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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (April 26, 2022) — Today, JR Motorsports announced it will field a fifth car in five additional NASCAR Xfinity Series races this season. With primary sponsorship from HendrickCars.com, current Cup Series stars William Byron, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson will combine to make the starts in the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro.

Elliott, who won the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series championship with Hendrick Motorsports, will kick things off at Darlington Raceway (May 7). Byron will take the wheel of the No. 88 at Texas Motor Speedway (May 21) and New Hampshire Motor Speedway (July 16). Larson, the defending NCS champion, sees action at Watkins Glen International (Aug. 20) and Darlington Raceway (Sept. 3).

JRM owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been a longtime partner with Hendrick Motorsports owner and Hendrick Automotive Group CEO Rick Hendrick with four franchises located in Tallahassee, Florida: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Cadillac and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Buick GMC. Hendrick is also a minority owner of JRM.

“The NASCAR platform has been instrumental in helping us build HendrickCars.com into a national brand, and we look forward to continuing that momentum through this expanded effort,” said Greg Gach, president of Charlotte-based Hendrick Automotive Group. “We are committed to our racing programs and supporting our Hendrick Motorsports teammates whenever we can, and we know these additional races will benefit our drivers and teams. We’re also excited to work with Dale Jr. on this opportunity. He’s a terrific partner whose dealerships have created tremendous value for our General Motors customers. It’s a win-win for everyone.”

HendrickCars.com is Hendrick Automotive Group’s online destination for new and pre-owned vehicle shopping, locating centers for service and collision repair, exploring career opportunities, and learning about vehicle investment protection. It also sponsors Larson’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the Cup Series in addition to NHRA driver Greg Anderson and other racing efforts at the grassroots level.

All three drivers have previously driven for JRM. Byron and Elliott are both past NXS champions and multi-time winners with the organization, while Larson made one start for JRM’s Camping World Truck Series operation in 2015.

The news brings the No. 88 team’s tally to nine events in 2022, up from the four previously announced starts. In the two races to date this season, the team has one top-10 finish with Miguel Paludo at Circuit of the Americas.

Crew chief duties for the No. 88 team will be announced at a later date.

Posted on by Dustin Albino

The last time Kevin Harvick won a stage in the NASCAR Cup Series was at Dover Motor Speedway … in 2020. That’s a lofty 58 races since the No. 4 car has earned a playoff point.

That weekend continued Harvick’s recent surge of success at the Monster Mile, who picked up his first win on the concrete race track in 2015. On that afternoon, in a must-win situation to advance to the Round of 12 in the playoffs, the No. 4 car soared from 15th to lead 355 of 400 laps.

RELATED: Dover weekend schedule | Cup Series standings

Since the 2015 win, Harvick has visited Victory Lane two more times at Dover, and he heads into the Monster Mile for Sunday’s DuraMAX Drydene 400 (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM) with seven consecutive finishes of sixth or better at the track. In that time frame, he’s led 200-plus laps on three separate occasions.

“It took a long time to click, I know that for sure,” Harvick told NASCAR.com of his success at Dover. “When I came to SHR, Rodney [Childers, crew chief] knew that was a struggle for me and put a lot of effort into that and took that into winning races and running up front.

“As we’ve gone to Dover through the years, it’s definitely been a fun place to go.”

Of course, Harvick says he wishes NASCAR still took to Dover twice in a season. But this year will have a whole new dynamic.

Many drivers consider this weekend’s race at Dover to be the last true test for the Next Gen car. It’s competed on two superspeedways, another pack-style race at Atlanta, a couple of intermediates, two short tracks and a dirt track, but now has a whole new challenge in the Monster Mile.

Unique to Dover, it has significant elevation change going down into the corners and when exiting the corners with 24 degrees of banking. In the past, it’s been referred to as a roller coaster.

Harvick was quick to point out that teams won’t truly know what they have with the Next Gen car until practice on Saturday.

