If you like to run on Nascar snake road lessons, you have come to the right place in the last five races.
For the third time in this quintet, the drivers will mix in many right turns to accompany the usual left -handers when the Cup series would go to its only stop in California for the Toyota / Save Mart 350, the 110 -round race at Sonoma Raceway.
Kyle Larson is surely delighted to be back in the wine country of Golden State – and not only because it is from Elk Grove, just 90 minutes from the track at 12 laps.
The defending winner of the race beat Martin Truex Jr. and Chris Buescher in the last 51 rounds of warning a year ago. However, the 2021 Cup champion has not made his way since his history efforts in the race in Indianapolis and Charlotte the same Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend.
The hero of the hometown on the 1.99 Mile track has misunderstood since he made the “double”, destroying both in Indy 500 and Coke 600. In the seven races starting in Charlotte, his average finish is 17.6 with his best performance being fifth in Michigan.
But the driver of Hendrick Motorsports n ° 5 is of course safe in the playoffs. His three victories bond with Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell for the most, and he is a double winner in the Napa Valley region in Vineyard.
However, it was Shane Van Gisbergen who scored the successor on Sunday for the second time during the three cup races that take place on the route of Chicago Street.
In the first in 2023, the track racing pilot n ° 88 recorded the victory in career n ° 1. He was victorious during the Xfinity race last year, but finished last of the Cup following an accident.
Last weekend, the New Zealander won the post in the two races and won two victories. He became the first driver to win pole on Saturday and Sunday since Kyle Busch did in 2016 in Indianapolis.
“This joint has changed my life,” said SVG, whose three victories in 33 races make a good start in the race and put it with the most victories by any pilot born abroad.
With the future of Chicago in real question – the agreement of three races is over – SVG is one of the many drivers who would savor a fourth in the second city, although San Diego is the next stop in the streets.
In the pursuit of the playoffs, SVG’s victory was fourth in the alignment of the playoffs with seven races to play, but with 12 winners locked up in the playoffs, three of the four final positions were tightened.
The first driver without victory, 13th place Tyler Reddick, holds a vast advance of 104 points on Alex Bowman in 14th.
And while a victory could be expected of Reddick in his Toyota n ° 45 23X of racing, none of his eight victories came in any of the following seven places.
Bowman is drinking by only four points, while Bubba Wallace, who finished 28th on Sunday after being spun twice, holds the last place in the 16th eliminatory series by only two points on Ryan Preece.
It is then a drop of 41 points in 18th place AJ Allmendinger with 400 points.
Larson (2024, 2021), Busch (2015, 2008) and the Daniel Suarez duck track driver (2022) will be the only active competitors in the Sunday field to have won the Sonoma checkered flag.
– field level media
