TC Daily Pit Stop: William Byron Pulls off Win in Hendrick 1-2-3 Sweep at Martinsville; Bubba Wallace Turns in Season-Best Finish; No. 4 Pit Crew Frustrates Rodney Childers; Last-Lap Crash
TC Daily Pit Stop: Monday, April 8, 2024
William Byron Leads Historic Hendrick Motorsports 1-2-3 Finish at Martinsville
William Byron, driving a special Ruby Red AXALTA Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in honor of Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th Anniversary season, took the win after an incredible pit strategy call made by crew chief Rudy Fugle. Byron’s win, his third of the season and 13th of his career led a Hendrick Motorsports sweep of the top-three positions.
Kyle Larson came home in second, and Chase Elliott was third. This was the first-ever organizational sweep of the top three positions in a NASCAR Cup Series event at Martinsville Speedway.
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ATYL: Hendrick Motorsports Storybook Weekend | The Short Track Package Debate Continues After Martinsville
Taylor Kitchen and Toby Christie breakdown what transpired in Sunday’s Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway in an at-track version of Above the Yellow Line. Check out what they had to say, and see if you agree with their takes.
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Video: Crash Coming to White Flag Ruins Day for Austin Cindric
While it didn’t make it onto the FS1 race broadcast, there was a crash coming to the white flag in Sunday’s Cook Out 400 at Martinsville. Carson Hocevar dove to the inside of Kaz Grala and Austin Cindric to make it three wide. Cindric got turned and crashed from 15th position.
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Bubba Wallace Earns Season-Best Fourth-Place Result at Martinsville
Following a “come to Jesus” meeting amongst 23XI Racing last weekend at Richmond Raceway, Bubba Wallace scored a fourth-place finish at Martinsville Speedway, his best finish through the opening eight races of the year.
“It’s the same start we’ve had and I said I didn’t want that,” said Wallace about the reasoning for the conversation. “I just set the tone.”
Wallace finished second in Stages 1 and 2, and scored the solid finish.
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Rodney Childers: Throwing Away Top-Five Finishes is ‘Not What the 4 Car is About’
Rodney Childers was left shaking his head on the back of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team hauler following Sunday’s Cook Out 400 at Martinsville. Childers lamented errors on pit road, which have dashed the hopes of Josh Berry securing top-fives in each of the last two weekends.
“We’ve been bringing good cars, and [Berry] has been doing a good job. And honestly, it should have been two top-fives in a row, and we’ve just kinda thrown them away,” Childers said. “We just gotta get our stuff together on pit road to give him a chance.”
Childers continued by saying, “…throwing away possibilities of top-fives, that’s not what the 4 car is about. We definitely gotta get things better and get back on track.”