{"id":1532357,"date":"2022-10-07T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1532357"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:47:15","slug":"why-charlotte-roval-perfect-setting-playoff-bubble-battle-that-includes-few-new-kinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-charlotte-roval-perfect-setting-playoff-bubble-battle-that-includes-few-new-kinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Charlotte Roval Is the Perfect Setting for a Playoff Bubble Battle That Includes a Few New Kinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chase Briscoe<\/a> and Austin Cindric<\/a> are clinging to life as they're tied just below the cut line to advance into the third round of the NASCAR<\/a> Playoffs as the Cup Series heads to the Charlotte Roval, perhaps the best track the schedule could offer for this type of head-to-head matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Briscoe and Austin Cindric have both had prior success at the Roval and road courses in general<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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(L-R) Chase Briscoe; Austin Cindric | Logan Riely\/Getty Images; Sean Gardner\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Briscoe won the first-ever NASCAR race on the road-course layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway<\/a>. He scored his first career Xfinity Series win as a 23-year-old in the 2018 inaugural Roval event. Cindric, meanwhile, scored five of his 13 career Xfinity Series wins from 2019-21 at road-course venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briscoe and Cindric have also been factors at nearly all of the five road courses the Cup Series has visited in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briscoe has led laps in four of the five road-course events and has won a stage in each of the last three. Cindric has finished inside the top 10 in four of those five races, with his only outlier a 13th-place result in August at Watkins Glen International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Cup Series driver, Briscoe finished 22nd in his first attempt at the Roval during his Rookie of the Year campaign<\/a> in 2021, but he posted an average finish of 9.3 in his three Xfinity Series starts at the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindric, who will be the 2022 Rookie of the Year, will make his first Cup Series start at the Roval. He excelled at the track in the Xfinity Series, however, with a top-10 finish in all four of his starts, including three finishes inside the top three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other drivers could also factor into the fight for the final playoff spot, but a few things have changed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Austin Cindric and Chase Briscoe were tied for eighth in the standings prior to the penalty and now they are 12 points below Daniel Suarez, who now sits in eighth, the final transfer spot. Christopher Bell goes from 33 points below the cutline to 45 points below, https:\/\/t.co\/2m75VfcqRi<\/a><\/p>— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) October 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>