Monitor: EchoPark SpeedwayLocation: Hampton, GeorgiaTrack size: 1.54 milesWhen: 7 p.m. ETWhere to tune in: TNT Sports activities, truTV, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR RadioRace purse: $11,233,037Race distance: 260 laps | 400.4 milesSegments: 60 | 160 | 260Sunday’s beginning lineup | Pit-stall assignments
How wild may Sunday’s present get?
HAMPTON, Ga. — With seven races remaining till the NASCAR Cup Sequence’ 16-driver Chase lineup is set, Sunday’s Quaker State 400 at EchoPark Speedway looms as the primary of two “wild card” occasions within the regular-season homestretch.
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EchoPark, identified for prime speeds, large drafting packs and groups utilizing totally different chassis setups and tire methods, may lead to main modifications within the factors standings, a status it shares with Daytona Worldwide Speedway, which can host the ultimate race of the common season Aug. 29.
Prime proof might be discovered with a have a look at the outcomes from final 12 months’s EchoPark summer time race.
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Eleven of the 40 automobiles within the subject parked with injury from accidents. Amongst them have been Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano, William Byron, Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain. Twenty-two automobiles have been broken in an enormous wreck on Lap 69, solely 12 laps after a seven-car incident.
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Race winner Chase Elliott led the ultimate lap after not main any of the earlier 34 laps. He handed Brad Keselowski to win by .168 of a second, ending a 44-race winless string.
The mushy center of the Chase standings — the realm above and beneath the 16-driver cutline — presents the prospect for important place modifications coming into Sunday’s race. Shane van Gisbergen (plus-30), Austin Cindric (plus-27) and Erik Jones (plus-4) float above the road. Hovering beneath are Ryan Preece (minus-4), Logano (minus-16), AJ Allmendinger (minus-16) and Keselowski (minus-19).
The In-Season Problem reaches its midpoint (the third of 5 races) Sunday with intriguing matchups. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell will race for a spot within the semifinals, and there is additionally a Chase versus Chase matchup, with Elliott, winner of this race final 12 months, towards Briscoe, final week’s Chicagoland winner.
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The race additionally will present the most recent backdrop for 2 ongoing — and considerably heated — rivalries: Shane van Gisbergen versus Austin Hill, and Zane Smith versus Carson Hocevar. NASCAR officers met with the 4 drivers on the observe Saturday to debate previous points and to emphasise that cooler heads ought to prevail going ahead.
Atop the purpose standings, Hamlin will look to pad his 44-point lead over Tyler Reddick, whose sagging season consists of three finishes of thirty fifth or worse prior to now 5 races.
NASCAR Cup Sequence races at EchoPark Speedway.
Within the particulars …
Late-race heroics have outlined the Cup Sequence at drafting tracks as of late, and EchoPark is actually no exception. General, 14 of the final 17 drafting-track races have featured lead modifications within the closing two laps, however narrowing the scope, seven of the final eight Atlanta-area races have featured the identical.
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Together with Daniel Suárez’s three-wide 2024 frenzy with Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch — which produced the fourth-closest margin of victory in collection historical past — look again at how the ultimate laps performed out within the final eight Peach State thrillers.
DATE
WINNER
TOOK LED FROM
LAPS TO GO
7/10/2022
Chase Elliott
Corey LaJoie
2
3/19/2023
Joey Logano
Brad Keselowski
1
7/9/2023
William Byron
AJ Allmendinger
19
2/25/2024
Daniel Suárez
Ryan Blaney
1
9/8/2024
Joey Logano
Daniel Suárez
2
2/23/2025
Christopher Bell
Kyle Larson
1
6/28/2025
Chase Elliott
Brad Keselowski
1
2/22/2026
Tyler Reddick
Bubba Wallace
2
Contributing: Nathan Solomon
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Race-day necessities:
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