The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Round of 8 contenders The next step of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs was set this past Sunday at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. The Round of 8 will commence this coming Sunday at Las Vegas. Four driver were eliminated from the playoffs Sunday, and they are: Kyle Larson, Daniel Suarez, Austin Cindric, and Alex Bowman. The Cinderella story continues for Christopher Bell. He was all but eliminated from the playoffs coming into the Roval and nobody really expected him to win there either. Bell silenced the naysayers and put the No. 20 in victory…
Author: Andy DeLay
Christopher Bell on his way to the win at the Charlotte Roval Sunday I said last week that it was checkers or wreckers for Christopher Bell’s hopes of moving forward in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs to the Round of 8. Bell chose checkers. That wasn’t the only shocker. Last years Champion Kyle Larson was eliminated from the playoffs today as he fell below the cutline on the final lap. Chase Briscoe took the eighth and final Round of 8 playoffs spot. In a day that was relatively orderly and without cautions Bell found himself in seventh when a…
Chase Elliott leads the pack at Talladega With all the hoopla about how NASCAR’s new Gen 7 car is scrambling the drivers brains, little has been said about how Chase Elliott has regained his form and won his fifth race this season. The Cinderella run for Christopher Bell has turned into a pumpkin for him as he has gone from a sure-shot to be in the Championship 4 to checkers or wreckers this weekend at the Charlotte Roval if he wants to move forward in the playoffs. Here’s how the Burning Rubber Radio Power Rankings shake out coming out of…
The NASCAR Next Gen (Gen 7) Cars The Gen 7 Cup car has debuted with a bang this year… literally. From the get-go the car has reached out and bit the drivers. The consensus among the drivers who have wrecked in the new car, especially those who have had collisions with the wall, say the hits feel much harder than in the old Gen 6 car. NASCAR initially refuted the idea that the hits were harder by trying to say that G-force testing in the car showed no noticeable increase in impact to the driver. Kevin Harvick hit the wall…
Chase Elliott celebrates his win at Talladega Sunday afternoon The YellaWood 500 Cup Series race at Talladega was a thriller, and in the end Chase Elliott beat Ryan Blaney to the checkers by half a car length. The win automatically places Elliott into the Round of 8 with this coming Sunday’s race at the Charlotte Roval which is the final race in the Round of 12. Elliott’s victory is also the first win for a Cup Series playoffs driver this season. On lap 181 Daniel Hemric’s car stalled on pit road which brought out the final of the days six…
Matt DeBenedetto celebrates his first ever NASCAR national series win at talladega Saturday Matt DiBenedetto emerged as the winner of the wreck scarred Truck Series event at Talladega, giving him his first ever NASCAR national series win Saturday afternoon. The caution lights were illuminated on the last lap due to a big wreck. After a review by NASCAR officials it was determined that DiBenedetto was mere inches ahead of Ben Rhodes and Bret Holmes as they were three-wide when the lights came on. Ben Rhodes was ruled to have finished second with Bret Holmes third. Ryan Preece, Christian Eckes, Hailie…
Noah Gragson celebrates his win at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday Noah Gragson is definitely the talk of the town in the NASCAR Xfinity Series this season. Seven wins so far this year under his belt including getting the win this past Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway. Oh yeah, by the way, This Saturday’s win was his fourth in a row, and that hasn’t been done since Sam Ard pulled off the feat back in 1983. Noah celebrated the victory by burning the Goodyear Eagles off his Chevy Camaro then parking his car on the start/finish line and popping through the…
Here we go… the second round of the Cup Series playoff’s kicks off this weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway. There’s a quiet and concerted effort from the No. 20 team of Joe Gibbs Racing and driver Christopher Bell coming into the second round. This is the team to watch as they seem to have momentum and Bell is on a hot streak having finished no worse than 8th since the playoffs started. This is how the Burning Rubber Radio Power Rankings shake out coming out of Bristol and into the first race of the Round of 12 at Texas…
Texas Motor Speedway will host the Cup and Xfinity Series playoff races this weekend. This week the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series visit the fast cookie cutter oval of Texas Motor Speedway. The last visit to Texas Motor Speedway was made by the Cup Series earlier this year for the NASCAR All-Star race where Ryan Blaney took home the checkers. Can he do it again? The real question is, can we actually get a playoff contender to win a post season race this weekend? Martin Truex has lead 674 laps there and led 109 laps last weekend at Bristol. He’s…
After Kevin Harvick’s car burst into flames for no apparent reason at Darlington which ended his race, Kevin let NASCAR have it with both barrels. After walking back into the garage area, Harvick says that the car is made of, “Crappy ass parts”. For those of you who don’t already know, NASCAR is running the new Gen-7 or also called Next Gen car this year and there are growing pains for sure. On top of a crappy parts issue, drivers are saying that hits in the car feel harder and are causing more trauma to the driver. Harvick wasn’t done…