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Corey Heim scores wild Truck victory in overtime at Texas

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Andrew Kim
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS - MAY 02: Corey Heim, driver of the #11 Safelite/Foster Love Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway on May 02, 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images).

Corey Heim made it his time to return to Victory Lane in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series division. He rallied from a four-race winless drought amid dominant performances to win the SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday, May 2, amid an overtime shootout.

The 22-year-old Heim from Marietta, Georgia, led six times for a race-high 96 of 174 over-scheduled laps. He started in fourth place and led for the first time on Lap 52 during the second stage period. Amid six caution periods throughout the event’s first two stage periods, Heim led a total of 25 laps and claimed the second stage victory.

A late cycle of green flag pit stops and four caution periods, all due to on-track carnages, occurred under the final 20 laps. Heim, who withstood all four, outdueled Ben Rhodes and Daniel Hemric during an overtime shootout to triumphantly steer his way to a dominant Truck victory at Texas.

On-track qualifying was initially scheduled to occur on Friday but was canceled due to inclement weather. As a result, the starting lineup was based on a metric formula. Tyler Ankrum, winner of the most recent Truck Series event at Rockingham Speedway in mid-April, was awarded the pole position. Teammate Daniel Hemric joined Ankrum on the front row.

When the green flag waved and the race started, Tyler Ankrum launched his No. 18 LiUNA! Chevrolet Silverado RST entry ahead of the field from the inside lane. As Ankrum led through the frontstretch, Grant Enfinger, who started in fifth place, attempted to throw a three-wide move beneath Jake Garcia and Daniel Hemric for the runner-up spot.

Enfinger’s attempt, however, backfired after he got loose beneath Garica through the first two turns. Despite keeping his truck straight, Enfinger lost a bevy of spots entering the backstretch and dropped out of the to-15 mark as the field fanned out to multiple lanes. With multiple on-track battles ensuing within the field, Ankrum proceeded to lead the first lap over Garcia.

Over the next four laps, Ankrum retained the lead over Garcia, Rajah Caruth, Layne Riggs and rookie Giovanni Ruggiero while Corey Heim, Chandler Smith, Kaden Honeycutt, Brandon Jones and Carson Hocevar occupied the top-10 spots. Meanwhile, Hemric had fallen to 11th place as he trailed teammate Connor Mosack and Ty Majeski while Nick Sanchez and Stewart Friesen were mired in the top-15 mark ahead of Matt Crafton, Bayley Currey, Luke Fenhaus, rookie Andres Perez de Lara and Ben Rhodes, respectively.

Through the first 10 scheduled laps, Ankrum stabilized his early advantage to half a second over Riggs, after assuming the runner-up spot from Garcia four laps earlier, was closing in on Ankrum for the lead. Third-place Garcia trailed the lead by more than two seconds. Behind, Caruth and Ruggerio trailed by more than two seconds in the top-five mark.

Five laps later, Ankrum’s advantage shrunk to a tenth of a second over Riggs while third-place Garcia trailed by more than three seconds. As Corey Heim made his way up to fourth place ahead of Caruth and Ruggerio, Ankrum stabilized his lead to a tenth of a second over Riggs over the next four laps.

On Lap 20, a scheduled competition caution flew. At the moment of caution, Ankrum, who lapped rookie Toni Breidinger and Josh Reaume, fended off Riggs to maintain the lead. Heim, Garcia, Ruggiero, Caruth, Honeycutt, Chandler Smith, Majeski and Hocevar were racing in the top 10.

During the caution period, some of the drivers pitted. They included Smith, Crafton, Luke Fenhaus, Enfinger, Jack Wood, Matt Mills, Cody Dennison, Bayley Currey, Stefan Parsons, Hemric, Tanner Gray, Dawson Sutton, Spencer Boyd and Nathan Byrd pitted. The rest of the field, led by Ankrum, remained on the track.

When the event restarted under green on Lap 25, Riggs and Ankrum dueled for the lead until the former cleared the latter off in Turn 2. As Riggs led, Garcia battled Ankrum for the runner-up spot as Heim and Ruggerio were in the top five. Over the next three laps, Majeski, who briefly slipped out of the top five during the previous restart, moved up into fourth place. Heim overtook Garcia for the runner-up spot. With Ankrum falling back to fifth place on the track, Riggs continued to lead at the Lap 30 mark.

On Lap 31, the caution flew when Ruggerio, who was racing in seventh place behind Ankrum, Majeski and Hocevar, unwittingly plowed his No. 17 JBL Toyota Tundra TRD Pro entry through the frontstretch’s grass. Ruggerio’s move got his truck briefly airborne as the contact with the wet grass destroyed the front end. He then veered into the path of Kaden Honeycutt and sent both hard into the outside wall. They then shot back across the track and collected Brandon Jones in the process, which knocked the trio out of contention.

During the caution period, a bevy of front-runners, including the leader Riggs, pitted while the rest led by Matt Crafton and Enfinger remained on the track.

With three laps remaining in the first stage period, Crafton and Enfinger, both of whom were among those who did not pit, led the field to the race’s resumption. At the start, Enfinger used a push from Matt Mills from the inside lane to storm ahead of Crafton and lead through the first two turns. With the field fanning out to three lanes through the backstretch before the battles ensued through Turns 3 and 4. Enfinger stretched out to half-a-second advantage for the following lap.

When the first stage period concluded on Lap 40, Enfinger captured his first Truck stage victory of the 2025 season. Matt Mills made his way into second place over Crafton, Hemric and Heim while Majeski, Tanner Gray, Hocevar, Chandler Smith and Riggs were scored in the top 10, respectively.

Under the stage break, some including Mills, Tanner Gray, Fenhaus, Jack Wood, Ben Rhodes, Ankrum, Cody Dennison, Nathan Byrd, Mosack and Spencer Boyd pitted while the rest led by Enfinger remained on the track.

The second stage period started on Lap 47 as Enfinger and Crafton occupied the front row. At the start, Enfinger wasted no time securing and retaining the lead over Crafton through the first two turns. Enfinger, who led the following lap, continued to lead to the Lap 50 mark. Heim, Crafton, Hemric and Chandler Smith followed suit in the top five.

On Lap 53, the caution returned when Riggs, who was battling in close-quarters competition with Majeski in sixth place, got loose underneath Majesk. He then rubbed the latter while fighting for grip before he spun just past the first two turns and came to a sliding halt towards the outside wall. At the time of caution, where Riggs was able to continue without sustaining any significant damage, Heim overtook Enfinger for the lead.

The start of the next restart on Lap 56 did not last long. Andres Perez de Lara, who was racing just inside the top-10 mark amid three-wide action, got loose underneath Sanchez. He got sideways and spun before he backed his No. 77 Telcel Chevrolet Silverado RST entry into the outside wall through the first two turns and retired with the rear-end damage. By then, Heim maintained the lead over Enfinger, Hemric, Friesen and Chandler Smith, respectively.

The start of the ensuing restart on Lap 61 lasted only two laps after Riggs, who was racing in the top-15 mark, was involved in his second incident of the event, this time through the frontstretch’s grass after he made contact with Luke Fenhaus. While spinning through the frontstretch’s grass, Riggs plowed his No. 34 Aaron’s Ford F-150 entry through the grass, damaging his front nose and terminating his event.

During the recent caution period, some including Mills, Mosack, Stefan Parsons, Majeski, Sanchez, Tanner Gray, Hocevar, Byrd and Breidinger pitted while the rest led by Heim, who retained the race lead, remained on the track.

As the event restarted under green on Lap 71, Heim led Enfinger and Chandler Smith. Then, Enfinger received a push from Smith and navigated his way back to the front through the first two turns. Enfinger led the following lap as both Heim and Smith battled for the runner-up spot in front of Friesen and Hemric. Despite Enfinger pulling away by as much as four-tenths of a second, Heim closed in to within a tenth of a second on Lap 75 before reassuming the lead during the following lap.

When the second stage period concluded on Lap 80, Heim, who extended his lead to more than a second, cruised to his fifth Truck stage victory of the 2025 season. Chandler Smith settled in second ahead of Enfinger, Hemric and Friesen. Rhodes, Garcia, Ankrum, Majeski and Crafton were scored in the top 10, respectively.

During the stage break, a majority of the field led by Heim pitted for service. The rest led by Majeski and including Hocevar, Mosack, Gray, Parsons and Josh Reaume, remained on the track.

With 80 laps remaining, the final stage period commenced with Majeski and Hocevar on the front row. Majeski rocketed ahead with a strong start while Hocevar maintained the runner-up spot over Heim, Mosack and the field. Amid the battles within the field, Majeski proceeded to lead by two-tenths of a second over Heim with 75 laps remaining. Hocevar, Gray and Freisen occupied the top five spots.

Then with 72 laps remaining, Heim outdueled Majeski by using the outside lane and rocketed past Majeski to reassume the lead. Behind, Hocevar maintained third place in front of Gray and Friesen as Heim stretched his lead to half a second over the next lap. Heim proceeded to grow his lead to more than a second with 65 laps remaining. Hocevar, who reassumed the runner-up spot four laps earlier, pursued ahead of Majeski, Gray, Freisen, Rhodes, Enfinger, Smith, Mosack and Crafton.

