William Byron says NASCAR’s Martinsville race pushed his heart rate to almost 200 beats per minute

The NASCAR driver described his in-car conditions as “hell in a bottle.”

NASCAR is an endurance sport, and racing on Martinsville Speedway’s 0.526-mile short track is never easy. But NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 last Sunday was extra grueling for William Byron, who afterward described the inside of his car feeling like “hell in a bottle.”

Physically drained after the 500-lap, 263-mile race, Byron has the biometric stats to prove it, too. He told For The Win his heart rate spiked to 189 beats per minute at the end of the race, during which he burned through a whopping 3,100 calories.

With outside temperatures in the mid-80s and Byron frustrated with his struggling No. 24 Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet, it was an exhausting three-and-a-half-hour race, especially when it can hit 130 degrees inside the car. Afterward, he said he couldn’t get fresh air in his helmet, and his vision was going blurry toward the final laps — though he still advanced for the first time in his sixth Cup Series seasons to NASCAR’s Championship 4 to compete for a title Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

“It was just a really tough situation being in the back of the pack and not having a lot of fresh air,” Byron told For The Win on Wednesday, noting it was brutal but not all bad.

“And then combine that with some helmet issues that we had going on with the fan — it was tough, for sure,” he continued. “But I enjoyed it. You know, I enjoyed the challenge of it, looking back on it. I definitely will kind of cherish that race and all that we went through. And I feel like some of that might help us this weekend, just being just being tougher and having gone through a lot.”

Many NASCAR drivers track their biometrics during races to track their health and endurance, along with their cross-training. A few years ago, one driver lost almost 10 pounds during a race.

Byron said he previously used the WHOOP app but switched to his Apple Watch because he likes to cross-train with swimming and the watch tracks his laps.

The No. 24 driver — who enters Sunday’s title race with six wins on the season, including the Phoenix checkered flag in March — knew the Martinsville race was a rough outing. But even he was stunned to see his heart rate higher than he said it’s ever been.

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He says he’s recovered now and ready to take on teammate Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Christopher Bell in Sunday’s championship race. But he knows last week’s race was a wild ride he’d prefer not to repeat.

“It was it was pretty high. I mean, definitely uncomfortable high for me, I’m usually around 175 is kind of my [in-race] max. So it was about 14 beats higher, so pretty intense. …

“In race, I’m usually like 175 [beats per minute], maybe 180 on certain tracks. But I’ve never seen it as high as I was on Sunday. So crazy.”

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Kyle Larson still doesn’t like Ross Chastain’s Martinsville video game move: ‘It’s not fair racing’

Kyle Larson said Ross Chastain’s Martinsville move “took guts” but still doesn’t think it’s fair.

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Ahead of the NASCAR Cup Series championship race Sunday, one storyline has absolutely dominated the racing world, and rightfully so.

Ross Chastain pulled off the unthinkable last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway with a video game move on the last lap. With a spot in the title race on the line, he floored it, rode the wall, passed his competitors at a ridiculous rate and snuck into the Championship 4. It was wild, and the physics of it actually worked.

But not everyone in the NASCAR garage is a fan.

Afterward at Martinsville, 2021 Cup champion Kyle Larson called it “a bad look” for the sport and said he’s embarrassed he tried and failed to do something similar last season at Darlington Raceway.

Friday at Phoenix, Larson said his opinion on the move — now dubbed the “Hail Melon”as a nod to Chastain’s watermelon farming roots — hasn’t changed.

“I’d love to say after listening to all the fans that my opinion has changed because they’re very educated,” Larson said. “But no, it hasn’t.”

“It doesn’t take any talent to floor it against the wall and go two seconds quicker than the field,” the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver added. “I don’t think that’s fair. It’s not fair at all.”

He acknowledged that it was “crazy,” “awesome” and “took guts.” But he said he’s concerned about safety and consistency, as well as the integrity of the sport.

“When a car scares the wall with five [laps] to go and doesn’t even touch the wall, they throw a caution because they want to set up a good finish,” Larson said. “At the end of the race, it should be no different, especially with something obvious like that. …

“And it’s nothing personal against Ross. It could be anyone in the field to pull that move, and I would have felt the same way about it. It’s not fair racing.”

Larson again pointed to his embarrassment after he tried a similar move in an attempt to get around Denny Hamlin for the lead.

