Hampton, Ga. (AP) – A massive fine I left Chase Briscoe in the face of a huge point deficit before the Nascar Cup series on Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Despite this, Briscoe insists that he does not feel new pressure. He said he already felt the urgency to win this week because they are the expectations of Joe Gibbs Racing, his new Nascar house.
“I mean, I feel like I am in an essential situation from JGR,” said Briscoe on Saturday. “As you have to win in JGR. … So yes, I don’t have the impression that it changes my point of view.
Ryan Blaney won the post on Sunday for Sunday. Two other Penske team pilots, Austin Cindric and Joey Logano, will start second and fourth respectively.
“I hope that the first step you can control, but that will not remain the whole race,” said Blaney about the potential for teammates help each other.
Briscoe won the post for Daytona 500 last week, then finished fourth before Nascar’s announcement on Wednesday, his inspection revealed that Briscoe used a modified spoiler on Toyota n ° 19 in the time trial. Joe Gibbs Racing was moored 100 drivers / owners and 10 eliminatory points and sentenced to a fine of $ 100,000. In addition, team leader James Small was suspended for four races.
Small still coordinates Briscoe’s plan for Sunday’s race while the team uses devastating penalties. Briscoe was left with 67 negative points and went from the 10th to the 39th in the ranking.
“You know, if we do not win the call, you have somehow used your Mulligans,” said Briscoe.
Briscoe recognized “I was Bummad” on Wednesday before realizing that he had to approach Atlanta’s race with the same objective for his Toyota n ° 19.
William Byron has gone from the ninth on the last extension round Win the Daytona 500Giving the Hendrick Motorsports driver a repeated victory in the largest sport race.
Daniel Suarez won in Atlanta Last February, bordering Blaney and Kyle Busch at the end closest to Atlanta. Suarez only defeated Blaney by 0.003 seconds, the narrowest margin on any 1.5 mile track.
Logano won the second Atlanta race Last year in the opening of the NASCAR qualifiers.
Briscoe qualified 25th in his Toyota. Suarez will start the 29th.
Josh Berry qualified third while the Ford pilots obtained 10 of the first 11 places in alignment. Kyle Busch qualified sixth as his chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.
Hendrick drivers target 3 consecutive victories
Chase Elliott, who won at Atlanta, his home track in 2022, opened this season by winning the shock. Byron will start the 16th, Kyle Larson will take place 17th and Elliott 19th while the pilots Hendrick Motorsports will seek a third consecutive victory to launch the season.
Last year, a team won the clash and the first two points races took place in 1997 when Jeff Gordon by Hendrick Motorsports won the first three races.
Preece seems to stay at the earth
Ryan Preece, which will start the 11th has become in the air and returned. It was the second time that his car turned to Daytona, after another terrifying accident in 2023 which left him two black eyes the following week.
Preece had no black eyes on Saturday, but said that he hoped he had no other similar sample.
“I’m kidding with my wife that I’m like a cat with nine lives right now,” said Preece. “You don’t want to use the new ones.”
New Iron Man
Martin Truex JR., who retired from the full -time race after last season and finished 38th at Daytona 500, will have his sequence of consecutive departures during the cup at 685, the sixth longest of all time. The sequence started at Daytona 500 2006.
Logano now has the longest active starting sequence in the cut. Atlanta is his 578th consecutive race.
TV ratings Slam Dunk Win
Nascar celebrated his victory on television ratings for last week Daytona 500Despite a long, rain delay. The Daytona 500 television on Fox obtained a note of 3.42 households with an average of 6.8 million viewers to finish before the NBA stars match and the NNH Nations Tournament match between the states- United and Canada.
The rating excluded the blanket of the rain for the delay of more than three hours. Nascar was happy to point out that the coverage of the rain delays was on average 4.95 million viewers and if it was considered a separate event would have been classified as the N ° 2 broadcast of the week, behind only the Daytona 500.
Ends
Blaney and Logano are listed as co-favorites (+1000) to win the race, by BETMGM Sportsbook.
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