Down to the final 60 laps of the event, Heim continued to extend his advantage as he was leading by more than two seconds over Hocevar. Third-place Friesen trailed by more than six seconds. Meanwhile, Rhodes and Majeski trailed by eight seconds in the top-five mark as Gray, Enfinger, Smith, Mosack and Sanchez were racing in the top 10 over Mosack, Parsons, Ankrum, Currey and Mills.

Ten laps later, Heim stabilized his large advantage to four seconds over Hocevar while Freisen, Rhodes and Gray pursued in the top five. Meanwhile, Majeski, bounced off the backstretch’s outside wall amid contact with Smith while trying to block the latter. But he managed to continue without drawing a caution and fell back to 11th place. Smith was in sixth place ahead of Crafton, Sanchez, Enfinger and Parsons.

A lap later, a late cycle of green flag pit stops ensued as Majeski made a strategic pit stop. More drivers, including Parsons and Mosack would also pit. Hocevar and Gray pitted two laps later. With more drivers pitting, including Crafton, Smith, Enfinger, Gray, Currey and Rhodes, Heim retained the lead. Heim then pitted from the lead with 40 laps remaining. Friesen, Sanchez, Mills, Dawson Sutton, Wood, Ankrum and Hemric also made pit stops as Rajah Caruth cycled his way into the lead.

With 35 laps remaining, Caruth, who had yet to pit, was leading by a tenth of a second over Garcia while Heim trailed in third place by more than 13 seconds. Caruth would pit his No. 71 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Silverado RST entry from the lead a lap later. Garcia, who assumed the lead, pitted his No. 13 Quanta Services Ford F-150 entry another two laps later.

This allowed Heim to cycle his No. 11 Safelite/Foster Love Toyota Tundra TRD Pro entry back into the lead by more than five seconds over Hocevar with 30 laps remaining.

Down to the final 25 laps of the event, Heim was leading by double-digit figures over Smith while Friesen, Rhodes and Enfinger were in the top five. Meanwhile, Hocevar was racing in the runner-up spot but had been battling a race-long voltage issue. He returned to pit road to have a battery changed, which in turn, dropped him out of the lead lap category.

Then with nearly 20 laps remaining, the caution flew when Frankie Muniz, who was racing in 21st place, hit the outside wall in between the first two turns. By then, Heim was leading by more than 20 seconds over Smith while Friesen, Rhodes, Enfinger and Crafton were the only competitors scored on the lead lap. During the caution period, the lead-lap competitors led by Heim returned to pit road for service.

The event restarted under green with 14 laps remaining, and Enfinger gained a slight advantage at the start. Heim, however, muscled back ahead to lead from the inside lane. As Heim led through the backstretch, Friesen followed suit with the runner-up spot over Enfinger.

The caution would then return during the following lap after Friesen, who was locked in a tight side-by-side battle with Enfinger over the previous two laps, got loose in Turns 3 and 4. He then shot up the track and clipped Enfinger. Both Enfinger and Friesen collected Smith as all three collided into the outside wall.

In the aftermath of the accident, the event was then placed in a red flag period for nearly five minutes. Amid the accident, Rhodes navigated his way into the runner-up spot. He was followed by Caruth, Parsons, Hemric and Currey while Heim retained the lead.

When the red flag lifted and the field led by Heim proceeded under an extensive cautious pace due to ongoing repairs made to the outside wall from the recent carnage. The race restarted under green with six laps remaining. At the start, Heim fended off Rhodes and Caruth to maintain the lead. Heim proceeded to lead by three-tenths of a second during the following lap. The caution, however, returned as Garcia and Mosack collided and wrecked in Turn 2.

The next restart, with two laps remaining, nearly lasted a lap as Heim and Rhodes dueled for the lead. With Rhodes maintaining the same level as Heim from the outside lane through the first two turns, Caruth joined the battle by going three-wide on both through the backstretch.

Then with Caruth, Heim and Rhodes locked dead even against one another for the lead through the backstretch, the caution flew. The event was sent into overtime due to Matt Mills clipping the frontstretch grass. At the time of caution, Heim was ruled the leader over both Rhodes and Caruth while Gray, Hemric and Ankrum were in the top six.

The start of an overtime shootout featured Heim and Rhodes dueling for the lead through the first two turns and the backstretch. Neither driver lifted off the gas peddle nor gave each other room. During their battle, Rhodes used the outside lane to gain an advantage through the straightaways. He remained even with Heim despite Heim using the inside lane to his advantage through the turns.

When the white flag waved and the final lap started, Rhodes held a narrow lead over Heim and Hemric who attempted to make a three-wide move beneath both through the frontstretch. Then as Hemric tried to launch ahead from the inside lane, Heim used the middle lane to muscle alongside Hemric and clear him for the lead through the backstretch.

Meanwhile, Rhodes, who was pinned up towards the outside groove, briefly lost his momentum and fell out of race-winning contention as Heim drove away from Hemric. With Hemric unable to mount a final turn charge through Turns 3 and 4, Heim was able to retain the lead. He cycled back to the frontstretch and claimed the checkered flag by two-tenths of a second.

With the victory, Heim, who last won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March, notched his 14th career win in the Craftsman Truck Series division. It was also his third of the 2025 season and his first at Texas. The victory was the third of the year for both TRICON Garage and the Toyota nameplate, with the manufacturer notching its 23rd Truck victory at the Lone Star state.

Prior to his Truck victory at Texas, Heim led a combined total of 295 laps over his previous four Truck starts of the 2025 season, three of which were the most in the event (Homestead, Martinsville and Rockingham). Overall, Heim’s Texas victory occurred in an event where he also led the most laps at 96.

“I wasn’t letting [the field] take that [win] away from me,” Heim said on the frontstretch on FS1. “I’ve given up too many this year so far. Just so proud of these TRICON guys. Just overwhelmed. Obviously, so many restarts there at the end. Guys were trying to slow me, three wide, all they could do. Man, I wouldn’t let them take that [win] from me right there. [I] Can’t even speak. I’m so overworn, but they tried to take me three wide into [Turn] 1 and [I] just drove until I couldn’t anymore.”

Daniel Hemric, who utilized pit strategy to muscle his way back to the front, claimed a runner-up result while Rajah Caruth, Tyler Ankrum and Tanner Gray finished in the top five.

Meanwhile, Ben Rhodes, who was in a position to notch both his first victory of the year and his first in nearly two years, fell back to sixth place. Despite being pleased with his result, Rhodes was also left bitter towards Heim forcing him up the racetrack and the high line, which prevented Rhodes from contending for the victory on the final lap.

“We had a good showing tonight,” Rhodes said. “I was a little upset and even still watching the replay with how I was ran in [Turns] 3 and 4 by Heim. You could see him come off the bottom [lane] and the groove is extremely narrow here. That’s why all those wrecks kept happening. I had to lift. I think he had to lift and that’s what opened up for three wide down the frontstretch and then why we’re in sixth place.

“It all stems from that corner back there. When you get pushed up out of the groove and you start having to come out of the gas, that’s a big deal and that’s what opens up for three-wide racing. Not the happiest about that. I’ll get [tonight’s racing] in the memory bank, but when you have an opportunity to win races with this Playoff format, it’s really important to do that.”

Matt Crafton, Bayley Currey, Dawson Sutton and Ty Majeski completed the top 10 in the final running order.

There were 15 lead changes for nine different leaders. The race featured 11 cautions for 57 laps. In addition, 16 of 32 starters finished on the lead lap.

Following the eighth event of the 2025 Craftsman Truck Series season, Corey Heim leads the regular-season standings by 46 points over Chandler Smith, 80 over Daniel Hemric, 82 over Tyler Ankrum and 106 over Ty Majeski.

Results:

1. Corey Heim, 96 laps led, Stage 2 winner
2. Daniel Hemric
3. Rajah Caruth, five laps led
4. Tyler Ankrum, 24 laps led
5. Tanner Gray
6. Ben Rhodes, two laps led
7. Matt Crafton, three laps led
8. Bayley Currey
9. Dawson Sutton
10. Ty Majeski, 12 laps led
11. Jack Wood
12. Stefan Parsons
13. Nick Sanchez
14. Nathan Byrd
15. Spencer Boyd
16. Chandler smith
17. Carson Hocevar, two laps down
18. Josh Reaume, two laps down
19. Cody Dennison, three laps down
20. Matt Mills – OUT, Accident
21. Jake Garcia – OUT, Accident, three laps led
22. Connor Mosack – OUT, Accident
23. Grant Enfinger – OUT, Accident, 19 laps led, Stage 1 winner
24. Stewart Friesen – OUT, Accident
25. Frankie Muniz – OUT, Accident
26. Toni Breidinger – OUT, Electrical
27. Luke Fenhaus – OUT, DVP
28. Layne Riggs – OUT, Accident, 10 laps led
29. Andres Perez de Lara – OUT, Accident
30. Brandon Jones – OUT, Accident
31. Giovanni Ruggiero – OUT, Accident
32. Kaden Honeycutt – OUT, Accident

Next on the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season is Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, for the Heart of America 200. The event is scheduled to occur next Saturday, May 10, and air at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.

CHEVROLET IN INDYCAR: BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK FRIDAY PRACTICE RECAP

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Official Release
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CHEVROLET IN NTT INDYCAR SERIES
CHILDREN’S OF ALABAMA INDY GRAND PRIX
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK
TEAM CHEVY RACE FRIDAY PRACTICE RECAP
MAY 2, 2025

  • Will Power led five Team Chevy drivers in top-nine of final order in combined practice one times
  • Two-time and defending Barber winner Scott McLaughlin posted the eighth quickest time that included making a remarkable on-track save in turn 14
  • With rain expected Saturday for practice two and qualifying, laps in today’s three-segment 64-minute practice was critical with race-day forecast conditions similar to those today

BIRMINGHAM, ALA (MAY 2, 2025) – Will Power showed the way for Chevrolet in today’s first practice session for the Children of Alabama INDY Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park.

