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The NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs conclude the Round of 12 with a road-course bout at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval this weekend. Qualifying will occur on Saturday at 3:10 p.m. ET on truTV.

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity Series | Truck Series

Saturday’s qualifying session will consist of one round, split into two 20-minute groups. The groups below are determined via a metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%).

The race itself will be on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, USA Network, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

MORE: How to watch NASCAR on NBC, USA | Driver Cams on HBO Max | Weekend schedule

# denotes series rookie
(i) denotes ineligible for driver points
(P) denotes playoff driver

Pos. Car No. Driver Metric Score Group
1 66 Josh Bilicki (i) 40.7 1
2 51 Cody Ware 36.7 1
3 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 33.5 1
4 16 AJ Allmendinger 32.7 1
5 42 John Hunter Nemechek 30.2 1
6 38 Zane Smith 29.8 1
7 21 Josh Berry 27.9 1
8 77 Carson Hocevar 26.9 1
9 4 Noah Gragson 26.3 1
10 35 Riley Herbst # 25.9 1
11 41 Cole Custer 23.9 1
12 60 Ryan Preece 23.6 1
13 54 Ty Gibbs 23.5 1
14 48 Alex Bowman 23.5 1
15 3 Austin Dillon 23.4 1
16 7 Justin Haley 21.3 1
17 99 Daniel Suárez 20.3 1
18 8 Kyle Busch 19.6 1
19 10 Ty Dillon 18.7 1
20 43 Erik Jones 18.4 2
21 34 Todd Gilliland 17.7 2
22 71 Michael McDowell 16.7 2
23 17 Chris Buescher 15.6 2
24 6 Brad Keselowski 11.3 2
25 88 Shane van Gisbergen # 11.2 2
26 2 Austin Cindric (P) 24.6 2
27 12 Ryan Blaney (P) 18.6 2
28 22 Joey Logano (P) 17.1 2
29 1 Ross Chastain (P) 10.4 2
30 45 Tyler Reddick (P) 8.2 2
31 24 William Byron (P) 7.5 2
32 23 Bubba Wallace (P) 6.5 2
33 19 Chase Briscoe (P) 4.9 2
34 5 Kyle Larson (P) 4.5 2
35 20 Christopher Bell (P) 3.0 2
36 9 Chase Elliott (P) 2.2 2
37 11 Denny Hamlin (P) 2.0 2
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For the first time, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series heads to the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. In preparation for Friday’s Round of 8 opener (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), teams will receive 50 minutes of practice earlier in the day at 11:05 a.m. ET on FS2. Qualifying is scheduled for 12:10 p.m. ET, also airing on FS2.

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity Series | Truck Series

The qualifying order is determined via a metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%).

Friday’s qualifying session will be divided into two groups with each group of drivers receiving 20 minutes to complete a lap.

MORE: Weekend schedule | How to watch the Truck Series on FS1, FS2

# denotes series rookie
(i) denotes ineligible for driver points
(P) denotes playoff driver

PositionCar NumberDriverMetric ScoreGroup
175Parker Kligerman38.61
256Timmy Hill38.31
32Carter Fartuch33.81
441Josh Bilicki(i)33.71
569Tyler Tomassi(i)32.71
62Ben Maier31.41
781Connor Mosack #30.91
833Mason Maggio(i)27.31
95Toni Breidinger #25.61
1015Tanner Gray25.41
1188Matt Crafton24.21
1220Will Rodgers(i)23.51
1322Josh Reaume22.71
1442Matt Mills22.71
1591Jack Wood22.61
167Connor Zilisch(i)22.61
1776Spencer Boyd22.51
1899Ben Rhodes21.31
1962Wesley Slimp19.62
201Brent Crews17.32
2126Dawson Sutton #16.72
2245Bayley Currey15.92
2344Andres Perez De Lara #15.32
2413Jake Garcia15.12
2516Kris Wright(i)12.62
26177Corey LaJoie9.22
2717Giovanni Ruggiero #7.02
2838Chandler Smith4.12
2971Rajah Caruth (P)9.42
3019Daniel Hemric (P)9.32
3118Tyler Ankrum (P)9.22
3252Kaden Honeycutt (P)7.02
339Grant Enfinger (P)6.02
3498Ty Majeski (P)4.72
3534Layne Riggs (P)2.72
3611Corey Heim (P)1.02

 

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NASCAR officials fined Cup Series driver Carson Hocevar $50,000 on Wednesday for a behavioral penalty during last Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway.

