BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Saturday, May 3, 2025) – The NTT P1 Award changed hands four times in the last 40 seconds of an exciting qualifying session Saturday for the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix powered by AmFirst at Barber Motorsports Park, but it was that guy again – series points leader Alex Palou – who claimed the top spot.

Three-time and two-time reigning NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Palou earned his first pole of the season and the seventh of his career with a top lap of 1 minute, 7.2918 seconds in the No. 10 HRC Chip Ganassi Racing Honda during the Firestone Fast Six. Palou has won two of the first three races of this season, finishing second in the other, and has built a 34-point lead over Kyle Kirkwood of Andretti Global in the standings.

“What an amazing day for the 10 car,” Palou said. “This is such a special place for us here. We got our first race win in INDYCAR back in 2021.

“It was super close. I don’t think my first lap (in the Firestone Fast Six) was very good. I was just hoping to get a perfect lap on the second one on the alternates (Firestone Firehawk tires). So, yeah, cannot wait for tomorrow now.”

The 90-lap race is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. ET Sunday (FOX, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network). Palou will seek his first win on the 17-turn, 2.3-mile natural-terrain road course since he earned his first series victory in his inaugural start with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2021. Palou drove for Dale Coyne Racing as a rookie in 2020.

Two-time reigning Barber winner Scott McLaughlin just missed earning his second straight pole for this race. He will start second after his best lap of 1:07.4387 in the No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet.

Colton Herta will start third after his best lap of 1:07.4576 in the No. 26 Gainbridge Honda of Andretti Global. Two-time Barber winner Will Power will join Herta in the second row after qualifying fourth at 1:07.5616 in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet. It was the best qualifying performance of the season for two-time series champion Power, whose previous best was 13th at St. Petersburg and Long Beach.

Rinus VeeKay qualified fifth at 1:07.9103 in the No. 18 askROI Honda fielded by Dale Coyne Racing. This was the first time VeeKay has reached the Firestone Fast Six on a road or street circuit since he won the pole for this race in April 2022.

Nolan Siegel rounded out the third row with a career performance. Siegel will start a career-best sixth after his best lap of 1:08.0470 in the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. It was the first time Siegel made the Firestone Fast Six in his young NTT INDYCAR SERIES career, which started midway through last season.

Two notable drivers failed to advance out of the first round of the three-segment qualifying format.

Kirkwood will start 18th in the No. 27 PreFab Honda of Andretti Global after winning the pole and the race last month at the most recent event, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Six-time series champion Scott Dixon went off track into the gravel trap on his last flying lap in the opening segment and failed to advance in the No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. He will start a season-low 26th in the 27-car field, his worst start since he also qualified 26th for the Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix in August 2021 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

The checkered flag is out for the NASCAR Cup Series Texas race.

Joey Logano won the WURTH 400 on May 4 at Texas Motor Speedway after starting 27th following his disqualification penalty in the last race at Talladega. This is the 37th win of Logano’s NASCAR Cup Series career.

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Austin Cindric won the opening stage of the race for his first career stage win at Texas. Kyle Larson won the second stage. The race had 12 cautions and 20 lead changes.

Here are the results from the NASCAR Texas race.

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Who won NASCAR Texas race? Winner, race results for WURTH 400 Cup Series race

The unofficial full running order, results from NASCAR Cup Series WURTH 400 at Texas Motor Speedway.

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1. Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford

2. Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

3. Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford

4. Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

5. Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

6. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 HYAK Motorsports Chevrolet

7. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

8. John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

9. Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

10. Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

11. Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford

12. Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

13. William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

14. Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota

15. Justin Haley, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

16. Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

17. Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford

18. Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford

19. Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Ford

20. Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

21. Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Ford

22. Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

23. Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

24. Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

25. Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford

26. Michael McDowell, No. 71 Front Row Motorsports Ford

27. Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

28. Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford

29. Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford

30. Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford

31. Jesse Love, No. 62 Beard Motorsports Chevrolet

32. Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford

33. Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota

34. Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford

35. Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

36. AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

37. Chad Finchum, No. 66 Garage 66 Ford

38. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Texas results: Joey Logano is winner Sunday

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By Matt Crider, Staff Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas — Team Penske drivers have won the last three NASCAR Cup Series championships, but they didn’t find Victory Lane in 2025 until the 10th race of the season, last week at Talladega. After Sunday’s showing at Texas Motor Speedway, Penske is in a much more comfortable position.