The driver of the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet posted a fasted lap of one minute, 7.7869 seconds around the 2.3-mile, 17-turn natural terrain road course in preparation for Sunday’s 90-lap race.

Two-time and defending winner Scott McLaughlin, showed amazing car control during today’s session when the rear end of his No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet stepped out in turn-14 and McLaughlin managed to right the car, miss the wall and continue on his way.

YouTube link to McLaughlin’s impressive save
The 12 Chevrolet powered drivers will continue the quest for victory with practice two and qualifying on Saturday. Rain is the forecast giving teams a tougher task of determining the optimum set-up for Sunday’s race – round four of the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule.

Combined Results of NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #1 at Barber Motorsports Park

Tune-In Alert

Saturday

· NTT INDYCAR SERIES Practice #2 – 11:30am (ET)/10:30am (CT)/9:30am (MT)/8:30am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

· NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying – 1:30pm (ET)/12:30pm (CT)/11:30am (MT)/10:30am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

Sunday

· NTT INDYCAR SERIES Warm Up – 10am (ET)/9am (CT)/8am (MT)/7am (PT) – FS1/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

· Children’s Of Alabama Indy Grand Prix (90 laps) – 1:30pm (ET)/12:30pm (CT)/11:30am (MT)/10:30am (PT) – FOX/INDYCAR Radio Network/SIRIUSXM 218

What They’re Saying:

ARROW MCLAREN

Pato O’Ward, No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:

“I love Barber. It’s high commitment and obviously a stunning facility. I have a lot of good memories coming back here. We tested here a couple of weeks ago, but today was a bit different. We’re just working through that but I think we’ll be alright. We just need to look at things and go again tomorrow.”

Nolan Siegel, No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:

“We had a smooth Practice 1. Everything went to plan, but I think we’re still missing a little bit. We made a lot of changes and learned a bit but didn’t quite fix the problems we needed to fix. We’ll go to work tomorrow morning, and I know we have a bit more pace to find to be up there with the front-runners.”

Christian Lundgaard, No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet:

“It’s great to be back on track here at Barber. The car feels good but we still have a bit of work to do, so we’ll work overnight to get in the right window and come out tomorrow ready to fight for pole.”

JUNCOS-HOLLINGER RACING

Conor Daly, No. 76 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet

“It was quite a good start for us. We were one of the only teams that didn’t test here, so just trying to catch up a little. The car was very interesting, from the alternate to the primary tire. We know we need for tomorrow. Times are close. It was a decent start for our first time together as a group.”

Sting Ray Robb, No. 77 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet

“Practice one was OK. The difference in tires was quite shocking from Blacks to Reds. Other than that, it was a pretty smooth session. We learned a lot, and it will all go out the window when it rains tomorrow. When it comes back to dry on Sunday, we’ll have a good package. Conor and I are working well together and we like the same stuff, so we know what direction we want to go.”

TEAM PENSKE

Scott McLaughlin, No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet:

Q: What do you love about Barber (Motorsports Park)

McLaughlin: “There is a lot of commitment. That’s what I really enjoy. It reminds me of a track back home in Australia, Philip Island, which is a track that I always went really well at in the

Supercar as well. So, hopefully we can keep that trend going. The wins have been great, but it’s going to be a bit more inconsistent than we probably have seen this weekend with the rain.”

Q: Do the difficult areas change, or are they magnified with the rain?

McLaughlin: “Yeah. The high commitment corners get more higher commitment in the rain. You have to try to find the grip or the rubber or get off the rubber as quick as you can. There’s a lot of good drivers in the series that are good on the rain. Qualifying will be just as competitive, regardless if it’s wet or dry. So it’s just a matter of you putting them together yourself”.

Q: The “Month of May” is coming up, is hard to keep the focus when you come to a track like this race because it pays an equal amount of points as the Indianapolis 500?

McLaughlin: “It’s a nice feeling to hopefully start our month off on the right foot and get the momentum going. Because momentums everything in this series, and if you can roll into the biggest race of the year with some momentum, that’s always a good thing. I feel really, really, really strong, you know, for the month. I had a great open test. It’s probably the strongest I’ve I’ve felt, ever. So that was a really good feeling. So, it’s just a matter of putting it together and see where we’re at.”

Q: Has the Hybrid changed a place like Barber Motorsports Park?

McLaughlin: “Oh, for sure. We tested here not long ago, and it was definitely a lot different. A lot more different than I thought it was going to be. The feeling and weight will be interesting, as well as how we all tackle it and the different philosophies between cars. Let’s see where we go.”

Will Power, No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet:

“This is one of the nicest places that we come to. The promoters do a really great job of presenting this place. You drive in here, and you know you are at a special event. The car has a really good balance; needing just minor changes. It could be a mixed-up session (qualifying) with the weather, but we’ll see how it goes. If we can qualify in the top six, we’ll have a shot at a podium. In the top four, we’ll have a shot at a win. That’s what I’ve struggled with this year (qualifying).”

Pato O’Ward

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Joined by Pato O’Ward, driver of the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. Fourth quick in group two this afternoon. Of course, he is the 2022 winner here at Barber Motorsports Park. Currently 6th in the overall championship. How would you describe, Pato, your start to the weekend here?

PATO O’WARD: I love Barber. I love this place. It’s high commitment. It’s obviously a stunning facility. I have a lot of good memories to remember whenever I come back here, but today has been — we tested here a couple of weeks ago, and today has definitely been a little bit different.

So we’re just looking through that, but I think it’s all right. Just little clean-ups that we have to do here and there. Nothing. We’ll get it right where we need to.

THE MODERATOR: Questions for Pato O’Ward.

Q. Pato, you just said a minute ago you tested here, and now it’s different. Is it maybe weather-related? Was it cooler when you were testing here?

PATO O’WARD: It’s a little bit warmer, more humid right now. The wind has changed a bit. That will obviously have an influence of what the car is doing. Especially with such you high-speed corners. We also didn’t get to try the alternate, and I would say that’s the one that was kind of like, What?

So, yeah, we just really need to dig into the data from all three cars really and just get a better read on that, I would say. But, yeah, nothing too crazy. Not yet at least.

Q. With the weather so uncertain, does that really affect the way you prepare, or are you one of those that just it happens as it happens, and you get out there?

PATO O’WARD: I kind of just go with the flow. We are expecting rain tomorrow, but it’s obviously under no one’s control beside Mother Nature. It can say that it’s going to be maybe crazy, and then it decides to kind of clean up a little bit or maybe a window opens up in qualifying where half of it’s going to be dry and half of it not. It doesn’t look like that, but you can’t count any of that out.

So we’re just going on with our program. Tomorrow obviously if it rains, it’s going to change things a lot, but for everyone. So it’s the same for everybody. We just need to stay on top of it and really just kind of know what we need from — or at least I need to know what I need from the car in order to get it done in qualifying.

Q. Pato, back to the red tires this weekend after running the greens at St. Pete and Long Beach. After running the greens for so many years, is there a massive difference in how the side walls and all that feel still?

PATO O’WARD: You can definitely tell. It’s a different feeling, but sometimes it always seems to have the same balance shift from primes to reds or a little bit more consistent. Today I would say was a little bit of a different story. That’s just what I kind of — I just couldn’t wrap my head around it and understand.

It just starts doing all sorts of things, and you are, like, What do we need to fix? It’s like, Well, sadly everything. Yeah, that requires a lot of data analyzing by the engineers and us to really see what problems do we want to prioritize?

I mean, to be fair, sometimes one set will do that, and then the next one is like, Wow, it’s half a second quicker. So I have no idea.

Q. How important is it to compartmentalize the month of May because here we are kicking it off at Barber and then next week it’s going to be the INDYCAR Grand Prix at IMS, and then we roll into the Indy 500. Then after that it’s off to Detroit. So a lot is going to happen in a hurry. How important is it for you to pace yourself through this whole month and focus on each task at hand?

PATO O’WARD: Learn how to say no, I would say. If the five years or six now — this is my sixth year here. I can’t believe it, but if the six years that I’ve been here have taught me something, it’s learn how to say no and don’t feel bad about it, because you’re the one driving the car. If someone is asking something, say, Do you want me to win the race or not?

Q. (Off microphone)

PATO O’WARD: Everybody wants a piece of you at the end of the day, and they want you here and here and bah, bah, bah. Ultimately, why are we doing this? We do this to win races. We do this because we want to win the Indy 500. That’s the most important one on the calendar. I mean, I guarantee you they will forgive you if you win that race (laughing).

Q. Just curious, you are talking about how much fun Barber is for you. I’m curious, is it as much fun with the hybrid and the extra weight, or are you not able to hustle the car as much now?

PATO O’WARD: No, it’s less fun. The cars have gotten a lot more boring, to be honest. This is one of the tracks where you would really enjoy being able to throw it around.

You can still kind of do it, but the windows narrow down a lot. You can piss it off a lot quicker. So, yeah, you definitely feel the added weight. The tires feel the added weight. It’s definitely something you have to change quite a bit on the car in order to kind of get it back into the window because it’s definitely shifted a lot of the balance.

