{"id":98184,"date":"2024-10-18T11:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T18:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=98184"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T18:36:32","slug":"nascar-charlotte-roval-recap-your-cheatin-heart-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-charlotte-roval-recap-your-cheatin-heart-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Charlotte Roval Recap: Your Cheatin’ Heart Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NASCAR<\/h2>\n

As the old saying goes, “If you ain’t cheating’ you ain’t tryin’,” but in the case of Alex Bowman’s #48 Chevrolet, the team may have tried just a bit too hard.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Round of 12 concluded last Sunday, and despite the fact that we finished the round out with a superspeedway race and a road course, much of the cutoff drama happened off-track. When we collectively left our couches after Kyle Larson<\/strong> had scored a dominant win, it was with the understanding that Hendrick Motorsports had all four cars in the Round of 8. Thanks to a heroic late-race push on fresh tires by a partially-damaged Tyler Reddick<\/strong>, Joey Logano<\/strong> found himself pointed out of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For much of the race after Stage 2, the first four or five playoff spots were more or less set, barring catastrophic failure. Chase Briscoe<\/strong>\u2019s underdog playoff run came to an end due to an unfortunate tire failure. Austin Cindric<\/strong> found himself in a must-win situation after getting wrecked while leading at Talladega. Daniel Suarez<\/strong> was also in dire need of a miracle, and while his road course chops are nothing to scoff at, it just wasn\u2019t his day a the newly-reconfigured Charlotte Roval.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Larson leading easily, most of the action during stage 3 revolved around the four-way battle between Denny Hamlin<\/strong>, Alex Bowman<\/strong>, Logano, and Reddick. Eventually, Hamlin and Bowman had found themselves with a slight cushion, with the biggest battle on track happening between a surging Reddick and a fading Logano. Reddick edged out the two-time champion, and with that, just one solitary Penske car was in the playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n