NASCAR Cup Series
Martinsville Speedway
Round of Eight: Elimination Race
Team Chevy Post-Race Report
October 26, 2025

Byron, Larson Set to Represent Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Four

• Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron turned in a career run at Martinsville Speedway to earn his third win of the season and his third-straight trip to the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Four. His third career Martinsville clock came after a near dominate performance – claiming the pole position, a sweep of the stage wins and a tallying a race-high 304 laps en route to his chance at competing for his first championship title in NASCAR’s top division.
• With a top-five finish, Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson will have the opportunity to compete for his second career NASCAR Cup Series Championship – delivering Chevrolet two spots in next weekend’s title-deciding race.
• Chevrolet is the only manufacturer to have the opportunity to compete for the championship in all three series, with JR Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing powering the manufacturer to a sweep of the Championship Four positions in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, and McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Tyler Ankrum representing the Bowtie brand in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title-deciding race.
• For the first time in his NASCAR Cup Series career, William Byron earned the pole position at Martinsville Speedway to lead the field to the green-flag in Sunday’s Xfinity 500. With one last chance to punch a ticket into the Championship Four, the Hendrick Motorsports duo of Byron and Kyle Larson took over the top-two positions at the drop of the green-flag. While the pair settled into position, teammate Chase Elliott made a quick march up the leaderboard – already taking over the third position by Lap 25. With the first caution flag of the day falling just two laps later, all three Team Chevy playoff contenders were called to pit road for a four-tire stop. Electing the outside lane for the restart, Byron found his way back in command with 95 laps to go in the opening stage. Resuming their positions in the top-three, the Team Chevy playoff trio pulled to a nearly three-second lead by the halfway mark in Stage One as they approached lap traffic for the first time. Quickly finding his footing in traffic, Byron started to build a cushion over Larson as the long green-flag run continued. Continuing caution-free to the green-white checkered flag, Byron’s stellar opening stage saw the 27-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, native lead all 130 laps and lap up to the 14th position en route to the stage win – leading all three Team Chevy playoff contenders to top-five stage points.
• After a trip to pit road under the stage break, the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet regained control on the opening lap of Stage Two. Continuing to hold strong in command, Byron progressively pulled away to a 2.5-second lead as the battle for second ensued, which saw the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet take the position with under 50 laps to go in the stage – just in time for the second natural caution of the race to fall. Faced with a set of late-stage restarts, it was no contest for Byron as the Hendrick Motorsports driver went on to sweep the stage wins. Mirroring the Stage One results, Byron’s teammates also earned back-to-back top-five points to set up the final run to the checkered-flag.
• Looking for an adjustment to help maneuver through lap traffic, Byron led the field to pit road under the stage break with crew chief, Rudy Fugle, making the call for four tires, fuel and an air pressure adjustment. Lining up on the third row for the restart, Byron quickly went back to work – progressively clicking off positions to find himself in the third position by Lap 317. Varying pit strategies under the stage break put Larson in the eighth position for the start of the final stage – putting the battle on the bubble at a single-digit margin. As the race approached the 100-lap countdown, the race for the lead saw two playoff drivers in a “must-win” position to keep their title hopes alive, including Byron, who trailed then-race leader, Ryan Blaney, within a one-second margin. Controlling the bottom lane in turn one on Lap 457, Byron cleared Blaney to take the lead back – ultimately going on to take the checkered flag and a berth into the Championship Four.

