Press Release | June 24, 2025

The 2025 MotoAmerica Championship will feature five classes as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest for the Ridge Motorsports Park round, June 27-29, in Shelton, Washington.

This is a race preview/press release from MotoAmerica…

Irvine, CA (June 24, 2025) – Things were going quite smoothly for Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier heading into the Road America round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. He’d won three of the first four races, and it appeared to be clear sailing in his attempt to win a sixth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Even after making a few mistakes in race one in Wisconsin, Beaubier emerged from Saturday’s race with a third-place finish and a 26-point lead over Jake Gagne.

Then Sunday happened.

While battling with race-one winner Josh Herrin for the lead in race two, Beaubier crashed his BMW in the Carousel and could only watch as the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion won his second successive race on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati. And, just like that, the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship is a wide-open battle with just 18 points covering the top four and only two points separating the two men who fought for the title last year – Beaubier and Herrin.

Now the teams head west for the all-important three-week stretch with rounds five and six slated for Ridge Motorsports Park and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, respectively.

First up, Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, June 27-29.

While his early-season points lead has evaporated, don’t expect Beaubier to panic as the series heads to the Pacific Northwest. And why would he? After all, he just needs to remember that he hobbled into the Ridge round last June (for what was round five) on crutches after suffering a broken heel at Road America. His points lead may be gone, but Beaubier is healthy and ready to restart a season in which he’s had race-winning pace in the first three rounds.

For Herrin, the 2025 season didn’t start great with three third-place finishes and a fifth in the first two rounds, but that all changed with his two wins at Road America. Herrin has made a habit of starting slowly and then building momentum as summer hits, and for all intents and purposes, the championship will start fresh in Washington – at least for the two at the top.

Beaubier and Herrin, however, aren’t the only ones in this title fight after the first three rounds. Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing’s Bobby Fong has four second-place finishes to start his season, and only a semi-disastrous 10th-place finish in race two’s rainstorm at Road Atlanta have stopped him from being even closer than the 15 points between him and Beaubier.

Fong has shown that he’s comfortable in the Yamaha factory team, and he’s making the most of a situation that he’s always wanted to be in.

Fong’s teammate Jake Gagne is back and healthy with the three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion just three points behind his teammate and 18 points from Beaubier. Gagne has three podium finishes so far, including his dominant wet-weather victory in race two at Barber. Gagne is coming off his worst finish of the season, an eighth in race two at Road America when he collided with Sean Dylan Kelly off the start, ran off track, and had to charge through the field to score his eight points.

Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki’s Richie Escalante started his season with a crash in the first race of the year at Barber Motorsports Park, but he’s been consistent ever since as he tries to climb out of a points-deficit hole. Escalante earned his first podium of the season in race two at Road America with his third-place finish. He is fifth in the championship, 54 points adrift of Beaubier.

Real Steel Honda’s Hayden Gillim is sixth in the title chase on his Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP as he continues to get Superbike upgrades race by race. Gillim has finished every race with a best of sixth on three occasions.

Escalante’s teammate Kelly will show up at Ridge tied with Gillim for sixth, and hopeful of having a short memory as he attempts to put a horrendous weekend at Road America behind him. After starting the season with four successive fourth-place finishes, Kelly earned just two points from the two races in Wisconsin.

Even though the point standings don’t reflect it, FLO4LAW/SBU Racing’s Benjamin Smith has been impressive. Two non-finishes blemish his standing in the championship, but he comes to Ridge Motorsports Park hot off a career Superbike best fourth-place in race two at Road America.

Gillim’s teammate JD Beach is tied with Smith for seventh in the Superbike standings with his non-finish in race one at Road America the only blemish in his season that sees him atop the title chase in the Superbike Cup, a class within a class for those racing Stock 1000-spec motorcycles. Beach’s mechanical DNF in race one in Wisconsin ended his hopes of a perfect Superbike Cup season, but he bounced back the next day, however, to start a new streak.

