Experienced Championship 4 crew chiefs embrace the season finale pressures

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Jordan Bianchi

There are innumerable factors that will go into deciding the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway (at 3 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). One element that will not play a role, however, is experience; or a lack thereof among the four teams vying for the title.

Each driver who’s qualified for the Playoffs Championship 4 round is no stranger to the pressure they’ll face this weekend, having been in this same situation multiple times. Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick are each making their fourth appearance in the title-deciding race, while Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. are both in their third final.

And the experience extends beyond just the drivers, but to their respective crew chiefs as well. Todd Gordon (Logano), Cole Pearn (Truex) and Adam Stevens (Busch) have been paired with their driver for every Championship 4 berth they’ve earned. They are well acclimated to the ins and outs of a weekend that can often feel like an emotional rollercoaster where every decision is scrutinized.

“The first time into it in 2014, you didn’t know,” said Gordon regarding his mindset entering a best-finish-wins-the-championship race. “It was a new format. You didn’t know how to handle it or how the weekend was going to go.

“There was a lot more anxiety, I think, into the ’14 race, and the fear of the unknown. I think ’16 we raced into that race and just felt like we needed to handle it like the other races and continue to work forward, and I thought that was a decent approach to the weekend. I thought we were very competitive. I thought we were in a position that we could race for the championship late with 20 [laps] to go.”

Gordon, Pearn and Stevens each say their past experiences will help mitigate any challenges they’ll face at Homestead, whether in practice, qualifying, or the race itself. Essentially a “been there, done that” mindset where you try to ignore what is at stake.

“We tried to make this weekend as normal as we can in how we approach the weekend,” Gordon said.

And though this is the first go-round in the Championship 4 for Harvick’s crew chief, Tony Gibson, it’s not as if he’s some green newbie who will be overwhelmed by the moment. Gibson, in fact, has been a crew chief in more Cup races (441) than Gordon (247), Pearn (142) or Stevens (138), and he guided Kurt Busch to victory in the Daytona 500 last season.

Gibson finds himself leading Harvick’s No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team because of a rules violation found on Harvick’s winning car at Texas Motor Speedway. That earned Rodney Childers, Harvick’s crew chief since 2014, a two-race suspension and pressed SHR to tab Gibson in relief.

“My biggest fear is just making the wrong call or doing the wrong thing,” Gibson said. “I want those guys to be proud of me. Like I told Rodney, I just want to do you a good job and hope you can be proud of me.”

The 54-year-old veteran crew chief proved his mettle during the Round of 8 elimination race last Sunday at ISM Raceway. Harvick was leading the race when a punctured tire necessitated an unscheduled, green-flag pit stop that could’ve derailed his title hopes. Gibson calmly called for a two-tire stop that kept Harvick from falling too far behind, then used his strategy to get his driver back in contention.

Harvick rallied to finish fifth, a good enough result to claim the last transfer position.

“When I called for those two tires this past weekend, the first thing I thought about, ‘Man, did I just mess up here? Did that one decision I made put everybody in a bad spot and could this be the end of it?” Gibson said. “But sometimes you have to make calls from your gut and you worry about what happens later.”

The challenge all four crew chiefs will face this weekend is trying to treat this race like any other when it is actually anything but. That is easier said than done, though having been in this position before certainly helps.

“The first year for us we really didn’t know what to expect or what we were getting into, and we came away with a lot of learning to do from that,” Pearn said. “I think even in ’16 when we didn’t make it, we prepared as though we were going to make it and felt a lot more prepared when we got there last year.

“We’re just trying to continue to build on the things that we felt like we didn’t do right last year. And hopefully, make gains on those and be in better shape this time.”

Posted on November 14, 2018November 20, 2018 by Staff Report

Hunter Mullins earned himself a win and $10,000 in the NASCAR Heat Champions Road to Miami Finals on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The Virginia native took the lead on the final restart and held off the competition to win the inaugural NASCAR Heat Champions Road to Miami.

“The adrenaline was rushing, but once I got out front, I knew it was over and could finally breathe,” Mullins said. “Couldn’t be any better.”

After a weekend of preparation, the 12-driver field took part in a thrilling 40-lap battle to see who would leave as champion. Not only were bragging rights on the line, but so was more than $15,000 in cash and prizes.

The finale featured six caution flags and numerous passes for the lead, but race favorite Mullins was not to be denied.

