Josh Berry and the No. 21 DEX Imaging Ford Mustang Dark Horse will roll off from the 33rd starting position in Sunday’s Bank of America ROVAL 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course.
Berry secured the spot with a lap at 92.974 miles per hour around the 17-turn, 2.28-mile ROVAL — a hybrid layout that combines the traditional oval with a winding infield road course.
In a rare reversal of the usual trend, Berry’s best speed came in practice rather than qualifying. His opening lap of the 12 he completed in the session clocked in at 93.548 mph, setting the pace for the No. 21 team before they turned their focus to qualifying adjustments.
Sunday’s 109-lap, 248.52-mile race serves as both the Round of 12 finale in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and the final road-course event of the season. The green flag is scheduled to wave shortly after 3 p.m. ET, with live coverage on USA Network, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90). Stage breaks are planned for Laps 25 and 50.
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About Wood Brothers Racing Founded in 1950 by Hall of Famer Glenn Wood in Stuart, Virginia, Wood Brothers Racing holds a special place in NASCAR history as the sport’s longest-running team. Over eight decades, the team has earned 101 victories in the NASCAR Cup Series, along with 120 poles, and remains proud of its longstanding relationship with Ford Motor Company, fielding only Ford products since its inception. Glenn’s brother, Leonard Wood, played a key role in shaping modern racing by developing the techniques behind today’s pit stops. With a rich legacy rooted in innovation and tradition, Wood Brothers Racing continues to honor its heritage while adapting for the future as it competes in NASCAR’s premier series with Josh Berry.
Rookie contender Taylor Gray falls just one point short of advancing to the Round of 8
CONCORD, N.C. (October 4, 2025) – Kaz Grala led Toyota with a fourth-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ROVAL course on Saturday evening. Grala matched his career-best Xfinity Series finish in just his third start this season, while for Sam Hunt Racing it was the team’s best result of the year.
Taylor Gray looked headed to the Round of 8 in his rookie season before a caution led to a late-race overtime restart. Through the last two lap battle, Gray slipped to 13th – missing the Round of 8 by a single point.
Toyota will be represented in the next round of the Playoffs by Kansas winner Brandon Jones, who finished 18th today.
Toyota GAZOO Racing Post-Race Recap NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL Race 29 of 33 – 152.76 miles, 67 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Connor Zilisch* 2nd, Austin Green* 3rd, Sammy Smithr* 4th, KAZ GRALA 5th, Connor Mosack* 7th, WILLIAM SAWALICH 13th, TAYLOR GRAY 14th, ARIC ALMIROLA 18th, BRANDON JONES 25th, SAGE KARAM 35th, DEAN THOMPSON *non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
KAZ GRALA, No. 24 Overplay Games Toyota GR Supra, Sam Hunt Racing
Finishing Position: 4th
Solid top-five in your final scheduled run of the year. How was your race?
“It was eventful. It was. The scorecard is going to show started ninth, finished fourth – that sounds pretty simple, but that is not what it was. We had to cycle to the back after the first pit stop with an uncontrolled tire, and man, I saw so many cars out my windshield, I thought we were never getting back, but we just kept our head down and stayed diligent. We made small tweaks to the car to get it better and better, and by the end of the night I think our GR Supra was handling as well as it had been all day. We had good speed in it, and we found ourselves with proper track position, and were able to capitalize on the cycle at the end. Really proud of this Sam Hunt Racing team, I love everyone over here – every time I get a chance to come out here and have some fun with them on a Saturday is a great, great weekend. Huge thank you to Overplay Games, Sam Hunt Racing, Toyota for giving me the opportunity and hopefully there is more to come down the road.”
TAYLOR GRAY, No. 54 Operation 300 Toyota GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 13th
What emotions are going through your head right now?
“Just obviously bummed out. We don’t get to go racing for a championship at the end of the year. Just weren’t good enough. We weren’t good enough today. We didn’t have a good Bristol, and we shouldn’t have to even be in this spot. We are though, and we are going to take our loss, and move on to the next four and try to win us a couple of races.”
BRANDON JONES, No. 20 Menards Toyota GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 18th
Not the night you were looking for tonight, but what are you looking forward to in the Round of 8?
“You know it would be nice to go ahead and knock it out at Las Vegas because it’s a good group of tracks, but it’s also a couple tracks in there with Talladega and Martinsville that it’s kind of in the fate of other people‘s hands at times. You can have a pretty much perfect day and just be taken out by somebody, so it’s just a race that you really don’t want to have to rely on, so if we can go ahead and do it early would be awesome but I’ve almost I’m almost done at Martinsville a few times. I’ve been really close, so it’s definitely not out of the equation.”
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in North America for nearly 70 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our more than 1,800 dealerships.
Toyota directly employs nearly 64,000 people in North America who have contributed to the design, engineering, and assembly of nearly 49 million cars and trucks at our 14 manufacturing plants. In 2025, Toyota’s plant in North Carolina began to assemble automotive batteries for electrified vehicles.
Ford Racing Notes and Quotes NASCAR Xfinity Series Blue Cross NC 250 — Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday, October 4, 2025
Ford Finishing Results:
11th – Sheldon Creed 19th– Sam Mayer 20th – Ryan Sieg 33rd – Kyle Sieg 34th – Harrison Burton
NOTE: Sam Mayer and Sheldon Creed advance to the Round of 8 while Harrison Burton is eliminated.
SAM MAYER, No. 41 Audibel Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I don’t have much to say, unfortunately. I’m just really proud of these guys for bringing a Ford Mustang that we can go out there and compete with. Everyone at Audibel, Andy’s, Roto Rooter, Ford Racing and all the partners that make this go around. A huge shout out to them. I’m definitely frustrated and down about that one, but moving onto the next round is awesome. The cool thing was is we had no pressure going in, so we definitely used it up. I’m looking forward to the next round.” WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TRACKS IN THE ROUND OF 8? “I think these races round out really, really good. Ford Racing has done a really good job this season and they’ve done a really good job at Vegas in the past, so I’m really looking forward to going there and then do some superspeedway racing in the Mustang. We’re just trying to make it to the Championship 4.”
