After the 2021 Nascar season, Austin Cindric was about to get into a pressure.
While Brad Keselowski left the Penske team to own RFK Racing, a cup seat was opened in Team Penske. But it wasn't just an empty driving. Since 1991, Roger Penske's nascar operation was the flagship car of the famous two, and in 2022 the Cindric would be behind the steering wheel.
Driving in the cup series is naturally a business that comes with pressure. For an organization with championship genealogy like Team Penske, driving only increases pressure. However, the decoration of your name in the most iconic car in the stability of a team is a role in which a small number of drivers are formed. It is both inevitable and most popular in the garage.
Suddenly, Cindric, who was only 23 years old at that time, had the weight of the world and the eye of a company after each movement.
Since then, the progression of Cindric as a driver has been relatively slow, but in the end, Penske proves that Penske was worthy of driving the most historical car in Nascar.
When this first edition in 2022 won Daytona 500 in Cindric's eighth trophy series, Daytona Beach quickly disappeared into the salty atmosphere of FLA. Cindric not only won the biggest race to start Nascar's term 2, but also the win guaranteed him a playoff dock and actually locked the rookie award of the year in the first race of the season.
Two years later, the excitement surrounding Cindric after Daytona 500 victory disappeared. Despite the solid rookie campaign, O and the team 2 declined in 2023 and came to 24th in the ranking. In the first 14 races of 2024, things were not better because Cindric was only 20th in the ranking.
However, on June 2, 2024, Apart from Louis, Cindric won the second race of his cup series career. After the season, he made a run, inspired by 16 rounds and proceeded to 12 rounds for the second time in three years. Suddenly, Penske No. 2 looked like himself again.
Just as in 2024, the excitement of a victory and a playoff run was eroded at the beginning of 2025. He was delivered to Cindric after an incident with Ty Dillon in Circuit of the Americas. While the Talladega Superspeedway managed to go to Sunday's 20th place, Daytona missed the opportunity to win 500, and at Atlanta, the number 2 seemed great when struggling to find consistent results.
However, none of the mitigating conditions were important to Cindric, because last Sunday, on the last Sunday, he won an exciting victory against Ryan Preece on the 500th of Jack Link, and in the Four seasons of Team Penske, he won the third playoff dock.
Uz You keep shaking the bat correctly, you'll finally hit a homer, “Cindric said at the post -race news conference.
The win in Talladega was definitely a host for Cindric, but it is also another basis in the great plan of his career. Last year, Cindric seems to come as a cup series driver and a man carrying the number 2 on the side of his car every week.
When Cindric won at Gateway in 2024, many thought that there would be a 16 output tour when it was time to play. However, Cindric proved that the suspects were wrong and did 12 rounds. The Talladega won seemed to be doing the same, at the beginning of the season, the big runs in Dayton and Atlanta could not make meaningful fruit on the result paper, and they questioned whether the fans had what they needed to close the agreement.
2025 was a much more consistent year for Cindric and in general team 2. Cindric without a 50 -point penalty in Cota, Cup series ranking 10th place in the ranking. Bu sezon şu ana kadar ilk 20'nin dışındaki üç bitişinden sadece bir tanesi-Cota'da genel bir uçurum gününde 25. sırada yer alan bir hız eksikliğine atfedilebilir-Atlanta'da bir kaza ve Martinsville'deki pil sorunları Cindric'in kontrolü dışındaydı.
The first 15 points in the first 20 coatings and points are not the high water scar that Penske is looking for, but it is a positive sign that Cindric compete on a more consistent basis in the top 20. After not being able to do this in Daytona and Atlanta, a Superspeedway in Taldegega was able to close his victory.
Time will tell you if the 26 -year -old child would be the next champion to pilot the captain's longest -time vehicle, but Cindric won the lines and in a position to consistently obtain the victory strip number 2.
-Samuel Stubbs, Field Level Media
