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| This weekend, NASCAR will headline in “Music City” as all three national touring series are set to compete under the lights at Nashville Superspeedway. Hitting the stage first will be the Craftsman Truck Series in Friday’s Allegiance 200. Chevrolet is on a string of three-straight trips to victory lane in the division at the track, including current title contender Christian Eckes’ win in the 2024 event. For the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, Saturday’s Sports Illustrated Resorts 250 will conclude its grueling season-opening stretch of 16-straight races. The 2024 champion and current points leader, Justin Allgaier, will return to the track as the series’ defending winner. One of the newer venues on the circuit for NASCAR’s premier series, Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 will not only cap off the Tennessee tripleheader weekend, but also mark the start of the second-half of the series’ regular season. |
| Chevrolet in the NASCAR Cup Series at Nashville: Nashville Superspeedway’s history with NASCAR may date back to 2001, but it wasn’t until the 2021 season when the sport’s top division made its inaugural appearance at the track. Since then, Chevrolet has been the only manufacturer that’s paid a visit to victory lane in all three divisions – heading into the weekend with three Cup Series wins, 11 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series wins and six Craftsman Truck Series wins. In his first championship-earning season (2021), it was Kyle Larson and the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team that led Chevrolet to a dominating victory and a podium sweep. The manufacturer’s success in the series’ inaugural outing was followed by Chase Elliott’s 2022 victory and Ross Chastain’s 2023 victory – a three-peat that stands as the longest win streak by a single manufacturer at the track. |
| Hitting HalfwayLast weekend’s crown jewel event in “America’s Home for Racing” officially marked the halfway point of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season. The 2026 season welcomed the competition debut of the updated Camaro ZL1 racecar as Chevrolet’s flagship vehicle in the sport’s premier series. Former Cup Series champion, Chase Elliott, took the Bowtie brand on its first trip to victory lane of the season at Martinsville Speedway in March, marking the manufacturer’s first of five wins in the first-half of the regular season. Chevrolet will head into part two of the regular season with four-straight triumphs, a feat that sets the season record for the longest points-paying win streak by a single manufacturer. The top-10 of the Cup Series points standings sees four Team Chevy drivers, led by Elliott and the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team in the fifth position. The Dawsonville, Georgia, native is one of just two drivers that have multiple wins to his name this season with Elliott also adding to his triumph tally at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this month. Coming off his fourth top-five finish of the season, Kyle Larson currently holds the sixth position in the standings. While still looking for his much-anticipated return to victory lane, the Cliff Daniels-led team has been a points-earning machine throughout the 13-race stretch. The reigning champions are one of just four teams that have reached a triple-digit bank of stage points (113). Joining the Hendrick Motorsports pair is the duo from Spire Motorsports, season winners Carson Hocevar and Daniel Suarez, to round out the top-10 of the standings. |
 RECORD SEASON FOR SPIRE MOTORSPORTSWith just 13 races complete, 2026 is already shaping up to be a record season for Spire Motorsports. The Chevrolet organization has reached victory lane in the NASCAR Cup Series three times in its history, two of which have come just this season. At Talladega Superspeedway, it was Carson Hocevar that broke through as a first-time winner in NASCAR’s top division. |
 Fast forward one month, the organization’s newest driver, Daniel Suarez, captured his first career crown jewel win in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The victory came in Suarez’s 13th points-paying start with the Ryan Sparks-led team. Spire Motorsports is now one of just two organizations that have recorded wins with multiple drivers this season. The Chevrolet organization will also head into the second-half of the regular season with two of its drivers sitting comfortably above the cutline with Suarez’s Charlotte victory boosting him up four positions to join his teammate, Hocevar, in the top-10 of the points standings. |