SHELDON CREED, No. 00 Road Ranger Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “That was stressful. It was hard that first run because I was really good on the long run all night. I struggled to start and then got going and started getting by cars that were important, and then we had that caution with seven to go in stage one and that kind of hurt. We got through stage two kind of clean. We got ran into a few times, but that’s just the ROVAL. I was having a really good third run and drove all the way back up to fifth and was actually really happy with my Ford Mustang on the long run. I didn’t want to see that last caution because that made it way too stressful. You’re trying not to get taken out, but then you’re racing around a bunch of guys that are around you in points, and then you’ve got people that don’t care at all.” BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR THAT HAD TO BE IN YOUR MIND. “Oh, yeah. There are a few of them that aren’t in the points at all and they’re just running into you. I don’t know. It’s pretty frustrating, but I’m just thankful for Haas Factory Team, Ford, Roush Yates Engines, Road Ranger, Pit Boss and all of our partners, Friends of Jaclyn, Haas Automation and Gene Haas and Joe Custer. It’s been a fight to get here.” YOUR THOUGHTS ON MOVING ON TO THE ROUND OF 8. “I love the look of Vegas. I ran fifth last week at a mile-and-a-half, so if we can just be a little bit better next week. You never know what will happen at a superspeedway, and then at Martinsville anything can happen.”
HARRISON BURTON, No. 25 DEX Imaging Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “It kind of ended before it started. We had an issue in practice and changed everything we could and felt like we were gonna be OK. It turns out we had a fuel pickup issue, so that’s a whole fuel cell change and that’s not something we could really do under green. It’s just a bummer. All of the evidence we had didn’t really point to that being the issue, but it was and took us out of the race before it started. Even when we were out there, I was trying to save fuel to make it last as long as it could, so I didn’t ever really know how good we were or weren’t. That’s the hardest part, but I’m proud of our team. I’m proud of the season we’ve had. It’s been a lot of fun to make the playoffs and go to Bristol, a huge highlight for us to run in a really competitive way to start our playoffs. We just didn’t end it the right way.”
Brenden Queen (No. 28 BestRepair.net Chevrolet) finished second in the Owens Corning 200 Presented by CGS Imaging, but by virtue of starting the race locked up the 2025 ARCA Menards Series championship over runner-up Lavar Scott (No. 6 Max Siegel Inc. Chevrolet). Queen ended the season with eight victories, 17 top-five finishes, and four General Tire Pole awards. His unofficial margin of victory in the points standings was a dominant 106 points.
Max Reaves (No. 18 Cook Out Toyota) dominated the race, starting from the General Tire Pole and leading 199 of the race’s 200 laps. Queen was able to race his way past shortly after the final restart of the day, but Reaves quickly returned the favor to retake the lead. It was Reaves’ third ARCA Menards Series win of the year to go along with three ARCA Menards Series East wins.
The Pinnacle Racing Group No. 28 team owned by Mark Webb won the 2025 ARCA Menards Series Owners Championship by 16 points over Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 team. It’s the first team owner’s championship for Pinnacle Racing Group.
Joe Gibbs Racing ended the season with six victories, three each between Reaves and Brent Crews.
Tristan McKee (No. 82 Gainbridge / Chevrolet Performance Chevrolet) finished third, his third top-five finish in four career starts. McKee won in his ARCA Menards Series debut at Watkins Glen International at just 15 years, 6 days of age.
Isabella Robusto (No. 55 Mobil 1 Toyota) became the second female Bounty Rookie Challenge rookie of the year when she took the green flag in the Owens Corning 200. Robusto finished fourth, her ninth top-five finish of the season and eleventh of her career. She is just one shy of tying the record for most top-five finishes by a female driver, twelve, set by Erin Crocker Evernham.
Tyler Reif (No. 23 Sigma Performance Services / Vegas Fastener Chevrolet) finished fifth, his third top-five finish of the season.
Taylor Reimer (No. 25 BuzzBallz Toyota) finished sixth in her first ARCA Menards Series start on a paved short track. She finished fifth last weekend at Kansas Speedway in her first series start ever on pavement.
Willie Mullins (No. 3 CW Metals / Bugsy’s Fleet Repair Ford) finished seventh, his fourth consecutive top-ten finish and his best finish of 2025.
Julian DaCosta (No. 20 Venturini Motorsports Toyota) finished eighth, giving Venturini Motorsports all three cars in the team’s final event in the ARCA Menards Series.
Two-time ARCA Menards Series champion Bill Venturini and his wife Cathy, herself a two-time ARCA Menards Series championship winning car owner and crew chief, were presented with ARCA Gold Card lifetime memberships during pre-race activities by ARCA president Ron Drager.
Jason Kitzmiller (No. 97 A.L.L. Construction / Carter CAT Chevrolet) finished ninth, recovering from a flat right front tire on lap 71 that cost him four laps. Kitzmiller unofficially held on to third in the ARCA Menards Series standings by eight points over Isabella Robusto.
Becca Monopoli (No. 85 Orlando Health Ford) finished tenth in her first start at Toledo Speedway. All three female drivers entered – Robusto, Reimer, and Monopoli – finished in the top ten.
The next race for the ARCA Menards Series platform will be the Star Nursery 150 for the ARCA Menards Series West at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The race will be streamed live on FloRacing starting at 10 pm ET / 7 pm ET on Friday, October 10. Live timing & scoring data and live race audio will be available at ARCARacing.com.
