When engines start and the green flag is set to wave, nbcsns coverage shifts to the booth, where daytona 500winning crew chief letarte and 21time sprint cup winning driver burton join race announcer rick allen for the call of the nascar xfinity series race on saturday and the sprint cup series race on sunday. In years past they ran completely different body styles and. So far in xfinity, the series just below cup, major leaguers have swept all five races this year and won 25 out of 33 events in 2015. But the xfinity series does not allow onboard telemetry the sprint cup does, so all of the parameters are determined by feedback from the driver. Jul 25, 2016 if you look at all the teams that are successful in sprint cup, they have a direct connection to the xfinity series where drivers, engineers, mechanics and pit crew members are developed. Whats the difference between a crew chief and a car chief. The top tier nascar series was originally called the strictly stock series in 1949. Stewarthaas racing to add fulltime xfinity series team in. One example of this effect is the circumstances of the xfinity series rookie of the year battle in 2016. Nascar official home race results, schedule, standings. There are very few differences between the xfinity formerly busch series and sprint cup series.
Nascar to limit premier series driver participation in. After months of waiting and speculation, nascar released its 2016 schedule for the sprint cup series and xfinity series on monday afternoon. Stewarthaas to expand into xfinity series nascar news. I really dont think the problem is a sprint cup driver running in the xfinity series for a xfinity team. Second, the cup cars have more horsepower, mainly due to a bigger cfm carb. March 26 today in jayskis nascar history page 6 of 24. The truck series is the bottom tier of the national nascar division, below the xfinity series and the top championship, the sprint cup.
There is a lot to get used to in the nascar cup series in 2020, including its name. Timmy hill catches up with jeff gordon after winning the iracing pro series invitational race from texas motor speedway while doing a burnout. Mar 06, 2014 difference between nationwide and sprint cup cars. Stewarthaas racing adding nascar xfinity series team for. Oct 27, 2015 there are very few differences between the xfinity formerly busch series and sprint cup series. Nascar currently manages several racing series that range in vehicle styles and formats.
The next race pages are added the week or so before the race and cover. Whats different in the nascar cup series in 2020 nbc sports. March 18 today in jayskis nascar history jayskis nascar. Current racing series nascar cup series xfinity series gander outdoors truck series arca menards west series arca menards east series arca menards series pintys series. In the past, the xfinity series used makes of cars not used in the cup series. Apr 05, 2017 the surprisingly simple reason drivers compete in both cup and xfinity series races. Whats the difference between the xfinity series and the. Relive the xfinity series playoff race at kansas in 6. The body styles differ with ford using the mustang, dodge using the challenger,and gm using the camaro, since toyota does not have a pony car equivalent they run the camry.
Its a guide to what is heardfound for each team and what has been announcedreported. A rookie driver winning a monster energy cup series race is an extremely rare thing. Click on the race name to go to the nextlast race inforundown page for each race when available. Elliott, the defending xfinity series champion, will attempt to make his sprint cup series debut in sundays stp 500 at martinsville. In the xfinity series boyd gaming 300 at las vegas motor speedway in early march, six of the top 10 finishers ran the cup series kobalt 400.
The 2006 merger between sprint and nextel resulted in the cup series being renamed the sprint cup, beginning with the 2008 season. Because it has been known by many different names in its history, it is often called the cup series. What is the difference between the nascar sprint cup. Along with next years muchanticipated race calendar. What the differance between nascar sprint cup and nascar. The surprisingly simple reason drivers compete in both cup. Teams in both the nascar sprint cup and xfinity series will run the same tire setup at fontana this week. On january 19, nascar announced the introduction of a playoff format similar to the chase for the sprint cup for the xfinity series and the camping world truck series. Drivers race in 36 races a year, and the driver with the most points at the end of the year is awarded the sprint cup. The sprint cup series will wind up its summertime stint at mis on august 28 with the pure michigan 400. Nascar cup series news and photos from the american stock car racing series. Nascar cup series nascar xfinity series nascar truck series nascar pro series. The surprisingly simple reason drivers compete in both cup and. They are two separate series, run at some of the same tracks the sprint cup cars are heavier, by a hundred pounds with about three hundred more horsepower the are all built to the same very close specifications the nationwide cars.
