Daytona Motor Mouths: Darlington, Bristol and Denny Hamlin
The fellows speak William Byron’s Darlington run, Denny Hamlin’s win, Chase Elliott’s throwback weekend criticism and NASCAR’s upcoming Bristol journey.
Subsequent weekend brings Easter, and the NASCAR Cup Sequence groups get their lone off week of the season. They’re going to gladly take it as a result of it will be a protracted method to November.
However they’d higher not be trying forward, as a result of this weekend they pay a worth for that idle time to return: 500 laps on the high-banked half-miler at Bristol Motor Speedway, which Dick Trickle as soon as in comparison with piloting a jet fighter inside a highschool gymnasium.
This may deliver an finish to a three-week hunk of the schedule you may name the Museum Swing, because it included Martinsville and Darlington earlier than this week’s Bristol go to. By the way in which, you could possibly counsel the historical past tour continues after the off week, since they crank again to life at Talladega in two weeks.
Denny Hamlin tries to win his third straight race to match the three-peat Christopher Bell produced earlier within the season. If you happen to assume it is an excessive amount of to ask, contemplate this: Denny has gained two of the final three races on the fast-and-tough bull ring.
Friday: NASCAR Truck Sequence guidelines the street
3:35 p.m.: Truck Sequence follow (FS2).
4:40 p.m.: Truck Sequence qualifying (FS2).
7:30 p.m.: Truck Sequence, Climate Guard 250 (FS1).
Saturday: Cup Sequence qualifying, Xfinity Sequence qualifying and race
11:30 a.m.: Xfinity Sequence follow (CW App).
12:35 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence qualifying (CW App).
2 p.m.: Cup Sequence follow (Prime).
3:05 p.m.: Cup Sequence qualifying (Prime).
5 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence, SciAps 300 (CW).
Sunday: 500 laps of NASCAR Cup Sequence racing at Bristol
3 p.m.: Cup Sequence, Meals Metropolis 500 (FS1).