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In a photo finish, Daniel Hemric edged Austin Cindric by 0.030 seconds to win the Xfinity Series championship Saturday night, joining the Truck Series' Ben Rhodes as first-time NASCAR champions this weekend.

Earlier Saturday, Cindric won the pole with lap of 131.902 mph — his first pole of the season. He finished second, Noah Gragson finished 12th after hitting the wall late, and AJ Allmendinger 14th after spinning with 20 laps to go.

On Sunday, Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin look to join fellow Championship 4 finalists Martin Truex Jr. (2017) and Chase Elliott (2020) as NASCAR Cup Series champions after the championship finale at Phoenix Raceway (coverage begins on NBC at 1:30 p.m. ET; race at 3 p.m.). Last season, Elliott started from the pole and won his first Cup title by winning the season's final race.

On Friday, 24-year-old Ben Rhodes won his first Camping World Truck Series championship, beating out finalists John Hunter Nemechek, Zane Smith and three-time series champion (and ThorSport Racing teammate) Matt Crafton.

This weekend sees the return of practice and qualifying. The Cup Series will run one practice session on Friday from 4:05–4:55 p.m. ET, and qualifying to set the starting lineup on Saturday starting at 7 p.m. ET.

Sunday, November 7

Cup Series  

NASCAR Cup Series Championship

Start time: 3 p.m. ET

TV: NBC coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. ET; TSN5

Distance: 312 miles (312 Laps)

Stage 1: Ends on Lap 75

Stage 2: Ends on Lap 190

Final stage: Ends on Lap 312

After 35 points-paying races and nine months of competition, four drivers enter the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Championship with a shot at the title. The group is evenly split between two teams that have been head and shoulders above the rest of the playoff competition: Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing.

In one of the more evenly matched quartets since this postseason format began in 2014, Kyle Larson enters as the favorite. He’s won nine races, putting him in position to become the first double-digit winner in Cup since Jimmie Johnson in 2007. Larson has been on fire throughout the postseason, capturing four victories while setting a NASCAR record for laps led during a 36-race season (2,474).

Larson’s a shoo-in for Comeback Driver of the Year across all of motorsports, bouncing back with Hendrick after being released by Chip Ganassi Racing in April 2020 for using a racial slur. But his track record at Phoenix is a bit of a concern heading in. Larson has never won here, leading just a single lap in the spring on route to a fifth-place finish.

That sounds fine until you consider his teammate, reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott, won this race last November. Elliott is seeking to become the first back-to-back champion since Johnson did it in 2006-10 and has a bit of momentum heading in, leading 321 laps total the last two weeks. However, the No. 9’s year at Hendrick has paled in comparison to Larson. Elliott hasn’t won on an oval, only earning victories at two new road courses, Circuit of the Americas and Road America out in Wisconsin.

Martin Truex Jr. leads the charge for Joe Gibbs Racing after a dramatic finish to Martinsville last week. Truex charged to fourth in the closing laps, somehow recovering after damage to his left front fender mixed in with a hit to the outside wall. A four-time winner this year, one of those came at Phoenix in the spring, giving hope the 2017 Cup champion can take his second within the last five years.

Finally, there’s Denny Hamlin, the 2019 fall Phoenix winner who enters this race with some controversy after interrupting Alex Bowman’s post-race burnout at Martinsville. Calling Bowman a “hack” (that’s the G-Rated version) after nudging him out of the way for that win, Hamlin was vocally defending himself on Twitter this week and is fired up about going for his first championship at age 40.

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It’s a Halloween edition of the penultimate race of the NASCAR season, the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway. This .533-mile oval is the shortest, slowest track on the circuit, often where the most mischief happens late in a year where NASCAR drivers are eager to cash in on revenge.

If you’re looking for candy from this experience, well, you trick-or-treated too late. Kyle Larson already ran off with it all, victories in the last two races securing a spot in the Championship 4 and a whopping 74-point lead heading into the Round of 8 finale. He’ll be dressing up as the champion one week early and hoping that costume sticks through the Phoenix finale on November 7.

Chase Elliott will be dressing up with an invisibility cloak, the kind that keeps him hidden from other drivers… especially Kevin Harvick. The reigning Martinsville champ has a 34-point lead on the cutline and a 33-point lead on fourth place Kyle Busch. That should be a healthy enough margin to move on and defend his title at Phoenix. But after a month’s worth of battling Harvick on the racetrack, there’s one last chance for the No. 4 team to get their revenge.

Sure, NASCAR said it should stop. It sure didn’t stop Matt Kenseth back in 2015 from wrecking Joey Logano out of the lead here. Elliott can’t feel safe until after the checkered flag falls with his car in one piece.

Denny Hamlin, third in points, is also in solid position to advance unless catastrophe strikes. Problem is, he’s fading into the background at the wrong possible time, similar to his title run turned sour in 2020. A win this weekend would be nice to keep a little pressure on Larson after the duo battled for the regular-season championship.

For the other five drivers in the championship chase (Kyle Busch, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano) it’s one of the most wide-open races in years for that final spot. Truex on paper should have the edge, winning three of the past four Martinsville races but his team has looked unsteady at best over the past month.

That would leave a driver like Kyle Busch in the driver’s seat, right? Except he’s winless since the end of June at Pocono in a fuel mileage finish. Blaney has never won here, period, while his two Penske teammates (Keselowski-Logano) have combined to lead just 64 laps during the playoffs.

It all adds up to a wild card event, the type of race where anything can and often will happen. The list of drivers spinning each other out, then doing post-race PR spin grows seemingly every year. Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin made nice in 2019. Logano bumped Truex out of the way on the last lap to win a year earlier, the victory that catapulted him to the 2018 championship. And who can forget the Elliott-Hamlin brouhaha from 2017?

With the aggression we’ve seen throughout this year’s playoffs, expect another one of these bumper-car endings to be written right into the history books.

Xfinity 500

Date: Sunday, Oct. 31

Time: 2 p.m. ET

Track: Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, Va.)

TV: NBC

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Kyle Larson

Larson has this category on lockdown, matching Harvick’s nine-win total from 2020 after pulling away during the closing laps at Kansas. In the process, he set a new record for laps led in a 36-race season (2,397) while winning three straight races for the second time in five months. Anything less than the championship would be a disappointment for one of the best seasons we’ve seen in the playoff era.

Who’s at the Back: Aric Almirola

It just wasn’t meant to be for this Stewart-Haas Racing driver who’s mostly had a 2021 season to forget. An upset victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway landed him inside the playoffs, giving hope the No. 10 team would salvage a disastrous year. Instead, he hasn’t had a single top-10 finish in the last dozen races, running 26th at Kansas to drop to 15th in points, some 116 behind Kurt Busch for 10th. Only Michael McDowell has suffered through a worse postseason with underfunded Front Row Motorsports.

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Kyle Larson will start from the pole in Sunday’s (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN) Hollywood Casino 400. The best NASCAR Cup Series driver during the 2021 regular season left nothing to chance, winning last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway to already secure a spot in the Championship 4. Instead of repeating Kevin Harvick’s disastrous Round of 8 in 2020, Larson will be gunning for his third straight playoff victory instead.

Who will join him to fight for this year’s title? That’s anyone’s guess as the other seven playoff drivers remain evenly matched heading to Kansas Speedway. Only Joey Logano appears to be in a win-or-bust situation after his engine failed during the closing laps at Texas.

Those title contenders will be scrambling for stage points, fighting for every position they can in the final 550-horsepower race with this current chassis. The consequences of this high-downforce package were on display at Texas, a chaotic finish with six cautions in the final 60 laps that turned the finishing order upside down behind Larson.

It’s the restarts that get treacherous in the 550-horsepower setup, drivers getting hyper-aggressive knowing it’s one of the few times they can gain track position easily. Passing is especially tough at a track like Kansas, despite its multiple grooves and restructuring over the past decade. Newer asphalt means limited tire falloff and virtually the entire field running around the track wide open.

That parity over a long green-flag run could also be applied to the Round of 8. Six of the seven drivers vying for a spot in the championship finale have won a race at Kansas; in fact, they’ve won eight of nine events held here since the spring of 2017. It makes picking the winner a toss-up at a place Team Penske, Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing have all experienced recent success.