Meanwhile, the xfinity series is based off of the old grand touring seres iirc which used these sorts of cars. We dont know which race from either of the 2 you are referring to. The xfinity series is broken and its going to be hard to. Nascar cup series 2020present monster energy nascar cup series 20172019 nascar sprint cup series 20082016 nascar nextel cup series 20042007 nascar winston cup series 19712003 grand national series 19501970 strictly stock series 1949. Whats the difference between a racecar and a streetcar. What is the difference between the nascar sprint cup series. Sprint and finally the monster energy cup series, the premier series will simply be. There are four major national racing series which include the nascar cup series, nascar xfinity series. Jan 03, 2020 there is a lot to get used to in the nascar cup series in 2020, including its name, who is driving for what team and how different the schedule is. It is the only series that races modified pickup trucks, with its inaugural season taking place in 1995, 46 years after the first. Current nascar cup series drivers on greatest rivalries martin truex jr.
The organization will field a fulltime, singlecar team in the xfinity series with a driver and sponsor lineup to be announced prior to the conclusion of the 2016 season. Jayskis nascar sprint cup silly season site at, up to date nascar news, rumors, drivers, sponsors and paint schemes. Nascar cup series latest news, highlights, live race coverage, race results, standings, schedules, photo galleries, and driver stats. Click on the year to see the standings for that year. Featuring the ford mustang, chevrolet camaro, and toyota supra from the nascar xfinity series. The other big difference is in nationwide there are actual differences between makes, but in sprint cup the only difference is stickers, and they use mustangs and challengers in nationwide and fusions and chargers in cup.
In the last four nascar xfinity series races, kyle busch has led. This is an unofficial page compiled by from many different sources. Stewarthaas racing has won two sprint cup championships, most recently in 2014 with driver kevin harvick. After the 26race regular season, the top12 drivers will enter the round of 12 kentucky. The most recent nascar sprint cup series champion driver not previously qualifying for positions 1 through 42 will be assigned the champions provisional starting position if the car owner is eligible. Of course no one could say which race would end up being better between the 2, but the bigger stars of the sport of course compete in the main series. The announcement is related to nascar sprint cup series drivers who run part time in the nacsar xfinity series and camping world truck series. The three largest racing series run by nascar are the sprint cup, the xfinity series and the camping world truck series. Jul 26, 2016 people make the difference between winning and losing. It features soupedup pickup trucks with engines that produce about 750.
Relive the xfinity series playoff race at kansas in 6 seconds nascar en espanol. First, the wheelbase is longer in a cup car at 115 inches. Jul 25, 2016 stewarthaas racing shr, the championshipwinning nascar sprint cup series team, will expand into the nascar xfinity series in 2017. Oct 29, 2008 the nationwide series used to be for up and coming drivers and veterans that have retired from the cup series. Monster energy nascar cup series, many wont pass up the chance to race in the xfinity series as well. Feb 11, 2015 brett moffitt explains the difference between cup and xfinity cars. Since the sprint cup is the main series of nascar, companies can advertise more widely available cars that arent modern muscle. Nascar live race coverage, latest news, race results, standings, schedules, and driver stats for nascar cup series, xfinity, gander outdoors. Nascar nationwide series cars weigh 3,400 pounds, and their engines produce about 750 horsepower, making the cars slightly slower than their nascar sprint cup series counterparts. Full charlotte monster energy series and xfinity series. Xfinity series cars are slightly smaller versions of their sprint cup counterparts. Since the early days of the xfinity series, many nascar cup series drivers.