Team Chevy Unofficial Top-10 Results

Pos. Driver

1st – William Byron
3rd – Chase Elliott
4th – Ross Chastain
5th – Kyle Larson

Chevrolet’s season statistics with 35 NASCAR Cup Series races complete:

Wins: 15
Poles: 13
Top-Fives: 65
Top 10s: 140
Stage Wins: 27

UP NEXT: The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season will conclude at Phoenix Raceway with the Championship Race on Sunday, November 2, at 3 p.m. ET. Live coverage can be found on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
Post-Race Driver Quotes:

Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 4th

“There was a time where when we did the choose for the restart, there was only one car behind us. And then at the end, there was only two cars in front of us. Definitely both ends of the spectrum today for this No. 1 Moose Fraternity Chevrolet team. The left side’s torn up from the first-half of the race because we struggled. We were getting beat up pretty bad. We went a lap down; made some good adjustments when we took the wave around. It was a free pit stop, per say, later and Phil Surgen (crew chief) did a bunch of adjustments and it brought the car back to life. We caught that caution, which took us from around 10th into the top-five.”

What do you feel like this Martinsville race produced today?

“I think we just watched William Byron cement himself into the championship race. As a kid, I remember watching the No. 24 car win and dominate here. To be buddies with William now, I saw at the end of the race a guy go and solidify himself in that car for a very long time, not that there was any question about that.

Really cool for Chevrolet to go do that and beat the No. 12 car (Ryan Blaney) here. At a flat track, it’s hard to do these days, but the No. 24 car just flat-out drove by him on the long-run and held him off on the short-run at the end. As a friend, that was really, really cool to watch.”

Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 16th

“We battled hard today. It was an eventful day for our Bass Pro Shops/Winchester Waterfowl Chevrolet but this No. 3 team just kept grinding it out. We kept our heads down, made the next best decision and got our balance in a really good spot in the second half of the race. Proud of the effort, and we will look to finish our season strong next week in Phoenix.”

Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 5th

Was that stressful and how do you think the No. 5 team handled today?

“I think it was a little less stressful because I recognized that we were better than Christopher (Bell). We were in front of him all day, so I knew if we had a good first stage that the math was going to be much easier. I just had to keep him in my sights at that point. The No. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM Chevrolet team just did a great job. We didn’t have any hiccups. I definitely could have had better restarts, but like I said, I had out-scored Christopher, so I was just playing it a little easier; tuck in line and go from there. We had a good long-run car.

Happy to be in the Championship Four. Really proud of William (Byron). That was a hell of a drive. We have two Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet’s going for the championship and hopefully we can do it for Rick (Hendrick).”

What’s your early outlook on the competition for the Championship Four next weekend?

“I don’t know… Denny (Hamlin) was good at Phoenix earlier this year. The No. 19 (Chase Briscoe) has gotten better as they’ve gotten comfortable with each other, so I’m sure he’ll be really strong. He’s tough. He can figure out how to get to the front. William, after a performance like that tonight, he’s going to carry a lot of confidence into next weekend. We have confidence in ourselves. I feel like the No. 5 team was decent there earlier this season, and I think our short-track package has gotten way better. I feel like at Gateway, we were really strong. And then at New Hampshire, we were probably a little bit better than the Gibb’s cars and maybe my teammates for a lot of the race. We’ll see. I’m just glad we have an opportunity to go out there and race for a championship.”

Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

Finished: 13th

“After a strong qualifying effort with the No. 8 BetMGM Chevrolet, we battled a tight center that led us to go a lap down early in the race. The entire Richard Childress Racing team made adjustments throughout the race that not only got us back on the lead lap, but had us inside the Top 10 at race’s end. We leave Martinsville Speedway with a 13th-place finish, and will look to Phoenix next week with our focus on concluding the season with a win.”

Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 3rd

What else could you have done with your car in those final laps?

“Just be positioned better. Obviously, those final laps get tough when the guys out front have a big advantage when the track cleans off like that. It was just going to be difficult. I was just hoping, in my position, to get to a spot where I could maybe capitalize if something crazy happened.

Outside of that, we just got a little too far behind at the three-quarter mark. We got caught a lap down in the cycle, and then from there, we were just kind of playing catch-up. We just weren’t quite good enough, truthfully. William (Byron) and the No. 24 team did a great job and capitalized on a fast Saturday; put themselves in a good spot and got it done.”

What can you take away from this season going into Phoenix next weekend?