Ryan Blaney is the lone outlier who’s struggled at this 1.5-mile oval as of late. Holding just a 17-point edge on the playoff cutline, he can’t afford another 21st-place finish like the one he registered at Kansas in May. Ditto for teammate Logano, last year’s defending winner who slumped to a 17th-place result in that race with zero laps led.

By comparison, teammate Brad Keselowski ran third, leading 72 laps, and could be in a position to pull off an upset. No driver since Martin Truex Jr. in 2018 has made the Championship 4 with an organization they won’t be driving for the following season. It would be another notch on this future Hall of Famer’s cap to beat the odds, keep his lame-duck group focused and get the job done.

What about the non-playoff contingent? Tyler Reddick and William Byron have been running up front, often into each other, and could easily pull off an upset before the year is out. Matt DiBenedetto ran a season-best fourth here and desperately needs a repeat performance as he remains without a full-time ride for 2022.

But chances are this race will boil down to a handful of drivers battling for their championship slot at Phoenix Raceway. Add in rain in the forecast and the racing could be chaotic as drivers may have to beat Mother Nature, bringing a few extra pit strategies into play.

Hollywood Casino 400

Date: Sunday, Oct. 24

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Track: Kansas Speedway (Kansas City, Kan.)

TV: NBCSN

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Starting Lineup for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400

Who’s at the Front: Kyle Larson

I hate leaving the same driver here two weeks in a row. But Larson’s dominance in Texas left me with absolutely no choice. Leading 256 laps, including the final 218 was made even more impressive with the half-dozen restarts in the final stage. Larson held off all comers each time, getting an assist from teammate William Byron who played the role of offensive lineman for Hendrick Motorsports.

The second-place finish for Byron, eliminated the week before at the Charlotte ROVAL, made him wonder what might have been. For Larson, there’s simply what is: a career-best eight wins, nearly 2,300 laps led on the year, and a great chance at his first career Cup championship.

Who’s at the Back: Ryan Newman

You hate to see the 2002 Cup Series Rookie of the Year ending his full-time career with this type of slump. Another crash at Texas left Newman with three DNFs for wrecks in the last five races, one more than the number of top-5 finishes (two) he’s accumulated throughout all of 2021. As of now, he sits 27th in points, on track for the worst finish of his Cup career. It’s also two spots lower than Newman’s injury-plagued 2020 campaign, when he missed three races after that hard crash at the end of the Daytona 500.

News Briefs

Brandon Jones will return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Joe Gibbs Racing in 2022. The driver will be running his seventh full-time season in the sport’s second-tier division and his fifth for JGR, collecting four wins and multiple playoff bids driving the No. 19 Toyota. Unfortunately for Jones, he’s winless in 2021 and sits eighth in the championship race with two races remaining in the Round of 8.

ARCA driver Nick Sanchez will be moving up to the NASCAR Xfinity Series level in 2022. Just two weeks after Bubba Wallace’s victory at Talladega Superspeedway, the Drive For Diversity driver earned a spot on BJ McLeod’s roster for next year. The 20-year-old young talent has eight top-5 and 12 top-10 finishes at the ARCA level this season, sitting third in points heading into the season finale this weekend at Kansas.

Carson Ware has been suspended by NASCAR after being arrested on assault charges. The 21-year-old has six NASCAR Xfinity Series starts this season but is unlikely to race again this year after a police report described him as belligerent, assaulting a female, and destroying thousands of dollars in personal property. Carson is the son of NASCAR Cup Series owner Rick Ware.

NASCAR by the Numbers

868

More laps than Larson has led than any other driver this season. He’s led 2,267 laps while second-place Denny Hamlin has paced the field for 1,399. No other driver is close to 1,000 total with three races left to go.

71

Bonus points earned by Larson over the course of the Cup season, setting a new NASCAR record under this format first adopted in 2014.

Playing the Odds (Fantasy Spin)

Top Tier

Kyle Busch won the Kansas race in May when Larson struggled over a series of late restarts, leading just 20 laps on the day. But it’s part of a continuing trend of solid finishes at this racetrack after a rocky start here earlier in his career. Busch has four top-5 finishes in his last six Kansas races, including that win, and has a position differential of +18. That’s impressive considering most of those events had Busch qualifying at or near the front of the field.

There’s something really impressive with the way Brad Keselowski is closing his Cup career with Team Penske. Third in May at Kansas, he led 72 laps in one of his better drives running the No. 2 Ford this year. Brad has five top-6 finishes in his last six races here, leading laps in each of those races while snagging a victory in the spring of 2019. He may be this organization’s best hope to make it to Phoenix with a shot at the title.

Related: Best Kansas Speedway Drivers for DraftKings

Middle Tier

Kevin Harvick seems to have a permanent spot in this category, right? That’s because I think the No. 4 team is putting its best foot forward to grab a win before the year is out. Continuing that streak (now seven years) of Harvick winning since moving to Stewart-Haas Racing is important to him and crew chief Rodney Childers. While their 550 races haven’t been great, a fifth at Texas was a momentum builder heading into this weekend. Harvick was also a frustrating second last fall, then this spring and understands the strategy needed to finish one spot better here.

Austin Dillon has been overshadowed by his Richard Childress Racing teammate Tyler Reddick at Kansas. Can he turn the tables after runs of 11th and 10th his last two races here? A 14th-place starting spot gives him a better chance to earn you position differential over Reddick (starting 12th).

Lower Tier

Can Ryan Newman break that slump with three races left driving the No. 6 for RFR? He was 16th at Kansas in the spring and will be a cheap play with four DNFs in the eight races held here before that. This one is more of a hunch than anything, but historically, this car has had some of its best races when a driver is preparing to step out (see: Matt Kenseth during the final two races of 2018).

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has crashed out of two of the last three Kansas events, also making him an inexpensive option. He’s never earned a top 10 here yet has four 11th-place finishes in 17 starts. Add in 23 laps led from the May event and you may have a diamond in the rough picking the No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet.

What Vegas Thinks

Kyle Larson has +240 odds to win the Hollywood Casino 400 according to the latest odds posted at vegasinsider.com. That makes him an overwhelming favorite; Denny Hamlin is next up at a paltry +550 by comparison.

Kyle Busch sits third at +600, followed by Chase Elliott (+800) and William Byron (+900). Austin Dillon is the best of your longshots, sitting at +6000.

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Just three races remain in the NASCAR Xfinity Series season, including Saturday's Kansas Lottery 300.

The Xfinity Series playoffs continue Saturday with the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway. This is the second race of the Round of 8.

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Race Date: Oct. 23, 2021

Race Time: 3 p.m. ET

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Last week, John Hunter Nemechek drove the No. 54 car to victory at Texas. Because Nemechek is not a full-time Xfinity driver, no driver has locked their way into the Championship 4 yet, setting up a drama-filled race at Kansas this weekend.

A.J. Allmendinger, Austin Cindric, Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson are in position to qualify for the Championship 4 on points. But Daniel Hemric and Justin Haley are just a few points back of Gragson, and while Harrison Burton and Brandon Jones find themselves even farther back, a win by either driver would create some playoff chaos.

In terms of non-playoff drivers, Ty Gibbs is back in the No. 54 car this week. The best car in the series, Gibbs could find himself repeating what Nemechek did last week.

Only one playoff driver has a win here, with Brandon Jones driving to victory twice at Kansas.

In the last race here back in October of last season, Hemric finished second in a race that saw a lot of trouble happen for top drivers, with Cindric finishing 28th and Gragson 36th.

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And then, there were eight. The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway kicks off the semifinal round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. If a title contender wins on Sunday, they’re guaranteed a spot in the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway in early November.

Who are we left with? Heavyweights from the three teams that have dominated the sport this year. Let’s break them down by team.

Hendrick Motorsports (2): Kyle Larson enters this round a heavy favorite, even more so than Kevin Harvick last season. A whopping 65 bonus points give Larson an unprecedented 42-point lead on the cutline and a 35-point advantage over second place. It’s a cushion leaving him the only person protected if a potential DNF pops up anytime during the next three weeks.

For reigning champ Chase Elliott, it’s more complicated. He starts two points outside the cutline, sitting sixth, and has yet to win this season on an oval track. An ongoing feud with Kevin Harvick has turned into an outside distraction, leading to just three laps led during the Round of 12.

