NASCAR’s postseason kicks off on Sunday at Darlington Raceway. <\/p>\n
Sixteen drivers qualified for the postseason field, which will be trimmed down to 12, then eight and then four over the span of 10 races. <\/p>\n
The first set of three events will determine which drivers move from the round of 16 to the round of 12. <\/p>\n
The champion will be crowned at Phoenix Raceway on November 2 and he will go home with over $1 million in prize money.<\/p>\n
August 31 – Cook Out Southern 500 (Darlington)<\/p>\n
September 7 – Enjoy Illinois 300 (WWT Raceway)<\/p>\n
September 13 – Bass Pro Shops Night Race (Bristol) <\/p>\n
September 21 – Cup Series Race at New Hampshire (New Hampshire)<\/p>\n
September 28 – Hollywood Casino 400 (Kansas)<\/p>\n
October 5 – Bank of America Roval 400 (Charlotte Roval)<\/p>\n
October 12 – South Point 400 (Las Vegas)<\/p>\n
October 19 – YellaWood 500 (Talladega)<\/p>\n
October 26 – Xfinity 500 (Martinsville)<\/p>\n
November 2 – Championship Race (Phoenix)<\/p>\n
Sixteen drivers qualified for the postseason through regular-season wins and points. <\/p>\n
The postseason field will be trimmed down after the third, sixth and ninth playoff races. <\/p>\n
The championship race takes place in Phoenix on November 2 with the four remaining playoff contenders fighting for the title. <\/p>\n
There are multiple ways to advance to each playoff round. Playoff drivers can automatically advance with a race win. Drivers can also advance on points to the next round. <\/p>\n
Points get reset at the start of every new playoff round. There is one exception, though, as playoff points will carry over. <\/p>\n
For example, Kyle Larson and William Byron each gained 26 playoff points during the regular season, so they will begin the round of 16 with 26 points in a tie for first. <\/p>\n
Byron won the regular-season title and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Larson accumulated the same number of playoff points as he did. <\/p>\n
Larson and Byron were also two of eight drivers to record 13 or more top-10 finishes in the regular season. Larson led the Cup Series with 16 top-10 placings. <\/p>\n
The two Hendrick drivers and Denny Hamlin, who had four regular-season wins, should be considered the favorites to win the title. <\/p>\n
Larson’s been the most consistent driver in the field this season, and even if he doesn’t win playoff races, his consistency should pay off and land him the season title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR’s postseason kicks off on Sunday at Darlington Raceway. Sixteen drivers qualified for the postseason field, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-100435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}