Cole Custer
2026 Season — NASCAR Cup Series
Through June 21, 2026 · 522 pts behind leader
Roles
- Driver — Haas Factory Team
Coverage (2 articles)
Elliott Wins Texas Again. He Said He Didn't Like the Place.
Chase Elliott won his second Texas Cup race Sunday by 0.407 seconds over Denny Hamlin, with a final-restart side-draft push from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman clearing him through Turn 2. Bowman finished P3, Tyler Reddick took P4 on a two-tire stop, and Connor Zilisch quietly logged his best Cup oval finish (P16) in the JRM development car. Hendrick has now won four of the last six Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Nine Full-Time O'Reilly Series Teams Didn't Exist the Last Time NASCAR Raced at Chicagoland
The O'Reilly Series returns to Chicagoland on Saturday for the first time in 2,562 days. Nine of its full-time teams didn't exist when it left, the 2019 winner is back in a different ride, and Connor Zilisch, winner of 30 percent of his career starts, has never raced there in anything.