in his No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet. Larson led a brigade […]

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TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-10 RESULTS:

POS. DRIVER

3rd – Kyle Larson

4th – William Byron

7th – Chase Elliott

8th – Carson Hocevar

9th – Alex Bowman

· Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson led Chevrolet to the checkered-flag at Talladega Superspeedway – collecting a third-place finish in his No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet. Larson led a brigade of five Team Chevy drivers to top-10 finishes in the 500-mile race, including his fellow teammates William Byron in fourth, Chase Elliott in seventh and Alex Bowman in the ninth position. Joining his fellow Chevrolet drivers in the top-10 included Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar, who drove his No. 77 Chili’s Ride the ‘Dente to an eighth-place result.

· The series’ most recent winner, Kyle Larson, turned a 25th-place qualifying effort into a win of the first stage – leading a quartet of Team Chevy drivers to the top of the leaderboard at the green-white checkered flag. But the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver quickly lost the track position when the team was faced with a speeding penalty under the stage break. Restarting in the 33rd position, patience was a virtue for the California native – progressively making his way through the pack to lead the Chevrolet camp to the end of the stage yet again with a third-place result.

· It was a turbulent day for Kyle Busch and the Randall Burnett led Chevrolet team. Leading the field to the green-flag from a front-row start position, the day quickly became an uphill battle when mayhem entering pit road under the first green-flag cycle collected the No. 8 Chevrolet. Quickly going to work on a broken toe link, the team fell just one lap down but quickly found his way back to the lead lap by the end of the Stage One. The right combination of patience and strategy kept the team in the lead pack, making their way back up into the top-10 with 38 laps remaining before an untimely pit road speeding penalty took them out of contention.

· Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill continued his superspeedway dominance by picking up his series-leading third victory of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season in Saturday’s Ag-Pro 300, leading the Bowtie brigade to a sweep of the top-seven finishing positions in the 300-mile race – the first time since Sept. 2004 that a single manufacturer has swept the top-seven of a race in the division.

Chevrolet’s all-time NASCAR Cup Series statistics at Talladega Superspeedway:

Wins: 45

Poles: 37

Top-Fives: 212

Top-10s: 415

Chevrolet’s season statistics with 10 NASCAR Cup Series races complete:

Wins: 3

Poles: 5

Top-Fives: 19

Top 10s: 46

Stage Wins: 8
UP NEXT: The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at Texas Motor Speedway with the Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY on Sunday, May 4, at 3:30 P.M. ET. Live coverage can be found on FS1, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Post-Race Driver Quotes:

Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 3rd

“There wasn’t really much I could do the final five laps. I wanted to go to the outside lane when we got clear of William (Byron), but I felt like the gap was too big to move up and the No. 60 (Ryan Preece) was able to fill it. I was still happy to be second-row on the inside lane, obviously happy to be front row, but I just didn’t know how it was going to play out from there. There at the end, you’re just trying to give the right pushes to get clear and then maybe he starts blocking lanes and something would open up for me. I was just kind of jammed up there.

I will take a third-place finish. We had a great day, points-wise, for this No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet team. Winning the first stage was a bit unexpected, and then finishing third in the second stage from where we were on the final restart was also unexpected. Just a really good day, overall, for the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevy.”

Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 25th

“We were having a pretty smooth day with our No. 10 Sea Best Chevy and our car was fast. We did our job on pit road pretty much and on the track, we put ourselves in position and where we needed to be at the end. We were running in seventh and ran out of the gas. We’ve got to get that cleaned up. Running out of gas has robbed us of a lot of finishing positions and points over the last two weeks. We’ve shown a lot of really good speed on the super speedways, and that’s been really good. It’s nice to see the hard work paying off when we show up at the track. We’ll keep grinding and the finishes we deserve will come.”

AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 26th

“Overall, our day was going well. We were racing our own race there of hanging back and going at the end of the stages. That worked out for the first stage, almost worked out for the second stage and I thought we were in a decent position in the third stage. We ended up with a combination of bad luck and not a great last stop at the end, just having to go around the No. 1 car and everything that happened there. That cost us there at the end and that’s disappointing.”

William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 4th

“I don’t know about that. We had the No. 48 (Alex Bowman) behind us and he was doing a good job pushing. It just seemed like we couldn’t get enough help from the third guy in line and that’s what it takes. For whatever reason, the top lane just couldn’t get the runs off the corner at the right time to get connected. We’d get connected too late and then get a little bit squirrely and lose our momentum. I wish just that one time, we could have connected a little better to stay even with the bottom lane, but we were working really hard to do that with the No. 2 (Austin Cindric). It just seemed like it took a lot of effort for us to maintain the track position on the front row.

