The 2022 season-opening Clash has a new look — and a new venue.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, one of the most storied venues in all of sports and entertainment, will add a new event to its long and decorated list: The Clash at the Coliseum
NASCAR officially announced the news Tuesday evening, confirming the first NASCAR event held at the iconic Los Angeles stadium will take place Sunday, Feb. 6.
The Clash at the Coliseum will also be the first event as part of the venue’s centennial celebration and mark the first time NASCAR’s prelude event to the DAYTONA 500 will take place somewhere other than Daytona International Speedway.
When is the Clash at the Coliseum?
Date: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
Start time/TV channel: To be announced at a later date
More: Tickets start at $65 for adults and kids 12 & under starting as low as $10. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum offers a variety of seating options from lower to upper bowl, midfield start/finish line seats to premium club seats with access to the exclusive Lou Galen Club Lounge. Premium Club seats will go on sale starting Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. ET following a special pre-sale to current Club Members.
The No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of race winner Martin Truex Jr. was found with one unsecured lug nut in Saturday’s post-race check after the Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders, resulting in a $10,000 fine for crew chief James Small.
The No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet of Justin Haley was found with two unsecured lug nuts after the race, resulting in a $20,000 fine for crew chief Kevin Bellicourt. In addition, Bellicourt is also suspended from the next NASCAR Cup Series Championship Points Event.
In the Xfinity Series, the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Harrison Burton was found with a single unsecured lug nut after Saturday’s Go Bowling 250, resulting in a $5,000 fine for crew chief Jason Ratcliff.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour is heading into Riverhead Raceway for the third time this season, but with much heavier hearts compared to when the series was there in May and June.
Ed Partridge, Riverhead track owner and the tour’s most recent winning car owner, passed away on Friday, Sept. 10, just hours after Ryan Preece wheeled Partridge’s No. 6 car to victory lane at Richmond Raceway. Partridge owned Riverhead with his wife, Connie, and while his passion for motorsports has been highlighted in the passing days, so too has his kindness.
Preece, who won each of his final three races for Partridge this season, will not be able to compete at Riverhead this weekend, as he will be busy piloting the No. 37 Chevrolet for JTG Daugherty Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Motor Speedway.
With two races in the books already this year at Riverhead and only one winner, we know a little bit more of what to expect heading into Saturday night’s Miller Lite 200 at the New York bullring. With a former six-time champion knocking on the door of sweeping the season, and a points battle heading to the final stretch run, fans will be intrigued to see what happens over 200 laps at the quarter-mile.
The Miller Lite 200 is set for Saturday at 8 p.m. ET and can be seen live on TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.
Six-time tour champion Doug Coby won the first two races of the year at Riverhead and is hoping to make it a clean sweep come Saturday night. After not winning in 19 previous Riverhead attempts, the Milford, Connecticut, native finally scored the checkered flag in May, leading 25 laps, and followed it up by dominating in June. Coby was at the front for 149 of the 200 laps in the June race and has proven that his Mayhew Tools team have figured out the setup at the tricky track. He will be heading to Riverhead fresh off his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Bristol on Thursday, which will come behind the wheel of the No. 24 Truck for GMS Racing.
Meanwhile, the Whelen Modified Tour championship battle comes into full focus, as Justin Bonsignore eyes his third tour championship in four years. The Holtsville, New York, native had an opportunity to truly widen his point lead over Patrick Emerling at Richmond, after Emerling broke a driveshaft at lap 47. Instead, a mechanical gremlin eliminated Bonsignore from the race just 13 laps later and only he finished one spot ahead of his championship rival.
Riverhead marks the penultimate race of the 2021 season, with only a September 25 race at Stafford Motor Speedway left to decide the title. Bonsignore enters with a 22-point cushion over second-place Emerling, and has a clear advantage this weekend on Long Island.
Bonsignore is an eight-time winner at Riverhead — most recently winning four straight tour races from July 2018 through September 2019, and he finished third in both races this season. Emerling, meanwhile, is winless in 11 starts at the ¼-mile oval, but finished runner-up in each of the races there earlier this season.
