{"id":578894,"date":"2026-04-03T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:01:09","slug":"chase-briscoe-ryan-preece-predict-what-cleetus-mcfarland-must-do-at-rockingham-this-weekend-for-nascar-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578894\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Briscoe, Ryan Preece predict what Cleetus McFarland must do at Rockingham this weekend for NASCAR approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleetus McFarland is getting ready to compete at the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Rockingham this weekend, and a good outing could lead to more races in the series. On the Gluckcast, <\/a>Jeff Gluck of The Athletic spoke to NASCAR Cup Series drivers Chase Briscoe and Ryan Preece about what McFarland needs to do at Rockingham to get NASCAR\u2019s approval<\/a> to compete in additional races. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust run on laps. First off, you have to run on the laps,\u201d Briscoe told Gluck. \u201cIn a perfect world, you need to not be more than a lap or two down. You can\u2019t go there and run on lap speed, 10 laps down. I think you have to be at least in the mix from a speed standpoint, especially in an RCR (Richard Childress Racing) car. The biggest thing for him is just running all the laps. Rockingham is a hard place to go and not get torn up, and he doesn\u2019t know what he doesn\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFinish the race,\u201d Preece said. \u201cJust finish the race\u2026 Listen, he\u2019s a wheelman. Don\u2019t let him fool you by any means. I was watching TX2K, he\u2019s ripping a car 200-plus miles per hour down a quarter mile. I wouldn\u2019t do that. I don\u2019t want to do that. I admire it. So, going to Rockingham, this is a totally different discipline. I think for him, as a driver and as a fan of motorsports, he\u2019s not afraid to come out and do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleetus McFarland crashed at the NASCAR Truck Series race at Daytona<\/p>\n

McFarland will drive the No. 33 Chevrolet as part of a three-race deal with RCR. He is also expected to compete at Daytona and Talladega, but he has to gain approval from NASCAR to compete in an O\u2019Reilly Series superspeedway race. <\/p>\n

In February, McFarland competed in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Daytona and earned a DNF after wrecking on Lap 6. He also competed in an ARCA race at Daytona on the same weekend and earned a P11 finish. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo have the opportunity to make my NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series debut with a legendary race team like Richard Childress Racing is a dream come true,\u201d McFarland said in a press release<\/a> last month. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor, and I am incredibly grateful to learn under the leadership of Richard Childress, Mike Verlander, Danny Lawrence, and everyone in Welcome, North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleetus McFarland is getting ready to compete at the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Rockingham this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578894","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\/578894","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=578894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}