NASCAR’s Cup qualifying was rained out Saturday, as was practice. So NASCAR turned to its data center and whipped out the “metrics” to set the lineup for Sunday’s race.
Chase Elliott and Chase Briscoe will start up front, and while we don’t have an early indication of speeds, we’re sure it’ll be fast. Dover is banked at 24 degrees in the corners, which is rather stout for a 1-mile concrete speedway. And that’s why you see speeds comfortably higher than you get at NASCAR’s other 1-mile track, Phoenix.
Sunday’s race will be the 21st of the 26-race regular season, which ends at Daytona in five weeks with the Coke Zero Sugar 400. The 10-race playoffs begin the following week at Darlington.
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Saturday: Xfinity Series, BetRivers 200, 4:30 p.m. (CW).
Sunday: Cup Series, Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400, 2 p.m. (TNT).
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR qualifying a wash: Starting lineup data-set for Sunday race in Dover on TNT
Reporting by Ken Willis, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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