“I don’t anticipate the actual characteristics of Dover being any different than what they’ve been in the past,” Harvick added. “But I do think it will be somewhat different inside of the car with how you achieve that and put the car in the right spot.

“It’s been different at all the race tracks that we’ve gone to. But in the end, it’s also been a lot of the same, as far as where you want to place the car and things like that.”

Through 10 races this season, Harvick sits 11th in the championship standings, and he is coming off a 10th-place finish at Talladega. And though he’s led just 12 laps on the season – 11 of which came in one swoop at Atlanta – the No. 4 team is maximizing many of its performances thus far in 2022.

“With everything that we’ve had going on, I’m pretty happy with the results that we’ve been able to achieve because we’ve had so many things go wrong,” Harvick added. “Whether it be crashes, pit road, you name it and we’ve had to deal with it. I think the performance of the car has been relatively good from the standpoint and my comfort in the car. We just have to keep plugging away and clean up the things that are going wrong each week and progress from that.”

Changing over to the Next Gen car, Harvick said his team was mentally prepared to clean up miscues. He just didn’t think the team would have so many issues in the first two months of the season.

At the same time, the 2014 champion “didn’t really have any expectations” going into the season because he didn’t want to have to worry about anything additional than honing in on the development of the Next Gen car. He just wants to race.

And though Harvick is on a 53-race winless streak, the goal hasn’t changed.

“Put yourself in the top five, try to win races and put yourself in position to win races,” he said. “I think from the performance side, we have the capability to do that. We just have to have clean days.”

As the season progresses and already eight playoff spots potentially filled, Harvick’s outlook hasn’t changed, even with three first-time winners. His methodical approach will continue on the “week-to-week grind,” forgetting about the issues that have occurred.

“You see things, feel things and you apply those things and move forward and the car continues to get better week after week.”

Posted on by Adam Fenwick

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A packed house greeted Bowman Gray Stadium competitors as the legendary short track opened its NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series season Saturday night with the annual running of the Hayes Jewelers 200 for the Brad’s Golf Cars Modified division.

After 200 laps, it was New Jersey’s Danny Bohn who left the quarter-mile flat oval with the trophy. He dominated the race, taking the lead from polesitter and defending track champion Tim Brown on Lap 6 and leading the rest of the distance for his first victory in Bowman Gray’s Crown Jewel event.

Bohn, who has starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series during his career, is the first Northern-born driver to win the Hayes Jewelers 200 since Jerry Cook won the 200-lap event in 1980.

It was his 16th career victory at Bowman Gray Stadium in 121 starts.

“I’ve won the 199 a couple of times, the championship, the 100 lappers. I’ve not won the 200 lapper. This was what I was coming for this year,” said Bohn, the 2014 Brad’s Golf Cars Modified champion at Bowman Gray. “I knew if I could control the race with the way the track was it would be tough to pass us. Tire wear wasn’t bad.

“It’s pretty awesome to see this crowd. This place is special to me. I’ve been able to do some NASCAR starts and stuff, but it was all because of here. I’m going to come support this place when I can.”

Brandon Ward was second, followed by Jason Myers, Chris Fleming and John Smith. Brown faded to seventh after leading the first five laps of the race.

In other action, defending McDowell Heating & Air Sportsman track champion Tommy Neal survived multiple caution flags to win the 40-lap feature that opened the night of racing.

Neal led every lap of the feature after starting from the pole. He was joined on the front row by his grandson, Riley Neal, who was making his first Bowman Gray start in the Sportsman division. Tommy Neal is a four-time track champion at Bowman Gray, having won two track championships each in the Sportsman and Stadium Stock divisions.

The Stadium Stock division was split into a pair of 15-lap features, with Tyler McDonald and A.J. Sanders picking up victories.

In the first race, McDonald took the lead from Tyler Bush on the 14th circuit after muscling his way to the inside. Bush, who faded to third, shared his displeasure with McDonald by making contact with him post-race and pushing him into the infield grass.

