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Kyle Larson did Kyle Larson things as he rode the high line to his first victory of the season this past weekend in South Florida.
NASCAR.com’s Pat DeCola ranks the top 20 Cup Series contenders after the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway and before Sunday’s Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Analysis: Larson’s Homestead triumph — in which he was second in passing, speed and defense per NASCAR Insights — could be a sign of things to come, as we’re now fully entrenched in a portion of the schedule that massively favors the 2021 champ. With a 2023 Martinsville win and five top-six finishes there since 2021, two in a row is very much within reach, and he might not be done after that.
Analysis: Byron salvaged 12th at Homestead despite a rocky final stage, but No. 24 appeared headed toward an even better day after picking up stage points in each of the first two. The two-time spring Martinsville winner already sports the top honors as the best restarter playing the best defense with the best speed, per NASCAR Insights, and win No. 2 of the season should be in play for the 2025 Daytona 500 winner.
Analysis: Back-to-back finishes outside the top 10 after back-to-back-to-back wins is a great example of how fickle NASCAR can be, but there’s no cause for concern just yet for Bell after a rough showing at Homestead. The Martinsville fall 2022 winner has likely been itching to get back to the Virginia track after the sting of last year’s penultimate race and should be in the mix for the win once again.
Analysis: A late wall scrape while battling his teammate cost Bowman his first win of 2025, but the runner-up marked his fifth straight — and series-best — top 10, proving his No. 48 team’s consistency to open the year. His 2021 Martinsville victory and Hendrick’s short-track dominance suggest he’ll contend again this weekend.
Analysis: Reddick’s eighth-place Homestead finish is probably a bit frustrating for him given his strength there, but No. 45 was 32nd-best on restarts Sunday so it could’ve been much, much worse. Martinsville has yet to fully click for him, with Reddick collecting just two top 10s en route to a very non-Reddick-like 20.8 average finish in 10 starts.
Analysis: Hamlin’s fifth-place Homestead run was an encouraging one for No. 11, who has either finished in the top six or outside the top 20 in every other race so far this year. His Martinsville success is long and prosperous, and JGR’s historical short-track edge makes him arguably Larson’s chief threat.
Analysis: It’s a bit curious that Elliott doesn’t seem to be enjoying quite the same level of success so far as his Hendrick teammates, leading just a pair of laps on the season despite a healthy standings position. The 2020 Martinsville fall winner will likely come alive this weekend at the half-mile track, however, as he tends to lead laps in bunches there.
Analysis: Wallace’s third-place Homestead finish — his first top five of 2025 — continued to show his gains from the tail end of 2024 that rolled into this year, and he has now led double-digit laps in back-to-back races for the first time since Daytona/Darlington last summer. Martinsville has tended to be a place where he performs well, too, and he could capitalize on it for a win this weekend.
Analysis: Blaney’s Homestead engine failure and third straight DNF (a career-first) overshadowed what quite possibly could’ve been a dominant win for No. 12, as the driver with the best speed and the best passer at Homestead per NASCAR Insights. It likely won’t take too long to get back on the horse, however, as Blaney is exceptional at Martinsville and clearly has had a rocket most weeks so far.
Analysis: Buescher’s sixth-place run at Homestead extended a strong start to the season, with a P30 at Atlanta being the lone outlier dragging down an otherwise excellent 11.8 average 2025 finish, which is still fourth-best among full-timers. Most of his short-track success has come at the non-paperclip-shaped ones, but it stands to reason that the speed and development he’s shown over the past few years should change that trend eventually.
Analysis: It remains unbelievably baffling, but Logano’s P14 at Homestead extended his top-10 drought to six despite leading a series-high 247 laps. Though he has just one Martinsville win to his credit (in 2018), he’s consistently a front-of-the-field threat there and should break through for his first solid finish of the year this weekend.
