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Austin Cindric wins wild Talladega race with last-lap pass

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April 27, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

TALLADEGA, Ala. – Austin Cindric’s dramatic last lap pass provided exactly the sort of Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway thrill that NASCAR fans have come to expect at the sport’s biggest track, earning the 2022 Daytona 500 winner Cindric – and Team Penske – their first trophies of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.

Cindric’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford pulled ahead of Roush Fenway Keselowski driver Ryan Preece’s No. 60 Ford by the length of a front hood to claim a .022-second victory in Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 – the two Ford Mustangs exchanging the lead five times in the final six laps.

However, the Fords driven by Preece and fifth place finisher, Cindric’s Penske teammate Joey Logano were subsequently disqualified following post-race inspection for technical violations. NASCAR officials found an illegal spoiler on Preece’s Mustang and a spoiler violation on Logano’s No. 22 Mustang that also violated Overall Assembled Vehicle Rules.

The disqualifications moved Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet teammates Kyle Larson and William Byron into second and third place in the race’s final standings.

“I’m just so proud of this team from the [pit] cycles to the fast cars to the fuel-only stops,’’ said the 26-year old Cindric, whose team - with 17 laps remaining - turned in the fastest final pit stop putting him back out front and able to contend for the win in a race that featured 67 lead changes among 23 drivers.

“It definitely wasn’t easy,’’ Cindric said of holding off the Hendrick teammates for the checkered flag. “I give a lot of credit, Kyle [Larson] did a lot to take care of me, pushing me at the right times in the tri-oval and as mad as I was at him after Atlanta [race], I feel like we’re good now. That was great and having a photo-finish at Talladega and get in the Playoffs in front of this amazing crowd, beautiful day in Alabama.’’

The Hendrick teammates Larson and Byron acknowledged lapped traffic in front of the lead pack, looming just beyond the finish line, certainly created an extra consideration. Yet the runner-up showing for Larson, who won Stage 1 and led three laps on the day, was a career best effort at Talladega. It was a major move forward for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion drafting tracks such as Talladega, Daytona and Atlanta – all venues where the 31-race winner has yet to earn a trophy.

“I wanted to take it, but just felt like the gap was too big,’’ said Larson, who ran directly behind Cindric in the closing laps, adding. “I was just second row inside and just going to do everything I could to try and advance our lane and maybe open it up so maybe then I could get to the outside, but we were all pushing so equally that it kept the lanes kind of jammed up.

“I needed something else to kinda happen, maybe them to get blocking each other or something, but still a great day. A stage win, P3 in the second stage and P3 in the final, so great points day and best career finish on a superspeedway so happy with the performance in the Hendricks.com Chevy.”

Cindric is the 10th different winner in the last 10 Talladega races – a record streak at the iconic 2.66-mile high-banked track. Yet Sunday’s race was relatively calm compared to some previous editions at the high-action drafting track. It marked the fourth time a Tallladega race had only four caution flags – two of which were scheduled stage caution breaks.

With the two disqualifications, Front Row Motorsports’ Noah Gragson and Hendrick’s Chase Elliott round out the top-five.

Chevrolet drivers, Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar and Hendrick’s Alex Bowman finished sixth and seventh with former Talladega winner, and Sunday’s Stage 2 winner Bubba Wallace eighth in the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota. Trackhouse Racing’s Daniel Suárez and Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon completed the updated top-10.

Although their teammates ran well and earned stage points, it was a frustrating afternoon for Penske’s Ryan Blaney and Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Brad Keselowski.

The two former champions and past multi-time Talladega winners were collected in an accident on lap 43 during a pit stop cycle before the first Stage break. Keselowski and Chevy’s Kyle Busch collided on track as Keselowski was moving to pit road for a stop – their contact collected Blaney spinning him out as well.

The owner-driver of the No. 6 Ford, Keselowski, who was already mired in a disappointing early season, finished 36th and is now ranked 32nd in the championship standings.

“It was just a stack of guys trying to come to pit road as fast as they could and we were kind of the ham in the sandwich that got squeezed.’’ said Keselowski, who leads all active drivers with six Talladega wins. “I waved down the backstretch to let everybody know I was gonna pit and I came off of four and everybody was so tight behind me that I didn’t even have a chance to turn left. I hate that it ruined not just our day, but several other people’s day. I don’t think I could do anything different.”

Blaney, who drives the No. 12 Team Penske Ford was scored as 37th – ahead of the two disqualified drivers. It marked his fourth DNF in the 10-race season, but the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion has led 198 laps on the season and is still ranked eighth in the standings.