Sanders also scored a dramatic victory in the second Stadium Stock race. Race leader Chuck Wall fell off the pace a few laps from the checkered flag, which elevated Sanders to second. He then took the lead from Luke Smith coming to the white flag and held on to win his first feature of the year and 50th of his career at Bowman Gray.

The evening was bookended by a 20-lap feature for the Law Offices of John Barrow Street Stocks, with Bryan Sykes collecting the victory ahead of Nate Gregg.

Bowman Gray Stadium will be in action on most Saturday nights through Aug. 20, with the Modified, Sportsman, Street Stock and Stadium Stock classes typically sharing the card. The venue will also host its popular Crash Fest and Night of Destruction events on May 21 and July 16, respectively.

Catch live racing from Bowman Gray Stadium all season long only on FloRacing.

Posted on by Brandon White

Saturday’s season-opening Icebreaker at Berlin Raceway provided all the excitement and intensity that fans and drivers have been used to with the historic facility.

While afternoon featured a handful of hard hits across the four different divisions on display at Berlin, the Icebreaker also included many fantastic on-track battles, most of which were not resolved until each respectful race entered its closing stages.

FLORACING: Watch all the highlights from the Icebreaker

The exciting on-track action culminated into an intense fight for the win between two experienced competitors during the 75-lap Super Late Model feature.

Late restart propels Kyle Crump to victory

Throughout his career, Kyle Crump has developed a reputation as one of the most efficient drivers on restarts in the Midwest.

That quality proved to be essential on a restart inside of six laps to go in the Icebreaker’s main event, as he utilized the high line to power past fellow veteran Joe Bush and hold on for his second career victory at Berlin.

Crump, who battled Bush for most of the event’s second half, knew his restart had to be perfect for him to clear Bush and pull away.

“Joe Bush has been doing this for years [at Berlin],” Crump said in Victory Lane. “He knows how to get it done, and that was a true test. I was biting my teeth the whole time, and I was expecting him to get to my rear bumper. That didn’t happen, and I ended up in Victory Lane.”

Having won the most recent edition of the Battle at Berlin 150, Crump entered the Icebreaker with confidence and momentum on his side.

The speed Crump displayed from that victory was prevalent from the drop of the green flag. He methodically worked his way to the front after starting sixth and patiently bided his time while waiting for an opportunity to chase Bush down for the win.

Now that he has another Berlin victory on his resume, Crump is eagerly looking forward to returning to the track later this year as he looks to defend his Battle at Berlin title while also striving to add a Money in the Bank 150 win to his growing resume.

“This is kind of surreal,” Crump said. “This is a brand-new car, and I only got one tire mark on it. We’ll take it back and get ready for the next one.” 

Veteran Joe Bush enjoys strong day at Berlin

A season-opening victory at Berlin just narrowly slipped away from long-time competitor Joe Bush.

The 55-year-old driver from Hastings, Michigan, stalked Kyle Crump for the lead before finally taking it away with just 20 laps remaining. Unfortunately for Bush, an ill-timed competition caution reset the field and enabled Crump to overtake him for the win.

While Bush came up short on a trip to Victory Lane in the Icebreaker, he still managed to bring home a strong second place finish and show Berlin’s diverse group of regulars that he is still more than capable of being a top contender.

Outside of Berlin, Bush has recorded starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and ASA National Tour. All his combined experience was prevalent as he attempted to pick up a big season-opening Icebreaker victory in front of a packed house at Berlin.

Bush will have another opportunity to add another win at Berlin when the Super Late Models hit the track once again this Saturday.

Carl Snider and Dave Avink escape violent crash

Before the other divisions hit the track, Berlin’s 4 Cylinder competitors kicked off the day’s festivities in an unorthodox-but-frightening manner.

