{"id":137676,"date":"2025-09-12T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:40:08","slug":"austin-cindric-breaks-down-bristol-approach-sitting-on-nascar-playoff-cutline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137676\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Cindric breaks down Bristol approach sitting on NASCAR playoff cutline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Cindric is far from safe heading into Saturday\u2019s Round of 16 finale at Bristol Motor Speedway. He currently occupies the 12th and final advance spot, +11 above the cutline. <\/p>\n<p>How is Cindric approaching the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series playoff race at Bristol? The focus, he said, is running well and avoiding any issues \u2014 easier said than done at \u201cThe Last Great Colosseum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s like any other week for us because we do have to go out and run well and have no issues, that\u2019s for sure. And that\u2019s the best way you can control your destiny,\u201d Cindric said on Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Uf1k4AfKXM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Door Bumper Clear<\/a> podcast. \u201cThere are a lot of things out of your control, especially from a tire standpoint. No one\u2019s run this right-side tire. Apparently, five degrees of ambient temp changes everything. I woke up this morning and saw 58 in the forecast, took out the hoodie and knew this isn\u2019t good. So, it should be an interesting weekend, no doubt. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do love Bristol. \u2026 Bristol is hard on the cars, too. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been too many events, even when we had normal tire fall off, that there haven\u2019t been right-side failures and things of that nature or even steering rack failures, guys losing power steering and things like that. Bristol\u2019s a really tough track on cars, but if somebody else has a problem, it\u2019s very easy to get wiped out in front of the mess. It\u2019s not a very warm and fuzzy place to go out and do it but have to go out there and earn it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austin Cindric uncertain about new tire at Bristol<\/p>\n<p>Goodyear, NASCAR\u2019s tire supplier, is bringing a new tire to Bristol this weekend. It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess how it will perform over the course of 500 laps. Goodyear struck gold in the spring 2024 race, which saw 54 lead changes and 3,589 total passes under green flag conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Goodyear has failed to replicate it in the last two Bristol races. So, enter a new tire intended to create better racing. How this tire reacts is out of Cindric\u2019s control. The only thing he can worry about is staying out of trouble and doing whatever he can to stay above the cutline. <\/p>\n<p>While he loves Bristol, it hasn\u2019t loved him back. Cindric hasn\u2019t finished inside the top 10 in five starts at Bristol. He may need one on Saturday if he wants to advance to the Round of 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Cindric is far from safe heading into Saturday\u2019s Round of 16 finale at Bristol Motor Speedway. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-137676","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\/137676","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=137676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}