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A much-anticipated return to Bowman Gray Stadium lived up to — and even exceeded — expectations in Sunday night’s (Feb. 2) Cook Out Clash. While NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Chase Elliott dominated much of the race, the weekend still had plenty of full-contact racing.
Adam Cheek passes the Stock Car Scoop torch to Caleb Barnes, and the two discuss what the future of Bowman Gray should hold, and if Elliott and Ryan Blaney can turn confidence from their Clash finishes into strong runs at the 2025 Daytona 500.
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Caleb began sports writing in 2023 with The Liberty Champion, where he officially covered his first NASCAR race at Richmond in the spring. While there, Caleb met some of the guys from Frontstretch, and he joined the video editing team after graduating from Liberty University with degrees in Strategic Communications and Sports Journalism. Caleb currently work full-time as a Multi-Media Journalist with LEX 18 News in Lexington, Kentucky and contributes to Frontstretch with writing and video editing. He's also behind-the-scenes or on camera for the Happy Hour Podcast, live every Tuesday night at 7:30!
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.