And while the driver’s title is where all sights will be set, the heat for the owners championship is still ablaze, too. Bonsignore’s No. 51 team owned by Ken Massa holds a 20-point advantage over Coby’s No. 10 team. And just two points behind Doug Coby Racing sits Emerling’s No. 07 team. That fight could last until the closing laps at Stafford.
Ron Silk won each of the two races prior to Richmond and sits third in points, but at 53 points behind Bonsignore, a title run seems out of the picture. Silk has yet to find victory lane at Riverhead, but turned in solid performances earlier this season, running seventh in May and fourth in June. Jon McKennedy enters off a runner-up finish at Richmond, his best result of the season and fourth top five in the past six races. McKennedy could use some of that momentum heading into Riverhead. In his two prior starts this year, McKennedy placed 16th and eighth respectively.
The race will also showcase some of Riverhead’s best local stars, as their NASCAR Modified division takes the night off, and drivers come to play with the Whelen Modified Tour. Kyle Soper leads the weekly track championship standings on the heels of a handful of wins this year, and will return to tour action on Saturday, driving for Wayne Anderson. Dylan Slepian, who is third in the track standings, will also compete in the Miller Lite 200.
Former multiple-time track champion and winner Tom Rogers Jr. is set to compete for the Darch family in their familiar No. 03, as Rogers extended a streak to 18 consecutive years of winning a race at the track earlier this year. Timmy Solomito, a longtime weekly regular at Riverhead, is busting out his own No. 66 family-owned ride for competition. The Islip, New York, native shook the car down last week during weekly competition and has three of his nine career tour wins at Riverhead.
CREW CHIEF HANDOUT:The starting field for the Miller Lite 200 is limited to 28 starters, including provisionals. The field will be set by qualifying (1-22) and provisional process per the entry blank (23-28) for the Miller Lite 200. In the event that qualifying as stated on the entry blank does not take place for any unforeseen circumstance, the field will be set in accordance with the 2021 NASCAR Touring Series Rule Book.
QUALIFYING: Two consecutive qualifying laps. Faster lap determines qualifying position. Adjustments or repairs may not be made on the vehicle after the vehicle has taken the green flag at the start-finish line. NASCAR reserves the right to have more than one vehicle engage in qualifying runs at the same time.
The maximum tire allotment available for this event is as follows: The maximum tire allotment available for this event is eight (8) tires per team. All tires used for qualifying and the race must be purchased at the track and scanned by Hoosier, unless otherwise approved in advance by the Series Director. Four (4) tires must be used for qualifying and to begin the race. All qualifying tires must remain in impound until released by NASCAR Officials. The remaining tire allotment may be used for practice and/or change tires during the event. The tire change rule is zero (0) tires, any position.
QUALIFYING AND SPECIAL AWARDS
$400 Phil Kurze Halfway Leader Award presented by Josten’s per event award to the race leader at the halfway point of the event, regardless if the race is running under green or yellow.
$600 Hoosier Tire “Lap Leader” per event award to the eligible car owner whose driver leads the most laps in each event. In the event of a tie, the award will go to the highest finishing car in the event.
$500 Hoosier Tire “Hard Charger” per event award to the highest finishing eligible driver who advances the most positions during the course of the race. In the case of a tie, the highest finishing driver will receive the award.
$500 Hoosier Tire “Most Improved” per event award to the eligible new team/organization whose driver improves the most positions during the course of the race. In the event of a tie, the award will go to the highest finishing car in the event. If money is not awarded during this event, funds will roll over to the next event and will continue to roll over until an eligible new team/organization claims the money.
$1,000 Mayhew Tools Dominator Pole per event award to the driver with the fastest qualifying time eligible to participate under the Manufacturers’ Prize Money Conditions.
$550 Sunoco Spec Fuel award divided: 1st-$300 5th-$150 10th-$100.
$3,500 Whelen Engineering “Winner of the Race” award to the winning driver.
