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Dollar Tree has extended its sponsorship of Legacy Motor Club in the NASCAR Cup series through 2028, the team announced July 10. The brand began sponsoring the organization in 2024 under a multi-year deal. This time, the sponsorship will run through 2028. “Dollar Tree is a foundational partner to Legacy Motor Club,” Cal Wells III, […]

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Dollar Tree has extended its sponsorship of Legacy Motor Club in the NASCAR Cup series through 2028, the team announced July 10.

The brand began sponsoring the organization in 2024 under a multi-year deal.

This time, the sponsorship will run through 2028.

“Dollar Tree is a foundational partner to Legacy Motor Club,” Cal Wells III, the CEO of Legacy, said in a team release. “Their continued investment and commitment will enable us to execute our competitive vision and strengthens our ability to support championship aspirations.”

Legacy currently fields two full-time entries in the NASCAR Cup Series, with Erik Jones and John Hunter Nemechek behind the wheel. Dollar Tree has sponsored both entries this year.

In 2025, Nemechek has one top five and six top 10s in the No. 42, while Jones boasts two top fives and three top 10s in the No. 43.


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Jake Altmayer joined the Frontstretch team in 2025, assisting as a news writer and contributing to other weekly columns and articles, such as Friday Faceoff and Xfinity Breakdown. A 2024 graduate of DePaul University, Altmayer has closely followed NASCAR’s national series (Cup, Xfinity and Trucks) for nearly a decade and has attended more than a dozen races over the course of that time. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, spending time with his loved ones, and listening to his favorite band, the Beach Boys.



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NASCAR to hold first-ever street race on active military base in California

NASCAR will be bringing street races to an active military base for the first time ever next year in San Diego. The racing organization said the three-day event, which will take place in June 2026 at Naval Base Coronado, will be the first of its kind. However, this will be NASCAR’s second street course in […]

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NASCAR will be bringing street races to an active military base for the first time ever next year in San Diego.

The racing organization said the three-day event, which will take place in June 2026 at Naval Base Coronado, will be the first of its kind.

However, this will be NASCAR’s second street course in its modern era — the Chicago Street Course has hosted racing events for the past three seasons.

Ben Kennedy, NASCAR’s executive vice president, chief venue & racing innovation officer, said the track is not set in stone yet, but it will be a blend of traditional street racing that will include racing past military aircraft.

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The event is scheduled to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy.

“We contemplated a number of places, not just in San Diego, but the greater Southern California region,” Kennedy said. “Naturally, I think we all started to gravitate towards the military base, seeing that we knew that the 250th anniversary was upcoming, our natural ties that we have to the military and then the location of it. I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better location than Coronado, sitting between downtown San Diego, the Pacific Ocean and not far from Tijuana, either.”

The San Diego street race will mark NASCAR’s return to Southern California for the first time since February 2024.

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Kyle Larson theory raised by Dale Jr. after Hendrick announcement – Motorsport – Sports

Dale Earnhardt Jr. suggested Kyle Larson’s attempt at ‘The Double’ derailed his form in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season – but he’s found his groove again thanks to his form on dirt.  Last season, Larson won the Brickyard 400. This time around, the former Cup Series champion will officially compete in both the Cup […]

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. suggested Kyle Larson’s attempt at ‘The Double’ derailed his form in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season – but he’s found his groove again thanks to his form on dirt. 

Last season, Larson won the Brickyard 400. This time around, the former Cup Series champion will officially compete in both the Cup and Xfinity Series races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, joining Katherine Legge as one of the few drivers to race both in 2025..

On Monday, Hendrick Motorsports announced that Larson will be driving the No.17 car, which featured a new driver in Jake Finch at Dover last weekend. The reigning Brickyard 400 winner will look to defend his crown, and Earnhardt Jr. believes Larson is beginning to discover his form. 

Larson finished fourth at Dover in his last race, which was his first top-10 finish since Pocono in June and his first top-five finish since Michigan two weeks before Pocono. Since attempting the Indy 500-Coca-Cola 600 double in May,  which he won’t do again, Larson has tallied four top-10 finishes in eight races. 

