COBO CUP 2023 Newsletter – Volume 17

Chastain wins at Nashville

#1-Ross Chastain won the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. The win is his 1st win of the year, 1st at Nashville and 3rd career win. #19-Truex, Jr. finished 2nd followed by #11-Hamlin, #9-Elliott, #5-Larson, #24-Byron, #20-Bell, #43-Jones, #8-Busch, and #16-Allmendinger.

Chastain started from the pole and led 99 of 300 laps.  He took the lead with 70 laps remaining, cycled back to the lead after a final round of green flag pit stops, and held off Truex to win by nearly 1 second. There were 21 lead changes among 12 drivers and 4 cautions for 24 yellow flag laps.

The average speed of the race was: 132.914mph.

• Stage 1 was won by #45-Reddick
• Stage 2 was won by #11-Hamlin

Perfect Team (per category): Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr, Kevin Harvick, Ty Gibbs, Brad Keselowski, Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Corey LaJoie = 3,106 points

Worst Picks (per category): Chase Elliott, Christopher Bell, Chase Briscoe, Eric Jones, Justin Haley, Noah Gragson & BJ McLeod.         

Facts: Tucson Two wins at Nashville with 221 points ($100). They beat Good Enough by 2 points. Stumugo goes into the standings lead with 2,954 points. They lead second place FC Racing by 29 points.   

Standings Leaders:

• KKMT (12 weeks)
• FC Racing (3 weeks)
• Piston Happy (2 weeks)
• Two Griffins (1 week)
• Stumugo (1 week)

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

Bottom of the Barrel: Outta Gas with 2,006 points. Shake ‘n Bake, Baby is 154 points up. 

Pole Pool: Anyone with #1-Chastain just earned a pole pool point. Geeturdun in the lead with 7 pole points.  

Biggest Mover: Never Quit Racing 2 from 64^th to 39^th (25 spots)

Biggest Dump: ChelZack Racing from 36^th to 63^rd (27 spots) 

Race Penalties:   

Race             Points             Car Number

Richmond        60                      #24

Richmond        60                      #48

Martinsville     60                      #3  

Darlington       10                      #45

Charlotte         120                    #14

WWTR            60                     #43

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Next Race

Race #18 of 36: Sunday July 02, 2023 at Chicago, IL on NBC. Green Flag: 2:30pm                                                                      

 “NUFF SAID”

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