After an entertaining race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NASCAR is in the midst of its West Coast swing and has featured three different winners in its first three events, with Alex Bowman claiming the victory in Sin City.
What does Bowman’s win mean for Hendrick Motorsports as it’s captured two of those first three races? Bryan Nolen and Adam Cheek are joined by editor and Frontstretch Content Director Michael Massie to discuss whether Chase Elliott, not one of those winners, is falling down the pecking order at Hendrick Motorsports. Also, is the Toyota resurgence at Las Vegas just a one-off? And can the early season parity we’ve seen in the Cup Series continue for the foreseeable future?
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Bryan Nolen is the Operations Manager and Multimedia Director for Frontstretch.com. He also hosts the Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen Podcast and occasionally makes appearances on The Happy Hour Podcast. He has a Sportscasting degree from the Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting. He resides in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, his French Bulldog Archer and two rabbits.
Follow him on Twitter @TheBryanNolen
Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.
Michael Massie joined Frontstretch in 2017 and has served as the Content Director since 2020.
Massie, a Richmond, Va., native, has covered NASCAR, IndyCar, SRX and the CARS Tour. Outside of motorsports, the Virginia Tech grad and Green Bay Packers minority owner can be seen cheering on his beloved Hokies and Packers.
Man some of you just like to stir things up or just fill your quota of things you must write about. The so called media is always making mole hills out of mountains. Just a couple of years ago, it was trash talking Bowman.
Has Bowman signed a 5-year extension? (Sound of crickets) What about Kyle Larson (crickets), William Byron (those blasted crickets again). Chase Elliott is the top dog at Hendrick. He brings in more sponsorship for sure and probably more than the other three combined
So, Elliott is still the big dog.
If you saw the movie “The Right Stuff,” there is a line,” no bucks, no Buck Rogers.” That about sums it up.
Yea man you are so right , Chase is the big dawg.👍