May 26, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service On his first try, the bounty hunter got his prey. In the closing laps of Tuesday night’s North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chase Elliott held off a determined charge from Kyle Busch in the closing laps to earn the victory and a $100,000 bounty offered to any full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver who could beat Busch. Not bad for a guy who hadn’t competed in a NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race since 2017. Busch had won each of his last seven starts in the Gander Trucks,…

May 25, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service In NASCAR’s new normal, with a Memorial Day race in a stretch of four national events in four days, Kyle Busch returned to the old normal—winning. But for Busch to secure his record 97th victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, the driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota had to make a last-lap pass of Austin Cindric, who blew past Busch during an overtime restart in Monday’s Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Helped by a spate of cautions over the final 50 laps, Busch survived a pit road speeding penalty…

May 24, 2020 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service A late caution set Brad Keselowski up for victory in NASCAR’s longest race—and set Chase Elliott up for a second straight crushing disappointment. In Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600, which went to overtime for the second time in its history, Keselowski surged ahead after a restart on Lap 404 and beat Jimmie Johnson to the finish line by .293 seconds to win a race that stretched to 607.5 miles, longest in NASCAR history. Elliott led Keselowski’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford by 1.6 seconds before Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate, William Byron, spun with a…

Terrifyingly consistent and fearlessly aggressive, 21-year-old Santino Ferrucci of the NTT IndyCar Series took the IceBox Pickup Throwdown Series Championship like a NASCAR Gander RV and Outdoors Truck Series veteran.  On the strength of a win at Kansas, two top-fives, and four top-10 finishes, Ferrucci emerged victorious as the series’ champion by just six points over NASCAR stalwarts Harrison Burton, Tyler Hill, and Ryan Truex.  “Man, I couldn’t have done that without my team behind me,” Ferrucci said following the IceBox 100 at virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway. “Thank you, Jordan Anderson and Bommarito for letting me join. I had a blast!” The IceBox…

  While the IceBox Pickup Throwdown Series played host to a bevy of NASCAR’s young guns from the XFINITY and Gander RV and Outdoor Truck Series, Friday night’s IceBox 100 at the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway belonged to a pair of NTT IndyCar Series racers. As the focus was on the tight championship points battle, the Pickup Throwdown field had their sights set on winning the season finale. Stefan Wilson, an open-wheel racer, drove from his fourth starting spot to the win with a move that was quintessential NASCAR Truck racing. “I had a helluva good time,” Wilson said. “I enjoyed driving the…