Friday NASCAR Daytona Notebook: Jimmie Johnson Hopeful, Small Teams Have Big Plans
Here’s some news and notes from various drivers at Daytona, including Clay Greenfield and Jade Buford.
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BJ McLeod to Replace David Starr in Xfinity Race at Nashville
McLeod will attempt to make his first Xfinity race of the year.
Trevor Bayne Wins First Pole in 8 Years at Phoenix
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Trevor Bayne won the pole for Saturday’s United Rentals 200 at Phoenix Raceway with a lap at 131.839 mph.
David Starr Running Majority of Xfinity Schedule for SSGLR
David Starr will be in the No. 08 for the majority of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule for SS-Green Light Racing, SSGLR announced Feb. 15.
David Starr, Carl Long & Other MBM Team Members Contract COVID-19
Motorsports Business Management team owner Carl Long, driver David Starr and seven other team members contracted COVID-19 after last weekend’s NASCAR races at Phoenix Raceway, Long said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Nov. 13. “We did finish the race out at Phoenix, but myself and eight of my team members contracted (COVID-19) on the way back,” …
Zach’s Turn: Does NASCAR Need to Address Minimum-Speed Issues?
The discrepancy between NASCAR’s fastest and its slowest appeared to be on full display during Sunday’s (May 30) Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. As leaders like Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott stormed around the 1.5-mile racetrack, lapped cars like David Starr and Josh Bilicki seemed to be on screen getting passed — or used …
Eyes on Xfinity: Let’s Go Feuding, Boys!
If you go in the garage of any NASCAR series … well, at least if you did before the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to see the divide: the one between the haves and the have nots. On one end of the garage are teams that have the resources to run near the front each week …
NASCAR Mailbox: Will This Season Have More Than 16 Winners?
With three winners already this season that aren’t your conventional names, talk of the 2021 playoff field is already heating up. After all, who would’ve expected Michael McDowell to have a spot locked up? And Christopher Bell and William Byron to have theirs this early? Will 2021 be the year that the regular season sees …
Noah Gragson, David Starr, MBM Continue to Sound Off on Late-Race Homestead Crash
Last weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway ended in controversy as David Starr and Noah Gragson got together with three laps to go as Starr’s tire failed, while the latter was leading the race. Days later, it’s clear the incident is still a hot-button topic, as Gragson again referenced the contact today (March …
Couch Potato Tuesday: Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch Work Well Together for FOX Sports at Homestead
Homestead is a very interesting place. For many years, it served as NASCAR’s season finale weekend. It’s an intriguing venue with many different lines for drivers. However, NASCAR decided to go in a different direction and move the season finale to Phoenix. For 2021, Homestead was supposed to be the second week of the season, …
Here Are the Changes to the Daytona Road Course Entry Lists
In what will likely become a recurring segment at Frontstretch each week, we’ll run down the driver- and team-related changes to the NASCAR entry lists since they were initially posted, in this case last Saturday, Feb. 13. NASCAR Cup Series (Daytona International Speedway road course) –Garrett Smithley will make his season debut this weekend, driving the …
Entry List: 2021 Super Start Batteries 188
The first visit to a road course in 2021 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series features an entry list of 44 cars that hope to tackle the Daytona International Speedway road course on Saturday, Feb. 20. With no qualifying currently scheduled for the event, four will miss the race, barring any entry list changes. NASCAR has …