Ross Chastain appears to be turning the nook after incomes a giant win at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday. On The Teardown podcast, NASCAR insiders Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi shared their ideas on Chastain’s Coca-Cola 600 win and his robust 2025 NASCAR Cup Sequence season.
“The previous few weeks, we’ve been saying driver of the yr Ross Chastain,” Gluck stated. “…He’s having all of the success, he’s eighth in factors with a pit crew that, no offense, has not been excellent.”
Gluck then added that Ross Chastain has the Twenty sixth-best pit crew. He additionally checked out Chastain’s Trackhouse Racing teammates Daniel Suarez and Shane van Gisbergen. Suarez is thirtieth in factors, and van Gisbergen is thirty third.
“No matter earlier than this win, he was nonetheless having an exceptional season,” Gluck added. “Now, it’s gotten even higher as a result of he simply tracked down essentially the most constant man all yr, the factors chief, William Byron, who had dominated this race and used a veteran transfer to make it occur. Tremendous spectacular proper now.”
Ross Chastain is turning into a ‘full race automotive driver’
Bianchi agreed with Gluck and had some daring issues to say about Chastain. “It is a herculean effort by Ross Chastain,” he stated. “…What Chastain is doing is so spectacular. I’ll argue that is extra spectacular now what he’s doing than what he was doing in 2022 when he made the Championship 4 and nearly gained the championship.
“…To go to Charlotte and to trace down a man who drives for Hendrick Motorsports and beat him straight up, man, that’s spectacular. And to try this in a backup automotive. Wow.” Bianchi additionally stated that Chastain has cleaned up among the errors that made made previously, which is giving him the chance to do massive issues this season.
“He’s getting the finishes to associate with it,” Bianchi acknowledged. He has changed into a whole race automotive driver.” Chastain has clinched a spot within the playoffs after lacking it final yr. Together with the victory at Charlotte, the 32-year-old has completed within the high 10 seven instances in 13 races.
