Intermediate Tracks Still Don't Suit Ryan Preece
3 months agoIt's unclear whether Ryan Preece will be back in the NASCAR Cup Series again after this year with his team owner and biggest advocate Tony Stewart leaving the ownership ranks at the end of 2024. Preece has become an afterthought in the NASCAR Cup Series as his fellow Stewart-Haas teammates have not given him as much information in testing. He has a speed percentile over 10 points worse than all three of his teammates as a result. He did score a seventh-place finish at Michigan in 2019 as a rookie but his average running position was a mere 19th. Preece has never had much speed on intermediate tracks this year and since he is currently about as slow as he was in his rookie season, the team is now officially a lame duck operation, and he only ranked 33rd-fastest in practice, Preece delivering a good run would be rather improbable on Sunday.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference