Team Penske shut out of NASCAR’s Championship 4

The fourth year of NASCAR’s Next-Gen car will be the first year that Team Penske does not win the NASCAR Cup Series championship. 

With a pair of titles from Joey Logano in 2022 and 2024 and one from Ryan Blaney in 2023, Penske had won the last three NASCAR Cup Series championships, the first three in the Next-Gen era. But Sunday’s cut-off race at Martinsville ensured that their streak will carry on no longer. It’s also the first year that Ford as a whole will be shut out of the Championship 4 in the Next-Gen era.