“Another DNF - it just sucks,’’ Blaney said. Just when we were kind of getting our momentum and didn’t even get to race today. We’ll just move on to Texas.”

With his third-place finish, Byron continues to lead the championship standings, now 31 points ahead of his teammate Larson. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who had been second in points going into Talladega is now ranked third, 52 points behind Byron.

The NASCAR Cup Series now heads West to Texas Motor Speedway for next Sunday’s Wurth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Elliott is the defending race winner.

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NASCAR Cup Series Race - Jack Link's 500

Talladega Superspeedway

Talladega, Alabama

Sunday, April 27, 2025

1. (7) Austin Cindric, Ford, 188.

2. (25) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 188.

3. (16) William Byron, Chevrolet, 188.

4. (27) Noah Gragson, Ford, 188.

5. (30) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 188.

6. (28) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 188.

7. (18) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 188.

8. (20) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 188.

9. (24) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 188.

10. (5) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 188.

11. (14) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 188.

12. (35) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 188.

13. (12) Cole Custer, Ford, 188.

14. (26) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 188.

15. (17) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 188.

16. (15) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 188.

17. (10) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 188.

18. (34) Erik Jones, Toyota, 188.

19. (1) Zane Smith, Ford, 188.

20. (32) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 188.

21. (13) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 188.

22. (23) Riley Herbst #, Toyota, 188.

23. (21) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 188.

24. (19) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 188.

25. (37) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 188.

26. (8) Josh Berry, Ford, 188.

27. (2) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 188.

28. (31) Anthony Alfredo(i), Chevrolet, 188.

29. (36) Shane Van Gisbergen #, Chevrolet, 187.

30. (29) John Hunter Nemechek, Toyota, 187.

31. (33) Cody Ware, Ford, 186.

32. (39) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 186.

33. (38) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, Overheating, 71.

34. (6) Chris Buescher, Ford, Accident, 51.

35. (11) Christopher Bell, Toyota, Accident, 51.

36. (22) Brad Keselowski, Ford, Accident, 42.

37. (9) Ryan Blaney, Ford, Accident, 42.

38. (4) Ryan Preece, Ford, 188.

39. (3) Joey Logano, Ford, 188.

Average Speed of Race Winner: 157.203 mph.

Time of Race: 3 Hrs, 10 Mins, 52 Secs. Margin of Victory: .022 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 4 for 22 laps.

Lead Changes: 67 among 23 drivers.

Lap Leaders: Z. Smith 1-3;J. Berry 4;J. Logano 5;M. McDowell 6-7;J. Berry 8;M. McDowell 9-10;Z. Smith 11;J. Berry 12-14;R. Preece 15;M. McDowell 16;R. Preece 17;M. McDowell 18-20;Z. Smith 21;J. Berry 22;K. Busch 23-25;C. Briscoe 26-40;C. Custer 41-42;J. Logano 43-48;D. Suarez 49;C. Buescher 50-51;D. Hamlin 52-58;B. Wallace 59;K. Larson 60-62;C. Hocevar 63;*. Yeley 64;*. Alfredo(i) 65;W. Byron 66-69;*. Alfredo(i) 70-73;R. Chastain 74;J. Nemechek 75;*. Alfredo(i) 76;R. Chastain 77-80;*. Alfredo(i) 81;R. Chastain 82-83;*. Alfredo(i) 84-85;R. Chastain 86;D. Suarez 87;*. Alfredo(i) 88-93;R. Chastain 94-95;*. Alfredo(i) 96-99;R. Chastain 100;J. Logano 101-108;C. Hocevar 109;J. Logano 110;B. Wallace 111;M. McDowell 112-113;C. Hocevar 114;J. Logano 115-119;B. Wallace 120-122;*. Yeley 123;C. Elliott 124;C. Briscoe 125-127;T. Gibbs 128;C. Briscoe 129-130;T. Gibbs 131-161;J. Logano 162-164;J. Berry 165-166;T. Dillon 167;J. Berry 168-171;A. Cindric 172-174;W. Byron 175;A. Cindric 176;W. Byron 177-181;A. Cindric 182;R. Preece 183-185;A. Cindric 186;R. Preece 187;A. Cindric 188.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Ty Gibbs 2 times for 32 laps; Joey Logano 6 times for 24 laps; Chase Briscoe 3 times for 20 laps; * Anthony Alfredo(i) 7 times for 19 laps; Josh Berry 6 times for 12 laps; Ross Chastain 6 times for 11 laps; William Byron 3 times for 10 laps; Michael McDowell 5 times for 10 laps; Denny Hamlin 1 time for 7 laps; Austin Cindric 5 times for 7 laps; Ryan Preece 4 times for 6 laps; Zane Smith 3 times for 5 laps; Bubba Wallace 3 times for 5 laps; Carson Hocevar 3 times for 3 laps; Kyle Busch 1 time for 3 laps; Kyle Larson 1 time for 3 laps; Daniel Suarez 2 times for 2 laps; Chris Buescher 1 time for 2 laps; Cole Custer 1 time for 2 laps; * JJ Yeley 2 times for 2 laps; John Hunter Nemechek 1 time for 1 lap; Ty Dillon 1 time for 1 lap; Chase Elliott 1 time for 1 lap.

Stage #1 Top Ten: 5,24,47,9,23,11,16,51,35,10

Stage #2 Top Ten: 23,5,2,77,45,34,38,21,7,16

Zane Smith captures first-career pole for Talladega Cup race / Talladega Notebook

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April 26, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

TALLADEGA, Ala. – Front Row Motorsports maintained its strong position out front at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway with 24-year driver Zane Smith convincingly claiming the first pole position of his NASCAR Cup Series career – the third consecutive at the track for his team.

Smith, the 2022 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion, will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 (3 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at the sport’s biggest track with two-time series champion Kyle Busch starting alongside Smith on the front row – his best start since earning pole position at Dover, Del. last Spring.

Smith earned his first pole position with a lap of 182.174 mph in the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford – bettering Busch’s time by a slight .132-second on the 2.66-mile circuit.

“Obviously a lot of speed,’’ said Smith, who was fastest in opening-round time trials and improved that time in the final round. “Just really proud of how our whole team has been working together before our one-week break [last week] and I feel like that one-week break was perfect not to reset but to digest and think about what we need to re-build on.

“And now we’re off to a good start for this next long stretch. Proud of the speed and everything we’ve been doing, just need to execute a little bit better but a ton of speed this weekend. Long race tomorrow and a lot of things are going to happen and go on, but obviously we have the speed to do it. We’ll see how it goes.’’

Seven Fords, a pair of Chevrolets and a single Toyota advanced to that 10-car final round.

Reigning series champion, Team Penske’s Joey Logano and Roush Fenway Keselowski’s Ryan Preece will start from row two.

Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon, RFK’s Chris Buescher, Penske’s Austin Cindric, Wood Brothers’s Josh Berry, Penske’s Ryan Blaney and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs (the only Toyota) rounded out the second round qualifiers.

Defending race winner Tyler Reddick will roll off 26th in the 23XI Racing No. 45 Toyota. Championship points leader, Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron, will start 16th on the 39-car grid.

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*KESELOWSKI’s OPPORTUNITY

Brad Keselowski is a former NASCAR Cup Series champion – claiming the title in 2012 in only his 16th full-time year competing in the series – and leads all drivers with six Talladega Superspeedway trophies. That’s all encouraging, but the 41-year old owner-driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford would really like to resume that big track magic this weekend and jumpstart an uncharacteristically “off” start to the 2025 season.

Keselowski is still racing for his first top-10 of the year – an 11th place showing at the 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway is his best result and he sits an uncharacteristic 31st in the championship standings.

The 2.66-mile Talladega high banks, however, presents a level of confidence for the former champ. He won his very first NASCAR Cup Series start at the track in 2009. He’s got 12 top-five showings – including three runner-up finishes – and has finished in the top-10 in half of his 32 starts, a remarkable statistic at a drafting track.

“It’s definitely not my best [season] start,’’ Keselowski allowed. “It doesn’t feel like my best start, but I’ve got my eternal optimist glasses on and I see the potential. The potential for this team is higher than any team I’ve had the last four or five years and we just have to recognize it. There’s a lot of talent and a lot of fresh faces and the mistakes that come with that. We have to clean that up and recognize our potential.”

*CHAMPIONSHIP CREW CHIEF CHILDERS OUT AT SPIRE

Spire Motorsports announced this week that it and veteran crew chief Rodney Childers had parted ways effective immediately.

Childers, who guided Kevin Harvick to the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series championship, was in his first year with Spire after spending 11 years with the Stewart-Haas Racing team which left the series at the end of 2024. He has served as a crew chief in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2005 and has 30 victories and nearly a 50 percent top-10 percentage, his cars scoring 299 top 10s in 685 combined starts.

“I know this is a shock, but also know that not everything works out perfect all the time,’’ Childers wrote on social media this week, thanking Spire Motorsports for his time there and wishing them “the best in the future.”

“This was just one of those things that just wasn’t working for either of us.’’

The pairing with Haley at Spire Motorsports, however, was slow to start with only a single top-10 (10th at Homestead-Miami) through the opening nine races. Haley sits 23rd in the championship points standings. He finished 26th and 31st in the championship the previous two seasons. He qualified 37th for Sunday’s race.

“For me, just showing up and trying to do my job to the best of my ability each week and obviously it’s an unexpected change and not something you ever want to do in the middle of the season, but super proud and thankful to be with a race team and owner like Jeff Dickerson who isn’t scared to make some changes for maybe the better,’’ said Haley, who said he only found out about the situation after a day of regularly scheduled meetings last Tuesday.

“It was just a ‘fit’ thing, I think, nothing super wrong that stood out or super left or right. I think at the end of the day we’re in the Cup Series and to compete on a Sunday in the Cup Series everything has to be perfect and if one little thing isn’t perfect, you’re not going to win races. And that’s what we’re trying to do.’’

*LARSON LUCK ON SUPERSPEEDWAYS

Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson is widely regarded as one of the best race car drivers in the world – the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion wins in every sort of car he drives and is poised to make his second Indianapolis 500 start next month.

The one missing style of trophy in the 32-year old’s large trophy case, however, is a superspeedway-type victory. A 31-race winner, he is 0-for-20 on Talladega’s high banks with a best showing of fourth last October. He is 0-for-22 at Daytona with no top-fives. His best showing is sixth there.

Even bolstered with a pair of wins already this season, he says it doesn’t necessarily change his approach for Sunday – doesn’t mean he will race any more aggressively.

“Sure, it’s nice to have a win before coming here, but it’s kind of been that way for me since joining Hendrick (2021) we’ve always had a win before going to Talladega,’’ Larson said. “I don’t know what it would be like mentally if we didn’t have a win. So yeah, I just believe in treating every weekend the same. It would be nice to get a win here but you don’t put any more or any less emphasis on it than every weekend.’’

*GIBBS RESURGENCE

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Ty Gibbs is coming off his best showing of the 2025 season – a third-place finish at the Bristol Motor Speedway short track as he arrives at the series’ biggest track, the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway.

It’s a significant uptick for Gibbs who has jumped from 34th place in the championship standings three races ago to 20th coming into Sunday’s race at Talladega thanks to the Bristol result and a ninth place the preceding race at Darlington. It marks the first back-to-back string of top-10 finishes of the season for the 22-year old former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion and first since last summer when he scored a third place finish at Michigan and a fifth at Daytona.

Most importantly, it shows a notable sign of improvement for his No. 54 JGR Toyota team which has a new crew chief this year in Tyler Allen and several new crew members. He was the only Toyota driver to advance to the second round qualifying Saturday at Talladega and will roll off 10th in Sunday’s race.

“For us, I feel the results have shown for sure,’’ Gibbs said of the recent change in tide. “But there is not a time where I’ve felt I was down on my team or was bummed out. I just think it’s part of the process, we have a new team and I think our guys are really good and I have a lot of faith in our guys. There’s a lot of things behind the scenes and everyone makes a judgement call, but I know I can run good and that our team is capable of that.

“Sometimes it takes time, and we’ll get there. I have confidence in our team.’’

Cindric lifts Team Penske with Talladega triumph

April 28, 2025

By Holly Cain

NASCAR Wire Service

TALLADEGA, Ala. – Austin Cindric’s dramatic victory in Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway was certainly a huge confidence boost for the 26-year-old NASCAR Cup Series star. Not only did it punch Cindric’s 2025 Playoff ticket but perhaps as importantly the success put his iconic Team Penske organization back in the winner’s column for the first time this season.

Despite Penske’s three drivers, Cindric, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney, being legitimate contenders in nearly all 10 races this season, the team has been slow to Victory Lane by the perpetually high Penske standard, at least, and by the strong output week-after-week.

Cindric’s impressive showing Sunday may have changed the tide, however.

All three drivers have stage wins and all three had led triple-digit laps on the season, before Cindric hoisted the Talladega trophy. And the Wood Brothers Racing team, which operates under the Penske technical umbrella won with driver Josh Berry at Las Vegas.

