Everyone knows it’s approach too early to be making predictions for the 2025 NASCAR season. Isn’t that why we do these items? So we will look again on the finish and make enjoyable of ourselves? I imply two years in the past I mentioned earlier than the season that Joe Gibbs Racing usually would go winless. That undoubtedly didn’t occur. It’s all in regards to the enjoyable of the sport so let’s get this primary NASCAR article of 2025 rolling!
Denny Hamlin Goes Winless
Denny Hamlin and Victory Lane have been fairly good buddies in latest seasons. He hasn’t had a winless season since 2018 to be particular. Nonetheless, Denny and his quantity eleven workforce as a complete have skilled some fairly large shake-ups as of late. Beginning on the finish of final season when it was introduced FedEx can be leaving after a longstanding relationship with JGR and Denny particularly. Now sponsors have modifications in management and even budgets so they may go away. A number of weeks later it was introduced Chris Gabehart, the crew chief of the eleven-car workforce can be leaving that function. Only recently it was floating round on social media that Mavis Tire who was the first sponsor on Denny’s automobile just a few occasions over the past couple seasons additionally received’t be returning it seems. To not point out the entire stuff occurring outdoors of JGR both.
Since Denny is an proprietor of 23XI Racing. They occur to be going via court docket hearings proper now in opposition to NASCAR. There was a number of noise surrounding Denny and his workforce this low season some might argue possibly greater than in prior. These distractions catch as much as everybody finally. May the 2025 NASCAR season be the start of the downward slide to retirement for Denny?
Trackhouse Turns into Dominant
Most will say that final yr was a down yr for Trackhouse as a workforce. Contemplating they got here on the scene so scorching so rapidly successful three races as a workforce of their first two seasons within the Cup Sequence. They nonetheless had two wins as a workforce, one driver within the playoffs (Suarez), and led over 500 laps as a workforce.
Like a number of us anticipated they’ve added Shane Van Gisbergen into the combo now on a full-time foundation. With the abundance of highway course races on the schedule, they’ve already upped their possibilities of some extra wins as a workforce with that addition. Plus Ross and Daniel haven’t precisely been underperforming as I discussed above. They’re successful drivers themselves. Justin Marks has assembled a stable steady of drivers and constructed a very good workforce round them. Be careful for Trackhouse to essentially grow to be a drive to be reckoned with throughout the 2025 NASCAR season.
Spire and Entrance Row Get Vehicles Into The Playoffs
The performances, we’ve seen in latest seasons out of Entrance Row Motorsports alone ought to warrant this, particularly with the addition of drivers like Noah Gragson, and Zane Smith. It wasn’t however a season or two in the past Michael Mcdowell took them to the playoffs. Plus, I imagine Todd Gilliland goes to take off this season because the chief of the steady. He had some stable showings final season finish-wise and even higher qualifying runs. The query I feel I’ve for FRM is can they as a workforce get previous the entire outdoors noise with the court docket proceedings they’re concerned with alongside 23XI Racing in opposition to NASCAR?
Spire Drivers
Spire is an attention-grabbing workforce to take a look at heading into the 2025 NASCAR season. Justin Haley came visiting mid-season in a uncommon driver swap situation. Whereas he solely had one prime ten end, behind the wheel of the quantity seven automobile. I feel a full low season below his belt again with Spire in addition to the addition of Rodney Childers is just going to profit a man who was driving RWR automobiles to top-ten finishes. Michael McDowell is a stable veteran driver who’s going to convey some extra expertise to the steady. He took FRM to victory lane within the Daytona 500 and even was in a position to seize six pole awards final season. I feel he’ll do what he’s at all times finished, and be stable. The third driver is the one who might have the largest ceiling of all of them via this season. Carson Hocevar. Carson made a number of novice, rookie errors final season. He additionally although drove his tail off and was contending for prime fifteens a number of the time. If he cleans it up this season driver-wise, search for Carson to be the one I count on to steer the cost for Spire.
Conclusion
Denny Hamlin going winless is a big prediction I’m certain I’ll get plenty of pretty responses from Hamlin followers about it. Can Trackhouse and its drivers take the subsequent steps to be one of many dominant groups in NASCAR? Or will simply one of many automobiles from FRM and Spire make it into the playoffs? May a couple of make it? What do you assume? Do you agree? Disagree even? Drop a remark under and let me know!
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