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More from Robb Report This $79 Million Home by Architect Tom Kundig Is Poised to Set a Sales Record in Washington NASCAR Legend Martin Truex Jr. Just Listed His North Carolina Estate for $7.5 Million Sting's Former Home in London's Leafy Hampstead Just Hit the Market for $16.4 Million Best of Robb Report The 10 Priciest Neighborhoods in America (And How They Got to Be That Way) In Pictures: Most Expensive Properties Click here to read the full article. Expansive glass walls on either side of a double-height central atrium roll up via architect Tom Kundig's signature wheeled apparatus. The atrium's rear wall opens to picturesque views of Lake Washington. The living room. A continuation of the living room. The formal dining room. The spacious great room holds living and dining areas across from a kitchen. The living area. The dining area. The kitchen. The sedate library. The primary bedroom. A fireside sitting room in the primary suite. The primary bath is equipped with a massive soaking tub. The primary's private patio. The 10,000-plus-bottle wine cellar comes with a pulley system for whisking vintages up to a bar located between the kitchen and dining room. The pool and spa. The lakeside pavilion has a two-way fireplace, barbecue station, and stackable wood doors that close off the space. There is 434 feet of lake frontage. The dock. An aerial view of the property, which rests on 3.4 acres in the exclusive Yarrow Point enclave.
New York Times
3 days ago
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Chase Elliott's latest victory reminds us that distance does not equal disinterest
As Chase Elliott basked in the adulation of the crowd at his hometown track on Saturday night, he made a mental note to open his mind and absorb as much of it as he possibly could. It was one of the moments where 'you just wish you could bottle it up, get it out every now and again, and relive it,' Elliott said. It was a full sensory experience Elliott said he'll 'remember for the rest of my life.' Advertisement 'I'm not sure anything has ever matched that,' he said a couple hours later after the cheers had died down. 'It was crazy. I've never been on stage and been a singer or anything, (but) I would have to imagine it would feel something like that.' Does that sound like a guy who doesn't care about his job? A dude who is checked out? Of course not. It's just that when it comes to Elliott, the work/life balance he carries often gets mistaken for disinterest — and when he's not winning, it becomes an increasingly glaring focus among the fan base. He's not committed! Does he even want to do this? That's partly because of what Elliott allows us to see — which admittedly isn't much. But just because it gets repeated so often doesn't make it true. The misunderstanding probably starts with where he chooses to live. Unlike 95 percent of NASCAR drivers, Elliott does not live in North Carolina. He resides in his hometown of Dawsonville, Ga., and is not immersed in the Charlotte area's racing bubble. Like Carl Edwards did while living in Missouri or like Martin Truex Jr. did in the latter years of his career while splitting time between New Jersey and Florida, Elliott's living situation allows him to disconnect from NASCAR during the week as much as he can without taking away from his competitive efforts. Though he has social media accounts, Elliott does not post on them himself — or seemingly even scroll through his timeline. Whatever doesn't help make his car go faster is something he's not interested in — and that includes keeping up on the latest NASCAR news. It creates eyebrow-raising situations like last week at Pocono, when Elliott said he didn't know anything about the in-season tournament and was surprised to learn there was a $1 million prize for the winner. NASCAR fans, who consume every morsel of news and insight about their favorite sport, have a hard time reconciling how they can know so much more about what's going on in racing than NASCAR's most popular driver does. Advertisement So whenever he goes through a drought, Elliott's aloof approach to NASCAR-related topics creates an easy target for his critics. It probably doesn't help that he is open about it, too. Last year, for example, Elliott told The Athletic he consumes 'literally as little as I can' when it comes to NASCAR news. But when you listen to the rest of what he says and read between the lines, it's more layered than it appears. 