About ARCA
The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum in Toledo, Ohio, and acquired by NASCAR in April 2018, is the leading grassroots stock car sanctioning body in the United States. Bridging the gap between NASCAR’s top three national touring series and weekly and regional tour racing all across the country, the organization to sanctions over 100 races per year in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West, ASA STARS National Tour, ASA CRA Super Series, ASA Midwest Tour, ASA Southern Super Series plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways. For more information about ARCA visit , or follow ARCA on Facebook (@ARCARacing) and Twitter (@ARCA_Racing).
About Menards
A family-owned and run company started in 1958, Menards is recognized as the retail home center leader of the Midwest with 236 stores in 15 states. Menards is truly a one-stop shop for all of your home improvement needs featuring a full-service lumberyard and everything you need to plan a renovation or build a home, garage, cabin, shed, deck, fence or post frame building. You’ll find a large selection of lumber, roofing, siding, construction blocks, trusses, doors and windows, plus cabinets, appliances, countertops, flooring, lighting, paint, plumbing supplies and more. To complete the job, Menards has quality hand tools, power tools, fasteners, electrical tools plus storage options and supplies for everyone from the weekend warrior to the pro!
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Tyler Reddick claims NASCAR Cup Series pole at Charlotte Roval.. Photo by John Knittel for SpeedwayMedia.com.
Tyler Reddick earned a momentous boost towards maintaining his championship hopes of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season by winning the Busch Light Pole Award for the Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course (Roval) on Saturday, October 4.
The event’s starting lineup was determined through a single qualifying round, where the entered competitors were split into two groups after the event’s 25-minute split practice session. The competitors in each qualifying group were given 20 minutes to post a qualifying lap. After the time trials, the driver posting the overall fastest lap time is awarded the pole position.
Reddick, who was the 25th-fastest competitor during practice and qualified in the second group, saved his best performance for last. In doing so, he soared to the top of the qualifying charts over road-course ace Shane van Gisbergen and claimed the pole at 95.510 mph in 85.939 seconds.
With the pole, Reddick, a two-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champion from Corning, California, and driver of the No. 45 Jordan Brand/23XI Racing Toyota Camry XSE entry, notched his 11th Cup Series career pole, his fifth on road-course events, his second at the Charlotte Roval and his second of the 2025 season. Reddick also clinched the 10th Cup career pole for 23XI Racing.
Entering this weekend’s Playoff event at the Charlotte Roval, Reddick is currently scored 29 points below the top-eight cutline. The Roval is the final event in the Playoffs Round of 12. A second set of eliminations will occur, and eliminate four competitors’ title hopes for the 2025 season. Reddick, who holds an average-finishing result of 7.8 at the Roval, strives to boost his way above the cutline and contend for his first victory of the year.
Photo by Kevin Ritchie for SpeedwayMedia.com.
“Incredible effort by this [No. 45] team,” Reddick said. “It’s been a difficult week. It’s nice we got the job done today. We obviously have some work to do tomorrow, but we did a good job of getting the track position. I’ll try and keep Shane [van Gisbergen] behind me and see if we can get it done tomorrow.”
Reddick will share the front row with Shane van Gisbergen, the reigning Cup Charlotte Roval pole winner who was striving for a fourth road-course pole of the 2025 season. Van Gisbergen’s best lap occurred at 95.474 mph in 85.971 seconds.
Ty Gibbs, who was the fastest competitor in the first qualifying group, will start in third place as his best qualifying lap occurred at 95.265 mph in 86.160 seconds. Playoff contender Kyle Larson and Chris Buescher rounded out the top-five spots, respectively.
Michael McDowell will take the green flag from sixth place. Playoff contenders Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe, along with AJ Allmendinger and Playoff contender Ross Chastain, completed the top 10 on the starting grid. Five of 12 Playoff contenders will start in the top 10 for Sunday’s main event.
The remaining Playoff contenders that include Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Joey Logano, and Austin Cindric will start 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, and 19th, respectively. Blaney and Elliott are the only two Playoff contenders who are guaranteed spots to the Round of 8 after winning the Round of 12 events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway, respectively.
With 37 competitors vying for 37 starting spots, all of the entered competitors made the event.
Qualifying position, Best speed, Best time:
1. Tyler Reddick, 95.510 mph, 85.939 seconds.
2. Shane van Gisbergen, 95.474 mph, 85.971 seconds
35. John Hunter Nemechek, 91.891 mph, 89.323 seconds
36. Austin Dillon, 83.723 mph, 98.038 seconds
37. Erik Jones, 0.000 mph, 0.000 seconds
*Bold indicates Playoff contenders.
The 2025 Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course is scheduled to occur on Sunday, October 5, and air at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network, PRN Radio, SiriusXM and HBO Max.
Ford Racing Notes and Quotes NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America 400 Qualifying — Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday, October 4, 2025
Ford Qualifying Results:
5th – Chris Buescher 11th – Ryan Blaney 17th – Joey Logano 18th – Cole Custer 19th – Austin Cindric 22nd – Brad Keselowski 24th – Zane Smith 29th – Ryan Preece 30th – Noah Gragson 31st – Todd Gilliland 32nd – Cody Ware 33rd – Josh Berry
CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 17 Fifth Third Bank Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I watched the first group go out and it looked straight-up like a handful, and then to go out there for that run, for our group, I felt pretty good about it until the last handful, and then it started to show up. It’s got a lot of fall off, but this team did a fantastic job on bringing this Fifth Third Mustang out here, and be able to have good long run speed and fire off speed. We’re missing just a tick here and there, but, right now with where we’re sitting, I’m the happiest I’ve been at the ROVAL post-qualifying than ever before. It’s a good start.” WHAT IS YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM TODAY THAT WILL AFFECT TOMORROW? “Rear grip. You better be ready for it. I think you’re gonna see a lot of missed chicanes, a lot of penalties there. I love the track limits, the tire packs. I don’t know where everybody is at on that, but, to me, physical track limits is the way to go. There’s no nonsense. You either hit it or you don’t. I’m a fan of that, so I like what NASCAR has done there. I think that it gives us a more definitive course and helps bring a little bit more finesse back into it.”