“I’ve done it before, so I’m being hypocritical,” Larson continued. “But I’m glad I did not win because I would not have been able to sleep at night and be proud of it, just like I don’t think I’d be proud to be in the final four with a move like that.”

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Q&A: We asked a physicist to explain how Ross Chastain’s video game move at Martinsville actually worked

For The Win asked Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, a physicist, to explain how in the world Ross Chastain pulled off that wild move.

Ross Chastain pulled off the unthinkable at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday when he hugged the wall and slingshot his car around the top lane of the 0.526-mile short track to pass five cars in a handful of seconds.

Sports fans everywhere were in absolute awe by Chastain’s video game move, which advanced him to NASCAR’s championship race Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

“My brain could not comprehend, my bandwidth was shot,” Chastain said in his post-race press conference. “When I entered Turn 3 and I grabbed fifth gear, everything went blurry.”

Not only was Chastain’s last lap faster than the Kyle Larson’s top qualifying time, but it also broke the 75-year-old track’s record for the fastest lap in a stock car at 18.845 seconds. And, as the Associated Press noted, “he was hurtling at between 50 and 70 mph faster than the cars he was sailing past as the wall guided him.”

To be honest, we still can’t really comprehend how he did it either, and perhaps the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet driver feels similarly, even if he executed the move perfectly.

“I have questions; how did that work?” Chastain joked in his post-race press conference.

Same. So we asked a physicist to break it down.

Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky is a former physics professor with a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D on the subject. She also has a penchant for motor sports — using NASCAR to promote science education and working as a contributor for NBC Sports — and wrote the 2008 book, The Physics of NASCAR.

And she explained how and why Chastain’s move worked with a perfect analogy.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

NASCAR drivers’ and spotters’ real-time reactions to Ross Chastain’s wild Martinsville move are pure gold

Pretty much everyone had the same stunned reaction: “Holy [expletive]! Did you see that?!”

Ross Chastain didn’t hold back Sunday at Martinsville Speedway on the last lap of the race. He did everything he could think of to get himself and team into NASCAR’s Championship 4 and delivered a truly jaw-dropping move that had the racing world in awe.

Seriously though, so many people — the broadcasters, fellow drivers, team members, fans, pretty much everybody — said they had never seen anything like what Chastain on the last lap.

After realizing he still needed to gain a couple spots to make the championship race, the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet driver shifted into fifth gear, rode the wall and shot around the 0.526-mile track, advancing from 10th to fifth in a matter of seconds.

It was actually unreal, and it was enough to get Chastain into the championship.

There have been some amazing moments since Chastain’s wild Martinsville move, including him saying it was actually inspired by a video game.

But unquestionably one of the best is NASCAR compiling the radio audio from different teams at the end of the race as they reacted to Chastain’s gutsy call.

With spotters talking to their drivers and guiding them through the final lap, they were all in disbelief, and their reactions were priceless.

Christopher Bell won the Martinsville race, Joey Logano previously won and Chase Elliott joined Chastain in making the title race based on points in the standings.

Joey Logano and the No. 22 Ford team:
“Holy cow, I guess it does work.”

“Holy [expletive]! Did you see that?! Hahahaha.”

Chase Briscoe and the No. 14 Ford team:
“Oh my god — coming to the checkered flag — I can’t believe what I just saw.”

“That’s literally the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Bubba Wallace and the No. 45 Toyota team
“Watch it, the 1 ripping this outside wall in the fence. Holy [expletive]! Unbelievable.”

“WOOOWWWW!”

“That’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen the 1 done.”

Erik Jones and the No. 45 Chevrolet team
“The [expletive] was the 1 doing?! … He really passed people doing that?”

“Yeah, he got in the final four doing that.”

“Holy [expletive].”

Chase Elliott and the No. 9 Chevrolet team
“Coming to the checkered, gap of one. Cover your bottom up off… what in the hell?”

Denny Hamlin and the No. 11 Toyota team
Hamlin and his team were battling with Chastain and co. for the final championship spot, and you can hear the dejection in Hamlin’s voice when he realizes he got beat.

“I guess we just lost on that?”

“Well, I’ve never seen anything like it. But Bell wins, he’s in. And the 1 Hail Mary’d the fence in [Turns] 3 and 4 and got it.”

“I did all I could do, Chris,” Hamlin said to Chris Gabehart, his crew chief.

Ross Chastain and the No. 1 Chevrolet team
After the race, Chastain said he was told he needed two spots in the race to make the championship, and that’s when he decided to just go for it.

