Next week, NASCAR is in Texas, for the AAA Texas 500, starting at 2pm.
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Next week, NASCAR is in Texas, for the AAA Texas 500, starting at 2pm.
Afternoon race fans. Today's race is in Phoenix, Arizona, bright & sunny, as opposed to last week's race with the rain delay.
Jimmie & Carl have punched their ticket to the final in Homestead next week. Who will win this week? Kevin has won more races here than anyone else, so there's a good possibility he may punch his ticket today. Will 1 of the remaining 3 Gibbs teams be in the Chase or will Joey crush those dreams. At the end of today we will know which 4 drivers will be going for the championship.
The starting line up is as follows:
Alex Bowman
Kyle Larson
Chase Elliot
Joey Logano
Denny Hamlin
Kevin Harvick
Austin Dillon
Ryan Blaney
Jamie McMurray
Matt Kenseth
Other chase & faves line up as follows:
11-Carl
12-Kurt
13-Kasey
14-Brad
16-Danica
17-Jimmie
19-Kyle B
25-Tony
40-Martin
This is a short race, only 312 miles & laps.
At the green, Alex leads, as KyL gets loose, slides into Joey & the caution comes out before they get the 1st lap done.
Denny went down to the apron & moved up 2 spots to 3rd.
At the restart, Alex out front, with Happy moving up to 3rd.
Joey all over Alex's bumper.
Alex, Joey, Happy, Chase & Denny the top 5.
Some smoke is coming out of the left rear tire of Joey after contact with Alex on the restart. The crew & spotter are keeping a watch on it.
Chase moves up to 3rd.
JJ cracks the top 10.
Lap 26, Denny goes by Happy for 4th.
Happy sliding back as Austin, goes by him for 5th.