2026 NASCAR Cup Thread

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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1h
Talladega
ET

Fri
3:30-ARCA practice
530-CW App-OReilly qual

Sat
10:30-Prime-Cup qual
12:30-FS1-ARCA 76
3-CW-Prerace
4-CW-OReilly race 25-25-63

Sun
1:30-FOX-Cup-Prerace
3-FOX-Cup race 98-45-45

Sundown (not the race finish time): 8:23p ET / 7:23p CT

 

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Adam Stern
@A_S12
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22m
.
@FoxTV
averaged 2.926 million viewers for Sunday's NASCAR AdventHealth 400 at Kansas, up 26% from last's year comparable event that aired on
@FS1
(2.319 million).

That is good enough to make it the most watched spring race at Kansas since 2016, per
@NASCAR
.

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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14m


Talladega purses for all payouts, all positions, all charter payouts for Cup, all contingency awards and contributions to year-end points fun:
Cup: $11,233,037O

Reilly: $1,753,590

 

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Racing Territory

@RacingTerritory
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5h


The last driver to win their first Career Cup Series race at Talladega was Bubba Wallace on October 4, 2021

 

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RaceDay Report

@RaceDay_Report



Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas averaged 2.926 million viewers on FOX — up 26% from last year, when it aired on FS1 (2.319M).Despite the increase, it is the lowest-viewed Kansas Cup race and April Cup race ever to air on network FOX

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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2h
Dallas Maverick's Cooper Flagg will be the honorary pace-car driver for the Cup race next week at Texas.

 

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Next week. I will be there.

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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27m
NASCAR Cup qualifying has been canceled because of rain. Tyler Reddick on the pole.

 

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Jordan Bianchi
@Jordan_Bianchi
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1h
NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell says Carson Hocevar's post-celebration won't be banned.

 

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Austin Konenski
@AustinKonenski
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1h
NASCAR viewership from Talladega last weekend.

- Cup Series: 3.967 million (FOX)
- O’Reilly Series: 1.339 million (The CW)

The NASCAR O’Reilly Series is on a massive upward trajectory.

- 4th best race on The CW since Sept. 2024
- Best Race #11 of a season since 2016

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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4h
Purses for Texas weekend, including all payouts, all positions, all charter payouts in Cup, all contingency awards and year-points fund contribution:

Cup: $11,233,037

OReilly: $1,753,590

Truck: $789,700

 

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Austin Konenski
@AustinKonenski
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5h
For those concerned about The CW/ESPN Unlimited for the NASCAR O’Reilly Series…

“Customers with Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Fubo TV, Spectrum TV, Verizon FiOS, U-verse, Cox, Comcast Xfinity, and other providers may already get ESPN Unlimited as part of their pay-TV package”

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
·
2h
The expectation in the truck garage is that if the truck race gets rained out Friday at Texas, that NASCAR would try to run the trucks early Saturday morning. Those type of plans, though, can be fluid depending on the forecast.

 

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Mike Joy

@mikejoy500
·
1h


Some good news:4.9 million viewers watched the finish at
@Talladega on @FOXSports, and most stayed around to enjoy
@CarsonHocevars unique victory celebration!

 

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Bob Pockrass
@bobpockrass
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6h
Bubba Wallace is back as one of the Coca-Cola drivers. He was a Coca-Cola driver from 2018-20 but then had Dr Pepper sponsorship for the early years of 23X

 

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Jeff Gluck
@jeff_gluck
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43m
Austin Dillon said Kyle Busch addressed the RCR shop this week with a positive message of being "all in."

Dillon said Busch believes the next win will be the biggest win of his career based on all the talk about his struggles.