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Discount Tire Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “It was s decent day. It was good to find a little pace in qualifying and we’ll work a little bit on our race pace stuff, but, overall, not a bad day. It’s a decent place to start, so we’ll see what we can do.” YOU FOUND SOME PACE, BUT WHAT ABOUT SOME GRIP? “I don’t think anyone is gonna find grip. It’s who has a little bit more of the less grip than anyone else.”
AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 2 MenardsRichmond Water Heaters Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I think it’s gonna take me a few hours to digest practice and what it’s gonna take to position ourselves well for the race. For qualifying, I feel like for the third week in a row I was one bad corner away from having a pretty good outing. It’s been a super tricky day, super different, at least a lot further off than I thought the tire was gonna be. I definitely felt like we were gonna lose a little bit of grip there, but not that much, so it was an interesting day and I’m sure tomorrow will be just as interesting.” HOW DID THE TIRE PACKS AFFECT YOU? “They changed things here and there. I’m sure it will help police the track limits, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t do a whole lot of thinking about tire packs today. It was definitely a bit different.” HOW HAS PREP FOR THIS RACE BEEN THIS WEEK KNOWING YOU NEED A WIN TO ADVANCE? “We have to win to advance to the next round of the playoffs. Coming off a good race here last year, knowing that the tire was different and gonna be the same tire as what we’ve run at the other road courses and I feel like we’ve taken a step back at those events, so we’re trying to apply what we have from our notebook. Honestly, regardless of what happens tomorrow, I’m super proud of everyone’s effort this week. A lot has gone into it, not that we don’t put in the maximum, but I’ve watched a lot of people go outside of their comfort zones to make sure this week was gonna be as good of a chance as possible to have a shot at a win. Like I said, I’m not really sure what tomorrow looks like yet, but I can tell you that whatever it is won’t be from a lack of trying.” IS THE FEELING CONFUSION AROUND THE TIRE AFTER TODAY OR IS THAT THE WRONG WORD TO USE? “Every track that we’ve gone to so far this year with this tire we’ve slowed down, so we were definitely expecting to slow down. Last year, I believe the pole was in the 82-second bracket. Today, it was in the 85’s and the rest of the field was in the 86’s and 87’s, so that’s a lot slower. And then talk about the fall off, I mean, we’ve had some fall off with this tire, but not quite like that, so I would say it’s just been very much to the extreme of what we’ve experienced with this tire change. You think about it, this racetrack, the ROVAL, has had a specific tire for this event – Xfinity, Trucks, Cup – the first time we came here, ever since, until now. Now we’re running on the same tire as all the other events, so I think it definitely highlights some of the specific challenges of this racetrack versus others.”
COLE CUSTER, No. 41 HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “It was a really solid day for us. I felt like me having to relearn the track a little bit in the Cup car and then being able to apply that stuff for qualifying worked out really well. We brought a fast Haas Automation Ford Mustang, so hopefully that is the same thing tomorrow. It’s definitely one of the craziest ROVAL’s we’re gonna have with how slick the track is. It’s extremely slick with how it was last year, so it’ll be interesting to see who can keep the tires on it on the long run.” THE TIRE SEEMS TO BE A FACTOR. WHAT ARE YOU FEELING? “It’s just extremely slick. It’s an extremely slow pace. It feels low on grip. It almost feels like you’re driving around on an ice rink. It’s gonna be interesting. There are gonna be a lot of mistakes made, so we’ll see how that impacts the whole race and who can keep the tires on it.”
Toyota GAZOO Racing – Tyler Reddick NASCAR Cup Series Quotes
CONCORD, N.C. (October 4, 2025) – 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.
This is Reddick’s second pole of the season (COTA), second at the Charlotte ROVAL (2023) and 11th of his career.
TYLER REDDICK, No. 45 Jordan Brand Toyota Camry XSE, 23XI Racing
What was it like out there in practice and qualifying?
“Yeah, it was something. I feel like when we raced at Sonoma in the past, we’d have the high fall off, but the track certainly took you know, rubber, but a lot of rubber and rubber buildup off-line too. I feel like I’ve seen this before. Probably, when I did the Watkins Glen tire test, I believe it’s on this tire combination that we have been racing this year. It did a lot of that at that tire test, and we really haven’t seen it to the level that it did today. So yeah, the way it acted today was somewhat reminiscent of that test, but obviously, when we returned to race, it was much different, it wasn’t, you had some fall off, but it wasn’t rubbering the whole track in, kind of like it was. So, yeah, this is, I guess more in line with what I expected this tire to do, at a lot of the racetracks we go to, when I participated in that tire test, but it had just hasn’t done it quite to this level until today.”
What more do you need tomorrow to beat Shane van Gisbergen in the race?
“I think what you would define a long run – the long run seems like it comes quick with the way these tires go away. I believe he was the standout in that regard, on long run pace, so, I will try to look at what I’m doing with the car. We’ll try to look at what we can change on the car to see what more we can kind of do to help that. Outside of that, I thought my car handled pretty well over the course of the long run. We just have to just look through everything and see if there’s anything more there that we can find to help us. I mean, I think we’re okay when you look at the field minus the 88 (Shane van Gisbergen), but yeah, Shane’s obviously very good at what he does, he’s proven that this year in other years with this car. For us, we’ve got to kind of figure out how we can close that gap. It’s a pretty big one, but we’re up for that challenge.”
What did you think of the location of the tire packs?
