NASCAR 2024

The majority of drivers could not pass, no matter how hard they tried. That get's a little boring pretty quickly. If you were 12th, you stayed 12th, 15th stayed 15th. Both Truex and Bubba complained over their radios about it. It reminded me of the Kansas fall race of 2020, a near zero ability to pass other cars. 4.5/10 for me.

It was a great race, Nowso called it.

Yeah it was a pretty good race. There was action all over the track, so many passes, and it was fun watching so many guys hang on for dear life with their tyres. I thought the tyre wear was a little excessive though. It was fun but a little too extreme.

A tire fall-off window of 80-90 laps or even 100 laps would have been great, rather than the 40-50 that most drivers could endure

Gotta love this no track limits. Cars so far wide beyond the kerbs. Remind me again, any caution for the stage breaks?

I see SVG is a little higher up the field as it's a road course. Should be interesting seeing him on the restarts and if he can capitalise.

Not really the most exciting race really. I prefer these cars on super speedways.

Decent race. A bit dull like the day itself. Byron is out-of-this-world good. Remember he had 20 top10's last year. Insane numbers that he'l likely replicate this year. Bell made it very interesting and his team's strategy almost paid off so I think they'll have learned a lot. Otherwise, some spins here, mid pack battles there, but Byron was always going to win. Hats off to Bubba Wallace. Going from dead last, hopelessly last, to turn his day around to get a top 15.

I can't believe this. Turned on the NASCAR and it was raining and I was depressed because you don't know if it'll go ahead or not. Then they interview Alex Bowman and he says he can't wait to go on the wet tyres as it should be really interesting on an oval.

Hopefully this is a thing they'll do on all tracks from now on and no waiting to see if a race will get going.

Anyway, Bowman had a serious car in qualifying and practice and he's my pick for tonight coming off a good performance last week.

Two men must be sick after that, Truex because there was a yellow with him about 100 yards from the white flag and losing first place on pit road and Logano losing the front row. I think if Logano had been on the front row he'd have won it.