{"id":7213,"date":"2026-05-12T07:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:18:39","slug":"nascar-watkins-glen-sunday-may-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-watkins-glen-sunday-may-3-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Watkins Glen Sunday, May 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>WATKINS GLEN<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the 4th straight road course win for <strong>Shane van Gisbergen<\/strong> last year at Watkins Glen.&nbsp; SVG\u2019s 11 second margin-of-victory over <strong>Christopher Bell<\/strong> turned out to be one with widest of the season.&nbsp; It was the 3rd top 2 finish for Bell in the first 5 road course races last season.&nbsp; <strong>Chris Buescher\u2019s<\/strong> 3rd-place finish was his 4th straight top 10 at Watkins Glen which included a last lap pass for the win in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freak accident:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Connor Zilisch<\/em><\/strong> was supposed to compete at Watkins Glen last year in the Cup race, but had to withdraw.&nbsp; He qualified 25th for the race.&nbsp; On Saturday, Zilisch suffered a broken collarbone while celebrating his win falling from car in victory lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">43rd Watkins Glen NASCAR Cup Series race \u2013 First race: 1957 (69 Years ago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">27 Different winners in 42 NASCAR Cup Series Watkins Glen races<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 Won multiple Watkins Glen races \u2013 Only 3 have won 3 or more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hendrick Motorsports won 11 Watkins Glen races with 6 different drivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watkins Glen winner went on to win championship 9 times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Watkins Glen races won from 1st starting position<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Winner from 1st starting position last 16 Watkins Glen races \u2013 Chase Elliott 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14 Won first race of season at Watkins Glen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only win of season for 9 Watkins Glen winners<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Park, Marcos Ambrose, <strong>AJ Allmendinger<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Chase Elliott<\/strong> won first career race at Watkins Glen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Watkins Glen races settled by last lap pass (2012, \u201915 &amp; \u201924)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATKINS GLEN It was the 4th straight road course win for Shane van Gisbergen last year at Watkins Glen.&nbsp; SVG\u2019s 11 second margin-of-victory over Christopher Bell turned out to be one with widest of the season.&nbsp; It was the 3rd top 2 finish for Bell in the first 5 road course races last season.&nbsp; Chris&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-7213","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\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}