#nascar cup playoffs

[sortanonymous]

Last-Minute NASCAR Cup Playoff Predictions (No visual grid, sorry)

Round of 16 Exits:

Harrison Burton (I'm sorry, but... duh!)

Daniel Suárez (At least my second-favorite Trackhouse driver got in)

Austin Cindric (Penske playoff magic isn't unlimited)

Joey Logano (Please tell me reality sets in for both the Steelers of NASCAR and football this fall!)

Round of 12 Exits:

Alex Bowman (Making it this far would honestly be miraculous considering the dumb off-field distractions)

Martin Truex Jr. (I don't even really care about the title. Just please racing gods, let this legend go out with just one more win after the hell you've put him through these past 14 months!)

Chase Briscoe (SHR's final ride has almost certainly already peaked, but I still can't wait to see Briscoe in the 19 - as long as James Small doesn't waste his prime like he wasted MTJ's twilight)

Ty Gibbs (This last cut was tough, but I think his sneakily solid sophomore season goes no further, unless he can come close to a win anyway.)

Round of 8 Exits:

Denny Hamlin (I was initially on the fence between "It's his time" and "He'll choke again", but that brutal penalty could really be the dagger by this round)

Chase Elliott (Consistency should yield championships, but it unfortunately doesn't in modern NASCAR, so he may fall behind the other win-worthy drivers.)

Brad Keselowski (Maybe I'm high-balling him, but I think Brad has enough recent playoff energy left in him to carry RFK this far, but not any farther.)

Ryan Blaney (VERY close between him and Byron, but while Blaney is coming into these playoffs better than his championship year, I just get the feeling Hendrick will turn it up again and get Byron back to Phoenix. I saw someone call this the modern version of Jummie and Knaus's formula for the Chase, and I think they've got a point.)

Championship 4 and why they could win:

Kyle Larson - Even if this isn't his best season, it feels like a true banner year for Larson as a racecar driver, and with him being just one point away from the Regular Season title even after getting washed away from the most valuable race of the year, he could have a good case to win his second Bill France Cup. (Heck, it looked like he would seal it last year off another clutch pit stop, but unlike in '21, he wouldn't hold on during the final restart.)

William Byron - As said earlier, Byron may be catching onto the same formula the 48 team made a dynasty out of, and even if his championship-caliber season last year didn't end on a high note, his past success at Phoenix could be enough to put the legendary 24 car in championship lane for the first time in 23 years.

Tyler Reddick - Moving onto my two real championship contenders, Reddick made a heck of a late charge to win the Regular Season title on fumes (albiet with a little help from Mother Nature in Indy), and being arguably the best driver in Cup this year, he should be able to get over the hump and get 23XI to not just its first Championship 4 berth, but perhaps the first championship ring of any kind in decades for both of its very differently decorated owners. (Maybe its last Final 4 berth though considering this charter drama that I already lost track of like four months ago.)

Christopher Bell - Chalk it up all you want to bias for who will, after a certain retirement, soon become my second-favorite driver, but not only has Bell been insanely clutch in the playoffs as of late (he's damn near NASCAR's Mr. October at this point), but if the October Bell indeed rings all the way to Phoenix, he'll be in his paradise of the kind of flat tracks he's been so good at. (Legit, he may be the only person in the world who isn't a NASCAR executive that wants Phoenix to stay as the championship track, even if he's had championship success at Homestead in lower divisions.) Yeah, he lost his first two Final 4 berths, but those were respectively due to an OP Logano car and his tire becoming a nuke just as the race got going. Considering how he's already had his best season so far, he may have just enough to secure the 20 team (and in fact any JGR ride not driven by Kyle Busch) their first Cup title in nearly two decades. (It'd be especially since SHR's closing may mean the end of the last #20 car champion's 26-year involvement in NASCAR, as if Smoke really seems to care about that.)

And my pick for 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Champion is...

Christopher Bell! (Reddick was really close, but the Phoenix factor could be the difference. No, I'm just high on hopium after one of my two favorites collapses out of a playoff spot and the other is on pace to easily the saddest final season and a half of any Hall-of-Famer (present or future) that didn't die on the track.)

Now watch as these age like milk and the Wood Brothers win their first(?) ever Cup with a driver they issued a pink slip to months ago! 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

[kindalikevelvet]

I WENT TO TARGET IN A RYAN BLANEY SHIRT, SORTED THE MUGS LIKE SO, AND THEN MET A FELLOW RYAN BLANEY FAN.

