Martin Truex Jr. Starts From The Middle On Sunday

Martin Truex Jr. begins Sunday's Ruoff Mortgage 500 from the 20th position. The No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing driver has been okay so far in 2022 with one top-ten in three starts. Truex Jr. does have five top-ten results in his last six races on the 1.022-mile track. He likes the progressive banking. Though it […...

Chase Elliott Starts Just 19th At Phoenix

Chase Elliott had one of the five or six fastest cars in practice. Even in the first qualifying session, the No. 9 car was right up with the top drivers. However, that qualifying matrix placed him out of the final group as he ended up 19th. This will put him in a nice position at […...

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Starts From Rear Sunday

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had one very fast car on Saturday. The problem was he had a 27.127 second lap and then disaster struck. The JTG Daugherty Racing driver will start from the rear at Phoenix after an engine failure. It turns out a faulty valve spring was the culprit. He did get an assist via […...

Ross Chastain Lurking For Phoenix Race Sunday

Ross Chastain has a knack for finding speed on certain tracks. No one truly knows what will happen in Phoenix. However, last week Chastain led 83 laps and nearly won the race at Las Vegas. The Trackhouse Racing driver ended up third in his best result of the young season. Chastain will start 17th on […...

Kevin Harvick Has History On His Side At Phoenix

Kevin Harvick probably did not expect to qualify 16th for Sunday's race at Phoenix. However, that is where the No. 4 Ford will start. Two of his teammates are in the top ten but Harvick has won at Phoenix. Lately, he has finished in the top ten all six times since 2019. That is some […...

Kurt Busch Pushes Back Up To 15th For Sunday At Phoenix

Kurt Busch has had an interesting month for the 23XI Racing team. The elder Busch will start 15th for the Ruoff Mortgage 500 on Sunday. He does have a couple of top-ten finishes in his last six appearances at the 1.022-mile track. The combination of the Next-Gen car and the progressive banking may trouble those […...

Erik Jones May Struggle A Bit At Phoenix

Erik Jones qualified well at 14th for Sunday's Ruoff Mortgage 500. His practice run at times left a little to be desired. That is troubling for the race itself. Last week, Jones finished 31st after qualifying 23rd. Historically the Petty GMS Motorsports car has not looked the greatest on this Phoenix track. Maybe, the progressive […...

Austin Dillon Joins Tyler Reddick In Top 15 For Phoenix

Austin Dillon joined his Richard Childress Racing teammate, Tyler Reddick, with a 13th-place qualifying effort for the Phoenix race on Sunday. Dillon turned in a lap speed of 131.579 mph. The No. 3 Chevy did not appear to have any major issues during practice or qualifying. Dillon got edged out by Kyle Larson at Fontana […...

Tyler Reddick Starts 12th On Sunday For Ruoff Mortgage 500

Tyler Reddick leads the charge from Richard Childress Racing on Sunday after qualifying 12th. The No. 8 Chevy was right up with the top cars in the sessions on Saturday but a few failed issues during pre-race inspection will cost him preferred pit position. That may not seemingly mean much but sometimes it can. Reddick […...

Kyle Busch In Decent Position For Phoenix

Kyle Busch is at least in a pretty reasonable position for the Phoenix race on Sunday. While usually one of the top five drivers wins this race lately, the Next-Gen car opens up the possibility of a win coming from almost anywhere. It boils down to the effectiveness of the car. The No. 18 Joe […...

Joey Logano Brushes Wall Again At Phoenix

Joey Logano was setting himself up for a top qualifying run on Saturday. His practice sessions were pretty quick and the No. 22 car was entrenched into the final round. Then, disaster struck err nearly struck again. For the second time in the past three races, Logano had to try and save his car. He […...

Alex Bowman Not Backing Down In Qualifying

Some believed Alex Bowman backed into another victory last week at Las Vegas. However, Bowman, who finds ways to win and lead some laps too, qualified ninth for Sunday's Phoenix race. He lost a little bit of speed around turns 3 and 4 to finish 0.193 seconds behind Ryan Blaney. Bowman tested among the five […...

Austin Cindric Near The Front Again For Sunday

Austin Cindric is a rookie in the top tier of NASCAR. Cindric qualified eighth for Sunday's race at Phoenix Raceway. The Team Penske driver was one of the fastest, right behind Ryan Blaney during the shared practice session. He made it to the final round of qualifying with a real shot at the pole. Though […...

Kyle Larson Starts From Rear On Sunday At Phoenix

Kyle Larson's car sped around the track with ferocity throughout Saturday afternoon. However, his seventh-place qualifying effort was marred a bit when some non-sanctioned repairs had to be made on the No. 5 car. Steering issues were cited as the culprit for the Hendrick Motorsports driver. Larson has performed exceedingly well at Phoenix with the […...

Chase Briscoe Has Interesting Adventure At Phoenix

We expected Kevin Harvick to be up this high after qualifying on Saturday, but insteada it was Chase Briscoe. Briscoe qualified sixth, just a mere eight-thousandths of a second behind teammate Aric Almirola. The No. 14 Ford did well enough in practice but suffered a cracked brake rotor after reporting a massive shake in the […...

