CHINN’S WINNING
Charlee Chinn with Damien Chinn. Lynette Chinn photos
The Chinn family have been having recent success on the drag strip at Renegade Raceway in Wapato, Wash.
On Friday May 2, Charlee Chinn ran her first drag race ever at Renegade’s Diesel Truck Drags and came in first place in the pickup truck category. That’s Damien with Charlee.
Then on Saturday, May 10, racing at the 5th annual Funny Car Frenzy, Damien Chinn earned first place in the No Box class on for the first Gambler’s race of the season. It was only his third race on the motorcycle and is pictured with Junior Chinn.
Damien Chinn with Junior Chinn. Lynette Chinn photoss
JOHVAN DILLON WINS WILD ONE AT WENATCHEE
Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 11, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas. NASCAR Photos
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (May 11, 2025)— Last year, Kyle Larson won the spring race at Kansas Speedway by the thinnest of margins—0.001 seconds in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history.
On Sunday, after putting his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the pole on Saturday, Larson defended his victory in far more decisive fashion, leading 221 of 267 laps in winning the AdventHealth 400 at the 1.5-mile track.
The triumph was Larson’s third of the season, tying race runner-up Christopher Bell for most in the series so far this year. The win was Larson’s third at Kansas and the 32nd of his career, tying NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett for 29th on the career list.’
“Great car, great execution today, too, for our team,” said Larson, who now will start to concentrate on the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 double he’ll attempt for the second time later this month.
Sweeping the first and second stages, Larson now has eight stage wins this season, a record for the first 12 Cup races of a season. His stage sweep was the 14th of his career.
Larson now leads the series standings by 35 points over Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron, who finished 24th after falling off the lead lap with an early flat tire.
The colossal numbers, however, don’t tell the full story. At the end of the final 49 lap green-flag run, Larson had to manage his right-side tires, and his advantage over Bell shrank from a comfortable two seconds to just 0.712 seconds at the finish line.
Closing fast in third, Ryan Blaney finished just 0.832 seconds behind the race winner.
“I was trying really hard to pace myself, because I believe that was our longest run of the day,” Larson said. “I’d been struggling a little bit at the end of the runs.”
Chase Briscoe ran fourth for the fourth time this season. Alex Bowman scraped the wall in the closing laps and held fifth ahead of Ford drivers Josh Berry, Ryan Preece, Chris Buescher and Joey Logano.
The race featured seven cautions—four in the final stage—for a total of 37 laps. Elliott led 29 laps, the only driver other than Larson to lead more than four.