Whelen Non-Starter award will be paid to the first 15 competitors throughout the season who pass inspection, practice, attempt to qualify but fail to make the feature event.
Justin Bonsignore (51) leads the Whelen Modified Tour championship standings by 22 points over Patrick Emerling with only Riverhead & Stafford left over the next two weeks. (Adam Glanzman/NASCAR)
Concord, NC – NASCAR Drive for Diversity development driver Lavar Scott scored his first Late Model win this weekend at Hickory Motor Speedway.
A historic weekend for the young 18-year-old from Carney’s Point, N.J., Scott had an extremely fast car all night. The team ran P3 in practice, and qualified P2 for the first of two feature races. Scott wasted no time getting to the front, even lapping cars in the process. By the time the checkered flag waved, he had amassed a 2-second lead over second place.
“I am so thankful for this team,” said Scott. “This team has some good people behind it, and they have believed in me since day 1. Thank you to Max Siegel and the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Program as well as my race sponsors NASCAR Technical Institute and Vizionary Wealth Management. It feels so good to finally get my first Late Model win.”
Scott participated in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Youth Driver Development Combine in 2019. Evaluators saw potential in his abilities and tested with Scott throughout the 2019 season. He was also invited to the 2019 NASCAR Drive for Diversity Driver Stock Car Combine in October, and was offered a seat in a U.S. Legend Car with Rev Racing in their Youth Driver Development Program during the 2020 season. The team continued to test his abilities in a Late Model throughout 2020, which ultimately earned him an opportunity for a rookie season in the weekly touring series with a full contract with Rev Racing in 2021.
This weekend did not mark the first ever NASCAR-sanctioned win for Scott, as he competed in the NASCAR FB y Bohn Mikel’s Trucks Series, a subseries of the NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series, this summer. He recorded a win at Autódromo del Ecocentro de la Unión Ganadera in Mexico driving for Dynamic Motorsports.
Scott nearly won two races in the same day at the birthplace of NASCAR stars, but came up less than a car-length short in the second feature race. His teammate, fellow NASCAR FB y Bohn Mikel’s Trucks Series winner Regina Sirvent, also raced in both feature races. Sirvent had a fantastic weekend herself, scoring back-to-back Top-3 finishes. Sirvent and Scott thoroughly enjoyed racing with each other, and both learned a lot coming out of the race weekend.
“We are extremely proud of Lavar and have really seen a tremendous amount of talent and progress over the last two years,” said Max Siegel, owner of Rev Racing. “We are eager to see continued growth and results from Lavar as the season comes to a close.”
Rev Racing announced recently that Scott would be returning to the team for the 2022 season in their Late Model Program, so odds are that the first win of his career will not be his only one.
RICHMOND, Va. — After leading nearly half of Saturday night’s race at Richmond Raceway, Denny Hamlin felt like he needed just two more laps.
The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver led 197 of the 400 laps in the second NASCAR Cup Series Round of 16 playoff race at the 0.75-mile oval, but the final round of green-flag pit stops placed Hamlin behind teammate Martin Truex Jr. With five laps remaining, Hamlin was roughly 2.7 seconds behind Truex. The final margin of victory was 1.417 seconds.
A couple more circuits around the short track might have been the trick for the Chesterfield, Virginia, native.
“We got a little bit off track with our car in the middle of the race, but there in the end, we definitely made the right adjustments and was coming, just a little bit too late,” Hamlin said. “We had a couple slow stops under green. That’s kind of the difference.”
It was a 1-2-3 sweep at night’s end for JGR drivers, staking their claim early in the 2021 NASCAR Playoffs after Hamlin earned victory last Sunday at Darlington Raceway to lock himself into the next round. Christopher Bell finished third.
Christopher Bell takes a moment on pit road after the Cup Series playoff race at Richmond Raceway. Torey Fox | NASCAR Digital Media
Bell noted his target points position coming out of Richmond was 20 markers above the elimination line. Now sitting 17 points ahead with the podium result, his focus is on staying out of trouble next Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“Yeah, I feel good about it, and Bristol is a really good race track for our company and me,” Bell said. “It’s just you can get caught up in stuff so easily at Bristol. It’s nice to have a buffer and hopefully we can go to Bristol and have an uneventful event.”