“I feel like we’ve had some of our best races over the last month, which is a lot of fun to end the year strong and be up there in the mix a lot more. I’m proud of that and the fight all day today and throughout the week. The effort everybody at Hendrick Motorsports put into these cars and just trying to bring our very best here, I thought we did that. Unfortunately, we just came up short. But fortunately, we got two cars into the Championship Four and hopefully one of them can get it done.”

William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Finished: 1st

William, could you pick a better spot for your first-ever walk-off win?

“No. Damn, I got a lot to say (smiling). Things have a way of working out. God really tests your resilience a lot of times. We’ve been tested. Just unbelievable. I watched my first NASCAR race up there just before the start/finish line. Man, I am just so thankful, excited to see my family and just celebrate this one.”

You mentioned all that you have been through and this team has been through. Have you ever been through more emotional swings in 10 weeks to get to this point?

“No. I mean, we just worked so hard, all these guys work so hard. You put everything into Sunday’s. Sometimes you don’t get anything in return. That’s been the last couple weeks. Honestly, throughout the year, we had some close calls. But sometimes life is that way. You just have to keep being resilient, and this No. 24 team did that.”

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RICK WARE RACING
Xfinity 500
Date: Oct. 26, 2025
Event: Xfinity 500 (Round 35 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Cup Series
Location: Martinsville (Va.) Speedway (.526-mile oval)
Format: 500 laps, broken into three stages (130 laps/130 laps/240 laps)

Race Winner: William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 1 Winner: William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 2 Winner: William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)

RWR Finish:

● Cody Ware (Started 36th, Finished 32nd / Running, completed 488 of 500 laps)

RWR Points:

● Cody Ware (36th with 226 points)

Race Notes:

● William Byron won the Xfinity 500 to score his 16th career NASCAR Cup Series victory, his third of the season and his third at Martinsville. His margin over second-place Ryan Blaney was .717 of a second.

● There were 10 caution periods for a total of 78 laps.

● Only 18 of the 37 drivers in the race finished on the lead lap.

● This was the last race in the penultimate Round of 8 of the NASCAR Playoffs. Byron, Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin secured their spots in the Championship 4 via their respective wins while Kyle Larson earned his place on points. Christopher Bell, Blaney, Joey Logano and Chase Elliott did not advance to the final, winner-take-all Championship 4 next Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

Next Up:

The NASCAR Cup Series season finale is Sunday, Nov. 2 at Phoenix Raceway. The championship race starts at 3 p.m. EST with live coverage provided by NBC and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Ford Racing Notes and Quotes
NASCAR Cup Series
Xfinity 500 — Martinsville Speedway
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Ford Finishing Results:

2nd – Ryan Blaney
6th – Ryan Preece
8th – Joey Logano
9th – Todd Gilliland
10th – Josh Berry
15th – Austin Cindric
17th – Cole Custer
20th – Brad Keselowski
25th – Zane Smith
29th – Chris Buescher
30th – Noah Gragson
32nd – Cody Ware
33rd – Casey Mears

RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Discount Tire Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “We just came up short. We did a good job and we got control of the race for a bit, but, gosh, his car was really fast. My rears started to go away pretty big on that long run and working through lap traffic he was able to get by me. Then he got control of the race from there and his car was really fast. I never really thought I had much for him, especially as I think it got cooler I feel like his car got even better, so he just had great rear drive and they were able to utilize it. I’m proud of our effort. I’m proud of coming from where we qualified and getting to lead and leading laps and had a shot at the win. It stinks to come up short, but I’m really proud of the effort and proud of our year.” DID THE MOVE HAD MADE TO PASS YOU THREE-WIDE SURPRISE YOU? “We were picking through lap traffic and it’s easy to kind of lose momentum and he saw an opportunity and took it. I don’t blame him. I know it was tight. I haven’t really seen a replay of how much room he had or not, I don’t really know, I just knew it was gonna be tight. I got the worst end of it, obviously, but it’s two guys racing for the win.” WHAT MORE DID YOU NEED? “I would say on the long run just rear drive. I kind of just lost rear drive on exit. His car held on pretty good. He made it tougher for me to work around lapped cars as I was losing the rear. I couldn’t really fade up and come down across, and he could do that pretty well. That’s kind of how I lost the lead. I slipped. I kind of got caught behind a lapper and he was able to take an opportunity to get underneath me, so I just lacked a little bit of rear grip there on that long run, where his car held on a little bit longer.” WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE BUMP? “Just tight racing. I knew it was gonna be three-wide. I was trying to protect. He was taking a run. I’d have done the same thing.” DID YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE IF IT WAS A LONG RUN? “I knew it was gonna be tough. It was kind of the game of like, ‘Alright, who can save a little bit more.’ The run before, that long one there, I started stage three when I was leading and I thought I had a pretty good rep of leading the race, setting the pace and seeing what I needed to save early to when I got to lap traffic I had some tire left to get around them. I tried to do the same thing, but William, honestly, had better pace than Denny, so I had to push a little bit more to keep him behind me, so that might have played a little factor. He was able to push me a little bit more and then I just got to lap traffic, and I knew I was slipping a little bit, but I thought I could maybe maintain and it was just who picked through lap traffic better and I just had one rough corner of getting bottled up behind somebody and was able to take the opportunity.” HOW HARD IS IT TO NOT WIN RUNNING AS WELL AS YOU DID? “It stinks, but, at the same time, I’m really proud of the effort we put in. From starting where we did, picking our way through the field as fast as we did early was really great. Going into this weekend, I just wanted a shot to win the race and we had that tonight and it just didn’t really play out. I know we gave 100 percent of what we had. Nobody left anything on the table with this group and that’s all you can ask for. That’s all you can do. The 24 was just a little better than us and they got the job done, so props to them, but, on our side, I’m just proud of the effort. We put up a good fight, but it just wasn’t quite enough.” ARE YOU SURPRISED THERE IS NO PENSKE FORD IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 4? “Yes, because I expect at least one of us to be in there. It stinks. It stinks we don’t have a shot to go for four in a row for Roger. Roger was here tonight and was really wanting to see him in Victory Lane and celebrate it with him, but we just weren’t able to get it done and the championship streak at Penske ends. That’s the way it goes and we just have to re-rack and try to be better for next year. That’s all you can do.”

JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “We pitted in the middle of the second stage there coming to the end when everyone was flipping and all that stuff to the end of the second stage and, I don’t know, I feel like I lost control when the Hendrick cars pulled the okie dokie in front of me and I chose the inside lane, which put me third and that’s what let the 12 get up there and then you just kind of get stuck in dirty air. I’m kind of kicking myself on that decision, but, outside of that, we just weren’t fast enough. That’s the bottom line. We weren’t good enough to drive back through either way, but I thought I would have had a chance if maybe I could have made that better earlier in the race.” WHAT COULD YOU HAVE DONE BETTER DOWN THE STRETCH? “I just got out of the car. I have no idea. There will be plenty, obviously, looking back at it and things we’ve got to do better. Ultimately, we just have to be faster. That’s the biggest thing.” A TEAM PENSKE FORD HAS BEEN IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 4 THE LAST THREE YEARS AND YOU’VE WON. HOW DISAPPOINTING THERE WON’T BE ONE THIS YEAR? “Bummed. I don’t know if there’s another word for it. I’m just bummed that one of us didn’t make it. Everyone works hard enough to deserve to be there. We just couldn’t get the job done today, or really the last three races. That’s what it comes down to. The four there deserve to be there. That’s how I always look at it and this year we didn’t deserve to be there.” YOU AND BELL PUT ON TIRES AND IT SEEMED YOU HAD A HARDER TIME PICKING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE FIELD. DID THE TRACK COOL OFF OR SOMETHING? “Yeah, I don’t know. It seemed like right at the end of that run, the top five cars started tanking, but it just kind of seems like the tires would fall off and then they’d kind of maintain for a while, and then they’d run out of rubber and they would fall off huge. They’d tank and by the time we passed a couple cars and you use up a lot of tire to pass cars, and then everyone is the same speed and then they started tanking right at the end, and then the caution came out. You’ve got to do something different. You can’t do the same.” WAS THERE ANY TALK ABOUT THROWING HAIL MARY AND STAYING OUT? “We would have got killed if we stayed out. That many laps on your tires there’s no chance. We’re the team to do things, but that wouldn’t even make sense. You could almost argue two tires there. It would have been close, but we were almost too far back and couldn’t close up enough to even get to the lead. You’ve got to have the lead if you put two tires on and your only hope at that point is everyone wrecks each other and it becomes a demolition derby behind you. That’s the only hope, but we were just too far back. We just couldn’t close the gap and, like I said, just wasn’t good enough.” YOU KNOW THE HIGHS, BUT THIS HAS TO BE A LOW, RIGHT? “It’s a bummer. There’s no Ford. There’s no Team Penske car in the Championship 4. We weren’t good enough. That’s all there is to it. It’s not from a lack of effort. We just weren’t good enough.”

