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cover of episode Nashville: Chase Elliott wins with brilliant restarts; Joe Gibbs Racing falters in the pits; why single-lugnut stops are so tough; Bubba Wallace's radio outbursts

Nashville: Chase Elliott wins with brilliant restarts; Joe Gibbs Racing falters in the pits; why single-lugnut stops are so tough; Bubba Wallace's radio outbursts

2022/6/27
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How Chase Elliott won the race starting with the restart in which he took the lead from Kyle Busch (1:00); a new way of approaching restart choice with Next Gen (2:30); Chase seals the deal (4:00); the difference between the critical restarts for Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott (5:30); Chase’s video game maneuver to gain eight spots in a lap (7:30); was Chase being modest about how good he was in making the move? (9:00); how the Next Gen is forcing some uncharacteristic driving (10:30): the pit stop conundrum for Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota (12:00); understanding the personnel crunch in pit crew personnel (14:30); the difficulty in training pit crews with the lack of Cup-Xfinity crossover (16:30); digging into more of why pit stops are so tricky this season (18:30); how important differences from other series increases the likelihood of pit miscues with a single lugnut in NASCAR (19:30); the frustration level of Toyota/JGR spending weeks trying to fix the problem (22:00); why there’s no quick fix (23:15); the dynamic of driver-pit crew performance criticism (25:30); and what that means for Bubba Wallace (27:30); putting Wallace’s radio outbursts in context (29:30); championship outlook with nine races left in the regular season (31:30); Road America preview (33:30). 

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