Ryan Heuser rides smooth! An historic year for the #138 NOS Energy team, passing Buddy Rakestraw on the all-time wins list with 92! More importantly, after 18 years of deprivation and strife, Ryan finally wins the Daytona 500! A new rules package jumped up speeds and reduced handling during the fuel runs, prompting Heuser to use his skills more than usual. He and his teammate Craig Lee fought off a hard-charging Johnny Reed Foley to pull off the feat. He'd wait until June for victory #2, passing John Battista with 7 laps-to-go to win the Pocono 400! He would wave a flag with Brian Wilson's face on it, saluting his recent death to the fans. He drove from 38th to 1st at Sonoma for victory #3, before tying Buddy Rakestraw's 88 career wins in the Brickyard 400! It was Ryan's fourth win in six previous tries at the facility, waving the Black Sabbath banner in tribute to Ozzy. He held off Lucas Racing at Richmond for victory #5 before pulling off the impossible! The Extravaganza Series triple crown has never been won. With Ryan's Southern 500 victory, somebody finally pulled it off! Three straight DNF's followed, dropping Heuser to 209-points behind Johnny reed Foley. Two-straight victories at Atlanta and Rockingham erased more than half the gap, needing a magnum-opus performance in the Pennzoil 400 to clinch his fifth Extravaganza Championship!

Zach Michael Statistics (2025)

Wins: 8 (1st)
Top-5's: 14 (1st)
Top-10's: 17 (T-2nd)
Laps Led: 983 (2nd)
Avg. Fin.: 13.9 (1st)
Poles: 3 (T-2nd)
DNF %: 17.1% (T-13th)
Laps Run: 9,319 (21st)
Points Behind Foley: -76 (3rd)