“That last restart there, everybody is trying to get everything they can get. If you see a hole, you’re going to take it and that’s just what happened,” Mullins said. “The 9 — he was in front of me, I got into his bumper and pushed him up the track and I got a run and that was it.”

Mullins has been honing his skills for nearly a decade, and it ultimately came to fruition on the same day his favorite driver started from pole in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship race.

“I grew up watching (Denny Hamlin) with Late Models and at Martinsville Speedway, my cousin races in it,” Mullins added. “They ran side-by-side for almost a 100 straight laps and it was awesome to watch.”

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Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018 by Zack Albert

Dale Earnhardt Jr. came up with the phrase a little more than two years ago to describe Joey Logano and his aggressive style. The “Sliced Bread” handle that fit Logano as a stock-car prodigy was making way for its successor as the driver found his way into contention more frequently — often by bruising his way there.

According to Earnhardt, “Sliced Bread” had become a “Gremlin.” It’s a telling characteristic that the rest of the Championship 4 know all too well.

Logano will vie again for his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship in Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 (3 p.m. ET, NBC/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM), matching wits with veterans Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. — all one-time champs who have tasted the title within the last five years. The other common thread for that trio: On-track run-ins over the years with a feisty Logano that didn’t quite ignite full-fledged rivalries, but set a tone of irritation with how they sometimes competed.

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Truex’s complaint with Logano is the most recent. Just three races ago, Logano clinched his spot among the championship contenders at Truex’s expense, executing a patented bump-and-run tactic on the final lap at Martinsville Speedway. The purposeful nudge prompted pointed words from the defending series champ, who hinted at payback — or at least a no-slack approach to their future battles — in post-race interviews.

Logano’s past transgressions with Busch run back to last year’s season-ending event and beyond. In the 2017 finale, Busch took issue with Logano’s blocking technique as Truex scooted away to the title. The year before, Busch took a swing at Logano after last-lap contact at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, touching off a scrum that required crewmembers to separate them.

The history for Logano and Harvick dates back further, with one galvanizing highlight. In 2010 at Pocono Raceway, Harvick brushed Logano into a long slide that knocked him from contention, leading to a heated post-race jawing match on pit road afterward. Logano punctuated it with a barb directed to Harvick’s wife, DeLana, about who wore the fire suit in the family. At the time, DeLana Harvick was a fixture atop the pit box in a full-logo driver’s suit.

Has time healed the wounds? In some cases, yes, but in others, not so much. But no matter the rules of engagement among the four title hopefuls, the gremlin-like tendencies have created a polarizing fervor in the fan response to the driver of the Team Penske No. 22.

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In the weeks since the Truex incident at Martinsville, the crowd reaction for Logano during pre-race driver introductions has been mixed at best, with a flurry of boos at worst. His crew chief, Todd Gordon, has heard the reaction, adopting an old Dale Earnhardt mantra — as long as they’re reacting, you’re doing something right.

“You know, at the end of a day, if you’re up there and you have noise being made, I think it means that you’re doing the right things and you’re being competitive, because your fans are very passionately cheering you,” Gordon said, “But the fans of … you have 39 competitors that their fans probably, if you’re very successful and you’re competitive, they’re going to make noise in the opposite direction.

“You know, volume speaks for what you’re able to accomplish, not necessarily the words that come out of it.”

Posted on November 14, 2018November 15, 2018 by Staff Report

One team in each of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series were cited for safety violations following NASCAR’s tripleheader weekend at ISM Raceway.

Per section 10.9.10.4 of the NASCAR Rule Book, the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet of Monster Energy Series driver Ryan Newman had one lug nut not secure in post-race inspection. Crew chief Luke Lambert was fined $10,000. Newman finished 11th in Sunday’s Can-Am 500.

The No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet of Xfinity Series driver Tyler Reddick also was penalized for a lug nut violation. Crew chief David Elenz was fined $5,000. Reddick finished sixth in Saturday’s Whelen Trusted to Perform 200. He is one of four drivers vying for the Xfinity Series championship this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Holly Cain

For many race teams, a different crew chief atop the pit box in a pressure-packed, high stakes race like Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship finale (3 p.m. ET on NBC/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) would be a hands-up, unpredictable situation.

But when Tony Gibson climbs into the hot seat, pit side at Homestead-Miami Speedway Sunday night, the No. 4 SHR Ford team he will lead and its driver Kevin Harvick will likely feel fortified and ready for the challenge even with the team’s crew chief Rodney Childers and car chief Robert Smith sidelined for a second week by NASCAR after Harvick’s car failed inspection at Texas Motor Speedway two weeks ago.

