TC Daily Pit Stop: It's Time For a Charter Deal; RFK Racing #Stage60 Returns at Chicago; LMC Partners with Massey Motor Freight; Alon Day to Run Xfinity Street Race; Bubba Pollard Takes Berlin Win
TC Daily Pit Stop: Thursday, June 13, 2024
CHRISTIE: It’s Time to Make a Charter Agreement Deal Happen
Recent reports suggest that the latest proposed Charter Agreement from NASCAR was the worst one yet for the teams, and with less than 250 days left until the 2025 Daytona 500, we still have no official agreement in place to ensure which teams and drivers will show up.
There isn’t time to continually kick this can down the road. Toby Christie feels the time for a deal to be signed is now, and NASCAR needs to find a way to meet the teams in the middle, quickly.
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RFK Racing’s #Stage60 Entry to Return at Chicago with Joey Hand Behind the Wheel
RFK Racing’s #Stage60 entry, which made its second NASCAR Cup Series start of the 2024 season this past weekend at Sonoma Raceway, will return for another start in the Chicago Street Race in July. Ford factory driver Joey Hand will pilot the No. 60 BuildSubmarines.com Ford Mustang Dark Horse in that event.
The 45-year-old is a road racing ace, and he is extremely comfortable on street course layouts.
“I love street racing and have done a lot of it in my career so Chicago is right in my wheelhouse,” Hand explained. “NASCAR is some of the toughest competition I’ve been up against and there’s nothing like some good street fighting to put on a show for the fans.”
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LEGACY MOTOR CLUB Partners With Massey Motor Freight in Multi-Year Sponsorship Deal
On Wednesday, LEGACY MOTOR CLUB announced a new multi-year, multi-race partnership with Massey Motor Freight, which will see the company adorn the team’s No. 42 and No. 43 cars in six races this season. The first race of the partnership will be Nashville Superspeedway in a couple of weeks.
In addition to the primary sponsorship, Massey Motor Freight will also serve as the associate sponsorship partner for John Hunter Nemechek and the No. 42 team for the duration of the partnership.
Massey Motor Freight will also become the “Official Trucking Company” of LEGACY MOTOR CLUB, and LMC will utilize Massey trucks to haul its team haulers to the track each weekend.
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Alon Day to Pilot No. 45 Alpha Prime Racing Entry in Xfinity Chicago Street Race
Alon Day, the most established driver in the history of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, will make his return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in the upcoming street race at Chicago. Day will pilot the No. 45 Alpha Prime Racing Chevrolet Camaro with sponsorship from JSSI.
Day, 32, has 32 wins in his NASCAR Euro Series career, and he is a four-time champion in that series.
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Bubba Pollard Outduels Blake Rowe, Erik Jones for Money in the Bank Win
Bubba Pollard just continues to pile on the Super Late Model achievements. On Wednesday night, Pollard emerged victorious after a fierce late-race battle for the win with Blake Rowe and Erik Jones in the Money in the Bank event at Berlin Raceway.
Pollard, after laps of stalking and setting up Rowe, would finally launch himself to the race lead with five laps to go. He wouldn’t look back as he took his second-consecutive win in UARA National Series competition, and it marked his second career Money in the Bank win at Berlin.
Rowe held on to finish second ahead of Erik Jones, Gavan Boschele, and Derek Griffith.