News and notes: Spencer Boyd will head out west this week to Las Vegas, which will be the first stop on the "NASCAR Goes West" tour. Boyd went to Las Vegas for a Grunt Style event prior to the season, but has never raced on the 1.5- mile track. "I've definitely been looking forward to the west coast swing," says Boyd. "I learned a lot last week at Atlanta, but I'm not quite sure how much will translate over to Vegas. They're both mile and a half tracks, but that's about all they have in common."
This weekend, the famed Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 will carry new colors for one race. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will be the primary sponsor of the team and driver Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr, boasting the luxury property's signature shade, a jewel-toned purple. The No. 43 Cosmopolitan Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will race in the Pennzoil 400 this Sunday, March 4 at the Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway.
NAPA AUTO PARTS CHEVROLET CAMARO ZL1: NAPA AUTO PARTS will return to the hood of the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Atlanta-based company will serve as majority sponsor for Chase Elliott and the No. 9 team for 26 NASCAR Cup Series races this year.
2018 marks the fourth consecutive year that the NASCAR schedule has taken the series on a ‘West Coast Swing’ visiting Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway and Auto Club Speedway in succession. Chevrolet has been the most successful manufacturer by earning six of the nine races in the past three seasons that the series has made this mecca. One manufacturer is yet to sweep the “West Coast” swing in its current configuration.
Atlanta Recap: Denny Hamlin finished fourth in Sunday’s 500-mile Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, claiming his second top-five of the season in the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota as a result of a calculated pit strategy championed by Crew Chief Mike Wheeler. The top-five competitors visited pit road on lap 213 for their first green-flag pit stops of Stage 3, while Hamlin stayed out and assumed the race lead.
Stenhouse has five-career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Las Vegas with an average starting position of 17.8 and average finishing position of 23.8.
Paul Menard, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion, talks about the upcoming Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Wood Brothers Racing driver currently sits ninth in MENSC Driver Points heading into the three-race West Coast swing.
Trevor Bayne will make his eighth career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend. In seven previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Bayne has recorded one top-10 finish, a ninth-place result in 2012.
Ryan Reed has four starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS), finishing 15th in both 2014 and 2015, 13th in 2016 and his best finish of ninth came in 2017.
After a 20th-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Coughlin is tied for 13th in the NCWTS driver point standings, 61 points behind GMS Racing teammate Johnny Sauter.
23XI Racing announced today that John Klausmeier, a veteran NASCAR crew chief and engineer, will join the team as its first technical director starting with the 2027 season.
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