RYAN PREECE, No. 60 Castrol/TravelCenters of America Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “Our Ford Mustang was really good. I felt like from the drop of the green between managing the plan we had, we just had a really good race car and it was kind of surprising to me. From there, it was fun to use tools that you learn growing up in racing – how to manage tires and take care of them and do the things that you need to do to keep them on it, so I had a lot of fun today.” YOU WERE COMING TO THE FRONT LATE WITH THE 12 AND 24 BATTLING. DID THE CAUTIONS HAMPER YOUR ADVANCE? “We had a bad pit stop. We were third and came out ninth, but I was gonna be good those last 30 laps and I’m not entirely sure how they would have been. I took care of my tires to make sure that knowing it was 100-and-however many laps that we needed to be good at the end. It’s a lot easier to pass cars at the end of a run than it is at the beginning, so there were definitely points during the race when we were really good in the long run and it crossed my mind that we could definitely win today.”

Bell falls just shy in points; Briscoe and Hamlin will represent Toyota in Championship 4 at Phoenix

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (October 26, 2025) – Christopher Bell led Toyota with a seventh-place finish Sunday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway. Bell was aiming for his fourth Championship 4 appearance and had hoped to join Toyota teammates Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin in next weekend’s Championship finale at Phoenix Raceway. But the day didn’t go his way, as he fell seven points short of making the Final 4 cutoff.

Hamlin advanced to his first Championship 4 since 2021 with his win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, while Briscoe will be making his first career Championship 4 appearance where he punched his ticket via a win at Talladega Superspeedway.

Toyota GAZOO Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)
Martinsville Speedway
Race 35 of 36 – 263 miles, 500 laps

TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS

1st, William Byron*
2nd, Ryan Blaney*
3rd, Chase Elliott*
4th, Ross Chastain*
5th, Kyle Larson*
7th, CHRISTOPHER BELL
11th, TYLER REDDICK
12th, TY GIBBS
18th, BUBBA WALLACE
21st, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
34th, ERIK JONES
36th, DENNY HAMLIN
36th, RILEY HERBST
37th, CHASE BRISCOE
*non-Toyota driver

TOYOTA QUOTES

CHRISTOPHER BELL, No. 20 Coofandy Menswear Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing

Finishing Position: 7th

What were you lacking with the 20 car?

“It seemed like we were just lacking a little bit of long run pace. When I got the balance close at times, I could take off on tires and do ok and make some passes and maintain my position. And then, the consistent theme of the day was just falling backwards as the tires got old. We weren’t strong enough at Martinsville this weekend. We practiced in the teens, qualified in the teens and kind of raced back there most of the day. I feel content with the results, the four who are going there are legitimate contenders and whoever the champion is will be well deserved. The 20 team just wasn’t good enough.”