'I really just don't find it to be helpful,' he said of being immersed in the NASCAR minutiae. 'I don't see where reading into a lot of those things is productive, even in the slightest. So I've really tried to just shift my priorities and the things I view that matter to me. Scrolling through the internet on things that just simply don't make a difference, I have just chosen to eliminate, and I feel like I'm a better competitor for it.' A GEORGIA BOY AND HIS PEOPLE! 💚@chaseelliott | #QS400 — EchoPark Speedway (@EchoParkSpdwy) June 29, 2025 Though Elliott is still only 29, he has always been exceptionally mature and worldly. At some point in his mid-20s, he realized he was saying 'yes' to too many commitments and spreading himself too thin. In his mind, those are the things that hurt competitiveness — not being ignorant about the magnitude of another driver's penalty that doesn't affect him personally. 'When I decided I wanted to be a race car driver, I didn't decide to pursue that because I wanted to be on TV or get a bunch of attention,' he said during his conversation with The Athletic last year. 'That was just never a thought in my mind. It was all about, 'Man, these guys are great race car drivers. That would be so cool to do.' 'I really admired and respected whoever's craft I was watching. I love the amount of discipline it takes to be at the top of this garage. That is the most important thing in my view. … Competitive on-track performance is the whole reason I wanted to do this and what keeps me coming back each week. So I'm going to make sure I prioritize what matters.' Advertisement Again, nothing there sounds like someone who doesn't care. Rather, it's a high-profile person in the spotlight trying to care about the right things. That requires Elliott enforcing boundaries other drivers may not have, but it doesn't make it wrong just because it's different. Let's take a step back for a moment and look at Elliott as a whole. On Saturday, Elliott became just the seventh driver in NASCAR history to reach 20 wins before his 30th birthday. The others on the list are among the sport's legendary names: Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts. If his career ended tomorrow, Elliott would already have done enough to be in the NASCAR Hall of Fame (yes, really — and it's not even close). He has a Cup championship and Xfinity championship to go with those 20 Cup wins and also has seven Most Popular Driver Awards. Elliott has won his 20 Cup races on every major category of track: Road course (seven, which is third all time), intermediate (five), superspeedway (four), 1-mile (three) and short track (one). The problem is he hasn't won enough lately. And it's still a bit of a mystery where the turning point occurred. Was it when Kyle Larson joined Hendrick Motorsports? Since then, Larson has won 26 Cup races — double the next-closest driver in the field — to Elliott's nine. And that next-closest driver to Larson is another Hendrick teammate, William Byron. But that's not really valid, since Elliott made the Championship 4 in his first two years as Larson's teammate and even led the series in victories in 2022 (five). The more notable shift seemed to be the Next Gen car. Though Elliott won more races than anyone in 2022, the first year of the Next Gen, that was an unusual season where no one quite had a handle on it yet. Once teams began developing it further and the field became closer, Elliott struggled to find the elite speed he needed to win races. His snowboarding accident early in 2023 also caused him to miss valuable seat time during that pivotal second season of the Next Gen. Elliott never won that year after he returned from the accident and missed the playoffs for the only time in his career. Since then, he's only won two races — at Texas last year, which snapped a 42-race winless streak, and on Saturday night at Atlanta, which snapped a 44-race winless streak. Advertisement Earlier this year, in an interview with Fox Sports analyst Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch recounted a conversation with Elliott in which the two drivers compared notes on their struggles with the Next Gen car. 'I've had some long conversations with Chase Elliott because we grew up the same way (racing Late Models),' Busch said. 