Jones Honda’s Ashton Yates rounds out the top 10 as the series heads west with the Georgian 10 points behind Smith and Beach.

Pre-Ridge Motorsports Park Notes…

The Ridge Motorsports Park round of the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship will feature five classes: Superbike, Motovation Supersport, SC-Project Twins Cup, the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship, and Royal Enfield’s Build.Train.Race.

Cameron Petersen beat Jake Gagne by a scant 0.032 of a second to win a wet Superbike race one at Ridge in 2024. Coincidently, the .032 matched Gagne’s number. Xavi Forés was third in his fill-in ride for the injured Richie Escalante on the Vision Wheel M4 Ecstar Suzuki.

Race two featured a dry racetrack and a different outcome with Josh Herrin taking the victory over Bobby Fong and Cameron Petersen.

The difference between a wet racetrack and a dry racetrack? Almost 17 seconds a lap at Ridge Motorsports Park on a Superbike. At least according to last year’s best race laps. In the wet race one, Jake Gagne had the fastest lap of the race, a 1:57.079. In the dry race two, Josh Herrin clicked off a best of 1:40.167.

Frenchman Loris Baz earned pole position for the two Superbike races last year with his lap of 1:39.478. Baz was joined on the front row by Cameron Petersen and Josh Herrin.

The Superbike lap record at Ridge Motorsports Park is still held by Jake Gagne with his record-setting lap of 1:39.145 set during Q2 in 2022.

Cameron Beaubier and Josh Hayes arrive in Washington still tied atop the all-time AMA road race wins list with 89 victories apiece.

With his 68 AMA Superbike wins, Beaubier is getting to the point of being within reach of all-time AMA Superbike wins leader Mat Mladin, with the Australian sitting at the top of the list with 82 Superbike victories.

Three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Jake Gagne is the winningest rider in the five-year (10-race) history of MotoAmerica holding a round of its championship at Ridge Motorsports Park. Gagne has won five Superbike races at Ridge with Cameron Beaubier winning three, including the first two races in 2020.

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CHICAGO – Preparations for the third annual NASCAR Chicago Street Race are rounding the final turn as July is just a week away.

Here is FOX 32’s guide to help with navigating the fast-paced weekend of July 5 and 6, along with making sure Chicago drivers don’t make any wrong turns.

Race Day schedule

Like last year, both of the main races will take place on Saturday and Sunday, with the practice and qualifying races set for Saturday morning.

• Xfinity Series Practice Race: Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
• Xfinity Qualifying Race: Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
• NASCAR Cup Series Practice: Saturday at 12 p.m.
• NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying: Saturday at 5 p.m.

Full races:

• The Loop 110 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race: 3:30 p.m.
• Grant Park 165 NASCAR Cup Series Race: 1 p.m.

Course layout

The course for this year’s race will stay the same as last year’s and will wrap around DuSable Lakeshore Drive, South Colombus Drive, East Balbo Drive, East Congress Plaza Drive, South Michigan Avenue and East Jackson Drive.

2025 NASCAR Chicago Street Race map

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NASCAR pre-race activities

• Sunday, June 29, 1:10 p.m. – NASCAR first pitch at White Sox versus San Francisco Giants— NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Nick Sanchez will throw the first pitch at Rate Field.
• Wednesday, July 2, 6 p.m. – Dinner on the Track with Chicago Gourmet— Hosted at Grant Park, and in partnership with Chicago Gourmet, dine right on the finish line with a five-course menu and drinks for $250.
• Thursday, July 3, 7:05 p.m. – NASCAR at the Cubs— Cubs vs Guardians at Wrigley Field.

DePaul University is excited to announce a partnership with Spire Motorsports for the 2025 NASCAR Chicago Street Race. DePaul will serve as the primary sponsor of Michael McDowell’s No. 71 Chevrolet ZL1.  

As part of the sponsorship, DePaul branding will be prominently featured on McDowell’s custom-designed No. 71 Chevy, his fire suit, pit road signage, and the Spire Motorsports crew shirts. Co-branded merchandise will also be available at the Chicago Street Race event and online. 