Gibson, 54, certainly isn’t “new” to the sport, or to the kind of professional pressure he’s got this week filling in for Childers. He is a Daytona 500-winning crew chief (2017 with Kurt Busch). He was the car chief on the late Alan Kulwicki’s 1992 Cup championship team and also on Jeff Gordon’s 1998 and 2001 title-winning teams.

The Daytona Beach native is a longtime, highly respected strategist and personality that SHR is confident can glide into the season’s hottest pit seat and lead the team’s championship contender Harvick to a fantastic shot at winning a second title.

“I think personally, all these guys want to step up and show Rodney that, you know what, we are a great team and you have built an awesome race team here and we want to show you that, how mature we are as a group and how we can function as a group even when our leader is not with us,” Gibson said Wednesday during a national conference call with the four championship-eligible crew chiefs.

“We can still follow your lead and we can still get this done.”

Achieving against the odds is something Gibson is well-versed in.

Just this season, the longtime SHR employee has overcome major health problems. A blood clot put him in the hospital this summer and resulted in a “mini-stroke,” Gibson said, which left him with severe hearing loss and the loss of some function in his left eye. But intense therapy and regular appointments with his doctors have helped Gibson regain his vision and he wears a hearing aid to help with any lingering issues there.

There was actually a follow-up appointment with his neurologist scheduled for this Friday.

“I’m not going to make that one, I’m going to be in Homestead,” Gibson said.

“I contacted my doctor and they all released me to go and fly,” he said. “…if at all possible, I was going. There was no way I was going to let those guys down. So as long as my doctor said I could go, I was going. That’s what they got me here to do.”

Instead Gibson’s challenge will be guiding this super-achieving No. 4 team to an exclamation point on a stellar season. Harvick’s eight wins is a personal best for the 2014 Cup champion and his 28 top-10 finishes through the first 35 races ties a career mark set in 2015. Gibson would like to help Harvick top that mark with a victory and championship trophy this weekend.

At this point, the team is not on “auto-drive” but certainly knows what needs to be done. And if anything, the big penalty – which also included a loss of 40 championship points and forced Harvick to race his way into the Championship 4 last week – has motivated the team even more.

Gibson said he essentially just wants to keep the season-long good juju going. That’s what they did last week at Phoenix and that’s what they plan to do this weekend.

And NASCAR has given the OK for Childers to come inside the race track should Gibson guide this team to a championship Sunday evening.

“We took each practice, each run, one at a time, thought about changes and what we needed to do, and Rodney had a great plan laid out and we kind of just followed his lead through that,” Gibson said. “He has an awesome race team. They all pretty much know what to do. You don’t have to tell them what to do. They follow right along.

“My biggest fear is just making the wrong call or doing the wrong thing. I want those guys to be proud of me. Like I told Rodney, I just want to do you a good job and hope you can be proud of me, so that’s what I want to get done.”

As it turns out Gibson and Childers are close friends away from the track and that relationship may turn out to be especially beneficial this weekend.

“Me and Rodney have a really, really good relationship, along with Kevin,” Gibson said. “Me and Rodney, we do a lot of things off the track together. … we have a lot of things in common that we love to do, so we’ve got a friendship outside of the racetrack part of it and the racing side of it, which I think kind of helps all that kind of merge a little easier.

“I don’t have an agenda in this whole deal coming in. .. I have a company agenda of winning a championship.”

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Team Release

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) announced today that Safelite AutoGlass will return to the organization in 2019 as a primary sponsor for 19 races on Harrison Burton’s No. 18 Tundra during his first full-time season in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series (NGOTS). The nation’s largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services joined KBM in 2018 as the primary sponsor for championship contender Noah Gragson and also has served as an associate sponsor for Burton’s limited Truck Series schedule this season.

Burton, the son of former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver and current NASCAR on NBC analyst Jeff Burton, is currently in his third season driving a limited schedule for KBM. The talented teenager has recorded one pole, 76 laps led, three top-five and seven top-10 finishes across 14 starts since making his Truck Series debut for KBM at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway shortly after turning 16 in October of 2016.

The NASCAR Next alumnus has posted solid numbers across his first seven NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) starts in 2018, collecting his first Truck Series pole and leading 30 laps at Iowa Speedway in Newton in June, while overall posting three top-five and six top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 6.6. He led a race-high 46 laps and equaled his career-best finish by finishing third in his most recent start at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., Nov. 9 and will finish out the season this Friday at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.