“Need two spots here.”

“Gotta get them?” Chastain asks.

“Yeah, gotta get them, need two.”

“Keep coming. Hang on, man.”

“Talk to me, boys.”

“You made the transfer! YOU MADE THE TRANSFER, MAN! That was [expletive] ridiculous, dude!”

“I don’t know how long you’ve been sitting on that move, but that was [expletive] incredible.”

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NASCAR driver Ty Gibbs compared himself to Jesus after controversial Martinsville bump, fans absolutely roast him

Our latest NASCAR Feud of the Week is basically Ty Gibbs vs. everybody.

Welcome to FTW’s NASCAR Feud of the Week, where we provide a detailed breakdown of the latest absurd, funny and sometimes legitimate controversies and issues within the racing world.

It’s Ty Gibbs versus everybody in this latest edition of Feud of the Week. And we actually mean everybody — his teammate, his competitors, the fans in the grandstands at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday night, as well as those on the internet. Everybody.

And he got roasted by pretty much everybody.

The 20-year-old Xfinity Series driver has quickly gained a reputation for being a super aggressive driver who has no problem knocking other cars out of his way. Gibbs — who drives the No. 54 Toyota for his grandfather’s team, Joe Gibbs Racing — also got into an actual fist fight with another driver earlier this season.

Here’s a breakdown of how Gibbs won at Martinsville, how he and others reacted to his controversial bump of his teammate and all the ways the NASCAR world roasted him for his behavior.

Denny Hamlin on recent boos from angry NASCAR fans: ‘Rather be booed than ignored’

Denny Hamlin on his frustration with Alex Bowman, his haters and his championship hopes.

PHOENIX — Denny Hamlin was greeted by a chorus of boos as he gave his post-race interview after Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway.

Late in the race, Hamlin and eventual winner Alex Bowman were fighting for the lead and made contact on the track, sending Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota for a spin before he ultimately finished 24th. And then, while still in the car, Hamlin confronted Bowman on the track, interrupted the No. 48 Chevrolet driver’s victory celebration and flipped him off. And then called him “an absolute hack” in the pit road interview.

But between the boos and controversy and competing Sunday at Phoenix Raceway for his first NASCAR championship, Hamlin embraces it all and said: “My life is chaos, and I thrive under chaos.”

He even welcomes the boos.

“Rather be booed than ignored,” Hamlin said Thursday. “The moment you’re ignored, it’s bad news. You’re on your way out. … It’s just fuel for me. My tank is absolutely full with motivation.”

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Martinsville on Sunday wasn’t the first time Hamlin angered fans at the Virginia short track. Most notably, during the 2017 Martinsville playoff race, he wrecked Chase Elliott, NASCAR’s reigning most popular driver who’s also competing against Hamlin for the title.

Fans weren’t too happy about that, but Hamlin said popularity among them doesn’t matter to him “because it doesn’t correlate to common sense.”

“We were the guys that were crashed, and we were booed?” he continued. “I’m confused. What’s going on? Obviously, people were passionate about their driver, which, that’s OK. But, honestly, it doesn’t make any sense in the grand scheme of what’s actually going on. It’s just bitter fans from half a decade ago. They just cannot get over it.”

However, Hamlin did credit Elliott for handling the weight of his popularity “really, really well.”

But, the No. 11 driver said: “As soon as you do something negative towards someone who is very popular, you will forever have that kind of badge on your uniform.”

Hamlin also brought up the issue of respect on the track with how he felt Bowman raced him. Bowman was a playoff driver but had been eliminated before the Martinsville race. Hamlin said Bowman “just didn’t respect my position” and is still mad at him for racing with “a lack of situation awareness,” as the No. 11 team was still competing for a spot in the Championship 4.

Of course, Hamlin and his team still advanced to the title race, but that was no guarantee. And he pointed to the feud between Elliott and Kevin Harvick, which developed early in the playoffs over how the two raced each other. It then escalated at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval race when Harvick punted Elliott’s car, which smacked the wall.

“There was controversy a few weeks ago, right?” Hamlin said. “And eventually, one of the drivers said, ‘I’ve had enough, I’m done taking your [expletive], I’m going to crash you.’ I think that that probably needs to happen a little bit more often to get some of the respect back.

“Obviously, NASCAR’s not going to police the stuff. This is stuff that certainly fuels popularity. The drivers have to get back to self-policing I think. That probably is going to have to come through the hard way.”

