Chase Elliott Musted his way to a victory for the second 2025 Sunday at Kansas SpeedwayTake a series of NASCAR CUP Series qualifiers for 8 offers in the process. With his teammate Hendrick Motorsports, Kyle Larson, a quasi -glass to go to the round of 8, the n ° 5 will probably join him – but which will overcome the vague impetus?
Pat Decola de Nascar.com classifies the contenders for the series of the 2025 series after the Hollywood Casino 400 presented by ESPN Bet at Kansas Speedway and before Sunday Bank of America Roval 400 At the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval (15 pm and, USA Network, HBO Max, MRN Radio, Siriusxm Nascar Radio, NBC Sports App).
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Analysis: Elliott led only 24 laps in a race dominated by Denny Hamlin, but – as mentioned in the turn of last week – Toyota gave an inch, and Hendrick Motorsports took a mile, led by the last round of the murder from No. 9 to Kansas while he was heading for victory. He now arrives without pressure on one of his best tracks, seeking to cement the Mojo that he and the group No. 9 are built in the quest for title n ° 2.
Analysis: Blaney led exactly a Kansas tour, and it may have been the highest point of the whole CONSKE team, which came out of the Midwest with a trio of under 20 years old among its three pilots in playoffs. Fortunately, one of them (Blaney) is already locked in the round of 8, but with one passing on the edge (Joey Logano) and the other in unavoidable territory (Austin Cindric), it is extremely unlikely that the three advance.
Analysis: Hamlin would certainly have preferred to have won this battle at the line at the Kansas, but, a big image, head for the cutting race of Charlotte Roval with a plus-48 towards the bubble is always close to the best-scenario that can be hoped for, unless a previous victory. There is no slowdown in the Elder Statesman of the series, and Sunday marks a good time that for him to correct his second top 10 in career in The Roval, but he may not even have to do it.
Analysis: Seeing Larson just lead a single round in a race during which he was the big favorite – and his teammate won – is not as encouraging a weekend in the Heartland that team n ° 5 hoped, but as good as the position of the points of Hamlin be, Larson is even better at 54. It would be a collapse of all time for Larson to miss the Channel of 8, in particular on a track which he enters as a defending winner, so search for a recent 5 team to lock and be ready for the round of 8 in two weeks.
Analysis: Do not let the dive deceive you – Bell has shown a strong kansas, run third and lead his second laps in a race since a victory in Phoenix in March. The winner of Roval in 2022 becomes hot again and could find his way to a second victory there after having turned a P2 on the nascar’s original field last fall.
Analysis: Byron has led exactly five laps since a dominant victory at Iowa Speedway to open in August, a lack of speed that is starting to be more and more worrying when we have struck the point of the playoffs. He has also not led Tours au Roval since 2021, but could in fact see a decent turnaround this weekend after having shot a pair of three first in the last two seasons.
Analysis: All that does is turning in the top five, with the 13th Sunday result of the season, corresponding to all of its production among the first five of the last three combined seasons. No touching and an average career of 23.8 in its four departures from Roval do not shout “win” this weekend, in particular with a certain New Zealand on the ground, but it is difficult not to see how it considerably improves its previous production there on Sunday.
Analysis: Crew chief n ° 22, Paul Wolfe, told Nascar.com after Loudon that he did not do it “feel good in kansasAnd, in the end, his concerns were well founded, because Logano finished outside the Top 20 after the weekend with badly with A problem in practice. He is about to miss the round of 8 in Roval for the second consecutive year, but excellent slyly there (8.6 ends) despite no victory to his credit.
Analysis: It simply does not seem to have something that currently looks like racing in the car n ° 1 while Chastain has led two -digit towers on an unplanned track once this year (in March), but it is still quite consistent to collect points (35 points during a kansas race in 11th place). It is not in an essential situation despite being below the bubble, but the Roval is not the road route that Chastain hoped to water its championship hopes, with a single top 10 in six tests for an overall average finish of 24.0.
Analysis: Reddick gave everything to Kansas, a place of potential victory for the only pilot in the remaining qualifying series, but he had to be satisfied with a thin p7 of 30 points after having omitted to lead a turn or to collect crucial stage points. Although this has not yet happened, the Roval could potentially produce a victory for the prolific winner of the races, with an average of 7.8 sterling there in its departures. Otherwise, we could see our first pilot of the 2024 4 championship.
Analysis: All Take only one point in the ranking issavage, But it is undeniable that Wallace made a huge leap forward this year and deserves to be in the championship conversation, even if the end of its playoffs in 2025 comes to Charlotte. There is no guarantee, however, because despite the road routes, historically, the Wallace pain point, the No. 23 has a respectable average finish of 11.5 there in its four departures with 23X.
Analysis: Cindric has only one top 10 from Pocono Raceway, exactly none of which came to the playoffs. Unfortunately, it is not a way to win a title, and n ° 2 essentially has To win the Roval to move forward. Fortunately for him, the accomplished road runner could actually do so, with a P4 on the track last year. With none of its five TOP 10 of 2025 on the road lessons, however, it does not seem to take place.
