Next Up; Bristol Dirt Track
For the third race in a row the Cup Series is short track racing. The Food City Dirt Race is Sunday night with the green flag waving shortly after 6:00 pm. The Bristol track is a .533 mile concrete oval covered with tons of dirt. The banking has been increased from last year to 16 to 19 degrees. The stages for this race will be 75 laps / 150 laps / 250 laps with a total of 133.25.4 miles of racing. The race is on Fox.
There will be two practices on Friday at 3:05 and 5:35 pm with on track qualifying Saturday at 5:00 pm. The practices are on FS1 while qualifying is on FS2.
The race winner in 2021 was Joey Logano who started 10th. Kyle Larsen was on the pole and finished 29th. The starting grid was set by NASCAR's Covid rules.
The links to the right or below take you to the entry list, practice and qualifying results for the next race. One of our other favorite sites Jayski.com has all kinds of the pre and post race info and much more.
We have a link to a recap of the previous race to the menu on the right side of this page.
Rhinelander Racing Scores Big At Martinsville
Rhinelander Racing had the third highest score of 2022 with 256 points at Martinsville. Jim Zima took second with a 246. KVB Racing was third with a 243 while DDT cashed again with a 241 for fourth place. This was the fourth race in a row that DDT has cashed and fifth overall. It was the first time cashing for Rhinelander Racing. The other three teams have cashed multiple times in Session One.
Rhinelander Racing and S L Racing made the "Move Of The Week". They dropped Kyle Larsen for Chase Elliott. That move added twenty-nine points to their scores. Neil Rechsteiner made the "Goof Of The Week" when he dropped Kyle Busch for Martin Truex, Jr.. That cost Neil fifteen points.
There were two ties in the standings for the Martinsville race that involved four teams. The tie in 17th between Bill Maccoux and Smoke Lightning Racing was due to identical lineups. That gave us twenty-one unique lineups for the race.
Alex Bowman was added to two more lineups and joins Joey Logano as the most popular drivers in Session One. Both were on twenty lineups for Martinsville. Austin Cindric is next on eighteen rosters. Kyle Larsen and Kyle Busch (both 12 rosters) round out the top five. There are six drivers in the top seven groups that were not on a roster for Martinsville. Kurt Busch (G3), Austin Dillon (G4), Chris Buescher (G4), Bubba Wallace (G5), Harrison Burton (G7) and Corey LaJoie (G7) are those drivers. All of the other drivers in the top seven groups were on one or more rosters. Four different Group Eight drivers were selected for this race. A. J. Allmendinger (9 rosters), Ty Dillon (8 rosters), Justin Haley (5 rosters) and Landon Cassill (1 roster) are those drivers.
The average score for the race was 215.6. There were seven scores of 235 points or better. A team made up of the "Most Popular" driver in each group would have scored 203 points. No one had that lineup. The "Max" score this race was 298. The "Min" score was would have been 100 points.
Check out this week's results.
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Session One Standings
DDT stayed at the top of the session standings with a 241. That added a couple more points to their lead on Beat Dan McElrone. BDM (-44 pts.) stayed in second with a 239. Stocks (-78 pts.) stayed in 3rd with a 222 while Jim Zima (-104 pts.) moved up a spot to 4th with a 246. M J Racing used a 232 to hold on to 5th. They are 118 points back. KVB Racing (-122 pts.) moved from 8th to 6th with a 243. Miller Man (-130 pts.) dropped three spots to 7th with a 199. We pay out one in every three entrants so the payout will go down to seventh place.
Russ McElrone moved up seven spots in the session standings with a 239. Russ is in 9th place after the Martinsville race. Team East Town scored 168 points this race and dropped eight spots to 20th. This was the second race in a row that TET made the largest drop in the standings. They were in 7th place before the big drop. Those were the largest moves up and down in the Session One standings.
The Session One average moved up just over three points to 193.0. A "Big Score" is a total of 235 or better. We have had eighteen in S1.
Group Two was the top scoring group for the second race in a row. G2 drivers had a 33.0 average. G2's average this week included only twenty-four stage points. Check out the link below to find out which Cup teams are scoring points with Stage racing.
All Events Standings
Twenty of the twenty-three teams entered in our Fantasy NASCAR league are also entered in the season long All Events contest. The AE standings will mostly mirror the Session One results. Look for a more detailed report once Session Two gets under way.
The 2022 season average is 193.0 points per race. There have been eighteen scores of 235 or better this season.
In the All Events contest we pay out one out of every four teams entered. With twenty teams entered we will pay down to fifth place in 2022.
2022 All Events Standings
