Texas Motor Speedway
Sunday, May 4, 2025
1.5-Mile Quad Oval
3:30 PM ET
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
TV: Fox
Event: NASCAR Cup Series (11 of 36)
RADIO: SiriusXM

5 KYLE LARSON
Age: 32 (July 31, 1992)
Hometown: Elk Grove, California
Last Week: 2nd (Talladega)
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Standings: 2nd

No. 5 Valvoline Chevrolet

• Kyle Larson registered his fourth top-five finish in the last five NASCAR Cup Series events at drafting tracks on Sunday, finishing second at Talladega Superspeedway.
• By virtue of winning stage one, Larson moved out of a tie with Martin Truex Jr. to become the all-time leader in Cup Series stage wins with 67.
• This week, the Cup Series will venture to Texas Motor Speedway where Larson has won at least one stage in each of the last four events. His five stage wins at Texas are tied for the most and since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021, he’s led 37% of the laps there (451 of 1,211). Larson has a victory at Texas (fall 2021), won the 2021 All-Star race at the 1.5-mile track and sat on the pole last year.
• Through 10 races this season, Larson ranks second in laps run in the top five (1,254) and top 10 (1,935). He leads the Cup Series (503) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (408) in laps led.
• So far, Larson has notched six top-five finishes and seven top 10s, both career highs through the first 10 events of a season.
• Larson will pull double duty at Texas this weekend, filling in for Connor Zilisch in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in Saturday’s Xfinity Series race.

9 CHASE ELLIOTT
Age: 29 (Nov. 28, 1995)
Hometown: Dawsonville, Georgia
Last week: 5th (Talladega)
Crew Chief: Alan Gustafson
Standings: 4th

No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts 100th Anniversary Chevrolet

• Chase Elliott heads to Texas Motor Speedway as the defending winner of the NASCAR Cup Series race. The 29-year-old driver emerged victorious after a double-overtime restart, earning his first Next Gen car win at a 1.5-mile track last spring. He led 39 laps.
• The 2020 Cup Series champion has spent the third-most laps in the top 10 (568) at Texas among active drivers.
• After 10 races, Elliott is fourth in the points standings, 72 markers behind leader and teammate, William Byron.
• Elliott is the only Cup Series driver this season to finish all 10 races in the top 20. His average finish of 10.9 ranks third.
• This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary for Elliott’s longtime primary partner, NAPA Auto Parts. To celebrate, the No. 9 Chevrolet will sport a special gold paint scheme with Elliott donning a commemorative firesuit and helmet.

24 WILLIAM BYRON
Age: 27 (Nov. 29, 1997)
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Last Week: 3rd (Talladega)
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
Standings: 1st

No. 24 RAPTOR Chevrolet

• William Byron picked up where he left off before the break in the NASCAR Cup Series schedule, scoring a third-place result at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, his fifth consecutive top 10 at the track and his third straight top-10 finish this season.
• So far in 2025, Byron leads the NASCAR Cup Series field in average starting position (10.3) and average finish (8.5). His average finish through the first 10 races is the best for a Hendrick Motorsports driver since Jimmie Johnson averaged a seventh-place run through the first 10 events of 2013.
• In addition, Byron has run 1,217 laps in the top five (third most), 2,095 laps in the top 10 (most) and led 364 laps in 2025 (second most).
• Since the start of 2023, Byron has 10 top-five finishes, 13 top 10s and an average finish of 6.25 at 1.5-mile tracks, all best in the series.
• In the Next Gen era, Byron has run 602 laps in the top 10 (second most) at Texas Motor Speedway. He has also earned 126 points, most of any driver.

48 ALEX BOWMAN
Age: 31 (April 25, 1993)
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona
Last Week: 7th (Talladega)
Crew Chief: Blake Harris
Standings: 9th

No. 48 Ally Chevrolet

• Alex Bowman drove the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet to a seventh-place finish in this past weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. It was Bowman’s sixth top-10 finish of 2025, equaling his career best through a season’s first 10 races. He moved up one spot in the points standings to ninth, 115 points behind leader and teammate, William Byron.
• Bowman won the pole at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the most recent race on a 1.5-mile track. Two of his career wins have come on such circuits (Chicagoland Speedway in 2019 and Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2022).
• The Tucson, Arizona, native has earned two top fives at Texas, both of which came in fifth-place runs (2019 and 2020).
• Sunday’s race at Texas will be a home race for crew chief Blake Harris, a native of Maypearl, Texas, about an hour from the track.
• For the Best Friends Animal Society programming, Ally and Bowman will partner with The Underground Dog located in Pecos, Texas, as their selected shelter for this weekend.
• Ally and HENDRICKCARS.COM are teaming up again to give fans the chance to win prizes with this year’s “Open Road Sweepstakes.” Fans can win VIP experiences at various races throughout the season and one lucky winner will hit the open road in a Chevy Silverado LT Trail Boss with an Airstream camper. Fans can stop by the Ally Fan Zone to enter the sweepstakes in-person and check out the camper. Fans can also enter at ally.com/sweepstakes/nascar.

Hendrick Motorsports

*Most all time
**Tied for most all time

• Hendrick Motorsports is the all-time leader in NASCAR Cup Series events at Texas Motor Speedway in wins (12), poles (eight), top fives (45), top 10s (80) and laps led (3,150).
• For the third time this season, all four Hendrick Motorsports entries finished in the top 10, led by Kyle Larson’s second-place run at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. The company’s 26 top 10s are the most for the organization through 10 races and are the second most ever.
• Hendrick Motorsports is the only organization with at least one top-five finisher in all 10 races this season. No other team has had a car finish in the top 10 in every race this year. Dating back to 2024, the team has had a car in the top five in 18 straight events, the third-longest such streak in Hendrick Motorsports history.
• Chase Elliott (2024), William Byron (2023) and Larson (2021) have combined to win three of the last four Cup Series races at Texas. In all, the team has combined to win six of the last 12 events on 1.5-mile tracks.
• A Hendrick Motorsports driver has won the pole in four of the last seven races and the four have combined to win five of the last six stages.

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Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet, on Texas Motor Speedway: “We’ve always had a good mile-and-a-half program I feel like and we’ve just always improved on it. Plus we’ve won Texas before. I think this weekend has potential to be another strong weekend for the No. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM team.”

Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet, the 100th anniversary of NAPA: “This weekend is 100 years of NAPA. They’ve been a huge piece of my career, a vital piece of the puzzle to, truthfully, my career even becoming a career. I really can’t say enough about them and what they’ve done for me and my family and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports as well. I think we’ve all kind of become a part of one another’s families over the years. And it’s been a really nice and natural fit. It’s a pretty cool thing, when you have that type of relationship with the partner and the people within the company, too. I can’t say enough about them. I appreciate them and they always treat me like they appreciate me.”

William Byron, driver of the No. 24 Chevrolet, on Texas Motor Speedway: “I think this weekend should be a good one for us. We’ve always run pretty well at Texas, and I feel like we’re really showing the strength we have on the No. 24 team right now. We just want to keep executing to the best of our abilities every weekend.”

Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet, on Texas Motor Speedway: “Texas Motor Speedway is always a tough place. It’s fast and challenging, and it can really test you as a driver. But I’m feeling confident coming in here with my team. My Ally 48 crew has put in a ton of work preparing for this race – we’ve done our homework, and I know they’ve given me a fast Chevy to work with. We understand the challenges this track brings, and we’ve got a plan for it. I’m determined to go out there, execute that plan, and show what this team is capable of.”

JESSE LOVE
Würth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway
No. 62 C4 Ultimate Energy Chevrolet Camaro

Event Overview

● Event: Würth 400 (Round 11 of 36)
● Time/Date: 3:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 4
● Location: Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth
● Layout: 1.5 mile oval
● Laps/Miles: 267 laps/400.5 miles
● State Lengths: Stage 1: 80 laps / Stage 2: 85 laps / Final Stage: 102 laps
● TV/Radio: FOX / MRN / SiriusXM NASCAR Radio

Notes of Interest

●Back to Back. Following Sunday’s Jack Links 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Beard Motorsports is set appear in a second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race when it hits the Texas Motor Speedway oval in Fort Worth for this Sunday’s Würth 400. It marks the first time Beard Motorsports is taking its racing program to the Lone Star State. Throughout the team’s nine-year history, it has been a fixture at NASCAR’s big tracks of Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and Talladega. On occasion, the team has participated in races outside of the superspeedway category. This will mark the first time Beard has competed at an intermediate style track since fielding the No. 62 Chevrolet for driver Austin Hill in the 2023 Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, where Hill finished 28th.

●A Fresh New Face for a Fresh New Track. The 1.5-mile Texas oval isn’t the only thing that will be new to Beard Motorsports this weekend as the team will have a new face behind the wheel of the No. 62 Chevrolet in driver Jesse Love. The native of Menlo Park, California, is in the midst of his second Xfinity series season as a fulltime driver of the No. 2 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing (RCR). He made his NASCAR Cup Series debut just three weeks prior to the Texas race when he strapped into RCR’s No. 33 C4 Ultimate Energy Chevrolet for the April 13 Food City 500 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. He’s a two-time winner and seven-time pole qualifier during his young Xfinity Series career, the wins coming last April at Talladega and at this year’s season opener at Daytona. He’s also logged one Xfinity Series start on the 1.5-mile Texas oval.

●Beard Motorsports and C4. Riding along with Love and the No. 62 Beard Chevrolet at Texas will be C4 Energy, America’s fastest-growing energy drink brand. Nutrabolt, owner of C4®, is the No. 1-selling global pre-workout brand and one of the fastest-growing energy drink companies in the country. Making its C4 Ultimate Energy product lineup more delicious and even cooler, Nutrabolt recently introduced the Frost collection – a product extension available in three flavors that will also unveil a unique can technology that transitions from silver to blue when the can is cold and ready to drink.

●Different Tracks by the Numbers. The superspeedway program at Beard Motorsports has been well-documented and, in its nine seasons, superspeedways have been the team’s bread and butter. The first time the No. 62 Beard-owned Chevrolet made the starting field at a non-superspeedway race dates back to 2020, when the team participated in the Go Bowling 235 NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona road course. The team’s original driver, Brendan Gaughan, was behind the wheel of the No. 62 Chevrolet that season in what was his final year of racing in the Cup Series. A transmission issue resulted in the team finishing the race 39th.

● In Case You Didn’t Know. Entering a new race market is always a good time to highlight the Beard Motorsports story – a boutique race team, borne out of a passion for racing and sustained by love for the family patriarch. The late Mark Beard Sr., brought his dream to life when he fielded the No. 62 Chevrolet in the season-opening Daytona 500 in 2017. Upon his passing in 2021, his wife, daughter and son carried pursued the racing dream in remembrance of Beard. Owned by Linda Beard and managed by daughter Amie Beard-Deja and son Mark Beard Jr., the No. 62 NASCAR Cup Series team continues to participate in select events on an annual basis.

● A Powered Partnership. As it has been since 2017, the No. 62 Beard Motorsports team has been powered by an ECR-built engine and the team has leveraged the power of those engines to post solid finishes. During its previous eight seasons of racing, Beard Motorsports has participated in 30 Cup Series events, scoring two top-five finishes and seven top-10s.

● Next Up. Beard Motorsports will be on hiatus for the next two months before making its return to the NASCAR Cup Series at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the July 27 Brickyard 400.

Jesse Love, Driver of the No. 62 C4 Ultimate Energy Chevrolet Camaro:

You made your Cup Series debut at Bristol. What was that like, and how does that prepare you for this weekend?

“Making my Cup Series debut at Bristol was a moment that I had been working toward my entire life. I learned a ton and was really grateful to have that opportunity. Going into Bristol, I was a little worried about being overwhelmed and what it would be like to get in the car with my emotions. I feel like I did a good job of managing that and was able to execute in the car. As excited as I was to get that first start, it’s also now out of the way so I feel like I’m even more ready for Texas now that I have that first start.”

Was there anything you learned that was surprising and that will help you?

“This wasn’t really a surprise, but something I looked forward to at Bristol was racing against the competition in the Cup Series. I knew the depth of the competition would be so much more than what we see in the Xfinity Series. I am racing against guys that I think are really good. They’re good at what they do and they don’t make a lot of mistakes. It was a big deal for me to get in the Cup car and get that experience of racing against that level of talent. I felt really comfortable in the car and really can’t wait to get back behind the wheel and do more.”

How are you preparing for this weekend’s race at Texas?

“I’m doing a lot of the same things I did to get ready for Bristol. I will be logging laps on the simulator and doing some iRacing – just spending some time getting familiar with the track. I feel pretty confident about the fitness part of it and will be ready for the longer distance, so I should be fine. Texas may not be as physically demanding because it’s not a short track, but the heat will be more demanding and that will make it a bigger challenge compared to Bristol. And Texas is a tough track. It’s really fast.”

What are your goals for this weekend at Texas?

“The goal will be to keep collecting experience and learning the Cup car. I am at a point where I focus more on the execution part, running all of the laps and feeling confident that if I do my very best job, then I can leave the racetrack with a good result that will satisfy me and the team. Racing in the Cup Series fulltime is the dream, so to get this opportunity with Beard Motorsports is great. But these opportunities won’t be here if I don’t perform. Both of the races I am racing for Beard at Texas and Indy will allow me to gain knowledge of how this car races at different tracks and hopefully set me up to pounce on future opportunities.”

No. 62 Beard Motorsports Team Roster

Primary Team Members

Driver: Jesse Love

Hometown: Menlo Park, California

Crew Chief: Darren Shaw

Hometown: Mooresville, North Carolina

Car Chief: Travis Owens

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Spotter: Rick Carelli

Hometown: Arvada, Colorado

President: Linda Beard

Hometown: Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Over-The-Wall Members

Front Tire Changer: Caison Dillon

Hometown: Welcome, North Carolina

Rear Tire Changer: Matthew Ketchie

Hometown: Mt. Ulla, North Carolina

Tire Carrier: Tanner Wells

Hometown: Goldsboro, North Carolina

Jack Man: Brandon Derby

Hometown: Pennsylvania

Fuel Man: Doug Warrick

Hometown: Hamilton, New Jersey

Road Crew Members

Mechanic: Jack Gagnon

Hometown: Quebec, Canada

Front End Mechanic: Mark Sanders

Hometown: Springfield, Ohio

Tire Technician: Mike Harrold

Hometown: Mooresville, North Carolina

Engine Tuner: Jason Watkins

Hometown: Ridgeway, Virginia

Interior Specialist: Nic Hill

Hometown: Fort Myers, Florida

Transporter Driver: Roger Lankford

Hometown: Lexington, North Carolina