While a notable portion of NASCAR’s driver roster arrived through family lineage, team ownership ties, or inherited opportunities, many competitors made their own path with little more than zeal and financial sacrifice.
A tough go of things in Austin Cindric’s first full-length Supercars race in Adelaide. He finished P23 in a somewhat disappointing result. Not only did Cindric take contact from one of the Grand Final contenders, but he then found himself smacking a tire barrier afterwards.
Austin Cindric continues driving for Team Penske even as his father, Tim Cindric, navigates life after being dismissed from the organization’s IndyCar program in May following a cheating scandal.
Can you name every driver to be the NASCAR Cup Series champion since 1984?
Over in Australia, Austin Cindric got his first taste of Supercars racing action in the sprint race as part of the Adelaide weekend. The Grand Final is coming up, and a Supercars champion will be crowned.
One practice session in Adelaide down, and after 30 minutes, NASCAR’s Austin Cindric feels good about his first outing. Cindric was fairly far off the pace of the leader, his Tickford teammate, Cam Waters.
At the end of the month, Austin Cindric is making his Supercars debut with Tickford Racing in the Adelaide Grand Final. This is the first season that Supercars has implemented its own version of a playoff system.
Austin Cindric will become the first American to compete in the Repco Supercars Championship since IndyCar’s Alexander Rossi teamed up with James Hinchcliffe for the Bathurst 1000 back in 2019.
It’s one thing to hear about a car, but it’s another to feel it roar to life under your feet. NASCAR’s own Austin Cindric is finding that out firsthand, and he’s not shy about what he’s discovered.
Down in Australia, Austin Cindric is getting the feel of the Gen3 Supercars Mustang ahead of his series debut later this month. Cindric is taking on the Adelaide finale in two weeks.
While the NASCAR Cup Series season is over, Austin Cindric is learning his way around a Gen3 Supercars Mustang. Cindric is participating in the season finale at Adelaide at the end of the month.
One name has been the chaos master since 2024 in the NASCAR Cup Series. That is none other than sophomore driver Carson Hocevar. Despite his young age, Hocevar has fallen into several conflicts.
Sitting 12th in the standings, Austin Cindric was a whopping 48 points beneath the elimination line, meaning nothing short of a victory would carry the Team Penske Ford into the next round.
Austin Cindric knew that when he was hit by Carson Hocevar during the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, his chances of advancing were over.
The Charlotte Roval. It’s a beast of a track, a hybrid monster that demands precision and punishes the slightest mistake. For drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, it’s the ultimate pressure cooker, a place where championship hopes can be forged in steel or shattered into a million pieces.
Cindric entered the Bank of America Roval 400 in need of a victory to advance to the penultimate round of the postseason.
In a chaotic double-overtime finish that saw Denny Hamlin get together with his 23XI Racing driver and fellow playoff contender Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott muscled his way around the two exiting Turn 4 to pick up his second win of the season and lock up his Round of 8 berth.
As Team Penske looks to secure its fourth consecutive championship in the NASCAR Cup Series, Austin Cindric, driver of the organization's iconic No. 2 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, may be the most underrated bullet in the team's chamber.
The roar of engines at Bristol Motor Speedway reached fever pitch as Austin Cindric sat on the razor’s edge of elimination. With just 11 points separating him from playoff heartbreak, the No.
In the closing laps of Saturday's Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Austin Cindric had zero control of his NASCAR Cup Series playoff destiny.
Austin Cindric is set for one of the boldest challenges of his career. The 2022 Daytona 500 winner will swap NASCAR ovals for the streets of Adelaide this
Since the NASCAR Cup Series migrated to the NextGen platform in 2022, there has only been one organization that has hoisted the Bill France Cup on the championship stage at Phoenix Raceway.
Following the 2021 NASCAR season, Austin Cindric was about to enter a pressure-packed situation. With Brad Keselowski leaving Team Penske to become an owner-driver at RFK Racing, a Cup Series seat was open at Team Penske.
Austin Cindric and Ryan Preece left it all on the track in Sunday's Jack Link's 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, but it was Cindric who came out on top in an incredible finish.
NASCAR's decision to not suspend the driver has drawn a lot of criticism.
Following Sunday's run-in between Team Penske's Austin Cindric and Kaulig Racing's Ty Dillon as the drivers exited Turn 20, NASCAR penalized the Penske driver.
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