{"id":85611,"date":"2025-08-21T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85611\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:56:07","slug":"playoff-winner-predictions-for-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85611\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff, Winner Predictions for Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/austin-dillon\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Dillon<\/a>\u2018s upset victory at Richmond Raceway leaves just one race to go before the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>That race is at Daytona International Speedway. There are two spots up for grabs in the playoff field at Daytona, with those spots currently being occupied by <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/tyler-reddick\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Reddick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/alex-bowman\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Bowman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who will lock into the playoffs, and will a new winner throw the playoff grid upside down like <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/harrison-burton\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Burton<\/a> did one year ago?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/2025\/08\/19\/jeff-hammond-joins-reacts-2026-nascar-cup-schedule\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Happy Hour: Jeff Hammond Joins &amp; Reacts to 2026 NASCAR Cup Schedule\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2024-trucks-las-vegas-spencer-boyd-crew-chief-jeff-hammond-ii-credit-john-k-harrelson-nkp-150x100.jp.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"2024 Trucks Las Vegas Spencer Boyd and crew chief Jeff Hammond II (Credit: John K. Harrelson\/NKP)\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Hour: Jeff Hammond Joins &amp; Reacts to 2026 NASCAR Cup Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix answers this week\u2019s question for NASCAR Mailbox on Frontstretch\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontstretch-donate.avif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Donate to Frontstretch\" class=\"wp-image-1366571\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/author\/kevinn\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Kevin Nix\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kevin-Nix-150x150.jpg\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix has been with Frontstretch since February 2023. Hailing from Gilbert, Arizona, his dream is to be in the NASCAR media sphere full-time. He is a video assistant, working on the back end to streamline video and audio quality of all at-track interviews. Nix also writes about news every Monday for the site.<\/p>\n<p>Nix graduated with a Master&#8217;s Degree in Sports Journalism from ASU&#8217;s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona. He also has bachelor&#8217;s degrees in Communications and Political Science. In his downtime, he likes to read, play video games and take walks in the Arizona weather &#8211; when it&#8217;s not too hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Dillon\u2018s upset victory at Richmond Raceway leaves just one race to go before the NASCAR Cup Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-85611","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\/85611","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=85611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}