Will Elliott straighten things out? All eyes are pointed at Martinsville, the short track at the end of this round where the No. 9 team won in 2020, catapulting their title bid the following week at Phoenix. He may need that victory once again in order to advance.

Joe Gibbs Racing (3): Denny Hamlin has arguably been the best driver during these NASCAR playoffs, taking the first race of each round after going winless during the regular season. In particular, 137 laps led during the last 550-horsepower race (Las Vegas) puts him in a solid position at Texas, a track where he’s won three times. If anyone’s going to stop Larson on his mountain climb to the title, it’s the No. 11 team.

Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch are the wild cards of this round, for different reasons. Truex has simply been inconsistent, snakebit by silly mistakes like speeding on pit road during Darlington’s Southern 500 in early September (he wound up fourth).

But Truex, third entering this round, is an important rival for the others to keep outside the Championship 4. He’s the defending winner at both Martinsville and Phoenix earlier this spring and has arguably shown the most speed on those track types.

Busch, meanwhile, started the playoffs by crashing out at Darlington. He’s been invisible compared to his JGR teammates, winless since June, but has quietly put together two top-5 finishes in the last three races. It’s hard to discount a two-time Cup champion from advancing; consider Busch won at Texas last fall and is the defending winner of the Kansas spring race.

Team Penske (3): After fighting punch-for-punch with Hendrick and JGR earlier this season, this three-car team has fallen a step behind. Ryan Blaney is the only driver who starts inside the cutline, holding a one-point edge on his rivals, and has the best shot to advance after back-to-back wins catapulted his playoff bid at the end of the regular season.

Both Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski, despite being former champions, have a grand total of 40 laps led between them during the playoffs. They advanced more through sound strategy and consistency rather than raw speed.

But that’s where the playoffs get fun. Both men have a habit of making the most of their opportunities; just take Logano at Martinsville three years ago. A last-lap bump of Truex got him the win and a trip to the Championship 4 he wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. Weeks later, it was Logano, not the other three dominant drivers from that season, holding up the trophy as the 2018 Cup champion.

Who will break through in a year defined by parity at the top of the grid? I’ll go with Larson, Hamlin, Truex and Kyle Busch. Honestly, though? None of these names would surprise me in the Championship 4, and you can make an argument for any of them, a rarity during the years of this format.

The fans understand it; NASCAR has enjoyed viewership increases in five of six playoff races. So, strap in and enjoy. The next three weeks are bound to be wild.

Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

Date: Sunday, Oct. 17

Time: 2 p.m. ET

Track: Texas Motor Speedway (Fort Worth, Texas)

TV: NBC

Radio: PRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Kyle Larson

Larson entered this year with zero career Cup victories on a road course. He’s leaving it with three, a NASCAR record, after capturing the Charlotte ROVAL. His season-best seventh win of the year overall came after overcoming electrical issues, taking the lead for the first time with just eight laps remaining.

Has Larson now surpassed even the great Chase Elliott on this track type? He won three races to Elliott’s two, earning top-three finishes in five of seven road course events.

Who’s at the Back: Kevin Harvick

Harvick treated Charlotte as a revenge race against Chase Elliott. But when Harvick slammed the No. 9 into the wall, he didn’t finish the job, allowing Elliott to creep back up into 12th and advance into the Round of 8.

With the No. 9 rapidly closing back in on him, Harvick made a mental error and missed a turn, locking the brakes and destroying his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. It was the fifth finish outside the top 10 in seven road course races, a type of track the 2014 Cup champion needs to improve on if he’s going to get back into title contention in 2022.

NASCAR by the Numbers

9th

Current position in the Cup Series standings for Kevin Harvick. If that holds, it would be his worst points result since back in 2009 driving for Richard Childress Racing.

16th

Finishing position for Michael McDowell at the Charlotte ROVAL, his best of the playoffs. The Daytona 500 winner remains the only playoff driver (among the 16 who initially qualified) without a top-15 finish during the postseason.

Playing the Odds (Fantasy Spin)

Top Tier

Kyle Larson had never won at Texas before his victory in the sport’s All-Star Race earlier this year. Will that short-term speed carry over? I think so, considering he’s been dominant in the 550-horsepower package throughout most of the season. Consider that 10th at Las Vegas an exception rather than the rule; in crunch time, you’d expect the No. 5 team to put their best foot forward at this track type.

Kyle Busch is the defending Texas winner and has a history of solid performances at this track. Four straight top-10 finishes come packaged with 185 laps led during that stretch and a healthy position differential of plus-13. A third-place starting spot limits how far he can move up on Sunday but I expect Busch to be a contender for the win, earning stage point bonuses.

Related: Best Texas Motor Speedway Drivers for DraftKings

Middle Tier

Tyler Reddick was second at Texas in the summer of 2020 and enters this weekend coming off a runner-up finish at the Charlotte ROVAL. The No. 8 Richard Childress Racing team is focused on stealing a win before the season is out and the next two tracks on the schedule (here and Kansas) offer them a prime opportunity. My only caveat is the ninth-place starting spot limits position differential points, meaning you’ll need to gamble with someone else further down your roster.

Kevin Harvick (when’s the last time you saw him in this tier?) will be a popular pick this week because of position differential. Starting 24th, the three-time Texas fall winner was 16th last October and has struggled at 550-horsepower tracks this year. But a ninth at Las Vegas was promising for this team, another organization focused on getting their first win after Harvick had a career-best nine back in 2020.

Lower Tier

Matt DiBenedetto remains without a ride for 2022 as time runs short on NASCAR Silly Season. A sixth at the ROVAL was his best run since Michigan in August; can that translate into the 1.5-miler at Texas? He’s got just one career top-10 finish there in 11 starts but that did come in October of last year, an eighth-place result.

Could Daniel Suarez pull a last-minute surprise? He was 13th at the Charlotte ROVAL and 15th at Las Vegas, signs this No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Team is getting their act back together after losing momentum during the summer. Suarez has two career top-5 finishes at Texas from when he drove the No. 41 for Stewart-Haas Racing.

What Vegas Thinks

Kyle Larson has +340 odds to win at Texas according to the latest numbers posted on vegasinsider.com. That makes him the favorite over Denny Hamlin (+600), Kyle Busch (+700) and Chase Elliott (+750).

Seeking a longshot? Summer 2020 winner Austin Dillon sits at +2800.

What I Think

I’m going to go outside the box a bit and say Kyle Busch surprises everyone with his second straight win in the fall race. It’s an event that’s tended to have repeat winners (see: Harvick, Jimmie Johnson) and we always see a quirky twist when it comes to who makes the Championship 4.

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It may only be the fourth edition of the Bank of America ROVAL 400 but this race is already circled in red as one of the best NASCAR playoff races on the calendar. Its debut in 2018 changed the trajectory of Charlotte Motor Speedway, a wild race that felt like a video game come to life. Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson crashed out while battling for the win, handing the trophy to Ryan Blaney inside the final two turns while putting the 2.28-mile road course on the map.

Suddenly, fans who had stopped buying tickets for a tired tradition on the oval, the Coca-Cola 600 were lining up in droves for the ROVAL. NASCAR’s hometown track for race teams was a crown jewel once again, sparking the sport to shift its thinking toward a record seven road courses on the schedule in 2021.

The last two years have been slightly less dramatic, both won by Chase Elliott as he’s continued to dominate on this track type. A third straight win on Sunday would be just what the doctor ordered for Elliott and his Hendrick Motorsports program. The sport’s best regular-season team is stumbling through the playoffs, winning just once while two of their four drivers face almost certain elimination.

William Byron and Alex Bowman sit over 40 points behind the cutline, meaning each needs a first career road course victory to advance. More than likely, HMS will focus on protecting Elliott, nine points above the cutline, and regular-season points champion Kyle Larson instead (+22). Larson knows what a wild card this ROVAL can be, wrecking hard from the lead in 2018 before riding the wall on the final lap, limping his damaged race car home to pick up just one more position and advance in the playoffs.

Danger lurks at every turn here for championship contenders, a race that averages over 30 cars finishing on the lead lap. A spin can lead to a multi-car pileup quickly, costing you precious track position with no guarantee the caution’s coming out for a reset. When they do happen, restarts are wild, a hard braking zone into turn 1 leaving everyone scrambling to pick off as many positions as possible.

