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Winners, losers from NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta won by Chase Elliott
Here is look at the winners and losers from this past weekend at EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Ga. WINNERS Chase Elliott — Won at his home track for the second time in his Cup career. Masterful race capped by last-lap pass that created an electric atmosphere when the checkered flag waved. Elliott snapped a 44-race winless drought and moved to second in the points after his third consecutive top-five finish. Dustin Long, Brad Keselowski — While he still needs a win to make the playoffs, his runner-up finish is his fourth top 10 in the last six races — his best stretch of the season. Alex Bowman — His third-place finish moved him off the playoff cutline. It is his second top-five finish in the last three races. Next up for the series is the Chicago Street Race, which Bowman won last year. Tyler Reddick — His fourth-place finish was just his second top 10 in the last 10 races. Legacy Motor Club — Erik Jones' fifth-place finish gives Legacy MC a top-10 finish in three consecutive races. That is the team's longest streak of top-10 finishes this season. John Hunter Nemechek had finished sixth in each of the last two races. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — His sixth-place result tied for his second-best finish of the year. Zane Smith — His seventh-place result ties for his best result of the season. He has placed seventh in two of the last four races. Ty Dillon — Finished a season-best eighth and provided the biggest upset of the In-Season Challenge. As the No. 32 seed, he eliminated No. 1 seed Denny Hamlin and said on TNT after the race: 'All you Denny fans out there, I just knocked your favorite driver out.' LOSERS Ryan Blaney — Collected in the big crash and finished last in the 40-car field. It is his sixth DNF of the season, tying him with Bubba Wallace for most in the season. Bubba Wallace — Finished 22nd and fell in the standings. He holds the final playoff spot with eight races left in the regular season. He leads Ryan Preece by 23 points. Joey Logano — Pole-sitter was collected in the big crash and finished 36th. This marks his fourth consecutive finish outside the top 15, his longest streak of the season.
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30-04-2025
- Automotive
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Details of Legacy MC agreement to purchase charter from Rick Ware Racing revealed in court
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina Superior Court judge denied a preliminary injunction Wednesday that Legacy Motor Club sought to keep Rick Ware Racing from possibly selling the charter that Legacy MC states it purchased. The hearing, scheduled for one hour, lasted nearly three hours before Judge Clifton H. Smith. At issue is what charter Legacy MC purchased from Rick Ware Racing and when they would have access to it. Among details revealed in court: Judge Smith noted that Legacy MC purchased a charter from Rick Ware Racing for 'roughly $45 million.' That makes it the highest price for a charter. The agreement calls for Rick Ware Racing to sell Charter No. 36 (currently used by the No. 51 car of Cody Ware). However, Legacy MC's attorney noted that the wording in the contract described the charter to be purchased as Charter 27, which also is owned by Rick Ware Racing but is being leased to RFK Racing this year for the No. 60 car of Ryan Preece. An attorney for Rick Ware Racing said two weeks after the agreement was signed the two sides met at Las Vegas where Legacy MC offered to pay RWR $5 million more to purchase Charter 27 so it could have three chartered cars next season. It was also noted in court that RFK Racing has an agreement with Rick Ware Racing to lease Charter 36 (the one being used by Cody Ware this year) next season. Teams are allowed to lease a charter once every seven years. Dustin Long, A key issue Wednesday in court was the contract and the confusion created by it. Keith Forst, an attorney who represented Legacy MC, said in court that the wrong charter number in the agreement was a result of what Rick Ware told the attorney writing the contract. Robert Marcus, attorney for Rick Ware Racing, said in court that Ware always intended to sell Charter 36 (being used by Cody Ware this season in the No. 51) and didn't intend to sell the charter used by RFK Racing. 'I don't think this contract makes any sense,' Marcus said in court ' … It's chalk full of mistakes.' Forst said the contract suggests otherwise. 'It is crystal clear that this purchase agreement covers (Charter) 27 and not 36, not withstanding the misidentification of the number,' Forst said in court. '… We wanted the charter that is being currently leased (Charter 27).' Marcus went through a timeline in the court of key moments in the deal. He stated that a text on March 3 shows Ware's understanding that the contract is for Charter 36 and that the deal was signed. He stated that on March 4, Legacy MC went to NASCAR to inform officials they had an agreement to purchase a charter. Marcus said in court that 'on March 4, they knew that Charter 36 is the charter that was meant to be used by RFK Racing next year.' He noted the March 15 meeting in Las Vegas when Legacy MC upped its offer by $5 million to get Charter 27 to race it next year Marcus said that 'selling Charter 27 puts Rick Ware Racing out of business,' noting that it would leave RWR without a charter for next season since there is an agreement with RFK Racing for it to lease Charter 36 next season. The two sides were in court Wednesday because Legacy MC had a temporary restraining order granted but wanted to make it a preliminary injunction to ensure that Rick Ware Racing didn't sell Charter 27 elsewhere. After the judge's decision, Ware said in a statement: 'RWR is gratified by the Court's decision in this case. It's good to be vindicated.' Cal Wells, CEO of Legacy Motor Club, who was in the courtroom, said of Wednesday's decision: 'Part of the journey.'
