Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ross Chastain won’t be eligible for this year’s Rookie of the Year competition in the Cup Series. “Isn’t that crazy?” Chastain told The Charlotte Observer. Chastain said he had stopped in Orlando, Fla., to do some media calls Tuesday morning while driving to Daytona Beach from his family’s watermelon farm in Fort Myers, Fla. “I’ve never collected a single point in the Cup Series and I’ve never run all the races,” Chastain said. NASCAR’s Rookie of the Year eligibility maintains that a driver must be competing for driver championship points and that the driver must not…
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Ross Chastain can’t win NASCAR Rookie of the Year. Here’s how he feels about it.
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