Ross Chastain
NASCAR Cup Series Driver
2026 Season — NASCAR Cup Series
Through June 21, 2026 · 389 pts behind leader
Roles
- Driver — Trackhouse Racing
- Driver — Niece Motorsports
Coverage (10 articles)
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.
Kaden Honeycutt Won the ARCA Race. Then He Won the Truck Race. The Last Driver Who Pulled That Off Was Sam Mayer in 2020.
Kaden Honeycutt won the ARCA Menards General Tire 100 at Watkins Glen on Friday afternoon. Then he won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bully Hill Vineyards 176 in overtime over Connor Zilisch — becoming the second driver in history to take an ARCA race and a Truck race on the same day, joining Sam Mayer's 2020 Bristol sweep. Honeycutt now leads the Truck Series championship by 29 over Chandler Smith.
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.
Connor Zilisch Has the Best Résumé in NASCAR. He's Also 33rd in Points.
Karting world champion at eleven. Daytona and Sebring winner at seventeen. Eleven Xfinity wins before turning twenty. Connor Zilisch has the most complete résumé in NASCAR — and he's learning what Cup racing costs.
The Monster Mile Gets Its Moment: Dover Hosts the NASCAR All-Star Race for the First Time
Dover Motor Speedway hosts the NASCAR All-Star Race for the first time Sunday, May 17 — the first time in the event's 41-year history the race comes to the Northeast. John Speedway breaks down the full three-day weekend at the Monster Mile.
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.
Connor Zilisch Was Fifteen Seconds Back. He Won at the Last Brake Zone.
Connor Zilisch ran Jesse Love down on fresher tires Saturday at Watkins Glen, then passed him in the final corner of the final lap to win the Mission 200 by 0.262 seconds — Zilisch's third consecutive NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series win at The Glen and his thirteenth career win.
Dover Hosts the All-Star Race for the First Time. The Format Is the Story.
Dover Motor Speedway hosts the NASCAR All-Star Race for the first time in the event's forty-one-year history this Sunday. The format is three segments, 75 / 75 / 200 laps, with no All-Star Open and a Pit Crew Challenge that doubles as Saturday qualifying. Seventeen drivers are already locked into the 26-driver final segment.
Three Nights on Nashville's Concrete: Trucks, the O'Reilly Series and the Cracker Barrel 400
All three NASCAR national series race at Nashville Superspeedway this weekend — Trucks on Friday, the O'Reilly Series on Saturday, and the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday night. A guide to the schedule, the stakes, and why the concrete decides it all.
Michigan's Off-Track Weekend: A YouTuber Doing Double Duty, an F1 Driver Headed to a Navy Base, and a Movie Dropping Friday
Cleetus McFarland pulls double duty as driver and grand marshal Saturday, ex-F1 driver Kevin Magnussen joins Trackhouse PROJECT91 for the inaugural San Diego race, and NASCAR's Navy mini film "Race the Base" drops Friday on Prime Video. Three off-track storylines worth knowing before Michigan.