National visibility through broadcast, digital and social media, and in-person audiences will create a powerful platform to feature the university to new audiences. The race is projected to draw more than 4 million viewers nationwide, building on the success of the inaugural 2023 event, which became the most-streamed NASCAR Cup Series race in NBC Sports history and the most-watched on NBC in six years. Locally, the event is expected to attract over 55,000 unique spectators from around the world, with more than half traveling to Chicago specifically to experience the race firsthand. 

“At DePaul, we view athletics as the front porch of the university — a powerful entry point that invites the world to engage with our university,” said DePaul Vice President and Director of Athletics DeWayne Peevy. “Partnering with Spire Motorsports for the NASCAR Chicago Street Race allows us to spotlight DePaul on a national stage while embracing a global event in our own backyard. Even more exciting, this collaboration will extend into our classrooms this fall, offering our students a hands-on look at the business and science behind professional racing. It’s the perfect example of how we’re using sports to elevate our visibility and create real-world learning experiences for our students.” 

McDowell, a 17-year veteran of the NASCAR Cup Series with 518 starts, joined Spire Motorsports to pilot the No. 71 Chevrolet ZL1 ahead of the 2025 season. The Glendale, Ariz., native won the 2021 Daytona 500 and followed it up with a win in the 2023 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The father-of-five and road course ace has finished inside of the top-10 in both attempts at the Chicago Street Race, including a fifth-place result in 2024. So far this season, he has recorded one top-five, two top-10 and seven top-15 finishes, including a fifth-place showing at NASCAR’s most recent road-course race in the Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.  

“I’m really looking forward to Chicago,” said McDowell. “We’re coming off some great momentum on road courses, and to have a cornerstone of the city like DePaul University on our car for the weekend is special. Chicago is a great city, and NASCAR has built a fantastic racetrack. It’s not every day you get to race through the streets. With the city as the backdrop, it’s a unique experience and a real opportunity for us to have success with a new partner like DePaul.” 

This partnership will extend well beyond the race weekend. Later this fall, students in DePaul’s Physics and Sport Management programs will benefit from exclusive engagement opportunities with members of the Spire Motorsports team, gaining firsthand insights into the high-performance, data-driven landscape of professional racing. 

This summer, in collaboration with NASCAR Chicago, DePaul’s School of Hospitality and Sports Business introduced a special topics course, HSB 198: A NASCAR Experience. As part of the curriculum, students will play an integral role in designing and executing the newly created College Tailgate at Turn 7—a fan engagement event tailored to college students during the race. Further anchoring this collaboration in the local community, the longstanding NASCAR internship program will continue to empower DePaul students and alumni, offering them leadership roles and on-the-ground experience during one of Chicago’s most prominent sporting events. 

“This initiative reflects DePaul’s continued commitment to authentically embrace its identity as Chicago’s university,” said DePaul Chief Branding Officer Cristel Turner. “This collaboration brings DePaul into the cultural and civic spotlight through a bold, innovative partnership that connects us with new audiences to build brand interest and support enrollment growth. What truly sets DePaul apart is our teaching philosophy of layered learning that merges classroom education with real-world, project-based learning and service learning that unlock real-world opportunities for our students.” 

DePaul students receive 20% off select race tickets for the NASCAR Chicago Street Race. Learn more and purchase here.  

Fans, students and alumni can tune in to see the No. 71 DePaul University Chevrolet ZL1 rally through the streets of Chicago July 6, at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) on TNT, MRN, SiriusXM, and MAX. 

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NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 18 – 260 laps / 400 miles

Echo Park Speedway (1.54-mile oval) – Hampton, Ga.

