COBO CUP 2024 Newsletter – Volume 20

Bowman wins at Chicago

#48-Alex Bowman won the darkness shortened Grant Park 165 NASCAR Cup Series race at the Chicago Street Course. The win is his 1st win of the year, 1st at the Chicago Street Course and 8th career win.
#45-Tyler Reddick finished 2nd followed by #54-Ty Gibbs, #60-Joey Hand, #34-Michael McDowell, #47-Ricky Stenhouse Jr, #38-Todd Gilliland, #24-William Byron, #8-Kyle Busch, and #12-Ryan Blaney.
Pole sitter #5-Kyle Larson dropped out of the race early after running into the tire barrier on lap 34 and tearing up the front end of the car. He finished 39th.

Like last year, the race was impacted by rain. The start was delayed by about 20 minutes when light rain begun just as engines were fired. Teams were allowed to change to wet weather tires for the start.
It was then red flagged for more than an hour on lap 26 after heavy rain moved in and the spray was too much for the cars to run in. On lap 18 NASCAR announced that if the race was had not run the full distance by 9:20pm/et it would end due to darkness.  Once the race restarted after the red flag, teams knew they would not be able to run the full distance.

During the stage 2 caution break, the top 12 drivers stayed out on wet tires. #48-Bowman restarted the final stage in second, but was able to move past #60-Hand on lap 50 to take the lead and never relinquished it before time expired and the race ended after 58 of the 75 scheduled laps. There were 9 lead changes among 6 drivers and 5 cautions for 19 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 54.921mph.

Stage Winners

• Stage 1 was won by #16-Van Gisbergen
• Stage 2 was won by #60-Hand

Perfect Team (per category): Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe, Todd Gilliland & Carson Hocevar for 3,608 points.

Worst Picks (per category): Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, Josh Berry, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, A.J. Allmendinger (#16 car), Austin Dillon & Kaz Grala.        

Facts: Jonzn (2^nd win of the year) wins at Chicago with 207 points ($100). They beat Crash Dummies by 7 points. Union Thug remains the standings leader, 11 points up on Keeblerselves.

Standings Leaders:

• Union Thug (12 weeks)
• Hoop (6 weeks)
• JKR Racing
• Phoenix One
• Shiftin Gears

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

Bottom of the Barrel: FLG Racing with 2,606 points. Swifty is 23 points ahead.  

Pole Pool: Anyone with #5-Larson just earned a pole pool point. 3 teams are now tie for the pole pool with 10 points.  

Biggest Mover: Jonzn moving from 56^th to 27^th (29 spots)

Biggest Dump:  KKMT moving from 29^th to 46^th (17 spots)

Race Penalties:

Daytona 500: Car #41-Preece (35 points)

Daytona 500: Car #10-Gragson (35 points)

Nashville: Car #77-Hocevar (25 points)

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Next Race

Race #21 of 36: Sunday July 14, 2024 at Pocono, PA on NBC. Green Flag: 2:30pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

COBO CUP 2024 Standings Leader: Union Thug                                                                                                                                                            cobocup@yahoo.ca