Todd Gilliland delivers early Father’s Day present with Knoxville win

June 18, 2022 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service KNOXVILLE, Iowa—Moonlighting in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Todd Gilliland took control of Saturday night’s Clean Harbors 150 after the sun set on Knoxville Raceway. Gilliland grabbed the lead from John Hunter Nemechek for the final time on Lap 140 of 150 and pulled away after a restart on Lap 147 to beat Nemechek to the finish line by .945 seconds and win in his first start of the season and for the third time in his career. On the eve of Father’s Day, during an off week for his full-time NASCAR…

Comments Off on Todd Gilliland delivers early Father’s Day present with Knoxville win

Mexican Daniel Suárez wins first career NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway

June 12, 2022 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service “Win Numero Uno.” Those were the words on the flag Mexican driver Daniel Suárez held out the window of his No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet as he turned celebratory “donuts” on the frontstretch of Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway Sunday afternoon in the ecstatic first moments of his first ever NASCAR Cup Series victory. Suárez’s No. 99 Chevrolet pulled away from runner-up Chris Buescher’s RFK Racing Ford in the closing laps to take an impressive 3.849-second maiden NASCAR Cup Series win on the 1.99-mile Northern Californian road course – the third victory of the season…

Comments Off on Mexican Daniel Suárez wins first career NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway

Kyle Busch wins 62nd career Truck Series race at Sonoma Raceway

June 11, 2022 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service Kyle Busch held off Zane Smith in a frantic two-lap push to the finish at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway to earn his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the year; extending his record career total to 62 series victories and a streak of 10 consecutive years with at least one series win. Busch led a race-best 45 of the 75 laps in the DoorDash 250 at the 1.99-mile road course in California wine country, but ultimately had to beat the young driver Smith, who leads the series with three wins in 2022.…

Comments Off on Kyle Busch wins 62nd career Truck Series race at Sonoma Raceway

Joey Logano outduels Kyle Busch in overtime in debut race at Gateway

June 5, 2022 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MADISON, Ill. – In front of packed grandstands at World Wide Technojjlogy Raceway at Gateway, Joey Logano beat Kyle Busch in an intense overtime battle, and Ross Chastain ate a gigantic piece of humble pie. After a brake rotor failure sent Kevin Harvick’s Ford rocketing into the Turn 3 wall on Lap 236 of a scheduled 240 in Sunday's Enjoy Illinois 300, Busch, as the leader, picked the outside lane. Logano lined up beside Busch to the inside, with teammate Ryan Blaney behind him. After the overtime restart—with Blaney giving Logano’s No. 22…

Comments Off on Joey Logano outduels Kyle Busch in overtime in debut race at Gateway

Corey Heim grabs overtime NASCAR Truck Series victory at Gateway

June 4, 2022 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MADISON, Ill.—Pole winner Corey Heim lost the lead on Lap 18 of Saturday’s Toyota 200 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. He didn’t regain it until the first lap of overtime, when frontrunner Christian Eckes spun his tires on a restart on Lap 164. But that was enough for Heim to score his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the season in a part-time role in the No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota. Eckes was leading comfortably with just over two laps left in regulation when Tanner Gray spun in…

Comments Off on Corey Heim grabs overtime NASCAR Truck Series victory at Gateway

AJ Allmendinger wins wet and wild Xfinity Series race at Portland

June 4, 2022 By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service AJ Allmendinger won an action-packed Pacific Office Automation 147 - the NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at the Portland International Raceway road course Saturday afternoon. Action-packed being the key words from green flag to checkered; in the rain, in the dry and in the rain again. Allmendinger literally came from last on the grid to earn the win – after changing “everything but the motor” before the race, he claimed in victory lane. His No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet led only six of the race’s 75 laps and bested Myatt Snider by 2.879-seconds to…

Comments Off on AJ Allmendinger wins wet and wild Xfinity Series race at Portland