With a record 36 lead changes, Sunday was the best Texas Motor Speedway race in NASCAR history. In terms of everything else, it was probably the worst.
Chris Buescher won the NASCAR Cup Series Bristol Night Race but it “crappy parts” failures for a large portion of the field stole the headlines.
Bubba Wallace led 58 of the final 68 lap green-flag run to score his second career Cup win at Kansas Speedway.
Multiple NASCAR championship contenders ran into problems as Erik Jones held off Denny Hamlin to win the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
For some reason, rain-related crashes on ovals weren’t much of an incident before recently. What changed?
On a late restart, Kyle Larson moved Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott to earn his second NASCAR Cup Series win of 2022 at Watkins Glen International.
Kevin Harvick held off a hard-charging Christopher Bell and Chris Buescher in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway to earn his second consecutive victory in 2022.
Kevin Harvick snapped a 65-race winless streak at Michigan, earning the win in the 2022 Firekeepers 400 while polesitter Bubba Wallace ended up second.
Tyler Reddick outlasted late-race restarts and on-track chaos en route to his second career win at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
Chase Elliott won at Pocono Raceway after Denny Hamlin was disqualified, the first winner DQ since post-race regulations were revamped in 2019.