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NASCAR Cup Series takes the hallowed high-banks of Talladega Superspeedway

TALLADEGA, Ala. (WCYB) — Buckle up. This Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series gets back into action – greeted by none other than the high speed and packstyle drafting that only Talladega Superspeedway can deliver. For 188 laps, drivers are primed to shatter records and serve up lastlap mayhem in its return to one of the […]

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TALLADEGA, Ala. (WCYB) — Buckle up.

This Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series gets back into action – greeted by none other than the high speed and packstyle drafting that only Talladega Superspeedway can deliver.

For 188 laps, drivers are primed to shatter records and serve up lastlap mayhem in its return to one of the sport’s most iconic races.

Talladega continues to deliver incredible unpredictability, with nine different winners in the last nine races. On top of that, it’s a track all about strategic positioning and timing as nine of the last 10 winners have started deep in the field.

Plus, it’s a track that never fails to thrill. 12 out of 20 drafting track races being decided by a dramatic pass in the final two laps. Expect nothing less than a nail-biting finish this year, as well.

The last three Talladega races have seen 66 or more lead changes, each ranking among the top 11 all-time for lead changes in Cup Series history, making the action at this track relentless.

While there are many drivers on the board that have a long history of success – such as Brad Keselowski’s six career wins here – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is the most recent winner at Talladega, claiming victory in last Fall’s Playoff race. Before him, it was Tyler Reddick taking the checkered flag in last year’s spring race on a crash-filled last-lap win.

So there’s no way to see what happens this time around. But what we do know it that the No. 38 Zane Smith will be leading the pack to the green flag on the pole – hoping to make a good weekend even more special for his team.

Ford’s are always fast on the superspeedway, so it makes you a little more excited to get to these style races, knowing your car is going to be fast and race good. Ford’s push and work really good together. You look forward to those things, but with that said it’s still Talladega. A lot is going to happen,” said Smith. “You can only execute what you can control. We can control bringing a fast car and we accomplished that and got a pole reward out of it. So, it’s already off to a great weekend. Hopefully Sunday I can say I’m a race winner, but it’s going to be a crazy day.

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Chase Briscoe earns pole for Nashville Cup race as JGR sweeps front row

Motorsport photo Chase Briscoe was the 36th of 39 drivers on track at Nashville, but he put down the fastest lap time in qualifying with a 29.125s run. He beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin by 0.049s, who will join him on the front row tomorrow. Advertisement “Honestly, I thought I ran a decent […]

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Chase Briscoe was the 36th of 39 drivers on track at Nashville, but he put down the fastest lap time in qualifying with a 29.125s run. He beat Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin by 0.049s, who will join him on the front row tomorrow.

“Honestly, I thought I ran a decent lap,” said Briscoe. “Just a smooth lap and sometimes that’s what it takes. Obviously, a good Saturday for our Bass Pro Shops Toyota and obviously two weeks in a row we’ve been able to do that now, which is nice. Just need to put a Sunday together now.

“Track position is going to be really really big here tomorrow and that’s the name of the game most every place we go, certainly at this place. So hopefully we can maintain track position and keep it up front all day long.’’

Briscoe now has three pole positions in his first year with JGR, also earning pole in the Daytona 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 as well.

William Byron was the top Chevrolet driver in third, Tyler Reddick (who led practice) was fourth, and newly crowned Coke 600 winner Ross Chastain timed in fifth.

Brad Keselowski, Christopher Bell, Michael McDowell, Joey Logano, and Chris Buescher filled out the remainder of the top ten.

A.J. Allmendinger qualified 17th following some inspection drama earlier where NASCAR pulled the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet aside after catching the team making unapproved adjustments.

Shane van Gisbergen ended up 23rd, which is his best qualifying effort on an oval this year, excluding the All-Star Open (a non-championship race), where he started from pole position.

Kyle Larson was hoping to rebound from a difficult Memorial Day Weekend, which saw him crash out of both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600. Unfortunately, Nashville offered no relief. He will start 28th in his worst qualifying effort of the entire 2025 season.

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NASCAR qualifying results: Nashville starting lineup set for Sunday race on Prime

Chase Briscoe’s year of improvement continued Saturday as he captured the pole for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway. Generally speaking, the faster qualifiers at Nashville have finished well on race day. Advertisement Nashville Superspeedway has been on NASCAR’s Cup Series schedule since 2021. In the four previous races there, the pole sitter has […]

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Chase Briscoe’s year of improvement continued Saturday as he captured the pole for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway.

