re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread - Kyle Larson wins 2026 Cup Series Championship

Only thing I can see is bowman isn’t great at feedback. Or Harris wasn’t picking up what bowman was wanting.

Also think bowman is not the same driver he once was. So hard to tell who the blame really falls on.

Doran to spire and McDowell is interesting.

Lol, I give this zero chance to happen and if they were ever dumb enough to try it the series would die once and for all

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Here’s the problem. Nascar wants to keep the current cup car. And they will ruin the NOAP car on purpose, instead of moving the NOAP car to cup and trickle down from there.

Here’s Nascar comments and then Dale Jr:


Steve O'Donnell indicates a Gen 8 car is not on the horizon. He defended the Next Gen and said tweaks are likely but not a new car.

Because of the Next Gen, O'Donnell said, "You have many new owners that have come into the sport. You have an ownership landscape that is much healthier than it was before. You have Dodge entering the sport. You have other OEMs who are looking at it, and you have pretty good racing.

"The facts, when you look at those compared to other sports, are pretty strong. So I think it's important to look at what changes can you tweak along the way.

"But for us, we want a sustainable model for the industry, a Gen 8 or next gen car comes with all kinds of costs and all kinds of different things.

"So I'm confident in our guys and the industry and the OEMs to tweak what we have where necessary, but also be pretty confident in our drivers going out there and having the ability to go win races and put on some pretty darn good competition."

Re: O'Reilly Series, NASCAR is looking at how many parts and pieces are left to keep racing the current car and then trying to figure out how to move to the next model, but nothing decided yet.

Dale Jr:


Dale Earnhardt Jr.
@DaleJr

I proposed to SO and others that we do this:

Keep the current car, but made with new parts from NASCAR specified companies.

The general concept of a NASCAR cup car is a mid 1960s Chevrolet Chevelle front clip and a mid 1960s pickup truck suspension in the rear. NASCAR teams spent decades refining this technology.

Keep all of the general concepts and theories. Similar mounting points and such, all parts made by a Nascar mandated manufacturer or two or three. Trailing arms, upper and lower control arms, spindles. You name it. Have designated companies produce it all.

We could phase these parts in over the next 5 years and continue to race into the future a car we all have an extremely deep connection to.

The truck series could use these same parts. They could trickle down to ARCA, Late Model Stock. There is enough racing going on between all levels of "stock car racing" that this could be lucrative to the specified manufacturers of said parts. It would be cost affective toward teams. It would create a pipeline of parts trickling down toward the grassroots levels of racing as they too are concerned over current parts and current and future scarcity.

This is doable and maintains a key identifiable element to our industry.

My fear is that the industry needs to create a trickle down model for the current Cup Next Gen car. Hubs, front and rear suspension, drivetrain. All these mileaged parts used to have a place to go and compete until the Next Gen was introduced. So there may be some who feel it's common sense for the other 2 national series to adopt literal framework to utilize these pieces. No doubt Cup teams would like to have a marketplace for these parts.

Time will tell but I have a feeling it'll be really challenging to convince the league to keep the O'Reilly vehicle on its current architecture long term.

Sheldon Creed on the pole for the OReilly race this afternoon at Homestead.

Champ contenders:

1-Creed
3-Kvapil
4-Love
7-Day
11-Allgaier

Nah, I want to focus on the race so will watch it delayed. Trying to do different sports at once I end up not really getting into any of them. I expect it will be worth it to focus solely on race once I watch it

This is misleading. All these tracks have either taken out seats or tarped sections (or both) and don’t count tarped sections as an empty seat. Its disingenuous to no add that distinction and makes this very misleading

You could have a 100,000 sized track get 80k seats filled and it’s not a sellout. Or you have a 100,000 seat track that tarps 50,000 seats and fills all remaining 50,000 and call it a sellout. Perspective is important.


Jeff Gluck
@jeff_gluck

Homestead-Miami Speedway is sold out for tomorrow, which NASCAR says marks the 14th sellout of the Cup Series season -- the most since 2006.

I don’t think he will move fast enough. And he’ll be blocked at every junction because teams and nascar want to save money instead of fixing car.

Like I asked before…. Who would be a better option. OD has shown me more in 6 months than Brian France, Jim France, and Steve Phelps showed me in 20+ years.

Let’s give the guy more to show whether he is the choice.

This is some outstanding racing in stage 3