AVONDALE, Ariz. — The start to the 2021 NASCAR season hasn’t had the typical suspects winning on a weekly basis, but on Sunday, Martin Truex Jr. — now a 28-time winner — earned his first career victory at Phoenix Raceway. The season started with first-time winners Michael McDowell and Christopher Bell at the Daytona 500...

New Mexico Motorsports Report, 3/13/2021...

PHOENIX — It’s good to be Michael McDowell lately. McDowell won the Daytona 500 last month for his first victory in NASCAR’s top level. His triumph marked the third time Front Row Motorsports has won in the NASCAR Cup Series, and the second time it will make the playoffs. McDowell, who grew up in Glendale,...

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Christopher Bell had one year of NASCAR Cup Series experience under his belt entering the 2021 season. He competed with the now-defunct single-car Leavine Family Racing team for his rookie campaign. Although it was aligned with the Toyota powerhouse organization of Joe Gibbs Racing, he wasn’t contending for wins on a weekly basis. This year,...

He’s 1-for-1. In his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, Ty Gibbs won the Super Start Batteries 188 at the Daytona International Speedway road course on Saturday. He’s a full-time ARCA Menards Series driver for his grandfather’s team, Joe Gibbs Racing, and will compete on a part-time basis in NASCAR’s second-tier level this season. Gibbs survived the...

New Mexico Motorsports Report, 2/20/2021...

This year marks the POWRi Lucas Oil New Mexico Motor Racing Association’s 75th year of racing action in the southwest. One of the few names that has been a part of the excitement from the very beginning is the Nix family, and the latest self-proclaimed ‘throttle jockey’ to have spent time in the organization is...

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