Staying successful in this sport means staying ahead of the curve, and having an xfinity series team provides an inhouse driver development program and a new channel for personnel to make a positive impact with our race team. Strong rookie classes in cup and xfinity series ready to. Im going to be smart enough and openminded enough to not say theyve got to get rid of them all together. Starting in 2004, the premier series was known as the nextel cup series. Strong rookie classes in cup and xfinity series ready to challenge the high banks of bristol motor speedway in 2019. New, 5 comments readers react to nascar limiting sprint cup drivers to select xfinity series races, and joe gibbs racings strategy of. In the past, it was known as the strictly stock series, the grand national series, the winston cup series, the nextel cup series and the sprint cup series. However,these days it is a little more complicated. These are the differences between nascar sprint cup and. The merger between sprint and nextel resulted in the series being renamed sprint cup series in 2008. Nascar simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The only series in which dodge isnt listed in the manufacturer standings is the sprint cup series, and its beast of a gen6 car never got to see the green flag. Nascar sprint cup series daytona 500 specific thirtysix charter teams will be assigned a starting position.
Jan 27, 2011 the main reason is because the cup car uses a much larger carburetor. Nascar stars need to moonlight in xfinity and trucks series. Watch timmy hill give william byron a bump with four laps to go, as he goes on to win the enascar iracing pro invitational series race at texas motor speedway. These are the differences between nascar sprint cup and truck. Nascar national association for stock car auto racing is an auto racing governing organization in the united states. Watch all of the action unfold and brandon jones get his first xfinity series career win at kansas speedway in less than three minutes. Full 2018 nascar monster energy, xfinity and camping world truck series tv schedules. Chasestyle format for nascar xfinity, trucks series is a. Xfinity cars run carburetors where as sprint cup cars are fuel injected and xfinity series cars can run rain tires on road courses where as sprint cup abandoned their rain tire program in 2005. The nationwide series is still used for developing new drivers and there are still some older drivers that used to race in cup there,but there are a lot of cup drivers that also race in the nationwide series some fulltime,some only. Nxs events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to a cup series event scheduled for that weekend. The nascar camping world truck series was created in 1995.
Kasey kahne says anheuserbusch appears committed to him and the sprint cup series even though the beer company on monday ended its sponsorship with the nhra and kenny bernstein racing. And here is a look at the top 10 in the xfinity series points standings, featuring those who do not compete full time in the sprint cup series. The nascar cup series is the highest level of racing in nascar. The xfinity series is broken and its going to be hard to fix. Nascar purses flat in sprint cup, up for xfinity and trucks. Superstocks sprint car racing midget car racing quarter midget racing. An xfinity series team gives us added depth that will allow us to promote from within whenever necessary. Third, the nationwide cars weigh 3400 pounds compared to the sprint cup cars at 3500 pounds. Dirt late model dirt sprint car dirt modified dirt midget. The monster energy series begins its secondround nascar playoffs action. Nemechek joins a stacked 2020 nascar cup rookie class that already includes the 2019 xfinity series championship contenders and winners across several divisions.
Monster energy nascar cup series, many wont pass up the chance to race in the xfinity series. Is xfinity for exposing new drivers to big teams in hopes of making it to the sprint cup. The organization will field a fulltime, singlecar team in the xfinity series with a driver and sponsor lineup to be announced prior. Oct 01, 2017 the monster energy nascar cup series and xfinity series are both in action and both in the round of 12 in the playoffs. Try to make it as complete as possible and update it as often possible, usually daily.
Timmy hill does postrace interview and burnout at same. What is the difference between the sprint cup and nationwide. Jan 22, 2016 such was the case this week when nascar announced it will implement a playoff format similar to the chase for the sprint cup into its two junior racing leagues, the xfinity series and camping world truck series. The different packages will be tailored to the specific tracks on the. Some of the stars from the nascar sprint cup series also race here, for practice and the love of competition. With the transition from the nationwide series, to the xfinity.
Stewarthaas racing to field xfinity series team news. The chevrolet nascar xfinity camaro is the final step on the stock car ladder to the gen6 chevies, fords and toyotas raced in the nascar class a series, the nascar iracing series and the nascar peak antifreeze series powered by. Nascar to limit premier series driver participation in lower series. Jul 25, 2016 stewarthaas racing is expanding nascar xfinity series in 2017. These are the differences between nascar sprint cup and truck series cars. In years past they ran completely different body styles and raced mostly on short tracks. Heres how modern nascar race cars compare to their road. The nascar xfinity series nxs is a stock car racing series organized by nascar.