 LARSON’S NASHVILLE NUMBERS After a turbulent string of races, Kyle Larson and the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team quickly put themselves back on the map as race winning contenders. Last weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Elk Grove, California, native turned an 18th-place starting position into a Stage One win, going on to earn top-five points in each stage en route to the team’s fourth top-five finish of the season. Putting together a 54-point race, the third-highest of the field, Larson was able to make a two-position gain in the points standings en route to what is one of his statistically best tracks – Nashville Superspeedway. Larson is the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series winner at Nashville Superspeedway, and in the series’ five appearances at the track, he is the only driver that has tallied a top-10 result in each event to earn a series-leading average finish of 5.2. |
 SVG CONTINUES TO IMPRESS ON THE OVALS Despite falling just one spot short of a top-10 finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway last weekend, Shane van Gisbergen put together one of his best races, statistically, on an oval in NASCAR’s premier series. Taking the green flag from the third position, the Auckland, New Zealand, native remained a steady fixture in the top-10 throughout much of the race – earning points in all three stages, 11 laps led and an average running position of 7.81. With an 11th-place finish, tying his second-highest oval finish of the season, and a 33-point race, Van Gisbergen will enter the second-half of the regular season ranked 14th in the standings and 28 points above the cutline. |
 LOVE RACKING UP RUNNER-UPSCharlotte Motor Speedway looked like it was going to be the opportunity for the reigning NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series champion, Jesse Love, to make his return to victory lane, but a rain-shortened race saw the young Team Chevy driver ultimately bring home his third runner-up finish of the season. Love was one of just five drivers to earn points in both stages, accumulating a race-high 49 points to move him back up to the second position of the standings heading into the Nashville race weekend. The Menlo Park, California, native has just two starts at the 1.33-mile Tennessee venue, both of which ended in top-eight results. Love will get extra seat time this weekend as the driver will make his long-awaited return to the Craftsman Truck Series to pilot the No. 77 Silverado RST for Spire Motorsports. Love only has three career Truck Series starts under his belt with his best finish of fourth coming at Phoenix Raceway. |
 ECKES ON THE MOVEChristian Eckes put together his strongest points race of the season at Charlotte Motor Speedway to jump back up to the third position and continue to lead Team Chevy in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points standings. While a late-race restart ended with a sixth-place finish, Eckes was a race winning contender throughout much of the day. The Middletown, New York, native finished no worse than second in both stages, including capturing his third stage win of the season, and paced the field for 33 laps. Heading to Nashville Superspeedway, this weekend serves as a momentum-building opportunity for Eckes and the No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet team. The Team Chevy driver has three career Truck Series starts at the Tennessee track with his most recent in 2024 ending in a trip to victory lane. |
| BOWTIE BULLETS:· Victories by active Chevrolet drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series at Nashville Superspeedway: Kyle Larson – one win (2021)Chase Elliott – one win (2022)Ross Chastain – one win (2023) · Daniel Suarez’s Coca-Cola 600 win marked Chevrolet’s fourth consecutive trip to victory lane in NASCAR’s premier series, setting the season record for the longest points-paying win streak by a single manufacturer. · At Talladega Superspeedway, Chevrolet tallied six top-10 finishes, marking the second time this season a manufacturer has placed six cars in the top-10 of a Cup Series event. The Bowtie brand took it one step further by achieving the highest representation of different organizations within those results with five Chevrolet organizations placing drivers in the top-10. · With seven-straight victories to start the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season, Chevrolet set the record for the longest season-opening streak by a single manufacturer in the division’s history. · In 157 points-paying races in the NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen era, Chevrolet leads all manufacturers with 72 victories – a winning percentage of 45.9%. · Chevrolet is coming off its 29th all-time sweep of the NASCAR Cup Series championship titles – capturing its 34th driver championship and 44th, and fifth consecutive, manufacturer championship in 2025. · With its 44 NASCAR Cup Series manufacturer championships, 34 NASCAR Cup Series driver championships, and 886 all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins, Chevrolet continues to hold the title as the winningest brand in NASCAR Cup Series history. |
| TUNE-IN:NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400Sunday, May 31, at 7 p.m. ETAmazon Prime, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts SeriesSports Illustrated Resorts 250Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. ETCW, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90 NASCAR Craftsman Truck SeriesAllegiance 200Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m. ETFS1, NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90 |