Q. The reds versus the blacks debate… Ericsson ended up going fastest overall on the blacks. Colton said when he came in here, he didn’t feel like one was necessarily over the other. I know you’re a little lacking on data yourself.

PATO O’WARD: Ericsson blacks? 67 something? Oh, he was on reds.

Q. Right at the end. Yeah, for a while, though, it looked like he was going — the black lap was even still going to be fastest. How do you feel overall on the debate? Do you feel like one is going to be better than the other going into qualifying and race?

PATO O’WARD: I mean, I think the red is going to be quicker. I don’t know what the delta — the delta doesn’t really seem that big or as big as I thought because I think Firestone told us the prime is more durable. The red is the 23 red, I believe, so there should be a pretty significant gap in terms of performance, but I don’t think we saw that big of a gap as we were expecting. At least I didn’t see as big of a difference.

So, yeah, I don’t know. Surprise, surprise I guess. I think tomorrow is going to be rain tire. It’s going to be on pole, so…

THE MODERATOR: We’ll see how good everybody is in the rain tomorrow perhaps. Knock on wood. You never know. Thanks for coming, Pato.

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Ericsson Jumps to Top in Opening Barber Practice

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Friday, May 2, 2025) – Now that’s more like it for Marcus Ericsson.

Ericsson led the opening practice Friday for the Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix powered by AmFirst at Barber Motorsports Park with a best lap of 1 minute, 7.7470 seconds in the No. 28 Bryant Honda fielded by Andretti Global. Ericsson’s quickest lap, turned during the 40-minute session open to all cars, came on the Firestone alternate compound tires, which provide more grip but faster wear.

The Swede sought improvement this season after a challenging first year with Andretti Global in 2024, when he finished a disappointing 15th in the championship. 2022 Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge winner Ericsson is 12th in the standings this season after three races.

Series leader Alex Palou, who has won the last two season titles, continued his metronomic consistency by ending up second at 1:07.7602 in the No. 10 HRC Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Palou won the first two races of the season and finished second in the last event, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 13.

Like many of his competitors, Palou got busy in a hurry in the 80-minute session, which began with an all-cars session followed by two, 12-minute group runs. Rain is forecast Saturday in the Birmingham area, which could limit track time. Practice is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. ET, with NTT P1 Award qualifying at 2:35 p.m. (both sessions FS1, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network).

“It was only 40 minutes plus a 12-minute session, and going straight to a race if tomorrow it rains will be tough,” Palou said. “But it’s the same for everybody, so we were able to find a couple of things to check, to test both (tire) compounds and see the difference there. It’s going to be interesting, for sure.”

Colton Herta ensured Andretti Global drivers took two of the top three spots as he ended up third at 1:07.7728 in the No. 26 Gainbridge Honda. Two-time series champion Will Power was the fastest Chevrolet-powered driver, fourth at 1:07.7869 in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet.

Alexander Rossi continued the solid start to the season with his new team, Ed Carpenter Racing, by rounding out the top five at 1:07.8098 in the No. 20 ECR Java House Chevrolet.

The 17-turn, 2.3-mile natural terrain road course at Barber is one of the most challenging and physically demanding circuits on the NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule, and two series stars explored the limits of grip and the racing surface during this opening session.

Two-time reigning Barber winner Scott McLaughlin drove into the grass exiting Turn 17 and continued early in the session in his No. 3 Good Ranchers Team Penske Chevrolet. McLaughlin later saved his car from contact during a sensational power slide in Turn 14.

Felix Rosenqvist also went off track and into the gravel in his No. 60 SiriusXM Honda fielded by Meyer Shank Racing. He also made no contact and continued.

The 90-lap race is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. ET Sunday (FOX, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network).

NASCAR SUPERSTAR KEVIN HARVICK INDUCTED INTO TEXAS MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME

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2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion and nine-time Texas Motor Speedway winner Kevin Harvick (right) poses with his Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame podium along with Speedway Motorsports President & CEO Marcus Smith (center) and Texas Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager Mark Faber during Friday’s induction luncheon at Texas Motor Speedway. Photo credit: Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Nine-time TMS winner Kevin Harvick was officially inducted into the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame during Friday’s Speedway Children’s Charities luncheon presented by Würth in The Speedway Club.
  • Induction was part of the opening day of activities for this weekend’s Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY NASCAR tripleheader weekend.

FORT WORTH, Texas (MAY 2, 2025) – Kevin Harvick humbly arrived at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) for the first time in 1997 in a Chevrolet Astro rental van, and 29 years later, he proudly exits as a Texas Motorsports Hall of Famer.

Harvick, a nine-time TMS winner across NASCAR’s three national series, was officially inducted into the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame during Friday’s Speedway Children’s Charities luncheon presented by Würth in The Speedway Club Ballroom. The event was highlighted with the unveiling of Harvick’s Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame podium that will join the 23 others located on the Speedway Club circle. Harvick is the first new inductee since three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart in 2019.

“Anytime that you can go to the racetrack to be honored for something you did there to be successful is always a lot of fun,” Harvick said. “This racetrack has just been high on the success list for our teams, and above and beyond all that, is all that they’ve done for racing and my career, and Marcus (Smith, Speedway Motorsports president and CEO) and I are great friends, so to be able to have this honor is quite special.”

Harvick shared a number of stories of his experiences at Texas Motor Speedway throughout the years, including his initial visit to the speedway during its opening year while working for the Spears Motorsports truck series team.

“Let me tell you about my first time I came to Texas Motor Speedway,” Harvick said. “I was working on the Spears truck, so my first laps at the speedway were in that (rental) Chevy Astro van and I could beat (three-time truck series champion) Jack Sprague. He would beat me really bad down the straightaway, but his Cadillac would bounce the right front tires so much in the corner it would go all the way to the wall, and he’d have to let off, and my Astro van would make it wide open around the track. I don’t know if the insurance was approved for that, but we sure took liberty to do whatever we wanted at the time.”

He also discussed the peaks and valleys of his career at TMS, from the disappointment of the near misses to the elation of finally snapping a 29-race Cup Series winless drought at “The Great American Speedway” in the fall race of 2017 with Stewart-Haas Racing.

“We didn’t win as many Cup races here as we should have, but we probably won more than our fair share on the Xfinity side, so it’s always great to be able to go back somewhere and kind of bring those thoughts and memories back up,” Harvick said. “You know, as a driver, you would go to these places, and you knew going in, okay this is a weekend you need to capitalize on, and we were able to do that here at Texas so many times. It took a long time to get to Victory Lane on the Cup side, but in the end, it was a good run all the way through the years, and we were able to do it a few years in a row, too.”

Harvick quickly made up for lost time in Victory Lane on Sundays at Texas by winning the fall event for three consecutive seasons (2017-2019). In 39 career starts, he also posted 25 top-10 finishes, with 13 of those among the top five, and a pair of poles. He also had five NASCAR Xfinity Series wins (2001 spring race, fall race in 2005, ‘06, ‘07 and ‘12) and one in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (2011 fall race).

Harvick, currently a television analyst for NASCAR on FOX broadcasts, concluded his full-time racing career in 2023 and finished with 121 victories across NASCAR’s three national series. His 60 wins in the NCS ranks 10th on the all-time list, and he added 47 in the Xfinity Series (NXS) and another 14 the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS).

Harvick’s major achievements include being the 2014 NCS champion; 2007 Daytona 500 winner; three-time Brickyard 400 winner (2003, ‘19 and ‘20); two-time Coca-Cola 600 winner (2011, ‘13); two-time Southern 500 winner (2014, ‘20); 2007 NASCAR All-Star Race winner; 2001 NCS Rookie of the Year; and two-time NXS champion (2001, ‘06). He also had 31 NCS poles during his career where he drove from Richard Childress Racing from 2001-2013 and Stewart-Haas Racing from 2014-2023.

“I think for me as a fan watching (you) race your whole career, racing here at Texas, the thing I think a lot of fans love about you and the way you race is that you were there to take care of business and such an amazing competitor,” Speedway Motorsports President & CEO Marcus Smith told Harvick on stage. “You have an amazing perspective on that now as a guy who gets to be in the TV booth and take it all in and see all the cars, not just the car out the front windshield or what’s in the mirror, and it’s really been cool to see that. But I always loved watching you race, you’d come here, and that car was so fast.”

The Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame induction was part of the opening day for this weekend’s Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY NASCAR tripleheader at Texas Motor Speedway. The three-day weekend features a race every day, beginning with tonight’s NCTS SpeedyCash.com 250 at 7 p.m. The NXS Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. and the weekend culminates with the NCS Würth 400 on Sunday beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Event tickets and camping passes for the 2025 Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY NASCAR tripleheader weekend are on sale now. Click HERE for more information and to buy tickets.

In addition to the May 4 NCS Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY, the weekend also includes the May 3 NXS Andy’s Frozen Custard 300, the May 2 NCTS SpeedyCash.com 250 and two days of Kubota High Limit Racing sprint car competition, May 1 and 3, on the half-mile Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track.

