NASCAR 2023

Chastain, Suarez, McDowell, Buescher, Reddick, Bell and the dark horse Gibbs. Gibbs has three road course wins in a season and a half in Xfinity. He held off Larson in one and the Dinger in another.

Yeah F1 drivers don't have an advantage at COTA. They have a better chance because they have experience of road courses but they are driving a stock car instead of an open wheel which is a whole lot different.

Gibbs had to pass Larson and Allmendinger to win both of those races.

It's definitely different though and much tougher. Allmendinger is the best of them in my opinion, he never has the best car but still does it. I'd love to see him in a Hendricks to see what he'd do.

Bowman also in the trucks and Gibbs in the Xfinity.

My pick for Sunday is Reddick.

I think it's for all road course races.

I like it because it was making a mess of the stages where if you tried to win the stage you had no hope of winning the race as bunches of cars came in with three laps to go. There's no danger of losing a lap on a pit stop.

This changes things completely and you really have to get the strategy right. Kyle Busch got it wrong in the truck race tonight and it cost him big, Zane Smith got it right and won.

Ha, found a channel and they have Guenther Steiner on the Comms box team for TV coverage! 😂

Dinger progressing well. Gas to hear Guenther reviewing lap times. It's not something you tend to hear on NASCAR.

I think Byron might win this one.

It's about to get crazy now. I've no clue whose even going to contend for the win.

I thought Austin Hill might contend but he's been out the back all day.

Joey made a bit of a rookie move there to try and block the third row run. Race ruined. The restarts are going to be messy.

These restarts are crazy. Didn't take much to wreck a good few of them.

Delighted for Martin Truex to end his winless streak. I hope Harvick can do it too before he retires.

I used to like Chastain but he's doing that crap to other drivers too often.. He was responsible for ruining Larson's day by making a ridiculous, aggressive move on Brennan Poole. He came across the radio afterwards saying he didn't mean it but it was clear he did.

It's time NASCAR started penalising him for these moves.

I'm delighted Chastain got taken out, love the way Larson kept driving.

Did you see the restart where he went before Larson despite being the second car? I don't know why Nascar didn't penalise him for that.