Fast Facts for June 27-28, 2025

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Superspeedway Radials

Set limits: Cup: 1 set for qualifying and 9 sets for the race

     (8 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5174; Right-side — D-5228

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,264 mm (89.13 in.); Right-side — 2,279 mm (89.72 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 20 psi; Left Rear — 22 psi;

     Right Front — 52 psi; Right Rear — 50 psi

Notes – Fourth race for Cup cars on this Atlanta tire set-up: Being on 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity Series at Atlanta this weekend . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that these teams have run at Atlanta since the beginning of 2024 . . . this is the only track at which these teams are scheduled to run either of these two tire codes . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.

Goodyear quote – Stu Grant, Goodyear’s general manager of global race tires: “This weekend’s race marks the first repeat track on the Cup schedule, so teams have a good notebook built on this tire set-up.  Since we’ve been running the superspeedway rules package there, Atlanta has produced some of the best racing on the NASCAR circuit.  There are only nine races left in the Cup regular season, so teams are making moves and putting themselves in their best position for the playoffs.”

GOODYEAR TIRE NOTES

NASCAR Xfinity Series — Race No. 17 – 163 laps / 251 miles

Echo Park Speedway (1.54-mile oval) – Hampton, Ga.

Fast Facts for June 26-27, 2025

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 15-inch Speedway Radials

Set limits: Xfinity: 4 sets for the event

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-6124; Right-side — D-6126

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,225 mm (87.60 in.); Right-side — 2,250 mm (88.58 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 19 psi; Left Rear — 19 psi;

     Right Front — 52 psi; Right Rear — 48 psi

Notes – Xfinity returns to Atlanta on established tire set-up: Being on 15-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Xfinity Series teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Cup Series at Atlanta this weekend . . . this is the same tire set-up these teams have run at Atlanta since the beginning of 2022 . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, Xfinity teams are required to run liners in all four tire positions at Atlanta . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.

GOODYEAR TIRE NOTES

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series – Race No. 15 – 100 laps / 153 miles

Lime Rock Park (1.53-mile road course) – Lakeville, Conn.

Fast Facts for June 27-28, 2025

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 15-inch Road Course Radials

Set limits: Truck: 5 sets for the event

Tire Code: D-6144 (same on all four tire positions)

Tire Circumference: 2,240 mm (88.19 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 22 psi; Right Front — 20 psi;

     Left Rear — 17 psi; Right Rear — 17 psi

Notes – Trucks debut at Lime Rock: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series teams will run the same Goodyear tire code on all four corners of the car at Lime Rock this weekend . . . this is the Trucks’ first road course race of the season, and the first time they have run this tire code . . . as on all NASCAR road courses, Truck teams will not run inner liners in their tires at Lime Rock.

Wet Weather Tires – Goodyear to bring white-lettered “wets” to Lime Rock: Goodyear will bring its 15-inch wet weather radials to Lime Rock for use by teams in the Craftsman Truck Series, should NASCAR decide that conditions warrant . . . Truck teams will have 4 sets of wets available for their event, with a maximum of 3 sets for the race . . Truck teams last ran in the wet at Martinsville in 2023 . . . in addition to the obvious difference of a tread pattern versus Goodyear’s dry weather “slick” tires, the “Goodyear” and “Eagle” lettering on the sidewalls of the wet weather tires is white, not the standard yellow.

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The road to the 2025 PRI Show, December 11-13, downtown Indianapolis, continues in just a few weeks when attendee registration opens for qualified industry members on Tuesday, July 15.

This year’s event will once again offer an experience unlike any other trade show on the planet, delivering the three biggest business days of the year for the global motorsports community.

With a focus on the present and future of racing, the 2025 PRI Show promises to feature all the newest parts, latest innovations, nearly unlimited networking opportunities and access to an unrivaled number of motorsports manufacturers and service providers that can’t be matched anywhere else. Attendees can also get excited for some of the Show’s signature events and features, including the Featured Products Showcase, the Grand Opening Breakfast (keynote speaker set to be announced at a later date), the world-famous Machinery Row with live demonstrations, the PRI ESports Arena and much more.

You can also view the current 2025 PRI Show Floorplan here. Check back in during the leadup to the Show to see what other motorsports brands are added to the world’s largest gathering of motorsports professionals.

