PHOENIX CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND<\/p>\n
Friday, October 31 \u2013 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1)
Saturday, November 1 \u2013 NASCAR Xfinity Series, 7:30 p.m. ET (CW)
Sunday, November 2 \u2013 NASCAR Cup Series, 3 p.m. ET (NBC)<\/p>\n
Ford Racing will be going for its fourth straight NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver\u2019s championship this weekend at Phoenix Raceway with ThorSport Racing\u2019s Ty Majeski. The Wisconsin native can become the first driver to repeat as series champion since Matt Crafton did it in 2013-14. While Majeski is focused on the driver\u2019s title, Layne Riggs will be looking to deliver the owner\u2019s championship to Bob Jenkins of Front Row Motorsports.<\/p>\n
BLANEY HOPING TO START NEW STREAK<\/p>\n
Sunday will mark Ryan Blaney\u2019s 20th career NASCAR Cup Series start at Phoenix Raceway and he\u2019s looking to start a new streak after his stretch of seven straight top-five finishes came to an end in the spring. In that event earlier this year, Blaney dropped out after completing 289-of-312 laps with a mechanical failure and finished 28th. Overall, Blaney has nine top-five and 13 top-10 finishes in Phoenix, which includes four runner-up results.<\/p>\n
LOGANO GOING FOR REPEAT RACE WIN<\/p>\n
Joey Logano has made 33 starts in his NASCAR Cup Series career at Phoenix Raceway and more than half of them have ended with the Team Penske driver in the top 10. Logano has four victories (2016-2, 2020-1, 2022-2, 2024-2), nine top-five and 17 top-10 finishes. Those four wins are tied with Las Vegas Motor Speedway for most victories at one track after he won this event last year and claimed his third championship.<\/p>\n
FORD SWEEPS PHOENIX LAST YEAR<\/p>\n
Ford claimed two championships a year ago with Joey Logano (Cup) and Ty Majeski (NCTS), but won all three races for the first time since 2001 when Greg Biffle (NXS and NCTS) and Jeff Burton (Cup) combined for the weekend sweep. Majeski got the weekend off on a good note by dominating the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship race, leading 132-of-150 laps. Riley Herbst kept it going the following day by passing Justin Allgaier on the final lap of double-overtime to claim his second career victory while Logano capped it all off by winning the Cup race and capturing his third career title.<\/p>\n
CHECKERED FLAG OR BUST<\/p>\n
Phoenix Raceway offers one final chance to reach Victory Lane in the 2025 season and any one of the drivers in Ford\u2019s lineup could make that happen. Veteran Ryan Sieg has made 24 career starts on the one-mile flat track and while he hasn\u2019t won, he\u2019s coming off a fourth-place finish in the spring. Sheldon Creed had a streak of five straight top-10 finishes snapped in the spring when he got caught up in an accident while Haas Factory Team teammate Sam Mayer finished seventh. Last week\u2019s pole-winner, Harrison Burton, has three top-10 efforts in five career series starts to go with the six Cup races he ran during his three-year stint with the Wood Brothers.<\/p>\n
FORD GOING FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT SERIES TITLE<\/p>\n
Ford is going for its fourth straight NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship and Ty Majeski is going for his second in a row this weekend at Phoenix Raceway. Zane Smith (2022) started this streak and gave Front Row Motorsports its first championship in any NASCAR series while Ben Rhodes (2023) added another title to ThorSport\u2019s trophy case the following year. Majeski, who made the Championship 4 for the third time in the last four years after his seventh-place finish last weekend at Martinsville Speedway, is trying to become the first driver to repeat since Matt Crafton in 2013-14.<\/p>\n
