2025 NASCAR Cup Series Race Eleven Texas

Cars in field: 38
Pole: Carson Hocevar (77)
Outside Pole: William Byron (24)
Stages: 80-85-102
Weather: Sunny, 75°F, Feels like 84°, Feels like (shade) 74°, Wind ESE 3 mph, Wind Gusts 5 mph

Caution on lap 74 of 267 for ‘Desperate’ Denny Hamlin (11) going up in flames.

Stage one ends under caution with Austin Cindric (2) out front.

Caution on lap 88 of 267 for a spin by Chase Briscoe (19). Riley Herbst (35) clipped the Briscoe car as it spun in front of him.

Caution on lap 125 of 267 for a spin by leader Josh Berry (21).

PRN reports Miles Stanley, crew chief of the 21, believes the control-arm is broken on the 21 car.

Caution on lap 161 of 267 for debris.

Stage two ends under caution with Kyle Larson (5) in the lead.

Caution on lap 172 of 267 for a multi-car crash involving AJ Allmendinger, Alex Bowman (48), Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace (23), Noah Gragson (4), and Chad Finchum (66). Bubba got loose, spun around on the nose of Joey Logano (22), then continued to spin in front of the field collecting Bowman, Gragson, Finchum, and Allmendinger. Allmendinger went airborne on the right front nose of the 4 car.

Caution on lap 218 of 267 for a spin by Jesse Love (62).

Caution on lap 228 of 267 as Kyle Busch (8) spins and backs into the outside wall. The rear end just seemed to snap around suddenly.

Caution on lap 237 of 267 for an incident involving Carson Hocevar (77) who gets into , Ryan Preece (60) and Cody Ware (51).

Caution on lap 247 of 267 for a crash involving Austin Cindric (2), Cole Custer (10), Brad Keselowski (6), Ty Dillon (41) and Kyle Busch (8). Keselowski got loose, spun and collected the others.

Caution on lap 253 of 267 for a spin by Tyler ‘TyRed’ Reddick (45) with an assist from Daniel Suarez (99).

This weekend NASCAR appears to be determining the leader based on the last scoring loop rather than the timestamp of the caution flag. Sigh. NASCAR seems to be trying to avert another disastrous call like last week’s Xfinity race finish.

Joey Logano (22) passes Michael McDowell (71) for the lead on lap 264 of 267.

Caution on lap 265 of 267 for McDowell hitting the wall as Ryan Blaney (12) passes him for second.

Restarting in overtime on lap 271 of 273 with teammates Joey Logano (22) and Ryan Blaney (12) on the front row followed by Ross Chastain (1), Erik Jones (43), Kyle Larson (5), Daniel Suarez (99), Ricky Stenhouse Jr (47), Austin Dillon (3), John Hunter Nemechek (42), and Christopher ‘CBell’ Bell (20).

Joey Logano wins (22).

Christopher ‘CBell’ Bell (20) and John Hunter ‘JHN’ Nemechek (42) are having a chat on pit road as Joey Logano (22) is doing his post-race interview. Bell looks very angry.

The lap-by-lap feed conked out on lap 251 of 267. Around lap 200 there was suddenly an entry for lap 295 and from that point forward the feed was pretty hit or miss – mostly miss and did not provide any information about the conclusion of the race.

The television broadcast of the race was awful until the final group of restarts after Reddick’s spin. At that point they showed the racing from outside the cars and relatively reasonable angles. The radio broadcast was PRN. It was a bit more aggravating than usual. I watched a movie during the third stage after a boring stage one and stage two. The final restarts were interesting and the finish of the race was okay. I planned to watch most of the race, on mute – Clint Bowyer talks entirely too much about nothing interesting, but the repeated shots of the inside and hoods of cars were so boring I decided to switch to a movie instead – something more interesting to see. I hope the broadcasts will vastly reduce the shots inside the car, and completely eliminate the shots from the spoiler, rear window, backseat/trunk area. Those are particularly inane and visually idiotic. They seemed to luck up on catching incidents live today, from outside the car. That was a nice change.

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