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Truex is the Favorite, Newman Surprises at Richmond In this week’s episode of Out of the Groove, host and creator Eric Estepp takes us through this weekend’s night race at Richmond to give us his full race review and analysis. The playoffs are starting to heat up, and Martin Truex, Jr. seems to be the current championship contender after his win this weekend, and Eric is here to give us the context. But Truex wasn’t the only driver to surprise fans at Richmond this week. Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 6 for Roush Fenway, is now looking like 0 0 4
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a Top 12 contender after a 6th place finish this weekend, and that comes after a full season of higher-than-expected finishes for the No. 6 car. But Newman isn’t the only driver on Eric’s mind after Richmond. What happened with Erik Jones and his failed inspection, and what does it mean for Joe Gibbs Racing drivers in the playoffs? And how about that amazing 12th place finish by Bubba Wallace? Find out all of it, plus he puts Richmond on the Groovy Gauge, in this week’s episode of Out of the Groove.
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ith two of three races down in the opening round of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, at least two things are crystal clear: Martin Truex Jr. is red hot and it’s anyone’s guess on which 12 drivers are going to reach the next round. Here are five takeaways from Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway, where Truex completed the 2019 season sweep. By Jared Turner
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n 2019, NASCAR has finally cracked the whip on cheating. And the sanctioning body is holding virtually nothing back in trying to make its point. The latest example came after the Richmond race when NASCAR disqualified fourth-place finisher Erik Jones and his No. 20 team for an issue related to the car’s rear-wheel alignment. After NASCAR officials discovered the irregularity in post-race inspection, NASCAR DQ’d Jones and his team, scoring them with a last-place result and stripping them of all but one point earned for their original finish. While Jones is the first Monster Energy Series driver to be DQ’d this season for violations found in post-race inspection, he’s not the first driver in a NASCAR series to experience this outcome. It’s already happened to multiple other drivers and teams across NASCAR’s other two national divisions. Now, instead of gaining some ground in the standings, Jones remains in the playoff cellar and faces a must-win scenario this weekend.
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or what feels like the umpteenth time in 2019, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ran into someone and they spun. Thankfully for Martin Truex Jr., however, the contact wasn’t enough to derail an otherwise super evening in Richmond. In fact, Truex recovered in time to win the race — but he was none too pleased about the bump from Stenhouse. Asked what he thought at the moment of contact, Truex said, “Yeah, first thing was, ‘What the hell?’” Stenhouse later took the blame for the incident. “I made a huge mistake there after we pitted under green,” he said. “I drove it down into Turn 3 and I thought he was gonna give me the top and then he went to the top, so I dove back to the bottom, and when I did, it got on the splitter and pushed up into him and spun him. All I was hoping for after that point was he’d come back and win.”
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ll in all, it was a pretty solid weekend for Brad Keselowski and his No. 2 Team Penske bunch at Richmond as Keselowski qualified on the pole and finished fourth after leading 89 of the race’s 400 laps. Finishing ahead of Keselowski, however, was the Joe Gibbs Racing trio of Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin, who gave their organization a clean sweep of the top three positions. Now with eight races to go in the season and only one race remaining in the Round of 16, Keselowski admittedly doesn’t think his team is running on par with the JGR boys. “It’s definitely not good news,” Keselowski said of JGR’s Richmond performance. “We’ve got work to do. They’re really strong, and we’re not where we need to be to be able to beat them heads-up, but we threw everything we had at them. … They’ve got all the secrets, so we need to find some more secrets.”
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aturday night’s race at Richmond created an even crazier situation than what had existed near the playoff bubble coming into the weekend. Previously, Erik Jones, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman would have been the four drivers eliminated from title contention if the Round of 16 had ended. Entering Richmond, Newman was six points away from the cutline, while Busch was 14 points back and Bowyer and Jones were 21 and 26 points in arrears, respectively. Now, with only this weekend’s elimination race left in the Round of 16, the four drivers on the brink of elimination are Alex Bowman, Bowyer, Busch and Jones. While Busch and Jones almost certainly need to win to advance, Bowman is just two points behind teammate William Byron, who holds the final transfer spot. Sitting just a point ahead of Byron is Aric Almirola, who trails 10th-place Ryan Blaney by just five points. Bowyer, meanwhile, trails Byron by only four points for the final transfer spot.
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wo races into the playoffs, two wins for Martin Truex Jr. That gives the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion a series-high six victories for the season. No one else has been to Victory Lane more than four times. It should be pretty obvious to everyone at this point that Truex and his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team led by crew chief Cole Pearn are the odds-on favorites to claim the 2019 Monster Energy Series title in eight weeks at Homestead-Miami Speedway in South Florida. In addition to seemingly hitting their stride at the right time, Truex and his team have been among the series’ two or three best all year. Having just won a title in 2017, Truex also has the know-how and the experience to go all the way again. This much is certain: He and his No. 19 bunch are wicked fast right now, and there doesn’t appear to be any letup in sight.
