Frontstretch Newsletter: SRX Throws Up A Wild Card For Nashville

Published: Wed, 03/23/22

Frontstretch Newsletter: March 23, 2022
Volume XVI, Edition XXXVIII

What to Watch: Wednesday

- NASCAR teams are continuing to prepare for this weekend's tripleheader at Circuit of the Americas. If anything of note breaks today, we'll have it for you at Frontstretch.

TV Schedule: Here

Around the World in Motorsports: March 22

- Team Stange Racing announced Tuesday that they are launching a driver development program that will bring international racers to the United States that wish to have careers in NASCAR. The first driver that has signed up for the program is Matteo Nannini, second nephew of former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Nannini. He will debut in the ARCA Menards Series at Mid-Ohio in June.

Nannini comes to the program after running full-time last year for HWA Racelab in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. He finished 14th in points with a victory in the second sprint race at the Hungaroring and a third-place finish in the feature race at Barcelona.

Nannini also competed in three of the eight rounds FIA Formula 2 Championship, one for HWA Racelab and two for Campos Racing. His best F2 finish was ninth in the second sprint race in Bahrain. However, points are only awarded down to eighth during sprint races. A 10th-place finish in the Bahrain feature race gave him his only point of the season.

Today's Top News:

SRX Will Decide Extra Nashville Entry By Fan Vote

Superstar Racing Experience announced Tuesday that they will have a Fan Vote to determine the local representative in the SRX race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway. Starting April 3, the track's website will have six drivers available to vote for 33 days.

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Today at Frontstretch:

A Matured Noah Gragson Leads NASCAR Xfinity Points While Gaining Cup Experience

as told to Michael Massie

Eyes on Xfinity: 5 Things To Pay Attention to After 5 Races

by Josh Roller

Tomorrow at Frontstretch.com:

At one point, what is now the ARCA Menards Series was a great place to get Cup experience in Cup cars running Cup engines. You could go straight to Cup from there, bypassing the now-Xfinity Series. That is no longer the case. Is it still a great training ground for future Cup drivers? Trenton Worsham will take a look.

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