{"id":866875,"date":"2026-08-22T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866875\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:06:14","slug":"tristan-mckee-feels-more-comfortable-after-nascar-debut-fast-early-at-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866875\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan McKee feels &#8216;more comfortable&#8217; after NASCAR debut; fast early at New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan McKee has only been old enough to drive for 18 days, yet he&#8217;s coming off an eighth-place finish in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Craftsman Truck Series debut at Richmond on Aug. 15 and starts fifth in Saturday&#8217;s Truck Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old driver from Kannapolis, North Carolina, won in his ARCA debut at Watkins Glen last year and already conducts himself in a very professional manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel much more comfortable now,&#8221; McKee said Friday at NHMS. &#8220;Running through pit road a couple times, racing with all the guys, how the stages work, how everything works. I feel like I got a couple reps on all of that now. I feel much more comfortable going into this week, and I kind of know how it&#8217;s going to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel much more prepared. I feel like there were some things that I knew what to prepare on this week after getting a race in. Definitely feeling much better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McKee turned 52 laps in Friday&#8217;s practice session, with his fastest time being 29.996 seconds\/126.977 mph around the one-mile racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>If last week&#8217;s race at Richmond and Friday&#8217;s track activity were any indication, another top 10 \u2014 or even a top five run \u2014 could be in the cards for the promising young prospect on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quotes provided by NASCAR Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristan McKee has only been old enough to drive for 18 days, yet he&#8217;s coming off an eighth-place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-866875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866875","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=866875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}