“I think a combination of encouragement to heads beating against the table," Cindric said of the challenging start to the year for the team in general. “You have four-five days to get over yourself and try not to let that bleed into each week. Just being able to watch guys like Ryan [Blaney] and Joey [Logano], these guys are champions, but they go through adversity just like the next guy, no different than in how these races play out.

“I guess misery loves company in some ways. I feel like Ryan’s had his fair share of tough breaks this season and I know there’s a lot of strength in our company and a win like this only helps the whole team be able to push forward in the same direction, no different than the 21 car winning in Vegas this year and now with us. A concentrated effort to get all our cars in the Playoffs is first priority and I think this only helps concentrate that.”

Perhaps most perplexing is that three-time and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano, is not only winless, but still racing for his first top-five of the year.

After leading laps and looking strong Sunday, what looked like a fifth-place finish at Talladega was negated after failing NASCAR’s routine post-race inspection for a loose bolt. Logano was dropped to 37th in the official finishing order and the team was quick to issue a mea culpa, saying it would not protest the action.

“It was not intentional and happened throughout the course of the race event. Team Penske accepts the disqualification," the statement read.

Logano’s best finish now is eighth at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on March 30 despite the fact his No. 22 has led laps in six races, including a race best 83 at Atlanta, where he finished 12th and 81 laps at Phoenix, where he finished 13th. The good news is his 284 laps led is fourth most in the series this year and despite the frustrating start, Logano is still ranked 11th in the championship driver standings.

He was pleased and encouraged Sunday to see a teammate claiming victory.

“It’s about time one of us wins these things," Logano said. “You think about the amount of laps led by Team Penske and Ford in general and we just haven’t been able to close, so to see a couple Fords there on the front row duking it out, I wish one of them was me in a selfish way, but it’s also good to see those guys running up there and being able to click one off for Penske.”

Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford, won pole position at Atlanta and has three top-five finishes, but has absolutely suffered through a tough opening of the season – much of it, like Sunday, not of his doing. At Talladega, he was unavoidably collected in an accident started by Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski as the field (including Blaney) was headed to pit road.

The 2023 NASCAR Cup champion led a race best 124 laps at Homestead, only to be sidelined with a rare engine failure – the third consecutive race (also Phoenix and Las Vegas) where he did not finish despite promising showings. The good news for Blaney is that despite the disappointing he’s still ranked eighth in the championship driver standings and still an absolute favorite each week.

The promising news for the team is that Texas Motor Speedway, where the series races Sunday in the Wurth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) has been a solid venue, particularly for Logano and Blaney.

Logano won there in 2014 and has 12 top-five showings there including runner-up in 2016 and 2022. Blaney has top-10 finishes in half of his 16 starts at the 1.5-mile track, including five straight from 2019-22. In 2018 he won the pole and finished runner-up at the 1.5-mile track.

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2025 NASCAR CUP SERIES SCHEDULE

Date	Race / Track
Sunday, February 2	Clash (Bowman Gray)
Sunday, February 16	DAYTONA 500
Sunday, February 23	Atlanta
Sunday, March 2	COTA
Sunday, March 9	Phoenix
Sunday, March 16	Las Vegas
Sunday, March 23	Homestead-Miami
Sunday, March 30	Martinsville
Sunday, April 6	Darlington
Sunday, April 13	Bristol
Sunday, April 27	Talladega
Sunday, May 4	Texas
Sunday, May 11	Kansas
Sunday, May 18	North Wilkesboro (All-Star Race)
Sunday, May 25	Charlotte
Sunday, June 1	Nashville Superspeedway
Sunday, June 8	Michigan
Sunday, June 15	Mexico City
Sunday, June 22	Pocono
Saturday, June 28	Atlanta
Sunday, July 6	Chicago Street Race
Sunday, July 13	Sonoma
Sunday, July 20	Dover
Sunday, July 27	Indianapolis
Sunday, August 3	Iowa
Sunday, August 10	Watkins Glen
Saturday, August 16	Richmond
Saturday, August 23	Daytona
Sunday, August 31	Darlington
Sunday, September 7	World Wide Technology Raceway
Saturday, September 13	Bristol
Sunday, September 21	New Hampshire
Sunday, September 28	Kansas
Sunday, October 5	Charlotte Roval
Sunday, October 12	Las Vegas
Sunday, October 19	Talladega
Sunday, October 26	Martinsville
Sunday, November 2	Phoenix (Championship)

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