Texas Motor Speedway’s current 2025 events calendar includes Kubota High Limit Racing (May 3 at the TMS Dirt Track), Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY NASCAR tripleheader weekend (May 2-4), C10 Nationals (May 9-10), Holley LS Fest Texas (May 16-17), Bandas y Trocas (May 24), Solar Car Challenge (July 17-23), Goodguys Summit Racing Lone Star Nationals (Sept. 26-28), Texas World Dirt Track Championship (Oct. 3-4 at the TMS Dirt Track), October Truck Madness (Oct. 11), Kubota High Limit Racing All-In Championship (Oct. 17-18 at the TMS Dirt Track), FuelFest (Oct. 25), POWRi Sprint Cars (Nov. 7-8 at the TMS Dirt Track) and Xtreme Xperience (Dec. 11-14).

ABOUT TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

Texas Motor Speedway is among the largest sports and entertainment venues in the United States. The speedway has an array of amenities such as Big Hoss, the largest single LED screen of any sports facility in North America, making it one of the premier venues in the world of sports. The 1.5-mile superspeedway located in Fort Worth hosts all three NASCAR national series among its various races and specialty events throughout the year. Texas Motor Speedway is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports, LLC, a leading marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States. For more information, please visit texasmotorspeedway.com.

ABOUT SPEEDWAY CHILDREN’S CHARITIES

The mission of Speedway Children’s Charities is to care for children with educational, financial, social and medical needs to help them lead productive lives. Founded by Bruton Smith in 1982, Speedway Children’s Charities is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization providing funding for hundreds of non-profit organizations that meet the direct needs

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Prospects of wet weather qualifying

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INDIANAPOLIS - APRIL 24: Kyle Kirkwood drives during the Indianapolis 500 open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on April 24, 2025, in Indianapolis. Photo: Joe Skibinski/Penske Entertainment

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — There exists a joke in the NASCAR world that if you want to end a drought, bring NASCAR to town. Except in this case, INDYCAR brings the rain.

The INDYCAR circus rolls into Barber Motorsports Park for race No. 4 of the 2025 NTT INDYCAR Series season. Saturday, however, calls for storms. Barring potential thunderstorms, bet on wet weather qualifying. Kyle Kirkwood sees it as an equalizer.

“We’ve been good in the wet in recent years,” he said. “So it wouldn’t be a negative for us, I would say. But it always just starts to curve ball at everybody.”

Wet weather makes mistakes easier and ups the chance of winding up at the back of the field.

“So I think, as every driver would probably say, they prefer that it doesn’t end up being wet, because it’s a lot more on the driver than it is the car when that comes around,” he said.

Compounding the matter, teams have to plan around both wet weather in qualifying and setting up their cars for a dry race, Sunday. Which calls for chamber of commerce weather, according to AccuWeather.

Regardless, Kirkwood and his team are “gonna roll with the punches” and deal with “whatever God gives us, tomorrow.”

“We’re gonna swing with it,” he said. “So yeah, it’s looking dry for Sunday, though, so we got to be ready for a dry race at least. So setting up the car today, hopefully in some dry conditions and getting through the practices and warm up, at least in dry conditions, will be important.”

The skies over Barber Motorsports Park remained mostly cloudy with no rain for practice time at 2:30 p.m. CT.

Hauger Leads Fast Andretti Pack in Opening Barber Practice

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Friday, May 2, 2025) – Dennis Hauger continued the impressive start to his INDY NXT by Firestone career by leading practice Friday for the Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park.

Andretti Global rookie Hauger, from Norway, was quickest in the 45-minute session with a lap of 1 minute, 12.1621 seconds in the No. 28 Rental Group car. Formula 2 race winner Hauger won the pole and led every lap of the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 2.

“It was a good run,” Hauger said. “As a team, we seem strong today. I think we still have some things to work on and feel like there was still some time in there for me. But a good start, and it’s good to see we sort of left off where we ended in St. Pete.”

Caio Collet, in his second season in the INDYCAR development series, was second at 1:12.4694 in the No. 76 HMD Motorsports machine. Veteran teammate Josh Pierson ended up third at 1:12.7627 in the No. 14 HMD Motorsports car.

Rookie Lochie Hughes clocked in fourth at 1:12.7689 in the No. 26 McGinley Clinic/USF Pro Championship car. Hughes finished second to Andretti Global teammate Hauger in his series debut at St. Petersburg.

Andretti Global ended up with all four of its drivers in the top six of the time sheets. Veteran Salvador de Alba was the third Andretti driver in the top five, as he ended up at 1:12.7865 in the No. 27 Grupo Indi car. Andretti Global veteran James Roe was sixth at 1:12.8097 in the No. 29 Topcon machine.

There was one incident with contact that triggered a red flag 19 minutes into the session. Rookie Evagoras Papasavvas, making his first series start, nosed into the tire barrier in the final turn of the 17-turn, 2.3-mile natural-terrain road course in the No. 24 HMD Motorsports car. He was unhurt.

Up next is another practice at 10:10 a.m. ET Saturday, followed by qualifying at 1:30 p.m. ET. FS1, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network will provide live coverage of both sessions.

NITRO ROARS BACK TO NEW ENGLAND FOR THE 2025 NEW ENGLAND NATIONALS

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EPPING, N.H. (May 2, 2025) – Once again the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is headed to New England Dragway for a huge year of action-packed, 340-mph drag racing at the 12th annual NHRA New England Nationals on May 30-June 1.

Nestled in Epping, N.H., New England Dragway gives NHRA fans an old-school feel, attracting huge crowds for a weekend always filled with spectacular action. The NHRA New England Nationals promises to see incredible performances from the 12,000-horsepowered nitro machines, treating fans to a weekend loaded with excitement.

It starts with a pair of Friday qualifying sessions, including an epic nitro at night under the lights to close out the day, continuing with a pair of qualifying rounds – and the must-see Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge – on Saturday. That leads right into Sunday eliminations and the chance to see a winner in the star-studded Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock categories.

The sold-out crowd at last year’s race saw John Force (Funny Car), Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel) and Troy Coughlin Jr. (Pro Stock) claim race wins. It was Force, Steve Torrence (Top Fuel) and Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock) who picked up Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge wins as well. This season’s event, which is the seventh of 20 in 2025, will again be broadcast on FOX, with eliminations on Sunday beginning at 6 p.m. ET.

John Force, the NHRA’s winningest driver and a motorsports legend, claimed his 157th NHRA Funny Car win over teammate Austin Prock in the final round of the 2024 race. After a crash in Richmond, Force handed driving duties to former champion Jack Beckman. Prock went on to win the Funny Car world title last season, with Beckman in second. The John Force Racing teammates will each be chasing their first win from New England Dragway this season. Prock currently leads the points after back-to-back wins in Las Vegas and Charlotte, while other standouts include Paul Lee, Ron Capps, Matt Hagan, who has enjoyed tremendous Epping success, and Bob Tasca III.

With his win at New England Dragway last season, Doug Kalitta accomplished his goal of winning at every track on the NHRA circuit. This season, Kalitta has one runner-up finish in Phoenix to his credit, with his teammate Shawn Langdon earning the win. Langdon currently leads the Top Fuel points with two wins on the season. Motorsports legend and 2024 NHRA Rookie of the Year Tony Stewart sits second in points following his first career in Las Vegas, while others to watch include reigning world champ Antron Brown, Brittany Force, Clay Millican and Josh Hart.

Troy Coughlin Jr. earned the event win last season, but the Pro Stock ranks have been dominated by KB Titan Racing Dallas Glenn and reigning world champ Greg Anderson in 2025. The pair have been in all five finals this season, with Glenn leading the points after wins in Gainesville, Las Vegas and Charlotte. Elite Motorsports, led by six-time world champ Erica Enders, would love return to the NHRA winner’s circle in Epping.

The Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series class returns Epping, treating fans to thrilling doorslammer racing action, as does the standout competition in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. Also on the schedule is the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge on Saturday in the pro classes. Semifinalists from Chicago will rematch for bonus points and bonus money, with the winners facing off to close out qualifying.

Fans will be invited to the Nitro Alley Stage, which is the main entertainment hub in the pits. The stage hosts Nitro School, meet and greets, autograph sessions and much more. Race fans in Epping can enjoy the special pre-race ceremonies that introduce each driver and includes the fan favorite SealMaster Track Walk. Fans are also invited to congratulate the event winners at the winner’s circle celebration on Sunday.

As always, fans get a pit pass to the most powerful and sensory-filled motorsports attraction on the planet. Fans can see their favorite teams in action and servicing their cars, get autographs and more. They can also visit NHRA’s Manufacturers Midway, where sponsors and vendors create an exciting atmosphere.

NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying features two rounds at 5 and 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, May 30 and the final two rounds of qualifying on Saturday, May 31 at 12:30 and 3 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 1. Television coverage includes qualifying action on FS1 at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, 7 p.m. on Saturday, and then eliminations action from 6-9 p.m. ET on Sunday on FOX.

To purchase tickets to the NHRA New England Nationals, fans can visit www.NHRA.com/tickets. Children 12 and under are free in general admission with the purchase of an adult ticket. For more information about NHRA, visit www.NHRA.com.