Stewarthaas racing to field nascar xfinity series team. Itll head to the secondtier nascar xfinity series next. In 2004, the series became known as the nextel cup series. May 15, 2010 difference between nascar series to be technical, there are many differences in the sprint cup cars and the nationwide cars. Sprint cup teams are seeing a slight reduction in purse money so far this season, but funds are up for the developmental xfinity series and camping world truck series. Another noticeable difference was the busch series ran v6 engines as opposed to v8s. So rare, in fact, that during nascars modern era, only 20 rookies have claimed a victory at the cup level. Amid the fight for sprint cup roty between chase elliott and ryan blaney, the xfinity. Brett moffitt explains the difference between cup and xfinity cars. The nascar cup series is nascars top racing series. Nascar places limits on cup drivers in xfinity series and. Originally xfinity then the busch series ran a lot more short tracks than the cup series, pretty similar to. The motto behind it was win on sunday, buysell on monday. The change of sponsorship, essentially caused the winston cup to become obsolete and merely a part of nascar history.
Nascar cup series latest news news and results from nascar. Stewarthaas racing to field nascar xfinity series team in. Monster energy nascar cup series is the main series of nascar vs the xfinity series which is the 2ndtier. Redirected from sprint cup series the monster energy nascar cup series mencs often shortened to the cup series is the top racing series of the national association for stock car auto racing nascar. People make the difference between winning and losing. Jul 26, 2016 stewarthaas to expand into xfinity series. Originally xfinity then the busch series ran a lot more short tracks than the cup series, pretty similar to what arca is now. Nascar sprint cup standings for 2011 click on the driver to see 2011 racelevel statistics for that driver. So, have you ever wondered what the difference is between a crew chiefs job and that of a car chief. Shr won its first sprint cup championship in 2011 with tony stewart and earned its second title in 2014 with kevin harvick. March 18 today in jayskis nascar history page 6 of 24. Timmy hill bumps william byron, wins iracing race at texas. Stewarthaas racing to field 2017 nascar xfinity team. Beginning in 2011, nascar began hosting eracing leagues.
The newest racing rendition of the toyota supra, which we still havent seen a street version of yet, by the way, debuted last week. Since 2017, it has been named for its sponsor, monster energy, but has been known by other names in the past. Click on the number of races to see individual races for that year. Nascar live race coverage, latest news, race results, standings, schedules, and driver stats for cup, xfinity, gander outdoors nascar official home race results, schedule, standings, news. In only nine starts, he scored six top10s and two poles. It is the only series that races modified pickup trucks, with its inaugural season taking place in 1995, 46 years after the first campaign for topline stock car racing in the usa. The first of the tracks two nascar weekends is june 1012 with the corrigan oil 200 arca racing series on june 10. Nascar cup series news latest monster energy nascar cup. Iirc, the cup series is built off of the family four door sedans like the cars you see everyday. It is promoted as nascars minor league circuit, and is considered a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organizations top level circuit, the nascar cup series.
The 16 nascar sprint cup series drivers who qualified for the 2015 chase for the nascar sprint cup will be ineligible to compete in the 2016 nascar xfinity series and nascar camping world truck series championship 4 races at homesteadmiami speedway. If so, youre in luck, thanks to the good folks at wood brothers racing, which fields the. To be technical, there are many differences in the sprint cup cars and the nationwide cars. Brett moffitt explains the difference between cup and. Nascar sprint cup series champions will be eligible for a maximum of six 6 champions provisional opportunities during the current season.
Nascar releases complete 2016 sprint cup, xfinity series. Home nascar cup series news xfinity series news gander rv. Mar 25, 2016 so far in xfinity, the series just below cup, major leaguers have swept all five races this year and won 25 out of 33 events in 2015. The new rule states nascar cup drivers will more than 5 years of experience will be limited to just 10 lower tier nascar series events. Nascar needs to do something with sprint cup drivers in xfinity series races. Lucas oil dirt late model world of outlaws late model world of outlaws sprint car dirtcar.
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