{"id":379720,"date":"2025-12-31T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379720\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:31:06","slug":"todd-gillilands-2026-nascar-cup-series-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379720\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Gilliland&#8217;s 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 31, 2025, 10:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Todd Gilliland is one of several Front Row Motorsports drivers hoping to put the 2025 NASCAR season behind them. Front Row Motorsports had a dramatic year with its antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, but the two sides finally reached a settlement in December. Now, the driver of the No. 34 car can finally focus on racing again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gilliland expected to have more pace with the No. 34 team after Michael McDowell left for Spire Motorsports, but it didn&#8217;t come to fruition. The Front Row Motorsports driver excelled at EchoPark Speedway, but there was more speed left on the table throughout the 2025 NASCAR season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gilliland should improve during the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, and consistent top 10 to 15 results shouldn&#8217;t be out of the picture. It will take a drastic development in speed to compete on the non-superspeedway tracks, but Gilliland is certainly capable of winning on a superspeedway track in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/12\/30\/brad-keselowski-injury-timeline-2026-nascar-season-revealed\/87954717007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\">Brad Keselowski&#8217;s injury timeline for 2026 NASCAR season revealed<\/a>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 31, 2025, 10:30 a.m. ET Todd Gilliland is one of several Front Row Motorsports drivers hoping to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[159202,49,48,634,82,161408,160874,160875,160878,159088,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-379720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmotornascar","tag-sstsnnascar","tag-tagauto-racing","tag-tagnascar","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379720","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=379720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}