Although there were no official penalties, NASCAR officials did intervene after the Roval race and threatened Harvick’s and Elliott’s teams with “serious consequences” if their on-track feud didn’t cease, the Associated Press reported.

As far as this weekend’s championship race goes, Hamlin said he has a business-as-usual approach and just wants to have fun and win his first title. But the competition is steep, and he has little doubt that at some point, he and the other title contenders — Elliott, Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. — will be running 1-2-3-4.

Hamlin has had a successful, storied career with 16 full-time Cup Series season and 46 wins, including three Daytona 500s (2016, 2019, 2020), but a championship has continued to elude him. He’s arguably the most successful NASCAR driver ever without a title on his resume.

And while Hamlin obviously wants to win on Sunday, he said he’s “at peace with whatever the result is.”

“Certainly this year, I’ve just been more comfortable in general with who I am, the accomplishments that we’ve had,” Hamlin said. “I’ve accomplished way more than I ever would have imagined, for sure.

“I’m content, and I’m at peace with, like, myself and my career. I could quit on Monday — maybe I will, maybe I won’t — and be happy with everything I’ve done.”

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NASCAR playoffs: Predicting which 4 drivers will make it to the championship finale

Who will be in NASCAR’s final Championship 4 and who will be eliminated from the playoffs?

Well, these NASCAR playoffs, especially the Round of 8, haven’t exactly played out like surely most people expected — unless, of course, you expected Kyle Larson to win four of the eight postseason races so far.

Not only did Larson win the Round of 12 closer at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval, but he also won the first two of three Round of 8 races and heads into this weekend at Martinsville Speedway as the only driver locked into the Championship 4. And that means the three remaining spots are up for grabs for the other seven playoff drivers.

Larson aside, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch are the other drivers who are ahead of the top-4 cutoff line going into Martinsville, and, if the standings remain the same through the Xfinity 500 (which is highly unlikely), Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano will be the next four drivers eliminated from championship contention.

NASCAR playoffs guide: Everything you need to know about the postseason format

So who will advance, and who will be eliminated?

Here’s a breakdown of the playoff picture, how drivers can advance and our predictions for the final Championship 4 lineup.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. reveals his lone 2022 NASCAR race, and fans can pick the paint scheme

Dale Jr. is officially returning to the NASCAR track for one 2022 race.

Fans who loved seeing Dale Earnhardt Jr. behind the wheel at Richmond Raceway in September for his one-off NASCAR race in 2021 won’t have to wait a full year to see him compete again.

Although 47-year-old Earnhardt retired from full-time NASCAR racing at the end of the 2017 Cup Series season, he’s been returning to the track for one second-tier Xfinity Series race each season with his team, JR Motorsports.

And Tuesday in the latest episode of his podcast, The Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt announced he’ll compete in the Xfinity race at Martinsville Speedway in April, and he’ll be back behind the wheel of the No. 88 Chevrolet for his lone annual event.

“I love short tracks. When it comes down to it, short track racing is what I love to do,” Earnhardt said in a release. “Races at Martinsville are always a blast, so I’m really excited about this opportunity. Unilever has been a great partner, and I’m thankful to them for allowing me to go race at Martinsville. I’m going to get in there in the thick of it and have some fun.”

Fans will also be able to vote for Earnhardt’s paint scheme in the race. There are three options for the look with Hellmann’s as the primary sponsor, and per JR Motorsports, the voting will run through November 17.

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Since retiring from full-time racing, this will be Dale Jr.’s fifth Xfinity race. He finished fourth at Richmond in 2018, fifth at both Darlington Raceway in 2019 and Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2020 and 14th at Richmond in September.

Before his Richmond race this year, Earnhardt explained he had his sights set on Martinsville for his one 2022 race, but between sponsor requirements and wanting to avoid competing in a playoff race, he wasn’t sure if it would happen.

But clearly, things have worked out for the 15-time most popular driver to return to one of his favorite tracks.

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Daniel Suárez throws water bottle at William Byron, promises on-track revenge

“Tell the [expletive] 24 that I’m going to get him back.”

Welcome to FTW’s NASCAR Feud of the Week, where we provide a detailed breakdown of the latest absurd, funny and sometimes legitimate controversies and issues within the racing world.

This weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway was fairly entertaining — even if the first few laps happened Saturday night while the race finished up Sunday afternoon because of weather.

