Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck preview the start of the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, with Texas hosting the first race.
The Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs starts at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend for the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400. Defending champion Joey Logano joined Kevin Harvick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Michael McDowell in the group of four drivers to miss the cut last weekend while Bubba Wallace made it in as the last driver.Denny Hamlin enters this week’s race as the favorite ahead of Kyle Larson. Those two, along with Martin Truex Jr.
We’re on to the next round of the playoffs, with a Logano-less field. But not really because he’ll still be racing. What’s his mindset going into this race? Try to win? Just have some fun? It’s such an odd quirk in sports to get bounced from the playoffs and then have to keep racing.After Logano’s early playoff elimination – in which he became the first defending Cup champion to be bounced in the first round – the focus should be firmly on next year.
Christopher Bell has won three poles in a row and has two Top 10 finishes in a row. Is any of this significant in him possibly bubbling beneath the surface as a darkhorse?Bell has speed, and his three straight poles made him the first driver to accomplish that feat since 2017 when Kyle Busch did it . He could certainly be viewed as a darkhorse, especially if one of the current top four slip up and open another spot in the championship race. But Bell’s problem is his lack of playoff points.
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