Cindric had approached Hendrick Motorsports executives Jeff Andrews and Chad Knaus following the race in Atlanta. He gave them one of his business cards with a simple message to Larson: Call me. He explained to the reporters that he thought it was better to have a conversation rather than just show up on the race track.
Austin Cindric spun and took out two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron late in Sunday's NASCAR Atlanta race.
After several seasons on NBC, the series has a new broadcast partner, FOX, which promises to cover practice, qualifying, and all the racing on its various sports channels. Longtime Formula 1 guru Will Buxton will anchor the broadcast with James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell alongside him.
NASCAR continues to search for a good way to handle last-lap cautions. Atlanta was nearly a 3-wide finish again. Carson Hocevar introduces himself.
Owen Larson called it when he said his dad wouldn’t win the Daytona 500 because “he probably needs to try really hard because he’s not good at superspeedway racing.”
Kyle Larson will try to snap a 0-for-11 skid in the Daytona 500, and The Associated Press will be embedded with his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team.