Analysis: Berry definitely had a shot to be competitive, but Homestead was no slam dunk for the Las Vegas winner to follow that up with another win, though he did earn points in Stage 1. The short-track superstar has shown he has what it takes to win at Martinsville in the Xfinity Series, though, and it’s extremely possible his early season speed could peek out once again this weekend.
Analysis: Chastain entered Miami with a truckload of momentum for his home-state race, only to qualify 25th and finish a dismal 31st with six points collected. We’ve obviously seen what he’s capable of at Martinsville in the past, but despite that highlight reel move back in 2022 he has just an overall 18.6 finish with three top 10s and 31 laps led in 12 starts.
Analysis: Briscoe’s fourth-place run was his first top 10 at Homestead in Cup and his best overall points day of the season so far as he begins to stabilize a bit. Martinsville was a place he was able to stand out in SHR’s waning years, so it’ll be interesting to see if he’s able to carry that over — and potentially improve upon — now that he’s with JGR, a team that traditionally excels there.
Analysis: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Preece’s hot start could potentially be here to stay — he’s 12th in overall speed so far this season, according to NASCAR Insights. The longtime short-track star could finally show what he’s capable of at Martinsville, where he collected his first top 10 in his 11th try just last spring.
Analysis: McDowell is beginning to slip a bit — and still looking for his first top 10, somehow — but overall is still on pace for what would be a career-best average finish (16.3). Don’t expect his first one of the season to come this weekend, though … McDowell has never finished in the top 10 at Martinsville in a whopping 28 starts.
Analysis: Things very much are starting to trend in a way that doesn’t foretell a successful remainder of the season for Busch in his third season at RCR, and the sense that he was about to break through for a win in the near term is all but gone. That said, Martinsville is the kind of track that sheer will and determination play heavy, heavy factors and if “Rowdy” is dialed in this weekend he could compete for his third win there despite dwindling speed.
Analysis: A seventh-place starting position did not translate to in-race speed, with JHN turning in the 27th-best mark there on top of being 31st in speed for the season, per NASCAR Insights. A dismal 29.3 Martinsville average finish across four starts doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence he’ll be able to turn it on this weekend, either.
Analysis: Stenhouse likely isn’t destined for weekly top 10s this year, but he’s showing some above-average strength so far as his average finish (17.3) approaches his career-best (17.1), set in a two-win 2017 season. In terms of short tracks, Martinsville isn’t his favorite — he’s been formidable at Bristol at times but has just three top 10s in 24 Martinsville starts for a rough 24.1 average finish.
Analysis: Allmendinger is showing perhaps more life than many expected out of the veteran’s return to Cup, and he continued to be one of the best at Homestead as the race’s best restarter and best defender. He’s had some strong Martinsville Cup runs across his 25 starts, with a runner-up in 2016 being the best, but he hasn’t raced there at the top level since 2023 and could face an uphill battle.
The NASCAR Cup Series next travels to Virginia for the Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Short-track ace Burt Myers — who competed at Bowman Gray Stadium during the 2025 Cook Out Clash festivities — is one of 38 drivers slated to participate.
Casey Mears, who last appeared in a Cup race in 2019, returns in the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford. Mears, a multidiscipline racer with Rolex 24 and Baja 1000 trophies, has one Cup victory and three poles in 489 starts.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is rolling into Martinsville Speedway this weekend for the Boys and Girls Club of the Blue Ridge 200 (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NASCAR Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
So when the superstar who excels in multiple racing series celebrates one of his countless victories with uncommonly expressive feeling, it’s worth digging into the backstory — and it’s expansive at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
“One of the coolest wins in my Cup career,” Larson said immediately after winning Sunday. “Just because of the heartbreak I’ve had here.”
Hold on, heartbreak at Homestead? The track where Larson enjoys a built-in advantage for his uncanny ability to run inches from the wall at nearly 200 mph for 400 miles at a time?
Larson holds Cup records for laps led (645) and stage wins (six) at Homestead. The expectation is that he can win every time there, but the reality is he often doesn’t — and his record includes some embarrassing errors by a driver who can position his car in tight spots most of the field can’t.
