Trackhouse Racing is heading to the Music City for a massive weekend of racing at Nashville Superspeedway. From special paint schemes celebrating classic country roots to drivers pulling double duty in the broadcast booth and on the track, here is everything you need to know ahead of the action.<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Tuesday at Wendy\u2019s!<\/p>\n
Every Tuesday is Trackhouse Tuesday at Wendy\u2019s! With a $5 purchase through the Wendy\u2019s app, fans can grab a 10-piece chicken nuggets for just $2.99 through the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain \u2013 No. 1 Busch Light Country Chevrolet<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain is bringing the rhythm to the track with a new spin on the Busch Light Country paint scheme\u2014a tribute to the genre that goes hand-in-hand with NASCAR weekends. Inspired by classic country\u2019s acoustic roots, the car features a weathered woodgrain texture across the hood.<\/p>\n
Driver NotesNashville Track Record: Chastain has five Cup Series starts at the 1.33-mile track in Lebanon, Tennessee, earning three top-five finishes, including a win and a second-place result.Past Winner: In June 2023, Chastain captured the checkered flag at Nashville after qualifying on the pole, leading 99 laps, and securing Trackhouse Racing\u2019s fourth organizational victory.Radio Booth Duty: On Saturday, Chastain will join the Performance Racing Network (PRN) radio broadcast booth for the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series race at 7:30 p.m. ET.Double Duty: Before Sunday\u2019s Cup race, Chastain will compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race driving the No. 45 Tennessee Highway Safety Office Chevrolet for Niece Motorsports (Friday, May 29 at 8 p.m. ET on FS1).Schedule of AppearancesFriday, 11:00 a.m. local: Walmart (3600 Mallory Lane, Franklin, TN)Friday, 12:45 p.m. local: Krebs Kubota (2240 NW Broad Street, Murfreesboro, TN)Saturday, 11:00 a.m. local: Ole Red (300 Broadway, Nashville, TN)Saturday, 1:40 p.m. local: Trackhouse Merchandise Hauler (Wristband required)Sunday, 1:20 p.m. local: Tennessee Highway Safety Office Booth in Fan Midway (Wristband required)Sunday, 1:55 p.m. local: Trackhouse Merchandise Hauler (Wristband required)Driver Q&A<\/p>\n
Q: Nashville Superspeedway is a place that\u2019s special to you as a race winner there. They unveiled that trophy just a couple weeks ago in downtown Nashville. That has to be special for you?<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain: \u201cHaving a guitar at home and that guitar hangs proudly on the wall and getting to hold the 2026 version of it is really cool. This year it is actually hand painted. Mine\u2019s a wrap from a couple years ago. So I love the detail work and the hand painting. I\u2019m excited to go fight for another guitar. I still don\u2019t know how to play it and I\u2019m honest with everybody and myself, I\u2019m never going to learn\u2026 I have one cool picture standing on top of the car and I look like I\u2019m just hammering that guitar, but yeah, I\u2019m never gonna actually learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q: What is it like night racing versus day racing at Nashville? How is it different?<\/p>\n
Ross Chastain: \u201cThe surface changes with sunlight, the rubber and the oils. When the sun\u2019s shining, it\u2019ll have no grip. And whenever the sun goes down, when we won this race a couple of years ago in 2023, as soon as the sun went down, the very lap it happened, I came off turn 2 onto the backstretch and my car had a different level of grip, more grip than it had the previous 100 laps in a row. We would not have won that race if it would have been during the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch \u2013 No. 88 Red Bull Chevrolet<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch will be making his 17th career NASCAR Cup Series start this weekend, marking his first Cup appearance at Nashville Superspeedway.<\/p>\n
