t's easy to shout this from the rooftops. The NASCAR Xfinity Series needs, needs, needs, more standalone events. There's Iowa, Road America, Mid-Ohio...and that's really all.
Martin Truex Jr. scored his third win of 2019 at Charlotte on Sunday night, as he won his second Coca-Cola 600 by .330 of a second over Joey Logano. Truex had the dominant car of the evening, leading 116 laps after starting 14th, although he had to overcome a cut tire and contact with the wall on lap 75, when he brought out the caution while leading.
Tyler Reddick scored his second win of the 2019 Xfinity Series season when he won Saturday's Alsco 300 by 2.10 seconds over runner-up Justin Allgaier. Jeffrey Earnhardt took home third place, while rookies Noag Gragson and Justin Haley rounded out the top-five.
INDIANAPOLIS -- May is the month of the year around which the NTT IndyCar Series revolves. It begins with the IndyCar Grand Prix on the grand prix circuit of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Then on Memorial Day Sunday, the cannon fires at 6:00 a.m. (which indicates the gates are open) and over 200,000 people pour into the facility to drink the day away, take in a concert in the Snake Pit and watch the annual running of the Indianapolis 500. Afterwards, the turnaround at Indianapolis begins for the next major event, the Brickyard 400; be it in September this year or on Independence Day weekend in 2020.
A mistake by Alex Bowman on the final lap of the second stage let Martin Truex Jr. pounce on and pass him to win the stage. After that, the Gander RV 400 was his race to lose.
It's time to accept that the All-Star Race has run its course. The event, every year, is so overhyped by both NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway, that it enrages fans when it disappoints.
Aaron Studwell is a name NASCAR fans may or may not know. For those who are unfamiliar with him, he runs RACEWeather.net and collaborates with Brian Neudorff forecasting the weather for NASCAR races on their Patreon page.
Maybe it was my low expectations for races at Texas, but Sunday's O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was good. The field didn't get exponentially stretched out as the race progressed, and the leader didn't simply pull away from the car in second.
Kyle Busch continues to stretch his record with the most XFINITY Series wins as he raced to victory in the My Bariatrics Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.
On Tuesday, NASCAR announced the 2020 schedule for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. It's the biggest schedule realignment in over a decade. After sleeping on it overnight, I have some thoughts on the matter.