| QUOTABLE QUOTES:Daniel Suarez, No. 7 Spire Motorsports ChevroletComing off the Coca-Cola 600 victory, you’ll roll off last in Saturday’s qualifying session for Sunday’s race. What’s your mindset heading into Nashville?“I really enjoyed one of my favorite races of the year with my family, friends, partners and team, but now it’s time to turn the page and focus on Nashville. Qualifying is so important there, and we want to put together the best lap possible on Saturday. We’re working hard to bring another fast race car this weekend and hopefully put ourselves in position to fight for another win. The momentum and confidence we gained from Charlotte means a lot to our whole group, and we want to keep building on that. It would also be really cool to win the Gibson guitar trophy. I’d love to have that sitting in my garage right next to the Coca-Cola fridge.” Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing ChevroletYou are running better of late?“Yes, we are getting better each week. We still have a ways to go to get where we want to be but its been incremental progress and in this business you will take it as long as we are making progress. We were really good in Dover and we had some really good runs at Charlotte. I think we can build on that in Nashville this weekend.” Looking back at Charlotte, what are your thoughts?“Charlotte was an emotional weekend for everyone. Obviously, Memorial Day weekend means so many things and we were able to honor the men and women who gave their lives for this country. We were joined by Gold Star Families as well as our friends at The Fallen Outdoors. We also honored one of the greatest (Kyle Busch) drivers who ever raced in NASCAR. Sunday was moving to say the least and I think everyone will always remember last weekend for the rest of their lives.” AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet“Nashville Superspeedway has been a pretty good racetrack for us. We’ve had top-10 runs and always had decent amount of speed there. I feel like we’ve done a good job grinding it out every weekend and maximizing our finishes. Hopefully we can unload with a little bit more speed in practice and keep getting better.” Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet“Heading to Nashville is always exciting, and having NOS back on our No. 47 Chevrolet makes it even more special. This weekend means a little more because we’ll be running a throwback scheme honoring Kyle Busch. Kyle had a huge impact on the sport, so it’s an honor to carry that look and celebrate what he meant to NASCAR. Hopefully, we can put together a strong run and make it a weekend worth remembering.” Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Chevrolet “Nashville is a little bit of a hybrid racetrack. It’s not quite an intermediate-style track like Charlotte, but it’s also not like the two other concrete tracks – Bristol and Dover. Nashville is a lot more forgiving. It’s a very wide race track, not quite as fast as a full-blown mile-and-a-half, and it’s a little bit shorter, so the speeds aren’t quite as high. But because it’s a little bit bigger, you kind of get sucked into the feeling of it being a mile-and-a-half, so overdriving the corners is very easy. You think you can drive a lot deeper into the corners than you really can, so it’s almost about reeling yourself in as a driver and being patient, and remembering that it’s about getting speed off the corner versus getting speed going into the corners. So, you have to have the entry patience of a short track with the discipline of an intermediate track, where you have to be consistent with your inputs, both with steering and your right foot. It’s a game of patience with smoothness in your steering, your throttle inputs and your braking inputs. The driver who looks the least out of control is typically the fastest there. It’s all about smoothness and consistency at Nashville.” Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports ChevroletThe 71 is building momentum, how do you feel heading to Nashville?“Nashville is a track I’ve always enjoyed. I’ve had the chance to race there quite a bit over the years in the ARCA and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, and when I first got to the Cup Series, it was also a place where we did a lot of testing. It’s a unique track because it kind of blends characteristics of a short track and an intermediate, which makes it a lot of fun from the driver’s seat. In these cars, you’re shifting a lot and managing different opportunities throughout the race, so it keeps you engaged. It’s a place where I feel like we’ve had strong speed, even if the results don’t necessarily reflect that. We’ve had some tough breaks there with incidents and mechanical issues, including last year, but overall, it’s a track where I feel like we’ve shown good pace and had solid potential. With the speed our Spire Motorsports organization has been bringing to the track and the momentum we have been building over the last few weeks, I’m ready to get to Nashville.” Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports ChevroletNashville has been good to you in the past. It is also very unique compared to anything else on the schedule. Why is that?“What makes it unique is it looks like a mile and a half but doesn’t race like one, per se. You have to slow down for the corner way more than you’d think and downshift, all while knowing there isn’t much banking there to support you. The size is very deceiving for how tight the corners are.” Connor Zilisch, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing ChevroletWhat is your approach to Nashville Superspeedway this weekend with the short track package?“It’s kind of another unknown, similar to what we’ve had at Dover, Bristol, and Darlington, all those tracks where we’ve had the low downforce package with the high horsepower. I feel like we’ve been really good at those racetracks. Darlington was a solid day for us and I felt like we made a lot of gains on this package at Dover. Nashville is a unique racetrack, with it being concrete and oddly shaped, plus there’s going to be a bunch of resin put down. It’s just a unique racetrack that I enjoy going to.” The resin at Dover made an impact. What does that allow you to do on the racetrack?“It certainly makes the track wider. We saw at Dover when they laid resin down across the racetrack, it widened out the track and we were up by the fence at Dover which you don’t really see. I hope that’s the case at Nashville where we’re able to move around and it makes for good racing. Hopefully we have comers and goers that are able to go through the field. At Dover we had all five leaders under a blanket and it creates good racing.” Does it change things for you when the races start in the evening versus in the afternoon?“When we practice during the day and then race at night it’s a challenge but as a team, we’re prepared for it. We expect what’s going to change on the racetrack when we race at night. I raced at Nashville at night last year and I always love racing under the lights. I love the city of Nashville and there’s always some cool country artists that come to the race.” You are going to be the spotter for Stefan Parsons at the Truck race on Friday night at Nashville.“It’s going to be a lot of fun experiencing something new. I’m glad that Stefan trusts me to do it. There’s a lot of guys who could probably do it better than me but it’s going to be cool to do that and learn what it’s like from a new perspective. I’ve spotted on road courses and at the Cup race at Indy but leading the charge at the truck race at Nashville is going to be different.” What are the do’s and don’ts of being a good spotter?“When I’m a driver I know what I want to listen to. I know what I want to hear and what I don’t really care to hear. I think it’s a little easier as a driver to be a spotter than just having no experience at all. I know what a good spotter sounds like and as a driver what I want to hear. I think not being panicked and staying calm and feeding the information when I can without talking too much. I feel like I have a good understanding of what I need to do. I hope I’m able to relay the information that I need to throughout the good situations and the bad. Stefan is a really good dude and helps me a lot as a driver in the Cup Series with the notes that he takes.” You will also be in The CW booth on Saturday evening. How will you prepare for the broadcast on Saturday? “Everyone in the booth and at The CW does a good job I feel like it’s going to be pretty easy to blend in and be a part of it and try to add where I can. I love watching the races on The CW. It’s going to be so much fun to learn alongside Adam (Alexander) and the entire crew. It’s a great opportunity for me to see things from a different perspective and learn what it’s like to be one of those guys in the booth. I’m certainly looking forward to it.” |
| Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series Statistics Manufacturer Championships:Total (1949-2025): 44First title for Chevrolet: 1958Highest number of consecutive titles: 13 (2003-15)Most recent: 2025 Years Won: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Driver Championships:Total (1949-2025): 34First Chevrolet champion: Buck Baker (1957)Highest number of consecutive titles: 7 (2005-11)Most recent: Kyle Larson (2025)Driver and Manufacturer Championship Sweeps: 29 Years Won: 1957, 1960, 1961, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2025 Event Victories:Record for total race wins in single season: 26 (2007) 2026 STATISTICS: Wins: 5Poles: 3Laps Led: 1,051Top-Fives: 24Top-10s: 47Stage Wins: 10 CHEVROLET IN NASCAR CUMULATIVE STATISTICS:Total Chevrolet race wins: 886 (1949 to date)Poles won to date: 769Laps led to date: 257,785Top-fives to date: 4,460Top-10s to date: 9,198 Total NASCAR Cup Wins by Corporation, 1949 to Date: General Motors: 1,220 Chevrolet: 886 Pontiac: 154 Oldsmobile: 115 Buick: 65 Ford: 848 Ford: 748 Mercury: 96 Lincoln: 4 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: 467 Dodge: 217 Plymouth: 191 Chrysler: 59 Toyota: 210 |