NASCAR at Talladega: Vegas odds, key stats, prediction, sleepers, fantasy drivers to watch
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The National Association for Share Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American car racing sanctioning and working company that is best known for stock-car racing. Its three most significant or National series would be the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Collection, the Xfinity Series, and the Gander Outdoors Pickup truck Series.
Regional series include the NASCAR K&N Professional Series East and West, the Whelen Modified Trip, NASCAR Pinty's Series NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and NASCAR PEAK Mexico Collection. NASCAR sanctions over 1, 500 races at over 100 tracks in forty eight US states as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Europe.
NASCAR has presented races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, and the Calder Park Thunderdome in Australia. NASCAR also endeavors into eSports via the PEAK Antifreeze NASCAR iRacing Series and a approved ladder system on that title.
The privately possessed company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and his grandson Brian France has been CEO since 2003. The company's headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida. Internationally, its races are transmit on television in over 150 countries.
The Creature Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) is the sport's highest level of professional competition. It is consequently the most popular and most profitable NASCAR series.
Since 2001, the Cup Series season has contained 36 contests over 10 months. Writers and fans often use "Cup" to refer to the MENCS and the ambiguous use of "NASCAR" as a synonym for the series is common.
The 2018 MENCS Champion is Joey Logano. The report for most championships is 7, held by three drivers: Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, and Jimmie Johnson. Johnson has the record for the majority of consecutive with 5 consecutive Cup Series drivers' championships from 2006 to 2010. Previously, the most consecutive championships had already been three in a row by Cale Yarborough in the late 1970s, the only other time when a driver has won three or more NASCAR Cup Series championships in a row.
The Cup Series had its first title sponsor in 1972. R. J. Reynolds Cigarette Company, which had already been banned from television advertising, found a popular and demographically suitable consumer base in NASCAR fans and engaged NASCAR as a marketing outlet.
Due to that support, the Grand National Collection became referred to as Winston Cup Series starting in 1971, with a new factors system and some considerable cash benefits to contend for championship points. Within 1972, the season was shortened from 48 contests (including two on grime tracks) to 31.
1972 is often acknowledged as the beginning of NASCAR's "modern era". The next competitive level, called Late Model Sportsman, gained the "Grand National" title approved down from the top department and soon found a sponsor in Busch Ale.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (bottom), and team in triumph lane in 2004In 2004, Nextel Communications got over sponsorship of the premier series from Ur. J. Reynolds, who had sponsored it as the Winston Cup from 1972 until 2003, and formally renamed it the Nextel Cup Series. A new championship points system, the "Chase for the Nextel Cup, " (renamed "Chase for the Sprint Cup" in 2008) was also developed, which reset the point standings with ten races to go, making only drivers in the top ten or within 400 points of the leader eligible to earn the championship.
In 2007, NASCAR announced it was expanding "The Chase" from ten to twelve motorists, eliminating the 400-point cutoff, and giving a ten-point bonus to the top twelve drivers for every single of the races they have won out from the first 26. Wins throughout the season would also be granted five more points than in previous seasons. In 08, the premier series title name became the Sprint Cup Series, as part of the merger between Nextel and Sprint.
In 2011, NASCAR announced several of major rules changes, the most important being abandoning the points system from the 1947 club napkin. The winner of the race now receives 43 points, with one-point decrements for each and every subsequent position (42 for second, 41 for third, and so on).
The winner also receives 3 bonus points, and single bonus points are awarded to all motorists who lead a panel, plus the driver who leads the most laps. Another significant change requires the qualifying process for the Chase. The amount of qualifying drivers will remain at 12, but only the top 10 will qualify solely on regular-season points.
The remaining two Chase motorists will be the two drivers in the next 10 of the point standings (11th through 20th) with the most competition wins in the regular season.
In 2014, NASCAR announced another revamp to the Chase format, growing the Chase pool to 16 drivers, and removing four drivers after every three races, leaving four drivers to compete for the championship at the season finale at Homestead. In addition, wins were given an increased emphasis, with the 16 drivers with the most wins (15 if the points leader is winless; points innovator will receive an automated berth) gaining a spot in the chase. If there are less than sixteen winners, the remaining places will be filled centered on the conventional points system.
Monster Energy became the title sponsor in 2017, which changed the series' name to Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Collection. With Monster Energy's name sponsorship, NASCAR also left behind "The Chase" name and now refers to the last 10 races simply as "the playoffs" similar to other sports.