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Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney and William Byron battle for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series championship!
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As an Elliott fan I’m glad this roller coaster season is over I hope he has a better season next year as for the race it was pretty solid for Phoenix standards tons of battles especially in the second half of the race I also wanna tip my hat to Blaney he ran a great race and definitely earned that championship
Same here, I am ready for 2024 season.
It’s over and now he can focus on the next year.
Yeah, definitely did not though, deciding a championship on one race seems ridiculous from an objective point of view…
You mean the got hurt snowboarding during the season and suspended during the season season is over
It’s kind of funny how everybody was kind of predicting you go out in the round of 16. But now he is a NASCAR cup series champion.
With the fewest top 5s in the top 10 and 3rd fewest in the top 14. A massive 8 in 36 races. What a champion.
O HELL NASCAR IS CRYING ABOUT FORD DOING THERE THING & GM IS WHINING WITH NASCAR BC THEY DIDN’T WIN IT ALL
Eric: Picks Blaney to be eliminated in the first round
Blaney: And I took that personally
Kyle Petty says Blaney will be like Kasey Kahne potentially unfulfilled . Blaney: Hold my Bill France Cup Trophy. .
@DC322 I was just saying that when Blaney was doing his burnout. He made Kyle Petty eat those words.
@DC322kyle petty knows a thing or two about unfulfilled potential!
This was an awesome race! Love that Blaney got the cup and Ross winning!
That, and jgr dnf was icing on the cake.
Since Talladega, Ryan Blaney has not had a single finish worse than 12th. Talk about channeling your inner Jimmie Johnson.
Do not put Blaney in the same sentence as Johnson. At least Johnson was more consistent at this stage.
@Sreejith Vayalakkadatake a chill pill dude
Jimmie the juggernaut Johnson
@Sreejith Vayalakkadahe’s 29 and won his first ship
I’m probably going to be pre-ordering both Chastain’s and Blaney’s cars from today. Couldn’t ask for a better ending to the season, in my opinion.
Ford was definitely the big winner this weekend. However, Toyota was certainly the biggest loser between Bell’s brake failure and Corey Heim’s temper tantrum, costing them potential championships.
It’s ironic though, Ford was absolutely terrible overall this year. Personally it should be a three race round for the final four, seems more objective.
And jhn finishing like 28th
JHN falls too.
I’m curious to see if this really propels Blaney next year or if he suffers from the hangover, also Hendrick will be out for blood next year with Elliott and Bowman looking to get back into the playoffs and Larson and Byron trying to get their championships
It doesnt matter how angry Hendrick or anyone is. When you finish the year with the fewest top 5s of anyone in the top 10 and 3rd fewest in the top 14 being 8 in 36 races compared to a guy who won 6 races and was up front all year and has only 3 fewer top 5s than the champion has top 10s what do you call that? You call that driver a champion in nascar obviously. Anger and focus wont propell you to a title like it use to from 2003 on back. Just win races and if you win the “title” cool i guess.
@The Sobriety Project1 it absolutely will, the 12 proved that today on that final restart, not to mention that the regular season means a lot more than people give it credit for, Truex was able to coast to the round of 8 with those playoff points. This format rewards consistency and that is something I love about the playoffs, you have to be consistently great. I do wish the final round was 2 or 3 races however
@That’s Souper bro had 8 top 5 in 36 races. The fewest of anyone in the top 10 and 3rd fewest in the top 14. What consistency? Lmfao?
@The Sobriety Project1 Byron didn’t deserve it, neither did Blaney, Larson, or Bell. A championship is never deserved, it’s earned. Byron choked when he needed to perform, starting with Martinsville. So no Byron didn’t “deserve it” but no one deserves a championship
idk how dale jr was able to acquire the script before the start of the playoffs but the fact he predicted blaney being the champ after the summer the 12 had is wild
ikr
He picked him before the season not the playoffs
He escaped a fiery plane crash uninjured, got pulled out of a fiery sports car wreck without anyone around, saves every abandoned speedway he touches, now this…
Conclusion: Dale Jr is God.
