COBO CUP 2023 Newsletter – Volume 34

Bell wins at Homestead

#20-Christopher Bell won the 4EVER 400 Presented by Mobil 1 NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The win is his 2nd win of the year, 1st at Homestead and 6th career win. #12-Ryan Blaney finished 2nd followed by #45-Tyler Reddick, #24-William Byron, #16-A.J. Allmendinger, #23-Bubba Wallace, #54-Ty Gibbs, #22-Joey Logano, #10-Aric Almirola, and #3-Austin Dillon.

Bell never took the lead in the race until 37 laps remaining.  He came back after a late caution to grab the lead again with 15 laps to go and pulled away to win by 1.6 seconds over Blaney. Several playoff drivers had trouble during the race: #5-Kyle Larson led 96 laps on the day, but hit the barrier trying to get onto pit road with 54 laps remaining. He could not continue and finished 34th. #11-Denny Hamlin got into the wall in turn 2 with 32 laps remaining after something broke in the steering.  He finished 30th.

Pole winner #19-Martin Truex, Jr. had engine problems with 30 laps left and fell out, finishing 29th. There were 25 lead changes among 9 drivers and 5 cautions for 35 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 125.221mph.

• Stage 1 was won by #5-Larson
• Stage 2 was won by #12-Blaney

Perfect Team (per category): Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs, Brad Keselowski, Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Corey LaJoie = 6,241 points

Worst Picks (per category): Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Chase Briscoe, Austin Dillon, Justin Haley, Noah Gragson & BJ McLeod.         

Facts: East Coast Racing (3^rd win) wins at Homestead with 230 points. They beat OTP #1 by 7 points. White oak 436 remains the standings leader with 6,068 points. They lead second place East Coast Racing by 206 points.  

Mathematically Eliminated: BCB4652996 (25^th) is on the elimination bubble.  

Standings Leaders:

• KKMT (12 weeks)
• Stumugo (10 weeks)
• White oak 436 (7 weeks)
• FC Racing (3 weeks)
• Piston Happy (2 weeks)
• Two Griffins (1 week)
• 32 SF Hoes (1 week)

Challenges: You have until Wednesday to Challenge the points.

Bottom of the Barrel: Outta Gas with 4,374 points. Shake ‘n Bake, Baby is 14 points up. 

Pole Pool: Anyone with #19-Truex Jr just earned a pole pool point. Boss Bitch and The Stinky Puppies are tied for the lead with 14 pole points. With 2 races (2 poles) remaining in the season, if you have 11 poles or less you have been eliminated from the pole pool. 6 teams remain in the battle for the pole pool.  

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 #35 of 36: Sunday October 29, 2023 at Martinsville, VA on NBC.

Green Flag: 2:00pm

Playoffs: Race #9 of 10                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

 COBO CUP 2023 Standings Leader: White oak 436                                                                                                                                                              cobocup@yahoo.ca