Kyle Busch was also in the mix up front in the closing stages, but a costly pit-road speeding penalty in the final stint of pit stops dropped the No. 18 Toyota driver back to a ninth-place finish, the final car on the lead lap. Busch has an eight-point buffer over the elimination line heading into Bristol.
Hendrick Motorsports showcased the most dominant speed throughout the regular season, but it’s now JGR who appears to be firing off on all cylinders at the right time. Kyle Larson is the only Hendrick driver locked into the Round of 12 so far, while defending champion Chase Elliott is 19 points above the elimination line.
Alex Bowman and William Byron are on the outside looking in. Bowman is tied with Kurt Busch for 12th, while Byron is 18 points below the elimination line.
“Well, it’s go time now,” Hamlin said. “Ultimately it’s the time where you’ve got to bring your best. All JGR teams had fast cars for all of us today, and we just — I really wish we would have got two in a row, but regardless, still a great day for our team.”
RICHMOND, Va. – It wasn’t the night Chase Elliott had hoped for, but it was one he needed at Richmond Raceway.
Elliott brought the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet home in fourth after Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders at the .75-mile Virginia short track. It wasn’t an easy road to get there, though.
During a round of green-flag pit stops in Stage 2, Elliott was entering his pit stall when he had to slow down more for Ross Chastain exiting his stall. Chastain clipped the left-rear quarter panel of Elliott’s car upon exit. The incident forced Elliott to enter to0 deep into his pit box. Elliott initially thought he was over the line in his pit stall, which would have been a penalty.
In reality, he was still legal in the stall, but proceeded to back up in an effort to avoid penalty. Unfortunately for Elliott, the jackman had already started raising the No. 9 to change right-side tires. The reverse movement dropped the car and broke the jack.
Instead of fighting with Denny Hamlin for the Stage 2 victory like he had before pitting, he ended up a lap down due to the valuable time lost on pit road.
“I knew I was way long. Obviously, it’s really hard to tell. I can’t see the line,” Elliott said after the race. “I know the guys are off the top of the box to help with the pit stop. So, then I’m sitting there and I’m like maybe they … I know I’m deep, maybe they didn’t have the ability to key up the mic because they had a lot going on. I just took it upon myself to back up and TJ (Semke, the jackman) had already hit the right-side jack. At that point, I should have known not to, but obviously I wouldn’t have broken the jack if I knew it was going to break the jack. I didn’t want to do the pit stop over the line. I felt like that was just going to make problems even way worse. Tried to be cautious but ended up hurting us worse.”
In radio communication immediately after the incident, Elliott’s crew chief Alan Gustafson used it as a lesson learned, telling Elliott, “Don’t back up unless we tell you to.”
The defending champion salvaged a top-five finish to maintain an advantage over the elimination line going into the Round of 16 finale at Bristol Motor Speedway next Saturday night, which he needed after a 31st-place result at Darlington Raceway to open the postseason.
But Elliott couldn’t help but wonder what could have been after Martin Truex Jr. locked himself into the next round with a victory, while Hamlin and Christopher Bell finished second and third for Joe Gibbs Racing.
“It definitely hurt after the damage I felt like,” Elliott said. “Prior to that, I thought we were really solid. I didn’t know if we had anything for Martin (Truex Jr.) or Kyle (Busch), but I would have loved to have found out.”
“Definitely good to come here and run fourth,” he added. “This is a tough place, so I was proud of that.”
After the middle race of the Round of 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, here’s a brief look at the playoff picture. There is one race remaining in the Round of 16 before the field is whittled to 12, with four drivers eliminated from the postseason after the Sept. 18 race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Winner
Martin Truex Jr. Truex Jr. bounced back from a first-lap penalty to claim his fourth win of the season and the 31st victory of his NASCAR Cup Series career. Truex led a 1-2-3 finish for Joe Gibbs Racing with Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell coming in behind him.
