Kyle Busch Finishes In Top 10 At Atlanta

Kyle Busch's move to RCR has started off strong as he scored his third top-10 finish for his new team. Busch started the race from 17th, racing his way to eighth at the end of Stage 1. As Stage 2 came to a close, Busch fell back to 15th. Busch was involved in the incident... Read More

Ty Gibbs Finishes Strong In Atlanta

Ty Gibbs is still learning in this his first full season in the NASCAR Cup Series, and the Ambetter Health 400 was a strong building block for the young driver. Gibbs began the race in the 35th starting position and was able to work his way into the top 20 at the end of Stage... Read More

Erik Jones Gets His First Top-10 Finish Of The Season

Erik Jones had a day to forget at Atlanta Motor Speedway, until the end of the race. Jones began the Ambetter Health 400 in the 28th starting position. He spent most of the race running around where he started, but late cautions helped Jones to find his way into the top 10. Early in the... Read More

Ryan Blaney Bounces Back From Speeding Penalty

Ryan Blaney has been one of the more conservative drivers on pit road, but at Atlanta he made the decision to get aggressive with his digital-dash settings. Blaney made a green-flag pit stop on Lap 133 and was penalized for speeding, resulting in a pass-through penalty. He chose a bad track to make this decision... Read More

Denny Hamlin Has A Strong Showing

Denny Hamlin started the Ambetter Health 400 from the 14th starting position and was able to make gains from there all day. He finished Stage 1 running fifth, and then at the end of Stage 2 he was eighth. He was in the top 10 near the end of the race and was able to... Read More

Todd Gilliland Starts 23rd

Todd Gilliland has not shown the most promise on superspeedways in the NextGen car, as his average finish is where he will start this race (23rd). His best finish last year was seventh at the fall race in Talladega last season. Over the other six races, including Daytona this season, he has finished 27th three... Read More

Ryan Preece Starts 24th At The AmBetter Health 400

Ryan Preece is looking to build momentum for his new team in 2023. One way to do that will be to improve his finishes at this track type. Due to a small sample size, he should get a pass, as his first attempt was at Daytona this year and he did not finish the race... Read More

AJ Allmendinger Eyes Another Strong Finish

In his first superspeedway race in the NextGen car, AJ Allmendinger finished sixth at Daytona this season. He will look to back that up here at the AmBetter Health 400 on his second trip to a superspeedway on this young season. Allmendinger returns to the NASCAR Cup Series as a full-time driver in 2023 and... Read More

Ricky Stenhouse Eyes Back-To-Back Superspeedway Wins

Ricky Stenhouse will look to go back-to-back on superspeedway tracks to kick off the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series. After his win at Daytona, Stenhouse will see if he can make it 2-for-2 at this track type to start the season. He will have a ways to go to make it up front, as he will... Read More

Tyler Reddick May Be Overlooked

Tyler Reddick will likely draw little ownership, but that lowered ownership is warranted. Over the past seven races at superspeedways in the NextGen car, Reddick has an average finish of 28.6 and only one finish better than 28th, when he took second place at Daytona's fall race last year. A lot of dominoes will need... Read More

Erik Jones Is A Value Play At Atlanta

Erik Jones should be a strong play in the AmBetter Health 400 while starting from the 28th position. With an average finish of 17th over the last 15 races, he could be a strong play, even in your cash-game lineups. The average finish of 17 does not tell the true story, as he has performed... Read More

Denny Hamlin Seeks Better Results

The good news is that Denny Hamlin has two wins over the last 15 races on superspeedway tracks over the last two years. The bad news is that the wins came back in 2020. In the new NextGen car, Hamlin has found little success over the last seven races. He only has one finish in... Read More

Austin Dillon Looks To Bounce Back At Atlanta

Over the last 15 races at superspeedways, Austin Dillon has managed nine top-20 finishes and even made it to victory lane at Daytona last year. However, he has not been able to finish a race here at the newly formed Atlanta Motor Speedway. In both races last year, there wasn't much to say about his... Read More

Ty Gibbs Brings Out Overtime

Ty Gibbs, driving the No. 54 Toyota from Joe Gibbs Racing, hit the wall on the backstretch just before the end of the race on Sunday to cause overtime. Gibbs, who started this race in the top 15 at 14th, was having a good day in his first race at Phoenix as a full-time Cup... Read More

Denny Hamlin Crashes Out Of A Top-Five Finish

Getting the cars reacquainted on the race track is not new for Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain. However, a late crash as the United Rentals 500 race went into overtime cost both drivers a chance at a top-five finish. On the white-flag lap of overtime, the two drivers were next to each other near the... Read More

