Kurt Busch to drop to rear, serve pass-through penalty for Atlanta start

Posted on June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 by Staff Report

The Chip Ganassi Racing No. 1 Chevrolet of driver Kurt Busch will drop to the rear of the field and serve a pass-through penalty after the green flag for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a penalty for three failures in pre-race inspection.

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Busch will still be credited with a 12th-place starting position after a grouped draw for starting spots last week. But his No. 1 Chevy will fade to the rear of the 40-car field and make a trip down pit road after the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (3 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) gets underway.

Four other teams will drop to the rear for other violations found in pre-race inspection at the 1.54-mile track:

• The No. 32 Go Fas Racing Ford of Corey LaJoie (two inspection failures)
• The No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford of Cole Custer (unapproved adjustments)
• The No. 53 Rick Ware Racing Ford of Garrett Smithley (two inspection failures)
• The No. 66 MBM Motorsports Toyota of Timmy Hill (unapproved adjustments)

Posted on June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 by PJ Walsh

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NASCAR is back to a “traditional” schedule this week, with seven days between last week’s Supermarket Heroes 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway and today’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (3 p.m. ET, FOX) at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

There’s still no practice or qualifying, but this schedule is what NASCAR bettors are more accustomed to.

With this in mind, I already jumped on two drivers earlier this week and am adding two more below for Sunday’s race at Atlanta. And because those first two wagers were at odds of 16-1 and 33-1, now it’s time to lock in a couple of race favorites.

Here are two additional bets I’m making for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500. Be sure to follow me on Twitter (@PJWalsh24) for any additional bets I make on today’s race.

NASCAR at Atlanta Odds, Betting Picks

*Odds as of Sunday at 7:20 a.m. ET

Chase Elliott (+625)

Elliott’s No. 9 Chevy was easily the fastest car over the two races at Charlotte, which, like Atlanta, is 1.5 miles in length.

However, Atlanta’s surface is much more abrasive than Charlotte’s and therefore results in much more significant tire wear, so it’s also important to note that Elliott sports the best career average finish at Atlanta of all drivers in Sunday’s field, so he’s very much capable of carrying over the speed we’ve seen in recent weeks to the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500.

And while starting position isn’t as important at Atlanta as it is at other tracks, it certainly doesn’t hurt that Chase will start from the pole.

[Bet now at PointsBet. NJ and IN only.]

Alex Bowman (+1000)

If we ignore Bristol, which is so vastly different from Atlanta that NASCAR handicappers should be doing that anyway, Bowman has the best average running position, has led the most laps and has run the most fast laps in the other four races (two at Darlington and two at Charlotte) since the Cup Series returned last month.

In addition, Bowman smoked the field and won back in March at Auto Club Speedway, a racetrack with extreme tire wear just like Atlanta.

[Bet now at DraftKings. CO, NJ, PA, IN and WV only.]

Posted on June 7, 2020October 16, 2020 by

NASCAR drivers showed their support Sunday for the movement of social justice after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others, releasing a video from their social media channels advocating for change and promising, “I will listen and learn.”

The message — organized, led and planned by the drivers themselves — came before the green flag of Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (3 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) for the NASCAR Cup Series at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Further commemorations were held during pre-race ceremonies, including a moment of silence.

The video message comes after several drivers spoke out last weekend in support of healing the nation’s racial divide. Bubba Wallace and Daniel Suarez were among the first to open up with their thoughts, and they were joined by Ty Dillon, Jimmie Johnson, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney and others.

After finished seventh in Sunday’s race, Johnson explained that he took an active role in organizing the drivers’ message.

“I was involved in helping put it together, and I was just really proud of the drivers who got involved,” Johnson said. “Honestly proud of NASCAR and what they did, but it’s been a personal journey on a much deeper level this week for me to listen and learn, and as a lot of us drivers started chatting about the week and experience and a lot of this was led by Bubba. Really have to give him a ton of credit, including Ty Dillon, the accountability that those two really put on the garage area, put on me ‑ not directly on me, but I could just see ‑ it made a difference, and I think that resonated with a lot of people.