Denny Hamlin. Hamlin entered the playoffs without a win, but now he’s arguably the hottest driver in these playoffs. The pilot of the No. 11 JGR Toyota followed up his Darlington victory with a second-place showing at Richmond.
Kyle Busch. He came to Richmond two points below the elimination line and $50,000 lighter in the pockets after being fined for speeding off to the garage last weekend. But Busch showed his resiliency with a ninth-place run at Richmond that put him eight points to the good heading into Bristol.
Who’s not
Kurt Busch.His night ended abruptly when the No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet hit the outside wall on Lap 41 after a left-rear tire went down. Busch was running third at the time of the accident but was scored in last place after the wreck.
Tyler Reddick. He started the night 12th in the standings, but a 15th-place run was enough to drop him five points below the elimination line. Now Reddick will probably need a repeat of last year when he finished fourth at Bristol Motor Speedway in order to advance to the Round of 12.
BUBBLE WATCH
Rank
Driver
Points to cutoff
9.
Brad Keselowski
+13
10.
Kyle Busch
+8
11.
Aric Almirola
+3
12.
Kurt Busch
+0
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ELIMINATION LINE
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13.
Alex Bowman
-0
14.
Tyler Reddick
-5
15.
William Byron
-18
16.
Michael McDowell
-38
Next race
The NASCAR Cup Series travels to Bristol Motor Speedway for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race on Sept. 18 (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, NBC Sports App, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Who it favors
Kevin Harvick. Kyle Busch leads the series with three wins and six top fives in Bristol’s last six races, but Harvick has two wins himself and a better average finish — 10.0 to Busch’s 14.5 — during that span. He’s the defending race winner, to boot, and could use a strong Round of 16 to supercharge a late-season run to the title.
Who it hurts
William Byron. After a rough start to the Round of 16, Hendrick Motorsports’ youngest driver could find the closing race challenging, as well. Byron owns finishes of 23rd, 21st and 38th in the three Bristol Night Races under his belt, and only has one top 10 (spring 2020) in his other three starts at the Tennessee track.
Martin Truex Jr. received a penalty on the opening lap of the race for crossing the start/finish line in front of pole-sitter Denny Hamlin at the green flag. But 400 laps later Truex led the field across the line again – this time as the race winner of Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.
The convincing 1.317-second margin of victory over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Hamlin and Christopher Bell marked Truex’s third win in the last five races at Richmond, his fourth win of the 2021 season and, most importantly, gave him that coveted automatic bid into the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Truex joins Hamlin, who won last week’s playoff opener at Darlington, South Carolina, and Regular Season Champion Kyle Larson, who finished sixth on Saturday, as the only three drivers to have officially secured positions in the Round of 12 that begins in two weeks at Las Vegas.
The first thing Truex did after climbing out of his winning No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was acknowledge the importance of the September 11 date to our country and thank the fans for showing their support on the solemn anniversary and for their patriotic support of the sport of NASCAR.
As for his early setback, “That was frustrating, I’m not going to lie,” Truex said of the race start. “But I knew we had a good enough car to overcome it. Just one of those things you have to put out of your mind and go race. A lot on the line tonight.
“But going to Bristol next week without any worries is always fun,” he added with a smile.
Truex, who led a total of 80 laps, took the lead for good – pacing the field for the final 51 laps – after a series of green-flag pit stops in the final portion of the race. Just before the pit sequence, another JGR teammate, Kyle Busch, had positioned himself to be a factor at the checkered flag. Instead, Busch received his second pit road penalty of the night – a speeding violation during his green-flag stop with 55 laps remaining. At the time, it dropped him to 10th place, the last car on the lead lap after he had been out front for 39 laps just before the pit-stop exchange. He ultimately finished ninth.
Last week’s winner Hamlin had the strong car early, leading 100 of the opening 152 laps and a race-best 197 on the night, winning both stages. But the pit-road sequence, lapped traffic and an awakened Truex forced Hamlin to play catch-up in the end.