While battling for the lead in the first feature, Carl Snider and Dave Avink made contact down the backstretch after the former was bumped by Corey Holtzlander. Both drivers lost control of their cars and crashed hard into the protective tire barrier that separates the runoff area on the backstretch from the Turn 3 wall.

Both Snider and Avink emerged from the wreckage unscathed, but the damage to the tire barrier resulted in a red flag that lasted approximately 15 minutes. Neither driver took the green flag for the second 4 Cylinder feature later in the day.

NOTES:

  • NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Carson Hocevar, who won the track championship at Berlin in 2017, struggled to make his way to the front after being inverted to the fifth row for the 75-lap main event. He did rebound to finish third behind Crump and Bush.
  • Terry Senneker, who is the nephew of all-time ASA National Tour wins leader Bob Senneker, was among the 25 cars that took the green flag for the 75-lap Super Late Model feature. A mechanical issue cut his day short after nine laps and he ended up finishing 21st.
  • Other notable names in the Super Late Model field include former ARCA Menards Series competitor Michael Simko and two-time Money in the Bank 150 winner Brian Campbell. Simko finished seventh while Campbell pulled behind the wall shortly before halfway to come home in 20th.

Feature winners: 

Super Late Model: Kyle Crump

Sportsman (1): Brian Thome

Sportsman (2): Kevin Ford

Limited Late Model (1): Nick Delongpre

Limited Late Model (2): Tyler Rycenga

4 Cylinder (1): Case Roelofs

4 Cylinder (2): Chase Roelofs

Posted on by Terrin Waack

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Last year, Ross Chastain wrecked out of the Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 at Daytona International Speedway with seven laps remaining. Bigger issue was, Chastain needed to be able to compete three days later in the Daytona 500. And his primary car was shot.

Chastain’s team at the time, Chip Ganassi Racing, had to bring out and prep up a backup.

“I got in for practice the next day and I called them out, ‘There’s no way, this is the same car, same interior,’ ” Chastain said. “They’re like, ‘No, it’s all new, but it’s all that good. It’s that well-prepared.’ They prepare it that close that you can’t tell a difference.

(‘Dega) Alejandro Alvarez | NASCAR Digital Media

“Same thing with these cars. I can’t tell a difference week in, week out. I can’t tell that it’s the same car because I can’t tell that one’s any different.”

RELATED: Talladega race results

Chastain finished seventh in that 2021 Daytona 500 – a career-best there – and “these cars” he referred to would be the Next Gen cars introduced in 2022. The throwback story becomes present-day relevant because unlike at Daytona, the race car Chastain drove Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway was actually the same as the one he raced back in March at Circuit of The Americas. Yet, he still couldn’t have confidently known that without confirmation from his new team, Trackhouse Racing.

The story gets better. The Duel-to-500 path was at the same track, so same setup. In this year’s version, COTA is a road course, while Talladega is a superspeedway. The venues couldn’t be more different. And the cherry on top: Chastain won at both.

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(COTA) Dylan Buell | Getty Images

“It makes it so special that Jim France and the NASCAR family, the France family, their vision for this car … in a month, you can bring a car back, you (can) win at a road course and win at Talladega,” Chastain said. “That hasn’t happened since the ‘60s. I don’t know, farther back. I have no idea. They would have different cars.

“It’s wild. That’s more what it means to me, that this car is capable of that.”

COTA marked Chastain’s first career victory at NASCAR’s top level. Talladega made him only the second driver, joining William Byron (also two wins), to capture more than one checkered flag this season. They’re 10 races in with Dover Motor Speedway up next (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, FS1).

RELATED: ‘So special’ to win Talladega in COTA car

Granted, the process of reusing Chastain’s COTA-winning car wasn’t as simple as quick wash. There was still a complete dismantling and rebuilding. What qualifies the car as the same is the chassis, which, to be clear by Merriam-Webster’s definition, is the supporting frame of a structure.

