Phoenix Begins Stretch of Traditional Tracks
Fast Facts
- Track: Phoenix Raceway
- Location: Avondale, Arizona
- Track length: 1 mile
- When: Sunday, 3: 30 p.m. ET
- Where to tune in: FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
- Race purse: $11,055,250
- Race distance: 312 laps | 312 miles
- Stages: 60 | 185 | 312
- Defending winner: Christopher Bell, March 2024
- Starting lineup: William Byron wins Busch Light Pole
History tells us…
Team Penske will be the trio to beat Sunday. Since the debut of the Next Gen car in the 2022 season, no driver has led more laps at Phoenix than reigning (and three-time) Cup champ Joey Logano, who’s paced the field for a combined 298 laps in those six races. Next in line? His teammate at Team Penske, Ryan Blaney. The duo has won each of the last three Cup titles, with Logano claiming the 2022 and 2024 titles and Blaney in 2023, all at Phoenix in the November finale. Logano starts second Sunday, and Blaney 12th. Blaney has still yet to find Victory Lane at Phoenix, but that could change in a hurry.
He may not be the favorite to win, but watch out for …
ROSS CHASTAIN - The Trackhouse Racing driver won the season finale in 2023 at Phoenix, preventing Blaney from winning the race but not the championship. Chastain is averaging a 9.2 finish in his last six Phoenix starts, with three top fives in that span. He finished runner-up to Chase Briscoe in the spring Phoenix event in 2022 and may be in contention to score a second Arizona win on Sunday.
Three-in-a-Row Bid at Phoenix
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell — the defending Phoenix spring race winner — is attempting to make history this weekend by claiming a third consecutive win early in the season. It would be the 29th time a driver has done that in the NASCAR Cup Series’ modern era (post-1972) although no driver has ever won three straight with the Next Gen car that debuted in 2022.
PHX🦂@RCRracing x #zone_partner pic.twitter.com/LugSOQ7GtK
— Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) March 8, 2025
Most recently among current full-time drivers, Joey Logano and Kyle Busch earned three straight trophies in 2015. Brad Keselowski and Busch won three races in a row in 2018. Kyle Larson is the last to accomplish the feat — doing it twice in his 2021 championship-winning season. Eleven times the driver who has won three straight has gone on to win the title that same year.
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Her debut on stock car racing's biggest stage happens today. @katherinelegge | @teamlivefast pic.twitter.com/6qkh9148qb
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) March 9, 2025
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