Pretty exciting racing to close out stage one today. Hope it continues

Ugh, Brad just can't help himself, he's always speeding in pit lane…

Nice finish…

Good clean finish. Elliott 1st Chase driver to win in the playoffs

I missed the whole damn thing. I wonder if there's a replay.

If there's a replay it's going to be on Peacock, but from looking at their site, the last replay available to view were the races before the Chase.

The NASCAR YouTube channel will post the whole race in a couple of days but it won't have a lot of the NBC graphics.

They post a 15-19 minute replay on YouTube pretty quickly.

Thanks, y'all. I'm bummed the season will be over soon. I have really had fun with it this year.

The good news is the off season is short!

$100,000 fine and four week suspension for Rodney and 100 points taken away from Harvick for "modification of a part supplied by a vendor."

Witch hunt after all of Harvick's comments the last few weeks???

https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2022/10/05/rodney-childers-fined-100000-suspended-for-four-races/

If that were the case, wouldn't they have gone after Denny Hamlin?

This is the exact penalty Keselowski received for his parts modification. Denny's penalty didn't modify a vendor supplied part.

Sorry. I was responding to the "witch hunt" part as it seems Hamlin has been the most vocal (more than Harvick) about criticizing NASCAR for safety issues.

I gotcha. The "witch hunt" comment was more in jest than anything. I'm actually glad that the drivers are speaking out, though it seems like they're getting to the point where they're crossing a line and need to take this behind closed doors. Maybe they have and haven't seen any forward movement by the uppers.

I saw where Pockrass mentioned it was something to do with the deck lid that they found on Harvick's car.

Just found this thread today. Nice to see some other fans around here. I'm a big Bowman fan, so the last few weeks have been depressing.

Roval should be a good one today. Hoping for a solid day for the 5 to move on

Hope Suarez can get his problem worked out.

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Hope Suarez can get his problem worked out.

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No power steering in a road course race is a bad recipe. Terrible time for that to happen.

Larson with issues now.

Caution

Crazy contact here.

Briscoe gets in over Larson

Lots of drama. Congrats to Bell on winning his way in. Don't like Custer putting the block on Dillon and Jones for Briscoe.

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Lots of drama. Congrats to Bell on winning his way in. Don't like Custer putting the block on Dillon and Jones for Briscoe.

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Neither do I but that's what this format allows for. In no world should Chase Briscoe be top 8 over Kyle Larson but that's nascar.

Briscoe finished better than Larson in all 3 races, so I don't have a problem him making advancing over Larson (even if Larson is the better driver), I just don't like the block Custer threw that freed Briscoe to gain 2 positions and remove the doubt that he may or may not make it.

Pretty much Custer lost several spots on the last lap and Briscoe and others passed him. He was eighth going into the green white checkered. NASCAR is going to investigate to see why he lost all those spots. https://t.co/gmackWI2bJ

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) October 9, 2022

Shades of Gordon and Menard 11 years ago. "Slugger, turn it to channel 2. We do not need a caution"... Paul goes into the safest slide out caution ever a few laps later to bring out the yellow.

Briscoe is a wheelman, he's a deserving recepient of a place in the round of 8 after that no talent ass clown grandaddy's boy Austin Dillon spun him out a few laps before.

Still wish it would have finished under green the first time because Bell was walking Harvick down

While safety is the number one off-season priority for the Next Gen, the short track and road course product has emerged as the number two.

"It drives too good, stops too good, too much aero and it's a race full of qualifying laps at these tracks."https://t.co/41DMR9DdRx

— Matt Weaver (@MattWeaverRA) October 12, 2022

I hope the teams have done something to make passing at Martinsville a thing. The first race there this year was absolutely brutal with the nextgen.

I think it's the right decision. Briscoe had pretty much raced his way in, but Custer manipulated the end to remove any chance of Briscoe getting in an incident with Dillon or Jones.

NASCAR fines Stewart-Haas Racing $200K for race manipulation at CMS (espn.com)

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NASCAR said a review of data and team communications showed that Stewart-Haas Racing manipulated the results of the playoff elimination race at Charlotte, an infraction that drew an additional $200,000 in fines on Tuesday.

"Nothing contradicted that that was done deliberately," NASCAR senior vice president of competition Scott Miller said of Cole Custer slowing on the backstretch of the final lap to help teammate Chase Briscoe gain the positions needed to advance into the next round of the playoffs.

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Miller said NASCAR heard Shiplett tell Custer over the radio "'I think you've got a flat. Checkup, checkup' when he couldn't see the car to tell if it had a flat.

"Blatantly pulling over and changing the finishing order on the last lap is what makes it over the top,'' Miller continued, "especially with the instructions from the pit box.''

SHR was already appealing Harvick's penalties and said Tuesday it would appeal the latest penalties against Custer's team.

Miller said the penalty against Custer's team would have been even stiffer if NASCAR didn't believe Briscoe had earned his spot in the round of eight. NASCAR considered suspending Custer, who is the son of SHR's co-president Joe Custer, but Miller said it didn't because "super flagrant things that eliminated other competitors'' are what warrants suspension.

NASCAR also did not consider removing Briscoe from the playoff field, which is down to eight drivers as NASCAR heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. NASCAR found no data or communication that indicated Briscoe or the No. 14 team was aware Custer was assisting Briscoe's advancement.

NASCAR cut Miller's availability on the topic at just under 11 minutes, and Miller was not asked if NASCAR considered adding Larson back into the playoff field as a ninth driver.

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RCR perfected this 11 years ago when Gordon was leading a race with few remaining laps. Kept hearing "do not need a caution" then all the sudden Slugger tells Menard to switch his radio to channel 2.

1 or 2 laps later Menard spins in the most desirable place to ever spin, doesn't touch anything...teammate Harvick wins off pit road and takes the race.

To me race manipulation is a pretty huge infraction and teams should be given heavy penalties.

Barrett-Jackson Houston next Saturday, one of Davey Allison's sweet Number 28 Texaco car

https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1992-FORD-THUNDERBIRD-NASCAR-RACE-CAR-260555

Kurt Busch was emotional when he announced he still hasn't been cleared to race, and will not race full-time in 2023. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/mNz3Sxqg3A

— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 15, 2022

This is a damn shame. Kurt has been doing so well with 23XI.

Drivers complaining about safety.
Driver I'm going to intentionally wreck you.