Earnhardt Jr. believes the double attempt derailed Larson’s NASCAR form. On his ‘Dale Jr. Download’ podcast, the 50-year-old said: “All of those things didn’t go as well, or as easy or as smooth as he had hoped. I think that kind of knocked him off his perch.

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“The schedule wouldn’t allow him to find some consistency to be able to gain confidence and get the team back to where it needs to be, everybody feeling good about everything. Over the last handful of weeks, I’m sure that they’ve all been questioning, are we doing everything we need to do? … They’ve decided not to panic, get back to the basics, get in the part of the schedule where they might can find some peace of mind.”

Earnhardt Jr. thinks Larson started to find his rhythm and form thanks to “success in the dirt car,” which has helped him turn around his season. He added: “When he starts doing good in that, it’s like everything starts getting better. 

“His Cup stuff starts getting better as well. He needs to be behind the wheel of a race car, and he needs to be winning for him to get up on plane and be where he wants to be mentally.

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“He’s no different than anybody else, in terms of when you don’t have the results and the results are harder to come by. He’s just as human as the rest of us, and he’s going to have some self-doubt, or what am I doing differently? What should I maybe do differently or new? 

“They are going to have those internal conversations as a team. I feel like that’s all in the review mirror now.”

Larson is looking to win his fourth Cup Series race of the 2025 season when he competes in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, July 27.



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Brickyard repeat would signal true turnaround for Kyle Larson

INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Larson raced to his third NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season at Kansas Speedway in mid-May, then turned his attention to his second straight and perhaps final attempt at racing’s double — completing all 1,100 miles of the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same […]

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INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Larson raced to his third NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season at Kansas Speedway in mid-May, then turned his attention to his second straight and perhaps final attempt at racing’s double — completing all 1,100 miles of the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day.

Instead, he was hit with a double whammy.

A crash on the 92nd lap knocked him out of the Indy 500, relegating him to a 24th-place finish in the famed open-wheel race, and two crashes — the second on the 245th lap — ended his night earlier than planned in North Carolina, where he finished 37th.

Not much has gone right for Larson since that Memorial Day weekend disappointment.

He posted just one top-five finish over the next eight Cup Series races before finishing fourth at Dover Motor Speedway last Sunday. Now he’s back at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, this time in a stock car and trying to recharge his Cup Series season in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet.

He’ll be seeking to repeat Sunday as the winner of the Brickyard 400, considered one of NASCAR’s “crown jewel” races.

“It’s great to be back here in Indy and back at the track; hopefully I’ll do a much better job than I did in May,” the 2021 Cup Series champion said Friday. “It’s a privilege to get to run here, and I would love nothing more than a good run and hopefully kind of put the bow on the double stuff.”

Only three drivers own back-to-back Brickyard wins: Jimmie Johnson in 2008-09, Kyle Busch in 2015-16 and Kevin Harvick in 2019-20. Larson won last year on Indy’s historic 2.5-mile oval instead of the road course used the previous three years; the first 27 editions of the event from 1994 to 2020 were also held on the oval.

Most if not all drivers prefer running the oval, including Larson.

“There’s so many people from all over the world here, whether it be May (for the Indy 500) or our events or, really for that matter, any events,” said JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier, who won the 2018 edition of the second-tier Xfinity Series race at IMS. “… It’s just, there’s nothing quite like it.”

Larson understands that well as he prepares for his fourth start at IMS in the past 14 months — back-to-back Indy 500s and Sunday’s Brickyard repeat bid — but the difference for him this year is that he wants to change directions after some subpar results.

They haven’t dashed the 32-year-old Californian’s hopes for a second Cup Series championship. His three wins this season are tied for second on the top-tier circuit, he has already accrued 23 playoff points, and the only drivers he trails in points are Hendrick teammates Chase Elliott and William Byron — neither of whom has a Brickyard win on his resumé.

Neither does Denny Hamlin, who sits just behind Larson in points despite winning a series-best four times — including last weekend at Dover — and signed a two-year contract extension with Joe Gibbs Racing on Friday.

If he can add a win Sunday to his three each in the Daytona 500 (2016, 2019, 2020) and the Southern 500 (2010, 2017, 2021) and the 2022 Coca-Cola 600 victory, Hamlin would join the short list of drivers who have won all four crown jewel races.

