Jesse Love surprisingly insisted that his drive inside the Phoenix Raceway for Friday\u2019s opening practice and NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series qualifying session did not evoke any special emotions \u2013 despite the fact that the last time the driver of the Richard Childress Racing No. 2 Chevrolet was at the track he was celebrating the series 2025 championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a great race track for me and I love Phoenix for that reason, so I enjoy coming here, but the nostalgic feeling that you\u2019d picture if I was in a movie walking in through the tunnel isn\u2019t necessarily real for me,\u201d said Love.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I try to disassociate with that stuff when I come here,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to kind of reset yourself and start from kind of ground zero, right? The past might not work for me this weekend, right? So, I have to come in with a very serious and open mind to continue to have, you know, good results here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Californian Love comes to the track boasting a phenomenal record even beyond his title work last November. He holds the longest top-10 streak (four) at Phoenix among the series regulars with an impressive average finish of 4.5. This season he is the only driver to earn top-10 finishes in the opening three races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Love surprisingly insisted that his drive inside the Phoenix Raceway for Friday\u2019s opening practice and NASCAR O\u2019Reilly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,7574,14830,634,43326,7577,582,9535,9536,721,82],"class_list":["post-520004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chevrolet","tag-movie","tag-nascar","tag-phoenix-raceway","tag-qualifying","tag-racing","tag-richard-childress","tag-richard-childress-racing","tag-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004","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=520004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}