Hocevar’s No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet spun to a halt on the backstretch on the 260th of 273 laps in the Hollywood Casino 400, flattening multiple tires. After safety personnel had arrived at the crash scene, officials indicated that Hocevar revved and spun his tires in an attempt to rejoin the field while those safety workers attended to his car.

RELATED: Cup Series standings | Schedule, TV info: Roval

As a result of the violation of Sections 4.4.B&D: NASCAR Member Conduct in the NASCAR Rule Book, competition officials issued a $50,000 fine.

Hocevar was running 13th at the time of the incident, which was his second mishap of the day. He finished 29th in the 37-car field, four laps down.

Additionally, NASCAR officials penalized the No. 48 Big Machine Racing team for a lug-nut infraction after Saturday’s Xfinity Series race. Nick Sanchez drove the car to an eighth-place finish in the Kansas Lottery 300, but one lug was found to be unsecured in a post-race check. Officials fined the team $5,000.

On Thursday, NASCAR Communications shared on their social media handle the video of when Hocevar’s violation occurred.

 

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Eddie Partridge 256

Riverhead Raceway

  • Entry list
Car No. Driver Team Crew Chief Chassis Sponsors
00 Chris Rogers David Brigati Brian Schwarz LFR Coors Light; JDL Environmental
1 Patrick Emerling KPL Racing LLC Dale Hedquist LFR Fleetworks, Inc.
3 Tyler Rypkema Boehler’s Racing Equipment Greg Fournier Boehler Racing USNE; SYP; Northeast Drilling
16 Ron Silk Haydt Yannone Racing Phil Moran FURY Race Cars Blue Mountain Machine; Future Homes
18 Ken Heagy Christopher Fleming Greg Gorman FURY Race Cars Hunter Mechanical
21 Stephen Kopcik Wanick Motorsports Nick Kopcik Troyer Wanick Constructions, Inc.; Newtown Pools
22 Kyle Bonsignore Kyle Bonsignore Keith McDermott FURY Race Cars MTT; ChaLew Performance; Munns Auto
26 Gary McDonald Lakeland Avenue Landscape Supply Chad McDonald Chevrolet Lakeland Avenue Landscape Supply
46 Craig Lutz Goodie Racing Douglas Ogiejko FURY Race Cars Riverhead Building Supply
51 Justin Bonsignore Kenneth Massa Motorsports, LLC Ryan Stone FURY Race Cars Phoenix Communications, Inc.
54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports Rick Kluth Troyer FX Caprara
56 Trevor Catalano Catalano Motorsports David Catalano Troyer USNE Power
58 Eric Goodale Goodie Motorsports Rob Hyer FURY Race Cars GAF Roofing
60 Matt Hirschman Pee Dee/Elite Motorsports Mike Stein Troyer Elite Towing; Bar Harbor Bank and Trust
64 Austin Beers KLM Motorsports Ron Yuhas Troyer G&G Electric Supply, Dell Electric, Fastrack Electric, Lumiere Electrical, Andrew James Interiors, AP Marquadt & Sons, Hughes
81 Mark Stewart Turbush Racing Christopher Turbush FURY Race Cars Cromers Market; Keith Grimes Excavating; Eastern Fuel; East Side Builders; Truck and Auto Works; Hydro Action; Spider Web Rac
88 Roger Turbush Roger Turbush Rob Waller FURY Race Cars Rheem
96 Matthew Brode Peter Clark Motorsports Martin Condit Troyer Peter Clark Motorsports
129 Mike Marshall TLC Performance Kevin Ledoux Troyer MLM Diagnostics; Jusczak Electric

 

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Tyler Reddick emerged from Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series event at Kansas Speedway with a rugged rally to seventh place, snapping a three-race drought without a top-10 finish. But the visit also left him with a significant points deficit and a virtual must-win scenario for Sunday’s elimination race at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ever-difficult road-course-slash-oval layout.

“It’s tough,” Reddick said post-race. “Yeah, obviously there’s only one thing we can do at Charlotte, and that’s what we’ll be focused on.”

The 23XI Racing driver’s postseason plight and on-track performance, though, were secondary to more critical personal concerns. Reddick’s wife, Alexa, shared Sunday that 4-month-old son, Rookie, was in a cardiovascular intensive care unit at Leavine Children’s Hospital with signs of heart failure.