“The whole JGR team had fast cars for all of us today. I really wish we had gotten two in a row, but regardless still a great day for the team,” Hamlin said.
Unlike last week’s playoff opener at Darlington, when several of the 16 playoff cars suffered setbacks and disappointing finishes, Saturday night those cars reminded why they are in position to challenge for a championship. Thirteen of the top 15 cars were driven by playoff drivers.
Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott finished fourth in a Hendrick Chevrolet and Team Penske’s Joey Logano was fifth in a Ford. Larson finished sixth, followed by the only non-playoff driver among the top 10, Ross Chastain.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s driver Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney rounded out the top 10.
Playoff drivers Alex Bowman, Brad Keselowski, Aric Almirola and Tyler Reddick finished 12th-15th. William Byron (19th), Michael McDowell (28th) and Kurt Busch (37th) rounded out the playoff finishers.
Busch, who led laps early, suffered a tire problem that sent his No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet hard into the Turn 1 wall only 40 laps into the race.
“Something happened with that left rear, it let go,” said Busch, who was running in the top five at the time of his accident. “It let go of our points and it let go of our whole season right now. I don’t know what we’re going to have to do at Bristol other than win.”
Despite the tough luck, Busch heads into Saturday night’s Round of 16 finale at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in a mathematical tie with Bowman for the 12th playoff position – and last transfer position.
Reddick (-5), Byron (-18), Daytona 500 winner McDowell (-38) are currently outside the top 12, with four of the 16 cars set to be eliminated from the playoffs after Bristol’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Harvick is the defending winner of the Bristol playoff race. Joey Logano won the 2021 race at the Bristol track’s inaugural dirt race in March. Kurt Busch has six previous wins at Bristol and his younger brother Kyle is the winningest active driver with eight victories.
Note: Inspection in the NASCAR Cup Series garage revealed no issues, thus validating Truex’s win. In post-race inspection, the No. 77 Chevrolet was found to have two lug nuts not safe and secure, while the No. 19 Toyota had one lug nut not safe and secure.
Playoff driver Kurt Busch was sidelined early in Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway, exiting after a crash in Stage 1 that left him in last place in the Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders.
Busch had led four laps in the early going, with his Chip Ganassi Racing substitute pit crew putting the No. 1 Chevrolet out first after a round of pit stops during the competition caution period. But a left-rear tire went down entering Turn 1 shortly after the restart, sending Busch’s car looping into the outside retaining wall.
“I was just impressed with our speed and the way we unloaded and (the speed) we had in that first 30-lap run,” Busch said after he was checked and released from the infield care center. “After the pit stop, something in the left-rear wasn’t right. The guys said they got the tire tight. They made an adjustment and there was no rub and the left-rear let go. I just radioed to them how loose the car was. Something happened with that left-rear. It let go. It let go of our points and it let go of our whole season right now. I don’t know what we’re going to have to do at Bristol other than win.”
“Hats off to everybody at Ganassi. Family, I’m all right. But that left-rear took off on me and now we’ve got to dig out of this hole and give it our best. Thanks to Monster. Thanks to Chevy and Ganassi. It kind of sucks.”
Busch finished at the bottom of the 37-car field, having completed just 40 of the 400 laps. He currently sits in a tie for 12th in the Cup Series Playoffs standings, deadlocked with Alex Bowman in a bid for the last transfer spot with one race remaining in the opening Round of 16 in the postseason. The Ganassi driver holds the edge for the spot since he has the best finish between the two drivers in the Round of 16 so far — his sixth-place result at Darlington.
That opening-round finale comes Saturday night (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN/NBC Sports App, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Busch has won six times.
Busch was competing with a shuffled pit crew lineup, with crew members for his No. 1 team held out because of COVID-19 protocols. Crew members from the No. 42 team for driver Ross Chastain shifted over, and Busch gained a spot to vault to the lead on the car’s lone pit stop.
