The first three NASCAR CUP series 2025 has gone as advertised, but the drivers must increase it this week as they go to one track on the schedule out west where they eventually have to run over 312 turns.
Phoenix Raceway.
After putting three very different races in the books, Nascar takes its series to 1 mile speedway as a preview of what driver can expect when they return to the desert on November 2 to distribute championship hardware.
Tires will be at the forefront of the first Phoenix move.
In January, Nascar announced that it would use the same procedure for tires in Arizona as it did in North Wilkesboro in May last year in the All-Star race and in Richmond in August in his 400 patches.
Teams will receive six sets of primary tires while having access to two sets of alternative rubber, a griper tire that can improve speed but has a rapid fall in wear.
However, the plan for now is to have two different sets only for this race, not the season ending in eight months.
“I like how the race went on Richmond (last season) … you know, Green flag Pit stops and guys come out on different tires,” said three-time Phoenix winner Kyle Busch.
Teams arrived in Arizona with interesting circumstances after leaving Austin and the delicious end at the circle in America in the first road race, circles and fought on the shorter national circle in the state where probably everything is greater.
First, the pure competition received during the last 14 turns high ratings when Christopher Bell put up leader Busch, Saddled with an almost 60-race winless line, laps after turns on the 20-turn, 2.3 mile road.
The winner two weeks ago in another Atlanta thriller, Bell, a 30-year-old Oklahoman, put his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in victory position with two turns fresher tires than Busch and managed to keep by William Byron for his 11th career triumph.
Bell, who spun Richard Childress Racing No. 8 Chevrolet last year at Cota, said it was important to compete the twice the Cup champion-busch-bran in the return to Phoenix.
“I’m so proud of how everyone competed at each other at the end of that race. I would love to change the story in the cup series, to encounter people and move them out of the way,” Bell said this week at Sirius XM’s Nascar radio. “I would love if this is a turning point for us, where we can compete respectfully and stay away from each other and make it less of a contact sport.”
When it comes to contact, Team received Penske’s Austin Cindric 50-point penalty and $ 50,000 fines to use its No. 2 Ford to right cake for Dillon on Cota Frontstretch.
Cindrics’ features were deliberately considered by the sanctioning body, which interrupted Bubba Wallace 2022 and Chase Elliott the following season for using the same tactics.
After the right front tire came from Chevrolet # 5 on Cota, Hendrick Motorsports Kyle Larson will be without Jackman Brandon Johnson and the front tire Blaine Anderson for the next two races.
However, Chase Briscoe’s 100-point penalty for its spoiler on the Daytona 500 was turned. It included a four-rack suspension to crew manager James Small and a fine of $ 100,000 in Joe Gibbs Racing.
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