COBO CUP 2025 Newsletter – Volume 31
Elliott wins at Kansas
#9-Chase Elliott won the Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway. The win is his second win of the year, second at Kansas and 21st career win. #11-Denny Hamlin finished 2nd followed by #20-Christopher Bell, pole sitter #19-Chase Briscoe, #23-Bubba Wallace, #5-Kyle Larson, #45-Tyler Reddick, #6-Brad Keselowski, #24-William Byron, and #88-Shane Van Gisbergen
Hamlin was the dominant driver of the race despite late race problems with power steering. He won stages 1 & 2 and also earned the fastest lap bonus. The race ended on the second overtime attempt. Wallace was the leader on the restart and led at the white flag, but he and Bell got together creating an opening for Hamlin to move up. Hamlin then got up the track, forcing Wallace into the wall. Elliott jumped past them to win by .069 second.
There were 20 lead changes among 11 drivers and 9 cautions for 48 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 123.106mph.
Stage Winners
- Stage 1 won by #11-Hamlin
- Stage 2 won by #11-Hamlin
Perfect Team (per category): William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher, Austin Cindric, Ryan Preece, Michael McDowell & John Nemechek for 5,368 points.
Worst Picks (per category): Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Ty Gibbs, Noah Gragson, Cole Custer, Ty Dillon & Cody Ware.
Facts: WinTheRace wins at Kansas with 206 points ($100). They beat HiToy Racing by 9 points. Gone with the Win & Rusty69 are tied for the standings lead, 10 points up on OTP T&M.
Standings Leaders:
- Check Your Pockets (4 weeks)
- Rusty69 (4 weeks)
- Faline 2025 (3 weeks)
- Fight Bump N Grind (3 weeks)
- WTAF (2 weeks)
- TMKK Racing (2 weeks)
- Phoenix Four (2 weeks)
- Watermelon Racing (2 weeks)
- Butters (2 weeks)
- Oh Lug Nuts (2 weeks)
- Nascar Abby
- Left Turn Clyde
- Bucktoothed Hilbillies
- Northern Base
- Crash Boys
- Gone with the Win
- There have been 16 standings leaders
Mathematically eliminated
- 85th and down has been mathematically eliminated from reaching the top 10. Keeblerselves is on the bubble.
Challenges: You have until Wednesday to challenge the points. Race winners will be paid out once challenge deadline has expired.
Top Gainer of the Week
- WinTheRace 114th to 89th (25 spots)
Biggest Dump of the Week
- PING 48th to 73rd (25 spots)
Penalties
- Car #34: 10 points (Daytona 500)
- Car #51: 10 points (Daytona 500)
- Car #17: 30 points (Kansas)
Bottom of the Barrel: 44 blues with 3,991 points. They are 272 points back from East Coast Racing 2 for the 2026 free entry.
Pole Pool
- Briscoe (Kansas)
- Logano (Loudon)
- A.J. Allmendinger (Bristol)
- Hamlin (WWTR)
- Hamlin (Darlington)
- Blaney (Daytona)
- Preece (Richmond)
- Blaney (Watkins Glen)
- Briscoe (Iowa)
- Briscoe (Brickyard)
- Elliott (Dover)
- Van Gisbergen (Sonoma)
- Van Gisbergen (Chicago)
- Logano (Atlanta)
- Hamlin (Pocono)
- Van Gisbergen (Mexico)
- Briscoe (Michigan)
- Briscoe (Nashville)
- Briscoe (Charlotte)
- Larson (Kansas)
- Hocevar (Texas)
- Smith (Talladega)
- Bowman (Bristol)
- Byron (Darlington)
- Bell (Martinsville)
- Bowman (Miami-Homestead)
- McDowell (Las Vegas)
- Byron (Phoenix)
- Reddick (COTA)
- Blaney (Atlanta)
- Boss Bitch is in the lead with 13 poles. 53 teams are still in the running for the pole pool. You need 8 poles or more to currently tie the leader.
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Next Race:
Race #32 of 36 (Race #6 of 10-Playoffs): Sunday October 5, 2025 at the Charlotte Roval on TSN. Green Flag: 3:00pm
“NUFF SAID”
COBO CUP 2025 Standings Leaders: Rusty69 & Gone with the Win (tie) cobocup@yahoo.ca
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