“Just watching him at his craft at this track, it’s like watching him at Knoxville or Eldora,” Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman Jeff Gordon said, referencing two dirt tracks where running the wall also is critical. “It’s fun, but it doesn’t guarantee wins. You don’t know when the cautions are going to come out. As good as his car and he is here, if he has any weakness, it’s short runs. … His car just doesn’t take off as good. Some of that’s setup (and) what it takes to be good ripping the wall on the long runs.”
It’s not as if the 1.5-mile track 30 miles south of Miami has been the white whale of Larson’s Cup career. Yet there have been some Ahab-esque elements that have tormented him — especially when untimely yellows neutralized the No. 5 Chevrolet, which ranked 24th in restart speed during Sunday’s win.
In some ways for Larson, Homestead has been the NASCAR version of his beloved Chili Bowl, the annual indoor dirt extravaganza whose prestige Larson once compared with the Daytona 500. It took him 13 years to earn his first “Golden Driller” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, even though he often dominated the world’s biggest Midget race.
He needed nine tries — and some big misses — to get his first win at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In 2016, Larson admittedly fell asleep on the final restart and allowed Jimmie Johnson to snatch the victory that punctuated his seventh championship. In 2017, he restrained himself and stayed put in third place to let Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch battle for the win and season championship.
And even since a breakthrough win at Homestead in 2022, the track still has haunted Larson with uncharacteristically sloppy mistakes.
In 2023, Larson bumbled while trying to seize the lead from Ryan Blaney on pit entry, smashing into the sand barrels in overt humiliation after leading 96 laps. Last year, he finished 13th after spinning with 13 laps remaining while anxiously trying to shoot a gap past Blaney and into the lead (and a berth in the Championship 4).
But none of that mattered to Alex Bowman when Larson’s No. 5 suddenly appeared in his rearview mirror, and the “Jaws” theme music began portentously echoing in his head.
“Pressure from the baddest dude on earth and I made a mistake and gave it to him,” Bowman posted on social media about hitting the wall with seven laps remaining shortly before yielding the lead.
This is another reason that Larson could revel in the win: It’s an “Intimidator”-style moment.
How many of Dale Earnhardt’s 76 career victories were a byproduct of the black No. 3 Chevrolet lurking in second place?
Larson’s victory Sunday was similarly earned through mere presence and reputation. Bowman surely wasn’t overwhelmed by his Hendrick Motorsports teammate’s performance.
Larson didn’t lead the most laps or win a stage. He scraped the wall a couple of dozen times, and his car’s speed further was hurt by a sizable hold in his left-side rocker panel from a pit collision. Crew chief Cliff Daniels’ most crucial call was choosing to skip a pit stop for repairs that ultimately would have eliminated the No. 5 from contention.
“It was a workman-like day,” Daniels said.
And Larson had to work hard to become the 30th driver with 30 Cup victories.
There surely will be much flashier victories ahead for the 32-year-old. In two months, he could become the first to win the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day — a legendary feat that would catapult Larson into the Andretti-Foyt pantheon.
There’ll be time for greatness later. His second Cup win at Homestead win was more about grit — and erasing the disappointment of nearly becoming the second driver in history to sweep a NASCAR tripleheader weekend.
After a late caution and overtime restart nullified a potential Xfinity win Saturday, Larson was set on kill to start the Cup race (“I just wanted to take the green flag and kick everybody’s ass today”) but then settled into grinding it out.
“I’m proud of myself for kind of overcoming that immature mindset before the race and just digging down deep to stay in it because it wasn’t a typical Homestead for me,” he said. “I was never able to get the lead until it really mattered, where typically I lead all the laps that don’t matter except for the last one.”
The outcome indeed was unusual.
No wonder that his reaction was, too.
