In addition to the well -published elimination of Ross ChastainOn Sunday, three other contenders were eliminated from the assertions of the Nascar Cup Series championship at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
And realistically, it was the three that had absolutely need nothing less than a victory Tyler Reddick,, Bubba Wallace And Austin Cindric.
There was a lot of time when it seemed that Reddick could have caught either Joey Logano or Chastain in points but it would have required an almost perfect race even if it had finished second to Shane Van Gisbergen.
What’s wrong with Poleitter Reddick?
Tyler Reddick, 23xi Racing Toyota
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Reddick left the post and was in a position to score stage, but finally hierarchi the position of track during the first stage. They had an essential mentality of the drop of the green flag and simply did not have this kind of speed in the long term.
“I don’t know if something necessarily went wrong today for the way the race was going,” said Reddick. “We wanted to give priority to the implementation to win the race. I think you could separate it – a few restarts and what, in a way, in a way, because the race took place, our long race was not where it was necessary to be with the best guys.
“The third step there, we did not make the progress we needed too, so we went there long there hoping for caution there, and we lost many places, but at the end of the day, we were trying to prepare for late prudence. to have.”
Bubba Wallace follows his teammate in elimination
Bubba Wallace, 23xi Racing Toyota
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His teammate at 23xi, Wallace, needed to win at all costs and he was simply not a 15th finishing factor, which makes the dramatic with the team owner Denny Hamlin Last week after the even more discouraging kansas.
“Just was launched for a loop with this tire, and it’s funny to look at me as well as Denny and a few others in the short footsteps, when the tires deteriorate, we are good enough to save shoot,” said Wallace. “He and I both sucked road routes and we cannot save tires on the road routes. It is simply frustrating. This is back to the way I was a few years ago.
“Frustrated by myself, knowing just what was at stake, and did not produce, but it was not for a lack of effort. I appreciate everyone in this team of Leidos Toyota to push hard. This one sucks worse than last week. I had big hopes here, and that’s what it is.”
Cindric is pushed around
Austin Cindric Spin, Team Penske Ford
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Cindric entered the race without even a mathematical shot to advance on points. He started the 19th and was in the top 5 when he crashed by Carson Hocevar. From there, Cindric had to go to the field work area and that was everything.
“We made good progress in the initial departure, but it was quite smooth and quite delicate,” said Cindric. “I made a mistake there and I lost places, then I was dropped. It’s such a long race here and even in these moments, I felt like I’ve never left it. I just didn’t want to put us in a situation where we get out.
“I thought that with this tire fell, and all the different strategies, it was just a shame that we were so perfectly struck that it was ko my rear suspension. Yes, today was not our whole season, but we found ourselves in this position because of the way we have run these last two weeks.”
The unrefitted errors of Chastain and the chaos of the last blow
Ross Chastain, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet;
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Beyond the last round, theaters, where Chastain was to pass Denny Hamlin to move forward on Joey Logano, there were a multitude of other reasons that trackhouse n ° 1 found himself in this position in the first place.
Chastain started the race in the 10th century but lost its track position at the end of the first stage when it got out of the stands road in the top 10, but missed the turning on the left at the exit of the stands. He should restart 31st, where he mixed behind Josh Berry.
Despite this setback, Chastain crossed the field and scored points of the second stage. He was safe above Logano, but was then hit with a speed penalty on the stands road with 30 laps to do.
He still exceeded Logano and was back in a place of transfer to the playoff series, but lost it when they stayed on old tires and were passed by those who cut the stage into third party. It included Hamlin.
“All of the work was not good enough today, but we arrived in the last round with a blow, and I just needed to keep these cars behind me, and I missed the turn of 7,” said Chastain. “Another unacceptable, not forced (error). The n ° 11 was not even close to me, and I downgraded unnecessarily first to make sure I have turned the corner and I slipped the backs and I let it pass right next to me. There were three big errors that brought us out. We were fast enough to transfer.”
The only option he had left was trying to push Hamlin away and recover this place and it didn’t work either, leaving Chastain to lament everything that went wrong.
“I alone took a car in the round of 8 and a chance to go to the round of 4,” said Chastain. “In two months, we have raised ourselves from what I would say a car in 18th place to an eighth place car, and today we were good enough to direct the first five, and I removed us. We should have bicycle in the first five all day, and the pit strategy would have returned us, but these movements are the only reasons that we are not in the 8 year round.
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