TC Daily Pit Stop: Bubba Wallace Signs Multi-Year Extension; Hamlin Open to Parting Ways with Dog to Turn Around Luck
TC Daily Pit Stop: Thursday, September 19, 2024
It’s the rare week every single year where Thursday is race day for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series. It’s Bristol Baby! Tune in to all of the action, beginning with Truck Series practice at 3 on FS2.
3:00PM - NCTS Practice at Bristol - FS2
3:35PM - NCTS Qualifying at Bristol - FS2
5:00PM - ARCA at Bristol - FS1
8:00PM - NCTS at Bristol - FS1
23XI Racing Announces Multi-Year Extension for Bubba Wallace
It’s official, Bubba Wallace will remain at 23XI Racing as the driver of the team’s No. 23 Toyota Camry XSE in 2025 and beyond as the race team announced a multi-year contract extension with the driver on Wednesday.
The initial announcement came in the form of a post on the team’s social media channels. The post contained a video of the 23XI Racing No. 23 number, with Bubba Wallace’s signature. After a few seconds, a photo of Wallace appears with the words, “He’s Back.”
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Sorry Lulu: Denny Hamlin Open to Parting Ways with Dog to Turn Around Luck
While many had Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing team penciled in on the bottom four of their NASCAR Cup Series Playoff brackets heading into the Round of 16, there are three pretty unexpected names (Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, and Martin Truex Jr.) at the bottom of the Playoff standings heading into Saturday night’s Playoff elimination race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
None of the names on the list is more shocking than Denny Hamlin, who for the majority of the season had been regarded as one of the top threats for the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
“[Gabehart] definitely wants to explore removing the dog off the premises for one week and see what happens,” Hamlin said on this week’s Actions Detrimental Podcast.
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More NASCAR Headlines:
Nick Sanchez Joins Big Machine Racing for 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Season: Nick Sanchez will graduate to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2025, being tapped by Big Machine Racing to drive the No. 48 Big Machine Spiked Light Coolers Chevrolet Camaro.
Full-Contact: Have NASCAR Races Become too Aggressive?: NASCAR has always been a full-contact racing series, it's a huge part of the draw of the top form of motorsport in the United States. Always has been, always will be. But the question on everyone's mind is whether the NASCAR Cup Series, which has become increasingly more and more aggressive on track, is too aggressive?
After having one of the best cars in Sunday's Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, but going on to finish 20th after a wild bit of pushing and shoving in the closing laps, Martin Truex Jr. thinks so.
NASCAR TRIVIA:
NEED A HINT?
There are four races to be run this weekend: ARCA, Trucks, Xfinity, and Cup.
Two of the races run the same distance.
The Proclaimers would be proud of how many laps are run in Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race.
The NCTS event is shorter than in the Spring.
DID YOU GET OUR LAST QUESTION CORRECT?
Q: How many laps did Juan Pablo Montoya run inside the top-15 at Watkins Glen?
A: 35. 31% got it correct. Juan Pablo Montoya spent 35 of 92 laps in Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen running inside the top-15.
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