Defending champion Joey Logano picked up his first win of the year in the Wurth 400 and teammate Ryan Blaney finished third, capitalizing on performance that the organization’s three cars have had throughout the season.

Austin Cindric, the Talladega winner, led three times for 60 laps at TMS before getting caught up in a late crash involving Brad Keselowski.

“We’ve had speed all year,” Blaney said. “It was nice that the last couple weeks we’ve gotten a car in victory lane, so that’s good. Hopefully we can join ’em.”

Blaney was on the front row for the final three restarts, but Logano pulled ahead in the No. 22 Ford and sailed to the overtime victory.

“It’s whoever gets the lead, it doesn’t matter,” Blaney said. “I didn’t do a great job on the restarts. I didn’t pick the right lane a couple of times. I just didn’t do anything right, didn’t have a shot to win and never got the lead — and that’s how you win the race. 

“I didn’t take the front row one time and [Michael McDowell] got the lead because I didn’t think the top was very good at all. It was pretty dirty, and the one time I have a shot to do it and don’t do it, the guy gets the lead. So I just didn’t do a good job and then it was hard to get it after that — didn’t get a good push and just could never hang with them over in [Turns] 3 and 4.”

Each Penske driver has led the most laps in a race this season.

“Team Penske had brought good, competitive cars for the first 11 races,” Executive Vice President Walt Czarnecki said. “We’ve been in the hunt in every one of them. We’ve qualified very well and had the chance to win some other races, now two in a row. I hope that’s a real momentum builder for us. … Blaney’s time is coming too.”

Crew chief Paul Wolfe directed Logano to his first top-five finish and second top-10 of the year, and he talked about Penske’s strength.

“Blaney surely could have won multiple races, and I really appreciate that relationship we have amongst our team, specifically the 12 — we work very closely together,” Wolfe said. “And it’s kind of ironic how at the end of the race we were racing [Blaney] for the win today.”

Blaney’s fourth top-five result was his best of the season.

“We really didn’t do it with strategy; we just kind of passed cars,” Blaney said. “I thought our car was really good, and I just couldn’t get control of the race. But overall — proud day, fast car.

“Driver making dumb decisions and not doing his job, so I appreciate the 12 car was a fast car. Just can’t do anything right currently, so hopefully it will work itself out.”

Logano earned his 37th career victory and second in Fort Worth.

“The sport changes so quickly. It is crazy how you can just ride these roller coasters. I am so proud of the team,” Logano said. “A couple of times we had a really tough pit stall situation, and the pit crew did a good job of managing that. We just grabbed a couple [positions] here and there. The car was fast — I knew that yesterday. I just did a poor job qualifying. We just were grinding it out, a couple here and a couple there and eventually we get the win. It is nice to get one — really nice.”

Cindric won Stage 1 and finished 25th, three laps down.

TEAM CHEVY UNOFFICIAL TOP-10 RESULTS:

POS. DRIVER

2nd – Ross Chastain

4th – Kyle Larson

6th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

7th – Austin Dillon

10th – Daniel Suarez

· Ross Chastain earned his season-best finish at Texas Motor Speedway, driving his No. 1 Tootsies Orchid Lounge Chevrolet to a runner-up finish in the Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY. Chastain led the Bowtie brigade to five top-10 finishes in the series’ 12th race of the 2025 season, with Kyle Larson and the No. 5 Valvoline Chevrolet team tallying a fourth-place finish; Hyak Motorsports’ Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in sixth; Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon in seventh; and Trackhouse Racing’s Daniel Suarez rounding out the top-10.

· Taking the green flag from the fourth starting position, Kyle Larson remained steady in the top-five through much of the opening stage – ultimately taking the first green-white checkered flag in the fourth position. Reporting loose conditions in Turns One and Two in the closing laps of Stage One, crew chief Cliff Daniels brought the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet down pit road during the stage break for four tires, fuel and a round of adjustments. Gaining one position in the race off pit road, Larson took the inside line of the second row to take the green flag for Stage Two. Wasting no time, Larson quickly settled into the second position behind then-race leader Josh Berry, going on to inherit the lead when Berry spun to bring out the caution. The 32-year-old Elk Grove, California, native went on to stay atop the leaderboard to tally his series-leading sixth stage win of the season. After a four-tire stop during the final stage break, Larson lined up in the fourth position for the final 96 laps around the 1.5 Texas oval. Staying steady at the front of the field, a series of late-race cautions proved to be a challenge for Larson, but the former series champion rallied home with a fourth-place finish.

· Following his first career pole in NASCAR’s top division, Carson Hocevar and the No. 77 Spire Motorsports team remained a steady fixture in the top-10 throughout the first two stages – tallying sixth-place points in each stage. A strong day went south when Hocevar was caught up in a multi-car accident with just 31 laps remaining. Going to work on their Chevrolet-powered machine, Hocevar only fell two laps down to salvage a 25th-place finish.

Chevrolet’s all-time NASCAR Cup Series statistics at Texas Motor Speedway:

Wins: 18

Poles: 17

Top-Fives: 82

Top-10s: 192

Chevrolet’s season statistics with 12 NASCAR Cup Series races complete:

Wins: 3

Poles: 6

Top-Fives: 22

Top 10s: 53

Stage Wins: 9
UP NEXT: The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season continues at Kansas Speedway with the AdventHealth 400 on Sunday, May 11, at 3 P.M. ET. Live coverage can be found on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Post-Race Driver Quotes:

Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 2nd

“Starting 31st, we wanted to go +30 positions today. It’s all on this crew – the engineering group at Trackhouse Racing and the group at Chevrolet. We made an adjustment during the race and it fixed the car. All the problems we had yesterday and the start of the race, they were gone. I was confident. I was not confident yesterday.. you heard me in the booth say it. With just one adjustment, it brought this Tootsies Chevy to life and that’s why you keep fighting.”

Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 4th

“(Michael) McDowell just did a really good job of timing the restarts. He left pretty much when I did, and he had a push behind him. He got clear to the lead and I just lost control of the race there. It was a bummer to do that. If I could have kept the lead, we would have been hard to beat in clean air like that. Just a little frustrated with myself, but all-in-all, it was a good points day for us today. The No. 5 Valvoline Chevrolet team did a great job today. The car was good. We’ll just study it and try to do a better job next time.”

Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Sidelined by damage sustained in an accident in the final stage.

Finished: 35th

Bowman on the accident that ultimately ended his day early in the finale stage:

“I just saw guys wrecking in front of me. I tried to get high. The No. 16 (AJ Allmendinger) came back across the track and we all piled in there. I hate that for this team. We had a really fast No. 48 Ally Chevrolet. I think we passed more cars than anyone’s ever passed at Texas (Motor Speedway). We just shouldn’t have been back there to begin with. Really bummed, but we’ll move onto the next one.”

Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 26th

“I just really hate it for everyone on this No. 71 Delaware Life Chevrolet team. We were giving it everything we had there to try to keep track position. Joey (Logano) got a run there, and I tried to block it. I went as far as I think you could probably go. When (Ryan) Blaney slid in front of me, it just took the air off of it and I just lost the back of it. I still had the fight in me, but I probably should have conceded at that point.

Just proud of everyone at Spire Motorsports. I know that’s not the day that we wanted, but we had the opportunity to win the race. I’m really proud of everyone at the Hendrick Motorsports engine shop – you guys saw those restarts, the motors were ripping. Just hate that we didn’t get it done, but we knew we had to go for it.”

Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 22nd

“A decent finish today for my SafetyCulture team. Just wasn’t comfortable with the car there at the start and struggled to find speed. Thanks to my 88 crew for never giving up and continuing to work to make my Chevrolet better and better. We will learn from this and continue to make improvements.”

Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 10th

Suarez on his two consecutive top-10 finishes:

“It was a good day for this No. 99 Kubota Chevrolet team. We had decent speed out there. I think that we potentially had a little bit more, but we were struggling a lot on restarts all day long, except for the start of the race for some reason. All-in-all, it was a decent day and it’s good to get back-to-back top-10 finishes.”

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