With five regular-season events remaining on the 2024 Cup Series schedule, Chastain is only 27 points above the top-16 cutline to make the Playoffs while Busch is strapped in a "must-win" situation as he trails the cutline by 102 points.
The reigning Cup Series champion from High Point, North Carolina, led a race-high 44 of 160 laps and capitalized on a 23-lap dash to the finish to claim his second Cup victory of the 2024 season at the Tricky Triangle.
NASCAR heads to Pocono Raceway this week for a full schedule of racing. The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series headlines Friday evening, followed by the Xfinity Series Saturday at 3 p.m. On Sunday afternoon the Cup Series takes center stage with The Great American Getaway 400 Presented by VisitPA.com.
Half of Stewart-Haas Racing's 2024 drivers across the Xfinity and Cup Series divisions have secured rides for the 2025 season amid a summer stretch of uncertainties with the organization set to close following at this season's conclusion.
The 2022 Daytona 500 champion from Mooresville, North Carolina, is scheduled to achieve a milestone start in his third full-time campaign in NASCAR's premier series.
The 31-year-old Bowman led the final eight of 58-shortened laps and capitalized on a late-race pit strategy call while running on wet tires to snap an 80-race winless drought in Downtown Chicago and secure a 2024 Cup Series Playoff spot.
The 21-year-old Hocevar from Portage, Michigan, has been fined $50,000 and docked 25 points, which drops him to 24th place in the driver's standings, for wrecking Burton under caution with 58 laps remaining.
Joey Logano captured his first win of the season, his 33rd NASCAR Cup Series career win, and Ford's first NCS at Nashville on Sunday in the Ally 400.
Joey Logano won the Ally 400, with just enough fuel to cross the line in first after five overtime restarts thinned out the field. It was Logano's first win of the year.
