Carson Hocevar Qualifies 13th For Sonoma Race

Carson Hocevar surprised some drivers on Saturday by qualifying 13th at Sonoma Raceway. He was only 0.525 seconds off the time of Joey Logano. Arguably, a miss on a turn here and there on the 12-turn course could have produced a Top 10 time. It will be intriguing to see how the Spire Motorsports car […]

Kaz Grala Firmly In The Back At Sonoma

Kaz Grala will start 36th from Sonoma Raceway on Sunday. The Rick Ware Racing car is starting around 31st on average in 2024. Grala and his Ford were 1.61 seconds off the pole and has been right in the back on most course. An average finish of 27.0 is not a surprise given the slowness […]

Daniel Hemric Starts 34th Sunday At Sonoma

Daniel Hemric did not qualify very well on the Sonoma race course. He begins the 110-lap race from the 34th position on Sunday afternoon. The Kauling Racing Chevy could not sustain speed on the course. That resulted in Hemric losing 1.276 seconds to Joey Logano. Hemric has not raced much on road courses at this […]

Brad Keselowski Should Move Up Sunday Afternoon

Brad Keselowski probably did not expect to qualify in 35th for Sunday's race at Sonoma. The RFK Racing driver was 1.223 seconds off from the pole lap of Joey Logano. Keselowski and his No. 6 Ford was 32nd even in practice at more than 1.5 seconds off from the top times set. With all that […]

Harrison Burton Expected To Fade At Sonoma

Harrison Burton starts 22nd for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 on Sunday afternoon. The Wood Brothers Racing driver finished 30th at Austin earlier this season and has an average finish of 27.5 at Sonoma. Few should be surprised as most of his qualifying laps were outside the Top 20 and the expectation of a slow car […]

Denny McCarthy Tries For One Better At Memorial

Denny McCarthy came so close to winning The Memorial last year. The American golfer settled for second after losing a playoff to Viktor Hovland. Naturally, there is nothing to be ashamed of in that. McCarthy since finished tied for second at the Valero Texas Open in April. The bigger tournaments have been more of a […]

Keegan Bradley Continues Solid Play Once More

Keegan Bradley keeps playing well enough to contend. For the American golfer, that nearly paid off at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Bradley finished in a tie for second with none other than Scottie Scheffler. That is not bad company as Bradley notched his second runner-up of 2024 and his sixth Top 10 result. Bradley does […]

Si Woo Kim Struggling A Little Heading To Muirfield

Si Woo Kim had made 13 straight cuts heading to the PGA Championship. The Korean golfer could not make many birdies at Valhalla. Then, Kim could not get going at the Charles Schwab classic He struggled and then fired a nasty 75 on Sunday to drop out of the Top 50. For as consistent as […]

Tom Kim Heating Up For The Memorial

Tom Kim did not have the best start to 2024. The Korean golfer had to withdraw from The Players Championship. However, he has come back the past couple of months stronger. Kim has three straight Top 30 results including a T-4 at last week's RBC Canadian Open. The golfer shot 65-64 over the weekend to […]

Tyler Reddick Inches Up To Fourth On Sunday

Tyler Reddick did not have the best or worst of races at Gateway. There were times where Reddick looked like he could contend. Other times, the 23XI Racing driver was merely trying to hold on to track position. Reddick did managed a few stage points from Stage 1 (8th) but missed out after Stage 2. […]

Austin Dillon Delivers At Gateway On Sunday

Austin Dillon proved a lot of pundits wrong on Sunday. Dillon and his Richard Childress Racing car improved 12 spots from his start. That resulted in a sixth which almost became a Top 5 result. The No. 3 Chevy needed one of these performances. He ended up in the Top 10 once and talk started […]

Justin Haley Sneaks Into Top 10 At Gateway

Justin Haley started 21st for Sunday's Enjoy Illinois 300. Haley fought quite a bit and wound up ninth by the end of the race. It was a big result for the Rick Ware Racing team. Few saw this coming but Haley's late-run speed was in the Top 10 during the final stage. He finished outside […]

Harrison Burton Remains On Hot Seat

Harrison Burton qualified 30th for the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway. The Wood Brothers Racing car showed a little promise in practice with the 20th-best lap. However, that faded as Burton ended up 0.697 seconds off the pole time set for the Sunday afternoon race. Results have not been the kind for the driver of […]

Austin Dillon Needs A Result On Sunday

Austin Dillon starts from 18th on Sunday at the Enjoy Illinois 300. The Richard Childress Racing driver has seen his situation go from bad to even worse in 2024. His average finish has dipped to 25.6. As a full-time driver, his previous worst was 21.8 in 2023. Dillon has run well on the track in […]

Daniel Hemric A Bit Underwhelming At Gateway

Daniel Hemric appeared to have a decent race car heading into Gateway on Sunday. However, his qualifying effort in the Kaulig Racing car was a bit underwhelming. As a result, the driver in the No. 16 will begin 28th on Sunday. Even worse were his practice numbers where his best lap was 29th. His lap […]

