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Chase Elliott beat Denny Hamlin by .069 seconds at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n
Kaulig Racing \u2014 Good news: AJ Allmendinger won the 2023 Cup race at the Royal. \u2026 Allmendinger has finished in the top six in the last three races at the Roval, giving him the longest top-10 streak there in the series. \u2026 Allmendinger\u2019s average finish of 11.2 at the Roval is his second best among active tracks. \u2026 Ty Dillon\u2019s 13th-place finish last weekend at Kansas was his best result since placing eighth at Atlanta in late June. Bad news: Dillon has not placed better than 15th in 30 Cup road course starts.<\/p>\n
Legacy Motor Club \u2014 Good news: John Hunter Nemechek finished sixth in June at Mexico City for his best result on a road course. Bad news: Nemechek has not finished better than 32nd in two Cup starts at the Roval. \u2026 Erik Jones has placed 30th or worse in four of his seven Roval starts.<\/p>\n
Richard Childress Racing \u2014 Good news: Kyle Busch\u2019s two top-five finishes this season came at road courses (fifth at COTA and fifth at Chicago Street Race). \u2026 Busch has three top-five finishes in seven starts at the Roval. \u2026 Busch is set to pass Terry Labonte for most Cup road course starts at 64. Bad news: Busch has one top-15 finish in the last 10 races. \u2026 Austin Dillon has not finished better than 10th in 44 Cup road course races.<\/p>\n
Rick Ware Racing \u2014 Good news: Cody Ware finished seventh in 2020 in an Xfinity race at the Roval for his best finish at that track in any of the national series. Bad news: Ware finished last at Kansas, the ninth time he has failed to finish a race.<\/p>\n
RFK Racing \u2014 Good news: Chris Buescher has 16 top 10s on road courses in the Next Gen era, tying him with Tyler Reddick for most in the series. \u2026 Buescher has three top 10s in the last four starts at the Roval. Bad news: Brad Keselowski has one finish better than 14th in seven starts at the Roval. \u2026 Keselowski has finished 31st or worse in two of the last three road course races. \u2026 Ryan Preece has eight consecutive finishes of 13th or worse.<\/p>\n
Spire Motorsports \u2014 Good news: Two of Justin Haley\u2019s six career top-five finishes in Cup were on road courses. \u2026 Michael McDowell has four top 15s in the last six races. \u2026 McDowell has 12 top 10s in 22 road course starts in the Next Gen era. Bad news: Carson Hocevar has finished 32nd or worse in three of the last four road course races.<\/p>\n
Team Penske \u2014 Good news: Joey Logano ranks first in the series in defending his position on a road course, according to Racing Insights. \u2026 Logano has won six playoff elimination races, most among current playoff drivers. \u2026 Logano has six top-10 finishes in seven starts at the Roval, most among all drivers. \u2026 Ryan Blaney has one win, two top fives and five top 10s in seven Roval starts. Bad news: Logano is the final transfer spot heading into Sunday\u2019s elimination race, holding a 13-point advantage on Ross Chastain. \u2026 Logano\u2019s only road course win came in 2015 at Watkins Glen. \u2026 Austin Cindric ranks last in the playoff standings, 48 points below the cutline, putting him in a must-win situation at the Roval. \u2026 Cindric has five finishes of 17th or worse in the last six races. \u2026 Cindric has not finished better than 16th in any of the five road course races this season.<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Racing \u2014 Good news: Shane van Gisbergen has won the past four road course races. \u2026 van Gisbergen has an average finish of 2.0 on road courses this season. \u2026 van Gisbergen has led 52% of the laps run on road courses this season. \u2026 Two of van Gisbergen\u2019s four wins on road courses were by more than 10 seconds (11.1 seconds at Watkins Glen and 16.5 seconds at Mexico City. \u2026 van Gisbergen finished 10th last weekend at Kansas, his first top 10 at an oval in Cup. \u2026 Trackhouse placed all three cars in top 10 for the first time in a Cup race at Wakins Glen, the most recent road course event (van Gisbergen won, Daniel Suarez was seventh and Ross Chastain was 10th). Bad news: Chastain has only one top 10 in six starts at the Roval. \u2026 Chastain\u2019s average finish of 24.0 at the Roval is the worst among active road courses. \u2026 Suarez has nine DNFs, tied with Cody Ware for most in the season.<\/p>\n
Wood Brothers Racing \u2014 Good news: Josh Berry has started 13th or better in each of the last six races. Bad news: Berry has finished 30th or worse in five of the last eight races. \u2026 The Wood Brothers last won a road course race in 1977 with David Pearson at Riverside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane van Gisbergen seeks to win his fifth consecutive Cup road course race Sunday at the Charlotte Roval.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-182052","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\/182052","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=182052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}