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How Tire Failures Turned Phoenix Into a NASCAR Championship Disaster
Tire failures for Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin dramatically changed the NASCAR Chase at Phoenix, highlighting the difficult balance between aggressive setups and durability.
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3 days ago4 min read


How One Pit Stop Changed the Charlotte Finish and NASCAR Championship Fight
Chase Briscoe's pit crew delivered the decisive stop at Charlotte, helping him beat Christopher Bell and potentially changing the NASCAR championship picture.
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Oct 134 min read


The Las Vegas Race Was Better Than the TV Broadcast Made It Look
HFTS watched the Las Vegas race both in person and on television, revealing how much passing deeper in the field never made the broadcast.
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Oct 93 min read


Kansas Had Passing — The Broadcast Made It Feel Like It Didn't
Kyle Larson dominated the front at Kansas, but drivers including Briscoe, Blaney and Cindric made major gains deeper in the field that were easy to miss.
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Oct 23 min read


Bristol’s Tire Problem Turned One Race Into Two Completely Different Shows
Bristol’s first 300 laps struggled to produce passing before tire differences and late chaos transformed the race. The tire may be the key to fixing it.
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Sep 233 min read


Gateway Was Good Racing Trapped Inside a Bad Race
Gateway featured good green-flag racing, difficult cars and real aggression, but a record 18 cautions made the overall race nearly impossible to judge.
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Sep 164 min read


Spire vs. the Field: Darlington Puts Hocevar and McDowell in the Middle of the Drama
Two separate Spire Motorsports incidents affected Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin, making the team one of Darlington’s biggest stories.
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Sep 93 min read


Did NASCAR Finally Fix Superspeedway Racing? Daytona's New Package Shows Promise
NASCAR came to Daytona with a dramatically different superspeedway package and a clear objective: give drivers more opportunities to pass. After watching its first race in person, we think they might be onto something. Superspeedway racing has developed a strange problem over the last several years. Daytona and Talladega are supposed to be places where track position can change in an instant, where drivers can build runs in the draft and where being aggressive can take you fr
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Sep 24 min read


Ryan Preece Finally Gets His Moment: Daytona Win Sends the No. 60 to The Chase
Ryan Preece spent years fighting for opportunities in NASCAR. At Daytona, with his season on the line, he finally got the breakthrough he had been chasing. There may not have been a more fitting place for Ryan Preece to earn his first points-paying NASCAR Cup Series victory than Daytona International Speedway. Daytona has given Preece some of the most frightening moments of his career, and he arrived for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 facing another daunting challenge. This time it
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Sep 13 min read
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