“I’ve worked really hard the last few seasons driving a limited schedule for KBM to prove that I’m capable of running full-time in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series in 2019 and I’m excited for the opportunity to do so with Safelite AutoGlass as my primary sponsor,” Burton said. “By using all of the resources that I have available at KBM, with the support of Toyota and Toyota Racing Development, I know that I’ll continue to improve as a driver and I’m confident that I’m capable of competing for wins and being a legitimate contender for the Truck Series championship next year. Obviously, to get to this point in my career it has taken a lot of support from a lot of different people, so I can’t thank my parents enough as well as companies like DEX Imaging, Hunt Brothers Pizza, Morton Buildings, RUUD and FIELDS for being great partners.”

“Harrison has done a great job of balancing being a high school student, as well as a student of racing since making his first Truck Series start for KBM shortly after turning 16 a few years ago,” team owner Kyle Busch said. “The results of his hard work are starting to pay dividends and we’re confident that his first Truck Series win will be coming shortly and he’ll be able to be in the mix for the championship next year.

“The support that Safelite provides our team by bringing their employees and business partners to the races is amazing to see, but even more rewarding is the chance for our organization to be a part of the efforts they make in giving back to the communities where we race. We know that Harrison will be a great representative for them on and off the track.”

“We are very excited for the 2019 season with Harrison Burton behind the wheel of the Safelite AutoGlass Toyota Tundra,” Garth Beck, Senior Vice President Safelite AutoGlass West Region said. “He is a very talented young driver with many accomplishments at a young age and will be a great fit for Safelite. We are looking forward to another great year in partnership with KBM and Harrison for the 2019 season.”

In addition to his Truck Series schedule, Burton has run limited schedules in the ARCA Racing Series, NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and Super Late Models this year. He posted one win, five top-five and eight top-10 finishes resulting in an average finish of 6.1 across nine ARCA Racing Series starts this season. He produced two poles, four top-five and five-top top-10 finishes for an average finish of 4.2 across five NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races this season. He has also recorded four Super Late Model victories this season, including the prestigious Rattler 250 at South Alabama Speedway in Kinston, Ala.

Burton captured the 2017 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East title after registering a series-high five wins, two poles, 142 laps led, 12 top-five and 14 top-10 finishes and an average finish of 3.3 across the series’ 14 events. In addition to his five K&N victories, the North Carolina native has collected two ARCA Racing Series and numerous Super Late Model victories including marquee events including the Rattler 250 at South Alabama Speedway in Kinston, Ala., in 2018 and the ARCA/CRA SpeedFest at Crisp Motorsports Park in Cordele, Ga., in 2017.

Safelite AutoGlass is currently in their first season as a primary sponsor at KBM and third overall in the Truck Series. Noah Gragson will be looking to deliver the Ohio-based company their first-ever NASCAR championship this Friday, Nov. 16, at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.

Announcements on who will serve as Burton’s crew chief as well as further sponsorship announcements for the remainder of Burton’s 2019 schedule are forthcoming.

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Staff Report

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Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018 by RJ Kraft

When the three NASCAR national series descend on Homestead-Miami Speedway for Ford Championship weekend, post-race inspection will work a little differently than every other week of the season with championships on the line in Miami.

All three series — the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series — will have initial inspection, pre-qualifying inspection and pre-race inspection in a manner that they have all year.

The difference: Following each championship race, a post-race inspection process will unfold that will run two to two-and-a-half-hours. Those inspections will be exactly what is done during teardown at the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, a couple days after the weekend’s races.

“There will be no post-race inspection here in the R&D Center (following Miami),” Elton Sawyer, NASCAR’s Vice President of Officiating and Technical Inspection, told NASCAR.com. “Our goal is to make sure that when the checkered flag falls on the champion on all three nights, that our fans will not be in a situation where they have to worry about any type of complication. We want to make sure that everyone is in compliance with our rulebook and that we can celebrate with our champions.

“The team that wins the championship — we’ll do a thorough inspection on that vehicle. Engine comes out. Engine is taken apart to make sure everything is in compliance. And then we will make sure we do the same thing if we need to on the second-place runner in the championship.”

Some additional tidbits from Sawyer on the inspection process at Miami:

• Championship 4 vehicles did not come into the R&D Center for a pre-Miami look. In past years, this was done to check the body location on the chassis. However, the Optical Scanning Station (OSS) provides officials with that information each week, Sawyer said.

