NASCAR 2023

NASCAR is great craic. Harvick sends Elliott into the wall earlier in the race. Elliott hunts him down, but under the heat of a chasing No.9, Harvick missed a corner and hits a wall. I feel Elliott will get his payback to Harvick in the future!

Ricky S with the Irish Spring sponsorship. Top of the morning to ya 😉

Keselowski set the precedent during the race on at least two occasions and wasn't penalised, Cindric stretched the limits aswell at the finish on his teammate Blaney to take the win though if he didn't do it Bubba may have sneaked the win at the expense of Penske. As it's close restrictor plate racing at Daytona Nascar has nearly always defaulted the benefit of doubt over questionable blocking but these carnage finishes have been getting worse recently

Tough track tonight, as the race goes on the wall becomes the only place to be. Very tough on tyres too, you'll see somebody take a gamble to try have an extra set in the pits for a late caution because you can make up huge ground in a shirt time with fresh tyres.

I'm liking Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and potential shock winner Ricky Stenhouse jr. for tonight's race.

It'll be interesting to see if Trackhouse can build on that performance. Great to see another team challenge the established powerhouses.

I think it was 24 cars finished the race, there wasn't a big one which is a rare occurrence.

Byron literally rammed by Joey Logano on the last lap to take victory.

I know it's nascar but that's ridiculous.

Few big wrecks as well , the 2311 team victims again.

Looks like Kimi is off to NASCAR with Trackhouse racing! Should be great fun watching him, starting in August.

"Team Trackhouse, PROJECT91 and Kimi Raikkonen are here and ready to activate the intersection of NASCAR racing and global motorsport culture in a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. Appearing in the NASCAR Cup Series race on the road course at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International on Aug. 21, PROJECT91 is a program designed to push the guardrails and expand our international reach."

https://www.trackhouse.com/project-91

Trackhouse are a serious outfit. They are already up there with the top teams and that's seriously impressive.

Denny Hamlin started on pole, struggled all night and woke up in overtime to win it. Lots of unlucky drivers last night, Chase Elliott, Kurt Busch, Ryan Blaney and Denis Suarez were all legitimate contenders to win but didn't get to finish the race.

I don't think anybody would have predicted the top four in that race.

Daniil will be racing stock this weekend. 7pm on Sunday on Premier Sports 2.

And it's raining so looking like there won't be any action for a while.

First time driving these next gen cars in the wet. Should be interesting to see how Kimi and Danil get on. Will their experience of driving in wet weather help them?

No such thing as track limits with these guys. Maybe Kimi needs to start getting out there to take a few more places. Doing really well so far with a highest position of 8th so far! Pitted for feul before the end of stage two so is running in 25th with his current strategy.

AJ in fourth and a restart coming, he's just so good that anything could happen here.

Kimi certainly impressed. I hope he gets another go at it. Project 91 is interesting. Imagine even Vettel having a go in these cars. Provided they're setup well, and just not a back marker team I think any F1 driver would excel in Nascar road course race.

Daytona is on at the moment. Intense close racing on this super speedway. Mental stuff.

Here we go for the conclusion of a long red flagged race!

Breaking news tonight that Alex Bowman is to miss Talledega this weekend.

Bowman is reported as suffering concussion like symptoms following a crash at Texas.

There was a lot of controversy after Texas , multiple heavy crashes as a result of blown tyres , a controversial clash between William Byron and Danny Hamlin which was missed by Nascar but now has been addressed with Byron getting a 25 point deduction taking him below the cut off line.

However the most controversial was when Ty Gibbs purposely swerved into Ty Dillon in the pits.

Network TV and Nascar ignored the incident initially , Nascar has since reacted but the fine on Ty Gibb is viewed as light and has led to calls for Gibbs to be suspended for at least one race.

Meantime senior drivers - Hamlin / Harvick are being openly critical of Nascar , with now a second driver out with concussion (Kurt Busch being the other driver out with concussion ), expect further heightened tensions

Talledega could not come at a worse time for Nascar.

On a lighter note , Conor Day makes his Nascar debut the following week at the Charlotte Roval.

Hamlin deserved the same treatment as Byron as he clearly knew what he was doing pushing Byron up the track.

As for Ty Gibbs, he'll get off light because he is Joe Gibbs grandson, he's basically a VIP. He'll be driving the no.18 next year and I'd guess that's the reason Kyle Busch is getting out of there as he knows that when Ty moves up he'll get preferential treatment to the rest of the team. That's been happening this year in the Xfinity series.

Talledega was a disappointment last night. These next gen cars have made it next to impossible to make your way through the field on super speedways. It's very boring to watch now as there is nothing going on bar the few big ones.