Live and learn. The No. 24 Valvoline Chevrolet team did a good job today. We had some issues and had to work on it. We got it better and then we were able to race there in the final stage, so really happy with that. We always want a little bit more. I feel like we were in the perfect position there with 10 laps to go.”

Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 13th

“Not the day we were hoping for at Talladega. Our No. 71 GUNK Chevrolet was fast. Early on in the race, we were able to get to the lead and kind of control the lanes. We just lost track position there at the end and never could really get it back. It was unfortunate, but we learned a lot this weekend. We’ll keep plugging away at it. Not what we hoped for, but we’ll take a solid finish and move onto Texas.”

Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 11th

“It was an up-and-down day for the No. 99 Wendy’s Frosty Chevrolet team. I wasn’t in love with the balance of the car. I thought the speed was decent, but I just felt like the balance of the car, we have a little bit of work to do to fight consistently at the front. We made a couple of mistakes on pit road, but when it counted the most at the end, we executed well.”

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Responding to Ryan Blaney Nashville win

You want to go ahead and flip-flop the top two guys in our Power Rankings? Go right ahead. I can’t argue against it. Well, I could, but there’s no real science behind this weekly lineup. In fact, it generally boils down to two things. 1. What has he done in recent weeks, with maybe a […]

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You want to go ahead and flip-flop the top two guys in our Power Rankings? Go right ahead.

I can’t argue against it. Well, I could, but there’s no real science behind this weekly lineup.

In fact, it generally boils down to two things.

1. What has he done in recent weeks, with maybe a tad more weight given to the most recent race.

2. How has his season been as a whole?

If a tiebreaker is needed: Which guy, if necessary, is easier to make fun of.

As for the current rankings, Christopher Bell has four wins this year (including the All-Star Race) compared to one for William Byron, whose win came way back at the season opener. But Byron competes for a win nearly every week, and along the way, he piles up a ton of bonus points, which explains why he’s second and ahead of three-time winner Kyle Larson, who mixes in too many clunkers.

If hunches and vibes were sciences, I’d be a scientist.

1. Christopher Bell

Barely kept his top-10 streak (eight of last nine starts) with a 10th at Nashville.

2. William Byron

Billy the Kid just doesn’t have a bad week, does he?

3. Kyle Larson

In an odd little funk. Very hard-earned eighth at Nashville.

4. Ross Chastain

Average Michigan finish in seven starts: 25.9. Yuck.

5. Ryan Blaney

Passed tech! Full Penske roster now in the playoffs.

6. Joey Logano

In his last five Michigan starts, he has led just as many laps as you have.

7. Denny Hamlin

Does a third at Nashville suggest the mini-slump is over?

8. Chase Elliott

Odd stat: Has finished 15th four times this season.

9. Chase Briscoe

His Saturday speed has yet to translate to Sundays lately.

10. Tyler Reddick

Raised stakes in trendy kid names by naming his new son “Rookie.”

Well, the secret is out! At 2:20am on 5/25, we welcomed the newest addition to the Reddick family. Everyone meet Rookie George Reddick.

The household has now become a family of four, and we are so blessed. pic.twitter.com/RZCILUhmKt

— Tyler Reddick (@TylerReddick) June 1, 2025

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Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr. send warning to Carson Hocevar after Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident

If there is anyone who can get Carson Hocevar to listen to reason, it is probably Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hocevar is the wild child of the NASCAR Cup Series right now, and his comments after the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident today are the latest example. Carson Hocevar is full-throttle 100% of the […]

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Carson Hocevar is full-throttle 100% of the time. He talked in the pre-race about not wanting to have regrets as a driver. But there is a fine line between having no regrets and creating your own problems.

On the Prime Video post-race show, both Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr. issued warnings to Hocevar. They see him going down a path that could lead to unwanted consequences.

“Well, I hear a guy that doesn’t know that he ran into the back of somebody and wrecked them,” Earnhardt said after hearing Hocevar’s comments on the incident. “Hey, I’ll call it like it is. I like Hocevar a lot. Kid’s awesome. Ran second tonight. I like his attitude, I like his personality, and I like his style. But yeah, I think he could have cut the 47 a break, and he chose not to do that.

