The regular Nascar season has all ended.
Twenty-five races led to the final of the regular season on Saturday evening at Daytona International Speedway, the last chance for the drivers to win a victory and win their path in the Nascar Cup 2025 qualifiers.
The final of the regular season has seen its fair share of exciting battles for places in playoffs over the years, but this will not be the case this year. Alex Bowman is currently holding the 16th and last provisional point of the 60 -point playoff series on Chris Buescher, putting each pilot under the cup line in an unmissable situation.
A new winner below the cutting line could eliminate Bowman or Tyler Reddick (+89) if Bowman exceeds Reddick in the ranking at the end of the race.
Here is where the pilots accumulate at the “World Center of Racing” while they are looking for a victory that could transcend their 2025 campaign.
-.. Christ Buescher (17th): of all the drivers needing a victory, Buescher could be in the best position. He won in Daytona in August 2023, and the RFK Racing Fords which he drives are always quick to Daytona and Talladega. The bad news? He will probably not get too much aid from the editorial staff of the Ryan Preece teammates and Brad Keselowski, who also have to win on Saturday to make the playoffs.
-ryan Preece (18th): like Buescher, Preece is a superspeedway runner capable and will have a fast car on Saturday evening. Unfortunately, his racing cars tend to imitate planes at Daytona Beach International Airport nearby each time he tries to make a late survey of 2.5 miles speedway. Preece went to the air twice in the last four days in Daytona, but if he can keep the four wheels on the ground, he will be in the mixture for his first career victory.
––Kyle Busch (19th): Everything seemed to meet for Busch in Daytona a year ago -until Harrison Burton passed the double champion on the last round and steals a victory and a place in the playoffs far from team n ° 8. Just like last year, Busch is in an unmissable situation. But with another year added to his drought without a victory and the prospect of missing the playoffs for the second consecutive year looking at him, you have to ask yourself if the future Hall of Famer will be more aggressive than it was a year ago. He will have a teammate from Richard Childress Racing in the winner of Richmond, Austin Dillon, to push him into the fence towers.
–@Ty Gibbs (20th): apart from a fifth place in Daytona in August 2024, the most emblematic track of Nascar was not very kind to Gibbs in his standard career of short cup. The editorial staff is not necessarily his specialty, but he must win to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year. Unlike the aforementioned RFK trio, all the Gibbs teammates by Joe Gibbs Racing are already in the playoffs, which should bear fruit when he needs an end -of -race push.
– Driver to look under the bubble: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (28th): The season has been rooted since Stenhouse and the N ° 47 team of Hyak Motorsports were fighting on the bubble in the playoffs in early June. But Daytona could be the great equalizer of Stenhouse, who won in Daytona twice and won four cup races when writing tracks. He has already shocked the world here, and the closing towers of superspeedway races are always where Stenhouse makes his money.
– Stubbs Samuel, level media in the field
