Michael McDowell put on a clinic at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course on Sunday (Aug. 13), outlasting Chase Elliott, road course ringers and more to claim his second career victory in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Adam Cheek and Dalton Hopkins discuss the No. 34’s victory, how Elliott and the other drivers around the playoff cutline will fare over the next two weeks and the presence of international drivers like Shane van Gisbergen and Kamui Kobayashi at IMS.
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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.