“I spent a lot of time listening and learning this week, and that message rang clear with many of my other driver friends, and we kind of found that message, and that was the message that made it into the video.”

Wallace was seen on pit road during pre-race ceremonies wearing a T-shirt reading, “I can’t breathe” and “Black Lives Matter,” which his Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 team held up on pit road. Wallace amplified his message in the FOX Sports pre-race broadcast, and analyst Jeff Gordon echoed his push for change.

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>We will listen and learn!<a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMattters?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#BlackLivesMattters</a> <a href=”https://t.co/AYoYdY8IlX”>pic.twitter.com/AYoYdY8IlX</a></p>— Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) <a href=”https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/status/1269693667796795394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>June 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

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The national anthem was performed by 12-year-old Keedron Bryant, whose song “I Just Want to Live” spread on social media in the wake of the social unrest.

The 40-car field stopped on the frontstretch during pace laps and silenced the engines for an address from NASCAR president Steve Phelps.

“Thank you for your time. Our country is in pain and people are justifiably angry, demanding to be heard,” Phelps’ statement read. “The black community and all people of color have suffered in our country, and it has taken far too long for us to hear their demands for change. Our sport must do better. Our country must do better. The time is now to listen, to understand and to stand against racism and racial injustice. We ask our drivers … and all our fans to join us in this mission, to take a moment of reflection, to acknowledge that we must do better as a sport, and join us as we now pause and take a moment to listen.”

Race winner Kevin Harvick said he joined the video message in hopes of lending support and making a difference.

“For me, something just has to change, and I think when you look at what happened in Minnesota, it’s just disgraceful to everyone,” Harvick said of Floyd’s death. “To be able to have conversations about things, I’m definitely a person that wants to hear a plan that has actions included in it, and just try to support each other and do the things that we can do to try to help our communities and help the conversations because there’s so much that everyone doesn’t understand of what we need to do and how we need to do it. But I can tell you that we need change.”

Wallace and Dillon openly discussed the issue in a nearly 30-minute video chat last week as Wallace relayed some of his experiences as the lone African-American driver in NASCAR’s top series.

Sunday, as the field made its final pace lap before the initial green flag, Wallace told his crew: “All right, boys. this last week’s been pretty damn stressful to say the least. Racing with a lot on my mind, a lot on my heart, so appreciate the efforts and see what we can do today.”

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Chase Wilhelm

Noah Gragson had 100,000 reasons to smile on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

With a second-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series EchoPark 250 at the 1.54-mile Georgia oval, the No. 9 JR Motorsports driver collected the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash $100,000 bonus by finishing ahead of the other eligible drivers — Harrison Burton (finished fifth), Brandon Jones (finished eighth) and Chase Briscoe (finished ninth).

“It’s an incredible opportunity what Xfinity is doing with the Dash 4 Cash program,” Gragson said after the race. “It’s quite the privilege and the honor to be able to compete for the $100,000”

Gragson came up just short of his third victory of the season after last week’s win at Bristol Motor Speedway, unable to catch race winner AJ Allmendinger in the closing laps to make any sort of final charge.

“I ate AJ’s bait there at the end,” Gragson said. “He started saving his tires and I thought he burned his tires up. Just got beat by his experience. He’s a phenomenal driver and a great competitor in the series. It was a lot of fun racing with him. Just burnt my stuff up when I thought he burnt his stuff up, so I started making a charge there with about 15-20 to go. Burnt my tires up and he just drove away.”

The second-place finish for Gragson continues a strong run of momentum this season, which kicked off with a victory in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway, which is crucial for the driver’s future after shedding light that he doesn’t have 2021 racing plans at this moment.

“I’m fighting for a job right now,” Gragson said. “Don’t really know what I’m going to do next year. All I can do is focus on today. All I can do is focus on this race team and on myself to be better. It’s a cut-throat sport. … Definitely very grateful to be driving these race cars with such big-name logos on the hood. Right now, nothing’s given to you in this world, so you have to fight every single day, every minute to do the best job possible on and off the race track.

