Bristol Motor Speedway
Coverage (11 articles)
Joey Logano Won the Bristol Night Race. Ryan Blaney Led 202 Laps and Finished 33rd.
Joey Logano came from fourth on the final restart for his 40th Cup Series win. Ryan Blaney, who led 202 laps, crashed out while racing Carson Hocevar for second and traded punches with him on pit road. Kyle Larson leads The Chase by one point.
Jake Garcia Missed the Truck Series Chase by 11 Points. Then He Won Its First Race.
Jake Garcia, who finished 11 points short of the Truck Series playoff field, won the UNOH 250 at Bristol for his first career victory. Top seed Layne Riggs led 135 laps, finished 32nd and saw his championship lead shrink from 25 points to three.
Sheldon Creed Led the Last Three Laps at Bristol and Won. He Takes an 11-Point Chase Lead to Las Vegas.
Sheldon Creed passed William Sawalich on an overtime restart and won the Food City 300 at Bristol by 0.253 seconds, leading only the final three laps. Carson Kvapil and Jesse Love led 240 laps between them and finished 24th and 17th. Creed now leads the O'Reilly Series Chase by 11 points over Justin Allgaier with six races left.
Jesse Love Won at Gateway. Justin Allgaier Finished 13th and Lost the Points Lead by Three.
Jesse Love took the lead with fifteen laps to go and won the Nu Way 225 at World Wide Technology Raceway, his first victory of 2026. Sheldon Creed finished second and left St. Louis leading the O'Reilly Series Chase by three points over Justin Allgaier, who has won six races this season to Creed's two.
At 5:26 on Saturday Layne Riggs Led by 410 Points. At 5:27 He Led by 70. Nobody Passed Him.
NASCAR published two sets of Truck Series standings one minute apart on Saturday, the same ten drivers in the same order, with Layne Riggs on 825 points and then on 2,100. What the playoff reset actually did, what it did not do, and why the truck championship is not the same ten as the driver championship.
Stewart Friesen Missed the Truck Chase by Seven Points. His Team's Only Win This Season Came From Someone Else.
Friesen finished fourth in the Truck Series regular-season finale at New Hampshire, the best result of any driver outside the playoff field, and still missed the ten-driver Chase by seven points. His team fielded two trucks this season and won a race in April. Neither the truck nor the driver made the championship.
JR Motorsports Put Four Cars in the Top Five at Bristol. That Doesn't Happen by Accident.
JR Motorsports placed four entries in the top five at Bristol. The Mooresville operation's organizational depth, from Rodney Childers' strategy call to the talent corridor that feeds it, is the real story of the Suburban Propane 300.
Kyle Larson Can't Win the $100,000 at Bristol Saturday. He Can Still Win the Race.
Kyle Larson is the defending winner of Saturday night's Suburban Propane 300 at Bristol, and he's not eligible for the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus. The reigning Cup champion has won his last two O'Reilly Series starts at Thunder Valley. The four drivers fighting over six figures still have to beat him.
Rajah Caruth Is Racing for $100,000 at Bristol. He Also Has Unfinished Business.
Rajah Caruth earned his first Dash 4 Cash spot at Rockingham with a two-position move in the final nine laps. Now he takes it to Bristol, in a different car than he qualified in, with Jesse Love somewhere on the same track, and $100,000 on the line. The composure test is live.
Justin Allgaier Has Won This $100,000 Race Seven Times. He's About to Try for Eight.
Justin Allgaier enters Saturday's Suburban Propane 300 at Bristol with seven Dash 4 Cash wins and $700,000 collected, both all-time records. His three competitors for the $100,000 bonus have never won one. This one isn't as balanced as it sounds.
He Won at Hickory First. Now William Sawalich Has Won at The Rock.
William Sawalich won his first O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Rockingham Speedway on Saturday, becoming the youngest winner in track history in his 42nd career start. The nineteen-year-old Joe Gibbs Racing driver charged from 14th to lead 80 laps, outlasting Corey Day's dominant early effort that faded on tire wear.