RELATED: Race results | Cup Series standings

“It’s difficult. It’s not what you want for your kids,” Reddick said. “You know, as a father, it’s … my first son Beau’s hit his head, you know, bruised himself up, cut himself up, but yeah, what my son Rookie’s going through is serious. So yeah, a tricky situation, and just more than anything, just ready to get on a plane and go home.”

Measures were taken post-race to expedite Reddick’s return to North Carolina. The 29-year-old driver said that some consideration was given to potentially skipping the event to be with his family before ultimately deciding to race on.

“I wouldn’t say it was off the table, depending on how things were going,” Reddick said, “but thankfully he’s doing well enough to where me and my wife were on the same page about staying.”

Reddick started 12th in the Hollywood Casino 400, and pit-road miscues in each of the first two portions of the race hindered him from making incremental gains on his points gap at the stage breaks. On Lap 60 of 273, Reddick made an additional stop because of a right-rear tire that wasn’t fully fastened, a move that left him 24th at the end of the first stage. During the Stage 1 intermission, he took evasive action to avoid a car leaving its pit stall for the second consecutive week. Missing his own stall to miss hitting fellow Toyota driver Christopher Bell left him 28th for the restart, and Reddick was only able to claw back to 14th when the second batch of stage points were paid out.

MORE: Playoff Pulse: Kansas | At-track photos

Reddick was eventually able to battle into contention as the final stage progressed, but nine of the remaining 12 playoff drivers collected points with top-10 finishes at the stage breaks. Five of those drivers made double-digit additions to their points hauls, while Reddick received none — eventually leaving him 29 points below the elimination line ahead of Sunday’s Charlotte Roval race (3 p.m. ET, USA, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

“It was a rebound, for sure. Just the tough thing about it, just didn’t get any stage points today and I think we were definitely good enough to do that,” Reddick said. “So yeah, when that happens, you lose ground and that’s what happened to us today.”

Reddick still had the opportunity to convert with a victory once a series of late-race yellow flags flew, all following a rally into the top 10 and eventually the top five. A mix-up on lane choice before the first overtime left race-leading 23XI teammate Bubba Wallace without an aerodynamic push, though the No. 45 team remedied that oversight for the final clinching restart.

Reddick said he had a shot at the checkered flag, but that his efforts needed help.

“It was going to have to play out a very specific way,” Reddick said. “I feel like I was about as good as what was ahead of me. You work hard to get that track position, and we were still climbing back up before those cautions at the end.”

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Chase Elliott muscled his way to a second 2025 victory on Sunday at Kansas Speedway, clinching a NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 bid in the process. With his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson a near-lock to advance to the Round of 8, No. 5 will likely be joining him — but which one will be riding the wave of momentum?

NASCAR.com’s Pat DeCola ranks the 2025 Cup Series Playoffs contenders after the Hollywood Casino 400 Presented by ESPN Bet at Kansas Speedway and before Sunday’s Bank of America ROVAL 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval (3 p.m. ET, USA Network, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

HOW TO WATCH: NASCAR on NBC, USA | Driver Cams on HBO Max

Analysis: Elliott led just 24 laps in a race dominated by Denny Hamlin, but — as alluded to in last week’s Turning Point — Toyota gave an inch, and Hendrick Motorsports took a mile, led by No. 9’s bruising final lap at Kansas as he rode to the win. He now gets to race pressure-free at one of his best tracks, looking to cement the mojo he and the No. 9 group are building together in the quest for title No. 2.

Analysis: Blaney led exactly one Kansas lap, and that may have been the highlight for all of Team Penske, which walked out of the Midwest with a trio of sub-20 finishes among its three playoff drivers. Thankfully, one of them (Blaney) is already locked in to the Round of 8, but with one teetering on the edge (Joey Logano) and the other in must-win territory (Austin Cindric), it’s extremely unlikely all three will advance.

Analysis: Hamlin certainly would’ve preferred to have won that battle at the line at Kansas, but, big picture, walking into the Charlotte Roval cutoff race with a plus-48 to the bubble is still close to about as best-case-scenario as one can hope for, short of a prior victory. There’s no slowing down the series’ elder statesman, and Sunday marks as good a time as any for him to corral his second career top 10 at the Roval, but he may not even need to.

