NASCAR pushed all its chips to the center of the table and won the pot, three races into the 2022 season.
Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway gave us much to discuss. Ross Chastain (possibly) had his breakout NASCAR Cup Series race with a dominant drive and podium finish. Alex Bowman inches closer and closer to taking that next step. Furthermore, NASCAR might’ve just saved the racing at the mile-and-a-half tracks with the NextGen car.
So without further adieu, let’s place our cards on the table and see the Three Big Stories of Las Vegas, 2022.
Three Big Stories: Las Vegas (2022)
Breakout race for Ross Chastain?
Chastain is a textbook example of an underrated driver. His four-and-a-half seasons with JD Motorsports in the XFINITY Series showed he had talent, but never had equipment to match. When Chip Ganassi Racing gave him a quality ride for a few races in 2018, he won.
Chip Ganassi was so impressed, that he signed Chastain to run the No. 42 in the 2019 season full-time. Everything was great. Then we learned, however, that his sponsor, DC Solar, was running a Ponzi scheme. Which left Chastain out to dry.
Fortunately for him, he landed a ride in the Truck Series with Niece…
