COBO CUP 2023 Newsletter – Volume 6

Reddick wins at COTA

#45-Tyler Reddick won the Echopark Texas Grand Prix NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas. The win is his 1st win of the year, 1st at COTA and 4th career win. #8-Busch finished 2nd followed by #48-Bowman, #1-Chastain, pole winner #24-Byron, #2-Cindric. #47-Stenhouse, Jr., #17-Buescher, #54-Gibbs, and #38-Gilliland.

Reddick and Byron took turns dominating much of the race.  Reddick took the lead from Byron with 4 laps remaining and held the lead through 3 Overtime attempts to pull away for the win by 1.4 second. Notable finishes: #15-Button finished 18th. #9-Taylor, filling in for Chase Elliott, finished 24th. #91-Raikkonen finished 29th after a late spin. #50-Daly suffered a broken transaxle and finished 36th. #84-Johnson was involved in an accident on lap 1 and finished 38th. There were 16 lead changes among 7 drivers and 8 cautions for 17 yellow flag laps.

• Stage 1 was won by #24-Byron
• Stage 2 was won by #45-Riddick

Perfect Team (per category): Denny Hamlin, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman, Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski, Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Corey LaJoie = 1,225 points

Worst Picks (per category): Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr, Chase Briscoe, Aric Almirola, Justin Haley, Harrison Burton & Ty Dillon.        

Facts: Bengals Fan wins at COTA with 223 points ($100). They beat Fonthill Forever by 2 points. KKMT remains the standings leader (pending the results of the points appeal on Wednesday), 98 points up on The Morons 2.

Standings Leaders:

• KKMT (5 weeks)
• FC Racing
• Two Griffins

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

Bottom of the Barrel: Outta Gas with 712 points.

Pole Pool: Anyone with #24-Byron just earned a pole pool point.  

Biggest Mover: Fonthill Forever moving from 102^nd to 52^nd (50 spots)

Biggest Dump: First Try moving from 100^th to 153^rd (53 spots) 

Race Penalties: Standings points changes, if any, will be adjusted after the teams appeals are exhausted and NASCAR has made their final decision on team penalties. Appeals are scheduled for Wednesday.

Race         Points             Car Number

Phoenix     100                     #5

Phoenix     100                     #9

Phoenix     100                     #48

Phoenix     100                     #24

Phoenix     100                     #31

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Next Race

Race #7 of 36: Sunday, April 2, 2023 at Richmond on FOX. Green Flag: 3:30pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

 COBO CUP 2023 Standings Leader: KKMT                                                                                                                                                              cobocup@yahoo.ca