“That’s his way that he wants to race. He’s not very apologetic about it. A lot of people are going to love that. A lot of people are going to love how he races and how he does his job. From what I saw tonight, I think he probably could have gave Ricky an opportunity there and continued to race. And he’ll have to hear that side from Ricky, and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.”

Carl Edwards agreed. He followed up by echoing many of the same sentiments that Dale Jr. had.

“He sat up here in the pre-race and said, ‘Hey, I’m just going to be aggressive. No regrets, I’m going to go, I’m going to get it.’ And there you see it,” Edwards said. “And I talked about it a little bit, but there’s a price, and it hurts, and I’ve been there, and it’s not fun to be on the receiving end of what’s coming.”

Don’t get it twisted, Dale Jr. enjoys watching Carson Hocevar. He likes the aggression. However, the 22-year-old may be shortsighted in his “no-regrets” outlook on life.

“I like what I see out of Hocevar. As a fan and a broadcaster, it is entertaining,” Earnhardt said. “I just don’t like it when he wrecks the good guy, you know? I know Stenhouse has had his issues, too, but you kinda gotta pick and choose who your enemies are, and you can’t just kind of blanket the garage, right?

“So, I don’t know that I want him to dial it off or dial it back because it’s great as a fan to see him in controversy. We need a little color, we need a little personality, and he brings tons of it. But the garage kind of will police it a little bit. To your point, Corey, nobody’s really stepped to him just yet, but I think he might have messed with the wrong guy tonight.”

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Big Game Motorsports and Gravel Garner Pair of Podiums in North Dakota – Speedway Digest

Big Game Motorsports recorded back-to-back runner-up results in North Dakota last weekend. That gives team driver David Gravel 17 podium finishes in 28 races this season and it extended his lead in the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series championship standings to 188 points. “I felt happy with how our weekend went,” […]

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Big Game Motorsports recorded back-to-back runner-up results in North Dakota last weekend.

That gives team driver David Gravel 17 podium finishes in 28 races this season and it extended his lead in the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series championship standings to 188 points.

“I felt happy with how our weekend went,” he said. “The second night was definitely a more deserving second place. If everything goes right the first night we could have or should have won, but that’s racing.”

Gravel kicked off the weekend on Friday at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, where he qualified fourth quickest. A heat race win was followed by a dash victory to earn the pole position for the main event. Gravel led the first five laps before dropping a position.

“With them doing track work I didn’t know which lane would be the best and stayed on the bottom a little too long,” he said. “Buddy (Kofoid) got by me and took the lead. From there we were able to pace him and stick with him, but didn’t have the opportunity to get back by him. I was a little bummed with that second place.”

The weekend wrapped up on Saturday at Red River Valley Speedway, where Gravel timed in third quickest. He won a heat race and moved from fourth to third place in the dash to start the feature on the inside of the second row.

“Fargo was stressful with how the track was greasy,” he said. “To qualify good that night was a big relief. We qualified and put ourselves in position. To win our heat and draw the No. 4 for the dash was pretty good. We did good to gain a spot.

“We were okay early (in the feature). As the race went on we were good. Donny (Schatz) sniffed me out on the bottom and took my lane away, which slowed me up. We were able to get by him late.”

Gravel got into second with a late-race move, but was unable to make a bid for the lead. It marked his sixth second-place outing of the season.

This week is a big one for the team with four races in five days, beginning on Wednesday with the FENDT Showdown hosted by Jackson Motorplex in Jackson, Minn. A trip to Wisconsin encompasses races on Friday at Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth during the Badger State Triple; on Saturday at Beaver Dam Raceway in Beaver Dam during the Jim “JB” Boyd Memorial; and on Sunday at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie during the Badger State Triple.

“Jackson is a track I haven’t won at so I’m eager to try to win there,” Gravel said. “Wisconsin will be interesting. The Plymouth track is one I haven’t been to. Beaver Dam is a track we’ve been fast at and I think I’ve ran second there five or six times. And Sun Prairie, I’ve been to it one time I think in 2016. It was a very unique track that is very flat and round.”

QUICK RESULTS –

May 30 – River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.D. – Qualifying: 4; Heat race: 1 (1); Dash: 1 (1); Feature: 2 (1).

May 31 – Red River Valley Speedway in West Fargo, N.D. – Qualifying: 3; Heat race: 1 (1); Dash: 3 (4); Feature: 2 (3).