“At the end of the day, it’s me, I need to step up,” Gragson added. “I feel like I’m doing everything I can right now, just trying to stay focused, stay positive and do everything I can. I feel like if I can do the best job I can do on and off the race track, I can’t do any better.”

Winning the big money also earned Gragson a spot in the next Dash 4 Cash event at the second race of a doubleheader next weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway (Sun., June 14 at noon ET on FS1). The other eligible drivers include winner Allmendinger, Justin Haley and Gragson’s teammate Daniel Hemric.

While Allmendinger does not run the full Xfinity Series schedule, Kaulig Racing team president Chris Rice noted that they plan to field a car for him in the second race, but they will not run the first race on June 13, meaning Allmendinger will be forced to start at the rear of the field in the battle for the Dash 4 Cash bonus next Sunday.

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Holly Cain

NASCAR veteran AJ Allmendinger topped a field of the sport’s best young talents leading the final 37 laps of Saturday’s Xfinity Series EchoPark 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Making the run more impressive, Allmendinger rallied from a 30th-place starting position.

Noah Gragson, last week’s Bristol race winner, finished runner-up by 1.858 seconds, but it was still good enough to earn the Dash 4 Cash $100,000 bonus given by series sponsor Xfinity. Next week, Allmendinger, Gragson, Justin Haley and Daniel Hemric — the second- through fourth-place finishers — will be eligible for the Dash 4 Cash prize money.

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“Oh my God, I won on an oval baby,” a grinning Allmendinger exclaimed after climbing out of his winning No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet — referring to his previous three Xfinity wins on road courses.

Yes, the 38-year-old Allmendinger won, and he did it by pulling away from the field in the last laps, competition that included Harrison Burton, Justin Allgaier, Ross Chastain, Brandon Jones, Chase Briscoe and Anthony Alfredo, who rounded out the top 10.

The top-10 work was some solace to Allgaier and Briscoe who had two of the strongest cars all afternoon. Briscoe led 40 laps and Allgaier ran consistently in the top five — but both were penalized for speeding on pit road on a final stop with 39 laps remaining. They came out of the pits first (Briscoe) and second (Allgaier) before getting news of the penalty that dropped them back to 25th and 27th, respectively, for that restart.

Allmendinger had come out of the pits third, so he inherited the lead and never looked back.

“I just felt like we needed track position the whole time, so once we got that lead, it was about getting a good restart,” he said, adding, “Had to kind of pace myself the last 15 laps, beg for no yellows.”

A former IndyCar Series champion contender, Allmendinger was highly regarded for his road-course skills when he came to NASCAR. He earned his only NASCAR Cup Series victory in 2014 on the Watkins Glen road course and had three previous Xfinity Series wins — on road courses at Road America, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the Charlotte ROVAL.

“I just wanted to win on an oval,” Allmendinger said. “There were definitely several opportunities in the Cup car to win on an oval, but it never worked out. I wanted to win on an oval that we really had to drive and get after it.”

Austin Cindric was also penalized for speeding on pit road in that final series of stops. The driver of the No. 22 Penske Racing Ford led a race-high 68 laps and looked like the car to beat early — winning both the opening stages. His car was so dominant in the early laps that he won the first stage by nearly nine seconds over Chastain. Cindric finished 16th.

Briscoe beat Cindric out of the pits during the second stage break, and the two Ford drivers kept one another honest with Chastain right there followed by the JR Motorsports cars driven by Hemric and Allgaier. Hemric’s fourth-place finish was his fifth top 10 in seven races he’s competed this year for JR Motorsports.

The Dash 4 Cash victory for last week’s Bristol winner Gragson was a feel-good ending for the 21-year-old who said he ultimately learned a lot racing Allmendinger. The driver of the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet started on pole position and also ran among the top 10 consistently having to rally from an earlier race penalty as well.

“We had a good run today,” Gragson said. “Man, I ate AJ’s bait there at the end. He started saving his tires and thought he had burnt his tires up. Just got beat by his experience. He’s a phenomenal driver.”

