TC Daily Pit Stop: NASCAR Confiscates Parts from Stewart-Haas Teams at Atlanta; Jesse Love Nabs Historic Pole; Daniel Dye Scores First Career Pole; SVG "Learned a Lot" at Daytona
TC Daily Pit Stop: Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Roof Rail Deflectors Confiscated from Two Stewart-Haas Teams Friday at Atlanta
Following pre-qualifying inspection, prior to on-track activity at Atlanta Motor Speedway, NASCAR confiscated the roof rail deflectors from the No. 10 and No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustangs.
As is the traditional practice in situations similar to this at NASCAR’s top level, the sanctioning body will bring the confiscated parts back to the NASCAR R&D Center, where they will be evaluated.
Any penalties, whether it be a monetary fine, point penalty, or both, will be announced and assessed mid-week.
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Jesse Love Makes History with Second Consecutive Pole to Start Xfinity Career
When you accomplish something that has never been done in the history of NASCAR, you know you’ve done something pretty special. For Jesse Love, who drives the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, he made history in Friday’s qualifying session for Saturday’s RAPTOR King of Tough 250 at Atlanta.
Love scored his second-consecutive pole position, and became the first driver to ever score poles in their first two NASCAR Xfinity Series starts. Love beat out his RCR teammate Austin Hill for the pole.
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QUALIFYING RESULTS | STARTING LINEUP
Daniel Dye Rockets to First Career NASCAR Truck Series Pole
What a lap by McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Daniel Dye. The driver of the No. 43 Chevrolet Silverado scored the first pole of his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway as he topped his MHR teammate Tyler Ankrum by nearly one and a half tenths of a second.
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing trucks made up four of the top-five qualifiers in the session.
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QUALIFYING RESULTS | STARTING LINEUP
Report: KBM Suing Rev Racing for Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment
On Friday, a shocking report from BizJournals.com detailed that Kyle Busch Motorsports has sued Rev Racing over missed payments stemming from a partnership between the two organizations for the 2023 season.
Per the report, Mecklenburg County court records show that Kyle Busch Motorsports filed its first report against the Max Siegel-owned organization on February 12 for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
KBM is seeking $325,000 plus interest and attorney’s fees after Rev Racing only paid Kyle Busch Motorsports $2.575M of its $2.9M agreement with the organization for last season.
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Shane van Gisbergen: “Learned a Lot” After Seven Crashes at Daytona
In a press conference at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday afternoon, Shane van Gisbergen explained that despite being swept up in seven crashes combined between the NASCAR Xfinity Series and ARCA Menards Series events a week ago, he learned a lot and is acclimating himself to NASCAR’s superspeedway-style racing.
“It was a pretty full-on weekend for me. I learned a lot,” van Gisbergen, who competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race and the ARCA Menards Series race at Daytona said. “I got involved in seven crashes, and only one was my fault, really. But I just tried to analyze every one [of the crashes], and of the six I got involved in I couldn’t figure out a way I could have done things differently. It’s just the style of that racing and something I have to accept. You have to run the risk of getting that good result, but you’re probably going to get into a crash. It’s an amazing mindset to go racing with. Something I’ve never had to do before, go into a race thinking it’s 50/50, whether you’ll crash or you won’t. It’s pretty different.”
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