Aric Almirola Has Value Again At Phoenix

Aric Almirola rounded out the top-five qualifiers for Sunday's race at Phoenix Raceway. The Ford driver took 27.276 seconds to get around the 1.022-mile circuit. He was not the only Stewart-Haas Racing car to look quick in the middle of the progressive banks. However, he was the faster of the two. Almirola narrowly beat out […...

Christopher Bell Sets Up Well For Phoenix

Christopher Bell has undeniably had some awful luck the first month of this 2022 NASCAR season. However, he qualified fourth for Sunday's Ruoff Mortgage 500. Bell has a knack for performing pretty well on this type of track. He wound up literally a thousandth of a second behind William Byron for third-fastest car on Saturday. […...

William Byron Leads Hendrick Cars In Qualifying

William Byron narrowly missed out on the front row by qualifying third for the Ruoff Mortgage 500. Byron turned in a lap of 27.216 seconds. Byron's car was fastest in a couple of the sectors but seemed to back off a bit around Turn 4. That was just enough of a difference. The No. 24 […...

Denny Hamlin Shows Something In Qualifying At Phoenix

Maybe Denny Hamlin took what happened last week personally. Maybe Hamlin was dogging it a bit in the practice session. Whatever it was, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver looked great in qualifying. He ended up second and will start on the front row Sunday next to Ryan Blaney. Hamlin's 27.2 second lap came up just […...

Ryan Blaney Snags Pole At Phoenix

Ryan Blaney sped his way to the pole position for Sunday's race at the Phoenix Raceway. Blaney thought he was a little slow in Turn 4 but had enough cushion. He supplanted Denny Hamlin by a whisker. His 132.709 mph lap cemented what most saw in the practice session where Team Penske ruled the roost […...

Aaron Wise Must Find His Putter This Week

Aaron Wise just misses three or four putts when he has no reason to. It was what kept him out of the top 10 last Sunday at The Arnold Palmer Invitational. Several missed key putts on the back nine led to a double-bogey on 18 that pushed him back to a tie for 17th. It […...

Chris Kirk Carries Value Once More This Week At Sawgrass

This has been a nice three-week stretch for Chris Kirk. After missing the cut in three out of four tournaments, Kirk has a 14th, 7th, and then a fifth last week at The Arnold Palmer. That is some heady stuff from the American golfer. Considering his metrics are pretty good, his averages are not always […...

Keegan Bradley Has Game For The Players Championship

The one thing that holds Keegan Bradley back typically is putting. Everything about his game plays well to Sawgrass. He nearly finished in the top-ten at The Arnold Palmer last week. He just needed to make a few more putts as Bradley could not get one round under 70. Again, this week the American golfer […...

Cameron Tringale Looking For Big Week At Sawgrass

Cameron Tringale is another one of those golfers that just cannot put two consecutive weeks together. He looks like a top-10 or top-20 player one week then cannot make a cut the next. This pattern has repeated for eight tournaments and goes back to October of last year. The good is when he makes the […...

Mackenzie Hughes Has Some DFS Value At Sawgrass

Mackenzie Hughes has yo-yo'ed his way around the golf courses over the past month. One week he misses putts and the cut. The next week he improves. That has been the pattern so far in 2022. One thing that has been better in most of his rounds is ironically the putting. He has gained 0.736 […...

Erik van Rooyen Could Struggle Again At Sawgrass

Everything that could go wrong for Erik van Rooyen did last week at the Arnold Palmer. The 73 in Round 1 was bad enough. The 79 was an unmitigated disaster that left the South African lost for words. The double bogey on the 15th was a real dagger. Erik van Rooyen hit too many errant […...

Patrick Reed Still Flailing Heading Into The Players Championship

Those that were hoping for some kind of better result for Patrick Reed last week were sorely disappointed. Reed missed the cut at the Arnold Palmer after a 72-76 opening two days. The last six weeks have seen the American golfer miss a cut in three straight tournaments. Ever since that weekend at the Farmer's […...

Collin Morikawa Has Game To Win At Sawgrass

Collin Morikawa has not quite struggled like Jon Rahm has early in the season. Morikawa has some impressive results so far in 2022. That includes a top-five at the Sentry Tournament Of Champions and a tied for second at The Genesis Invitational. His final round 65 last month almost netted him a victory. Morikawa's metrics […...

William Byron Posts Another Top-Five Result For Hendricks

William Byron was consistently up front throughout most of the race on Sunday at Las Vegas. Though Byron only led eight laps in all, he finished in second after the opening stage. Then the No. 24 car followed up with a fourth place result. Byron ultimately wound up fifth after rallying back. Four of the […...

Kyle Busch Finds Way Up To Fourth Place At Las Vegas

Kyle Busch started from the rear of the field on Sunday after his crash on Saturday. It turns out the No. 18 car had a rough Sunday afternoon as well. Despite all that, Busch found ways to rally every time. The younger Busch even managed to lead 49 laps out of the 274. He moved […...