COBO CUP 2022 Newsletter – Volume 16

Suarez wins at Sonoma

#99-Daniel Suarez won the Toyota / Save Mart 350 NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway for his first career win. He led the final 26 laps and pulled away to win by nearly 4 seconds. He is the fifth foreign-born driver to win a Cup Series race. #17-Buscher finished 2nd followed by #34-McDowell, #4-Harvick, #2-Cindric, #12-Blaney, #1-Chastain, #9-Elliott, #24-Byron, and #6-Keselowski.

Pole winner #5-Larson led 26 laps to start the race, but got off sequence from other drivers and never made it back to the front.  Late in stage two he lost a wheel following a green flag pit stop.  He finished 15th.
There were 6 lead changes among 6 drivers and 4 cautions for 14 yellow flag laps.

• Stage 1 was won by #5-Larson
• Stage 2 was won by #22-Logano

Perfect Team (per category): Chase Elliott, Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Aric Almirola, Ross Chastain, Daniel Suarez and Justin Haley for a total of 3,090 points.

Worst Picks (per category): Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Harrison Burton, Brad Keselowski, Todd Gilliland, Corey LaJoie & BJ McLeod (#78).         

Facts: Mudhens Racing wins at Sonoma ($100) with 250 points. They beat Shave That Busch by 24 points. There have been 16 different race winners so far in 2022. SardoVRacing remains the standings points’ leader, 70 points up on Catch Can Man. There have been 6 lead changes for the standings lead so far in 2022.  

Standings Leaders:

• DAK Racing
• Proven Winners
• 2 Dawgs Racing (2 weeks)
• 10 Speed
• Never Quit Racing #3 (2 weeks)
• SardoVRacing (9 weeks)  

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

The Battle for the Bottom: R&R Racing with 2,176 points. MurfsMotorsport: 3 points ahead.  

Pole Pool: Anyone with Larson has scored a pole point. 4 teams tied with 8 pole points.    

Biggest Mover: Boss Boy moving up from 79^th to 60^th (19 spots)

Biggest Dump: Bandwagon 42 dropping from 77^th to 98^th (21 spots)

Race Penalties:  None

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Next Race

Race #17 of 36: Sunday, June 26, 2022 at Nashville, TN on NBC. Green Flag: 5:00pm                                                                      

 “NUFF SAID”

 COBO CUP 2022 Standings Leader: SardoVRacing                                                                                                                                                             

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