{"id":7098,"date":"2026-02-26T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:13:39","slug":"nascar-austin-sunday-february-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-austin-sunday-february-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Austin Sunday, February 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AUSTIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shane van Gisbergen won the last 5 road course races.&nbsp; He\u2019ll try to match Jeff Gordon\u2019s all-time record 6 straight wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SVG looking for his first win in his 3rd try at Austin.&nbsp; Christopher Bell won Austin last year.&nbsp; It was his 2nd of 3 straight wins which began at Atlanta the previous week &amp; ended at Phoenix one week after Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alex Bowman &amp; Tyler Reddick finished top 10 all 5 Austin races.&nbsp; Reddick finished top 5 in last 4 Austin races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Road course races this season \u2013 Austin, Watkins Glen, San Diego &amp; Sonoma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Different winners in 5 Austin races \u2013 Bell, Byron, Chastain, Elliott &amp; Reddick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winner started 8th or better 3 of 5 Austin races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leader of most laps won 3 of last 4 Austin races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All 5 Austin winners 30-years-old &amp; younger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best Austin finish by Rookie of the Year candidate: 6th \u2013 Chase Briscoe (2021) &amp; Shane van Gisbergen (2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Different teams won last 4 Austin races \u2013 Trackhouse, 23XI, Hendrick &amp; Gibbs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No Austin Stage 1 winner went on to win race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN Shane van Gisbergen won the last 5 road course races.&nbsp; He\u2019ll try to match Jeff Gordon\u2019s all-time record 6 straight wins. SVG looking for his first win in his 3rd try at Austin.&nbsp; Christopher Bell won Austin last year.&nbsp; It was his 2nd of 3 straight wins which began at Atlanta the previous week&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,18,6,7,8,9,19],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-17","tag-broadcasting","tag-chris-myers","tag-chris-myers-sports","tag-fox-sports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}