Analysis: Seeing Larson lead just a single lap in a race at which he was the heavy favorite — and his teammate went on to win — isn’t quite as heartening a weekend in the Heartland the No. 5 team was hoping for, but as good as Hamlin’s points position is, Larson’s is even better at plus-54. It would be an all-time collapse for Larson to miss the Round of 8, particularly at a track he enters as the defending winner, so look for a refocused No. 5 team to lock in and be ready for the Round of 8 in two weeks.

Analysis: Don’t let the dip fool you — Bell had a strong Kansas showing, running third and leading his second-most laps in a race since a Phoenix win in March. The 2022 Roval winner is getting hot once again and could find his way to a second win there after turning in a P2 on NASCAR’s home court last fall.

Analysis: Byron has led exactly five laps since a dominant win at Iowa Speedway to open August, a lack of speed that is starting to look increasingly concerning as we hit the playoff halfway point. He also hasn’t led any laps at the Roval since 2021, but could actually see a decent turnaround this weekend after turning in a pair of top threes there the past two seasons.

Analysis: All this guy does is turn in top fives, with Sunday’s 13th such result of the season matching his entire top-five output from the past three seasons combined. No laps led and a career average finish of 23.8 in his four Roval starts don’t scream “win” this weekend, especially with a certain New Zealander in the field, but it’s hard not to see how he significantly betters his prior output there on Sunday.

Analysis: No. 22 crew chief Paul Wolfe told NASCAR.com after Loudon that he didn’t “feel good about Kansas at all” and, as it turns out, his concerns were well-founded, as Logano finished outside the top 20 after the weekend started poorly with an issue in practice. He’s on the edge of missing the Round of 8 at the Roval for the second year in a row, but actually sneakily excels there (8.6 average finish) despite no wins to his credit.

Analysis: There just doesn’t seem to be anything resembling race-winning speed in the No. 1 car right now as Chastain has led double-digit laps on a non-drafting track just once this year (in March), but he’s still consistent enough to be collecting points (35 points in an 11th-place Kansas run). He isn’t in a must-win situation despite being below the bubble, but still, the Roval isn’t the road course Chastain would hope to hinge his championship hopes on, with just one top 10 in six tries for an overall 24.0 average finish.

Analysis: Reddick gave it his all at Kansas, a potential winning spot for the lone remaining winless playoff driver, but he had to settle for a thin, 30-point P7 after failing to lead a lap or collect crucial stage points. Though it hasn’t happened yet, the Roval could potentially produce a victory for the prolific road-course winner, with a sterling 7.8 average finish there in his starts. Otherwise, we could see our first 2024 Championship 4 driver knocked out.

Analysis: All that to only pick up a point in the standings is wild, but there’s no denying that Wallace took a tremendous leap forward this year and deserves to be in the championship conversation, even if the end of his 2025 playoffs comes at Charlotte. There’s no guarantee it does, however, as despite road courses historically being Wallace’s pain point, No. 23 owns a respectable 11.5 average finish there in his four starts with 23XI Racing.

Analysis: Cindric has just one top 10 since Pocono Raceway, exactly none of which have come in the playoffs. Unfortunately, that’s no way to win a title, and No. 2 essentially has to win the Roval in order to advance. Fortunately for him, the accomplished road racer could actually do it, netting a P4 at the track last year. With none of his five 2025 top 10s coming on road courses, however, it doesn’t appear likely to happen.

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In the latest episode of his “Actions Detrimental” podcast on Monday, Denny Hamlin said he holds no regrets for chasing the victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs race at Kansas Speedway despite last-lap contact with his employee, Bubba Wallace.

The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver also serves as the team co-owner of 23XI Racing, for which Wallace drives the No. 23 Toyota. Hamlin charged into Turn 3 on the final lap of the Hollywood Casino 400 alongside Wallace, and both slid up the track, leaving Wallace in the wall and Hamlin slow enough to allow Chase Elliott to dart past both and score the win in NASCAR Overtime.

MORE: Race results | Details of last-lap dash

Hamlin admits he would do things differently had he known how tight his car was to Wallace’s, but he did not anticipate saying ‘sorry’ soon, either.

“If (listeners are) wanting an apology, they can turn it off now,” Hamlin said on his weekly Dirty Mo Media show, “because I’m racing for the win and I definitely won’t apologize for racing for the win.”