“Really comes down to just the whole Next Gen platform,” crew chief Phil Surgen said. “All the cars are the same, have the same range of adjustments, same group of parts. All the cars right now are essentially universal. We took that car after it was done at COTA, cleaned it up, set it up a little bit differently to come here (Talladega). There’s no reason it can’t race at a different try to of track, (like) an oval next time, a downforce oval.”

And for very similar reasons, Surgen wouldn’t put this car above any others in Trackhouse Racing’s garage.

“No, I would say it’s exactly the same,” he said. “In fact, there’s so many parts on ‘em that are interchangeable, there’s likely a different group of parts on this car – on the chassis element – than there was on the car when it raced at COTA.”

Talladega was still proof to Surgen, who’s in his second-full time season atop the pit box, cars can be successfully recycled into the schedule lineup every three or four weeks.

THROWBACK: Who is Trackhouse Racing?

COTA and Talladega combined proved to team owner Justin Marks this season was the perfect time to enter NASCAR. He formed Trackhouse Racing because of what Next Gen promised: a more financially friendly car to help level the playing field. Trackhouse Racing is barely 2 years old at this season, and it is home to one of the two multi-race winners, just like Hendrick Motorsports, and owns as many wins as Joe Gibbs Racing.

“This new car represents an opportunity for us to make a statement quickly,” Marks said, “to where, if we came in with a Gen-6 car, the Gen-5 car, we’re up against teams that have so much engineering depth and money. Now we’re all kind of playing with the same ball. I say if we can build a team around this ball, give you control of it, we can really, really do great things.”

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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.

On the last lap of Sunday’s race, Erik Jones lost the lead coming to the checkered flag at Talladega Superspeedway. Kyle Larson wasn’t able to snag it from the second-place position either. Instead, third-running Ross Chastain coasted by to steal the victory.

RELATED: Official results | Chastain prevails at Talladega

“Defending the 5 (Larson), I probably would have just stayed on the bottom,” Jones said. “I didn’t realize the bottom was coming with that much momentum. … Obviously, if I would have known that the bottom had that much steam, I would have probably stuck with it and hoped, hoped the 1 (Chastain) has to push me.

“It’s frustrating, but you work that hard for 500 miles and it comes down to the last 1,000 feet.”

As the field made its way down the frontstretch, Jones’ No. 43 slid out further and further, which isn’t ideal at a superspeedway. The gap allowed Larson to make a move to the outside. Jones tried to defend, following Larson to block his path.

Both went too high and created a wreck behind them. Larson finished fourth. Jones managed sixth.

“I made the move that I wanted,” Larson said. “I just wished instead of taking that run to the outside, I would have just kind of did what I did but kind of juked left at the last second and got to the bottom and probably would have won the race.”

Because they drifted up together, a clear view of the finish line was presented to Chastain. The win marked his second of 2022, making him just the second driver (along with William Byron, also two) to own more than one win through 10 races.

Austin Dillon turned out the runner-up. Kyle Busch came in third, then Larson, and Martin Truex Jr. fifth.

“I’m gonna remember that I crossed the line and I honestly didn’t know if we won,” Chastain said. “I mean, I knew that I quit blocking. I think the 3 (Dillon) finished second. Like I saw the 5 (Larson) and the 43 (Jones) hang a right, and then I was just motoring on the bottom.”

Larson won earlier this year at Auto Club Speedway, so he has a playoff bid. He sits seventh in the points standings.

A Talladega victory for Larson, though, would have been career first for superspeedways. The top-five result was even still a first. In his previous 30 superspeedway starts – that includes Talladega (2.66 miles) and Daytona International Speedway (2.5 miles) – Larson’s best-ever finish was sixth, at both tracks.

“Yeah, I don’t know,” Larson said. “I mean, I really didn’t do anything fancy or different. I just kind of ran the bottom all race long, saved fuel and allowed myself to have shorter pit stops.”

