The NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series will pay their annual visit to Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International this weekend, with the 2.45-mile, seven-turn, road course marking a penultimate race within each series’ respective seasons.
Austin Prock has enjoyed a terrific 2024 regular season in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, racking up five victories and advancing to eight final rounds in his first year in the Funny Car ranks.
NASCAR heads to The Empire State and Watkins Glen International where the Cup Series holds the second race of its 2024 Playoffs, while the Xfinity Series has the penultimate race of its regular season.
The 2020 Truck Series champion from Alpine, California, led 17 of 163-scheduled laps and capitalized on a last-lap incident involving Austin Hill and Ross Chastain to achieve his first elusive career victory after 15 runner-up results.
Taylor Gray (ninth), Brandon Jones (10th) and Dean Thompson (11th) led Toyota with strong finishes in the second race of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season at EchoPark Speedway.
The No. 45 took the lead with just a handful of laps to go, but lacked help in the draft to capitalize. The team took home a ninth-place finish and notched their second top-10 in a row.
