Following a race that featured a track record 33 lead changes – including three different drivers in the final three laps – this Sunday’s final NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway is teed-up to settle a dramatic Championship Four set-up.
Some call it the Reddick line—a daredevil’s lane he picked up in his early days and perfected when he snagged the NASCAR Xfinity title at Homestead-Miami Speedway back in 2019.
An emotional Austin Hill climbed out of his No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the Homestead-Miami Speedway frontstretch to celebrate one of the most significant race wins of his burgeoning career.
Denny Hamlin’s three Homestead wins is most in this weekend’s field and a fourth trophy on Sunday would essentially salvage a challenging Playoff run for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver.
Joey Logano’s victory in last week’s Round of 8 Playoff opener at Las Vegas Motor Speedway earned him the first automatic bid into the Nov. 10 Championship Four at Phoenix Raceway.
Last week’s Las Vegas runner-up, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell conceded his near miss – by a slight .662-second to Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who gambled and won on fuel strategy – definitely stung.
The regular season championship leaders will start alongside one another on the front row for Sunday’s Straight Talk Wireless 400 Playoff race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The first race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs’ pivotal Round of 8 is in the books with a thrilling ending on track producing a dramatic turn of the Playoff standings.
Joey Logano turned second chances into a full-blown Vegas spectacle.
Las Vegas turned into heartbreak for several Playoff drivers on Sunday