A victory Sunday for Jones would have not only been a first for him personally in 2022, it would have signified No. 200 for the No. 43 in the sport’s history. Talladega, rather, marked his third top 10 this season. His best, so far, was third at Auto Club. Jones now ranks 17th, one spot short of the 16-driver postseason field.

Sixteen races until that field is set, starting with Dover Motor Speedway next Sunday (3 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM).

“I guess at the end of the day, we go on to Dover next week and hopefully have another opportunity,” Jones said. “Beyond that, I know we can win at non-superspeedways. We just have to put the parts and pieces in place to do it.”

Posted on by Holly Cain

One lap. That’s all it took for Ross Chastain to drop a watermelon and raise a trophy in celebration. The 29-year-old Floridian led only the last — typically frantic — lap in the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday to take his second career NASCAR Cup Series victory.

Chastain was running third behind Erik Jones and Kyle Larson with one lap remaining. Larson pulled out of line to the outside, poised to make a pass for the lead. But Jones pulled in front of Larson to block the momentum while Chastain kept his No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet steady below them maintaining pace, ultimately pulling away to the win as the other two cars lost momentum battling each other.

RELATED: Official results | At-track photos

“Holy cow, we didn’t do anything,’’ Chastain yelled on his team radio after taking the checkered flag by a mere 0.105 seconds. “We just stayed down there.’’

And it worked.

“I’m always the one going to the top too early and making the mistake and there at the end, with like eight (laps) to go I was like ‘I’m not going up there again, I did that a couple times today,’ ” said Chastain, who earned his first career series victory at Austin’s Circuit of The Americas on March 27.

“I was like, I’ll just drive the bottom, I’m not going to lose the race for us. They just kept going up and moving out of the way.”

Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon crossed the line in second, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch while the Hendrick Motorsports driver Larson was able to finish fourth for his first top-five finish in a superspeedway race in 31 tries.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Martin Truex Jr. was fifth followed by Jones, who came less than one lap away from giving Petty GMS Motorsports and team owner Richard Petty its first win since 2014.

Sean Gardner | Getty Images
Sean Gardner | Getty Images

“Just the last lap, it’s typical here,’’ said a disappointed Jones, who finished sixth. “I’ve been close here so many times in this race and the fall race.’’

“Looking back,’’ he continued. “I wish I’d stayed in the bottom but didn’t realize they were coming with that much speed. Tried to defend the 5 (Larson), but was too far ahead already and obviously it opened the door for the 1 (Chastain).

He did take solace in the showing, however.

“Happy to run up front and lead laps, just would really love to get that 43 to Victory Lane and thought today might be the day,’’ Jones said. “We were fast all day long, had speed and especially being out front there at the end I know we had a shot, just couldn’t quite close it out.’’

Larson was equally as disappointed hoping to turn his best race performance at Talladega into a trophy.

“I felt like I did a pretty near perfect job for me at a superspeedway until the last lap there,’’ said Larson, the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion. “I should have faked going high and gone back low. I had that run there.’

“Just that little inexperience there, probably,’’ he added.

Larson’s Hendrick teammate Chase Elliott, a former Talladega winner, finished seventh, followed by former Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell, Hendrick’s Alex Bowman and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick.

The race ending capped off a typically dramatic day featuring 41 lead changes among 16 drivers. Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron led a race-best 38 of the 188 laps and won Stage 2, but finished 15th, unable to make up ground after his final pit stop in the dicey closing laps.

Bubba Wallace, who won last fall at Talladega and led 15 laps on Sunday, won Stage 1 — his first stage win of the season — but as with Byron, lost positions in the final laps. He was involved in a wreck coming to the checkered flag and finished 17th in the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota.

A multi-car crash on a Stage 2 restart thinned the field of contenders. Joey Logano’s No. 22 Ford was shuffled out of line into the outside retaining wall, bouncing back into traffic and collecting several others. The No. 99 Chevrolet of Daniel Suárez, who had led 28 laps early, joined the cars of Logano, Ty Dillon and Harrison Burton among the eliminated.