The last time we visited a ROVAL, AJ Allmendinger shocked the world and snookered the Cup regulars with an upset victory at Indianapolis. He’s back with Kaulig’s Racing No. 16, one of several drivers who could spoil the playoff party like Bubba Wallace’s surprise victory last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Rookie Chase Briscoe came a restart away from winning Indianapolis himself; the new father earned his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory here back in 2018.

But this race should boil down to a handful of title contenders and who can join Denny Hamlin in the Round of 8. Ninth place Kevin Harvick sits just nine points behind the cutline; 10th place Christopher Bell (-28) has already won at this type of road course this year (Daytona). A good run by either of them would knock out another heavyweight, a list that includes Cup champions Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. Not everyone can make it to the semifinal round in a year where there’s so much parity at the top.

Will the ROVAL produce another coronation for Elliott, the reigning NASCAR champ? Or will we see another upset deeper in the playoff field as the desperation to reach the Championship 4 ratchets up?

Bank of America ROVAL 400

Date: Sunday, Oct. 10

Time: 2 p.m. ET

Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL

TV: NBC

Radio: PRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Bubba Wallace

It was right place, right time for Wallace as a phenomenal drive took him to the front at Talladega right as a multi-car wreck happened behind him. Moments later, the rains came, forcing a red flag 71 laps short of its scheduled distance. When Mother Nature didn’t let up, that gave Wallace his first Cup win in his 143rd career start.

History was made with Wallace the first African-American driver at NASCAR’s top level to win since Wendell Scott way back in December 1963. It was also the first trophy for the NBA’s Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin as car owners of the fledgling first-year team at 23XI Racing. Sponsor McDonald’s completed the trifecta, ending a stock car curse that’s lasted for decades. The longtime primary sponsor visited victory lane for the first time since Jimmy Spencer drove for them way back in 1994.

Who’s at the Back: Justin Allgaier

This NASCAR Xfinity Series star has been pedestrian whenever he returns to Cup. Allgaier got caught in a wreck with the Spire Motorsports No. 77 at Talladega, his third DNF in four Cup starts since 2016. That list includes a one-race deal turned disaster with Hendrick Motorsports, crashing out while subbing in the No. 48 car last summer at Indianapolis.

News Briefs

A special guest will be helping Martin Truex Jr. wind his way around the Charlotte ROVAL this weekend. Former championship crew chief Cole Pearn, who paired with Truex to win the title in 2017, will come out of retirement to be an additional spotter for his friend down in Charlotte.

Big Machine Racing Team has announced a partnership with Richard Childress Racing for 2022. The independent NASCAR Xfinity Series team looks to step up its performance with better equipment after a disappointing first full-time season with driver Jade Buford. The No. 48 has one top-10 finish through 28 races while Buford sits just 23rd in driver points, falling well short of playoff contention.

GMS Racing will live stream their 2022 Cup Series driver announcement on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 10 am. ET on NASCAR.com. GMS has one of the few full-time openings left available at the Cup level for 2022.

NASCAR by the Numbers

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Bubba Wallace became the third first-time winner at the Cup level this season. The other two (Michael McDowell, Christopher Bell) reached victory lane in the year’s first two races.

70

Total lead changes in the two Cup races held at Talladega this season. Even with a rain-shortened race in the mix, that’s by far a season best for any track with two dates on the schedule.

Playing the Odds (Fantasy Spin)

Top Tier

Two straight wins make it hard to ignore Chase Elliott at the top of your lineup. Six races into the road course schedule, Elliott has been the fastest driver overall, scoring two wins, two runner-up finishes, and a fourth at Indianapolis. At minimum, he’ll rack up a ton of bonus points for leading laps and fastest laps, collecting stage points along the way.

Good friend Ryan Blaney started the year leading the exhibition Busch Clash before Elliott spun him out in the final two turns. Doesn’t it feel like this track type owes him one? Team Penske has had an underwhelming playoff but put itself in position to advance all three cars by avoiding any carnage at Talladega. Blaney has the best chance among the three to sneak in another victory before the Round of 8.

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Middle Tier

AJ Allmendinger moves up a notch despite a limited schedule and no points on the line with Kaulig Racing. How can you ignore the Indianapolis winner with the amount of position differential points he’ll earn starting 33rd? The only caveat I have is the ‘Dinger will come into this race holding a boom-or-bust mentality. Bringing it home on a wrecker means little to this team, building up their Cup program for 2022, but it’ll crash your chances to cash in on daily fantasy.

I’ve really liked the way Tyler Reddick and the Richard Childress Racing program has performed during the playoffs. While failing to advance into the Round of 12, Reddick posted a sixth-place finish two weeks ago at Las Vegas before getting caught up in a Talladega crash. Three road course top 10s in six starts this season bode well for a track where he ran a respectable 12th last fall.

Lower Tier

Cole Custer has been invisible most of the year, a sophomore slump for the ages with Stewart-Haas Racing. But while many will pick rookie teammate Briscoe to put on a repeat performance, don’t sleep on the No. 41 to sneak away with some kind of a solid finish. Custer was ninth here last October and has quietly posted four top-20 results on road courses this season.

Erik Jones finally figured the Charlotte ROVAL out last year, surging to a third-place finish after runs of 30th and 40th earlier in his Cup career. The No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports team knows they can excel in these types of races where driver skill means just as much as equipment.

What Vegas Thinks

Vegasinsider.com lists Chase Elliott as an overwhelming favorite, sitting with +220 odds to win the Charlotte ROVAL. Kyle Larson is next up at +450 followed by Martin Truex Jr. at +700.

Thinking the ‘Dinger can pull off back-to-back Cup victories? AJ Allmendinger is your best longshot at +1800.

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Kyle Larson has six NASCAR Cup Series wins this season, spending most of 2021 as the championship favorite. He enters the YellaWood 500 (Sunday, 2 p.m. ET, NBC) with a 57-point gap on the cutline, what should be a comfy position with two races left in the Round of 12. Martin Truex Jr., sitting fourth, has a 31-point edge of his own, compiling an average finish of 4.0 four races into the NASCAR playoffs.

So why do neither one of them feel safe?

The most unpredictable track in all of NASCAR looms large on the horizon: Talladega Superspeedway. This 2.66-mile tri-oval could literally shake up a dozen title contenders in a matter of seconds, its habit for multi-car wrecks and surprise winners leaving every championship contender on edge.

“We will cross our fingers, cross our toes,” Truex said. “Do some praying this week and go to Talladega and see what happens.”

Don’t believe me? Check out what just happened in Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. A 21-truck wreck on lap 59 sent a dozen drivers into the garage early, sparking a series of incidents and contact that continued on through the final lap of the race.

Coming off turn 4, underdog Tate Fogleman saw an opening, his only chance to win this year in subpar equipment. That meant Truck championship favorite John Hunter Nemechek became easy prey as the No. 12 turned the No. 4 heading to the start/finish line, winning the first race of his NASCAR career.

Playoffs be damned, right? In that series, Zane Smith lost 21 points on the cutline, just like that, despite having a Truck capable of winning the race. The only reason why is he happened to be in the wrong place, wrong time at a track that often gives drivers no time to react when the Big One breaks out.

See why all the championship drivers are sweating bullets? There’s a valid argument to be made a track like ‘Dega, with an inability for so many to control their own fate, shouldn’t be a part of the playoff schedule. But no one will argue racing here keeps it interesting, the one place all year where literally every car in the field could find themselves a winner if the draft (and the crashes) break their way.

Some are better at pack racing than others; Brad Keselowski leads all active drivers with six career Talladega wins. By comparison, Larson hasn’t ever finished inside the top 5 here or at Daytona in his Cup career. Most guys are somewhere in the middle, doing their best to simply stick around to the finish while learning where and how to make their moves in the draft when it counts.

And when they do pull out of line? There’s no margin for error. Just one mistake could mean a multi-car wreck that scores you one point for 36th or worse, sitting in the garage while someone else is finishing second and producing a 50-point swing (or more) in the standings.

So get ready for a wild ride, a rollercoaster of lead changes until the very last second (‘Dega’s averaged 50 the last three events here). Who will be able to pull the best strategy, catch all the right breaks and snake their way to the front at the finish?

YellaWood 500

Date: Sunday, Oct. 2

Time: 2 p.m. ET

Track: Talladega Superspeedway (Lincoln, Ala.)

