NASCAR Truck Series Champion Mike Skinner won the Short Track U.S. Nationals at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway on Saturday night. In a dramatic drive in the No. 5 E-Z Line Toyota, Skinner had to recover from a lap three accident to race through the field and visit victory lane in the Pro Late Model division. It was Skinner's first win at the half-mile since his 2005 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series victory.
Former NASCAR Whelen All American Series national champions Lee Pulliam of Alton, Virginia and Peyton Sellers of Danville, Virginia split wins Saturday night in the NASCAR Late Model Twin 75s racing program at South Boston Speedway.
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.
Austin Cindric and the No. 22 MoneyLion team scored a seventh-place finish in the Pocono Green 250 Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway. Cindric claimed his tenth top-10 in 12 races this season and his second top-10 finish in two races at the 2.5-mile triangular-shaped track. He now has 23 top-10 finishes in 46 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts. Cindric remains fourth in the driver point standings, 18 points behind third-place Cole Custer and 117 points behind the leader Tyler Reddick.
Christopher Bell (fifth) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Pocono Raceway.
Cole Custer in his No.00 SHR Ford completely dominated the first stage of the race and was leading until a late caution flag came out. Tyler Reddick took over the lead until the final turn when he slipped up just enough for Custer to make the pass and win in overtime.
"Another week, another fast No. 2 TAME the BEAST Chevrolet Camaro from the RCR team. We started off the race with a bit of a challenge since we had to start at the rear due to a transmission change that happened after final practice yesterday."
COLE CUSTER: “I guess that was heard wrong. I just wished it wasn’t that close. I just wish it was no cautions. We had such a big lead. I just went in there and tried to get on Tyler’s bumper. I didn’t hit him at all. He just overdrove the corner and missed the bottom a little bit. I already had my downshift planned so I was able to have a little extra torque coming off the corner and was able to clear him. I just wish it wasn’t that close.”
COLE CUSTER, No. 00 FIMS Manufacturing Ford Mustang: FINISHED 1st - WHAT ABOUT THAT LAST LAP PASS? “It was pretty unbelievable. Tyler gave me a real run for my money there. I have no idea how he made it stick on that restart on the bottom passing me but he did."
“No. I think we missed our gaps from first practice to second practice a little bit so we were on the splitter. We got that situation resolved and it felt pretty good.”