re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Right side of Day’s car

This took out Algier. Jones also lost his 8 stage points. 4 loose lugs is pretty bad. And they even claimed the lugs were tight on radio. Might cost 7 team the title


Matt Weaver
@MattWeaverRA

O'Reilly Series inspection clear.

Brandon Jones' No. 20 was disqualified for four or more lug nuts not safe & secure. He had finished 35th. He's now 36th

Two cars lose pit selection at Charlotte:

92 – Inspection failures
88 – 1 lug nut not safe & secure

Sheldon Creed announced yesterday that he’s leaving HFT for Sam Hunt Racing in 2027. His teammates will be Tyler Ankrum and Dean Thompson. This is a downgrade for him any way you slice it.

Really? I didn’t know that, but that makes sense. If you have the time, watch this video discussing the ungodly amount of money that goes into racing.

Dale Jarret was right. Hamlin should have stayed out to keep Larson a lap down. That yahoo in booth saying run your race lol. No idiot, Larson is your main competition you keep him a lap down.

Hamlin and his team are Keystone cops like. The tire call last year that lost them the title. Not keeping Larson a lap down today. Hamlin wrecking in his own for no reason. Then staying out instead of pitting to work on car in stage 2 early.

They don’t deserve title. All the great cars that 11 team has had over all those years and they constantly choke.

I also found it funny Nascar not throwing yellow when he spun. Booth was clamoring for one lol. But nope, Nascar realized how dumb he was for spinning in his own they decided to hell with it he doesn’t deserve one.

99% of time thats a yellow. But Nascar just laughed at his stupidity.

Larson really raced great. Had a bad car and a long pit stop under green but overcame it. If he wins tittle he earned it. His avg finish in chase is 2.2. Long ways to go though anything can happen. Still have a plate race too.

I’m surprised it wasn’t a caution. I’m not complaining but it was a little odd.

Shoutout to SVG for getting a top ten. Vegas owed him a good result.

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Long ways to go though anything can happen. Still have a plate race too.

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Larson gained 95 points in relation to the leader over the first 5 races. Someone else could easily replicate that run, so I think the top 6 are still in it.

Perhaps the intermediate package is finally showing cracks?

Finish was great. But I didn’t find the race was all that great.

Still don’t see the reason Vegas needs two races.

There is no passing because teams have engineered the last drop of advantages out of this crap car.

And no one wants to risk stretching the rules because penalties are too harsh and teams are all about not making waves for sponsors. Don’t want to get caught and give sponsor bad rap.

So the working box is very small. Its just a few normal adjustments at the track, everyone brings the exact same clone car to races because the cage and other specs are just too tight. Tire pressure and wedge is about all you have left.

All of us posting have been screaming from the mountain top for the past few years to increase HP, less downforce, smaller tires (skinnier) which would make better racing.