Would you like to see something different next year with the points format?

“We need to worry about next year after Phoenix. This year, there’s four great drivers and all have had championship seasons. Whoever the champion is going to be well deserving, I think the format worked out this year.”

What did you need to make up the track position to fight for a spot in the Championship 4?

“I feel like I just needed a bit of long run pace. Whenever we got the balance right, I was pretty fast on the short run and I could make passes and keep up with the best cars, then I would just fall off and those guys would get back by me.”

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 King’s Hawaiian Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing

Finishing Position: 35th

What did you feel behind the wheel?

“I felt like the car was coming to us, but I know what you are asking. I felt like we were in a good spot there where we just started to close back in on (Ryan) Blaney. We got the track position we needed. I feel bad for King’s Hawaiian, I’m not sure we have finished a race so far with these guys so I hate it for them. I didn’t feel anything, it was running and then it was just no noises, no sounds, no indication. I decelerated into turn one and it just shut off, that was it. We’ll work on it I guess and try to get them next week.”

How concerned are you about this issue for next week?

“I’m obviously concerned, but there obviously nothing I can do about it. We’ll live with it and hopefully we’ll get back next week and we are just going to have to see how it goes. I’m confident in the speed that we’ll have next week. I’m really confident in what this team is going to bring next week and we’ll bring our best, hopefully it lasts.”

Was there any indication on what happened?

“Everything was fine and then it just lost power into turn one and that was it. No noises or anything, but just silence because it wasn’t running.”

What did you expect out of Martinsville and what did you get today?

“I thought that the left side tire was a good change. It certainly makes you manage it, but also more cars have been on the track and the track is starting to rubber. It hasn’t wore as much as I would have expected and the lap time fall off was not quite as much. But a good experiment, I think it can put on good races.”

CHASE BRISCOE, No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing

Finishing Position: 37th

Was there any indication whether you were having issues before?

“No indication. I was just running around there. I felt really good about coming here and where we were at and racing with (Kyle) Larson there and went to upshift and something happened. I’m not really sure, it’s unfortunate. We’ll go on to next week and that won’t matter anyways.”

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No. 10 Grizzly Nicotine Pouches Camaro ZL1

Start: 26th
Stage 1 Finish: 26th
Stage 2 Finish: 32nd
Finish: 26th

Ty Dillon and the No. 10 Chevrolet team started Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway from the 26th position. With a solid car, Dillon was able to advance early in the race before falling a lap down late in stage one. Unable to get back on the lead lap due to strategies and timing of cautions, Dillon finished the race in 26th, two laps down to the leaders.

No. 16 Black’s Tire Service Camaro ZL1

Start: 33rd
Stage 1 Finish: 31st
Stage 2 Finish: 34th
Finish: 28th

AJ Allmendinger qualified 33rd for the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway. In the opening stage, Allmendinger reported early that his No. 16 Black’s Tire Service Chevy lacked turn. The team worked to make adjustments to help Allmendinger with the handling so he could preserve the tires better on each run. When pitting under green in Stage 2, Allmendinger was penalized for speeding. The No. 16 returned to pit road for a pass through to serve the penalty. Throughout the remainder of the race, the team worked to make adjustments and take notes to improve the team’s short track program over the off-season. Allmendinger went on to finished in 28th-place.
 
About Kaulig Racing

Kaulig Racing™ is a full-time, multi-car NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) team, owned by award winning entrepreneur, Matt Kaulig. Established in 2016, Kaulig Racing™ has earned 27 NXS wins, made the NXS Playoffs consecutively each season since the playoff system started, and won two regular-season championships. In 2021, the team competed in select NCS events, before expanding to a two-car, full-time NCS team in 2022 and adding a third, part-time entry during the 2023 season. Since its first NCS start in 2021, the team has earned two wins. Kaulig Racing is currently fielding two full-time entries in the NCS and continues to field three full-time NXS entries. To learn more about the team, visit kauligracing.com.