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• NASCAR has meetings scheduled with the Championship 4 teams in all three national series this weekend to go over ground rules and weekend processes. “It’s more just to make sure we are all on the same page,” Sawyer said. “We want to make sure it is a great event and the champion is decided on the race track and not through some type of infraction on pit road or a post-race penalty.”

• Just like at Phoenix, spoilers will come off the Cup cars on Friday for officials to inspect prior to cars hitting the track. Teams will bolt them back on following inspection. This is done “to ensure that all the competitors feel confident that they are on a level playing field,” Sawyer said.

NASCAR officials put that procedure in place last week following an L1-level penalty to the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team for using a spoiler not exactly as supplied from the manufacturer, and not altered.

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Brad Norman

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of four stories examining why each driver could win the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship. Coming Thursday: Joey Logano.

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Kyle Busch will win the 2018 championship because …

He has the most avenues to get to Victory Lane. There isn’t a driver in the field who has displayed consistent excellency like Busch and his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team have all year in key areas — qualifying, racing, pit stops.

• Qualifying: Busch leads the series in average starting position at 7.6, a full position ahead of second-place Kevin Harvick. He has four Busch Pole Awards — the same number as Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. — but when he’s not on the pole, Busch makes the most of his No. 18 Toyota in qualifying trim to start at the front of the pack.

• Racing: Busch has matched his career-high wins in a single season with eight. He’s won a staggering 22 races over the past four years. We’ve seen him win this year with both short-run speed and long-run speed. We’ve seen him win by using his bumper (hello, Chicagoland). We’ve seen him win in dominating fashion (hello, Coca-Cola 600).

• Pit stops: Joe Gibbs Racing is known for having some of the best athletes on pit road in the industry, while the No. 18 team is known for its consistently fast pit stops. If the Championship 4 are pitting with 10 laps to go in the race, there’s a good bet Busch is going to come out of his pit box quickest.

Perhaps the other non-measurable Busch has going for him — besides momentum from winning at Phoenix — is a steadier confidence than we’ve seen in years past.

We’ve seen cheers for the driver who notoriously has often worn the black hat. Busch has opened up more on social media this year, revealing often intensely personal moments with his family. And he’s never seemed more comfortable in his own skin.

It all adds up, both the stuff that can be measured and then the stuff that can’t. “Rowdy” raises the Cup on Sunday night in Miami.

Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018 by Staff Report

As NASCAR descends upon Miami to crown three new national series champions, it will first give back to a local community that was severely affected by two Category 4 hurricanes, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Michael, over the past two years. On Friday, NASCAR and the Arbor Day Foundation will culminate its year-long community tree recovery initiative at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Earlier this year, NASCAR and Arbor Day Foundation announced the initiative, distributing trees to communities devastated by natural disasters across the United States. The effort will conclude at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where participating partners K&N Engineering and Ford, along with representatives from the industry, local professional sports leaders and teams including the Miami Heat & Florida Panthers, and other special dignitaries will be on-site to support the community. Those on-site will give back trees, energy-saving LED lighting kits and with the support of partners, provide attendees with an opportunity to experience the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship.

“We have been so proud to partner with NASCAR to help bring trees to communities that need them so desperately. This particular region has been hit with enormous hardship due to the hurricanes and we hope providing them these trees will help bring some joy as they rebuild their communities,” said Dan Lambe, President, the Arbor Day Foundation.

“The Homestead-Miami community has truly embraced NASCAR and has been an incredible host to our Championship Weekend for more than a decade. We feel this initiative is just one way the industry could give back to the region, by extending our thanks and support as they recover from these climate-related natural disasters,” said Catherine Kummer, Senior Director, NASCAR Green.

Throughout the course of the year, NASCAR and its partners have distributed and planted trees in North Carolina, Texas and Florida — all in addition to their core reforestation efforts and offsets totaling over half a million trees this year.

“NASCAR has aggressively pursued and implemented programs that are designed to reduce its impact on the environment while educating fans about the benefits of making more sustainable choices. This tree planting initiative is just the latest example of the broad NASCAR Green platform,” said Scott Jenkins, Chair of Board of Directors, Green Sports Alliance.

This effort is part of the 365-day initiative NASCAR Green, a comprehensive effort to reduce and offset the sport’s environmental impact while driving value and inspiration to the NASCAR fan, employee and industry member to do the same. Long-term programs underway include can be found at www.NASCAR.com/Green and on NASCAR Green’s Twitter page, @NASCARGreen.