Nate Ryan has written about NASCAR since 1996 while working at the San Bernardino Sun, Richmond Times-Dispatch, USA TODAY and for the past 10 years at NBC Sports Digital. He is a contributor to the new “Hauler Talk” show on the NASCAR Podcast Network. He also has covered various other motorsports, including the IndyCar and IMSA series.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series travels to Martinsville Speedway, where the field looks to leave its mark in the Marine Corps 250 on Saturday (5 p.m. ET, The CW, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Team Penske is battling its own Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome.
Through Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the sixth race of the 2025 campaign, nobody has led more laps than its trio of drivers — Joey Logano (247 laps led), Austin Cindric (159) and Ryan Blaney (148). All three rank inside the top five in stage points this season and sit within the top 10 of the series’ best average running positions, according to NASCAR’s loop data.
And yet none of the three have the consistent results to back up their apparent dominance in the races’ early and middle portions. Cindric’s 17.5 average finish is best of the bunch ahead of Logano’s 18.8 and Blaney’s 21.5; Logano is still searching for his first top 10 just six races removed from his 2024 Cup Series championship; and Blaney has failed to finish each of the last three races — two due to engine failure, which bit him again at Homestead after leading a race-high 124 laps and winning Stage 1.
As a result, Ryan Blaney is Team Penske’s highest-ranking driver in points at 10th, Logano 11th and Cindric 21st after a 50-point post-race penalty stemming from the March 2 event at Circuit of The Americas.
Travis Geisler, Team Penske’s vice president of competition, weighs the good with the bad. But his disappointment was evident in the NASCAR Cup Series garage following Sunday’s race. Logano was the team’s best finisher in 14th place, ahead of Cindric in 19th; Blaney’s blown engine relegated him to a 36th-place finish. Josh Berry’s No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford is built, assembled and supported by Team Penske, but one week after earning his first Cup win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a second-place qualifying effort at Homestead went for naught when he, Logano and Kyle Larson collided on pit road after the conclusion of Stage 1. Berry mustered a 17th-place finish.
“It’s obviously frustrating to be in a situation where we’ve had really good cars that are capable of winning every week and just haven’t really been able to execute and get it done,” Geisler told NASCAR.com. “But I think the key is the process is working as far as what we’re bringing to the race track. That’s the hardest part of this game, is finding speed. And right now, I think all the teams are doing that. We’ve just got to execute on all the other facets of the game.”
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Logano’s day was equally unraveled by the early pit-road contact. While Logano’s lack of track position after the incident was a hinderance, the crew’s initial tape application to repair Logano’s right-front fender damage did them no favors, crew chief Paul Wolfe explained.
“When we had the damage, we covered over the hood flap,” Wolfe told NASCAR.com. “So that was why, when we were trying to recover from the issue on that green-flag stop, we had to cut it open. So that’s how we lost the lap and all that. Just kept snowballing for a minute. Fortunately, the car was good on the long haul, and we were able to get back into the (free pass) spot as the leaders were putting guys a lap down. We were coming along there pretty good, and then from there, just had a decent car that we could salvage something out of it. Just a rough day.”
Wolfe has guided the No. 22 team to championships in two of the last three seasons, the lone exception coming in 2023 when Blaney soared to his first title. The finishes aren’t landing for Logano and Co. yet, but Wolfe isn’t ready to hit the panic button.
“I think if you look back at this time last year, we didn’t have the speed or the results. So I guess the bright side of it is we have speed,” Wolfe said. “I think how we ended the season last year, we’ve been able to come out of the gates this year and still carry that speed that we were able to show at the end of last season, so I think that’s a positive. And now it’s just continuing to refine it.
“Speaking for the 22 group specifically, there’s a lot of experience here, and we’ve shown how we’re able to execute and do the things we need to do. So it’s unfortunate, but not really any reason to be concerned. Optimistic about being able to have the speed and (it’s a) much better spot than what we were starting season last year.”
From the 30,000-foot perspective, however, Geisler is keen to smooth out the early-season bumps sooner than later.