[leo-dh11]

got bored, babygirled and pretty princessed my favorite driver

[cielo-delucio]

Ross Chastain. Likes melons. Love walls. 🍉💨

[doyouknow-themelonman]

Timmy Hill you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

[coke-600]

First ever drawing of Ryan Blaney himself from 2022

[calkale]

manifesting winnipeg jets 2025 stanley cup champions

[zikbitume]

@NASCAR

Top 10 at @RichmondRaceway the #NASCARPlayoffs.

[edertecoriginal]

Chase Eliott gana en Talladega, se los dije en Twitter

[whipplefilter]

In 2004, NASCAR introduced the green-white checkered/overtime, so no race would finish under yellow, as well as the Chase (which would later become the Playoffs system).

The 2006 Piston Cup still operates by an older ruleset, though, where the Champion is decided by straight points, which suggests they also don't have a green-white checkered. But do they race back to the caution or not? (Prior to 2003, when a caution flew, cars still raced for position to the start/finish line; in 2003, the caution rule changed so that the race freezes at the moment the flag flies.)

I was thinking about this in the shower last night, because when Lightning chooses to stop before the finish line and help The King finish his last race, he's at a point in the race where it would be easier to win than not. It would be easier to keep momentum across the finish line, and infinitely harder to come to a complete stop on track like he does. Unless you're wrecking, there's no point in a race you'd come to a full-stop on track under green, because it's really hard!

It would have been easier for Lightning to cross the finish and loop back around to push The King to the line. He'd have been back around in 30 seconds; The King would've even finished on the lead lap, because Lighting would still be behind him. But he doesn't.

He makes the explicit, physically difficult, choice to stop.

And then I thought, oh my GOD, if the tower had thrown a yellow for Strip's wreck, the race would've ended under yellow, and what if their positions were determined by the scoring loop, and Lightning won whether he crossed the line or not? WHAT IF THAT RUINED HIS LIFE because he didn't get to lose this race like he was trying to.

In a normal race, that yellow probably would've gone up immediately for a crash like Strip's--but then, maybe not. It wouldn't really have posed imminent danger to any other racers, because there were only three on track and none were behind Strip at that point. Strip technically also wasn't... on the racing surface any longer, though if EMS were gonna rush out there (which apparently they did not) they'd still want the yellow. The Piston Cup in general seems stingy with their yellows, but when/whether a caution flag flies is a constant controversy in NASCAR.

CAN YOU IMAGINE...

[blusical]

"win and in shouldnt be a thing" "another example of nascars broken system-" my guy (gender neutral), a driver got his first career cup win, 100th win for his team and did it during his LAST YEAR with that team. let us be happy. (but also, i too hope nascar fixes this wacky playoff system).

[sortanonymous]

UN. FREAKING. BELIEVABLE.

What a finish at Atlanta, what a win for Daniel Suarez in a year he needed it most, and what a race for the ages! Three brilliant one-thousandths that will be remembered forever!

Man, it's so great to have NASCAR back!

[kindalikevelvet]

Really good race until it wasn't for us. Ran great up front and even won a stage but man I'm getting sick and tired of overtime after overtime this season and could really do without it for the rest of... forever lol

We'd probably have a great shot at the regular season lead if not for that final restart (and yknow new hamsphire, gateway)

ANYWAYS it's Daytona time with the Advance car which we've finished 5th, 5th and 1st in this season. Excited

[james-is-nasqueer]

NASCAR Cup Qualifying: Atlanta Fall 400 (Quaker State 400)

single car runs, 2 rounds with the top 10 from round 1 advancing

playoff drivers go last

Round 1 Results

Blaney

McDowell

Logano

Larson

Gilliland

Byron

Cindric

Briscoe

Berry

A. Dillon

Round 2 Results (official qualifying order)

McDowell

Blaney

Gilliland

Berry

Cindric

Larson

Logano

A. Dillon

Byron

Briscoe

[duck7]

NASCAR Cup Series 2023 ʳᵒᵘⁿᵈ ²⁹ Bristol 🇺🇸

Denny Hamlin wins Bristol night race to advance in Playoffs.

❌ Logano, Harvick, Stenhouse Jr., and McDowell eliminated.

[lboogie1906]

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