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Cup Drivers Are Back in The CW's O'Reilly Series Booth
The CW is running its Cup-driver guest-analyst rotation again for six O'Reilly Series races. Denny Hamlin opens at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Connor Zilisch — the 10-win standout from The CW's inaugural season — gets Nashville. Ross Chastain at Pocono, AJ Allmendinger at Sonoma, Kyle Busch at EchoPark, Bubba Wallace at Indianapolis.
South Boston Speedway: Sixty-Eight Years of Asphalt, Ambition, and the Fastest Small Town in Virginia
South Boston Speedway has been the front door of professional stock car racing since 1957. From Junior Johnson's first NASCAR win to Peyton Sellers' eight track championships, the four-tenths-mile oval in Halifax County, Virginia, has produced more Cup Series drivers per square foot than any track in America.
Hamlin Wins the Million From the Pole at Dover. The Million Goes to Mama.
Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR All-Star Race from the pole at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, beat his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in a side-by-side fight to the line, and became the third driver in the sport's history to win the All-Star at multiple tracks. Asked what he'd do with the $1 million check, he said he'd give it to his mother — a line that landed harder given his father's death in a December fire.
Corey Day Beat Allgaier at Dover. The Pass Came With Four Laps Left, Up Against the Outside Wall.
Corey Day, 20, made his first Dover start a winning one. The Hendrick Motorsports No. 17 split lapped traffic against the outside wall with four laps left to pass Justin Allgaier and take the BetRivers 200 by .461 seconds — his second career NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series victory. Allgaier still leads the championship by 155 over Sheldon Creed.
Kyle Busch Wins His Fifth Dover Truck. Dystany Spurlock Took the Green Flag and Made History.
Kyle Busch won his record fifth NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on Friday, leading 147 of 200 laps in the Spire Motorsports No. 7 Chevrolet and sweeping both stages. The bigger moment came at the green flag: Dystany Spurlock, 34, became the first Black woman ever to start a NASCAR national series race. Kaden Honeycutt rallied from a penalty to finish fourth and protect his Truck Series points lead.
Honeycutt Won at Watkins Glen. Now He Brings the Trucks Lead to Dover.
Kaden Honeycutt comes into Dover Friday night as the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points leader after his first career Truck win at Watkins Glen — same-day ARCA and Trucks sweep included. The 29-point lead over Chandler Smith gets its first concrete test on the Monster Mile, with a brand-new Goodyear right-side tire designed for the surface.
Two Primary Deals in One Day: Viking Motorsports Loads Up for Charlotte
Viking Motorsports announced two primary sponsors on the same Monday heading into its home-state race at Charlotte — Dogs by Andy and Paladin on Anthony Alfredo's No. 96, and Free Bird Southern Spring Water on Parker Retzlaff's No. 99. For a Mooresville independent, that's how a small team builds.