The Teardown<\/a> podcast. \u201cIf that\u2019s such a key race, I mean, the whole competition, which is weird, Hendrick Motorsports should be going to their shop and going, \u2018Holy crap, guys, what do we have to do to beat these guys,\u2019 even though they just beat them. <\/p>\n\u201cBut it\u2019s one of those things where you look at the speed and I just don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to overcome that at Vegas. Obviously, things happen, and crazy stuff happens but yikes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elliott is locked into the Round of 8. Larson will be there as well, plus-54 heading into this Sunday\u2019s Round of 12 finale at the Charlotte ROVAL. The same goes for Byron, who is plus-40 above the cutline. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCan Hendrick outperform Penske, JGR down the stretch?<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the thing: Larson hasn\u2019t won since May 11 at Kansas. Byron got the win last month at Iowa Speedway, though he\u2019s largely been inconsistent over the last few months. The way the schedule lines up goes against Hendrick, Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI picked Kyle Larson to win the championship and it\u2019s very hard to count out Kyle Larson and Cliff Daniels, but we talked about at the beginning of the show, I\u2019m looking at this going I think a driver from Hendrick Motorsports winning the championship this year, a lot is going to have to go their way because of Las Vegas, because of Martinsville and because of Phoenix,\u201d Bianchi said. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a track the rest of the way where you\u2019re going to look at anybody from Hendrick Motorsports and say they\u2019re the favorite. There isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou go to Vegas, it\u2019s going to be Toyota. You go to Talladega, I would put the Penske cars up there, and then you\u2019ve got Phoenix and Martinsville and it\u2019s going to be the 22 [Joey Logano] and the 12 [Ryan Blaney], especially the 12. There isn\u2019t a team right now from Hendrick Motorsports that scares me. That\u2019s a sad reality, even though Chase Elliott won today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gluck agrees with Bianchi. He likes Penske\u2019s chances if one or both of Blaney and Logano get to the Championship 4 at Phoenix. After that, he has more belief in JGR than Hendrick.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s a Penske car in the final four, they\u2019re going to be the favorite,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cOther than that, you look at [Christopher] Bell, [Chase] Briscoe, [Denny] Hamlin. But even if a Hendrick car is in there, I just don\u2019t see it right now. I don\u2019t see them running that well at those types of tracks. I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll just see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toyota teams of Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI Racing dominated Sunday\u2019s Round of 12 race at Kansas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-180369","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\/180369","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=180369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}