Ryan Blaney marks his complaint as the NASCAR STAPS Championship favorite.
Blaney held Josh Berry to win the Mobil 1 301 September 21 at New Hampshire and go for the round of 8.
Given how the last four races have created the favor of Blaney (and the Penske team) from the point of view of the track, going to the round of 8 was the key.
The pilots of Hendrick William Byron and Kyle Larson had a good days of points, just like the teammate of Blaney, Joey Logano. But nothing beats a victory in this format in the playoffs.
Here are the other winners and losers in the Nascar New Hampshire race:
As cleverly as the head of the crew Alan Gustafson can be among the fans of Chase Elliott on social networks, his decision to ensure that the Chevrolet n ° 9 remains outside when most of the other opposite leaders have worked.
Elliott was just outside the Top 10 before the last caution after staying a little later than others on what was the last Green Flag Stand Cycle, then restarted second alongside Berry with 41 laps to do.
Its tires had about 15 turns more than those who opposed, although most of the teams that opposed took tires on the right only. And after having slipped to the fourth on the initial restart and finally abandoned this position in a long battle in Logano, Elliott finished fifth after a hard day of work.
Remember that Elliott started in 27th, making the classification progress through the first two stages before recording four stage points in step 2. If he goes around 8, he won it at the New Hampshire.
This space will be used mainly to talk about the pilots in eliminatory series in the future, but the Journal of the Hometown will not be aware of the Berry finalist after three consecutive results.
No one can blame him if he has never even felt part of the cuttings in the round of 16. He destroyed in the first round in Darlington and returned to the track at more than 100 laps, then DNF in Gateway and Bristol.
It is difficult to ensure that three last consecutive finishes are worse than that, but Berry only completed 349 of the 1,107 rpm in the round of 16.
In New Hampshire, Berry supported all day after the third qualification. He led for the first time from Texas in the spring, then followed Blaney in a battle for the head on the older tires during the last race before he was content with second place.
A good finish of the season could give Berry a certain necessary confidence in 2026, and Kansas should give it another chance for a good day.
Reddick and 23Xi Racing struggled to struggle for most of the day (his teammate of the playoffs appears in the next entry) compared to their competitors in the playoffs.
The Toyota No. 45 started fourth, slipped to eighth at the end of step 1 and rarely led in the top 10 in the last 100 laps.
Reddick had a problem on his last stop at the stand after having almost colluted with Larson, costing him the position of the track when he had to return to his stand.
Even again, Reddick started the last round in the 19th and returned to the 21st at the end.
Reddick will go to Kansas with a 23 -point deficit to compensate for the cutting of the playoffs.
Wallace’s day was worse than that of his teammate.
While Reddick at least recorded stage points, Wallace never threatened the top 10 and fell from the top 20 at the start of the last stage before finishing 26th (the lowest of all the pilots in the playoffs).
The Wallace cutting series deficit is now 27 points, and the two 23Xi racing drivers need very good results over the next two weeks in Kansas and Charlotte Roval.
And with Wallace’s general difficulties on road routes (no top 10 this season on these tracks), it’s a high task.
