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Oct 7, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Adam Cheek |Vito Pugliese
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | MoreWith Ricky Stenhouse Jr.‘s win at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday (Oct. 6), non-playoff drivers have now won more races in the 2024 postseason than actual championship contenders. Adam Cheek and Vito Pugliese discuss the chaos that this element has thrown into the 2024 title hunt, the record-breaking, 28-car crash that took out most of the field late, and more.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Joy E. Tomlinson |Vito Pugliese
Ross Chastain ended his winless 2024 season with a melon-smashing performance at Kansas Speedway last weekend. This Sunday (Oct. 6), the Cup Series heads to Talladega Superspeedway – a track synonymous with unexpected winners, where every car — as long as it’s right side up and has all four tires intact — is still a threat to win. Given the importance placed on the championship, are non-playoff drivers upsetting the intention of this format and diminishing it?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Vito Pugliese |Tom Blackburn |Stephen Stumpf
The 2024 NASCAR season has seen its fair share of chaos, and the opening round of the playoffs was no exception. While road courses have come to comprise a significant part of the schedule, they were consuming the lion’s share of racecars this weekend, with overtime causing the middle series to wear out its welcome after multiple attempts at a green-white-checkered finish and a red flag to boot.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Andrew F Stoddard |Luken Glover |James Krause |Vito Pugliese
Luken Glover: I’m fully prepared to come back to this and see how poorly my picks aged, but that’s part of the fun. Harrison Burton shouldn’t be completely ruled out given that the playoffs start on a drafting track, but if he doesn’t cash in, he is very likely on his way to a quick exit. And while Austin Cindric has a little more stability by running more consistently as of late, the pace just isn’t there for him to be a sleeper.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Vito Pugliese
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Vito Pugliese |Trenton Worsham
By all accounts, the Coke Zero 400 was a rousing success. A first-time winner with an uncertain future and a return to victory lane with a milestone victory for an iconic racing family checked all the boxes in a last-lap superspeedway classic. While a couple of cars did go tumbling for the second consecutive weekend, we had a rain-free race that rated a solid 90%+ in Jeff Gluck’s weekly poll.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Vito Pugliese |Amy Henderson
Following a two-week break for Olympics coverage, NASCAR was keen to get back in the headlines. Austin Dillon did not disappoint, as his last-lap actions at Richmond Raceway raised the ire of virtually everyone not wearing a No. 3 t-shirt or Bass Pro Shops hat. NASCAR responded late Wednesday afternoon, allowing Dillon to keep the win but deeming it ineligible for playoff consideration. It was an unprecedented penalty, but with an unprecedented set of circumstances surrounding it.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Vito Pugliese |Chase Folsom
The Brickyard 400 is being touted once again as a “crown jewel” race. With the series of events that brought the 30th anniversary event back to the oval, there were some calls that seemed to be made in the interest of expediency rather than consistency. Did NASCAR make the right call in the how the overtime events played out? This week, Chase Folsom and Vito Pugliese call balls and strikes in 2-Headed Monster.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Adam Cheek |Vito Pugliese
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | MoreKyle Larson emerged the winner of the NASCAR Cup Series’ return to the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday (July 21), following a controversial finish in which a caution flag didn’t immediately fly for a crash on the backstretch. Adam Cheek and Vito Pugliese break down their thoughts on the finish, as well as Todd Gilliland‘s stellar performance, the return to the Indy oval and more.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Vito Pugliese
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