Hamlin reiterated his commitment as driver of the JGR No. 11 when he is behind the wheel, meaning his goal is to get that car into Victory Lane no matter who stands in its way.

“On Sunday, I am the driver. The person in the 11 car is the driver,” Hamlin said. “That’s where the disconnect, I think, comes from, is that people expect me to be a different person. They expect me to be the guy with the 23XI shirt on when I’m in the 11 car, and that’s just not possible. It’s not possible.

“My responsibilities as team owner come Monday through Saturday. Like, it is not up to me to get 23XI into the Round of 8, if that makes any sense. That’s not my responsibility. My responsibility is to get the 11 into the Round of 8. I’m the driver on Sunday of that 11. Joe (Gibbs) pays me a lot of money to make sure that that car wins a championship, or has a shot to. And I mean, could you imagine the outrage if I had just backed off and let him have it? Holy [expletive]. People would lose their minds. But instead, I think Bubba said it very accurately — we were going for the win. Both guys were going for the win.”

Hamlin, who made his Cup Series debut at Kansas in 2005, currently holds 59 career wins in NASCAR’s premier series and sits 11th behind Kevin Harvick. Wallace is eyeing a spot in the Round of 8 for the first time in his blossoming career and would have been guaranteed that spot by winning Sunday’s race. But chasing a milestone win after signing a two-year contract extension over the summer, the 44-year-old Hamlin is not willing to back down when staring a potential victory in the eyes.

“My mentality into the last corner was, I hope I win,” Hamlin said. “I’ve got 70 races left in my career. Three opportunities left to win a championship. I can win a championship as an owner for decades. The window is closing. Sixty is right in front of me at the track I got my very first start. Like, I want to be sympathetic and I am sympathetic and I hate it that the 23 is below the cut, but 23XI ran like dog-[expletive] at [expletive] New Hampshire and that’s why they’re below the cut. And I hate that for the drivers because unfortunately they had to drive that.”

Hamlin explained his goal entering Turn 3 was to side-draft Wallace and draw Wallace back, which ideally would have allowed Hamlin to drive to the bottom and clear Wallace entering the corner. Instead, Hamlin explained, Wallace side-drafted back and added an estimated 80% increase of rear downforce and Hamlin’s car couldn’t turn as well as he anticipated, sending both cars up the track.

“I think there’s only a couple ways to win it,” Hamlin said. “I run lower on corner entry, even though my angle is horrible, but I at least hit the bottom and create a gap between me and him; or I need to let off sooner, count on him missing the corner and then trying to get it back on the exit. That’s the only thing I feel like, if I could do it again, I’d like to try that. I’m not saying it would have been successful, but that’d be something that I will psychoanalyze of, here’s what I think I could have done better if I had known all these factors.”

As Hamlin alluded, Wallace now enters Round of 12 finale at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval 10th in the standings, 26 points beneath the cutline to advance into the Round of 8. A win for Wallace at Kansas would have locked his spot into the next round instead. Asked if their Sunday contact would make things awkward walking into 23xI Racing Monday, Hamlin understood if that answer was yes, especially after Hamlin’s second collision with a team car in as many weeks.

“I think that’s where feelings can get hurt is when you have expectations and those expectations aren’t met,” Hamlin said. “It’s why I lost my temper last weekend is that I had an expectation. I thought we knew that if you’re in the playoffs versus out, the rules are different. And so the actions didn’t meet my expectations. And so then I got hot. And so I think sure. If you think that I owe you this or that, your feelings are probably hurt today. But I can tell you, anybody that had the run that I had off of Turn 2 (and) got to the inside of the 23, any car that was on the race track was going to do that exact same thing.”

Wallace, who qualified for the playoffs by winning the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July, has had a career year in some measures. The Brickyard marked his first crown-jewel victory and he’s led a career-high 368 laps in 2025, all with rookie crew chief Charles Denike calling the shots. Hamlin has taken notice of just how dramatic the No. 23 team’s rise from past years has been.

“Bubba’s turnaround over the last few years has just been — I can’t believe it, truthfully,” Hamlin said. “The maturity he has shown — he’s been the lead car at 23XI really the entire year. I think the 45 (Tyler Reddick) might have him on average finish because he doesn’t have as many DNFs, but the 23 has been the fastest freakin’ car we’ve got, and that’s something that just, I can’t believe it.