TY MAJESKI AT PHOENIX RACEWAY<\/p>\n
As noted earlier, Ty Majeski dominated last year\u2019s championship race leading 132 laps, but winning that race marked his first top-10 finish at Phoenix Raceway in four starts. He\u2019s always qualified well, starting fifth, eighth, second and first, but has a finishing average of 11.5. Majeski is still looking for his first victory of the season, which would increase his streak of posting at least one win to four straight years.<\/p>\n
RIGGS DRIVING TO DELIVER OWNER\u2019S CHAMPIONSHIP<\/p>\n
Even though Layne Riggs was eliminated from the Championship 4 on a tiebreaker last weekend at Martinsville Speedway, he and his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports F-150 team are still competing for the owner\u2019s championship on Friday night at Phoenix Raceway. Owner Bob Jenkins, who scored his first championship three years ago with Zane Smith, is in the midst of a record season that has seen his organization win five times between Riggs (three wins) and Chandler Smith (two).<\/p>\n
FORD\u2019S NCTS CHAMPIONS<\/p>\n
2000 \u2013 Greg Biffle (Roush Racing)<\/p>\n
2019 \u2013 Matt Crafton (ThorSport Racing)<\/p>\n
2022 \u2013 Zane Smith (Front Row Motorsports)<\/p>\n
2023 \u2013 Ben Rhodes (ThorSport Racing)<\/p>\n
2024 \u2013 Ty Majeski (ThorSport Racing)<\/p>\n
FORD\u2019S PHOENIX CUP SERIES WINNERS<\/p>\n
1988 \u2013 Alan Kulwicki<\/p>\n
1989 \u2013 Bill Elliott<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 Davey Allison<\/p>\n
1992 \u2013 Davey Allison<\/p>\n
1993 \u2013 Mark Martin<\/p>\n
1995 \u2013 Ricky Rudd<\/p>\n
1997 \u2013 Dale Jarrett<\/p>\n
1998 \u2013 Rusty Wallace<\/p>\n
2000 \u2013 Jeff Burton<\/p>\n
2001 \u2013 Jeff Burton<\/p>\n
2002 \u2013 Matt Kenseth<\/p>\n
2005 \u2013 Kurt Busch (1)<\/p>\n
2010 \u2013 Carl Edwards (2)<\/p>\n
2013 \u2013 Carl Edwards (1)<\/p>\n
2016 \u2013 Joey Logano (2)<\/p>\n
2018 \u2013 Kevin Harvick (1)<\/p>\n
2020 \u2013 Joey Logano (1)<\/p>\n
2022 \u2013 Chase Briscoe (1) and Joey Logano (2)<\/p>\n
2024 \u2013 Joey Logano (2)<\/p>\n
FORD\u2019S PHOENIX XFINITY SERIES WINNERS<\/p>\n
2000 \u2013 Jeff Burton<\/p>\n
2001 \u2013 Greg Biffle<\/p>\n
2003 \u2013 Bobby Hamilton Jr.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2013 Greg Biffle (1) and Carl Edwards (2)<\/p>\n
2006 \u2013 Matt Kenseth (2)<\/p>\n
2008 \u2013 Carl Edwards (2)<\/p>\n
2009 \u2013 Greg Biffle (1) and Carl Edwards (2)<\/p>\n
2010 \u2013 Carl Edwards (2)<\/p>\n
2014 \u2013 Brad Keselowski (2)<\/p>\n
2015 \u2013 Joey Logano (1)<\/p>\n
2018 \u2013 Brad Keselowski (1)<\/p>\n
2020 \u2013 Austin Cindric (2)<\/p>\n
2021 \u2013 Austin Cindric (1)<\/p>\n
2023 \u2013 Cole Custer (2)<\/p>\n
2024 \u2013 Riley Herbst (2)<\/p>\n
FORD\u2019S PHOENIX CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES WINNERS<\/p>\n
1997 \u2013 Joe Ruttman<\/p>\n
1998 \u2013 Mike Bliss<\/p>\n
2001 \u2013 Greg Biffle<\/p>\n
2022 \u2013 Zane Smith<\/p>\n
2024 \u2013 Ty Majeski<\/p>\n
The Ford Mustang, celebrating its 61st anniversary in 2025, is the world\u2019s best selling sports car. It is also one of the planet\u2019s most popular race cars. With Mustang-based race cars competing in international sports car competition (GT3 and GT4), NASCAR, NHRA, Formula Drift, in Australian Supercars, at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and in its own bespoke one-make series \u2013 Mustang Cup and Mustang Challenge \u2013 the platform has an unprecedented global reach. This weekend, 22 Mustang race cars are scheduled to race across all disciplines. Learn more at FordRacing.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND Friday, October 31 \u2013 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1)Saturday, November 1 \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-246084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}