TC Daily Pit Stop: Ross Chastain Scores Victory in Nashville; Ryan Blaney Suffers Hardest Hit of Career; More from Sunday at Nashville
TC Daily Pit Stop: Monday, June 26th, 2023
Ross Chastain Orders Silence to Critics with Dominant Victory at Nashville Superspeedway
After spending the first half of the season being criticized for being over-aggressive, Ross Chastain has finally been able to silence the doubters, scoring the victory in the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway.
Snapping a 43-race winless streak in the NASCAR Cup Series, Chastain got to perform his signature victory celebration, smashing a watermelon on the track, after scoring the pole position and leading a race-high 99 laps.
And although the victory was Chastain’s third in the NASCAR Cup Series, the raw emotion and pure elation from the Alva, Florida-native made it seem like it was his first.
“That’s just desire to win,” Chastain said. “I got to tell you, it’s just so hard at this level. It’s the best of the best. It’s where I’ve wanted to be since I was 18 years old, from studying for over 10 years just to qualify better let alone go race for a Cup race win.”
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Video: Daniel Suarez Collides with Chase Briscoe Trying to Congratulate Ross Chastain
After the completion of Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, Ross Chastain was the driver celebrating the victory, but his Trackhouse Racing teammate looked like he wanted to join in on the action.
However, the Monterrey, Mexico native may have gotten a little bit too excited.
Driving to where Chastain was doing a long-winded burnout, Suarez went to move up the track to congratulate his teammate, when he veered to the right, but right into the path of Chase Briscoe, making major contact with the No. 14.
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Video: Keselowski Bogs Down on Restart; Blaney Goes HARD into Concrete Wall
Thankfully, Ryan Blaney was able to walk away from a vicious crash on a restart at Lap 147 of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway.
On the restart, Brad Keselowski, who was restarting from the fourth position and was lined up in the outside lane, got off to a slow start, which caused the field behind him to stack up.
Keselowski received a shot from William Byron, which sent Keselowski down into Austin Cindric’s No. 2 Ford Mustang. This then bottled the entire inside line up, and as the accordion reached Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch made contact with the rear of the No. 12 Ford Mustang to send Blaney skidding through the infield grass.
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Video: Tyler Reddick Loses Right-Rear Wheel During Nashville Green-Flag Pit Cycle
Tyler Reddick was running in the second spot before the field embarked on the green-flag pit stop cycle. However, a mistake by the No. 45 team on pit road, is going to cost Reddick at least two laps, and potentially a chance at the victory.
The Corning, California-native had already made his pit stop under the green flag, when he started to feel the right-rear tire come loose while driving around Nashville Superspeedway, forcing him to return to pit road.
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Video: Chastain, Byron and Truex Battle Three-Wide For Lead For Three Straight Laps at Nashville
HOLY COW! That isn’t possible, is it? Well, we now know it is. On the Stage 2 restart of Sunday’s night’s NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, we saw some incredible racing up front for the race lead.
Ross Chastain, William Byron, and Martin Truex Jr. got locked into a three-wide battle, which lasted for more than three-consecutive laps.
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