“Whether it’s Charles Denike and his setups or Bubba’s mentality, something changed over there that has made Bubba someone you’re going to have to contend with every single week. And you’re gonna have to contend with him this weekend, by the way. If you haven’t seen his road-course skills, they’ve dramatically improved. I couldn’t be more proud of that 23 team and what they’re doing week in, week out.”

Hamlin enters the Round of 12 finale fourth in the playoff standings, 48 points above the provisional cutline heading to the Charlotte Roval on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, USA Network, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The NASCAR Foundation announced the four NASCAR fans named as finalists for the 15th annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award, recognized for the work they do through local children’s organizations in their communities.

The NASCAR Foundation’s Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award, named in honor of the foundation’s late founder and chairwoman Betty Jane France, recognizes NASCAR fans who volunteer for children’s causes in their local communities. Each finalist receives a minimum $25,000 donation for their organization with the overall winner receiving a $100,000 donation from The NASCAR Foundation to further their efforts.

“These four finalists represent the true spirit of the sport, not just in their passion for NASCAR, but in their tireless commitment to making a difference in their communities,” said Nichole Krieger, Executive Director and Vice President, The NASCAR Foundation. “John, Gregg, Kate and Hannah all support amazing organizations, doing important work in so many different capacities, and they truly embody everything the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award represents.”

The 15th annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award finalists include:

John Grieshaber of Wilmington, Delaware, a volunteer of A Better Chance for Our Children, an organization that focuses on finding families for waiting children, most from foster care and many with special needs. John has been a volunteer with ABCFOC for eight years assisting with their Rec-n-Respite program.

Gregg Morton of Bradenton, Florida, a volunteer of CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, supporting their mission of ending childhood cancer. Gregg has been a volunteer with CureSearch for five years and devotes 20 plus hours a week to the organization.

Kate O’Neal of Hazel Green, Alabama, a volunteer of Caring Link, an organization that meets the needs of local students by providing essential items through on-site Care Closets at local schools. Kate founded the organization in 2022.

Hannah Smith of Richmond, Virginia, a volunteer of Sportable Adaptive Sports and Recreation supporting their mission of providing sporting opportunities to athletes of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Hannah has been a volunteer of the organization for 10 years and was previously a Sportable athlete.

The overall winner will be determined by an online vote, which is open now, every day through Nov. 3. Those who wish to vote for their favorite finalist and their impact on the community may vote once a day.

The overall winner will be announced during the NASCAR Awards in Phoenix on Nov. 4.

To learn more about The NASCAR Foundation’s Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award and the 2025 finalists, visit www.NASCARfoundation.org/Award.

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The NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs continue at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, with the Round of 8 being solidified after Saturday’s cutoff race (5 p.m. ET, The CW, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

ENTRY LISTS: Cup Series | Xfinity Series | Truck Series

Craftsman Truck Series regular Daniel Hemric returns to his former team at Kaulig Racing to pilot the No. 11 Chevrolet. Connor Mosack will join JR Motorsports, driving the No. 9, while Corey Day will hop behind the wheel of the No. 17 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.

Road-course ace and Xfinity Series Regular Season Champion Connor Zilisch, already locked in to the Round of 8 via points from this past weekend at Kansas Speedway, will look to conquer the Charlotte Roval and beef his stats even more as he continues his journey toward a Championship 4 berth.

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The twists and turns of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval will be the site of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 12 finale on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, USA Network, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

ENTRY LISTS: Cup Series | Xfinity Series | Truck Series

With Chase Elliott’s electric win at Kansas Speedway, two postseason drivers have officially clinched a Round of 8 berth heading into the Charlotte Roval bout; Ryan Blaney claimed the first at New Hampshire Motor Speedway the weekend prior. Ross Chastain (minus-13), Bubba Wallace (minus-26), Tyler Reddick (minus-29) and Austin Cindric (minus-48) all sit below the provisional playoff line and will need to put on a top-flight performance to avoid elimination following the Round of 12’s conclusion.

HOW TO WATCH: NASCAR on NBC, USA | Driver Cams on HBO Max

Josh Bilicki makes his sixth Cup start of the season this weekend as pilot of the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford. The Wisconsin native raced on Charlotte’s oval configuration in May, finishing 33rd in the crown-jewel Coca-Cola 600.

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