“Turn seven’s, you know it’s there. I think in in the race last year, drivers and cars were really cutting that corner quite a bit. So, it keeps us more on the racetrack, I think with how much this tire wears away, keeping us off the paint over there is probably a good thing. I guess on the front chicane here, in the past, you’re able to really jump over that if you needed to, and that’s kind of taken that away. We kind of saw it, I think Kyle Busch made contact with it. A couple others did, and it didn’t destroy their car, it didn’t go flying. So, I think in the race – the intent of it was to keep us more on the racetrack, but it’ll be interesting to see when we’re two-by-two and we’ve got to work together to kind of get through a corner. We’re going to have less room, so, I expect more contact .
What does this do in terms of strategy?
“That’s how we played it the last two years, but we weren’t quite as far back on points as we are right now, going into tomorrow’s race. So, I think everybody that had a plan, an idea on the strategy for this race just had it completely ripped in half and all the teams are now looking at, you know what the fall off was like today and refiguring what the strategy’s going to look like. I would imagine that tires are going to be important to have late if there’s a caution based on what we saw today.”
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in North America for nearly 70 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our more than 1,800 dealerships.
Toyota directly employs nearly 64,000 people in North America who have contributed to the design, engineering, and assembly of nearly 49 million cars and trucks at our 14 manufacturing plants. In 2025, Toyota’s plant in North Carolina began to assemble automotive batteries for electrified vehicles.
Toyota GAZOO Racing – Bubba Wallace NASCAR Cup Series Quotes
CONCORD, N.C. (October 4, 2025) – 23XI Racing driver Bubba Wallace was made available to the media on Saturday prior to practice for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.
BUBBA WALLACE, No. 23 Leidos Toyota Camry XSE, 23XI Racing
How was the competition meeting this week?
“Look it was definitely a somber week for sure, and I hate that it got to this point – the lingering effect, but Denny (Hamlin) and I just talked 30 minutes ago. It was a good, heart-to-heart conversation. It came from a place of peace. It went better than I thought it would. He shared his side of things, and I shared mine and we had common ground. I told him – and it was kind of funny – I kind of sent him on a detour when I said, you can go first, and then five seconds in I said, just so you know, I’m not mad about getting fenced going for the win – and his eyes were like, and he was like I need a second to reposition where I’m going to go. Just so we are all clear on that – that is not going to be the last time where I’m battling for a win and it doesn’t go our way in some fashion, whether that is Denny or anybody in the field. I’ll be a little gracious here and say 95 percent of the people on this side of the catchfence look at that move as, oof, that’s it. The other five percent, whether they are buddies or they don’t care, and they see the other side of it. I don’t fault Denny Hamlin for racing for a win, racing for his team, and his sponsors. I get the question a lot – what is it like racing Denny, on the race track, no offense to him, but I could give two shits because he is a competitor, and he has labeled it that way. That was two competitors going for a win, and so as much so as it didn’t work out, I have to respect that. I think Dale (Earnhardt, Jr.) said it – I have every right to be pissed off about it. My biggest thing was Toyota didn’t win, and before I left my motorhome after the race, I texted the Toyota reps apologizing that we didn’t win. We had five in the top-five to take the green flag on the last restart, and none of us won. I just told Chase (Elliott) – we alley oop’d that for him, he appreciated it. It was all of the people that got effected – that is where my frustration came from, because I felt like I was stepping up for them, so while the conversation went really well – the pain is still there a little bit, but it definitely eased it. So I definitely appreciate Denny’s comments, never want him to back down in any scenario, but I didn’t get the chance to see the rest of the corner, and so yeah, that sucks.”
Is the pain because you didn’t win or it may affect you having a shot to run for the title?
“Both. I don’t expect – I’m not an owner and a driver. I don’t know what the thought process is. It is easy to sit there and Monday quarterback it, or in this case Saturday quarterback it. I’m sure it’s a difficult thing to juggle. It’s really good if I get 60 wins, and it is really good that I advance myself in the Playoffs, but man, it’s also really good if the car I own gets locked into the next round. There is a lot of money on the line – there is a lot of layers to all of that. You don’t think about that – I would assume – in the moment. Win and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do. That is what we’ve always done since we were kids – figure it out, and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to win races. Some are more respectful than others, and you’ve just got to deal with it. You’ve got to respect that and accept it and move on.”
What is the mood in the shop right now?
“I would say none of us have – and this can be, I don’t want to say naive to the fact – but we don’t go there and talk about December 1st. It is our jobs; it is our livelihoods to give it everything we’ve got for the race that is ahead of us. That sounds like a very cliché answer, but I could care less. I’ve got five races left to go out and fight for a championship, and I set that tone from the beginning of the year. We’ve got to work out tails off to make it count each and every week. With everything going on in the background, I’ve encouraged my guys to stay focused on that – so I can’t answer your question and give you any insight to that, nor would if it was the case, but I genuinely don’t feel that. Now if Sunday was December 1st – mood was pretty down, and I hate that for my team, but it is a new weekend. Fresh opportunity in front of us. It is time to go focus on that.”
How much attention do you pay attention to the lawsuit?
“I don’t. I focus on the things that I can control and let everything else sit on the background. Didn’t even know anything went on last night, so that just shows you, I guess, how out of tune I am, but focused, for me, on the more important things.”
Why is the frustration that Toyota didn’t win?
“You turn left, and you go from the bottom. Simple as that. A lot of people want to relate that move to my move to CBell (Christopher Bell). CBell got to see the other side of the corner, and I was on the bottom to start the corner and drifted up. That was the thing. I texted CBell before I left the bus. I said, man, my full intentions were to use the air. That is still one thing that we can go back to when (Kyle) Larson fenced me at Vegas. We all know that moment. He didn’t touch me – I don’t think, it was more so his air put me in the fence. There is a fine line, obviously, of just forcing someone to lift, but also putting someone in the fence. I texted CBell after the race and said my full intentions were to make you lift, not put you in the fence, and I apologized for that. He took it, I guess, as best as he could, but I reached out immediately because I saw the replay after the fact, and was like damn, I did not want that, but I allowed him – I don’t know how long it takes you to get from turn three to turn four, a couple of seconds, I allowed him to see that. Just the way it was handled after the fact was a frustration too.”
