NASCAR at Texas dwell race updates, outcomes, highlights from Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

The NASCAR playoff race is nearer than ever heading into the primary race of the Spherical of 8 on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

Chaos undoubtedly will unfold on the 1.5-mile monitor as playoff drivers scramble to land or keep above the minimize line for the season-ending Championship 4 race. 

Sixth-place driver Chase Elliott is 43 factors behind first-place driver Kyle Larson, who received final week’s race on Charlotte’s Roval course. Elliott rallied to complete twelfth in that race after being wrecked by Kevin Harvick. If the wreck hadn’t occurred, Elliott would have had an opportunity at incomes extra factors and securing a spot within the prime 4. Harvick himself crashed late within the race and was eradicated from the playoffs. 

MORE: Harvick wrecks Elliott, then crashes out of playoffs

The feud between the 2 escalated at Charlotte after an incident three weeks earlier at Bristol. NASCAR took additional measures final week to make sure that the feud would not proceed. It carried out a convention name Wednesday with each drivers, their crew chiefs, automotive house owners and producer representatives to warn of extreme penalties in the event that they did not squash their beef. 

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NASCAR at Texas dwell replace, highlights from Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

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3:50: Particles on the middle of the backstretch causes the fourth warning at Texas on lap 166.  

3:45: Elliott makes an unscheduled cease to vary his tires. 

3:40: Chase Elliott is at twentieth as he suffers points with the proper entrance tire. He’ll go one lap down after pitting. 

3:35: Kyle Larson leads with 65 laps to go in Stage 2. 

3:30: Denny Hamlin drops to twelfth and stories that his tires are “rolling over and chattering.”

3:27: Harvick races to catch up Elliott and passes him to rise up to fourth.  

3:25: Kyle Busch leads coming off the restart at lap 114 adopted by Byron and Larson preventing for second. 

3:19: Kyle Busch is first off pit highway adopted by Kyle Larson, Kurt Busch and Ryan Blaney. The vehicles are lining up forward of the inexperienced flag for Stage 2. 

3:13: Busch scores 10 factors as he wins the primary stage at Texas Motor Speedway.

3:10: Kyle Busch takes the lead coming off pit highway with seven laps to go within the first stage. Ryan Blaney is preventing to maintain his place as he runs low on gas. 

3:04: Kyle Busch’s staff stories that the driving force has gained a lap by saving gas. He was reportedly advised that he’s racing Kurt Busch for the stage win. 

3:00: Larson takes the lead from inside and passes Byron earlier than making it to show three. 

2:58: Larson creeps up on Byron and cuts his lead right down to below a half-second.

2:50: Kyle Larson passes Chase Elliott and Denny Hamlin for third at lap 77. 

2:45: Chase Elliott makes his solution to the fifth at lap 52.

2:38: Byron retains his lead coming off the warning adopted carefully a small pack. Truex Jr. Reddick and Dibenedetto are all preventing for second. 

2:32: A number of drivers are executed for the day, together with Stenhouse, Newman, Preece, Haley, Ware and Gase. The crash marks essentially the most vehicles ever concerned in an accident at Texas Motor Speedway. 

2:28: Bubba Wallace spins to crash into Ross Chastain and into the wall. The crash causes an enormous wreck on the backstretch coming off the competitors warning. Kyle Busch escapes with minor damages. 

2:24: Byron leads off of pit highway adopted by Martin Truex Jr. Kyle Busch was referred to as for rushing on pit highway and will probably be despatched to the rear. 

2:22: Larson leads at lap 25 adopted by Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, William Byron and Kyle Busch. 

2:19: Larson holds a two-second lead over Joey Logano with three laps to go earlier than the competitors warning.  

2:14: Kevin Harvick is seen struggling at twenty ninth. Chase Elliott is creeping up at twenty second after ranging from the rear. 

2:11: Kyle Larson takes an early lead 5 laps in adopted by Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin. 

2:08: The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 is underway in Texas. 

2:00: Engines are fired forward of the inexperienced flag at Texas Motor Speedway.

1:45: Bowman can even go to the rear for unapproved changes.

1:30: Chase Elliott will drop to the rear after failing twice. 

NASCAR begin time right now

• Time: 2 p.m. ET
• TV channel: NBC
• Stay stream: NBCSports.com, NBC Sports activities App, Peacock, fuboTV

The inexperienced flag for Sunday’s NASCAR playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway is scheduled to drop at 2:08 p.m. ET. 

Easy methods to watch NASCAR at Texas

• TV channel: NBC
• Stay stream: NBCSports.com, NBC Sports activities App, fuboTV
• Radio: PRN

NBC’s programming will start at 1:30 p.m. ET with the community’s “Countdown to Inexperienced” prerace present, hosted by Marty Snider with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Daugherty. Rick Allen will deal with the play-by-play name of the race. Earnhardt, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte will present evaluation. 

Snider, Kelli Stavast and Parker Kligerman would be the pit reporters. Daugherty will present extra reporting from across the monitor.

NASCAR Cup playoff standings

The Spherical of 8 subject was set final weekend with the Financial institution of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kyle Larson exited that race with the win and a 42-point lead over Kyle Busch, the primary driver under the minimize line for the season-ending Championship 4 race.

The sphere is bunched tightly after Larson; the second- via sixth-place drivers are separated by simply eight factors. That closeness makes profitable one of many subsequent three races vitally necessary. A playoff driver who wins a race within the Spherical of 8 robotically qualifies for the Championship 4 race on Nov. 7 at Phoenix Raceway.

“You have to be actually good. You have to do an excellent job each lap of each race. You have to get your stage factors,” Larson mentioned of the problem of being the front-runner. “You possibly can’t let your guard down and lose floor on guys which can be gaining factors on you. Sure, it is good to have the (65) bonus factors that we’ve got however I am hoping we do not have to lean on them like we did at Talladega, or going into (Charlotte).”

Larson completed thirty seventh at Talladega after wrecking. That consequence price him greater than half his lead over the primary driver under the minimize line, which was Kevin Harvick for the Charlotte race.

5 previous Cup Sequence champions are on this 12 months’s remaining eight: Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski.

NASCAR beginning lineup at Texas

NASCAR used a mathematical components to set the beginning lineup for Sunday’s playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway, the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500. Thirty-nine vehicles had been entered for the race, which is one in need of a full subject. Playoff drivers are denoted by a “P” subsequent to their names. 

Per NASCAR’s playoff guidelines, the highest eight spots within the subject went to the eight remaining playoff drivers, however the beginning order was primarily based on the mathematical components NASCAR has used for almost all of its races this season.

Tom Gatto contributed to this report.