And aside from Martin Truex Jr. becoming the first repeat winner of the season — winning his third grandfather clock in the last four races at the iconic track — perhaps the best moment of the race involved a huge, parking-lot style wreck, a car on fire and a water bottle flying through the air above the short track.

The latest feud of the week between Daniel Suárez and William Byron seems like a pretty simple and kind of a hilarious one. So let’s get right to it.

Daniel Suárez’s struggles began before the race did

All things considered, Suárez was having a decent race. Behind the wheel of the No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, Suárez had to start at the back of the field after his team was penalized during pre-race inspections (his crew chief was ejected for the race too). But he worked his way up from the back, and by the third and final stage of the 500-lap race, Suárez was up flirting with the top-10.

The No. 99 car was running on the outside just ahead of Byron in the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet when Bryon appeared to make contact with Suárez’s bumper. That sent the No. 99 car up the track and into the wall, and Suárez lost several positions because of it.

Not long after that contact, a massive wreck unfolded out of Turn 2 on the backstretch, collecting several cars, including Suárez’s. This video shows both the contact between Byron and Suárez, as well as the huge, 12-car crash that quickly followed.

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William Byron apologizes, but Daniel Suárez promises revenge

After the contact between the No. 24 and No. 99, Byron said on his team’s radio (just before the three-minute mark in the video below):

“You can tell that 99, ‘Sorry.'”

But Byron’s spotter, Tad Boyd, responded saying he shouldn’t be sorry for that move.

Whether or not Suárez received Byron’s apology, he wasn’t happy in that moment and had a message of his own.

Suárez: “Tell the [expletive] 24 that I’m going to get him back.”

Steve Barkdoll, spotter: “10-4. We owe him one big.”

And these two teams weren’t the only ones to comment on the incident. Via RACER magazine’s Kelly Crandall:

Daniel Suárez’s car caught fire, and his day was done

Arguably triggered by Bryon bumping Suárez out of the way, Suárez was in the wrong place at the wrong time when this short-track “big one” happened, and he was unable to continue racing. Which makes sense because flames were flying out of his car.

Thankfully, Suárez was able to get out of his fiery car and was OK. But before he left the car and the track, he chucked his water bottle at Byron in the No. 24 as he passed by.

Not that the tiny amount of water would have extinguished the flames coming from his car, but it’s pretty funny that rather than vainly tossing that water on the fire, Suárez opted to throw it at Byron. (It’s not the first time a Hendrick Motorsports driver has had a beverage thrown at him at a race.)

What Daniel Suárez had to say after his race-ending wreck

After being cleared by the infield care center following the crash, Suárez blamed Byron for forcing him into being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In an interview with FOX Sports, he explained what happened from his perspective in the wreck before shifting to the No. 24 team.

Suárez said:

“In that wreck, it’s nothing really I could do. I was trying to slam on the brakes to try to slow down, but it was a parking lot in there. I couldn’t do anything about it. The No. 24 car put us in that position. He pushed me out of the way. I had a few laps older tires than everyone else. …

“This weekend, overall, wasn’t great. We came from the back several times. We had a fast car, but we made bad adjustments, bad calls from the spotter a few times. It just wasn’t a clean weekend.”

Unable to continue racing, Suárez was handed a 32nd-place finish. Byron came in fourth.

And the NASCAR world will just have to wait and see if Suárez has since moved on from this incident or if he’ll follow through with some on-track revenge.

The next NASCAR Cup Series race is the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FOX).

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From giant lobsters to grandfather clocks, NASCAR’s top-14 novelty trophies, ranked

NASCAR has so many fun and wild novelty trophies, so we ranked our favorites.

It’s undeniable: NASCAR and the tracks it competes at deliver some pretty spectacular trophies to Cup Series race winners.

Sure, there are plenty of traditional-looking trophies that are treasured and will surely be part of drivers’ display cases and trophy rooms. But many of those are also subject to change — in name and design — based on the race sponsor, and other than signifying another tally in the win column, they might not mean much.

Instead, we’re talking about the icons, the staples, the ones drivers can spend their careers chasing because they’re so uniquely coveted. We’re talking about the novelty trophies — whether they’re quirky, funky, steeped in tradition or synonymous with the track presenting them.

And NASCAR has some fantastic ones. So here is our ranking of the top-14 novelty trophies the sport’s tracks give their race winners.

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