How are you and your team better than you were a year ago?
“I’ve joked around since Indy that I don’t care, and for the longest time I was always racing for job security, no matter how long you are signed, I go back to COTA, when I crashed out, third race of the season, I said I needed to be replaced because I was always just chasing the results and wasn’t living up to expectations for self, and I’m sure the expectations for the team. I was just kind of being a realistic, pessimistic – like I’m not doing the job right, but Indy allowed me to enjoy that job that I did, and also replay that – you didn’t care in that moment. You raced because you loved it. I think that has been the biggest shift. Everyone just supporting that and showing up and having fun. It has been fun being on the race track. Everybody has told me that the start of Kansas last Sunday – they like to say I give up, I never give up, so that is BS when you hear that, but the outcome would have been different. Bubba Wallace wouldn’t be fighting for the win a year ago if his Kansas race started out like that. I think it is just legit, letting the little stuff go and allowing yourself as chance to breathe and looking at things differently. That has produced a lot of the results.”
Does it add another layer to that when Denny just goes on the whole next day and has a graphic that says I won’t apologize? Does the tension and awkwardness just stem from the uniqueness of the situation?
“Yeah, you kind of hit it right there on the head. It was just the way it was kind of handled behind the scenes just kept going, kept adding fuel to the fire and I hate that it got to that point, and I expressed my displeasure to Denny (Hamlin) today, and he totally respected that. I’m a guy that we have confrontation, and it is not settled – like it is lingering, and now I’m in this spot where I’m 25, 26 points out. I expressed to him, that what you need from your driver is to be at 110 percent focused on what to do, how to execute, and how to go out there and beat SVG (Shane van Gisbergen) – I had a dark cloud over my mind all week long, man, it’s not fair to my team. I expressed that, he told respected that, and frankly the conversation allows him to see things from a different perspective. Denny usually doesn’t do that but allowed him to have that opportunity. As much as I wanted to come in here and MF the guy, the competitor Denny, the conversation went better than expected and you feel lighter on your feet. There is a transition period that you have to go through, and it sucks that it is happening on Saturday.”
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Ford Racing Notes and Quotes NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America 400 Media Availability — Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday, October 4, 2025
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse, comes into this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series elimination race 13 points above the cut line. He spoke to members of the media before today’s qualifying session about his situation.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse – WE SAW YOU RIDING AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD EARLIER THIS WEEK. WAS THAT PRACTICE FOR THIS WEEKEND? “It’s kind of an every week occurrence. There are a lot of good perks with being a race car driver, but one of the coolest things if you do this long enough is you can afford to build your own racetrack and it’s pretty cool. It’s like the coolest thing in the world. It’s like as a child that’s all you wanted is to be able to walk out your front door and jump in your go-kart or your four-wheeler and go have some fun. It’s like every little boy’s dream, so I built a racetrack and it’s awesome. I don’t know if my neighbors love it or not, but I do and they all seem to be pretty cool about it. They haven’t really said anything, so that’s good. I love driving still. Nothing has changed for me since I was a little kid. That’s what I did everyday I got home from school is I’d jump on a go-kart or I’d jump on my quad and I’d go ride. I still do the same thing when I get home from work though, and the good thing is my oldest is becoming fast enough to race with dad and it’s becoming more fun again, so it’s pretty cool.”
HOW DO YOU APPROACH SUNDAY? ARE YOU GOING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE GUYS AROUND YOU IN THE POINTS AND WANT TO HEAR WHERE THEY ARE? “Absolutely. I want to know it all. I want everything, all the information I can possibly get said to me. I think everybody knows you make better decisions when you have all the data and we’re asked to make decisions in the heat of the battle live. There’s no time to talk it through in a boardroom. We’ve got to make the decision at that moment, so the more prepared we can be the better, but also understanding what the situation is, what’s going on around me and what I have to do inside the race car.”
CAN YOU RECALL THE RANGE OF EMOTIONS A YEAR AGO WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE ELIMINATED AND THEN REINSTATED? DID YOU FEEL A SENSE OF DESTINY AFTERWARDS? “No. I don’t ever feel like anything is owed to me. You just roll with whatever comes your way and it shows how unpredictable life is and sometimes you don’t need to be going up and down with every wave. I remember the emotions leaving the track. I was bummed. I was like, ‘Well, on one hand we did really good here last year,’ so I was proud of the effort that we gave. I was bummed that we were just a little short, but it is what it is. That’s how I am at the end of the race. It is what it is. I can’t change it now and you just have to keep looking out the windshield and we went home. We went home and had a fairly normal evening, and then I got a call and it was like, ‘Hey, honey, you ain’t gonna believe it. We’re back in.’ Obviously, the next seven days after that changed everything because we went from out to in to winning Vegas and in the Championship 4 and winning our third title, so just a quick turn of events, but that’s NASCAR racing for you. It’s unpredictable. Things can change really, really fast. You just have to keep rolling with it.”
HOW DO YOU DUPLICATE THAT SUCCESS AND WIN AGAIN AT VEGAS NEXT WEEK? “It’s one step at a time. We’ve got to get through this week first. This week right now is the most important race of the season for us. We’ve got to get through this one. Hopefully, we can continue to be in the championship race after this and at that point we’ll look at Vegas, but right now 100 percent of our focus is at the Roval.”
