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Kyle Larson, with Daytona 500 approaching, stated WHAT(!) concerning the NASCAR playoff format?
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Kyle Larson, with Daytona 500 approaching, stated WHAT(!) concerning the NASCAR playoff format?

By Miles Cooper January 10, 2025
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gained the 2024 . His third total.

didn’t even go to the season finale at Phoenix with an opportunity of profitable his second.

However Larson appears to counsel he’s equally joyful to have led in victories — six, whereas nobody else gained greater than 4. The present playoff format rewards , however because the playoff shadows develop lengthy, it additionally punishes any slip, even the slightest, and Larson slipped when he completed eleventh and thirteenth within the first two races within the Spherical of 8 final fall.

Kyle Larson, with Daytona 500 approaching, stated WHAT(!) concerning the NASCAR playoff format?

“If something, I simply suppose the format in a approach devalues a championship,” Larson stated in a for 2025.

“I believe clearly you’d prefer to win probably the most races and win the championship and all that, however I believe profitable six races, that is extraordinarily robust to do, and we have been a think about many greater than that.”

Kyle Larson has led NASCAR in victories twice

It was the second time in Larson’s NASCAR profession that he led the Cup Collection in victories. The opposite time, in 2021, half of his series-high 10 wins got here throughout the playoffs — together with three straight and a win within the championship race.

Failure to win one other Cup Collection championship hasn’t dampened his emotions for the second season wherein he recorded probably the most visits to Victory Lane.

Apr 13, 2024; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson (5) waits to practice for the NASCAR Cup Series AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports

“I believe we had an important 12 months,” Larson stated of 2024. “You led the sequence in lots of classes, most all of the classes, so yeah, it was a bit disappointing to not get the possibility to race for a championship at Phoenix, however on the identical level, I perceive the format.

“I actually wasn’t that upset throughout the week of Phoenix as a result of I knew irrespective of the end result, we have been going to finish the season with probably the most wins. And to me, nowadays, that is as necessary as profitable a championship.”

Daytona 500 is up subsequent; can Kyle Larson lastly get it finished?

NASCAR automobiles and drivers hit the monitor once more the primary weekend of February, when the Prepare dinner Out Conflict introduces many trendy followers to the historic Bowman Grey Stadium.

Two weeks later, the common season begins because it at all times does, with the .

Mockingly, one among NASCAR’s largest trendy stars has by no means gained his sport’s largest race. Larson is 0-for-11 on the Daytona 500 since his first full-time season in 2014. Throw in his profession shutout in Daytona’s summertime race, he is 0-for-21 on the World Heart of Racing.

He isn’t completely with out victories at Daytona, nevertheless. Within the short-lived Whelen All American Collection go to to Daytona, he gained a 2013 race on the brief monitor arrange off Flip 2 on the backstretch. Two years later, he was a part of Chip Ganassi’s total win within the .

Three years later, Larson gained a 2018 Xfinity Collection race at Daytona.

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