“Stuff on pit road, you’ve just got to go back and review,” he said. “Was there anything we can do to avoid it? What are the things as our normal process can we adjust and try to get ourselves where we finish where we belong? That’s really the key right now. I think we’d be in really good shape if we just finished where we belong.”
Blaney had never failed to finish three consecutive Cup races until Homestead marked the unfortunate milestone. Before the March 9 race at Phoenix Raceway, Blaney’s last engine-related DNF was at Texas Motor Speedway in 2019 when he was sidelined for an overheating motor. Six years later, in two of the last three races, his engine has gone up in smoke. This time, his engine gave up on the frontstretch, leaving a cloud of smoke over the onlooking fans at Homestead-Miami.
Geisler said the team will pore over data to ensure nothing on its or Blaney’s end — like shifting, over-revving or overheating — contributed to the recent issues, and he indicated no signs of those have shown yet.
“From there, you’ve just got to lean on Roush Yates (Engines) and Ford to fix the problem,” Geisler said. “We have a lot of problems that we need to fix from this weekend, and we’ve got to outsource that one and let somebody else handle it and have the trust that, over the years, they’ve given us incredibly reliable engines and really have delivered for us. And they’ve just got to go the drawing board a little bit here and figure out what’s going on. I think it looks like a couple different modes of failure here, I would say. So maybe there’s not necessarily a clear direction, but that’s up to them.”
In the meantime, finishing at the front is a top priority for Team Penske moving forward. Up next is Martinsville Speedway on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), where Blaney has won each of the last two fall races.
Powered by the early-season frustration, perhaps there will be added emphasis here that will help the team’s results better reflect its performance.
“We’ve got to look internally at what we didn’t do well (Sunday),” Geisler said. “We had three other cars, if you include the 21, that should have been able to run top 10, and we didn’t get there with any of them. So that’s our job. That’s what we’ll go focus on (Monday). Martinsville is another solid place for us, so hopefully, we can go there and get things turned around.”
Richard Childress Racing announced Monday that Austin Hill will compete in a partial NASCAR Cup Series schedule this season, starting off a five-race slate with next month’s event at Darlington Raceway.
Hill, who has competed in at least one Cup Series event in the last three seasons and made his Cup debut at Michigan International Speedway in August 2022, is set to drive RCR’s No. 33 Chevrolet on the Cup Series side this season, with sponsorship provided by United Rentals. Andy Street will act as crew chief for the part-time entry, with Darlington acting as Street’s Cup Series debut in calling the shots atop the pit box.
“I’m excited to compete in the No. 33 United Rentals Chevrolet again this year,” Hill said in a press release. “United Rentals has been a longtime supporter of my career and to continue that relationship once again at the top level of our sport is special. I’ve enjoyed my starts in the Cup Series so far and the goal is to keep learning every time I climb into the car. We have been strategic with adding new tracks to the lineup each season, which allows me to gain valuable experience. Racing for Richard at any level is an honor, but especially in the Cup Series. The focus remains on winning the Xfinity Series championship in November, but any laps in the Cup car are important for the future.”
Hill’s five-race Cup Series schedule for 2025 includes:
April 6 — Darlington Raceway
July 6 — Chicago Street Race
Aug. 23 — Daytona International Speedway
Sept. 13 — Bristol Motor Speedway
Oct. 19 — Talladega Superspeedway
Hill is in his fourth full season of Xfinity Series competition driving the No. 21 Chevrolet. During that time, the 30-year-old Georgia native has accumulated 11 Xfinity wins for the Richard Childress-owned organization, including his most recent triumph last month at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Hill has made 10 Cup Series starts during the last three seasons, including four in the RCR No. 33 Chevy last year.
A lot of drivers showed how riding the high line can pay dividends in finding speed at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but no one could get as close as Kyle Larson as he rallied late to pass his teammate Alex Bowman and score his first Cup Series win of the season.
Several drivers put together strong showings right behind the front-runners, while a few big names are already looking toward next week’s race at Martinsville Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to turn their luck around.