Driver NotesConcrete Track Strengths: This weekend marks the third Cup event of the season on a concrete surface. Zilisch enjoyed his season-best performance on May 17 at Dover Motor Speedway, driving to a fifth-place finish in the All-Star Race.Past Nashville Success: Zilisch has one prior start at the track in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series, scoring a runner-up finish in 2025.Spotting Duties: In a reverse of roles, Zilisch will serve as the spotter for Stefan Parsons during Friday night\u2019s Truck Series race. Parsons serves as Zilisch\u2019s full-time Cup spotter.Television Booth Debut: Zilisch will serve as a color commentator during The CW\u2019s national telecast of the O\u2019Reilly Series race on Saturday evening.New Leadership: This season marks Zilisch\u2019s first working alongside veteran crew chief Randall Burnett, who previously guided Tyler Reddick to a 2019 Xfinity championship and won six Cup races with Reddick and Kyle Busch from 2022\u20132023.Schedule of AppearancesSaturday, 12:00 p.m. local: Red Bull Activation Area at Circle K (240 TN-109, Lebanon, TN) (Wristbands required, distributed starting at 10:00 a.m.)Saturday, 2:00 p.m. local: Fan Zone Main Stage Q&ASunday, 2:35 p.m. local: Trackhouse Merchandise Hauler Autograph Session (Wristband required)Driver Q&A<\/p>\n
Q: What is your approach to Nashville Superspeedway this weekend with the short track package?<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of another unknown, similar to what we\u2019ve had at Dover, Bristol, and Darlington, all those tracks where we\u2019ve had the low downforce package with the high horsepower. I feel like we\u2019ve been really good at those racetracks. Nashville is a unique racetrack, with it being concrete and oddly shaped, plus there\u2019s going to be a bunch of resin put down. It\u2019s just a unique racetrack that I enjoy going to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q: You are going to be the spotter for Stefan Parsons at the Truck race on Friday night at Nashville?<\/p>\n
Connor Zilisch: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot of fun experiencing something new. I\u2019m glad that Stefan trusts me to do it. There\u2019s a lot of guys who could probably do it better than me but it\u2019s going to be cool to do that and learn what it\u2019s like from a new perspective. I\u2019ve spotted on road courses and at the Cup race at Indy, but leading the charge at the truck race at Nashville is going to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen \u2013 No. 97 Tootsies Orchid Lounge Chevrolet<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen (SVG) will make his second career start at Nashville Superspeedway sporting the famous purple livery of Tootsies Orchid Lounge, the legendary downtown Nashville hotspot that has anchored lower Broadway since 1960.<\/p>\n
Driver NotesOval Progression: SVG is coming off his strongest oval performance to date last weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he led 11 laps and maintained an average running position of 7.81 before rain halted the race, leaving him with an 11th-place finish.Playoff Standings: Van Gisbergen enters the weekend 14th in the official driver standings, holding a 13-point cushion above the cutoff line for The Chase.Road Course Royalty: With his recent win at Watkins Glen on May 10, SVG has won six of the last seven road course events, tying Chase Elliott for the most road course victories (7) in NASCAR\u2019s modern era. He is now the winningest driver in Trackhouse Racing history.\u201cRunaway Kiwi\u201d Documentary: A new documentary produced by SafetyCulture tracking SVG\u2019s rapid rise from Manukau, New Zealand to a 5-time NASCAR winner is now streaming on the official NASCAR YouTube channel and The NASCAR Channel.Schedule of AppearancesSaturday Night: SVG and members of the Trackhouse team will visit Tootsies Orchid Lounge downtown to greet fans.Sunday, 2:30 p.m. local: Trackhouse Merchandise Hauler Autograph Session (Wristband required)Driver Q&A<\/p>\n
Q: You\u2019ve mentioned concrete tracks are more difficult for you. Why is that?<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen: \u201cWell, I\u2019ve never really driven on concrete before and the surface changes so much. The surface is so dynamic. Then, I know Ross won at Nashville a couple of years ago, but concrete tracks have sort of been a downfall for Trackhouse as a team. So just working on that together and seeing where we can improve is important as we go to those types of tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q: You were so fun to watch during the Charlotte 600 last weekend. You led laps in the biggest and hardest race of the year. How did that feel?<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen: \u201cWhen I took the lead from the 54 (Ty Gibbs), I might have cheered a little bit. I\u2019m sure a lot of people will hear that on the in-car camera (laughs). But it was awesome! Our 11th place finish doesn\u2019t show for it, it worked out different. It\u2019s been good progression and I\u2019ve got such a good group of people, not only at Trackhouse, but on the No. 97 car.\u201d<\/p>\n
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