Ryan Preece will drive the No. 6 Ford for RFK Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2027, the team announced Wednesday. Preece, 36, has been driving the No.
RFK Racing looked in-house for a replacement for outgoing driver and team co-owner Brad Keselowski.
Ryan Preece had given himself a genuine shot at winning the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway. The RFK Racing driver had already shown he could challenge the front-runners, even taking the lead from Denny Hamlin during the opening stage.
Preece was the fastest man at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday morning.
Brad Keselowski, Ryan Preece and Chris Buescher arrived at Talladega with nothing to lose. All three were effectively already out of title contention (if not mathematically), so they raced like it in stage one of the YellaWood 500, stealing valuable points off the championship contenders.
To gamble everything on a tiny window of opportunity in NASCAR; who knows better about that than Ryan Preece? Before establishing himself as a Cup driver, Preece put roughly $80,000 of his own money into getting two O’Reilly Auto Parts Series starts with Joe Gibbs Racing in 2017.
Since he left Team Penske at the end of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, Brad Keselowski the driver has not gotten the results he likely envisioned.
Ryan Preece’s unlikely victory at Daytona has completely changed the outlook for RFK Racing heading into the Chase. After spending much of the season fighting to stay in contention, Preece delivered when it mattered most, taking the No.
When Ryan Preece won the season-opening Clash at Bowman Gray earlier this year, he thought it was the greatest moment of his career. Fears that he might leave NASCAR without ever winning at the Cup level were finally put to rest, and he entered the season with a renewed sense of confidence.
Ryan Preece walked into the Daytona International Speedway media center playing Elton John's "Rocketman" as he prepared for his post-race news conference following Saturday's Coke Zero Sugar 400, but Frank Sinatra's "My Way" may be a more fitting tune for the RFK Racing driver.
First-time winner Ryan Preece beat Zane Smith in NASCAR overtime and advanced to the postseason with a victory in the Cup Series' regular-season finale, Saturday night's Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Three years ago, Ryan Preece tumbled down the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway in a harrowing crash that saw the Berlin, Conn., native's race car be thrown around like a cheap toy.
Shane van Gisbergen was stuck between a rock and a hard place in the closing laps of Saturday's Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona.
Ryan Preece said before the final restart of Saturday's Coke Zero Sugar 400 that he was going to leave everything on the racetrack.
Here are four takeaways from the NASCAR Cup Series' regular-season finale.
Shane van Gisbergen entered Saturday's Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona with a 31-point lead over Ryan Preece for the 16th and final spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Chase.
Ryan Preece enters Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire needing to make up 50 points on Shane van Gisbergen over the next two races to make the Chase.
The final three races of the NASCAR Cup Series season are arguably the most important races of Ryan Preece's career.
Preece sits just on the outside looking in at the NASCAR Cup Series Chase bubble with four races left in the regular season: 17th in the standings and 38 points back of 16th-place Austin Cindric for the final postseason berth.
RFK Racing teammates Brad Keselowski and Ryan Preece hit a summer slump at the same time.
Ryan Preece was a solid 13th in the NASCAR Cup Series standings through the first 12 races of 2026 and had finished on the lead lap in all 12 events.
Ryan Preece was understandably measured as he explained his reaction to NASCAR handing him a 25-point penalty and $50,000 fine for spinning Ty Gibbs in the May 3 NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas.
Preece was the fastest man in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Saturday afternoon, but he didn't have much competition among the NASCAR Cup Series field.
Things won't magically get any easier for Ryan Preece after Wednesday evening, but he and the No. 60 team know they are capable of winning.
Never before in the thousands of races at Bowman Gray Stadium has one ever seen all of the different variables that Wednesday's NASCAR Cook Out Clash saw.
In a race postponed three days due to wintry weather, Ryan Preece drove away to the win by 1.7 seconds over William Byron, joining Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon (1994) and Denny Hamlin (2006) as the only drivers to win The Clash before picking up their first points-paying Cup Series win.
Ryan Preece's 2025 season was a great example of how much the right situation matters in sports.
Saturday's Cook Out 400 may be the biggest missed opportunity of Ryan Preece's NASCAR Cup Series career.
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