TV: NBC

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Joe Gibbs Racing

JGR pulled the right slot machine out in Las Vegas, finishing 1-3-4 with Denny Hamlin winning his second race of the playoffs and securing a spot inside the Round of 8. He’s the only one breathing a sigh of relief this weekend, knowing no matter how mangled the No. 11 Toyota gets he’s still assured a chance to make the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway.

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BRISTOL — Only five points separate AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric as the battle for the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular-season championship will be settled Friday at the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Allmendinger, the Cup Series veteran whose career has been revived in the Xfinity Series, leads the standings in the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet. It’s a familiar place for Allmendinger, who made his first-ever Cup Series start at Bristol in 2007 and a place where he has Cup 21 starts overall.

This will be his second start in the Xfinity Series on the high banks. Despite no top-five finishes at Bristol, it’s one of Allmendinger’s favorite tracks.

I’m pumped, but as always, a bit nervous to go to Bristol,” said Allmendinger, a three-time winner this season. “It’s where I made my first Cup Series start, so that race track will always be special. It’s one of those races that you know from start to finish you’re going to be in a grind and be in traffic. It’s a difficult race, but I think we will be really fast there.”

Cindric, the defending Xfinity Series champion in the No. 22 Team Penske Ford, feels he’s owed at Bristol after leading 42 laps at last year’s Food City 300 before Chase Briscoe passed him for the win with five laps to go.

“I certainly have unfinished business at Bristol based on last year, so I’m pretty hungry,” Cindric said. “Forget about the points. We’ve got to go out there and try to win the race.”

Cindric leads the series with five wins this season, but the hottest driver of late is Noah Gragson, driver of the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. He comes into Bristol with back-to-back wins at Darlington at Richmond.

Gragson has one win at Bristol, albeit controversial, when he got into teammate Justin Allgaier to win the 2020 Cheddar’s 300. He’s not focused on that, but how his team is hitting its stride.

“The No. 9 team has been unloading fast Camaros all year and we’re really trending in the right direction,” Gragson said. “Hopefully we can make it a third win this weekend and enter the playoffs on a high note.”

Allgaier, the series veteran in the No. 7 Chevrolet, scored his first Xfinity Series win at Bristol in 2008. Since then, he’s posted nine top-five finishes and led 764 laps, but has come up short on multiple occasions.

I love racing at Bristol. It’s a place that has really suited my driving style over the years and I feel like we have always unloaded with a car that is capable of going to victory lane,” Allgaier said. “We’ve just had circumstances not go our way. Hopefully, all will go well on Friday night and we can be in contention for the win and end this regular season on a strong note.”

Other playoff drivers include Harrison Burton, Daniel Hemric and Brandon Jones from Joe Gibbs Racing and Kaulig Racing shoes Justin Haley and Jeb Burton. Jeremy Clements and Riley Herbst should be locked in, while Myatt Snider leads Michael Arnett for the final playoff spot.

Sam Mayer, who swept Truck and ARCA races in 2020, will be in the No. 8 JR Motorsports Chevy. Ty Gibbs, a three-time winner in the Xfinity Series this season, controls the always-fast No. 54 Toyota.

Former Kingsport Speedway champion Chad Finchum from Knoxville is entered in the No. 61 Toyota. It will be just the sixth start of the year for Finchum, who finished 15th his last race at Charlotte.

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Kevin Harvick earned his first checkered flag at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2003 with a 2.758-second victory over Matt Kenseth at the Brickyard 400, becoming the first to win the annual Cup Series race from the pole.

Harvick did the same at the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered by Florida Georgia Line (yes, that’s an actual race name) in 2019, leading 118 of 160 laps on the way to a dominant 6.118-second win over Joey Logano. He became the third driver with three victories at the track with a narrow .743-second win over Kenseth in 2020.

Jimmie Johnson won 83 races over the course of his 20-year career in the Cup Series, four of which came at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a seven-year span. He took his first checkered flag at the 2006 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, which ended under caution.

In 2008, the year of the big tire controversy, Johnson edged Carl Edwards by .332 seconds to notch his second victory at the track and became the race’s first back-to-back winner in 2009 with a .400-second win over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin. His fourth win in Indy came in 2012 as he led 99 of 160 laps on the way to a 4.758-second victory over Kyle Busch.

Jeff Gordon has the most NASCAR Cup Series wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with five

Jeff Gordon following his victory at the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series Crown Royal Presents The John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Jeff Gordon following his victory at the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series Crown Royal Presents The John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Chris Trotman/Getty Images

As mentioned, Jeff Gordon, then just 23 years of age and in only his second full season in the Cup Series, won the inaugural running of the Brickyard 400 in 1994, which featured the largest crowd in NASCAR history. Gordon took the lead late after Ernie Irvan blew a tire and held on for a .53-second win over Brett Bodine.

In 1998, Gordon won his second Brickyard 400, which ended under caution, and took his third checkered flag at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2001 with a .943-second win over Sterling Marlin. The “Rainbow Warrior” dominated in 2004 to pick up win number four, leading 124 laps before again winning under caution. Gordon then went a decade without a win in Indy, although he finished inside the top 10 seven times during that stretch, but became the first five-time winner at the track with a 2.325-second victory over Kyle Busch in 2014.

Stats courtesy of Racing Reference

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As mentioned, Jeff Gordon, then just 23 years of age and in only his second full season in the Cup Series, won the inaugural running of the Brickyard 400 in 1994, which featured the largest crowd in NASCAR history. Gordon took the lead late after Ernie Irvan blew a tire and held on for a .53-second win over Brett Bodine.

In 1998, Gordon won his second Brickyard 400, which ended under caution, and took his third checkered flag at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2001 with a .943-second win over Sterling Marlin. The “Rainbow Warrior” dominated in 2004 to pick up win number four, leading 124 laps before again winning under caution. Gordon then went a decade without a win in Indy, although he finished inside the top 10 seven times during that stretch, but became the first five-time winner at the track with a 2.325-second victory over Kyle Busch in 2014.

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After a two-week Olympic break, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season returns to the track with Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen. It’s the first of 14 straight weeks of racing, including the final four races of the regular season before the playoffs get underway.

Here’s what we know about how the NASCAR postseason field is shaping up. Nine drivers have guaranteed themselves a spot, provided they start the final four races of the regular season: Kyle Larson, Martin Truex Jr., Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. It’s a breakdown of the sport’s Big 3 teams: Ford’s trio of Team Penske drivers, Chevrolet’s Hendrick Motorsports quartet and two from Toyota’s Joe Gibbs Racing.

Another four drivers sit in the “should be in” category: Kurt Busch, Christopher Bell, Michael McDowell and Aric Almirola. Each of them has one win and would only be vulnerable if at least three new winners pop up in the final four regular-season races. Right now, the sport has 13 different winners; if we get to 16, one of these drivers could be eliminated as winless point leader Denny Hamlin is guaranteed a spot.

Hamlin is in a weird position, sitting with zero victories after winning seven times in 2020. While he can’t be caught by any other winless driver, Hamlin sits just 13 points ahead of Larson. That leaves the door slightly open for the No. 11 team to fall out if there’s three new winners in the final four races and Larson captures the regular-season championship.

Kevin Harvick and Tyler Reddick round out the current 16-driver field as it stands. Both drivers are winless, Harvick being another surprise in that category considering he captured a career-best nine victories last year. Harvick’s been running better as of late, leading a season-high 66 laps at New Hampshire Motor Speedway before the break, but isn’t known as a road course specialist.

That could be a problem with two of the final four regular-season races on this track type: Sunday at Watkins Glen along with one later this month at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Reddick hopes a decent road course record this year (two top 10s in four starts) will help pad his five-point edge over Richard Childress Racing teammate Austin Dillon for the final spot.

Dillon’s the only driver capable of catching Harvick or Reddick on points. For all others seeking a road to the playoffs, from Chris Buescher to Bubba Wallace, the formula is simple: they have to win. That’ll be a tall order this weekend at a track where Chase Elliott has dominated the past two events here, leading 132 of the last 180 laps. Elliott has already won two road course races in 2021 and will be looking to add an eighth career victory on this track type, leaving him one behind Jeff Gordon for the most all-time.

How these underdog drivers play their pit strategy is key to determining the upset. The Glen comes with a 50-lap final stage where you’ll have to make at least one stop. Opportunities to tweak your car are limited, as this track has had no more than four cautions in any race during the stage era.

