Frontstretch Newsletter: July 6, 2022
Volume XVI, Edition CXIII
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- Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions teams are at Lernerville Speedway in Pennsylvania tonight for the Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup. Coverage is due to begin at 5:45 p.m. ET tonight on FLORacing.com (subscription required).
- Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series teams will be at Iowa's Davenport Speedway for a night of racing. Action from Davenport starts at 6:30 p.m. ET. This is one of the events that will be streamed on both MAVTV Plus and FLORacing.com under the MAVTV on FLORacing banner. Also, if you don't have a FLORacing.com subscription, there's a sale right
now. You can get a yearly subscription for $99 instead of $150. That subscription will also include everything else on FLOSports. Let's just say that they have a lot of content.
- Teams are continuing their preparations for this weekend's action in Atlanta and Ohio. If anything of note breaks, we'll have it for you at Frontstretch.
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| | Bubba Wallace and Christopher Bell Swap Pit Crew Members Ahead of
Atlanta
Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI Racing jointly announced Tuesday that Christopher Bell and Bubba Wallace's teams will swap pit crews going forward. For Wallace's team, this move will hopefully alleviate a series of pit miscues
that have hurt the team this year.
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| | Entry List: 2022 Quaker State
400
For Sunday's 400-mile race in Atlanta, there are 36 teams entered. Garrett Smithley returns to Rick Ware Racing in place of Joey Hand, while Noah Gragson returns to
Cup.
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| | Entry List: 2022 Alsco Uniforms
250
For Saturday's 250-mile NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Atlanta, there are 38 teams entered. Ryan Truex is back in the Gibbs No. 18, while Caesar Bacarella will be in the No.
45. Natalie Decker is back with MBM Motorsports and Jeffrey Earnhardt is in the No. 26.
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| | Entry List: 2022 O’Reilly Auto Parts
150
For Saturday's inaugural NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, there are 36 trucks entered. Five separate drivers (Trey Burke, Mason Filippi,
Stephen Mallozzi, Kenko Miura and Connor Mosack) will all make their series debut, while Taylor Gray returns to David Gilliland Racing.
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| | John Hunter Nemechek Running for Venturini at
Mid-Ohio
Venturini Motorsports announced Tuesday that John Hunter Nemechek will make his ARCA Menards Series debut in the Dawn 150 this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the team's No. 55 Toyota.
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| | Steven Wilson Leads Them All at Road America for 2nd Coca-Cola iRacing Win of
2022
Stewart-Haas eSports' Steven Wilson led flag-to-flag Tuesday night to win the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series event at the virtual Road America for his second win of the
year. Mitchell deJong was second, then Casey Kirwan, Graham Bowlin and Bobby Zalenski.
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Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography and Stewart-Haas eSports.
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