Ross Chastain earns season-best second-place finish at Texas

NASCAR Cup Series driver Ross Chastain (1) is introduced before the start of the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway. Jerome Miron-Imagn Images

Ross Chastain earns season-best second-place finish on 'working-class day' at Texas

By Samuel Stubbs | Last updated May 4, 2025 8:09 PM ET

Ross Chastain's No. 1 may not have had the speed he was looking for, but a hard day's work brought the Alva, Fla., native home in second on Sunday.

On the race's final restart, Chastain drove by Ryan Blaney to secure the runner-up spot as Joey Logano drove off into the Texas sunset to secure the win.

On a day where Chastain started 31st, finished 24th in Stage 1 and finished 15th in Stage 2, a second-place finish was a great result, one Chastain called the product of a "working-class day."

Ross Chastain brings it home P.2 after "a working-class day" for the No. 1 team in Texas.#NASCAR | @regansmith pic.twitter.com/q7AdbGrq8Y
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) May 4, 2025

"That's a working class day," Chastain told Fox Sports. "...That's a workin' day. Just (had) no confidence in the car yesterday, and y'all saw that. The speed of the Trackhouse cars on Saturdays is just terrible. We're just not confident, all three drivers."

Chastain credited a single pit stop as the moment where crew chief Phil Surgen "made the car comfortable." From there, Chastain was in position to survive the late-race carnage and earn a season-best runner-up finish.

Chastain and the No. 1 team — and all of Trackhouse Racing, for that matter — are still searching for more speed, but a runner-up result on a wild day is a result that's hard to be disappointed with.

Eleven races into the 2025 season, Chastain is 11th in the Cup Series points standings, 62 points above the playoff cut line.

Samuel Stubbs

Hailing from the same neck of the woods as NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin, Samuel has been covering NASCAR for Yardbarker since February 2024. He has been a member of the National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) since October of 2024. When he’s not writing about racing, Samuel covers Arkansas Razorback basketball for Yardbarker

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