Derek Kraus Starts 25th On Sunday

Derek Kraus enters the Enjoy Illinois 300 on a high of sorts. The Kaulig Racing driver qualified 25th for the race on Sunday. Out of his five qualifying efforts at the NASCAR level, his best had been a 26th at Phoenix. That race ended in a crash after 203 laps. Sunday's race is 240 laps […]

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Punchless At Gateway

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has not had a good run the two times he raced at the Enjoy Illinois 300. Despite a decent starting position of 19.5, the JTG Daugherty Racing driver ended up 32nd both times. It is tough to expect much out of the No. 47 Chevy on Sunday even despite decent practice numbers […]

Cody Ware Expected To Be Slow At Gateway

Cody Ware hops into the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing car on Sunday and starts from the 34th position. Ware does have one previous race on the 1.25-mile track in Madison, Illinois. In that race, the driver finished 35th after starting 31st. This time around, Ware finished nearly a full second (0.967 seconds) off the […]

Ryan Fox Trying To Contend On PGA Tour

Ryan Fox has eight international wins. However, the golfer from New Zealand never has quite put it together during a PGA event. Fox has been mostly close to average in terms of strokes gained. However, Fox's driving accuracy has been an abysmal 54.23% and getting shots on the greens at 63.47% is disturbing as well. […]

Nicolai Hojgaard Finding The PGA Grind Rough

Nicolai Hojgaard is still only 23 years old. The golfer from Denmark is playing more and more events on the PGA Tour. In 12 tournaments, Hojgaard has been up and down making seven cuts and missing five. Despite the four international wins, the Danish golfer has largely floundered aside from the T-16th at The Masters. […]

Doug Ghim Struggling With His Golf Game This Spring

Doug Ghim started off 2024 rather well. The American golfer finished in the Top 16 in five consecutive tournaments. Then Spring came and Ghim's game started to fade. He narrowly made the cut at the Valspar Championship then missed consecutive cuts. Ghim has not finished in the Top 25 since March (six events). He ranks […]

Ben Griffin Attempts To Rebound Up In Canada

Ben Griffin has endured a tough time the past two tournaments. The American golfer withdrew from the PGA Championship after 18 holes. Then, he missed the cut at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Griffin has not been driving the ball well or accurately (126th and 144th on tour respectively). Can putting be enough at the Hamilton, […]

Josh Berry Hangs On To Tenth At Charlotte

Josh Berry figured prominently into the first two stages at Charlotte. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver even taking five stage points along the way. The No. 4 Ford car even led seven laps of the 249. However, as the laps ticked down during the third stage (which became the final), Berry began to start to lose […]

Denny Hamlin Grinds Out Top Five Result At Charlotte

Denny Hamlin may have not led a lap on Sunday. However, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was fast enough to squeeze out a fifth-place result. The rain and thunderstorms put a damper on the race. Ultimately, NASCAR called the Coca-Cola 600 at 249 laps. Hamlin qualified 11th but had one of the faster times in […]

Ryan Preece Not On Fire But Improving For Charlotte

Ryan Preece has not had the greatest 2024 season. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver does have a career best average finish of 20.5. Also, he did have a +9 place differential at Darlington a couple weeks ago. When his car is not on fire (see Dover), the No. 41 Ford has shown some promise. Preece has […]

Erik Jones Still Mending From Injuries

Erik Jones is still fully recovering from that crash at Talladega. The Legacy Motor Club Toyota driver starts the Coca-Cola 600 from the 34th position. Jones qualified 0.94 seconds off from the pole. The No. 43 car bled tenths of seconds off the turns and in practice was even more off. Jones has one Top […]

Daniel Hemric Trying To Right Things At Charlotte

Daniel Hemric has kept the Kaulig Racing car on the track the past two races. However, the No. 31 Chevy finished 30th or worse at Darlington and Kansas. Did a week off from the points grind help? Hemric starts 24th on Sunday at Charlotte. It does seem that the Kaulig car gets caught in traffic […]

Austin Dillon Looks To Charlotte For Good Results

Austin Dillon is hoping for good fortune on Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600. Charlotte is a track where the Richard Childress Racing driver has done well. The No. 3 Chevy has seen two Top 10 results in the past three races at Charlotte. That includes a sixth in 2021 and a ninth in 2023 after […]

Austin Cindric Not Consistent In Good Way At Charlotte

Austin Cindric has had two appearances at Charlotte in the past three seasons. The Team Penske driver has two DNF's and an average finish of 32.5. Cindric's average start in those races was 13.5 and he qualified 17th for Sunday's Coca-Cola 600. The No. 2 Ford was right behind teammate Ryan Blaney during qualifying (16th) […]

Harrison Burton Needs To Survive To Thrive

Harrison Burton has had a season to forget for Wood Brothers Racing. That continued over the weekend as Burton's No. 21 Ford qualified 32nd on Sunday. However, the Coca-Cola 600 has been a bit kind to the driver. His average start at Charlotte was 15th however in his two NASCAR Cup appearances. This does add […]