About Mission Foods

MISSION®, owned by GRUMA, S.A.B. de C.V., is the world’s leading brand for tortillas and wraps. MISSION® is also globally renowned for flatbreads, dips, salsas and Mexican food products. With presence in over 112 countries, MISSION® products are suited to the lifestyles and the local tastes of each country. With innovation and customer needs in mind, MISSION® focuses on the highest quality, authentic flavors, and providing healthy options that families and friends can enjoy together. For more information, please visit https://www.missionfoods.com/

About NHRA

NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 20 national events featuring the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series and NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, as well as the Congruity NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, NHRA Flexjet Factory Stock Showdown™, NHRA Holley EFI Factory X and Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage NHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock at select national events. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and NHRA Street Legal™. NHRA also offers the NHRA Jr. Street® program for teens and the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League® for youth ages 5 to 17. With more than 100 Member Tracks, NHRA allows racers to compete at a variety of locations nationally and internationally. NHRA’s Youth and Education Services® (YES) Program reaches over 30,000 students annually to ignite their interest in automotive and racing related careers. NHRA’s streaming service, NHRA.tv®, allows fans to view all NHRA national events as well as exclusive features of the sport. In addition, NHRA owns and operates three racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida; Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park; and In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Southern California. For more information, log on to www.NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

RCR Race Preview: Texas Motor Speedway

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Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway… Richard Childress Racing has three wins among 124 starts in the NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway. The Welcome, North Carolina-based race team first found Victory Lane at the track with Jeff Burton in April 2007. Burton led only the final lap to grab his 19th career Cup Series victory. Austin Dillon was victorious at Texas in 2020. Dillon led the final 10 laps and edged teammate Tyler Reddick by just .149 seconds to score the win – his first at Texas and the 109th all-time by RCR. In 2022, Reddick led the final 24 laps to grab his first Texas victory. RCR has earned 11 top-five and 38 top-10 finishes on the 1.5-mile quad-oval.

Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Texas Motor Speedway… RCR has 102 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Texas Motor Speedway, acquiring five wins (Kevin Harvick in 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2012). RCR has earned 26 top-five and 56 top-10 finishes along with five pole awards as an organization. Last season, both Austin Hill and Jesse Love scored top-10 finishes (ninth-place by Love, sixth by Hill). Hill has reeled off four consecutive top-10s for RCR at Texas, including a second-place finish in the fall race in 2022. In 2024, Love’s lap of 185.612 miles per hour paced the field, timing in over two-hundredths of a second over second place.

In the History Books… Hill made NASCAR Xfinity Series history with his victory at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2025, surpassing both Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Tony Stewart to become the all-time leader in superspeedway wins in the series. This triumph marked his ninth career win on drafting-style tracks, breaking a tie with the two legends. Hill’s performance at Talladega Superspeedway added to his impressive record, solidifying his status as a dominant force in superspeedway racing.​

A Patriotic Unveil… U.S. Military Veterans are invited to RCR’s campus on May 14 to attend Veterans with Coffee, a monthly event RCR hosts in conjunction with Veterans Bridge Home to provide support and resources for area Veterans. The May edition of the popular event will include a special patriotic car unveil. Media are invited to attend and cover the unveil, beginning at 9 a.m.

Catch the Action… The Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway will be televised live on Saturday, May 3, beginning at 2 p.m. ET on The CW. The race will be broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. Download The CW app free of charge to watch NASCAR Xfinity Series Practice & Qualifying.

The Texas 400 at Texas Motor Speedway will be televised live on Sunday, May 4, beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET on FS1. The race will be broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. NASCAR Cup Series Practice & Qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway will be broadcast on Amazon Prime. Ride shotgun all season long with live, in-car camera feeds and scanner audio with a paid subscription to Max as part of their NASCAR driver cam experience during the race.

Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway… In 20 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Texas Motor Speedway, Dillon has earned one win, one top-five, and three top-10 finishes. He also earned the pole award at the 1.5-mile track in 2016. Dillon has made 11 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track with a career-best finish of third in 2015 after starting from the pole position for the 300-mile race. Dillon, the 2011 NASCAR Truck Series Champion, has five Truck Series starts at Texas with a career-best finish of second in 2011 and one pole in 2010.

Winner, Winner … Dillon won a NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2020, the third of his five career victories in the series. The Texas win was part of a 1-2 finish for RCR, with former teammate Tyler Reddick coming in second. The victory not only marked Dillon’s first win of the 2020 season but also earned him an automatic berth in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. The win was especially significant for RCR, as it was their first 1-2 finish in the Cup Series since 2011.

Did You Know?… Dillon’s 2016 pole award at Texas Motor Speedway remains RCR’s lone NASCAR Cup Series pole in 124 Series starts at the Fort Worth-based track. In total, Dillon owns six poles in Cup Series competition, most recently sitting on the pole in 2019 at Chicagoland Speedway.

One Year Ago… In the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in April 2024, Dillon finished eighth after starting 15th. Despite handling challenges during the race, strategic pit calls and strong restarts contributed to his top-10 result. ​

Dillon Rides Top-10 Surge… The No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Chevrolet team enters Texas Motor Speedway riding a wave of momentum following back-to-back top-10 finishes in the NASCAR Cup Series. A strong performance at the high-banked Bristol Motor Speedway, followed by an impressive run at the unpredictable Talladega Superspeedway, has boosted Dillon’s average finish and provided a much-needed lift in the points standings.

Let’s Ride… This weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, two worlds collide as several professional bull riders who ride for the Carolina Cowboys in the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Team Series will join Dillon at the track as guests of Richard Childress Racing. Dillon, who is the general manager of the Carolina Cowboys, spends much of his time outside of his No. 3 Chevrolet managing day-to-day operations for the Carolina Cowboys. Many of the riders live in Texas and are preparing for the Individual Season World Finals, the event marks an exciting lead-up to championship action.

Tickets to the 2025 Carolina Cowboys Home Stand Are Available Now … Driven by the same passion for performance that guides his race team, Richard Childress’ latest endeavor brings Professional Bull Riding to the Carolinas. The Carolina Cowboys represent the Carolinas in the PBR Team Series, an elite league featuring the world’s top bull riders competing in games throughout the country. The team is owned by Richard Childress and Jeff Broin with 2018 Daytona 500 Champion Dillon serving as General Manager. Don’t miss the Carolina Cowboys 2025 “Cowboy Days” Home Stand September 12-14 at First Horizen Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Tickets are on sale at PBR.com and Ticketmaster.

Dillon Joins Coca-Cola’s Mission 600 at Norfolk Naval Base… Dillon is scheduled to visit Norfolk Naval Base Wednesday on behalf of Coca-Cola as part of the Mission 600 initiative. Now in its eighth year, Mission 600 pairs NASCAR drivers with U.S. military units to help educate the NASCAR community about the U.S. Military and build meaningful connections with our service members. Dillon’s visit underscores his commitment to supporting and connecting with military personnel and helps build up anticipation to one of NASCAR’s most patriotic races, the Coca-Cola 600, which annually takes place over Memorial Day weekend.​

About Bass Pro Shops… Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when avid young angler Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, today the company provides customers with unmatched offerings spanning premier destination retail, outdoor equipment manufacturing, world-class resort destinations, and more. In 2017 Bass Pro Shops united with Cabela’s to create a “best-of-the-best” experience with superior products, dynamic locations, and outstanding customer service. Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, offering an unsurpassed collection of industry-leading boat brands, and Big Cedar Lodge, America’s Premier Wilderness Resort. Under the visionary conservation leadership of Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops is a national leader in protecting habitat and introducing families to the outdoors and has been named by Forbes as “one of America’s Best Employers.” Bass Pro Shops has a long relationship with NASCAR, dating back to 1998. For more information, visit basspro.com.

About Winchester Ammunition… Winchester is the leading small-caliber ammunition brand for hunting, recreational shooting, and law enforcement, and the largest supplier to the U.S. military. The legendary Winchester® brand, with its 159-year history, is founded on principles of integrity, hard work, and a strong commitment to its loyal customers. As a division of Olin Corporation, Winchester shares Olin’s purpose to deliver materials and solutions that enhance and protect lives. Learn more about Winchester and the responsible use of its products by visiting Winchester.com or connecting with us on Facebook at Facebook.com/WinchesterOfficial.

Winchester Safes, Based in Texas… With a long-standing commitment to protecting legacies, Winchester Safes is honored to stand alongside Winchester Ammunition in supporting timeless racing tradition and its fan base. Winchester Safes, the most trusted name in safe innovation and reliability, operates with a remarkable unit capacity of over 1 million safes per year and is strategically located in Texas to offer a significant cost advantage to any shipping point across the United States.

Winchester Safes Grand American™… Crafted for those who protect more than possessions, the new Grand American™ safe secures your legacy with unmatched security. Built to safeguard firearm collections, heirlooms, and history, the Grand American™ carries forward the Winchester tradition of protection.

Meet Dillon… Dillon, along with several professional bull riders who ride for the Carolina Cowboys in the PBR Teams Series, are scheduled to make a stop at the RCR Merchandise hauler in the Texas Motor Speedway fan midway on Sunday, May 4, at 10:45 a.m. Local Time to greet race fans and sign autographs. Stop by and get your new RCR and Carolina Cowboys gear.

Questions, Please… Media covering the Texas Motor Speedway race are encouraged to stop by the infield media center on Sunday at 10:20 a.m. Local Time to learn more about the Carolina Cowboys.

AUSTIN DILLON QUOTES:

What are your thoughts on Texas Motor Speedway?

“Texas Motor Speedway has so much grip now and has changed a lot from the old track to the new track. It has always been a strong track for me, so I am excited to race there this weekend with Bass Pro Shops and Winchester. There is a lot of variety on both ends of the track, which makes it exciting to race. On one end, you are going to have a high-speed and very banked corner, and on the other end, you will have a hard corner that you will have to get turned into and then get back on the gas.”

How would you gauge Richard Childress Racing’s Intermediate Program This Year?

“I’m excited to have Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway back-to-back. I felt like we had a fast car at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March and a good car at Homestead-Miami Speedway. We passed a lot of cars in those two races. Emphasis will be on qualifying for us. If we can qualify well at those two tracks, I think we can have a pretty good weekend. Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway can be tracks where we can put ourselves in a better position in the point standings. You never know what can happen with the opportunity to win.”

How important are these next few weeks building off the positive momentum your team has gained over the past few weeks?

“It’s very important. Bristol Motor Speedway went well. We headed into the Easter break and carried more momentum into Talladega Superspeedway last week and were able to finish in the top-10. Our next goal is to break into the top-20 in points. If you’re in the top-20, you still have the opportunity to go out and be able to be in the second group for practice and qualifying, even if you have a rough weekend the week before. Qualifying late seems to be a big advantage because of how tight the field is. If you’re on that cut line, you know you’re going to have to pass cars, and passing has been tough. It’s very important to build yourself up in that front area of points.”

Kyle Busch and the No. 8 7-Eleven Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway… Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway will mark Kyle Busch’s 35th career Cup Series start at the track. Busch has four wins at the mile-and-a-half oval (the spring races in 2013, 2016 and 2018, as well as the fall race in 2020). Additionally at Texas, Busch has 14 top-five finishes, 19 top-10 finishes, 1,069 laps led, an average starting position of 14th, an average finish of 12.2, and has completed 94.9 percent (10,650 of 11,217) of the laps he’s contested there.

5 X 8 = 40… Arguably the most successful driver in NASCAR’s modern era, Busch approaches the Texas Motor Speedway race weekend entering a new decade as the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion will celebrate his 40th birthday on Friday. Busch began his career driving the No. 5 Chevrolet. While his initial outing didn’t go as scripted (the then 18-year-old made contact with the Turn 4 wall at his home track of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, flat-siding his racecar and retired after completing just 11 laps), he has grown into a formidable force in the sport. Busch enters this weekend at Texas with 63 career wins in the Cup Series, the most among active drivers. In addition, he is a 34x polesitter, and boasts an impressive 252 top-five finishes, 386 top-10 finishes and 19,440 laps led in 724 career Cup Series starts. Today, Busch continues to build on his legacy in the No. 8 Chevrolet.

New Colors … Busch’s Chevrolet will sport new colors this weekend when 7-Eleven debuts as the primary partner of the No. 8.

Texas Fourstep… Busch is the winningest active driver at Texas Motor Speedway. He earned his first Cup Series victory at Texas in April 2013. He took the lead after a lightning-fast pit stop during the final caution put him out front, and he led the final 19 laps to win his first Cup Series race at the mile-and-a-half speedway. In April of 2016, Busch went on the outside of Turn 4 on the first lap after the final restart to take the lead, which he held for the final 32 laps enroute to the win, doing so by nearly four seconds over second-place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. In his third victory at Texas, the 44th of his Cup Series career, Busch led four times for a race-high 116 laps after finishing as runner-up in three of that season’s first six races. His most recent Texas win came in October of 2020, when Busch led five times for 90 of the 334 laps. The race started Sunday and was red flagged due to poor weather conditions after 52 laps were completed. 72 hours later, the green flag waved allowing Busch to claim his fourth Texas victory.

Success Not Limited to the Cup Series… In addition to his Cup Series successes at Texas, the veteran racer also has an astonishing 10 wins in 23 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and six more in the NASCAR Truck Series at The Great American Speedway.

Get to the Points… After his 27th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway, Busch enters Texas 16th in the series standings.

KYLE BUSCH QUOTES:

Let’s talk about what it is about Texas Motor Speedway that you like?

“Texas Motor Speedway is a challenging racetrack, with turns one and two being as flat as they are and as wide as they are. There’s a lot of room and options for where you can go,. but there’s probably only about about six inches of that racetrack that feels really good. That’s the groove that you want to be in, and stay in, in order to get that grip. We’ve been pretty decent at Texas. Last year, we were fast. We had some good speed. Unfortunately, I wrecked in qualifying, which then forced us to go to a backup car, but we were able to come back up through the field and get a top-15 finish. I think if we would have been able to race in the primary, we would have been able to finish in the top 10. We would have had a shot. But, you never know how some of those races play at the end. I remember Denny Hamlin, I think, was really pushing hard, running hard, trying the outside. And he finally busted his butt there towards the end as well, too, and Chase Elliott was able to get the win. So, it’s really, really finicky. It’s very hard to push harder, to find speed, to make speed to catch the guy in front of you or pass the guy in front of you and not overstep that edge.”

Is it a track that’s really sensitive when it comes to the temperature?

“Obviously, it’s in Texas. It gets hot there. It’s probably a track that may have a little bit of different characteristics when you go back each time.”

As the sun and the heat builds up throughout the day, does that track change a lot?

“It does, yeah. That track really changes a lot. I think it changes a lot in the beginning of our races with the Xfinity rubber down from the day before. Then it progressively changes as the day gets hotter in our races or if it goes later and cools off a little bit. It gets faster, it gets more grip. So, you’re always limited on that feel and the grip and how fast you can you feel like you can go. I talk about how treacherous or tricky turns one and two can be as far as being as flat as they are, but the same can be said for three and four with knowing how hard to push. Can you run wide open down there? Do you lift out of the throttle, get back to the throttle early? Do you just part throttle it longer through the corner? There’s a few different ways to run it.”

Jesse Love and the No. 2 Samsara Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway… Jesse Love has made one career NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Texas Motor Speedway. Driving the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet one year ago, Love earned the pole position, tallied stage points, and brought home a ninth-place effort.

Starting P1… In Love’s young Xfinity Series career of only 44 starts, the Menlo Park, California native has secured seven pole positions – five in 2024 and two in 2025. Love, who most recently claimed the first starting position last week at Talladega Superspeedway, captured his first non-drafting track pole at Texas Motor Speedway in April 2024.

Another Record for the Resume… After capturing the pole position at Talladega Superspeedway, Love became the first driver in Xfinity Series history to win four consecutive drafting track poles.

Sophomore Success… After a successful Sunoco Rookie of the Year campaign in 2024, Love has carried the momentum into his sophomore season. With a third of the current season complete, Love has one win in the season-opening event at Daytona International Speedway, two poles, three top-five, and seven top-10 finishes. Leading in six events for a total of 156 laps, the young gun has recorded an average starting position of 8.1 and an average finishing position of 12.3.

Holding Strong… Through 11 races, Love remains in the fourth position in the Xfinity Series driver championship point standings – only seven points behind third-place Sam Mayer. With his Stage 1 win at Talladega Superspeedway, Love increased his Playoff Point total to six.

Double Duty… Love will make his second career NASCAR Cup Series start on Sunday when the 20-year-old pilots the No. 62 C4 Ultimate Energy Chevrolet for Beard Motorsports. The pair is also slated to compete in one additional Cup Series event in 2025, at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July.

About Samsara… Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe, Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running, including the world’s leading organizations across construction, transportation and warehousing, field services, manufacturing, retail, logistics, and the public sector. The company’s mission is to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.

Samsara Safety… Samsara utilizes AI-powered technology with trillions of data points to help fleet drivers reduce accidents by up to 50%. The Richard Childress Racing hauler drivers utilize the Samsara platform on a weekly basis to be efficient and safe on the roads to and from the racetrack.

JESSE LOVE QUOTE:

With one career start at Texas Motor Speedway, describe your first impressions of the track.

“Texas is fun, fast, and high-speed. It’s a track that is hard to drive and requires you to be technical. It’s extremely hard to pass in Turns 3 and 4, because the track is so narrow at that end. Turns 1 and 2 are wide and flat. Turns 3 and 4 are narrow, bumpy, and banked. Both ends of the track are equally as important to having a good finish. I know our Samsara Chevrolet will have speed in it. Hopefully we are able to get a good qualifying lap in on Friday to set ourselves up for the best possible position during the race.”

Austin Hill and the No. 21 Bennett Transportation & Logistics Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway… Austin Hill has made six career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Texas Motor Speedway, posting two top-five and four top-10 efforts (best finish of second in fall 2022). In last year’s event at the 1.5-mile oval, Hill qualified in the 13th position, fought a tight handling condition, and finished in sixth-place. The Winston, Georgia native also has 10 NASCAR Truck Series races on his resume at the Fort Worth, Texas track, earning three top-five and four top-10 finishes (best result of second in 2020).

Top-10 Streaking in Fort Worth… In his last four Xfinity Series races at Texas Motor Speedway, Hill has secured four top-10 results and never finished worse than seventh-place.

Win No. 3 of 2025… After starting from the second position, leading 19 laps, and capturing the Stage 2 win, Hill captured his first career victory at Talladega Superspeedway last Saturday. This marked the No. 21 team’s third win of the 2025 Xfinity Series season – a series-leading accomplishment.

Record Breaker… With nine career Xfinity Series drafting track wins, Hill is now the all-time wins leader at that specific style of racing. The 31-year-old passed two NASCAR Hall of Famers – Dale Earnhardt and Tony Stewart – to secure the title.

