NASCAR Xfinity Series Tag

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer  Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) will field Ford Performance driver Chase Briscoe in five NASCAR Xfinity Series races this season. This adds to Briscoe’s 12 schedule races for Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 60 Ford Mustang. Briscoe’s first race in SHR’s No. 98 Ford Mustang will be the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 14. He will then return at Talladega Superspeedway on April 28, Charlotte Motor Speedway May 26, the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval on Sept. 29, and Kansas Speedway on Oct. 20.Read More

By NASCAR Wire Service FONTANA, Calif. – The best measure of Joey Logano’s dominance in Saturday’s Roseanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway came during one of the rare instances when the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford didn’t have the lead. Off-cycle on pit stops late in the race, Logano chose to pit under caution on Lap 122 while most of the other contending cars stayed out on tires that had only six green-flag laps of use. Logano restarted 16th on Lap 125. By Lap 126 he wasRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor While the race win in Saturday’s Roseanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway went to a Cup Series driver for the fourth time this season, the NASCAR Xfinity Series regulars were well represented in the top-five as JR Motorsports drivers Justin Allgaier and Elliott Sadler brought home finishes of second and third, respectively. After winning the championship last season, JR Motorsports has been leading the way through the early part of the 2018 season and Saturday’s race was just another example of their position as theRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer After earning a top-10, there was no need to knock off the rust for Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ryan Preece. Preece made his first NASCAR Xfinity Series start of the 2018 season in the Rosanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway. The road to a ninth-place finish was a rocky one however. In the final run to the finish, Preece had to climb his way up through the field in the No. 18 Rheem Toyota Camry. While battling Cole Custer for fifth, Preece slid off turn two.Read More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer For the first time in 2018, Ryan Preece will return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Auto Club Speedway. Preece will be behind the wheel of Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 Rheem Toyota Camry for the Rosanne 300. Preece hedged his bet on a two-race deal JGR last year, finishing runner-up at New Hampshire and then winning at Iowa Speedway. Those runs turned two races into four in 2017, and now 10 races in 2018. In those four races last year, Preece scored four top-fiveRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer One of the underfunded teams in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, RSS Racing, has picked up a two-race sponsorship. Ryan Sieg’s No. 39 Chevrolet Camaro SS will have Ionomy Studios as his primary sponsor at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, July 6, and Darlington Raceway on Saturday, September 1. Sieg has 140 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with three top-fives and seven top-10s. His best finish in the final Championship Points Standings was ninth in 2016, the first year in which the Xfinity Series utilizedRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer Four races into the season and only one NASCAR Xfinity Series regular has scored a victory. The Xfinity Series returns to Auto Club Speedway for the Auto Club 300. Cup drivers, series regulars looking to rebound, and stage racing are just some of the storylines heading into the fifth race of the season. Coverage for the Auto Club 300 is scheduled to start Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. ET. Auto Club Speedway has hosted the fifth race of the season since the 2011 season. InRead More

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer Several Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams were issued penalties by NASCAR Wednesday, notably impacting Chase Elliott’s No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports team. Elliott’s team received an L1-level penalty for a rear suspension violation following Sunday’s TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway, where he finished a season-high third. The team was found to have violated Section 20.14.2, which deals with rear suspension and trailing arm angles/pinion angle shims. Elliott’s car didn’t meet the requirements as the Rule Book states it must be in completeRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer Wrecking in qualifying is possibly one of the worst things that can happen to a driver in the NASCAR Xfinity Series as Tyler Reddick found out. Reddick had to climb from starting last in the field for the first time in his Xfinity Series career to finish inside the top-10 at ISM Raceway. Some strategy by Reddick’s crew chief, Dave Elenz, put Reddick’s No. 9 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Chevrolet Camaro SS in lead in the final stage of the race. The caution that Elenz wasRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer Only one driver has been near perfect in the NASCAR Xfinity Series so far this season, Elliott Sadler. Sadler is the only driver to finish on the lead lap in all three races and score top-five finishes in each as well. With the series heading to ISM Raceway, Sadler, who will be driving a Cessna sponsored Chevrolet Camaro this weekend, seems poised to be able to keep that momentum. His JR Motorsports teammates swept both races there in 2017. At ISM Raceway, Sadler has one victoryRead More