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Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to media before practice for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series event at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday:
The most excited person to see Martinsville Speedway this weekend might be Chris Gabehart, Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing crew chief. Hamlin goes into Sunday’s race (2 p.m. ET, NBC) fighting for his playoff life, sitting below the cutline by 17 points.
Christopher Bell would rather have been at a ‘handful of other racetracks’ than at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It wasn’t a track that brought a ton of confidence. Prior to Sunday, he’d led just four laps at the place at Cup level, and had finished no better than eighth.
Who would have ever thought Chase Elliott would miss this year’s NASCAR playoffs? Who could have imagined RFK Racing would have more cars in the field than Stewart-Haas Racing? And how many people had Martin Truex Jr. finishing as the regular-season champion one year after missing the playoffs? NASCAR can feel predictable at times throughout the season, but the Cup Series always offers wrinkles few saw coming — and there’s no greater example of that than during the playoffs themselves. For example: Did you think both Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch would get eliminated in the first round of...
This weekend, three crown-jewel motorsport events will take place across Formula One, IndyCar and NASCAR – here’s how to watch it all in Australia.