After taking a clearer look at Martin Truex Jr.’s 14th-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway, there were both positives and negatives that came out of the short track race.
Ryan Blaney piloted the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion to a solid 11th place in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, but he was left unfulfilled.
Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion, overcame a pit road penalty and damage to the nose of his Roush Fenway Ford to earn a fifth-place finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) event at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) runner-up effort in the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet SS was impressive, but didn’t come easy at Bristol Motor Speedway.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2nd - YOU STARTED OUT WITH THE ISSUE WITH THE ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT RIGHT OFF THE BAT, BUT YOU CAME BACK WITH A NICE 2ND PLACE FINISH “We had a lot of luck on those last several restarts."
TREVOR BAYNE – No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion – “It was a lot of battling back. We went through a lot of adversity to get there, but we just didn’t give up. We had a really good race car. That’s what paid off. You can’t come back if you don’t have good race cars and we’ve got that now."
Austin Dillon Powers Through the Tight Turns to Finish Fourth at Bristol Motor Speedway. "This was definitely a different race today. It was interesting to have the heat races."
Bubba Wallace, driver of the No. 6 Ford EcoBoost Ford Mustang, was running inside the top 15 before a flat right-front tire on Lap 112 damaged the right-side of his Roush Fenway Ford. The damage forced an unscheduled green-flag pit stop and ultimately led to a 25th-place finish on Saturday afternoon in the NASCAR XFINITY Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway.
TRICON Garage teammates Kaden Honeycutt and Brandon Jones led the Toyota Tundra contingent with third and fourth-place results, respectively, on Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
Hocevar led a race-high 76 of 172 over-scheduled laps and prevailed in an overtime shootout to notch his sixth Truck Series career victory at the Lone Star state.
The 2024 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Riverton, Illinois, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 188.607 mph in 28.631 seconds for his first pole of the 2026 season.
The two-time Truck Series champion from Louisville, Kentucky, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 185.096 mph in 29.174 seconds for his first Truck pole of 2026 at the Lone Star state.
NASCAR and Coca-Cola are expanding their shared commitment to the military community this May with the return of NASCAR Salutes Together with Coca-Cola