“It certainly would mean a lot to me,” said the 44-year-old Hamlin, who owns 58 Cup Series career wins and will be making his 17th Brickyard start. “We’ve come close. We were actually as close on the road course as we were on ovals, although, I don’t know — you could argue whether that (road race) was actually a crown jewel or not. So, yeah, highly motivated.”

Things already are off script, though, for Hamlin, Larson and everyone else at Indy.

Friday’s scheduled practice was rained out, marking the second week in a row that has happened for the Cup Series. Qualifying is scheduled for Saturday, when temperatures are expected to be in the mid-to-upper 80s with rain in the forecast most of the afternoon. The forecast for Sunday looks almost identical to Saturday.

That’s not what Larson wanted to hear, even though race organizers rescheduled a short practice for Saturday afternoon.

“Hopefully, our car is good again,” he said before the scheduled practice. “I believe it should be fast, if not better than it was last year. So, you know, hopefully we’ll have a good practice, good qualifying, and execute a good race on Sunday.”

Larson’s goal is simple: Qualify up front, stay up front and stay out of the trouble he has found far too routinely the past couple of months.

“When (JGR driver Christopher Bell) spun (at Dover), I thought I was going to get collected and be like, ‘Uh-oh, just continuing our bad luck here,” he said. “So hopefully this is the beginning of us to kind turn things around. We’ll see.”



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NASCAR to hold first-ever street race on active military base in California

NASCAR will be bringing street races to an active military base for the first time ever next year in San Diego. The racing organization said the three-day event, which will take place in June 2026 at Naval Base Coronado, will be the first of its kind. However, this will be NASCAR’s second street course in […]

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NASCAR will be bringing street races to an active military base for the first time ever next year in San Diego.

The racing organization said the three-day event, which will take place in June 2026 at Naval Base Coronado, will be the first of its kind.

However, this will be NASCAR’s second street course in its modern era — the Chicago Street Course has hosted racing events for the past three seasons.

Ben Kennedy, NASCAR’s executive vice president, chief venue & racing innovation officer, said the track is not set in stone yet, but it will be a blend of traditional street racing that will include racing past military aircraft.

RELATED STORY | Christine Brennan highlights Caitlin Clark’s trailblazing journey in new book

The event is scheduled to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy.

“We contemplated a number of places, not just in San Diego, but the greater Southern California region,” Kennedy said. “Naturally, I think we all started to gravitate towards the military base, seeing that we knew that the 250th anniversary was upcoming, our natural ties that we have to the military and then the location of it. I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better location than Coronado, sitting between downtown San Diego, the Pacific Ocean and not far from Tijuana, either.”

The San Diego street race will mark NASCAR’s return to Southern California for the first time since February 2024.

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.





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NASCAR Cup Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Preview

The NASCAR Cup Series is racing at the racing capital of the world, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, for the Brickyard 400. Here is everything you need to know for Sunday’s 400 miles of action. NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 Preview and Predictions Last time by at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it was Kyle Larson getting redemption at […]

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The NASCAR Cup Series is racing at the racing capital of the world, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, for the Brickyard 400. Here is everything you need to know for Sunday’s 400 miles of action.

NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 Preview and Predictions

Last time by at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it was Kyle Larson getting redemption at the Brickyard for a great rookie attempt at the Indianapolis 500. In 2025, we have seen Larson retreat into his shell after what can only be described as an unsuccessful attempt this year. Can we see Larson back in form? Or will Denny Hamlin capture the last crown jewel left on his resume?

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – JULY 21: Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 21, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

Read More: Kyle Larson gets redemption at Indianapolis, Wins Brickyard 400.

Race Preview:

The Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a 400-mile, 160-lap race around the speedway. Stage cautions will be on laps 50 and 100, and the checkered flag lap is 160. A total of 11,055,250 dollars are available in the prize purse for this race. Teams will have 12 sets of tires for the race, consisting of 11 fresh sets and 1 set from qualifying. The tires are a combination; the left sides were most recently used at Michigan, and the right sides from Pocono.

The Track-Indianapolis Motor Speedway:

Built in 1909, Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the oldest major speedway in the world and an iconic racing venue around the world. 2.5 miles in length, it features four turns, with 9 degrees of banking, and a front straight with 3 degrees, and a back stretch with none. It is a track that demands precision from all who drive it, whether in an IndyCar or a NASCAR stock car.