MORE: Logano, Suárez out early

Elliott’s top-10 result was good enough for him to extend the championship lead over the 11th-place finisher, Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney. He’s now 21 points up on the field heading to Dover Motor Speedway next weekend, where the NASCAR Cup Series will race Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Bowman is the defending race winner.

Note: Post-race inspection was completed in the Cup Series garage without issue, confirming Chastain’s victory. NASCAR officials indicated that six cars (Nos. 4, 5, 6, 11, 19 and 48) will be taken back to the wind tunnel and NASCAR’s R&D Center for further inspection.

Contributing: Staff reports


Posted on by Staff Report

Which channels have NASCAR programming this week? We answer that and give the weekly NASCAR television listings here in the NASCAR TV schedule.

Note: All times are ET.

MORE: How to find FS1 | Get FOX Sports App | Watch on USA Network | Get the NBC Sports App | Watch on Peacock | FloRacing

Monday, April 25
4:30 a.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1
10 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
1 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
6 p.m. Motormouths, Peacock

Tuesday, April 26
Noon, ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
7 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS1

Wednesday, April 27
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
6 p.m., Motormouths, Peacock
9 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2

Thursday, April 28
Midnight, NASCAR Xfinity Series: Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
3 a.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway (re-air), FS2
5 a.m., The NASCARcade, FS2
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of Radioactive — Dover, FS1

Friday, April 29
3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway, FS1
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
8:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS1
10 p.m., NASCAR Race Classics: 2011 Daytona 500 (re-air), FS1

On MRN:
5:30 p.m., ARCA Menards Series East: General Tire 125 at Dover Motor Speedway

Saturday, April 30
4:30 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS1
7:30 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS2
9 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS1
10:30 a.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway, FS1
12:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Xfinity Series at Dover, FS1
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: A-Game 200 at Dover Motor Speedway, FS1 (Canada: TSN5)
11 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS1

On MRN:
10:30 a.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway
1 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: A-Game 200 at Dover Motor Speedway

Sunday, May 1
1 a.m., NACAR Xfinity Series: A-Game 200 at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS1
6 a.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS2
8 a.m., NACAR Xfinity Series: A-Game 200 at Dover Motor Speedway (re-air), FS2
2 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Cup Series at Dover, FS1
3 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Duramax Drydene 400 presented by Reladyne at Dover Motor Speedway, FS1 (Canada: TSN5) POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY AT NOON ET ON FS1
3 p.m., IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, NBC

On MRN:
2 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Duramax Drydene 400 presented by Reladyne at Dover Motor Speedway

Posted on by Terrin Waack

TALLADEGA, Ala. — A week later, there’s still no bad blood between Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe.

Last Sunday, at Bristol Motor Speedway, Briscoe tried to pass Reddick for the lead on the last lap but failed and ended up spinning both cars. As soon as Briscoe parked on pit road, he went to find and apologize to Reddick.

“Just because I didn’t lose my mind, right, that doesn’t mean I’m OK with what happened,” Reddick said at Talladega Superspeedway. “That still sucked.”

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Others reacted strongly. NASCAR fans, fellow drivers and casual viewers might have thought a fight was justified. Even crew members of Reddick’s team were disappointed Briscoe didn’t pay for his actions.

“Certainly there’s people that I work with that have been doing this a lot longer than I have on the Cup level that haven’t won,” Reddick said. “And just everyone’s path to how they got here and what their story is, we’re a little bit different, so that, I guess I can understand why they’re more outwardly frustrated than I was.”

The victory would have also been a first in the Cup Series for Reddick. Instead, he finished second. That adds to the lack-of-reaction confusion.

Meanwhile, Briscoe — who ultimately came in 22nd but already won this season at Phoenix Raceway — hasn’t received nearly as much negative feedback as Reddick this past week.