'I'm like, 'Man, have you found this thing to just be a beast? Like a challenge?' He's like, 'Yeah, I've had to change my driving style.'' But that's not to say the car has taken all of Elliott's speed; he's still fast, just not fast enough to run up front as often. This year, for example, Elliott hasn't finished worse than 20th. He's only been outside the top 15 three times. And he is on pace for his career-best average finish: 10.3, which leads the Cup Series by almost two full positions. He recently told The Athletic that the consistent finishes, even on the 'bad' days, can be harder than winning races, in some instances. And despite the victories, the ability to salvage good results each week has only made the confidence in his team grow. 'It's just a really good reminder that we have a really good team,' he said earlier this month. 'I really do believe that.' Now Elliott could use more nights like Saturday to make sure everyone else believes it, too. (Top photo of Chase Elliott celebrating Saturday's win: Sean Gardner / Getty Images)
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4 days ago
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NASCAR Legend Martin Truex Jr. Just Listed His North Carolina Estate for $7.5 Million
Start your engines and whip out your checkbooks! A North Carolina property owned by NASCAR veteran Martin Truex Jr. has officially rumbled onto the market. Nestled on the outskirts of Charlotte in Mooresville—known as 'Race City USA' for its large concentration of racing teams and drivers—the sprawling waterfront spread is listed for $7.5 million with Liza Caminiti of Ivester Jackson Christie's International Real Estate. The recently retired NASCAR driver bought the property in April 2006 for nearly $1.5 million and subsequently custom-built a European-style manor that was completed in 2010. Sited in the Northwood neighborhood amid a gated parcel spanning nearly five acres on the shore of Lake Norman, the stucco and stone structure has a combined total of five bedrooms and nine baths in roughly 14,300 square feet. More from Robb Report Baglietto and Meyer Davis Just Teamed up on a Sleek 183-Foot Superyacht This Award-Winning Gin Brand Just Dropped a New Berry-Infused Expression Sting's Former Home in London's Leafy Hampstead Just Hit the Market for $16.4 Million RELATED: NASCAR's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Just Sold His North Carolina Ranch in a Record-Setting $12.2 Million Deal In addition to a main home featuring a little more than 8,700 square feet on three levels, a carriage house sports a guest apartment up top and a climate-controlled four-car garage with a workshop down below. Primed for auto enthusiasts, the four-car garage could potentially hold eight vehicles with added lifts, while another garage offers up two more spaces. A turreted entryway opens to reveal a vaulted living room anchored by a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and large expanses of glass offering picturesque lake views. Other main-level highlights include a gourmet kitchen with a fireside family room on one side and a breakfast nook on the other, as well as a posh primary suite hosting a balcony, a coffee bar, a two-story closet, and a spa-inspired bath with a built-in spa tub and huge walk-in steam shower. Three additional en suite bedrooms and an office with a ladder-accessible loft can be found upstairs, while the lower level is decked out with a full bar, a game lounge, a mirrored gym, and a crimson-hued movie theater that has a star-lit ceiling and an accompanying snack bar. RELATED: NFL Star Christian McCaffrey Tosses Swank North Carolina Mansion on the Market for $12.5 Million Outdoors, the woodsy grounds are spotlighted by a grotto-style infinity pool with a spa and waterfalls, a covered patio with a grilling station, a fire pit, and a garden-laced pathway leading down to a private dock with a boat lift. An added bonus: The buyer has an opportunity to purchase an adjacent 4.6-acre plot of land that's also owned by Truex. A professional NASCAR driver for more than two decades, the soon-to-be 45-year-old Truex retired from full-time competition after the 2024 season as the 2017 Cup Series champ and a two-time Xfinity Series winner. The future NASCAR Hall of Famer, who is selling because he's already moved out of state, hails from a racing family that includes his father, Martin Truex Sr., a former NASCAR Busch North Series racer who died earlier this year at age 66. His younger brother, Ryan Truex, is a three-time Xfinity Series of Robb Report The 10 Priciest Neighborhoods in America (And How They Got to Be That Way) In Pictures: Most Expensive Properties Click here to read the full article.
