{"id":144354,"date":"2025-09-09T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:26:10","slug":"thorsport-racing-takes-on-bristol-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144354\/","title":{"rendered":"ThorSport Racing Takes on Bristol &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKE GARCIA \u2013 No. 13<\/p>\n<p>Quanta Services | Ford F-150<\/p>\n<p>IG: @Jakegarcia_35 | FB: Jake Garcia Racing<\/p>\n<p>Jake Garcia and the No. 13 team opened the Playoffs with a strong performance, running inside the top 10 throughout and finishing 10th at Darlington. Garcia currently sits +2 in 8th place in the Playoff standings and will look to build on that momentum. Bristol offers another opportunity, where he showed speed earlier this year with a 7th-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Series Career\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Starts: 69<\/p>\n<p>Top-Five Finishes: 5<\/p>\n<p>Top-Ten Finishes: 20<\/p>\n<p>Pole: 2<\/p>\n<p>Laps Led: 92<\/p>\n<p>2025 at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>Start: 5<\/p>\n<p>Finish: 7<br \/>Matt Crafton \u2013 No. 88<\/p>\n<p>Menards \/ Planters | Ford F-150<\/p>\n<p>IG: @Matt_Crafton | FB: Matt Crafton<\/p>\n<p>Matt Crafton and the No. 88 team didn\u2019t get the results they were hoping for at Darlington, fighting through a lack of speed and race issues. Looking ahead to Bristol, Crafton has shown strong pace in recent visits and will look to run up front Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Series Career\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Starts: 586<\/p>\n<p>Wins: 15<\/p>\n<p>Pole Position: 16<\/p>\n<p>Top-Five Finishes: 135<\/p>\n<p>Top-Ten Finishes: 331<\/p>\n<p>Laps Led: 2,728<\/p>\n<p>2025 at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>Start: 27<\/p>\n<p>Finish: 16<br \/>Ty Majeski \u2013 No. 98<\/p>\n<p>Soda Sense | Ford F-150<\/p>\n<p>X: @TyMajeski | FB: Ty Majeski<\/p>\n<p>Ty Majeski and the No. 98 team had a strong day at Darlington. After showing solid speed early, a tire went down and set them back a lap. The crew delivered on pit road, and the team rallied to finish 4th. Majeski now sits +16 above the cut line heading into Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>Series Career<\/p>\n<p>Starts: 108<\/p>\n<p>Wins: 6<\/p>\n<p>Pole Position: 11<\/p>\n<p>Top-Five Finishes: 34<\/p>\n<p>Top-Ten Finishes: 60<\/p>\n<p>Laps Led: 1,559<\/p>\n<p>2025 at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>Start: 8<\/p>\n<p>Finish: 33<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rhodes \u2013 No. 99<\/p>\n<p>No. 99 Campers Inn RV | Ford F-150<\/p>\n<p>IG: @benrhodes | FB: Ben Rhodes<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rhodes and the No. 99 team showed top-10 speed for much of the race at Darlington before ultimately finishing 11th. Looking ahead to Bristol, Rhodes is eager to return to a track where the team was strong earlier this year, scoring a top-5 finish. The No. 99 group will aim to carry that speed into Thursday night\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Series Career\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Starts: 229<\/p>\n<p>Wins: 7<\/p>\n<p>Pole Position: 6<\/p>\n<p>Top-Five Finishes: 63<\/p>\n<p>Top-Ten Finishes: 119<\/p>\n<p>Laps Led: 1,279<\/p>\n<p>2025 at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>Start: 6<\/p>\n<p>Finish: 5<\/p>\n<p>Thorsport PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKE GARCIA \u2013 No. 13 Quanta Services | Ford F-150 IG: @Jakegarcia_35 | FB: Jake Garcia Racing Jake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[48827,10136,15757,89677,425,2094,562,2095,99,89678],"class_list":["post-144354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ben-rhodes","tag-ford","tag-group","tag-matt-crafton","tag-nascar","tag-racing","tag-series","tag-speed","tag-sports","tag-thorsport-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}