Before registering, PRI Show organizers recommend attendees book their hotel rooms now to start planning the best PRI Show experience possible. Click here to secure your accommodations.

In addition, prospective attendees should also renew their PRI Membership, which is required to attend the Show.

For more information on the 2025 PRI Show, visit here.

Chase Briscoe is still adjusting to his new life as someone who should win races, not a driver who shocks everyone when he does.

That’s a strange place to be for a driver whose entire career has been one of those against-all-odds, Hollywood stories (if you’re not familiar with it, it’s quite eye-opening).

Things are much different for Briscoe now. Driving for one of NASCAR’s powerhouse teams in Joe Gibbs Racing, Briscoe is expected to win, and it would have been a huge disappointment if he didn’t. In fact, his entire career might be built on a false premise if he was unable to find victory lane in his situation.

That’s why he quickly expressed relief on Sunday night at Pocono Raceway, after he somehow conserved enough fuel to hold off the track’s all-time wins leader in teammate Denny Hamlin.

“I’ve only won three races in the Cup Series. This is by far the least enjoyable because it’s expected now,” he said. “You have to go win.”

There’s no sugarcoating that. At JGR, it’s win or find someplace else to work. And if you’ve shown you can’t win in the best equipment? Good luck getting someone else to take a chance on you.

That’s the stark reality Briscoe signed up for: Fast cars, but major expectations. And he could feel the pressure creeping in as he sat winless near the halfway point of the season.

“The last couple weeks especially, (it’s) like this huge weight on my shoulders, unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before,” he said. “My wife (said), ‘What is going on with you?’ I’m like, ‘I have to win. I don’t think you realize how bad it is if we don’t win a race and lock into the playoffs.’”

When you drive for @JoeGibbsRacing, excellence isn’t just expected – it’s demanded.@chasebriscoe talks about securing his first victory with his new team. pic.twitter.com/lFuSaSDhJz

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 23, 2025

Briscoe said when he was signing his contract with JGR, he was shown a statistic: Out of 40 possible playoff berths to that point in the elimination playoff era, the team had made it 38 times. The expectation, he said, was clear: “If you don’t make the playoffs, you’re not going to be in this car anymore.”

There are times when we wonder why NASCAR drivers don’t seem to be having fun. Hey, that was some cool racing for sixth place out there! Why don’t they get out of the car and smile?

It’s because for those at the top of the sport — anyone who drives for JGR, Hendrick Motorsports or Team Penske — winning is about the only thing worth smiling about.

Briscoe, the career underdog who made it big, now knows that all too well.

“There were a lot of people they could have put in this car,” he said. “It was the most sought-after seat in the offseason. For me to be the one blessed enough, lucky enough to get it is great.

“With that, you have to prove yourself. To be able to come here and win, it doesn’t mean I’m guaranteed to be in it for awhile — but it certainly is nice to know I can do it at this level, in this equipment. Hopefully, I can be here my entire career because the sky definitely feels like it’s the limit here.”

Pit call pitfall

You can understand why Brad Keselowski wanted to stay out for one more lap.

With nothing but clean track in front of him and suddenly freed from the scourge of Pocono’s dirty air problem, Keselowski was ripping around the 2.5-mile track and making up ground on those drivers who were in the middle of a pit cycle.

Or so he thought. But his team, with all their data and lap times on the pit box, radioed to tell him that wasn’t the case. He was actually losing time to the cars who had come off pit road with fresher tires and needed to pit now instead of running longer.

Keselowski had committed to running long in his mind and asked if he could do one more lap. The team said yes. So he did. Except right then is when Shane van Gisbergen spun out and caused a caution, which ruined Keselowski’s pit strategy altogether.

Instead of starting that final run somewhere in the top five and having a chance to win the race, Keselowski had to restart 24th and spent the rest of the race driving back up to ninth.