Generally speaking, the faster qualifiers at Nashville have finished well on race day.

Nashville Superspeedway has been on NASCAR’s Cup Series schedule since 2021. In the four previous races there, the pole sitter has gone on to win the race once (Ross Chastain in 2023), and in two other years, the pole winner finished fourth (not bad) while the race winner started fifth and sixth (also not bad).

Then came last year, when Joey Logano won the race after starting 26th. The pole winner, Denny Hamlin, finished outside the top 10, in 12th.

Which Nashville history will play out this weekend, the more recent or those earlier three years?

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10 fastest speeds in Nashville qualifying

Chase Briscoe: 164.395

Denny Hamlin: 164.119

William Byron: 163.374

Tyler Reddick: 163.368

Ross Chastain: 163.357

Brad Keselowski: 162.985

Christopher Bell: 162.929

Michael McDOwell: 162.874

Joey Logano: 162.669

Chris Buescher: 162.619

NASCAR starting lineup for Cracker Barrel 400 Sunday at Nashville

Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford
Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford
Chris Buescher, No. 17 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford
Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 HYAK Motorsports Chevrolet
Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford
Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford
AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
Justin Haley, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford
Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford
Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford
Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Ford
Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford
Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Corey Heim, No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota
Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford
Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford
John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota
JJ Yeley, No. 44 NY Racing Team Chevrolet
Chad Finchum, No. 66 Garage 66 Ford

How to watch: Time, TV channel for NASCAR races at Nashville

Saturday: Xfinity Series, Tennessee Lottery 250, 7:30 p.m. (CW).

Sunday: Cup Series, Cracker Barrel 400, 7 p.m. (Prime).

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR lineup: Qualifying results set starting grid for Nashville race

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Rajah Caruth secured a major victory in Friday’s Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, and his NASCAR mentor, Bubba Wallace, showed his support with a passionate reaction on social media. Caruth won his second career race at Nashville and, in doing so, secured a playoff berth despite being 13th in the standings and 17 points […]

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Rajah Caruth secured a major victory in Friday’s Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, and his NASCAR mentor, Bubba Wallace, showed his support with a passionate reaction on social media.

Caruth won his second career race at Nashville and, in doing so, secured a playoff berth despite being 13th in the standings and 17 points below the cutline. The same couldn’t be said for ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ star Frankie Muniz, as he failed to finish for the sixth time in 12 races.

Before Friday’s win, Caruth’s only other success came at Las Vegas last year as he became the third Black driver to win in the top three NASCAR series. Wallace, who races in the Cup Series, has mentored Caruth throughout his racing career and was ecstatic when he saw the 22-year-old had dominated once again.

In a social media post, Wallace wrote: “LFGGGGGG kid!!!!!!!” Caruth has now followed Wallace and Wendell Scott as the only Black drivers to win a NASCAR race, and the sky is the limit for the talented prospect.

Caruth was a product of the Drive for Diversity program, and is currently an undergraduate at Winston-Salem State where he is completing a degree in motorsports management. Caruth had an unconventional route into motorsports, as he found his passion through racing simulators rather than competing from a young age.

After Caruth’s family purchased him an iRacing sim, he began racing virtually in the eNASCAR Ignite Series and was quickly put forward for the program. It took just six years for him to go from racing in simulators to winning his first Truck Series race.

After his maiden win last year, Caruth told AP: “Man, there was a lot of days, especially in high school, that I did not think I could get here. I can’t tell you how many times I was at internship, working like at the basketball court, whatever, in the box office, just working on my website when I was just iRacing.

“A lot of those days I didn’t think this would be at all possible.” Wallace was Caruth’s hero in NASCAR, and the Cup Series star has kept a close eye on him throughout the process, from rising star to Truck Series regular.

Wallace rushed to Caruth on pit road at Daytona after the first major wreck of his Truck Series career, and even saw his first win from a sports book in Las Vegas. “I’ve been hard on him since Day 1,” Wallace said.

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“I will never forget the first time watching him in a Legends car at Charlotte and I got in his face, ‘What are you so afraid of the wall for? You haven’t even hit.’ I feel proud to have played a small part in this and I called him, and he was pumped. But, like, his burnout was lame and his phone call was lame. I was like, ‘Come on man, I’m more pumped than you are.'”