There have been 28 Brickyard 400s. Jeff Gordon won the first Brickyard 400 in 1994. He holds the record for wins with 5 Brickyard 400 wins. Kyle Busch has the record amongst active drivers with two. Kevin Harvick set the lap record in 2018, running a 0:48.638-second lap.

Cup Series Point Standings:

These are the Cup Series point standings after last week’s race at Dover:

1. Chase Elliott: 702
2. William Byron: 686
3. Kyle Larson: 664
4. Denny Hamlin: 663
5. * Tyler Reddick: 640
6. Christopher Bell: 635
7. Ryan Blaney: 576
8. Chase Briscoe: 570
9. Alex Bowman: 547
10. Chris Buescher: 528

Read More: Old Tires Were the Right Call as Denny Hamlin Tames the Monster Mile Again

Drivers To Watch:

Three drivers are joining the field for this race, they are:

  • Josh Bilicki, #66 Ford, Garage 66
  • Jesse Love, #62 Chevy, Beard Motorsports
  • Katherine Legge, #78 Chevy, McLeod Motorsports

This weekend is the final round of the NASCAR In-Season Challenge. It is the battle of the Ty’s, Dillon vs Gibbs, and I think it will be Ty Dillon pulling off the upset and winning the 1 million.

Read More: Who Will Win The NASCAR In-Season Challenge?

When I think of drivers who can win this race, I think of Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson. Hamlin has the momentum and the drive; he wants nothing more than to kiss the bricks. Denny Hamlin has the right stuff to win this race.

Kyle Larson has had an awful season since he strapped into an IndyCar for this year’s Indy 500. A wreck on a restart in the 500 and then a DNF in the Coke 600 have seen Larson go into his shell. This weekend needs to be a reawakening for the No. 5 team, and they can do it. Look for Larson to reawaken this Sunday.

Ryan Blaney is my best pick for the Fords this weekend. Third last year, and what a story it would be if a Penske car drove back into victory lane at Indy after the Indy 500 their IndyCar teammates had. Look out for Blaney on Sunday.

How To Watch The Cup Series at Indianapolis:

Here is the weekend schedule for the Brickyard 400:

  • Friday, July 25th:
    • Practice:
      • 1:05 PM Eastern
      • Coverage is on TruTV
  • Saturday, July 26th:
    • Qualifying:
      • 2:35 PM Eastern
      • Coverage is on TruTV, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, and Indy Radio
  • Sunday, July 27th:
    • The Brickyard 400:
      • 2:00 PM Eastern
      • Coverage is on TNT Sports, HBOMax, and radio coverage on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio

Stay tuned to Last Word On Motorsports for all the updates from NASCAR’s weekend in Indianapolis

Main Photo: Justin Casterline, Getty Images

Recording Date: July 16, 2024



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CHEVROLET NCS AT INDIANAPOLIS: Kyle Larson Media Availability Quotes – Speedway Digest

Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Camaro ZL1 and the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Camaro SS for Hendrick Motorsports, met with the media in advance of running double duty in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 32-year-old Elk Grove, California, returns to the 2.5-mile Indiana oval as the defending […]

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Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Camaro ZL1 and the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Camaro SS for Hendrick Motorsports, met with the media in advance of running double duty in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 32-year-old Elk Grove, California, returns to the 2.5-mile Indiana oval as the defending winner of the Brickyard 400.

Media Availability Quotes:

How will your approach change this weekend, knowing that you’re the reigning champion of the Brickyard 400 – you’ve done this before, you’ve won here. Does that change how you approach this weekend?

“No, not at all. I’m just happy to be back (at Indianapolis Motor Speedway). Hopefully our car is good again. I believe it should be as fast, if not better, than it was last year. Hopefully we’ll have a good practice session today, a good qualifying run tomorrow and be able to execute a good race on Sunday.”

How does it feel to have a race like Dover, where you guys had speed, it seemed like. You had a relatively uneventful, clean race after kind of that little stretch there, where it just kind of felt like things just kept happening?

