Last week, Coca-Cola 600 race winner Ross Chastain arrived on Saturday for the Nashville Superspeedway press conference wearing a smile-and his winner’s ring-ring-Shaarlotte from last Sunday’s victory at the motor speedway.
The 32 -year -old Floridian game turned into one of the most dramatic win in recent history in the longest race of sports, rally from the last place (40th) to Vijay Lane on the grid. Chastein said while accepting the ring on his finger, and said that it was purposeful-in a season, he hopes that he hopes that he kicks in gear now at the official middle point of the regular-Sea calendar and on a track now, where he (won before 2023).
“We have a ‘first win’ ring we made from Cota to trackhouse,” Chastain said about the victory of his first career NASCAR Cup series in Austin, Texas, Road Course.
“(Former team owner) Matt Kaulig won the ring-made ring in the exfinity series and now it’s a very good collection. I am not a big ring man. I am not a jewel man. But it means it so much. It says ‘Champion’ and says, ‘Coca-Cola 600 2025.’ “Coca-Cola 600 2025.”
“Surely going to take it off for practice,” he continued. “But it has been an inspiration this week because this week was a piece. And sometimes I just had to touch the ring and had to happen – well, smile, go to the next thing, go to the next thing, make the next flight, go home, like all the stuff.”
With the win, Chastain has now earned his entry into the 2025 NASCAR Cup series playoffs. It marked the third top-five performance of the season for the number 1 trackhouse racing Chevrolet team, but the second in three races in Texas after Chastain’s runner-up attempt. The win takes Chastain to the eighth place in the championship standing, one of the eight drivers, with the first 13 races win.
-Nascar Cup Series finished fourth in the championship standing, Chase Elliott has certainly established himself among those drivers. But for the driver of the number 9 hendric motorcycles Chevrolet, this is not enough.
His two hendric team partners, William Bayran and Kyle Larsen are leading the ranking. Compatibility has certainly been important through the initial 13 races with seven top -10 and three top -five finish for the Elliot’s season. His best effort has been fourth – both Cota and Martinsville.
He has been particularly good to win the race in 2022 in this week’s Nashville Concrete 1.33-Miller and score fourth in 2023. Michigan, proceeding for next week, Elliott has an impressive 10 top-10 finish that includes three runner-up efforts-14.
Elliot said, “I felt that we had a good car in Charlotte last week.” “I think it is a product of a lot of hard work and just a collective effort to try to improve something. It is always a goal, just keep chipping. I think the team is really in a good place.”
Elliott knows that he is in a good place, standing-wise, but the 2020 NASCAR Cup series champion and perennial most popular driver is not satisfied with “indicating” his own way in a title run. His last win came on the Texas Motor Speedway a year ago.
Elliott said about the position of its points, “It is better to be in that position than the other side of the fence, there is no doubt.” “But I am lying if I said this was my top focus. It’s not just. I think if you are worried about having barely in the playoffs, I think you have to do some work.
“This is really the best way I can think about. And just to talk about my thought process, I want to be better than this. I want to stay in a group of people how many playoff points you have, not only barely going in. Our expectations and goals are above it, and we hope that we can achieve all our goals.”
-Rus-Fenway-Kesellowski racing owner and driver Brad Kesalowski number 6 Ford Mustang is away from his best closing of the year-a fifth place in the Charlotte, where his five laps out front marked the first laps this season.
Surprisingly, the effort was the best work of the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series Champion since it was shown at 11th in Las Vegas in March. While he did not refuse in Vijay Lane, he became very close and he is something that he expects to build his team.
“Just trying not to do too much, we are particularly killing our strides as an outfit with six-team,” Keselovsky said. His last victory came to Darlington, SC in the last spring
“Cars are developing more speeds. Our execution is getting better. It’s an exciting time for us to look out that we are in the standing of points. We need to grow more and take our way towards being able to win it and I think we are really close to us.
“Last week was a very positive moment for us. The last run of the race we passed through at least half a dozen cars and ran the fastest laps and run all the things that make you feel that you can win.”
Kesellowski has never scored the top 10 in Nashville in the four NASCAR Cup series starting on the track. He is the head of his home state of Michigan next week, where he has 15 top -10 finish in 27, including three runs -up finish. He has terminated the top -10 in three of the last four races.
“Last year, I don’t think we had the same speed, but were getting good finishes,” he said. “We now have more capacity, but we did not have execution last year. I am eager to get execution to match the capacity.”
-Tay Dillon’s grandfather Richard Children was a long -time dear friend and championship car, when Dillon was received in any way and recently released with the recently released Amazon Prime documentary “Arnhard”, he said to share some funds, but some said that he is still a champion.
“I was very young at that time, but I just knew Dale (Arnhard Senior) from my perspective as a man that when we were younger and we were in the racetrack, he would come and make my brother (Austin) bug and I, whether it was a pinch of us on the back of the neck or holding us loudly, as he could attract our attention,” said.
“And we didn’t really do so. We were afraid of him. But man, we grew up every weekend, and where Dale determined our weeks. We got pizza if we won the del Dale, so it was a celebration in our house.”
The driver Dillon, the driver of the number 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, is starting his first NASCAR Cup series in Nashville since he led four laps, but finished 32nd. He ranks 31st in the championship standing.
“Just knowing that kind of perspective after being in the game as a driver, he was crazy,” Dillon said about the Arnhard documentaries. “But influence (Arnhard) was everyone in my grandfather, my family and RCR, and who has become because of him and my grandfather’s relationship, of course, matters a lot to everyone and his family and sports.
“He was a giant in our game and a legend. It’s just terrible that we continue to talk about him, and the documentary continues to bring his name to light because he has done a lot for the game.”
-Ryan Trux who will be tracked at the end of this week for gibs racing, ready to serve as a relief driver for Denny Hamlin, halin fiance, Jordan should go to labor with his third child.
-Holi Can, NASCAR Wire Service. Special for field level media.
