discussed<\/a> this \u2018perfect\u2019 scenario in a video for his team media.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are only two organizations that could happen, and that\u2019s Hendrick Motorsports or Joe Gibbs Racing,\u201d said Alpern.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we are the only ones with four. We are the only ones that have ever put three in. I can tell you one thing. It\u2019s really stressful,\u201d added Alpern, before explaining how dynamics and resources get stretched in the process.<\/p>\n
Alpern likened it to having multiple children participating in the same competition, knowing that all except one is going to lose. As stressful as such a scenario would be, he recognizes that it would be an amazing problem to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to try it one year. I am sure our friends down the road will love that as well,\u201d continued Alpern.<\/p>\n
The logistics and the sheer workload that would go into such a setting would be massive, to say the least. Moreover, the current format will require three of the cars to each win a race in the playoffs\u2019 Round of 8, while the final car will have to qualify on points for this to happen.<\/p>\n
Yes, technically, it could happen. Alpern hopes it does happen. But the question is if it ever will.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope it does happen. In some ways, it\u2019d be great because you\u2019d clinch the championship the week before. But it sounds like the playoff format might change. So, we may never get to find out,\u201d said Alpern.<\/p>\n
NASCAR is on the verge of announcing key changes to the existing playoff format. Word around town is that a multi-race championship round is on the cards instead of a single race.<\/p>\n
However, speculations will have to wait until official word comes from Daytona. Until then, Joe Gibbs Racing fans can look back at the historic 2019 season, when the team put three drivers in the Championship 4.<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., and Denny Hamlin had competed for the title alongside Stewart-Haas Racing\u2019s Kevin Harvick. Busch eventually won that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, the only teams in the Cup Series to field four entries, are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,127650,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-402888","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-dave-alpern","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402888","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=402888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}