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Truex and Pearn Show Who’s Ready at Richmond YouTuber Rusty Walrus is back with his reaction video to the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway. It’s the second round of playoffs, and the round of twelve gang is starting to take shape. What was Rusty’s reaction to this week’s race? First the fans are finally getting there answer as to whether Martin Truex, Jr. and his longtime partner Cole Pearn could adapt to their new team, Joe Gibbs Racing, this season after their championship run in 2018. That answer seems to be a resounding “yes!” What 0 1 8
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does it mean for JGR and the other teams that Gibbs has 3 out of 4 drivers in serious championship contention? But it wasn’t all excitement and fun this weekend, as the track itself continues to find itself in the hot spot. Richmond’s racing the past few years, seemingly no matter what package the cars are running, has left a lot to be desired. What does this mean for the future of the raceway? All of that and more in this week’s episode of the Rusty Report.
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style format back in 2014, a driver not part of the original 16-driver playoff field has NEVER won a playoff race. Don’t believe me? Look it up for yourself. While the whole point of having a season-ending playoff is to shine a spotlight on the 16 championshipeligible drivers, it shouldn’t be lost on viewers that these 16 drivers make up less than half the field. There are still no fewer than 20 other drivers out there each weekend representing their sponsors and teams and trying to get the best finish they possibly can. So these drivers don’t get completely overlooked, it’s time that NASCAR offer some kind of incentive at season’s end to the highestfinishing non-playoff driver. While I don’t know what this incentive should be exactly, I do know this: It must really stink to be a non-playoff driver this time of year.
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Martin Truex, Jr. Sweeps Richmond Raceway and More We’re back with YouTuber Danny B Talks for another episode of his NASCAR news roundup show, Danny B Needs a Minute. This time he’s looking at Martin Truex, Jr.’s sweep at the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway this weekend. But the playoffs aren’t the only exciting thing on Danny B’s mind this week. He also brings us some exciting sponsorship news from the sport, which is always a positive sign given the past few years of financial worry for some team. And the deal Danny looks at today 0 2 2
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▶▶ MAKING SOMEONE’S DAY. On a night of “firsts” for Joe Gibbs Racing drivers, Martin Truex Jr. continued to assert his mastery over the first round of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
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▶▶ IN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS CAREER. Kurt Busch looks on during qualifying for the Federated Auto Parts 400.
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▶▶ SUITED UP. Kevin Harvick walks on the grid during qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400.
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▶▶ LET THE FLAGS FLY. Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick bring the field to the green flag start of the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway.
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▶▶ RING MY BELL. Christopher Bell celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series GoBowling 250 at Richmond Raceway.
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â–śâ–ś CHASED DOWN. Chase Elliott poses for a picture with a fan during practice for the Federated Auto Parts 400.
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▶▶ THE PICTURE OF FOCUS. Kyle Larson stands on the grid during qualifying for the Federated Auto Parts 400.
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years, and the data collection remains third party. This means that the company is unable to manipulate the data, which ensures the accuracy of the efficacy and outcomes. The Q-Collar is actively being evaluated with consideration for its involvement in motorsports. The Q-Collar is already worn by professional athletes in other forms of high contact sports like football, hockey, soccer and even the military. “I am particularly excited with the possibility of driver athletes, in varying age groups, being able to embrace this novel technology,” Cormier said. “There are exciting nuances with the collar that we think could have an important role with regards to helping on the preventive side of concussions, and part of the technology is established on nature’s physiological advantages found in other animals and
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rest will help provide longevity in the sport and additionally create an environment whereby transitioning into retirement occurs with their faculties intact. This allows one to both enjoy and remember their retirement. That’s something we’re promoting from the Motorsports Safety Group standpoint.” The Q-Collar will be coming to several racing series, in addition to college football and its continued use in the NFL. “It’s a preventative collar, and studies have indicated decreases in the incidence of concussions by almost 90 percent, depending on the sport,” said Cormier. “The helmet protects the skull and skin from fractures and lacerations. The HANS device protects the neck from fractures. Those are integral safety tools, and we hope the collar will fill in several important missing pieces.” common is they depend on striking the head to survive and eat,” Cormier said. “What they have in common with us is related to yawning. Each time we yawn, we mildly obstruct a small amount of blood from draining to the brain. That slows the slosh effect internally of the brain moving inside the skull.” In fluid dynamics, the slosh effect is the movement of liquid inside another object. In this example, the vehicle is the skull and the moving substance is the brain, which is composed of 70-percent water.
2019 schedule and results
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