“For him, it was a kind of a totally different situation, right?” Briscoe said. “I think people expected him to be mad, there was no reason for me to be mad. … I was glad to see that he was smiling when I got there. And I was glad that how the racing deal worked out, it ended up being with a dirt guy just because I felt like we both understood where the move was coming from and the intent behind it.”

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Reddick said as much, too. He believed Briscoe when he said the spin wasn’t intentional. The shared dirt background simmered any anger. There’s no desire for revenge.

Briscoe’s Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, Kevin Harvick, can’t relate, but he can understand.

“That’s the way those guys are wired, man,” Harvick said. “You watch all those dirt races, that’s how you do it. I just watched another one last night from Port City, (Oklahoma). So, you know, the midget race ended in a tip-over with the second-place car sliding the leader. Apparently that’s just how it seems to always go. Or it goes that way a lot of times. And as you saw afterwards, those guys are apparently pretty used to it.”

Had it been Bristol’s normal concrete surface, even Reddick admits the post-race story would have been completely different. But it wasn’t. It was dirt.

And it was Easter. Families were present. His son was there.

“I feel like my reaction to it was the right one,” Reddick said. “I still stand by that.”

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CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA — Getting from point A to point B the fastest way possible is at the very core of a successful NASCAR Cup Series racing organization. Trackhouse Racing’s new partner, Dallas-based freight and logistics giant Worldwide Express, will deliver just that to the rising, second-year racing team over the next two years.

Trackhouse announced today the global logistics provider will serve as the primary sponsor of Ross Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet for 17 races over the next two seasons and four more times on the No. 99 Chevrolet of Daniel Suárez.

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The stunning blue and black primary scheme will be on full display on May 3 on the No. 99 with Suárez during a track test session at Pocono Raceway.

The Worldwide Express paint scheme will debut in competition on Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet at the NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, just miles away from the company’s headquarters.

“We are proud to partner with Trackhouse Racing,” said Rob Rose, president of Worldwide Express. “Trackhouse has been one of the most exciting and interesting teams in 2022. Everyone wants to win, but Justin Marks’ approach is setting them up to win even bigger in the long-term. The obsession with excellence and continuous improvement, down to the last detail, is what sets their program apart. This is directly aligned with the business approach shared by Worldwide Express employees, franchisees and agents.”

Worldwide Express, along with its sister brands of GlobalTranz and Unishippers, is among the top non-asset logistics providers in the country, offering marketing-leading solutions for parcel, less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload shipping and managed transportation services delivered through proprietary technology. Due to the company’s unique data assets and business intelligence capabilities, more than 115,000 shippers, from small and mid-size to enterprise businesses, benefit from enhanced visibility and efficiency for their supply chains.

Trackhouse Racing is in its second season in the Cup Series. Florida native Chastain gave the organization its first victory on March 27 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Both he and Suárez, the Cup Series’ only Mexican driver and former Xfinity Series champion, have contended for victory at several races this season.

“Partnering with someone like Worldwide Express has been one of the goals since establishing Trackhouse Racing,” said Trackhouse Founder and owner Justin Marks who brought in entertainer Pitbull as a team partner last year as part of its off-track effort to expand the sport’s fan base beyond its normal demographic.

“Worldwide Express is a powerful brand and we want to expand its reach among our vast ecosystem of American industry connections and within the sport. We also want Worldwide Express to show Trackhouse Racing how it does business and learn what we can from such a successful company.”

Chastain said the benefits of a partnership with Worldwide Express is a two-way street and will provide Trackhouse with many dividends.

“I have already spent time with (Worldwide Express President) Rob (Rose) and it’s fascinating how complex and successful their business is in this age of global supply challenges. They handle so many challenges with ease, I can’t help but thinking that mindset will help our race team on and off the track.”

Suarez echoed his teammate’s comments.

“Surrounding yourself with good people is one of the keys to success,” he said. “Worldwide Express has the same drive and desire for success that we do at Trackhouse Racing.”