The ending of the race couldn’t have been ... “I feel like we had the best car all day,” said Gray, who suffered a similar fate in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series loss to Christian Eckes ...

NASCAR allows seven chassis per car number, rotated every race, and some teams have five or six drivers, so you’re looking at 40 or more chassis in some cases. Engines too are cycled ...

On The Teardown podcast, Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic praised the race for being like what NASCAR used to be. “This was a quintessential stock car race,” Bianchi said. This was fantastic.