Like Caruth, Wallace was also a product of the Drive for Diversity program, as was fellow Cup Series star Daniel Suarez. “The Drive for Diversity program has changed quite a bit since Bubba Wallace and myself were there 10 years ago,” Suarez said.

“Ten years ago, it was a great program to give you an opportunity for the K&N Series and the ARCA Series. But to make the jump to a national series, it was very difficult. You had to be lucky and you have to be very, very good to get an opportunity.

“Today, the Drive for Diversity program is so involved in the Truck Series and that’s very special because it is giving an opportunity to these young guys like Rajah and Nick Sanchez to get an opportunity in the Truck Series and perform at a very competitive level. We didn’t have that 10 years ago, so I’m very happy for them.”

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Daniel Dye (Ninth) Disqualified After Nashville Post-Race Inspection

Post-race inspection following Saturday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway has been completed, and there were no issues with the race-winning No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. As a result, Justin Allgaier and his team have officially been declared the winners of the race. Unfortunately, ninth-place finisher Daniel Dye wasn’t as fortunate. […]

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Unfortunately, ninth-place finisher Daniel Dye wasn’t as fortunate.

In post-race inspection, Dye’s No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet was found to be too low on the rear heights. As a result, NASCAR disqualified the NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year contender. Dye will be credited with a 38th-place finish.

UPDATED RESULTS: Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville

Additionally, Connor Zilisch, who finished in the second-place, had two unsecured lug nuts on his No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in post-race inspection, which will result in a $10,000 fine assessed to the No. 88 team and a one-race suspension for crew chief Mardy Lindley. Zilisch will remain credited with the runner-up finish, his second consecutive runner-up finish.

The remainder of the top-10 in Saturday night’s Tennessee Lottery 250 was comprised of Sam Mayer, Sheldon Creed, Ross Chastain, Aric Almirola, Austin Hill, Jesse Love, Carson Kvapil, and Sammy Smith.

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Nashville Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Practice Speeds and 10-Lap Averages

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2	11	Toyota	1	+0.049 29.174	0.049	164.119
3	24	Chevrolet	1	+0.182 29.307	0.133	163.374
4	45	Toyota	1	+0.183 29.308	0.001	163.368
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6	6	Ford	1	+0.252 29.377	0.067	162.985
7	20	Toyota	1	+0.262 29.387	0.010	162.929
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10	17	Ford	1	+0.318 29.443	0.009	162.619
11	9	Chevrolet	1	+0.352 29.477	0.034	162.432
12	23	Toyota	1	+0.401 29.526	0.049	162.162
13	47	Chevrolet	1	+0.463 29.588	0.062	161.822
14	43	Toyota	1	+0.464 29.589	0.001	161.817
15	12	Ford	1	+0.476 29.601	0.012	161.751
16	2	Ford	1	+0.481 29.606	0.005	161.724
17	16	Chevrolet	1	+0.494 29.619	0.013	161.653
18	7	Chevrolet	1	+0.498 29.623	0.004	161.631
19	60	Ford	1	+0.510 29.635	0.012	161.566
20	21	Ford	1	+0.526 29.651	0.016	161.479
21	3	Chevrolet	1	+0.532 29.657	0.006	161.446
22	54	Toyota	1	+0.533 29.658	0.001	161.440
23	88	Chevrolet	1	+0.534 29.659	0.001	161.435
24	48	Chevrolet	1	+0.545 29.670	0.011	161.375
25	8	Chevrolet	1	+0.607 29.732	0.062	161.039
26	77	Chevrolet	1	+0.629 29.754	0.022	160.920
27	38	Ford	1	+0.641 29.766	0.012	160.855
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29	41	Ford	1	+0.682 29.807	0.029	160.633
30	4	Ford	1	+0.695 29.820	0.013	160.563
31	10	Chevrolet	1	+0.699 29.824	0.004	160.542
32	99	Chevrolet	1	+0.759 29.884	0.060	160.220
33	67	Toyota	1	+0.771 29.896	0.012	160.155
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35	34	Ford	1	+0.871 29.996	0.045	159.621
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37	35	Toyota	1	+1.035 30.160	0.137	158.753
38	44	Chevrolet	1	+1.318 30.443	0.283	157.278
39	66	Ford	1	+2.604 31.729	1.286	150.903

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