by Dan Beaver Updated On: July 9, 2021, 6:57 pm ET
There have been five races so far this year on similarly-configured, 1.5-mile tracks in the Xfinity Series. Four of these, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, and Charlotte Motor Speedway, were run in conjunction with a Cup points race. The other was part of the All-Star weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
In those five races, five different drivers visited Victory Lane, which suggests a parity that might not actually exist. Joe Gibbs Racing won the last two 1.5-mile races with Ty Gibbs behind the wheel at Charlotte and Kyle Busch at Texas where he earned his 100th Xfinity race in dominant fashion.
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How Cliff Daniels Became the Hottest Crew Chief in the NASCAR Cup Series
Early chemistry and NASCAR Cup success for Kyle Larson and Cliff Daniels remind some of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus.
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Crew chief Cliff Daniels and driver Kyle Larson have a 19-race scorecard of 11 top-5 finishes, including four victories, plus five runner-up finishes, a fourth, and a fifth.
Daniels spent time between 1999 and 2005 racing on a semi-regular basis at Southside in Richmond, Langley in Hampton (Va.), and at Charlotte. He harbored a passion for driving, but reality and not enough funding ended that career path.