Rick Allen: “You’re watching the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs from Kansas. Tyler Reddick leads the way…”
Car: *Blows a tire heading into Turn 3*
Dale Jr: “CARINTHEWALL!”
The Great American Race has become one of NASCAR's least-predictable events for winners.
Case in point? The past three victors. They have a combined five Cup Series wins. Two have yet to win another Cup race, the other's only won at Daytona and Talladega.
No form of motorsport manages to reach the level of sheer, unadulterated bullshittery quite like NASCAR superspeedway racing.
It’s messy, dangerous and borderline ridiculous, but it can be fun and provide some surprises along the way.
I appreciate the Le Mans field's dedication to crashing everyone so the Garage 56 car has a chance at the overall podium.
Seems like every few minutes another couple cars are falling by the wayside.
In a way, this incident ended up altering the course of the playoffs for both drivers when they returned to Charlotte five months later.
Larson got wrecked on the ensuing restart and didn’t win, costing him five playoff points that would have kept him ahead of Briscoe yesterday.
Mentioned this in today’s newsletter, but for any that don’t know: I’m racing to a different finish line this week.
My fiancé and I get married Saturday. We’ll be on our honeymoon from Monday through Thanksgiving.
It doesn’t get much better than that! 👏
Casey Call holds off
#NASCAR
Cup Series driver
@TylerReddick
to pick up the
@GSProStocks
win at Lee USA Speedway!
It’s the little things. Hearing Mayer get the pep talk about not getting pushed around. Herbst being told winners take the front row.
Those small things added valuable context for the battles at the end. You can see why drivers made the choices they made.
Did a bit of research out of curiosity. The last time Ford scored three-straight Cup wins without a Team Penske or Stewart-Haas Racing victory was in 2010-11.
Carl Edwards won the last two races of 2010 for Roush, Trevor Bayne opened 2011 in victory lane for the Wood Brothers.
@nascarcasm
@ARCA_Racing
Imagine going up to someone in the early 2000s and saying "Yeah, Frankie Muniz is going to run ARCA at Daytona! He'll be starting a row ahead of Tim Richmond."
NASCAR's slowly leaning further into the late start times on Sundays.
Examples:
- Clash @ 8 p.m. (Was 6)
- Nashville @ 7 p.m. (Was 5)
- Chicago @ 5:30 p.m. (RA was 3)
- Atlanta 2 @ 7 p.m. (Was 3)
Martinsville 1 is no longer a night race, though. It's moved to Sunday @ 3 p.m.
I hope McDowell wasn’t surprised to see Logano & Cindric jump out and try to pass him.
They literally can’t let him lead. Could have cost their teammate a shot at the playoffs.
Because I had a moment... The No. 18 Cup car's starts and wins by driver.
The number's had 1572 starts with 80 wins. Kyle Busch has the lion's share of each - particularly victories.
Yesterday was fun because we got to see someone’s inner Florida man come out in a race on national TV instead of reading about it in an online article.
@jeff_gluck
I've never watched an event that was somehow both totally memorable (for the chaos & weirdness) and totally forgettable (for the racing itself) like yesterday's race.
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@Hardees
has signed Richard Petty to a new endorsement deal, as The King helps promote the QSR's hand-breaded chicken products that launched last year.
🔲 Hardee's was on
@PettyGMS
's car this past weekend as a teaser, but it could eventually add some primary paint schemes.
FS1 reported that Jordan Anderson has burns, is in pain and will be airlifted to a Birmingham hospital after his fiery crash at Talladega Superspeedway.
It’s ludicrous to me that this blackout still exists in 2023.
It does a disservice to local fans that may not be able to attend the race for whatever reason and has to impact the rating at least slightly for the series’ biggest race.
The worst Indy 500 tradition.
It’s crazy that IndyCar gives you a wild opener then makes you wait almost a month to watch it again. Makes the series so easy to forget this time of year.
Australian motorsports outlet V8 Sleuth is reporting that three-time Supercars champ Shane van Gisbergen is going to drive Trackhouse Racing's Project91 entry later this year, most likely at Chicago.
I’ve been slowly exposing my fiancé to different types of racing as our relationship has grown. She understood NASCAR immediately. IndyCar and F1 weren’t too bad. She eventually got the hang of dirt racing and the Chili Bowl.
Sports cars, though? That’s going to take a bit. 😂
Marcus Ericsson was one lap away from being a two-time defending Indy winner. Now there’s a chance he won’t be in the field this year.
The magic of the 500. Everything earned, nothing given.
One of these drivers WILL BE ELIMINATED from making the
#Indy500
field.
Marcus Ericsson, Katherine Legge, Graham Rahal and Nolan Siegel will fight for the last three spots Sunday.
I feel terrible for the owner of that car if it was legitimately hit by the tire.
But if, in a place with 300,000+ spectators, that tire found one of the few places on the property without people, I’m thankful for it.
Has any driver been more valuable without an official win than YRB this year?
He helped Austin Cindric win the Daytona 500, won the All-Star Race and now is in position to help Joey Logano win the title.
I’m genuinely buzzing for this weekend’s NASCAR races at COTA.
Removing the stage breaks and inviting the potential strategy swings that come without them makes the races intriguing & less predictable.
I can’t wait to tune in. Hoping for a fun weekend.
So much of this weekend went wrong because of the weather, but that race was a delight. My favorite NASCAR road race in quite some time.
I hope NASCAR gets another go at this in Chicago. This circuit worked.
Is the S-F line straight all the way down?
My eyes might be playing tricks on me, but it looks like the section Larson seems to hit first is sort of faded & separate from the actual line.
Am I crazy?
A message from third-place Chase Elliott: "The marbles are freaking wild. I've never seen anything like that in my time here."
He thinks his balance is spot on for current track conditions. Says he's happy right npw.
An injury update on Parker Price-Miller after his crash in the Knoxville Nationals last night.
Says he has fractures to his C7 and T5 vertebrae, is moving everything and will be transported to Indiana.