Will Elliott continue his road course domination in western New York? Or will a driver desperate for a postseason bid pull off a big surprise?

Who’s at the Front: Aric Almirola

The sport is still buzzing from Almirola’s out-of-nowhere trip to victory lane two weeks ago. Earning just two top-10 finishes in the first 21 races this year, Almirola was suffering through the worst season of his career entering New Hampshire.

Not anymore. Almirola charged from his 22nd starting spot, eventually leading 25 laps in a race that was shortened due to pending darkness. He earned his win the hard way, on raw speed and quieted Silly Season rumors he’d be replaced at the No. 10 Ford of Stewart-Haas Racing next season. It’s just the third career win for Almirola and his first outside of the big pack racing superspeedways of Daytona and Talladega.

Who’s at the Back: William Byron

It’s been all downhill for Byron after winning the pole at Road America for the July 4 race. Since then, runs of 33rd, 20th and 21st equal the worst slump of the season for a driver who racked up 11 straight top-10 finishes earlier this year.

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New Hampshire Motor Speedway will mark the 22nd race of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season with this weekend’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. It’s a track where three drivers have combined to win five of the last six races: Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin.

At this time a year ago, that trio sat 1-2-3 in the Cup standings, winning 13 of 21 races while mastering a minefield of COVID-19 complications. Harvick went on to win a career-high nine times, cruising to the regular-season points title while Hamlin posted seven victories of his own. Keselowski won four times and came 2.74 seconds short of a second Cup title, finishing runner-up to Chase Elliott at Phoenix Raceway.

How quickly momentum can shift in this sport.

Here we are, 12 months later, and that trio has won a grand total of once, at Talladega Superspeedway with Keselowski. Harvick is suffering through his worst season since switching to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014, on pace for a career low in laps led (39) while slumping to ninth in the point standings. A man who made five of the first six Championship 4s under NASCAR’s current playoff format could potentially miss the postseason altogether with three upsets down the stretch.

Hamlin is also winless, weakening as the year has progressed. The current point leader came out of the box swinging, posting eight top-5 finishes in the first nine races. But never closing the deal eventually took a hit to the No. 11 Toyota team’s confidence. Hamlin’s led just 76 laps the past dozen races while watching his advantage shrink from over 100 points to just 10 over Kyle Larson.

Keselowski is in a trickier spot, announcing next week he’ll be leaving Team Penske to become part-owner of Roush Fenway Racing in 2022. The No. 2 team has been Penske’s flagship for decades but now must deal with the pending distraction of transitioning to a new driver in Austin Cindric. Can this veteran keep the team motivated, making one last push after posting only one top-5 finish over the past 10 races?

New Hampshire comes at a good time for this group, a unique one-mile oval in the final regular-season stretch. The track shares a few characteristics with Phoenix, the championship finale but otherwise has limited use as a testing ground for playoff-bound drivers. The sport’s hottest team, Hendrick Motorsports, has struggled at this place through the years; the last HMS driver to win New Hampshire was Kasey Kahne way back in 2012.

We’ve just seen another struggling driver, Kurt Busch, complete a recent turnaround with an upset at Atlanta Motor Speedway. New Hampshire has the potential to occasionally surprise, gifting Joey Logano his first win as a rookie in 2009 and Brian Vickers his final Cup victory four years later.

So for Hamlin, Harvick, Keselowski and other drivers on the playoff bubble, the time to strike is now. Looking ahead past the two-week Olympic break, two of the final four regular-season races are on road courses, where Chase Elliott has dominated. Michigan International Speedway plays right into Kyle Larson’s wheelhouse. And placing your bet on the Daytona International Speedway finale is like throwing all your money on one number of the roulette wheel. It’s just too unpredictable.

We’ll see if New Hampshire is where old favorites come back to make new memories.

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Foxwoods Resort Casino 301

Date: Sunday, July 18

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Loudon, N.H.)

TV: NBCSN

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

For Busch, it was the most laps led for him in any race since 2015. He’s now won a Cup race in eight straight seasons while making the playoffs 12 times in the last 13 years. Not a bad resume to sell to perspective employers as rumors swirl about where Busch will end up in 2022.

Who’s at the Back: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

JTG Daugherty Racing has to be kicking themselves over what might have been. Stenhouse produced their most consistent season over the first half of 2021, leaving them on the fringes of playoff contention through 15 races. Since then, it’s been three DNFs over his last six starts (two engine failures and a crash not of his making at Atlanta) to leave him a distant 21st in the standings.

Unless there’s a Daytona miracle here, it’s hard to see Stenhouse on the right side of the cutline at this point. What does that mean for his employment with JTG Daugherty come 2022?

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As NASCAR heads back to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Quaker State 400 this weekend, its first race of 2021 was a reminder of how, once upon a time, someone knew how to beat Kyle Larson down the stretch at an intermediate track. Back in March, Ryan Blaney used lapped traffic to sneak past Larson and lead the last nine laps at this 1.54-mile quad-oval, handing Ford their fifth straight victory at AMS.

Here’s the problem: Blaney hasn’t won since. The Blue Ovals have been feeling blue for some time now, going 10 straight races without a Cup Series victory while slipping into a distant third in the manufacturer’s race. One of their top programs, Stewart-Haas Racing, sits winless one year after Kevin Harvick torched the series for a career-high nine victories. Barring a miracle, SHR will send just one driver to the NASCAR playoffs (Harvick) three years after planting four inside the Round of 8.

That leaves Ford’s hopes almost exclusively in the hands of Blaney’s Team Penske operation. The three-car team of Blaney, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski went on a run in the spring, winning three times in a five-race stretch. But they sit winless since Talladega Superspeedway at the end of April, watching Larson’s Hendrick Motorsports program run circles around the rest of the competition.

The last couple months for us probably haven’t been the smoothest as far as needing a little bit of overall speed,” Blaney said. “You go through those rough patches during your season and you just hope to clean them up by playoff time.”

It hasn’t helped to have a circus-like atmosphere of distractions, rare for a team known for its professionalism and driver longevity. Keselowski has all but announced his departure for 2022, moving on to become a part-owner at Roush Fenway Racing. Blaney’s crew chief, Todd Gordon, announced his retirement after the season. Speculation’s run wild on Penske’s replacement and whether the Team President’s son, Austin Cindric, will take over the No. 2 car or replace a struggling Matt DiBenedetto at Penske’s satellite program, the Wood Brothers.

It’s created an outside appearance the team is struggling to keep its act together. That’s where AMS becomes a real test. Larson has been dominant at this track type, leading 84 percent of all laps run at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Nashville Superspeedway. His victories at those tracks were by an average of over seven seconds.

Kyle Busch has had the speed lately to run with the HMS pack, scoring a victory at Pocono Raceway in June and running third to Chase Elliott at Road America last weekend. But Ford remains hard-pressed to find its own challenger, failing to put a single driver inside the top 5 at Road America.

That’s where Blaney steps in, the Blue Oval crowd’s top 20-something talent at the Cup level. In five full-time seasons, he’s never won more than a single race per year. Sweeping AMS would work wonders in rebuilding confidence for a Penske program getting outhandled and outmotored for three solid months.

“This weekend will be a really good idea to see where we stack up,” Blaney said. “Going back to a place where we won at and was really competitive – to kind of see where we stack up now with us probably thinking we need a little bit of speed.”

Can Blaney, Joey Logano or another Ford driver step into the void? Or will HMS, after seven wins in the last eight races, continue to drive off into the sunset?

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Quaker State 400

Date: Sunday, July 11

Time: 3:30 p.m. ET

Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway (Hampton, Ga.)

TV: NBCSN

Radio: PRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Chase Elliott

There’s no better medicine for Elliott after a rough month of June than his favorite track type: road courses. Cruising to victory at Road America July 4, the first Cup race at the track in 65 years, Elliott now has posted seven of his 13 career wins at this track type. Only Jeff Gordon (9) and Tony Stewart (8) have more career victories on road courses in NASCAR history.

The key for Elliott is everywhere else: he’s led just 67 laps on ovals this season. But with the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL a playoff race, it feels like he’ll automatically punch a ticket into the Round of 8.

