COBO CUP 2024 Newsletter – Volume 19

Logano wins at Nashville

#22-Joey Logano won the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. The win is his 1st win of the year, 1st at Nashville and 33rd career win. #71-Zane Smith finished 2nd followed by #45-Tyler Reddick, #41-Ryan Preece, #17-Chris Buescher, #12-Ryan Blaney, #23-Bubba Wallace, #5-Kyle Larson, #31-Daniel Hemric, and #10-Noah Gragson.

The race had a little bit of everything including five overtime finish attempts before #22-Logano took the checkered flag. He led just 9 laps during the race and was able to stretch his last tank of fuel 110 laps. The five overtime attempts are a NASCAR Cup Series record. Pole winner #11-Denny Hamlin finished 12th. He was leading the race when the caution came out with two laps remaining. After more cautions, he  had to pit for fuel after the third overtime attempt.

#20-Christopher Bell was the dominant driver for the early part of the race. He won stage 1 and 2 and led 131 laps but got loose with less than 75 laps remaining and spun into the outside wall. He was unable to continue and finished 36th. The race was red flagged for an hour and 21 minutes on lap 137 after some rain and lightning passed through the track. There were 20 lead changes among 11 drivers and 15 cautions for 79 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 108.298mph.

Stage Winners

• Stage 1 was won by #20-Bell
• Stage 2 was won by #20-Bell

Perfect Team (per category): Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe, Todd Gilliland & Carson Hocevar for 3,472 points.

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

Facts: Talladega Dayz wins at Nashville with 218 points ($100). They beat Makers Mark by 11 points. That makes 20 different race winners. Union Thug remains the standings leader, 40 points up on Bandwanger 5.

Standings Leaders:

• Union Thug (11 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 2,470 points. Swifty is 43 points ahead.  

Pole Pool: Anyone with #11-Hamlin just earned a pole pool point. 3 teams are now tie for the pole pool with 9 points.     

Biggest Mover: Talladega Dayz moving from 99^th to 63^rd (36 spots)

Biggest Dump:  Two Chasers moving from 54^th to 85^th (31 spots) 

Race Penalties:

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

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

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Next Race

Race #20 of 36: Sunday July 07, 2024 at Chicago, IL on NBC. Green Flag: 4:30pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

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