“Yeah, it was good. And I knew that Dover would be a great opportunity for us to have a day like that, where we could just be clean all race long; have speed and have things work out. But yeah, I mean, it got a little sketchy there when (Christopher) Bell spun. I thought I was going to get collected in that and be like — oh, well, just continuing on our bad finishes here.

But no, it was good. So yeah, hopefully that’s the beginning of it kind of turning around for us. But we’ll see.”

How would you describe Cliff Daniels on the radio, in terms of communication style?

“Well, I don’t know. I mean, maybe, I don’t know if he would be for everybody, but I really like it. I think he does a great job of keeping me focused and focused on the next task. When I sound mopey on the radio, he can kind of pick me up, too. He can also challenge me and pick out things that I’m not doing right, which I like. So having that relationship with your crew chief is important. Having trust between the two of you is important. And yeah, he’s a great leader. He works really hard at it. He’s really evolved his leadership, I think. He’s always been a great leader. But his leadership has evolved, even since 2021. He studies it. He works hard at it, and you can see it.”

He is a little bit different than other crew chiefs. It seems like he can be a taskmaster, right? But he’s also, on the radio, very encouraging and motivational. How does that work for you?

“Yeah, like I said, I like that. I feel like he always knows when to say something, and it’s usually the right thing or what I need in that moment. So I think, yeah, we just have a great relationship when it comes to that.

He has a great sense of what I need from him, as far as just words. And yeah, so we’ve just worked really well together. I’ve have never had a crew chief like that in any of my racing before, and I didn’t know how I would like it when I first came to Hendrick Motorsports. But I could tell very quickly that I was going to get along really well with him and we would gel well in competition.”

For most of us looking at these corners, they look similar or even the same. But the more I talk to drivers, it sounds like they’re different. Can you explain that, or how different all four corners really are?

“Yeah, they are different. Overhead, they look similar. But I just think with kind of how the sun hits each corner and the wind direction and stuff, it can get different. Turn one, I feel like is a pretty, for your balance anyways, a tight corner. It gets really kind of slick feeling off of turn one. Turn two can be similar. Turn two is easy to get kind of lost on your entry because it’s a much wider visual corner with less grass and stuff over there, so it’s easy to kind of get lost and miss your turn-ins and stuff over there. Turn three and four have more grip than this end of the track. Turn three has got some bumps and it just feels like a faster corner. And then turn four is probably the easiest corner just because I feel like it gets the most shade and stuff and has the most grip. But yeah, each corner is definitely a lot different.”

I know you were asked about your approach to this weekend being any different having won last year. But what was just driving into the track this morning, returning as the defending Brickyard 400 winner, does it feel any different coming in here, just kind of knowing what you experienced? Did it kind of bring you back to any of those moments celebrating last year?

“Well, I got here at about 2:45 a.m., so I was just like — I didn’t care, I just wanted to get in my bed (laughs). But always, I feel like when I drive in here at night and looking at the top of the Pagoda and seeing the flags all lit up is really cool.

But yeah, I don’t know. I mean, it’s great to be back here in Indy and back in a stock car. Hopefully, I’ll do a much better job than I did in May. But yeah, it’s a privilege to get to run here and race this facility. I would love nothing more than to have a good run and hopefully kind of put the bow on the double stuff with another Brickyard 400 win.”

Just looking forward to Iowa, what did you learn last year and what do you expect?

“Yeah, I think our car was extremely good last year. I was having a bit too much fun and put myself in a bad spot and got crashed. I would imagine that it’s going to be quite a bit different, though. I mean, just watching the INDYCAR race, the color of the pavement, the new pavement, has changed quite a bit. So I’d imagine the grip level has changed. Whether it be more or less, I don’t really know yet. But it’s going to be different. So we’ll see, though. Like I said, we were good last year, so hopefully we can be good again.”

What’s your thoughts on the San Diego announcement… hearing that we’re going to be at a new street course and the innovations and everything that goes into that?

“I mean, we’ve all heard the rumors for quite a while, and I was just hopeful that they were going to close the deal out and be able to bring us there. I got to go a couple of days ago and it’s awesome. I didn’t get to see the track, but being on the Navy Base was really neat and much more different than I was expecting it all to look. It’s going to be an awesome atmosphere. The Southern California fans are amazing and been starving for some NASCAR racing, so hopefully they all show up and it can be a massive event.”