The Xfinity Series next moves to South Florida where it will have a doubleheader — two 250-mile races at Homestead-Miami Speedway; one on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET) and the other on Sunday (noon ET).

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Staff Report

NASCAR officials disqualified the ThorSport Racing No. 13 Ford driven by Johnny Sauter in Saturday’s NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series event after post-race inspection at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

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The No. 13 entry was found to have unapproved modifications to its tires, which is part of Section 20.16.2.f in the 2020 NASCAR Rule Book. The penalty moves Sauter from a 17th-place finish in the Vet Tix Camping World 200 to last in the 40-truck field.

Two trucks were found with one unsecured lug nut each in a post-race check:

• The No. 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota of third-place finisher Christian Eckes
• The No. 56 Hill Motorsports Chevrolet of 23rd-place finisher Timmy Hill

According to rule book guidelines, crew chiefs Ryan “Rudy” Fugle (No. 18) and Greg Ely (No. 56) would be penalized with $2,500 fines next week.

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Chase Wilhelm

Austin Hill appeared to be well on his way to winning Saturday’s NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race at his home track of Atlanta Motor Speedway — but then the caution flag flew.

The Hattori Racing driver was in command of the race in the closing laps, taking over the lead on Lap 99 and holding it convincingly, but a yellow flag for Chase Elliott’s spin on Lap 127 of the scheduled 130-lap event pushed the race into overtime. After a final round of pit stops, Hill reassumed the lead for a two-lap sprint to the checkered flag, but it was Grant Enfinger’s No. 98 Ford that was able to push past Hill’s No. 16 Hattori Racing Toyota for the race win.

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Hill had to settle for second, holding off Kyle Busch Motorsports rookie Christian Eckes after leading 36 of the 136 total circuits.

“All in all, that white-flag lap going alongside the 98, I got on the splitter a little bit going into (Turn) 1,” Hill said during his post-race media availability. “Ultimately, it just got tight and when it did, he (Enfinger) was able to clear me off of (Turn) 2. It was kind of over from there.”

During that last round of pit stops after Elliott’s spin, Hill went back and forth with his team about adjusting the truck differently for a short run, noting it took his truck five to eight laps to gain momentum.

“We felt like we had a dominant truck, we just needed clean air,” Hill said. “I think it showed there during that long run how good we were.”

After heartbreak on his Peach State home turf, Hill will have his next shot to earn his fifth career victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway on June 13 (7:30 p.m. on FS1). The Florida track was the site of his last win, in the season finale last November.

“Man, I wanted to win here so bad,” Hill said. “This is my home track. I ran a lot of races here in the Bandoleros and Legends Car series and won a lot of races here doing that. To get a win here would have been really special. I guess we have to be the first losers this year. We’ll try again next year.”

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Holly Cain

Grant Enfinger muscled the lead from Austin Hill on a two-lap overtime restart to claim the victory in Saturday afternoon’s Vet Tix Camping World 200 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

It was especially heartbreaking for Hill, a Georgia native, who had been so vocal about wanting to win at his home track. Late in Saturday’s race, he looked destined to hold the trophy – bettering the afternoon’s most dominant drivers, NASCAR Cup Series regulars Kyle Busch and another Georgia favorite Chase Elliott, in the waning laps. Hill led 36 laps on the afternoon, second only to Busch’s race-best 37 laps out front.

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Ironically, it was Elliott who caused the final caution with three laps remaining in regulation, spinning out while running third and making his way forward to challenge for the lead. During the caution period, the front-running trucks all pitted for fresh tires, and Hill returned to the track for the two-lap overtime test as the race leader — only to have Enfinger pull alongside and then make the pass in Turn 1 as the field came around for the last lap.

“It was definitely wild, that’s for sure,” said Enfinger, who started sixth on that final two-lap green flag run. “We didn’t lead too many laps, but we led the ones that counted.”

It marks the second victory of the season for Enfinger and his No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford, which finished .215-seconds ahead of Hill and led seven laps. It marks the first win for a Ford truck ever at Atlanta and it was Enfinger’s first career victory at the track as well. With a triumph in the Daytona season opener, it also marks the first multi-win season of his career.