Who’s at the Back: Ty Dillon

Cutting back to a part-time schedule this season, Dillon has just a handful of opportunities to shine. The hope was driving for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series would rebuild his confidence, translating into the handful of Cup starts he has for Gaunt Brothers Racing.

It hasn’t happened. Dillon was 26th at Road America, his worst finish of the year for GBR. In nine combined NASCAR starts this year, he has just one top-10 finish. Remember, that includes NXS equipment that’s won multiple times with Kyle Busch and Ty Gibbs.

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The Jockey Made in America 250? On July 4th? What a jarring change for NASCAR tradition as the 2021 schedule shakeup continues. For over 50 years, the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway took center stage for Independence Day weekend. The aptly named season midpoint proved the perfect pairing for America’s birthday celebration.

Road America is out to change that, the 4.048-mile road course hosting its first Cup race this weekend since 1956. NASCAR is so excited about the partnership they’re already pushing a repeat appearance before any drivers step foot on the racetrack. It’s the fourth of a record-setting seven road courses on the docket as the sport tries to incorporate more diversity in 2021.

It’s also the latest in NASCAR’s sizzling summertime of changes, Silly Season moves and new races popping up at a frenetic pace. In just the last two weeks alone…

- The first NASCAR races at Nashville Superspeedway since 2011 were held (including the first-ever Cup event).

After 20 years, Chip Ganassi sold his two-car Cup operation to Justin Marks and partner Pitbull at Trackhouse Racing. Keep in mind Trackhouse was simply an idea on paper this time a year ago.

- NASCAR Xfinity Series owner Matt Kaulig purchased two Cup charters from Spire Motorsports in order to race full-time in Cup next season. Spire and driver Corey LaJoie says the team might turn around and buy back a second charter from somebody else (they still have one left).

- Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced he is actively seeking a charter for JR Motorsports in Cup next season but claims he needs “$10 million+” as the cost of entry skyrockets in advance of the Next Gen car.

- NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon left his role at FOX Sports to become vice chairman at Hendrick Motorsports (and the de facto successor to owner Rick Hendrick down the line).

All that and we’re less than two weeks into the summer. Several Silly Season questions have yet to be answered, from charter purchases to who will drive the flagship No. 2 Ford at Team Penske in 2022.

How will the flurry of NASCAR news continue up at Road America? The central focus will be on the last two road course winners, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson. Six of Elliott’s 12 career victories have come at left and right-turn tracks, including this year’s inaugural event down in Austin (Circuit of the Americas). Larson struck back at Sonoma Raceway, part of his month-long win streak that left him surging to second in the standings, just two points behind Denny Hamlin.

Will any of the road course ringers break their stranglehold at this track type? AJ Allmendinger will jump over from the NASCAR Xfinity Series, seeking his first Cup victory since 2014 at Watkins Glen International. Then, there’s teammates Kurt Busch and Ross Chastain who hope to bounce back from Ganassi’s shocking sale with an upset victory that catapults them off the bubble and into the NASCAR playoffs.

Will Allmendinger, Austin Cindric and other NASCAR Xfinity Series competitors have an edge in the Cup race? NXS has raced Road America since 2010 while no Cup full-timer was even born the last time this series raced here. A Cinderella story would inject life into a NASCAR division that’s stalled out at 11 winners as of late (just one new one in the last eight races).

Fireworks will surely ensue at a road course where contact is the norm, not the exception. Expect this Independence Day 62-lapper to be one of the better NASCAR races you’ll see this year.

Jockey Made in America 250 Presented by Kwik Trip

Date: Sunday, July 4

Time: 2:30 p.m. ET

Track: Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wis.)

TV: NBC

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Kyle Busch

Busch posted a 1.5 average finish in last weekend’s Pocono Raceway doubleheader, culminating in a Sunday win where he outlasted everyone else on fuel mileage. He nursed a broken clutch to the finish where his No. 18 Toyota ended the race with only fourth gear. It was quite a stroke of luck, as any caution flag or extra stop for gas would have ruined his chance for the victory.

That said, Busch still feels like Joe Gibbs Racing has a long way to go to catch up to their championship rivals. It’s the first race won by anyone outside Hendrick Motorsports since Martin Truex Jr. was victorious at Darlington Raceway Mother’s Day Weekend.

“There was a Hendrick car that was going to win, right?” Busch claimed about his Pocono triumph. “Or looked poised to have victory without being short on fuel. I don’t know that we necessarily outdid them anyhow. We were just in a little better situation than they were.”

Who’s at the Back: Chris Buescher

Four races ago, Buescher looked like a playoff lock. Now, he’s on the outside looking in after a sudden surge from Kurt Busch knocked Buescher out of the final spot. Runs of 16th, 36th, 20th and 19th the last three weeks allowed Busch to gain 86 points.

Sunday was the biggest disappointment for Buescher, starting from the pole only to lose 18 spots over the course of the race. Can he turn it around with three road courses, not his bread and butter, in the final seven events of the regular season?

News Briefs

The turmoil at Team Penske continues as crew chief Todd Gordon announced his retirement this week. Gordon, currently paired with Ryan Blaney, earned a NASCAR Cup championship with Joey Logano back in 2018. He stated a desire to spend more time with family after racking up 23 career Cup victories atop the pit box.

NASCAR has chosen to discontinue eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational events for the rest of 2021. These virtual races, popular during the pandemic, waned in popularity this year as COVID-19 restrictions eased across the country. Underdogs like James Davison and Timmy Hill briefly gained notoriety in the series for winning these events as computerized equipment leveled the playing field.

SRX continues its strength in the ratings versus NASCAR. The latest edition of the new series Saturday night at Eldora Speedway was watched by 1.38 million on CBS, falling just short of the 1.44 million that watched the Pocono Raceway Cup race on NBCSN the following day.

NASCAR by the Numbers

5th

Finishing position for Bubba Wallace Sunday at Pocono, the first top-5 finish (and top 10) for Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing in its short history.

5

Straight top-15 finishes for Daniel Suarez and Trackhouse Racing, allowing Suarez to close within 48 points of the final playoff spot. By comparison, Suarez went without a single top-15 result in a full season for Gaunt Brothers Racing last year.

Playing the Odds (Fantasy Spin)

Top Tier

It’s going to be impossible to squeeze Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. into one daily fantasy lineup. These three are so head-and-shoulders above the pack you need two of them on your list to cash in.

Related: Best Road America Drivers for DraftKings

Personally, I like Elliott and Larson. Despite limited Road America experience for both, they’ve won the last two road course races between them. Larson remains red hot despite a Pocono bump in the road while Elliott is eager to tack on more wins (and playoff points) before the postseason begins in September.

Middle Tier

Here’s where it gets interesting. Christopher Bell has struggled since a win at the Daytona road course back in February. Could Road America spark a turnaround? He won an Xfinity Series race here back in 2019, before a full-time transition to Cup and has the experience to be successful.

Kurt Busch has a fourth and sixth-place finish among his three road course starts this season. Road America offers an opportunity to keep the momentum rolling while auditioning for a 2022 ride after the Chip Ganassi sale to Trackhouse Racing. Remember, Busch has won a race for seven straight seasons and these new tracks are the type of scenario where the 2004 Cup champion can surprise.

Lower Tier

Cole Custer has had an absolute disaster of a sophomore season with Stewart-Haas Racing. But past history at Road America (three top-10 finishes in three NXS starts) leaves some hope for a season-best performance. No one’s thinking of Custer as a road course expert, making him a sneaky pick for the back end of your roster.

AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric are road course ringers from NXS that are fairly obvious picks. Allmendinger has an average finish of 6.0 in two Cup starts this year, running a season-best fifth his last time out at Circuit of the Americas. Cindric was impressive in that same COTA event, leading four laps early from his third starting spot. The reigning NXS champ is due for his first top-10 finish in a Cup car.

What Vegas Thinks

Chase Elliott leads the way with 9/4 odds to win Road America according to vegasinsider.com. Kyle Larson is a close second, sitting at 3/1 with Martin Truex Jr. third at 7/1. Those drivers are far ahead of the rest of the field.

Michael McDowell, a former Road America winner in NXS, is sitting at 66/1 if you’re looking for a Cinderella story.

What I Think

I’ll go with Chase Elliott to get back to his winning ways on road courses, fending off AJ Allmendinger for his second victory of the season.