Can you give us a sense of what these restarts are like and how maybe different they are? I’m assuming it’s different because it’s a more narrow track in a lot of ways. But obviously, you had to go through it last year with going through the back and avoid some stuff. But there were a lot of things on restarts here last year…

“I would say restarts, when you’re mid-pack to the back or so, maybe not even mid-pack, towards the front — like, yeah, the straightaways are so long, so there’s drafting that happens. There’s a lot of time spent side-drafting, which just slows you both down, so then there’s always big runs coming behind you. And then late moves, you know, into (turn) one or into three. Especially into three on that first lap, I feel like it gets kind of thinned out by the time you get to four. But yeah, I mean, restarts are pretty hectic. It’s the best opportunity to make up track position, so guys are always ultra-aggressive.

But yeah, it’s fun. It’s fun to try and position your car in the right spot and make the best decisions.”

I know last year’s race, you benefited because of the pit strategy. You had more fuel, so you weren’t having to save as much. Obviously, able to pass while others were saving. Still, how challenging was that? And what is it like to have that advantage, or when you’re having that disadvantage and having to save and somebody else isn’t?

“It was nice being able to be on offense throughout that run last year. It was still difficult to pass. I had to make a lot of super late moves to get those passes done. But yeah, thankfully, the pace was just slow enough.

It kind of kept the accordion on entry a little bit there. We were able to be really aggressive and make some of those moves. But I had gotten stuck once I got to third or fourth… I wasn’t going to be able to pass my way to the lead. Tires had kind of equaled out at that point and whatnot. And then, yeah, I just got some good fortunes, so it worked out.”

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“Yeah, I don’t know. I mean, yeah, sure, it can be sketchy because it’s really late. The guy in front of you is turning in the corner and you’re kind of popping out, and I’m sure their spotters are screaming ‘inside, inside’ or they’re looking in their mirrors and whatnot. But I don’t know. Once you do it, it becomes less sketchy because you’ve gotten a rep at it. But no, it’s just — yeah, I mean, you’re trying to catch people off guard, really. I don’t really know how to describe it that much.”

For many Cup drivers, they can just race on Sunday. They’re satisfied. Obviously, you have a heavy schedule during the week. How do you feel like that contributes to you being extra sharp on the weekend? Do you describe that for yourself?

“Yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t be doing it as often as I do if I didn’t believe that it helped me. So yeah, I don’t know. I just feel like the more racing situations you can keep yourself in, the sharper you hopefully are. There’s a balance, though. I mean, it can get, schedule-wise, kind of grueling at times when you’re gone a lot, which my schedule’s been wild this year. So just a few more weeks of dirt racing for me, and then I can just be a Cup guy again. But yeah, I don’t know. It works for me. I don’t know if it’ll work for everybody, but I think staying busy and active and racing definitely works for me.

High Limit was coincided to be at both Las Vegas and Texas. Is that something that you could possibly see here on this Brickyard weekend, or is that something you’re keeping under wraps?

“No, I mean, there hasn’t really been any talks of that or anything. I would love it. I mean, I watched the final restart last night of the sprint week stuff. It would be great. I mean, I don’t know. It’d be a tiny track for winged sprint cars, but I feel like a lot of times when you get on a small track like that, it just creates chaos; fun, different winners and stuff like that. I for sure would be open for it. I’m sure there’s a lot that goes on to make it happen.”

What do you think about IMS expanding its dirt footprint here at the track and just kind of having that symbiotic relationship between grassroots, where it kind of all begins for a lot of people and then people who become superstars like you, Justin Allgaier, move up in the ranks?

“Well, I think it’s awesome. This is the most prestigious racetrack in the world, so when you can add a form of racing into the walls of this place, like dirt racing, is pretty cool. I saw a picture of Roger there last night, so I hope he enjoyed it. I don’t think he loves dirt racing, but I hope he had a good time with it and can see the impact that it has on grassroots racing because it is important to be a part of a place like this.

But yeah, it’s been awesome to see kind of the BC39 grow to what it is. I think it’s got the potential to grow into the biggest midget race of the year, so that’s exciting. I just hope they can stick with it; keep investing in the race and maybe some other races and keep trying to grow grassroots racing.”

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