“Unbelievable Ford F-150 really on the short runs,” Enfinger said. “We didn’t have everything we needed to make a real run at those guys, Chase [Elliott] and Kyle [Busch] there for the long run, but I do think we were decent, but on the short run, I knew if it came right down to it and we could get a good restart we could make it happen. Fortunately we got a good restart.”

Rookie Christian Eckes tied his career-best series effort, finishing third. Todd Gilliland and rookie Zane Smith rounded out the top five. Ross Chastain, rookie Derek Kraus, former series champion Brett Moffitt, Ben Rhodes and Stewart Friesen rounded out the top 10.

As Enfinger celebrated his dramatic win in front of empty grandstands, Hill climbed out of his No. 16 Hattori Racing Enterprises Toyota and leaned over the driver’s side window, resting his head on the roof, obviously gutted by the outcome.

“I’m sure when I go back and watch the race I’m going to look at all the different things I could have done differently for that not to happen,” Hill said. “I saw the 98 was getting a run on me down the backstretch but we had been so good on the bottom all day at the line that I didn’t really want to give that up and he was able to get to my quarter on entry to three. … Maybe I could have protected the outside line more or made my truck just a little bit wider, but I just think when we go back to the drawing board, maybe I could have said something different to [crew chief] Scott [Zipadelli] and the guys to maybe have a little better truck on that short run.

“It was a good race, I wish it would have went green there at the end but it didn’t so we’ll have to take what we had and go on. All in all, it was a good points day for us,” said Hill, who retains the championship lead by 20 points over Smith. The defending regular-season champion Enfinger is now ranked fourth, 31 points behind Hill.

In a field featuring two vastly different levels of experience — the track’s all-time winningest driver Busch along with 14 other competitors making their debut on the Atlanta high banks — the veterans certainly demonstrated their expertise.

For much of the race, the more experienced drivers prevailed. Busch — a five-time winner at Atlanta in the truck series — and fellow NASCAR Cup Series driver Elliott dominated the top of the scoreboard in the early portion of the race, with Busch winning both Stage 1 and Stage 2. Chastain, a truck series championship contender a year ago, put himself into the mix during a long green-flag run in the final stage despite starting 27th in the field.

Among the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Series championship contenders, it was the kind of solid performance Enfinger and Hill needed, even racing against some of the NASCAR Cup Series’ finest.

Hill spent the early race holding his own among the front-runners, consistent and steady and when the opportunity to take the lead arose during green flag pit stops, Hill was there. With a little help from some uncharacteristic issues for Busch and Elliott.

Busch, who had already established his truck the class of the field, made what would likely have been his last pit stop with 35 laps to go. Immediately after returning to the track, however, his No. 51 Toyota hit the wall as he tried to avoid a damaged truck driven by Jordan Anderson. Unfortunately for Busch, he got a speeding penalty on his green-flag pit stop and then another when he came in to repair that damage. It dropped him to 29th place with 25 laps to go – a full lap down. He ended up 22nd.

Elliott, who tried to pit with Busch on that last set of green-flag stops, was unable to get slowed enough to make his entrance to pit road. He returned to the race back in the pack but had worked his way up to third place with 15 laps remaining ready to challenge Chastain and Hill before crashing with three laps to go. He finished 21st.

“They’re always tough to swallow when you know you know that you’re that good and end up second,” Hill said. “But that being my hometown, this is one of the race tracks I’ve wanted to win at since I was a little kid racing here when I was 8 years old racing on the frontstretch. It hurts and it’s really frustrating, but we’ll keep digging.

“We have that points lead and we’re hoping to keep it. I’m excited to go to Homestead [next weekend], maybe we can get a win there like we did last year and get locked into the playoffs.”

Defending series champion Matt Crafton suffered significant front-end damage on his ThorSport Racing No. 88 Ford as a bottling-up after the pit-road entrance led to a collision with John Hunter Nemechek’s No. 8 NEMCO Motorsports Ford during the Stage 1 break. Crafton recovered to finish 12th; Nemechek was 25th.