WHEN YOU WERE LISTENING TO BUBBA WALLACE. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHEN YOU’RE RACING HARD AGAINST TEAMMATES? “I honestly feel like it’s one of the most challenging relationships that you can ever go through because when you think about other team sports you’re on the same team. That team wins together. In this case, you’re on the same team, but only one of you get to win. It gets really confusing. One win is good for everybody and there’s truth to that. I’ve seen that over my years of driving, how your perspective changes over the years. When you first come in it’s me, me, me, me, me, and then you kind of eventually see the big picture if you do it long enough, how the whole ecosystem is really created and how it is good for everyone to see victory at Team Penske or whatever respective team that may be. So, with that said, it’s still challenging because only one driver gets the stat. Only one driver gets the points. Only one driver gets the paycheck. That’s true and there’s also the team aspect, where there’s everyone working on the cars at the shop of course, but then there’s also individual pit crews, there’s individual road crews, crew chiefs, engineers, so there is some separation there as well. It’s a very challenging relationship to navigate and it gets stressed a lot. It’s just unique. I have never seen anything like it in my time.”
YOUR PENSKE TEAMMATES SAY YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE SITUATIONS IN ADVANCE, SO WHAT IS THE WORD ABOUT WHEN THOSE THINGS HAPPEN? “You’ve got to race. We try to run through as many scenarios as possible and a lot of what-ifs. The longer you work with a team, the better that becomes because everyone understands. But, at the same time, we’re supposed to race, so you’ve got to weigh that out, too, because that’s our jobs as our fans expect that out of us. There’s a lot of arguments that will argue the other side, so you try to find some happy medium and what is the rules of engagement. What is acceptable when we’re racing for a win? Basically, one of us better win. I think that’s the simplest way of looking at it. One of us better come out with the win. I don’t think there’s probably a more challenging situation that can possibly come up than what Ryan and I went through in Phoenix last year. That’s not just a win, that’s a championship and it’s coming down, mano a mano just the two of us within a car length of each other. It’s a tough situation for both of us to be in.”
THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF TALK ABOUT GETTING YOU AND RYAN OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS. WHAT’S IT LIKE KNOWING THAT YOUR COMPETITORS ARE THINKING ABOUT YOU? “Cool. Good. I want to keep them there. That’s fine. We have a reputation of just grinding it out and sticking around and showing up when it matters, and so that’s been our reputation over the last 10 years plus because we continue to do that. Last week, obviously, didn’t go the way we wanted it to, getting caught up in that wreck, but we’re still in a good position this weekend. We’ll just focus on ourselves and what everyone else wants to say, they’ll say. You just focus on you.”
DO YOU BELIEVE IN A MENTAL ADVANTAGE? “Absolutely.”
IS THERE ONE RACE THAT STANDS OUT AS ONE WHERE SOMETHING HAPPENED AND YOU STILL CAME BACK AND WON? “Gosh, I don’t know off the top of my head. You kind of caught me off guard there. There are a lot of races that come up that way. I mean, these days in Cup racing you could almost argue that every win is a championship performance because the cars are so close that you have to be perfect. You really can’t have a mistake these days and expect to recover and drive through the field. The cars are just too close in speed and passing is more challenging because of that, so I’d say you win these things these days it takes everything. The pit stops have to be perfect. The restarts have to be perfect. The car has to be really, really good. All of those things have to be lined up perfect to win one of these things these days, so it’s kind of hard to say any of them. I feel like it’s harder to win these days than it even used to be just because there are more cars that can.”
WERE YOU PART OF THE MEETING WITH NASCAR THIS MORNING AND HOW DID IT GO? “I can’t say anything (laughing). No, it was fine. They just ran us through some marketing stuff, some plans for next year on what the sport is gonna look like, which is super exciting by the way. I’m not gonna spill the beans, but it’s super cool, and then just some competition stuff, some stuff along with the rules, how things are called, some safety stuff. They just kind of run through those categories with the drivers and see if the drivers have any comments on where we’re going as a sport or anything that’s concerning.
WHAT MOST EXCITED YOU? “To me, I think where we’re going from a marketing standpoint next year is really exciting.”
WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU GOT THAT FOURTH WIN OF YOUR CAREER IN VEGAS AND NEW YOU WERE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 4? “Just pure excitement because the goal when you start the season is to win the championship and it takes a lot of stepping stones to get to that place. One of the largest ones is just getting to the Championship 4. That’s the one closest to the championship, so getting to the Championship 4 is so hard to do, so when we won that race, you automatically know, ‘Gosh, we’re in it. We’ve got a chance.’ And then you know that you’ve got a couple weeks advantage on everybody. The excitement is real and then it goes straight back to the pressure automatically kicks in. Maybe 30 minutes after the race and the adrenaline starts to come down, you’re like, ‘We’ve got to start working on Phoenix now.’ It starts happening really fast because you’re that close. As great as it is to make the Championship 4, it equally sucks to not win it – to get that far and not accomplish the goal. That hurts so bad, so you just want to make sure you have everything ready.”
HOW IS THE FALL RACE AT VEGAS COMPARED TO THE SPRING RACE? IS IT MORE STRESSFUL GOING INTO THAT ONE? “Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it’s way more stressful. It’s the playoffs. There’s more on the line. You’re getting close, so for the eight that are still in it, absolutely there’s more pressure.”
Connor Zilisch photo by John Knittel for SpeedwayMedia.com.
Connor Zilisch led a historic JR Motorsports’ sweep of the top-five starting spots by claiming the pole position for the Blue Cross NC 250 Playoffs race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course (Roval) on Saturday, October 4.
The event’s starting lineup was determined through a single qualifying round, where the entered competitors were split into two groups after the event’s 50-minute practice session. The competitors in each group were given 20 minutes to post a qualifying lap. After the time trials, the driver posting the overall fastest lap time is awarded the pole position.
