After the 2021 NASCAR season, the Austin Cyndric was about to enter a pressure rich in pressure.
Brad Kesalowski left Team Painske to become a owner in RFK Racing, a cup seat in the team Penske. But it was not just an empty ride. It was the famous number 2, which was the major car of Roger Penscay’s NASCAR operation since 1991 and in 2022, the syndric was going to be behind the wheel.
Driving in the cup chain is a task that comes with pressure naturally. Driving to an organization with a championship genealogy such as Team Penky only increases that pressure. But your name on the most prestigious car in a team’s stable is a role for some drivers than being Imbalazone. It is a role that is unimaginable and most prestigious in the garage.
Suddenly, Cyndric, who was just 23 years old, had the world weight on his shoulders and after every step of it, a company had eyes.
Since then, the progression of syndric as a driver has been burn at a relatively slow pace, but is finally proving that it is eligible to drive the most historical car in NASCAR, Penscay.
In 2022, this initial pressure quickly faded in the salty air of Detona Beach, FLA, when Cyndric won its eighth cup series in the beginning of Detona 500. Not only did Syndric win the biggest race of NASCAR to start its term in No. 2, but Jeet guaranteed him a playoff berth and mandated the Ruki of the Year Award in the first race of the season.
Two years later, the stimulation around the syndric disappeared after his Detona 500 victory. Despite her solid fraudulent campaign, she and the number 2 team resumed in 2023, finishing 24th in Standing. Through the first 14 races of 2024, things were not much better, as syndric was only 20th in standing.
But on 2 June 2024, outside St. Louis, Cyndric won the second race of his cup series career. In Postsen, he scored an inspired run through 16 rounds, proceeded in 12 times in three years. Suddenly, Penscay No. 2 looked like itself again.
Like 2024, the stimulation of a win and a playoff run was closed in the beginning of 2025. A 50-point penalty was handed over to Cyndric after an incident with Ty Dillon in the US circuit, which was ranked 35th in the Cup series standing in the US circuit. While he managed to climb the 20th position in Sunday’s race in Taldga Supersedway, Detona missed the opportunities to win 500 and became largely lame in Atlanta as the number 2 team struggled to find the results continuously.
In any kind of infiltration conditions, the syndric did not matter to the syndric, however, as he conducted a thrilling victory over Ryan Price in 500 of Jack Link last Sunday, earned his third playoff berth in four sessions at Team Painske.
Syndric said in his post-race news conference, “You keep swinging the bat properly, after all you are going to kill a homer.”
The victory in Taldega was certainly a domestic run for Cyndric, but it was also another hit in the grand plan of his career. In the last one year, Cyndric is coming in itself as a cup series driver and the man who bear the prestigious number 2 on the side of his car every week.
When Syndric won on the gateway in 2024, many people thought that it would be a round of playoff time coming out of 16. But Cyndric proved suspicion wrong and made 12 rounds. His victory of Taldega seemed to do the same thing, after the great run in Detona and Atlanta, the early results failed to bear the meaningful results on the result letter and inquired the fans whether they took to shut down the deal.
The 2025 syndric and number 2 have been a much more consistent year for the team. Without the 50-point penalty made in Cota, the Cindric Cup series will finish 10th in the standing. This season so far, out of its three finishes outside the top 20, only one-cota can be attributed to the 25th position on a overall absmal day, attributed to lack of speed, as an accident in Alanta and battery issues in Martinsville were out of the control of syndric.
Top -20 finish and points are not a top -15 spots high -water marks, looking for pension, but the fact that the syndric top is competing on a more consistent basis within 20, is a positive signal. So it is also that he was able to shut down a supersidaway victory in Talladga after failing to do so in Detona and Atlanta.
The time will tell whether the 26 -year -old will be the next champion to pilot the Captain’s longest serving vehicle, but Syndric has earned his strips and is in a position to get the Victory Lane number 2 on a constant basis.
-Aimel Stabs, Field Level Media