Globe and Mail
23-06-2025
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Chase Briscoe holds off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin to win at Pocono
Chase Briscoe returned to victory lane Sunday at Pocono Raceway, conserving fuel down the stretch to hold off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin for his first win with his new race team. Briscoe raced his way into an automatic spot in NASCAR's playoffs with the win and gave the No. 19 Toyota its first victory since 2023 when Martin Truex Jr. had the ride. Briscoe lost his job at the end of last season at Stewart-Haas Racing when the team folded and he was tabbed to replace Truex in the four-car JGR field. Hamlin, who holds the track record with seven wins, appeared on the brink of reeling in Briscoe over the final, thrilling laps only to have not enough in the No. 11 Toyota to snag that eighth Pocono win. 'It was just so hard to have a guy chasing you, especially the guy that's the greatest of all time here,' Briscoe said. Briscoe, who won an Xfinity Series race at Pocono in 2020, raced to his third career Cup victory and first since Darlington in 2024. Briscoe has been on bit of a hot streak, and had his fourth top-10 finish over the last six races, including a seventh-place finish in last week's ballyhooed race in Mexico City. He became the 11th driver to earn a spot in the 16-driver field with nine races left until the field is set. Hamlin finished second. Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher and Chase Elliott completed the top five. Briscoe, a third-generation dirt racer from Indiana, gave JGR its 18th Cup victory at Pocono. 'To get here and finally deliver a win is just an awesome feeling,' he said. 'To be able to get Coach in victory lane after taking a chance on me, it's just so rewarding.' The race was delayed 2 hours, 10 minutes by rain and the conditions were muggy by the time the green flag dropped. Briscoe led 72 laps and won the second stage. Briscoe wrote before the race on social media, 'Anybody going from Pocono to Oklahoma City after the race Sunday?' The Pacers fan wasn't going to make it to Game 7 of the NBA finals. He'll certainly settle for a ride to victory lane. There was a minor scare on pit road when AJ Allmendinger struck a tire in the carrier's hand with his right front side and sent it flying into the ribs of another team's crew member in the pit ahead of him. Jonpatrik Kealey, the rear tire changer on Shane van Gisbergen's race team, was knocked on all fours but finished work on van Gisbergen's pit stop. Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell and Riley Herbst all had their races spoiled by brake issues. 'It was a scary feeling for sure,' Herbst said. 'I was just starting to get tight, just a bad adjustment on my part. Getting into (turn) one, the brakes just went to the floor. A brake rotor exploded and I was along for the ride.' NASCAR heads to Atlanta. Christopher Bell won the first race at the track this season in March.
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23-06-2025
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Chase Briscoe holds off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin to win at Pocono
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Chase Briscoe returned to victory lane Sunday at Pocono Raceway, conserving fuel down the stretch to hold off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin for his first win with his new race team. Briscoe raced his way into an automatic spot in NASCAR's playoffs with the win and gave the No. 19 Toyota its first victory since 2023 when Martin Truex Jr. had the ride. Briscoe lost his job at the end of last season at Stewart-Haas Racing when the team folded and he was tabbed to replace Truex in the four-car JGR field. Hamlin, who holds the track record with seven wins, appeared on the brink of reeling in Briscoe over the final, thrilling laps only to have not enough in the No. 11 Toytota to snag that eighth Pocono win. 'It was just so hard to have a guy chasing you, especially the guy that's the greatest of all time here,' Briscoe said. Briscoe, who won an Xfinity Series race at Pocono in 2020, raced to his third career Cup victory and first since Darlington in 2024. Briscoe has been on bit of a hot streak, and had his fourth top-10 finish over the last six races, including a seventh-place finish in last week's ballyhooed race in Mexico City. He became the 11th driver to earn a spot in the 16-driver field with nine races left until the field is set. Hamlin finished second. Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher and Chase Elliott completed the top five. Briscoe, a third-generation dirt racer from Indiana, gave JGR its 18th Cup victory at Pocono. 'To get here and finally deliver a win is just an awesome feeling,' he said. 'To be able to get Coach in victory lane after taking a chance on me, it's just so rewarding.' The race was delayed 2 hours, 10 minutes by rain and the conditions were muggy by the time the green flag dropped. Briscoe led 72 laps and won the second stage. Briscoe wrote before the race on social media, 'Anybody going from Pocono to Oklahoma City after the race Sunday?' The Pacers fan wasn't going to make it to Game 7 of the NBA Finals. He'll certainly settle for a ride to victory lane. Ouch There was a minor scare on pit road when AJ Allmendinger struck a tire in the carrier's hand with his right front side and sent it flying into the ribs of another team's crew member in the pit ahead of him. Jonpatrik Kealey, the rear tire changer on Shane van Gisbergen's race team, was knocked on all fours but finished work on van Gisbergen's pit stop. Brake time Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell and Riley Herbst all had their races spoiled by brake issues. 'It was a scary feeling for sure,' Herbst said. 'I was just starting to get tight, just a bad adjustment on my part. Getting into (turn) one, the brakes just went to the floor. A brake rotor exploded and I was along for the ride.' Up next NASCAR heads to Atlanta. Christopher Bell won the first race at the track this season in March. ___ AP auto racing:
