The 2024 Coca-Cola 600 champion from Norman, Oklahoma, led the final lap of 266 over-scheduled laps and edged Carson Hocevar and Kyle Larson at the moment of caution during an overtime shootout to claim his first Cup victory of 2025 at Atlanta.
The 2022 Daytona 500 champion from Mooresville, North Carolina, edged Erik Jones at the moment of caution on the final lap to claim his first Daytona Duel victory while the third-generation LaJoie from Charlotte, North Carolina, claimed his ninth berth into the Great American Race with a "non-chartered" entry.
The 2015 Xfinity Series champion from Prosper, Texas, is scheduled to make his 10th career start in the Great American Race, an event to which he has yet to be victorious in for the first time.
The 2020 Cup Series champion from Dawsonville, Georgia, led a race-high 171 of 200-scheduled laps and fended off a late charge from Ryan Blaney to notch his first Clash victory from pole position and in NASCAR's return to its roots of racing at Bowman Gray.
The 2020 Cup Series champion from Dawsonville, Georgia, achieved the pole position for the first qualifying Heat Race and proceeded to lead all 25 laps en route to his first career pole for the Clash.
The 2023 Daytona 500 champion from Olive Branch, Mississippi, led 19 of 195 over-scheduled laps and edged Brad Keselowski by 0.006 seconds during an overtime shootout to snap a 65-race winless drought and record his fourth Cup career victory at 'Dega.
The 2015 Xfinity Series champion led 19 of 92 over-scheduled laps and bumped his way past van Gisbergen on the final lap during an overtime shootout to score his first Cup Series victory both of the 2024 season and his first on a road course venue at The Glen.
The two-time Cup Series champion from Middletown, Connecticut, led nine of 266 over-scheduled laps and became the first Playoff competitor to transfer from the Round of 16 to 12 by winning the 2024 Playoff for the first time ever.
In a span of 367 grueling laps of the 2024 Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, Chris Buescher and Bubba Wallace went from competing against one another for the 16th and final berth to this year’s Playoffs to both being knocked out of contention amid a new race winner capitalizing on the Playoff’s “Win and You’re In” format.