All-Time Lap Leader Extended… During his win at Talladega Superspeedway, Hill extended his all-time Xfinity Series lead in number of laps led on drafting tracks to 753. Hill accomplished this career feat in 22 drafting track races, 11 starts less than second-place Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Did You Know? Hill has won five of the last six stages on drafting tracks, including the second stage at Talladega Superspeedway. The one stage that Hill didn’t claim was earned by his teammate Jesse Love.

Gaining Ground… With 11 races complete, Hill gained one position and currently holds second-place in the Xfinity Series driver championship point standings – 79 points behind leader Justin Allgaier. Hill has secured a series-leading 20 Playoff points.

About Bennett Family of Companies… McDonough-Ga. based Bennett Family of Companies provides industry-leading logistics solutions that help businesses thrive. Whether you need specialized trucking, warehousing, 3PL, exporting, importing, or crane services, Bennett has the expertise to handle your most complex and time-sensitive freight. From LTL to over-dimensional truckloads, Bennett ensures safe, reliable, and on-time deliveries around the world. With a legacy of excellence since 1974, their family and woman-owned company is dedicated to providing personalized, flexible solutions that meet your unique business needs. Trust Bennett to deliver when it matters most – discover how we can help your business grow at www.bennettig.com. Together we can move anything.

Crane & Rigging… BOSS Crane & Rigging, a division of Bennett Family of Companies, is one of the top competitive providers of crane and rigging solutions. It specializes in the heavy lifting of major components, oversized machinery, oil rigs and components, and trucking transport. BOSS combines the best tools with the best talent to offer a range of services for the Construction, Mining & Steel, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, and Wind Industries.

Meet Hill… On Saturday, May 3, fans will have two opportunities to meet Hill in the Fan Zone at Texas Motor Speedway. At 9:40 a.m. Local Time, Hill is scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session at the Gate 3 Stage. Immediately following at 10a.m. Local Time, the veteran racer is scheduled to sign autographs at the RCR Merchandise Hauler. Stop by to meet Hill and purchase new No. 21 gear.

AUSTIN HILL QUOTE:

With Texas Motor Speedway having two different ends of the track, describe the racing action and what a driver needs out of the car to compete for the win.

“Texas Motor Speedway is a very unique racetrack. It’s a different mile and a half than most of the intermediate tracks we go to. Turns 1 and 2 are really flat and wide, which leads to a lot of space where errors can be made, especially when you are inside of another car. If someone gets tight on your door, it’s a very easy spot for you to loop it around and back into the fence. Then on the other end of the track in Turns 3 and 4, you give it all you have. If you can hold it wide open in Turns 3 and 4, you probably have a fast race car. You need a car that handles well in Turns 1 and 2 and then hang it out as much as you can in Turns 3 and 4. Personally I have always enjoyed racing at Texas, and I feel like it’s a place that our Bennett Transportation & Logistics team can be successful at. I would call Texas my second-best mile-and-a-half track behind Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Just haven’t been able to wear the cowboy hat yet.”

Why Choosing the Best Mechanic in Abbotsford, BC Matters for Your Car?

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Mechanics are there to fix more than just a flat tire. Instead, they’re going to play an important role in making sure that your vehicle will perform its best even if you’re frequently using it. A highly skilled technician is going to perform an oil change at the right mileage and make sure that your car can handle severe weather conditions in Abbotsford, BC. See more about car repairs when you go to this site.

They are dependable in making you safe when you’re doing longer trips and you can have peace of mind that your engine will be reliable while you’re on the road. With their help, prevent unexpected breakdowns and get the kind of foresight that will make a real difference. You can also avoid costly repairs down the road if you know that your car is in capable hands.

Why Hire Them?

Expertise That Makes a Difference

These professionals in British Columbia are going to use the right tools to deal with a wide range of problems that your car might be experiencing. They bring a lot of knowledge that has been built through the years of diagnosing sputtering engines. They’re going to make sure that the right amount of fuel and air are mixed within the combustion chamber, and they’re also going to replace worn brake pads.

If the tires are flat, they will check for punctures and replace them according to the manufacturer’s instructions. They are trained to assess parts of the car to see why it’s consuming too much oil, and they stay updated with the industry trends so they can handle the new models that are being released by well-known manufacturers.

Know that technology is constantly changing, and the vehicles are now equipped with lots of computerized parts. These seasoned technicians are going to be trained with the engine control modules and use the incoming data to coordinate everything, including the throttle positions and ignition timing.

What Should You Expect From Them?

They are going to take the time to understand the repair history of your vehicle as well as your driving habits. They’ll also have maintenance programs where they’re going to customize their services according to your manufacturers’ recommendations, and this is possible with mechanics from Hub Motor Service, who can help you a lot. Their tires are quality brand names, and they’re also authorized retailers, and you can check them from the map below:

Their equipment is state of the art, and they have a well-organized workspace. Most of them are going to check the smallest of details because they don’t want to miss anything. A clean garage can often suggest better efficiency, and they can diagnose the problem fast, so you can get back on the road.

The staff is impeccable in their customer service because these mechanics prioritize their clients. They treat the automobile as if it’s their own, and they will honor the timelines that they’ve given. Expect consistency from them with windscreen repairs and if there are fuel leaks through the evaporation because they can address them once and for all.

Why Local Experience in Abbotsford Counts?

Why Local Experience in Abbotsford Counts

Most of these professionals have never left Abbotsford and they’re a family business that began their career in the automotive industry that you can know more info here https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm. They have developed a knack for bringing cars back to their peak performances and they’re already well-known to the people in their community.

They are familiar with the local conditions in BC and the seasonal weather patterns that can impact car performance when this is often overlooked by generic repairs. They can adjust moisture-related problems, and they know exactly how they’re going to prepare your car for every season.

Brake wear is often a huge issue, and this can be because of hilly terrain, and the locals can often anticipate these kinds of problems. Battery issues can often occur during the colder months, and spotting these trends early can help avoid problems for many car drivers. These experts are accountable, and they know that they’re not just serving customers but also supporting their neighbors. It’s an incentive for them to provide excellent services that keep the clients coming back for more.

Trust the Right Provider for Unmatched Care

Always research the mechanics near you in Abbotsford, BC, for your safety. These top-tier experts are transparent with their repairs, and they will explain to you why certain services are needed and your alternatives.

They have modern expertise that can handle even the trickiest of restorations. Their team is going to handle most major repairs and give your car the attention that it deserves.

Before selecting a mechanic in British Columbia, you might want to research and see if they have mostly positive reviews on their website. See others’ opinions about them on social media platforms and if they offer other products so the repair process will be seamless. It’s not just going to be an appointment but trusting them will mean that you’re going to be a part of a network of satisfied drivers who depend on reliable fixes to keep their car moving.

Selecting the best mechanic is a practical decision and a smart investment at that. They’re going to use the right tools and check everything for all-around safety on the road. If you depend on transportation with their help, trusting the seasoned pros is the first step towards worry-free driving.

PATRICK EMERLING JOINS HENDERSON FOR NORTH WILKESBORO TRUCK RACE

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MOORESVILLE, NC, May 2, 2025 – Patrick Emerling today announced he is competing in the Window World 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at North Wilkesboro in the #75 Henderson Motorsports truck.

“I’m excited to race in the truck series,” said Emerling. “Henderson has a very competitive program and I am looking forward to this opportunity.”

Emerling’s primary partner will be Black Rhino Manufacturing, Inc., a purpose-driven trailer manufacturer headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, proudly delivering The Ultimate Aluminum Trailer for those who demand more from their equipment. Black Rhino is built on the values of being Robust, Resilient, and Reliable – principles that guide their products, partnerships, and purpose. Whether serving adventurers, tradespeople, or small business owners, they engineer trailers that stand up to the elements and the test of time. From construction sites to backcountry trails, they don’t just build trailers – they craft the foundation for connection, exploration, and high-performance living.

“At Black Rhino, we don’t just build trailers – we build the foundation for adventure and connection. Partnering with Patrick for his Truck Series race at North Wilkesboro allows us to extend our mission into the heart of American motorsports. Patrick’s tenacity, entrepreneurial drive, and racing excellence mirror the values that drive our products and our people,” said Christen Cherry, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Black Rhino.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of this historic return to North Wilkesboro and can’t wait to see the Black Rhino #75 truck battling up front.”

Just Wing It Backstreet Bar and Grill and Granite State De-Icing Supply will join Emerling as associate sponsors. Just Wing It is a former food truck turned into a restaurant in Boone, NC featuring chicken wings, smash burgers and sandwiches. Granite State De-Icing Supply is a liquid de-icing equipment and material supply company based in Merrimack, NH. The company has partnered with Emerling in several Xfinity Series races in 2024 and 2025.

Just Wing It is hosting a meet and greet with Emerling at its location at 117 Backstreet in West Jefferson, NC. The event will take place on Thursday, May 15 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. and is open to the public.

The Window World 250 (250 laps | 156.25 miles) is the 10th of 25 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races on the 2025 schedule. Practice starts at 9:35 a.m. on Saturday, May 17. It will be immediately followed by qualifying. The field is set to take the green flag later that day at 1:30 p.m. with live coverage on FS1 and SiriusXM NASCAR Channel 90. All times are Eastern Daylight Time.

For more information on Patrick Emerling, visit https://www.patrickemerlingracing.com/ or follow him on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PatrickEmerling07), X (https://twitter.com/PatrickEmerling) or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/patrickemerling/). 

For more information on Black Rhino, visit them at https://blackrhinotrailer.com/ or follow them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/blackrhinotrailer/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/blackrhinotrailers/).

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