With the NASCAR Cup Sequence formally on the midway mark of the 2025 season, there’s greater than sufficient of a pattern measurement to gauge driver efficiency relative to expectations. Listed below are three drivers which were disappointing 18 races into the 2025 marketing campaign.
Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
Whereas Gibbs has turned issues round these days with 4 consecutive top-15 efforts, he nonetheless sits twenty fourth in factors and can want a win over the subsequent eight races to make the playoffs. He is nonetheless looking for his first profession win, and is now the longest-tenured Cup Sequence driver at JGR with out a win in firm historical past. There’s time for the No. 54 group to show issues round, however Gibbs’ junior season has not gone the way in which anybody anticipated.
Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet, Trackhouse Racing
No driver in NASCAR got here into 2025 with as a lot strain on him as Suarez, who signed a one-year contract extension in 2024. In a “prove-it” 12 months, he is been disappointing, as he sits twenty ninth within the standings. His poor efficiency got here to a head earlier within the week, when it was introduced that he is not going to return to Trackhouse in 2025. Suarez will likely be a free agent for the primary time in 5 years this offseason, and will discover himself again within the Xfinity Sequence.
Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford, RFK Racing
After profitable at Darlington and making the playoffs in 2024, Keselowski has fallen flat in 2025. The 2012 champion is twenty seventh in factors and can be in a must-win scenario in regard to the playoffs. Whereas he did nab a runner-up end at Atlanta, there’s nonetheless an extended strategy to go for the No. 6 group to show its season round, and it will not occur in a single day.
