{"id":41536,"date":"2025-07-28T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41536\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:12:07","slug":"19-year-old-connor-zilisch-effortlessly-breaks-joey-loganos-long-held-nascar-record-with-special-indy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41536\/","title":{"rendered":"19-Year-Old Connor Zilisch Effortlessly Breaks Joey Logano\u2019s Long-Held NASCAR Record With Special Indy Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One driver who has been the most impressive so far in the Xfinity season has to be Connor Zilisch. He is only a rookie, and 21 races into the season, he has already won 5 times. Not just that, he is currently 2nd in the points standing, only 21 points behind the points leader and defending champion, Justin Allgaier.<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch just never fails to amaze. For the last nine races, he has always finished in the top 5, thrice as the runner-up and four times as the race winner. That\u2019s impressive, given that this is only Zilisch\u2019s rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the prodigy pulled a special one at the recent Indianapolis Motor Speedway race, breaking a record that had been held for a long time by Cup Series\u2019 defending champion, Joey Logano.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Zilisch Had a Record-Breaking Run at Indy<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch\u2019s Indy win was special because it was also JR Motorsports\u2019 100th win in the Xfinity Series. Zilisch was delighted to win it for the team co-owner, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who jumped on the track to hug him as soon as the race was over.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the youngster was pumped. After the win, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/connor-zilisch-earns-jrm-100th-235905784.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Zilisch said,<\/a> \u201cDude, this is awesome. Those bricks look really kissable, and I\u2019m ready to kiss them. This is awesome. 100 wins for JRM.\u201d So this automatically makes the race a memorable one for the 19-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joe_srigley\/status\/1949294351055462889?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">youngest driver to get six wins<\/a> in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Zilsich turned 19 on July 22, making his age on the day of his Indy win 19 years and four days. Logano held the record before Zilisch since he was 19 years, four months, and 16 days old when he got his five victories. The Team Penske driver is currently 35 years old, so technically, he has held that record for more than a decade and a half. That must sting a little.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">YOUNGEST SIX-TIME NXS WINNERS:<\/p>\n<p>Connor Zilisch: 19Y, 0M, 4D<br \/>Joey Logano: 19Y, 4M, 16D<br \/>Ty Gibbs: 19Y, 5M, 15D<br \/>Kyle Busch: 20Y, 0M, 26D<br \/>Erik Jones: 20Y, 3M, 18D<br \/>Sam Mayer: 20Y, 11M, 20D<br \/>Rob Moroso: 21Y, 0M, 11D<br \/>Cole Custer: 21Y, 5M, 6D<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">#NASCAR<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XfinityRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">@XfinityRacing<\/a> | \ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshCalloni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">@JoshCalloni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVcbj6KIsy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/iVcbj6KIsy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joseph Srigley (@joe_srigley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_srigley\/status\/1949294351055462889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s unlikely that Zilisch would be resting with just breaking one record in his debut season. His recent win was his third consecutive one, which puts him just one race away from tying for the most consecutive wins by a driver in the Xfinity Series. Currently, Sam Ard and Noah Gragson hold the record with four wins. Maybe Zilisch could even break this record.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/nascar\/connor-zilisch-love-for-dale-earnhardt-jr-after-jrm-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Zilisch Pours Out \u2018So Much Love\u2019 for Dale Earnhardt Jr. After Massive JRM Milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, there are still more than 10 races left in the season, and given how Zilisch has run so far, he could get at least three more wins, which would make him the winningest rookie in the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/nascar\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"46785\" title=\"NASCAR News, Rumors, and Analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a>. Currently, Christopher Bell holds that record with his seven wins in the 2018 season.\u00a0Only time will tell how the rest of the season unfolds for Zilisch.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One driver who has been the most impressive so far in the Xfinity season has to be Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-41536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41536","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=41536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}