Ret. U.S. Army Major Ed Pulido was joined by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Mark "Oz" Geist for a news conference leading into the 14th annual Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series fall race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Contact at the front of the field brought out the caution on lap one Saturday afternoon at Texas Motor Speedway. Reed avoided any major damage in the melee, but suffered some cosmetic hood damage that required multiple trips down pit road for bearbond. Reed rebounded from the early contact and by the end of the race was in contention for a solid top-10 finish, until another competitor got underneath him on the track causing the No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang to get into the outside wall. The damage was too severe to continue, sending Reed to the garage four laps shy of the scheduled distance and scored with a 29th-place finish.
Austin Cindric and the No. 22 Discount Tire team overcame a weekend of adversity to record a solid third-place finish Saturday afternoon at Texas Motor Speedway.
Matt Tifft and the Anderson's Maple Syrup Team Battle to Seventh Place Finish "We had a great No. 2 Anderson's Maple Syrup Chevrolet at Texas today. We ran top-five, top-10 speeds all weekend long, both in practice and throughout the race. I struggled a little bit at the start of the race with a lack of rear grip, but that really came to me during the race with adjustments and as the track picked up more rubber."
Camry driver Brandon Jones was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) Playoffs race at Texas Motor Speedway after finishing sixth.
JEFF MEENDERING, crew chief, No. 00 Autodesk Ford Mustang -- DO YOU GET ANY HELP FROM YOUR CUP TEAMS IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY AND SETTING UP THESE CARS? “We use as much information as we can from them. Obviously the cars are drastically different and the rules package is different but there are some things we can use. Tire information and stuff like that. We use as much as we can.”
FORT WORTH, Texas (Nov. 3, 2018) -- Cole Custer pulled off a dramatic, last-lap pass under Tyler Reddick to win Saturday's 14th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 by .162 of a second in the third-closest NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Texas Motor Speedway history.
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang -- Finished 3rd - WALK US THROUGH THAT INCIDENT WITH CHRISTOPHER BELL AND YOU ARE IN A MUST WIN SITUATION NEXT WEEKEND AT PHOENIX. WHAT IS YOUR APPROACH? “I have been in a must-win position since Kansas. For me that hasn’t changed. I was the car stuck on the bottom with one guy all over my tail and one guy all over my door. I moved up two inches and those were the two inches that the 20 was off my door."
COLE CUSTER, No. 00 Autodesk Ford Mustang -- Finished 1st “I can’t believe it. The 1 is the best pusher in the series and I hated that I didn’t have him behind me. We did all we could. I drove it in deeper than I have all weekend and it worked out. I am pumped for Autodesk, their first time on the car. Gene Haas, I wouldn’t be here without him and Haas Automation. I am pumped. We are going to Homestead and I think we have a great shot of winning.”
Justin Haley won Friday night's JAG Metals 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoff race when Todd Gilliland ran out of fuel half-a-lap away from Sunoco Victory Lane at Texas Motor Speedway.
The 24-year-old Smith from Talking Rock, Georgia, will not be returning to Front Row Motorsports in 2027 following a two-year turn with the organization in the Truck Series division.
The IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup (IMEC) resumes competition this weekend at the legendary 4.048-mile, 14-turn Road America road course for the fourth of five endurance rounds of the 2026 season.
INDYCAR has unveiled the new NTT INDYCAR SERIES chassis and powertrain package for 2028, introducing a car with a modernized look designed to provide for faster lap times and improved raceability encouraging more wheel-to-wheel action, while also creating the safest car yet for “The Fastest Racing on Earth.”
