Bob Pockrass
FOX Motorsports Insider
Kyle Larson has cheered things up a bit by saying that he dives the divers of Xfinity series when he races to them.
And it is not scholaze that he takes joy in crushing the competition. He really wants to show the difference between Cup Racing and the Xfinity series. And he wants you, emerging drivers, to come up how far they are compared to where they want to go.
Larson must show. And it is a choir that Kevin Harvick has been singing for years.
Kyle Larson issues a statement after Cup & Xfinity Win at Bristol: “I want to embrace Nascar!”
Enter cup racing without sufficient experience with racecup drivers. That is why they do not know exactly how murderous they should be and how they can race for the victory against harder competition.
“The children, they think they are in a good place, and they don’t know where the bar is real,” Larson said. “So I like to run those Xfinity races and get 10 seconds leads to really let them
Ty Gibbs is the newest to learn. He won 21 percent of his Xfinity races for his Rookie cup year in 2023. And he is still looking for his first cup win.
Cup driver programs with more than three years of full-time cup experience are limited to five RAEs a year in the XFINity series and in the truck series. They can’t race in the last eight Razes of the Year-the regular season finale and the play-offs.
NASCAR has limited cup participation, so that Xfinity drivers have better opportunities to win. This helps to stimulate their profiles in the eyes of cup owners and in the eyes of sponsor managers – both those in the series and the potential in cup.
So what is the answer?
First, it is the same that many have argued in Cup. It is street exercise.
Extra exercise in Xfinity and trucks would enable YOG drivers to become more comfortable with the job that weekend. It gives them more rounds, and there is no replacement for when it comes to growth and learning. The younger drivers would get more out of practice and make more profit every weekend and throw through the year.
Nascar Coud can also be possible of the limit with five races and gravy retain the last eight-race rule. It is logical not to have a cup of drivers in the play -offs of Xfinity and Truck. How many divers have actually run more than five races? Only for little likely.
Could Nascar create a way to possibly give a cup with more races, if coupled in a full-time car with a non-Cup driver (or two drivers) in a way to attract sponsor collars? Would a sponsor pay for the extra races of both Cup drivers and then add Angouh for a new driver to fill in for many of the removed roots?
It would be difficult to manage and enforce Probablay, but there may be a Submay to encourage teams to fill in young drivers by combining this with more races for a cup driver.
The biggest question is whether cup drivers Doma would doma.
Let’s go back 20 to 30 years when a whole series of cup workers walked in the series. They offer their engines tailored to a little more horsepower, and they would run mare with a risk of blowing the engine the best they didn’t run for points. If you do that now, the world is more difficult, taking into account the motor rules and the sleek paramers.
This conversation about the Cup drivers in the other series is not new. It has been a topic in sport for 20 years or more. And Nascar, you have achieved its goal to give Xfinity and trucks more familiarity because they win more Raes, because cup -drivers have limited access to those series.
But it would not be bad for NASCAR to evaluate the policy and to see that it should make Sub -Weaks for its policy to limit cup drivers in development competence. The fact that the series needs a new sponsor of the right for 2026 also makes it a perfect time to visit this again. In this way any changes can be made at the same time when a new one sponsors the fight.
If Nascar changes it, Larson has to perform more Rae’s. Because of his comments, he will have a target on him every time he is in the series in the series. Directors will want to avoid PE -Grassing, but they will also try to embrass him – if they can.
Bob Pockrass Coversar and Indycar for FOX Sports. He has spent decades about motorsport, including more than 30 Daytona 500S, with Stints at ESPN, Sporting News, Nascar Scene Magazine and the (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on twitter @Bobpockrass.
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