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Martin Truex Jr Starts NASCAR Playoffs with Dominating Win at Chicagoland Speedway

Remember all those playoff points that were supposed to carry regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr. through the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs? Continue reading

Snapchat to Launch Premium ‘Our Story’ at Darlington’s Throwback Weekend

Fans to Share Sights and Sounds of the Bojangles’ Southern 500 with 
Snapchatters Around the World

On a day celebrating the sport’s iconic past, NASCAR® fans attending the Bojangles’ Southern 500 can share their race-day experiences from Darlington Raceway with millions of Snapchatters through a premium ‘Our Story’ on Snapchat covering The Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR, NASCAR announced Wednesday. Continue reading

DiBenedetto will Return to Go Fas Racing in 2018

Photo – Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images

Matt DiBenedetto will return to the No. 32 Go Fas Racing Ford, he and team general manager Mason St. Hilaire announced on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway. Amid a flurry of silly season moves, this is the rare one that affords a driver and his team to build on consistency.

“Our business model, in the beginning, was be able to survive,” St. Hilaire said. “We had a revolving door of drivers for a long time, and it kept the doors open, and it kept people working, and I wouldn’t take it back for anything.”

Still, working with DiBenedetto and crew chief Gene Nead has given the team stability, and with that stability has come improvement. The team’s average finish this year (26.1) is more than six spots better than the team’s historical average.

The team has its first two top-tens this season–in the season opening Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400.

“We had some little growing pains and had a couple little issues happen a few (races) in a row, but we’ve had that speed there all year and the more we go along, the more that we’re prepared and keep bringing better race cars to the racetrack,” DiBenedetto said.

By Matt Crossman

NASCAR Wire Service