Posts by Rod Wortham
Determination Leads Love To Seventh At Kansas Speedway
#19: Justin Bonsignore, Joe Gibbs Racing, M3 Technology Toyota Supra, #2: Jesse Love, Richard Childress Racing, Whelen Chevrolet KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Despite less-than-ideal conditions inside his No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet, Jesse Love gutted out a seventh-place finish in Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway. Love advanced from 12th on the grid to seventh…
Read MoreEarly Incident, Lack Of Speed Doom Love’s Bristol Chances
BRISTOL, Tenn. – A veritable disaster of a night at Bristol Motor Speedway Friday got Jesse Love’s NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff run off to a rough start. Though he qualified ninth in the No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, Love drifted back almost immediately at the .533-mile concrete high banks. Slipping back to…
Read MoreGateway Top Five Caps Strong Regular Season For Love
#2: Jesse Love, Richard Childress Racing, Whelen Chevrolet MADISON, Ill. – Richard Childress Racing’s Jesse Love ended the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular season with a fifth-place finish Saturday night at World Wide Technology Raceway. The 20-year-old from Menlo Park, Calif., climbed from 18th on the starting grid at the 1.25-mile oval and never ran lower…
Read MoreLove Fights Through Damage For Portland Top 10
Jesse Love fought back from an incident at Portland Int’l Raceway for 10th place. (David Rosenblum/Nigel Kinrade Photography) PORTLAND, Ore. – Despite damage sustained in a mid-race incident, Jesse Love battled to a top-10 finish Saturday with the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Portland Int’l Raceway. After qualifying 10th and battling up to seventh at the…
Read MoreFourth For Jesse Love In Xfinity Series Return To Daytona
Though he battled to a strong result in Friday night’s Wawa 250 powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona Int’l Speedway, Jesse Love fell just short of defending his February NASCAR Xfinity Series win at the World Center of Racing.
Read MoreLove Eager For Short-Track Saturday With RCR Cup Team
Jesse Love is set for his final scheduled NASCAR Cup Series appearance of the season, and his second short-track start at the sport’s top level, Saturday night at Richmond Raceway.
Read MoreLove ‘Numb’ After Potential Iowa Xfinity Win Slips Away
What appeared it would be Jesse Love’s second NASCAR Xfinity Series win of the season slipped through his fingers at Iowa Speedway through no fault of his own.
Read MoreLove ‘Super Pumped’ To Earn Iowa Speedway Xfinity Pole
Jesse Love celebrates his NASCAR Xfinity Series pole at Iowa Speedway. (Nigel Kinrade/NKP photo) NEWTON, Iowa – Jesse Love might not have started his qualifying lap at Iowa Speedway believing it was going to be a pole-winning lap, but the stopwatch told a happier tale at the end. Love toured the seven-eighths-mile, D-shaped oval in 23.642 seconds…
Read MoreLove Eager For Better Iowa Xfinity Outcome With RCR
Jesse Love is hoping for a better ending to his Iowa Speedway adventure than the one he had in his first NASCAR Xfinity Series visit to the track last season.
Read MoreLove Posts Career-Best Cup Result In Brickyard 400 Debut
Though he got pinned a lap down early, Jesse Love still fought to a career-best NASCAR Cup Series finish during his Brickyard 400 debut Sunday with Beard Motorsports.
Read More