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A winless streak last season led to offseason moves that have pushed Joe Gibbs\u2019 organization forward.<\/p>\n
Kaulig Racing \u2014 Good news: Ty Dillon\u2019s 16th-place finish at Phoenix in March was the organization\u2019s best finish there in the last five races. Bad news: AJ Allmendinger has two top-15 finishes in his last 15 Cup starts at Phoenix. \u2026 Allmendinger has failed to finish three of the last seven races this season. \u2026 Dillon has finished 26th or worse in three of the last four Phoenix races.<\/p>\n
Legacy Motor Club \u2014 Good news: Erik Jones has started in the top 10 in four of the last five Phoenix races. Bad news: Jones has finished outside the top 30 in three of the last four races. \u2026 John Hunter Nemechek has started in the top 20 twice in the last 15 races. \u2026 Nemechek has finished 25th or worse in five of his six Phoenix Cup starts.<\/p>\n
Richard Childress Racing \u2014 Good news: Kyle Busch has scored three consecutive top-20 finishes, tied for his most this season. \u2026 Busch will make his 750th Cup start, becoming the 14th different driver in series history to reach that milestone. Bad news: Austin Dillon has one top-15 finish in the last 10 races. \u2026 Dillon has finished 12th or worse in the last 13 Phoenix races.<\/p>\n
Rick Ware Racing \u2014 Good news: Cody Ware finished 24th at Phoenix in March, his best finish in eight Cup starts there. Bad news: Ware has finished 30th or worse in the last six races.<\/p>\n
RFK Racing \u2014 Good news: Chris Buescher has a series-high four consecutive top 10s at Phoenix. \u2026 Ryan Preece ranks second in the series in percentage of laps completed at 99.5% (9,211 laps run out of 9,261). \u2026 Preece has three top 10s in the last four races after his sixth-place finish last week at Martinsville. \u2026 Sunday\u2019s race marks 17 years to the day that Brad Keselowski made his Cup debut, finishing 19th in a Hendrick Motorsports car at Texas. Bad news: The organization is winless in the last 43 races. \u2026 Keselowski has placed 15th or worse in six of the last seven Phoenix races.<\/p>\n
Spire Motorsports \u2014 Good news: Both of Michael McDowell\u2019s two top-10 finishes at Phoenix have come in the last four races there. Bad news: Carson Hocevar has finished 29th or worse in four of the last five races. \u2026 Justin Haley has never finished better than 17th in nine starts at Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Team Penske \u2014 Good news: Ryan Blaney has seven top-five finishes in the last eight races at Phoenix. \u2026 Joey Logano has four wins at Phoenix. \u2026 Bad news: The organization\u2019s streak of three consecutive Cup championships will come to an end this weekend. \u2026 Austin Cindric has not scored a top-10 finish in seven Phoenix starts. \u2026 Cindric has not had a top-10 finish in the last 10 races and only one top 10 in the last 18 races.<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Racing \u2014 Good news: Ross Chastain\u2019s fourth-place finish at Martinsville was his first top-five finish since his Coca-Cola 600 win in late May. \u2026 All four of Chastain\u2019s top 10s at Phoenix, including a win, have come in the last seven races at the track. \u2026 Shane van Gisbergen has four top-15 finishes in the last five races. Bad news: Daniel Suarez has one top-10 finish in the last six Phoenix Cup races.<\/p>\n
Wood Brothers Racing \u2014 Good news: Josh Berry finished fourth at Phoenix in March for his best Cup finish at that track. \u2026 Berry placed 10th last weekend at Martinsville, giving him four top 10s in the last 11 races this season. \u2026 Phoenix is one of three tracks (New Hampshire and Richmond are the others) Berry has multiple top-10 finishes in Cup. Bad news: Berry has finished 33rd or worse in five of the last nine races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cup season comes to a close Sunday at Phoenix. Kyle Larson, William Byron, Denny Hamlin and Chase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-247648","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\/247648","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=247648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}