The series’ next race is scheduled next Saturday, June 13 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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Contributing: Staff reports

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Chase Wilhelm

NASCAR Cup Series driver Ty Dillon has been one of NASCAR’s leading voices as civil unrest continues throughout the country.

Using his platform to take a stand against racial inequality, Dillon and fellow Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace recently hosted a 30-minute Instagram Live session to discuss racism and life experiences.

Expect it to be the first of several difficult conversations Dillon brings into the light as he commits to using his voice for good.

“To hear the stories about how Bubba was treated in some of those situations and knowing Bubba’s character and knowing him as a human being, that blew my mind because I would have never thought Bubba, as a person, would have gone through anything like that,” Dillon said. “But, I think that’s just what it is. I think sometimes it’s easy for us who don’t know, as a white man or a white person, in general, we don’t know these stories. We don’t all the time ask the right questions to become informed.”

Dillon also applauded Wallace for being willing to speak up during a difficult time for the nation.

“I’m just proud of him as a friend, knowing him his whole career, too, and I think we’re going to see great things come out of this generation of NASCAR of who is in the sport right now,” Dillon said. “Hopefully it sets the tone for who comes after us. And for all of us, that would be the most important thing that we do.”

Dillon has made a conscious effort to understand what he and the NASCAR community must do in order to assist in positive change, reaching out to fellow drivers and NASCAR executives to create an objective for sparking a movement.

He feels it’s going to take a collective effort from the entire industry for that to happen, but that now is the perfect opportunity to make those changes.

“I think it does take, as a group, saying that we don’t stand for it,” Dillon said. “And once we all know that we’re all on the same page as saying we don’t stand for it, we come together with a united voice saying that we don’t tolerate hate, racism, bigotry in our sport and that it’s not OK.

“… There are great conversations going on with the folks in our sport. … And I’m very proud of that. Our sport is doing a good job, but it also takes the individuals who aren’t afraid to step out and say this isn’t about me anymore.”

While the feedback has been mostly positive, Dillon acknowledged that not everyone will be comfortable with what he has to say. That’s not going to stop him from openly discussing an uncomfortable topic that matters to him, though.

For Dillon, the reward of working toward racial equality is worth taking a stand.

“For me, I can tell you about my heart on it and for me, I don’t care if I ever win a race or a championship in my life or lose every follower I have on Instagram, but when my children grow older and I take my last breath, I want it to be made sure that I was on the right side of what I felt is going on in history,” Dillon said. “And that means way more than acquiring fame and trophies and wins. Those things all fade away. But the impact you had on human beings in your life, the relationship lasts forever. So, that’s my heart behind this.

“… I just wanted to stop, in the middle of my career, and say ‘Hey, this is where I stand.’ There is the taunting in your head of what if I lose this or what if something happens. But, I know at the end of the day, this is what I believe in and I’ll stand up for what I believe in.”

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Jason Christley

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The ARCA Menards Series East and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will resume their 2020 seasons and fans can watch the races live on TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.

The ARCA Menards Series East will run its second race of the season with the Herr’s Potato Chips 200 presented by Federated Car Care at Toledo Speedway on Saturday, June 13 at 6 p.m. ET.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will open its season with the Wade Cole Memorial 133 presented by Dunleavy’s Truck and Trailer Repair at Jennerstown Speedway on Sunday, June 21 at 2:30 p.m.

Both races will be run without fans, but the live race broadcast on TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold will be free for both events.

The ARCA Menards Series East race from Toledo will also air on NBCSN on Thursday, June 18 at 3 p.m. The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour opener from Jennerstown will air on NBCSN on Friday, June 26 at 12 a.m.

In addition, fans can catch up on the ARCA Menards season by watching the first four races free on TrackPass. The service also hosts the 2019 Whelen Modified Tour season and nearly 50 long-form documentaries on NASCAR’s biggest stars, venues and stories.

TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold is available on desktop web browsers and via the NBC Sports app on iOS and Android phones and tablets, Apple TV (Gen 4), Roku, Amazon Fire TV, AndroidTV, Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and Chromecast devices connected via HDMI.