Ross Chastain's Hopes For A Top-Five Finish Evaporate

Ross Chastain started sixth at Phoenix Raceway in the United Rentals 500 race and ran there for the majority of the race. With the dominance of Kyle Larson and William Byron and the late surge by Kevin Harvick, a win may not have been in the cards for Chastain, but a top-five finish was within... Read More

Harrison Burton's Late Wreck Changes The Race

Kevin Harvick worked his way up from 15th to the lead in the final stage of the United Rentals 500 and had a 3.3-second lead with 20 laps to go when Harrison Burton spun on the front stretch. This brought out a late caution and changed the race completely. Burton was not having a strong... Read More

Christopher Buescher With Another Top-15 Finish

On this short season, Christopher Buescher is making strides with RFK Racing and it is showing with three top-15 finishes in four races to start the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. His best finish was fourth at Daytona, but since then has finished 13th at Auto Club, 21st at Las Vegas and now 15th at... Read More

Aric Almirola Has The Wheels Fall Off At Phoenix

Aric Almirola is known for his strength on short flat tracks in NASCAR, finishing 13th or better in nine of his last 11 races at those tracks. His worst result over that time frame was 22nd, until Sunday when he finished 33rd. A broken wheel on Lap 138 caused the wheels to fall off (literally)... Read More

Christopher Bell Starting In The Top Five

Christopher Bell started out in the mid-20s in practice but saw his car come to him as he put down more laps, finishing fifth overall on the 20-lap average. He followed that up with a strong qualifying lap, landing him fifth on the starting grid. Over seven races on short flat tracks last year, Bell... Read More

Austin Cindric Feeds Off Of Penske Teammates

Austin Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner, knows the value that rests in his Penske teammates, especially Joey Logano. With the one constant in NASCAR that is change, Cindric is proud to be a part of this team and credits the prep work done by both Penske and Logano that allows the team to perform... Read More

Ross Chastain Starting Sixth

Ross Chastain did not have his best showing in practice on Friday, failing to get better than 23rd on any of his runs. He did, however, put forth a strong effort in qualifying coming into this race at Phoenix Raceway and is starting in sixth. Chastain has been able to find success here at this... Read More

Kyle Busch Qualifies In The Top 10

Kyle Busch has had success at Phoenix Raceway in the past, but that was the past, and with a different team. Now Busch is driving for Richard Childress Racing and not Joe Gibbs Racing, and he will look to build on the success in qualifying. Busch did not have the speed in practice, running in... Read More

Martin Truex Jr. To Try To Make 13 Lucky

Martin Truex Jr. tried to gamble late in the race at Las Vegas and ultimately faded, but he will look to bounce back at Phoenix Raceway, a track he has had mixed results at. In 2021, Truex dominated this track, finishing first and second in the two races. In 2022 in the new NextGen car,... Read More

William Byron Carries Momentum Into Phoenix

William Byron kept up his fast ways fresh off his win at Las Vegas by running in the top two in 15-, 20- and 25-lap averages in practice and qualifying in the third spot to start the race. Byron was dominant last weekend, leading a race-high 167 laps en route to his first victory in... Read More

Denny Hamlin Joins Kyle Larson On The Front Row

Denny Hamlin ran a fast lap of 129.931 mph, but not fast enough to best Kyle Larson for the pole in the United Rentals 500 at Phoenix Raceway. He was .008 mph faster than William Byron, who qualified second. Hamlin has a top-five driver rating among all drivers at this track. Hamlin saw his top... Read More

Harrison Burton Gets Confidence From Joey Logano

With the collaboration between Wood Brothers Racing and Team Penske, Harrison Burton has had an opportunity to learn from one of the best when it comes to adapting to change in the NASCAR Cup Series. "I watch him (Joey Logano) pretty closely to see how he prepares for these things," Burton said, as this has... Read More

Joey Logano Embraces Change

Change is not something that Joey Logano fears, especially on the race track. Last year, he won the first race in the new NextGen car in the Busch Light Clash. He has also become the first-time winner at the two new tracks introduced over the last two years at Gateway last year and Bristol Dirt... Read More

Ryan Blaney Still Searching For A Win

After a week that produced a controversial statement from Kyle Petty, who said, "(Ryan Blaney) Potential unfulfilled. Everybody wants to talk about what he can do, but he never does anything for whatever reason. For whatever reason, he just never gets past that hump." Arguments have been made for both sides, and Blaney will take... Read More

Daniel Suarez Scores Another Top-10 Finish

Daniel Suarez has found something he really likes with Trackhouse Racing. They rewarded him with a contract extension before the season started, and he has rewarded them with three straight top-10 finishes to start the NASCAR Cup Series in 2023. While his teammate Ross Chastain was battling for the lead most of the race, Suarez... Read More