During the event’s qualifying trials, Zilisch, who qualified in the second group, posted a pole-winning lap at 96.503 mph in 85.054 seconds.
With the pole, Zilisch, a 19-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina native and driver of the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro entry, notched his eighth NASCAR Xfinity Series career pole, his seventh of the 2025 season, his sixth on road-course events and his first at the Charlotte Roval, his home track.
Currently, Zilisch, a nine-time race winner this season, is one of 12 Playoff contenders contending in the 2025 Xfinity Series Playoffs. While Saturday’s Charlotte Roval event marks both the Round of 12 finale and a Playoff elimination event that will conclude four contenders’ hopes for a championship, Zilisch is one of three competitors who are guaranteed spots to the next round, the Round of 8, as the Charlotte native has accumulated enough points to proceed towards his quest to contend for the series’ championship.
“[I’m] Just really proud of JR Motorsports [and] the cars we’re bringing to the track each week,” Zilisch said. “It’s a lot of fun for all five of us [JR Motorsports drivers] that are here driving [the cars]. Hopefully, we can have a good day today later in the race.”
“Momentum is everything in this sport and also five more [Playoff] points would be great,” Zilisch added. “We’re gonna be flipping stages and doing all we can to put ourselves in a position to go out and win the race. Fingers crossed [that] we have a clean day. Yesterday was chaotic, but hopefully, I can be a little smoother today.”
Photo by Kevin Ritchie for SpeedwayMedia.com.
Zilisch will share the front row with teammate Justin Allgaier, the latter of whom posted his fastest qualifying lap at 95.984 mph in 85.514 seconds. Like Zilisch, Allgaier is also guaranteed a spot in the Playoffs’ Round of 8 based on points.
Teammate Connor Mosack, who was the fastest competitor in the first group at 95.668 mph in 85.797 seconds, will start in third place alongside teammate Sammy Smith, while teammate Carson Kvapil rounded out the top-five starting spots in fifth place. As a result, JR Motorsports became the first organization to sweep the first five starting spots for an upcoming NASCAR national touring series event.
Corey Day, who is scheduled to make his eighth Xfinity start of the 2025 season driving for Hendrick Motorsports, will start in sixth place. He will be followed by Playoff contenders Sam Mayer and Jesse Love. Kaz Grala and Austin Green completed the top-10 starting spots.
With six of 12 Playoff contenders qualifying in the top 10 for the Charlotte Roval event, the remaining Playoff contenders that included Sheldon Creed, Nick Sanchez, Austin Hill, Taylor Gray, Brandon Jones and Harrison Burton qualified 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 23rd and 28th, respectively. Jones is the third competitor alongside Zilisch and Allgaier, who are guaranteed a spot in the Round of 8 after he won last weekend’s event at Kansas Speedway.
With 42 competitors vying for 38 starting spots, Garrett Smithley, Thomas Annunziata, Austin J. Hill and Andrew Patterson were the four competitors who did not qualify for the event.
Qualifying position, Best speed, Best time: Charlotte
1. Connor Zilisch, 96.503 mph, 85.054 seconds
2. Justin Allgaier, 95.984 mph, 85.514 seconds
3. Connor Mosack, 95.668 mph, 85.797 seconds
4. Sammy Smith, 95.472 mph, 85.973 seconds
5. Carson Kvapil, 95.390 mph, 86.047 seconds
6. Corey Day, 95.154 mph, 86.260 seconds
7. Sam Mayer, 95.027 mph, 86.375 seconds
8. Jesse Love, 95.011 mph, 86.390 seconds
9. Kaz Grala, 94.987 mph, 86.412 seconds
10. Austin Green, 94.921 mph, 86.472 seconds
11. Aric Almirola, 94.873 mph, 86.516 seconds
12. Brennan Poole, 94.854 mph, 86.533 seconds
13. Sheldon Creed, 94.819 mph, 86.565 seconds
14. Nick Sanchez, 94.792 mph, 86.590 seconds
15. William Sawalich, 94.772 mph, 86.608 seconds
16. Austin Hill, 94.718 mph, 86.657 seconds
17. Taylor Gray, 94.716 mph, 86.659 seconds
18. Christian Eckes, 94.712 mph, 86.663 seconds
19. Preston Pardus, 94.633 mph, 86.735 seconds
20. Matt DiBenedetto, 94.574 mph, 86.789 seconds
21. Alex Labbe, 94.516 mph, 86.842 seconds
22. Ryan Sieg, 94.432 mph, 86.920 seconds
23. Brandon Jones, 94.288 mph, 87.052 seconds
24. Josh Bilicki, 94.282 mph, 87.058 seconds
25. Sage Karam, 94.254 mph, 87.084 seconds
26. Parker Retzlaff, 94.231 mph, 87.105 seconds
27. Daniel Hemric, 94.222 mph, 87.113 seconds
28. Harrison Burton, 94.175 mph, 87.157 seconds
29. Ryan Ellis, 93.996 mph, 87.323 seconds
30. Jeb Burton, 93.943 mph, 87.372 seconds
31. Leland Honeyman, 93.799 mph, 87.506 seconds
32. Josh Williams, 93.787 mph, 87.517 seconds
33. Dean Thompson, 93.739 mph, 87.562 seconds
34. Anthony Alfredo, 93.651 mph, 87.645 seconds
35. Blaine Perkins, 93.631 mph, 87.663 seconds
36. Jeremy Clements, 93.121 mph, 88.143 seconds
37. Kyle Sieg, 92.732 mph, 88.513 seconds
38. Daniel Dye, 92.223 mph, 89.002 seconds
*Bold indicates Playoff contenders.
The 2025 Blue Cross NC 250 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course is scheduled to occur on Saturday, October 4, and air at 5 p.m. ET on the CW Network, PRN Radio and SiriusXM.