Edit: Earnhardt was God, Dale Jr is Jesus.
@Rob FRedneck Jesus
And Jr stuck with Ryan even after his co-host and crew joked about it and questioned him in the summer.
This man Eric went 0-3 on championship picks
I went 3 for 3 …… Maybe I should start my own NASCAR channel ……
@GraysonDale Jr picked him back at the beginning of the season.
It really felt like there was an unwritten rule that for the final race only the Championship Four were even *allowed* to win. I’m glad that’s over.
Right! Ross always breaking unwritten rules. I think NASCAR hated that he won the race. Best car won race and the best driver won the championship.
@courtneyanderson9469 Blaney has only 8 top 5s and two wins. He was inconsistent all season. If the playoffs didn’t exist, Blaney would’ve finished 7th. The best man didn’t win the championship although that’s not really Blaney’s fault since that’s how the rules are. In other racing series, they don’t have this format for that reason. They should go back to a traditional points format and get rid of the playoffs
The racing product was some of the best I’ve ever seen at this track. The amount of different leaders, the fights for position between all Championship 4 drivers, everything. And what a way to end it. Glad the Force was with Blaney today.
Where was the passing ??? There wasn’t much woth this next Gen cars. The racing is So much worse than the Xfinity series , and the older gen Cup cars. , I dont know what you saw as the racing, other than maybe restarts, but past the 5th place to 7th place, the racing was BAD BAD ,
@Tow Sr.sure you weren’t watchin the f1 race?
Whatever they did with the tire has worked wonders. We’ve really ended on a high.
@Tow Sr.do you even watch the races? there is significantly more passing with the next gen than the last 15 years of nascar. lead changes are about the same, so it is hard to pass for the lead still, but there are passes for the lead and we’re seeing more passes for the lead recently.
xfinity has lots of passing and good racing but it’s a wreckfest more often than not, which makes for a lot of passing. trucks are always a wreckfest and on top of that the racing itself is usually TERRIBLE.
The cup series with the next gen has the best product overall. consistently good racing, occasionally GREAT racing, and it’s cleaner than the other series.
as seen by attendance, the core fan base LOVES the next gen with tons of races selling out, including almost if not every short track race. attendance overall has gone up over 20% from 4 years ago. This car and the schedule have been great.
I just realized, with Harvick gone we don’t have anymore full time drivers who were racing cup before the chase began. This truly is the end of an era.
Wow that’s crazy to think about
Newman still run some races.
Kyle Busch?
@Saks Placebusch did not go full time Cup until 2005.
@Jimmy Williamsbut still made starts
Thank you for a wonderful season Eric! I would say I’d see you in February but you’re my source for nascar off-season news lol
Now with Ross chastain winning at Phoenix he has a win at every type of track in the cup series Road Course Super Speedway intermediate and now a short track.
Hadn’t thought about that. Cool!
Trackhouse took the loss last year seriously and brought there A game today and Ross drove amazing. Tv and Nascar lost out not letting him do any front straight celebration. Just a 1min interview after everyone else was interviewed that didn’t win the race
@John Snowdo you want to know why because of drivers like Ross not knowing when to fight and last year hooking chase was a bad move and this year being a bonehead fighting blaney who was faster than Ross and learning to finish second and not to try to fight a driver faster than you and fighting for the title
What a season it’s been. Hard to believe it just flew by just like that. Seems like it wasn’t that long ago Stenhouse won the Daytona 500. Congrats to Ben Rhode, Cole Custer and Ryan Blaney on winning the championships. Can’t wait till next year
I would love to see Charlotte get the championship race! That would be exciting. Plus we could get rid of the Roval
Here-Here, Getting Rid of “The Roval” wouldn’t bother me “at all”….
Fans miss too much Race Action on Road Courses like that one…
Camera coverage Sucks…
Ross Chastain getting the final word on the Ross vs Larson stuff as per usual haha
Bell was so clutch, his breaks couldn’t handle it.
Brakes
Gotta love the love the drivers had for Blaney congratulating him at the end.