The NASCAR Cup Sequence Rule E-book acquired a slew of preseason updates upfront of the ultimate weekend earlier than common season racing begins subsequent week at Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
One marginally altered the qualifying procedures for the Daytona 500 and the opposite banned the follow of drivers inserting their arms in opposition to their window nets throughout qualifying within the pursuit of much less drag.
The latter is an replace to Part 8.3.2 and is addendum Okay.
“As decided by NASCAR, as soon as a car exits pit street throughout a Qualifying try, the motive force’s arms will not be used to redirect air in any method together with however not restricted to, touching the window web, blocking air from coming into the cockpit, redirecting air from the window, and many others. Non-compliance will end in lack of Qualifying time.”
It’s becoming that the rule is added earlier than The Nice American Race because the follow was most typical in superspeedway model races at Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta. Drivers would stick their arms up in opposition to their window web within the try to deflect air away from the cockpit.
Most infamously, Group Penske and Joey Logano wore a webbed left-handed glove throughout qualifying at Atlanta throughout qualifying for spring occasion in 2024. It was picked up by the printed and NASCAR fined the motive force $100,000 for an unlawful modification to security gear.
Now NASCAR has ensured that drivers can not follow this by any means.
Daytona 500 qualifying change
Throughout time trials for the Daytona 500, the highest two drivers in non-chartered vehicles might be locked-in and are now not eligible to race their approach into the race. The rest of the open vehicles, who didn’t qualify their approach into the race, will try to race their approach with one spot going into the five hundred in every qualifying race.
Up to now, a driver who locked in might make the race by means of qualifying however might then race his approach in and that would depart the time trial spot to the subsequent greatest driver in qualifying speeds.
This simply simplifies the method for these watching and competing.
Like final 12 months, there’s additionally the open exemption provisional, and it was awarded to Jimmie Johnson this 12 months. Johnson will compete within the race it doesn’t matter what occurs in qualifying and the qualifying races.
In contrast to final 12 months, by accepting the open exemption provisional, he can not qualify or race his approach in and has already forfeited prize cash and factors. This rule is solely for promotional causes to make sure that a legendary or marketable driver is not going to be susceptible to lacking the race.
Daytona 500 entrants
The Daytona 500 beginning lineup will include 41 drivers.
36 chartered drivers: AJ Allmendinger, Christopher Bell, Josh Berry, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Austin Cindric, Cole Custer, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Chase Elliott, Ty Gibbs, Todd Gilliland, Noah Gragson, Denny Hamlin, Riley Herbst, Carson Hocevar, Erik Jones, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, Michael McDowell, John Hunter Nemechek, Ryan Preece, Tyler Reddick, Zane Smith, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Daniel Suarez, Shane van Gisbergen, Bubba Wallace, Cody Ware and Connor Zilisch.
Open exemption provisional:
Jimmie Johnson, Legacy Motor Membership
Open drivers making an attempt to qualify or race their approach in:
Anthony Alfredo, Beard Motorsports
Justin Allgaier, JR Motorsports
Corey Heim, 23XI Racing
Corey LaJoie, RFK Racing
B.J. McLeod, Reside Quick Motorsports
Casey Mears, Storage 66
Chandler Smith, Entrance Row Motorsports
JJ Yeley, NY Racing
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