NASCAR's Christian Eckes aims for breakthrough at Nashville during tough Xfinity season

Christian Eckes recovered his footing past twelvemonth successful the Craftsman Truck Series.

He posted a third-place decorativeness aft winning 3 races and earning 22 apical 10 finishes, but helium made a large move.

This year, the 24-year-old is successful his archetypal Xfinity Series season, and portion helium hasn't recovered akin success, helium knew it was a indispensable change.

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NASCAR Xfinity Series operator Christian Eckes holds an umbrella arsenic it rains during qualifying for the United Rentals 300 astatine Daytona International Speedway.  (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

"I felt similar I had gotten to a constituent successful the Truck Series wherever I wasn't contented oregon blessed with the success, but it decidedly got to a constituent wherever I felt beauteous comfy astir moving to the adjacent level, and I felt similar this was a large accidental to spell get successful immoderate antithetic bid with hopefully a ladder to Cup, arsenic well," Eckes, who present races with Kaulig Racing, told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

To spell on with his determination to Xfinity, Eckes partnered with Celsius, the vigor drink helium says has fixed him immense boosts connected contention day.

"It's been a blast truthful far. I've been capable to conscionable a batch of chill radical and evidently portion immoderate bully drinks on the way. And I’m looking guardant to the aboriginal arsenic well," Eckes said.

"It's helped maine a lot. Some of these races are astatine night, oregon adjacent successful the morning, really. So getting that caffeine successful decidedly helps arsenic good arsenic the hydration packets. There's a batch of things that they bash that assistance america succeed. So yeah, decidedly a large portion of our contention weekends."

NASCAR Xfinity Series operator Christian Eckes (16) drives during the NASCAR Xfinity contention astatine Texas Motor Speedway.  (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)

Eckes admitted this play has not gone arsenic he'd like. He has lone six apical 10 finishes this year.

"We're inactive trying to find our way," Eckes said. "We’ve had immoderate occurrence present and there, person had immoderate speed, but not connected a accordant basis. So, that's benignant of our No. 1 happening close present is to effort to propulsion that guardant and get to wherever we consciousness similar we should be, and that's contending connected a play basis."

This weekend, Eckes volition beryllium racing successful Nashville, wherever helium reached the pinnacle of success. He won determination past year, and Kaulig has taken the checkered emblem determination before.

"Nashville should beryllium a bully spot for us. I won the contention past twelvemonth successful the Truck Series, truthful hopefully it's the play that we yet turned around," helium said. 

Eckes admitted helium was not a instrumentality of Nashville successful the past, but "leading each thigh past year, I similar it a small amended now."

NASCAR Truck Series operator Christian Eckes celebrates winning the Rackley Roofing 200 astatine Nashville Superspeedway successful Lebanon, Tenn., June 28, 2024. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean/USA Today Network)

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"I've done it successful a motortruck before, truthful hopefully I tin repetition that success. It’s gonna instrumentality a lot. The Xfinity Series is challenging to win. You gotta beryllium cleanable successful each facet oregon arsenic adjacent to cleanable arsenic you tin be. It’s gonna instrumentality a lot, but I consciousness assured successful our squad to bash it."

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