Brad Keselowski second-guessed his pit box at a key moment Sunday. When some bad luck ensued, he lost a shot at a win. (Meg Oliphant / Getty Images)

At this point, for a driver in 30th place in the standings, wins are the only thing that matters. You can’t blame Keselowski for trying to do what he thought was right; he’s a veteran with nearly 600 Cup starts, a highly intelligent team owner who has a firm grasp on strategy, and a person who has spent a lifetime in racing. If there’s no caution, his decision doesn’t look bad.

Still, the driver has limited resources inside the car. Whatever he’s seeing for lap times and however information is being relayed in his ear, it’s no match for the computers on the pit box and the engineers in the war rooms back at the race shops who are helping call the race in real time.

The best drivers and teams in the Next Gen Era are the ones who let the driver drive and the crew chief be the crew chief. Cliff Daniels doesn’t ask Kyle Larson what to do; he tells him, and Larson says “OK” and does it. Denny Hamlin doesn’t question Chris Gayle (or Chris Gabehart before that); Hamlin puts the strategy in the team’s hands.

We’ve yet to see a case lately where a driver overruling the team has worked out. But we have seen multiple high-profile cases where the driver got it wrong (Justin Allgaier at Charlotte, for example). Keselowski, unfortunately with bad timing as a factor, now becomes the latest example.

What happened to the No. 5 team?

Wait a second. Is Larson suddenly not as fast anymore?

Larson is tops in laps led this season and was setting a blazing pace in that category, making it seem inevitable he could reach 2,000 laps led in a season again (like he did in 2021). Except suddenly, Larson and the No. 5 team have just been … OK?

In the last four races — Nashville, Michigan, Mexico City, Pocono — Larson has led zero laps. Not one! It had been almost a year since Larson went even three straight races without leading a lap.

Surely, people will point to the disastrous Indy 500/Coca-Cola 600 weekend as some sort of turning point. But this is about the speed of the cars, not the driver; remember, Larson shot to the lead at Charlotte and led 34 laps before crashing.

Something isn’t quite firing on all cylinders with the No. 5 team right now, and Larson has made several puzzled comments about it recently (like at Michigan, when he said he wouldn’t have finished any further regardless of the fuel mileage game).

“I just hope we don’t carry what we had the last few weeks into the rest of the season,” Larson said after Pocono. “Prior to the last few weeks, we’ve been really fast. It’s just been a rough stretch, but we’ll continue to go to work.”

New life for Legacy

Legacy Motor Club seems to have come to life in the last two months after a disappointing couple seasons. The question is: Can the team keep building on the momentum, or is this a temporary spike?

John Hunter Nemechek has back-to-back sixth-place finishes at two wildly different track types (Mexico City and Pocono) and has risen from 25th to 21st in points in the last two weeks. He has a career-high six top-10s this season, all in spaced-out, consecutive pairings — but after each one has hit a slump.

Teammate Erik Jones is 18th in the standings with only two top-10s all year, but that’s because Jones has been more consistent and has avoided bad finishes. Pocono was his fifth straight finish of 17th or better and Jones has rocketed 11 spots in the standings during that stretch alone (he was 29th after last month’s Kansas race).

Jones is well-established, and his talent is well-known in the garage. Sitting 18th in the point standings with nine races remaining until the playoffs isn’t a major shock based on his past, but it is surprising given how Legacy ran the past two seasons (when Jones finished 27th and 28th in the standings, respectively).

Nemechek is more of an eyebrow-raiser. He had a solid start to the season (he was inside the playoff standings for the first five races) and then faded, but has now been able to re-establish his footing. The 28-year-old is tied with Michael McDowell in the standings and the two of them are just one point behind the much-discussed Carson Hocevar and eight points behind future Hall of Famer Kyle Busch.

There’s a tangled jumble of eight drivers within 25 points of one another in the standings — from 17th place to 24th place — so it’s a trap to get too caught up with points position now. But just to be in the mix at this point, considering the expectations for Legacy after the last two years, is worth noting.

(Top photo of Chase Briscoe celebrating Sunday’s win: Meg Oliphant / Getty Images)