SEASON STATS –

28 races, 8 wins, 24 top fives, 28 top 10s, 28 top 15s, 28 top 20s

UP NEXT –

Wednesday at Jackson Motorplex in Jackson, Minn., for the FENDT Showdown; Friday at Plymouth Dirt Track in Plymouth, Wis., for the Badger State Triple; Saturday at Beaver Dam Raceway in Beaver Dam, Wis., for the Jim “JB” Boyd Memorial; and Sunday at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wis., for the Badger State Triple with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series

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2025 NASCAR Michigan Entry List: All 36 drivers for Firekeepers Casino 400

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The NASCAR Cup Series is set to take on the Michigan International Speedway for the next race of the 2025 season, with 36 cars registered for the race. Check out the entry list for this year’s Firekeepers Casino 400. 2025 NASCAR Michigan Entry List Ross Chastain (#1, […]

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The NASCAR Cup Series is set to take on the Michigan International Speedway for the next race of the 2025 season, with 36 cars registered for the race.

Check out the entry list for this year’s Firekeepers Casino 400.

2025 NASCAR Michigan Entry List

Ross Chastain (#1, Trackhouse Racing)
Austin Cindric (#2, Team Penske)
Austin Dillon (#3, Richard Childress Racing)
Noah Gragson (#4, Front Row Motorsports)
Kyle Larson (#5, Hendrick Motorsports)
Brad Keselowski (#6, RFK Racing)
Justin Haley (#7, Spire Motorsports)
Kyle Busch (#8, Richard Childress Racing)
Chase Elliott (#9, Hendrick Motorsports)
Ty Dillon (#10, Kaulig Racing)
Denny Hamlin (#11, Joe Gibbs Racing)
Ryan Blaney (#12, Team Penske)
AJ Allmendinger (#16, Kaulig Racing)
Chris Buescher (#17, RFK Racing)
Chase Briscoe (#19, Joe Gibbs Racing)
Christopher Bell (#20, Joe Gibbs Racing)
Josh Berry (#21, Wood Brothers Racing)
Joey Logano (#22, Team Penske)
Bubba Wallace (#23, 23XI Racing)
William Byron (#24, Hendrick Motorsports)
Todd Gilliland (#34, Front Row Motorsports)
Riley Herbst (#35, 23XI Racing)
Zane Smith (#38, Front Row Motorsports)
Cole Custer (#41, Haas Factory Team)
John Hunter Nemechek (#42, Legacy Motor Club)
Erik Jones (#43, Legacy Motor Club)
Tyler Reddick (#45, 23XI Racing)
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (#47, HYAK Motorsports)
Alex Bowman (#48, Hendrick Motorsports)
Cody Ware (#51, Rick Ware Racing)
Ty Gibbs (#54, Joe Gibbs Racing)
Ryan Preece (#60, RFK Racing)
Michael McDowell (#71, Spire Motorsports)
Carson Hocevar (#77, Spire Motorsports)
Shane van Gisbergen (#88, Trackhouse Racing)
Daniel Suárez (#99, Trackhouse Racing)

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The 2025 PRI Show Is Taking Shape—Don’t Let Your Brand Miss OutPerformance Racing Industry

Planning for the 2025 edition of the world’s largest gathering of motorsports professionals–December 11-13, Indianapolis–is well underway, but it’s not too late to stake your claim to a piece of the 2025 PRI Show floorplan. Ensure your brand has a presence at this one-of-a-kind industry event by securing a booth now. Securing your booth space […]

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Planning for the 2025 edition of the world’s largest gathering of motorsports professionals–December 11-13, Indianapolis–is well underway, but it’s not too late to stake your claim to a piece of the 2025 PRI Show floorplan. Ensure your brand has a presence at this one-of-a-kind industry event by securing a booth now.

Securing your booth space is the first step toward success at the PRI Show, which presents an unrivaled opportunity for racing industry professionals to drive sales, meet new clients and increase brand awareness, December 11-13, in downtown Indianapolis.

Exhibiting at the PRI Show offers a myriad of benefits to your brand:

Increase Your Brand Awareness: Whether you are an established brand or looking to break into the motorsports market, exhibiting at PRI is the best investment to advance your brand goals.
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To reserve a booth at the 2025 PRI Show, visit here. For more information on why to exhibit, visit performanceracing.com/trade-show/exhibit.

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Rockingham NASCAR weekend provides nearly $40 million in economic impact

Rockingham NASCAR weekend provides nearly $40 million in economic impact – Sandhills Sentinel Home /Local News/Rockingham NASCAR weekend provides nearly $40 million in economic impact […]

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