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Ty Dillon will be back in Cup next year, driving the #10 (ex-#31) Kaulig entry currently filled by Daniel Hemric.

Meanwhile, on the track, another Kansas race, another Christopher Bell pole. That makes 3 in a row. As for the driver swap, Haley's going off 23rd (worst of the Spire drivers) and LaJoie's going off 27th (the better of the RWR drivers).
 
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Eggstor
Ty Dillon will be back in Cup next year, driving the #10 (ex-#31) Kaulig entry currently filled by Daniel Hemric.

Meanwhile, on the track, another Kansas race, another Christopher Bell pole. That makes 3 in a row. As for the driver swap, Haley's going off 23rd (worst of the Spire drivers) and LaJoie's going off 27th (the better of the RWR drivers).
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RWR doesn't really have a 2nd driver of any substance, so if he was worse than the driver of the 15, it would make sense that he doesn't have a ride in 2025.
 
Tonight at 8:00pm ET, the championship finale of the 2024 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series at virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway. Live from the NASCAR Hall of Fame, with $100,000 on the line!
 
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Dylan


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I don't think Hamlin or Reddick will be making the Round of 8, and I know whose cars will be going back to Concord in the NASCAR hauler the next 6 races.

After reading through the initial filing (via the NBC Sports story linked to in the latter X), a few observations:
  • The France empire is in serious trouble, between the allegations and the fact that 23XI/FRM is represented by the team that broke both the NCAA and the US soccer federation
  • The NextGen cars, even though teams spend millions to build them, are property of NASCAR, not the teams
  • Even the tracks the Frances don't own are prohibited from running any other stock car races
  • The prohibition on owning stock car teams outside the France empire has been expanded to owning any racing team outside the France empire (fortunately for Penske and Roush, their NASCAR operations are already a separate legal entity)
  • The take-it-or-leave final "offer" from France, which came in at over 100 pages, originally had a 1-hour sign-it deadline, "generously" extended to 7 hours
 
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Michael Jordan Lol GIF by ESPN
 
Another (ex-)plate track, another pole at Talladega for Michael McDowell, as he grabbed his 5th straight superspeedway (Daytona/Talladega/Atlanta) pole. He likely will have teammate Todd Gilliland pushing him from 3rd, while Austin Cindric completes the front row. Fords will make up 6 of the top 10 spots (Ryan Blaney in 5th, Joey Logano in 6th, Harrison Burton in 9th), with Kyle Busch the top Chevy in 4th and Denny Hamlin the top Toyota in 8th. The rest of the playoff drivers are Chase Elliot in 11th, Kyle Larson in 12th, Tyler Reddick in 14th, William Byron in 16th, Christopher Bell in 21st, Alex Bowman in 23rd, Daniel Suarez in 31st and Chase Briscoe in 36th.

Meanwhile, Xfinity playoff driver Sam Mayer had his 16th-place finish taken away for having the rear of his car too low in post-race inspection. That moves him from 7th and 7 points to the good of AJ Allmendinger to 11th and 13 points behind Allmendinger with 1 race to the Round of 8 cutoff, while the #1 moves from 8th (and the same 7 points to the good of the #16) to 11th (and the same 13 points behind).
 
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These are the first picture I’ve seen of the new section added to the Charlotte Roval.



Edit: Official pics from Charlotte Motor Speedway.
 
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CommanderBond
Oh god...
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Are you saying that to all the switchbacks? They're not apart of the layout that NASCAR will be using.

I think the updated layout is definite improvement, a much less compacted infield, and the hairpin should be a good overtaking opportunity
 
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Are you saying that to all the switchbacks? They're not apart of the layout that NASCAR will be using.

I think the updated layout is definite improvement, a much less compacted infield, and the hairpin should be a good overtaking opportunity
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Oh okay, thats good then. I guess i just looked at the picture wrong
 
CommanderBond
Oh okay, thats good then. I guess i just looked at the picture wrong
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Yeah the crazy curves are part of the Legends car road course. They were actually considered way back in the original layout proposal to be part of the Roval course.
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This is the new layout.
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Yesterday I watched the Xfinity race and I really enjoyed it, the hairpin is much better than it looks in the map, and the 2nd chicane is a lot of fun how cars jump on the blue kerbs, some drivers are not happy though:
racer.com

New Roval chicane leaves drivers feeling concussion-like symptoms

The most noticeable thing about the course changes to the Charlotte Roval wasn’t how to attack the corners. It was the turtles. “It feels like you get a concussion every lap, basically, if you hit …
racer.com racer.com
 
StPeterMartyr
Yesterday I watched the Xfinity race and I really enjoyed it, the hairpin is much better than it looks in the map, and the 2nd chicane is a lot of fun how cars jump on the blue kerbs, some drivers are not happy though:
racer.com

New Roval chicane leaves drivers feeling concussion-like symptoms

The most noticeable thing about the course changes to the Charlotte Roval wasn’t how to attack the corners. It was the turtles. “It feels like you get a concussion every lap, basically, if you hit …
racer.com racer.com
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The front chicane turtles have been replaced by the shorter (ex-)red/white curbing, repainted to the turtle blue.
 
Larson wins and becomes the only playoff driver to win a race in the round of 12. Byron, Bell, Elliott, Blaney, Hamlin, Bowman and Reddick advance. Logano, Cindric, Suarez and Briscoe are eliminated from championship contention.
 
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Larson wins and becomes the only playoff driver to win a race in the round of 12. Byron, Bell, Elliott, Blaney, Hamlin, Bowman and Reddick advance. Logano, Cindric, Suarez and Briscoe are eliminated from championship contention.
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Scratch that. Alex Bowman failed post race inspection and he has been relegated to a last place finish. Logano makes the round of 8.
 
Last week, Joey Logano was gifted a round of 8 spot via a Bowman DQ. Today, he wins at Vegas and will race for a championship at Phoenix!
 
Tyler Reddick passes Hamlin low and Blaney high on the final lap, wins at Homestead-Miami, and will fight for a championship in Phoenix!
 
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What a finish! I don't think there was anything Blaney could do there. If he goes high, Reddick probably goes low and deep enough to pull off the slide job. If he stays low, Reddick runs the top and likely gets along side him with a better run off to the line. As it was, he ran the middle, and Reddick still took to the top and somehow had the grip and speed to keep it there and make the pass.
 
Here is the point situation heading into todays race, after accounting for where everyone is starting.
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