COBO CUP 2024 Newsletter – Volume 22

Larson wins at Indianapolis

#5-Kyle Larson won the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The win is his 4th win of the year, 1st at Indianapolis and 27th career win. Pole winner #45-Tyler Reddick finished 2nd followed by #12-Ryan Blaney, #20-Christopher Bell, #23-Bubba Wallace, #38-Todd Gilliland, #2-Austin Cindric, #99-Daniel Suarez, #10-Noah Gragson, and #9-Chase Elliott.

The race finished after two overtime attempts. #6-Keselowski led late in the race but ran out of fuel on the first Overtime restart. #5-Larson was lined up in the second row and took the lead before the caution came out setting up the second overtime attempt. He helps off #45-Tyler Reddick until the caution came back out on the final lap, after an accident by #41-Preece. The race ended under caution. There were 18 lead changes among 13 drivers and 10 cautions for 32 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 1119.77mph.

Stage Winners

• Stage 1 was won by #11-Hamlin
• Stage 2 was won by #23-Wallace

Perfect Team (per category): Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe, Todd Gilliland & Carson Hocevar for 3,960 points.

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

Facts: Boyfriends wins at Indianapolis with 220 points ($100). They beat KKMT by 3 points. Keeblerselves remains in the standings lead, 10 points up on Union Thug.

Standings Leaders:

• Union Thug (12 weeks)
• Hoop (6 weeks)
• Keeblerselves (2 weeks)
• JKR Racing
• Phoenix One
• Shiftin Gears

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

Bottom of the Barrel: FLG Racing with 2,820 points. Swifty is 66 points ahead.   

Pole Pool: Anyone with #45-Reddick just earned a pole pool point. A ton of teams are now tied for the pole pool with 10 points.    

Biggest Mover: KKMT moving from 60^th to 35^th (25 spots)

Biggest Dump:  13 Racing moving from 38^th to 73^rd (35 spots)

Race Penalties:

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

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

Nashville: Car #77-Hocevar (25 points)

Cobo Cup Sponsors:   

• Industrial Hose and Hydraulics @ www.industrialhose.net
• Fred’s Auto & Equipment Service Centre Inc @www.fredsauto.ca
• Hammer DJ Services @ www.hammerdjservices.ca
• Dry N Shine Auto Spa @www.drynshineautospa.com
• Splitsville Hamilton – the place the Cobo Cup crew parties
• ILich Construction & Design

Social Media

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Next Race

Race #23 of 36: Sunday August 11, 2024 at Richmond, VA on NBC. Green Flag: 6:30pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

COBO CUP 2024 Standings Leader: Keeblerselves                                                                                                                                                       cobocup@yahoo.ca