Denny Hamlin wins home race at Richmond
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Denny Hamlin chased down William Byron and led the final five laps to win at his home track Richmond for the fifth time in his NASCAR Cup Series career.
2021 NASCAR Weekly Series national champion Peyton Sellers will run the Superstar Racing Experience round at South Boston Speedway on 25 June. He is a 5× SoBo track champion.
An aggressive push in the final turn gave Ty Gibbs the win at Richmond over Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate John Hunter Nemechek.
Multiple drivers including defending Baja 1000 champion Rob MacCachren saw their San Felipe 250 qualifying efforts get literally dragged into the sand, while reigning race winner Bryce Menzies topped the charts.
Jesse Iwuji Motorsports will field the #34 for Kyle Weatherman at Richmond. The team’s eponymous owner was the car’s primary driver.
Michael “Buddy” Kofoid, the 2021 USAC National Midget Champion, will make his NASCAR début in the Truck dirt race at Bristol. He will drive the #51 for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Air Force veteran Keith McGee, who ran five NASCAR Truck Series races in 2021, will make his 2022 début in the Bristol Dirt Race for Reaume Brothers Racing.
SQR Development was initially going to run a part-time NASCAR Xfinity schedule with Raphaël Lessard beginning this Saturday at Richmond, but those plans have been abandoned due to an “unfortunate personal matter” involving owner J.C. Stout.
Jessica Friesen will once again run the NASCAR Truck Series dirt races at Bristol and Knoxville alongside her husband Stewart.
DGM Racing, who fields the #90, #91, and #92 on a full-time basis, has dropped the #92 to a limited schedule. The #92, mainly driven by Kyle Weatherman with Ross Chastain in it for COTA, is not in the next Xfinity race at Richmond.
Ross Chastain survived a dramatic final lap battle at Circuit of the Americas with A.J. Allmendinger and Alex Bowman to win his maiden NASCAR Cup Series race.
While three-time defending Stadium Super Trucks champion Matt Brabham is now focusing on Indy Lights, a Lights non-race weekend means he will be back in a truck at Long Beach.
A.J. Allmendinger dominated the final stage at Circuit of the Americas to win his seventh NASCAR Xfinity road race. Coupled with his two Cup wins, he ties Jeff Gordon for the most national series road course victories ever.
Alex Bowman and Stewart Friesen ran wide into Kyle Busch on the final lap as they fought for the lead, upon which Zane Smith capitalised to win the NASCAR Truck race at Circuit of the Americas.
Joey Logano will run the NASCAR Truck Series’ Bristol Dirt Race for David Gilliland Racing. It will be his eighth series start and first since winning at Martinsville in a one-off in 2015.
Davey Hamilton Jr., who last raced in the Stadium Super Trucks in 2017 and 2018, will run the full schedule in 2022. The season begins at Long Beach in April.
Brad Keselowski and his #6 RFK Racing team have been docked 100 points each, while crew chief Matt McCall has been fined $100,000 and suspended for modifying a spec part at Sunday’s Atlanta race.