— Written by Tom Bowles, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network and the Majority Owner of NASCAR Web site Frontstretch.com. He can be reached at tbowles81@yahoo.com or on Twitter @NASCARBowles.

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BY TOM BOWLES

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The Jockey Made in America 250? On July 4th? What a jarring change for NASCAR tradition as the 2021 schedule shakeup continues. For over 50 years, the Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway took center stage for Independence Day weekend. The aptly named season midpoint proved the perfect pairing for America’s birthday celebration.

Road America is out to change that, the 4.048-mile road course hosting its first Cup race this weekend since 1956. NASCAR is so excited about the partnership they’re already pushing a repeat appearance before any drivers step foot on the racetrack. It’s the fourth of a record-setting seven road courses on the docket as the sport tries to incorporate more diversity in 2021.

It’s also the latest in NASCAR’s sizzling summertime of changes, Silly Season moves and new races popping up at a frenetic pace. In just the last two weeks alone…

- The first NASCAR races at Nashville Superspeedway since 2011 were held (including the first-ever Cup event).

After 20 years, Chip Ganassi sold his two-car Cup operation to Justin Marks and partner Pitbull at Trackhouse Racing. Keep in mind Trackhouse was simply an idea on paper this time a year ago.

- NASCAR Xfinity Series owner Matt Kaulig purchased two Cup charters from Spire Motorsports in order to race full-time in Cup next season. Spire and driver Corey LaJoie says the team might turn around and buy back a second charter from somebody else (they still have one left).

- Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced he is actively seeking a charter for JR Motorsports in Cup next season but claims he needs “$10 million+” as the cost of entry skyrockets in advance of the Next Gen car.

- NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon left his role at FOX Sports to become vice chairman at Hendrick Motorsports (and the de facto successor to owner Rick Hendrick down the line).

All that and we’re less than two weeks into the summer. Several Silly Season questions have yet to be answered, from charter purchases to who will drive the flagship No. 2 Ford at Team Penske in 2022.

How will the flurry of NASCAR news continue up at Road America? The central focus will be on the last two road course winners, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson. Six of Elliott’s 12 career victories have come at left and right-turn tracks, including this year’s inaugural event down in Austin (Circuit of the Americas). Larson struck back at Sonoma Raceway, part of his month-long win streak that left him surging to second in the standings, just two points behind Denny Hamlin.

Will any of the road course ringers break their stranglehold at this track type? AJ Allmendinger will jump over from the NASCAR Xfinity Series, seeking his first Cup victory since 2014 at Watkins Glen International. Then, there’s teammates Kurt Busch and Ross Chastain who hope to bounce back from Ganassi’s shocking sale with an upset victory that catapults them off the bubble and into the NASCAR playoffs.

Will Allmendinger, Austin Cindric and other NASCAR Xfinity Series competitors have an edge in the Cup race? NXS has raced Road America since 2010 while no Cup full-timer was even born the last time this series raced here. A Cinderella story would inject life into a NASCAR division that’s stalled out at 11 winners as of late (just one new one in the last eight races).

Fireworks will surely ensue at a road course where contact is the norm, not the exception. Expect this Independence Day 62-lapper to be one of the better NASCAR races you’ll see this year.

Jockey Made in America 250 Presented by Kwik Trip

Date: Sunday, July 4

Time: 2:30 p.m. ET

Track: Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wis.)

TV: NBC

Radio: MRN, SIRIUS XM Channel 90

Who’s at the Front: Kyle Busch

Busch posted a 1.5 average finish in last weekend’s Pocono Raceway doubleheader, culminating in a Sunday win where he outlasted everyone else on fuel mileage. He nursed a broken clutch to the finish where his No. 18 Toyota ended the race with only fourth gear. It was quite a stroke of luck, as any caution flag or extra stop for gas would have ruined his chance for the victory.

That said, Busch still feels like Joe Gibbs Racing has a long way to go to catch up to their championship rivals. It’s the first race won by anyone outside Hendrick Motorsports since Martin Truex Jr. was victorious at Darlington Raceway Mother’s Day Weekend.

“There was a Hendrick car that was going to win, right?” Busch claimed about his Pocono triumph. “Or looked poised to have victory without being short on fuel. I don’t know that we necessarily outdid them anyhow. We were just in a little better situation than they were.”

Who’s at the Back: Chris Buescher

Four races ago, Buescher looked like a playoff lock. Now, he’s on the outside looking in after a sudden surge from Kurt Busch knocked Buescher out of the final spot. Runs of 16th, 36th, 20th and 19th the last three weeks allowed Busch to gain 86 points.

Sunday was the biggest disappointment for Buescher, starting from the pole only to lose 18 spots over the course of the race. Can he turn it around with three road courses, not his bread and butter, in the final seven events of the regular season?

News Briefs

The turmoil at Team Penske continues as crew chief Todd Gordon announced his retirement this week. Gordon, currently paired with Ryan Blaney, earned a NASCAR Cup championship with Joey Logano back in 2018. He stated a desire to spend more time with family after racking up 23 career Cup victories atop the pit box.

NASCAR has chosen to discontinue eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational events for the rest of 2021. These virtual races, popular during the pandemic, waned in popularity this year as COVID-19 restrictions eased across the country. Underdogs like James Davison and Timmy Hill briefly gained notoriety in the series for winning these events as computerized equipment leveled the playing field.

SRX continues its strength in the ratings versus NASCAR. The latest edition of the new series Saturday night at Eldora Speedway was watched by 1.38 million on CBS, falling just short of the 1.44 million that watched the Pocono Raceway Cup race on NBCSN the following day.

NASCAR by the Numbers

5th

Finishing position for Bubba Wallace Sunday at Pocono, the first top-5 finish (and top 10) for Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing in its short history.

5

Straight top-15 finishes for Daniel Suarez and Trackhouse Racing, allowing Suarez to close within 48 points of the final playoff spot. By comparison, Suarez went without a single top-15 result in a full season for Gaunt Brothers Racing last year.

Playing the Odds (Fantasy Spin)

Top Tier

It’s going to be impossible to squeeze Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. into one daily fantasy lineup. These three are so head-and-shoulders above the pack you need two of them on your list to cash in.

Related: Best Road America Drivers for DraftKings

Personally, I like Elliott and Larson. Despite limited Road America experience for both, they’ve won the last two road course races between them. Larson remains red hot despite a Pocono bump in the road while Elliott is eager to tack on more wins (and playoff points) before the postseason begins in September.

Middle Tier

Here’s where it gets interesting. Christopher Bell has struggled since a win at the Daytona road course back in February. Could Road America spark a turnaround? He won an Xfinity Series race here back in 2019, before a full-time transition to Cup and has the experience to be successful.

Kurt Busch has a fourth and sixth-place finish among his three road course starts this season. Road America offers an opportunity to keep the momentum rolling while auditioning for a 2022 ride after the Chip Ganassi sale to Trackhouse Racing. Remember, Busch has won a race for seven straight seasons and these new tracks are the type of scenario where the 2004 Cup champion can surprise.

Lower Tier

Cole Custer has had an absolute disaster of a sophomore season with Stewart-Haas Racing. But past history at Road America (three top-10 finishes in three NXS starts) leaves some hope for a season-best performance. No one’s thinking of Custer as a road course expert, making him a sneaky pick for the back end of your roster.

AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric are road course ringers from NXS that are fairly obvious picks. Allmendinger has an average finish of 6.0 in two Cup starts this year, running a season-best fifth his last time out at Circuit of the Americas. Cindric was impressive in that same COTA event, leading four laps early from his third starting spot. The reigning NXS champ is due for his first top-10 finish in a Cup car.

What Vegas Thinks

Chase Elliott leads the way with 9/4 odds to win Road America according to vegasinsider.com. Kyle Larson is a close second, sitting at 3/1 with Martin Truex Jr. third at 7/1. Those drivers are far ahead of the rest of the field.

Michael McDowell, a former Road America winner in NXS, is sitting at 66/1 if you’re looking for a Cinderella story.

What I Think

I’ll go with Chase Elliott to get back to his winning ways on road courses, fending off AJ Allmendinger for his second victory of the season.

— Written by Tom Bowles, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network and the Majority Owner of NASCAR Web site Frontstretch.com. He can be reached at tbowles81@yahoo.com or on Twitter @NASCARBowles.

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BY TOM BOWLES