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North Wilkesboro gets a Cup points race and All-Star Race moves to Dover next season.<\/p>\n
23XI Racing \u2014 Good news: Bubba Wallace has three runner-up finishes at Daytona. \u2026 Tyler Reddick remains in a playoff spot, holding a 29-point advantage on Alex Bowman. \u2026 Reddick was the runner-up in this year\u2019s Daytona 500. \u2026 Both of rookie Riley Herbst\u2019s top-10 finishes in Cup have come at drafting tracks. Bad news: If there is a new winner and Bowman outscores Reddick by 29 points at Daytona, Reddick would fail to make the playoffs a year after reaching the title race. \u2026 Reddick placed a season-worst 34th last weekend at Richmond. \u2026 Reddick has an average finish of 23.0 at Daytona, his worst among active tracks. \u2026 Wallace\u2019s 28th-place finish at Richmond last weekend snapped a streak of four consecutive top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Tyler Reddick finished 34th after his car was damaged in an incident at Richmond.<\/p>\n Front Row Motorsports \u2014 Good news: The organization has won the pole for six of the last nine races on drafting tracks. \u2026 Daytona is one of two tracks (Talladega is the other) where Noah Gragson has multiple top-10 finishes. \u2026 Zane Smith\u2019s 11th-place finish last weekend at Richmond was his best finish since Atlanta in late June. Bad news: Gragson has not had a top-20 finish in the last 12 races. \u2026 Todd Gilliland has failed to finish five of his seven Daytona Cup starts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n NASCAR cites interest in charters as a reason not to grant 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports a preliminary injunction to have charter status the rest of the season.<\/p>\n Haas Factory Team \u2014 Good news: Cole Custer has a best finish of 11th in seven Daytona starts. \u2026 Custer has two top 20s in four drafting track starts this season. Bad News: Custer has one top-20 finish in the last seven races.<\/p>\n Hendrick Motorsports \u2014 Good news: William Byron, who has won the past two Daytona 500s, claimed the regular season championship at Richmond. \u2026 Byron has a series-best 241 stage points this season. \u2026 Byron has led a series-high 910 laps this season. \u2026 Alex Bowman, who holds the final playoff spot, has four top 10s in his last five starts at Daytona. \u2026 Bowman\u2019s average finish of 8.6 in the last 10 races is best among full-time drivers. \u2026 Kyle Larson has finished sixth or better in three of the last six races. \u2026 Organization has won seven races on drafting tracks, most in the Next Gen era. Bad news: Chase Elliott has gone four consecutive races without a top-10 finish, his longest streak of the season. \u2026 Elliott\u2019s average finish of 21.0 at Daytona is his worst among all tracks. \u2026 Larson has never finished in the top five at Daytona in Cup. \u2026 Larson is winless in 51 Cup starts at a drafting track.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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