THREE UP ⬆️
1. AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
Started: 10th
Finished: 7th
What happened: Maybe it’s sunshine and palm trees, but Allmendinger seems to love racing around the 1.5-mile track at Homestead. He extended his top-10 streak at the track to four — which remains the longest active among Cup drivers — and he capitalizes off the momentum he gained last week with an eighth-place finish at Las Vegas. Allmendinger had a top-10 car all day, but probably needed a little bit more chaos or a late-race restart to truly challenge for the win.
What’s next: The Los Gatos, California, driver last made a start at Martinsville in a Cup car in the 2023 fall race. With a career average finish of 19.7 at the short track, it may be a climb for him to notch another top 10 next week. However, Allmendinger has still executed and brought a much-needed uptick in performance to the No. 16 team this year.
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2. Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford
Started: 11th
Finished: 6th
What happened: The Prosper, Texas, native had superb speed for most of the weekend, and it showed on race day as he spent most of the race with a top-15 car. He didn’t quite have as much as some drivers, though, given Buescher just barely missed out on stage points, finishing 13th and 11th in the first two frames. Still, Buescher remains ninth in driver’s points and continues a solid start in 2025 with a fourth top 10 through six weeks of racing.
What’s next: Buescher has netted a top-15 finish in the spring race at Martinsville Speedway the last five years and has two career top 10s at the track from the fall races in 2021 and ’23. Plus, RFK Racing has generally had a strong short-track package, so there’s a good chance he’s a contender next week.
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3. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
Started: 30th
Finished: 13th
What happened: Dillon was one of the biggest benefactors from Blaney’s engine expiring on Lap 208. After spending much of the day in the back, the late caution was enough for the No. 3 driver to work his way up front at a track where he’s historically had good luck. He may still be looking for a top 10 in this season’s campaign, but a 13th-place effort gives him his second top-15 result of the season and a boost after finishing 32nd at Las Vegas.
What’s next: Perhaps the top 10 Dillon is looking for comes next weekend at Martinsville. He won a short track race last year (Richmond summer) and finished seventh at Martinsville in the fall race last year. It would go a long way for the No. 3 team to string solid performances together.
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THREE DOWN ⬇️
1. Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
Started: 16th
Finished: 29th
What happened: An early spin on Lap 70 from 15th place essentially sealed Bell’s fate on trying to bounce back from a 12th-place finish last week at Vegas. Bell had a fast Toyota over the long run, but couldn’t quite work through traffic like his teammates Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe could, as Hamlin climbed from 23rd to second in Stage 2 and Briscoe chipped away at spots in the top 20.
What’s next: While bad luck has hit the No. 20 team the last couple of weeks after three straight wins, Martinsville is a great track for Bell to turn this around. He won there before in October 2022 and has three career top 10s at the track; plus, given how last year ended for him at the track, there may be added fire to his competitive spirit to perform well.
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2. Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Started: 25th
Finished: 31st
What happened: The Florida native was never quite in contention this weekend, which is disappointing given how strong Chastain looked on an intermediate circuit just last week. What set Chastain back the most was a lack of long-run speed; he restarted 33rd on Lap 217, and while he did make up two spots on the final restart, he certainly struggled to move up more and drive his way to the top 20.
What’s next: Of course, there’s a special memory for Chastain at Martinsville, but more importantly, he’s yet to finish worse than 14th at the short track in the last six races there. With only two top 10s through six weeks, Chastain needs a boost if he wants to make it back into the playoffs this season.
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3. Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford
Started: 32nd
Finished: 26th
What happened: Keselowski struggled to discover the same speed his RFK Racing teammates were able to find as they snagged top 10s. It’s the first time since 2011 that Keselowski, who dropped four positions after the final restart, has gone the first six races without a top-10 finish.
What’s next: Luckily for Keselowski he heads back to Martinsville, where last time the Cup Series was in town, he led a race-high 170 laps and finished ninth. He also has two wins and 12 career top fives at the Virginia track, so there should be some promise that he can turn his season around starting next week.
