The 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion from Berlin, Connecticut, is scheduled to achieve a milestone start in his sixth season competing in NASCAR's premier series.
Brad Keselowski and rookie Shane van Gisbergen claimed the pole positions for the All-Star Race and Open, respectively, while Michael McDowell's No. 71 Spire Motorsports team won the Pit Crew Challenge competition.
The No. 17 RFK Racing Ford team was docked 60 championship points, fined $75,000; crew chief Scott Graves was issued a two-race suspension due to the team violating Sections 14.1.C and 14.5.4.G of the NASCAR Rule Book involving the team over-exceeding use of front bumper covers.
The 2025 spring Las Vegas penalty report features two Cup teams being penalized and losing crew members for two races for loose wheels, four Xfinity teams and one Truck team being penalized for lug nut infractions and two crew members suspended indefinitely for violating NASCAR's Substance Abuse Policy.
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 2012 Cup Series champion from Rochester Hills, Michigan, will attempt to qualify for his 11th career start in the Clash in the series' return to Bowman Gray Stadium.
The four-time Cup Series race-winning crew chief from Denver, North Carolina, will be parting ways from Brad Keselowski and RFK Racing's No. 6 Ford team after three seasons.
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.
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.
