Frontstretch Newsletter: Nov. 9, 2023
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- Brennan Poole is holding a press conference today at Noon ET at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte in order to announce his 2024 plans. We'll have those plans and anything else that breaks today at Frontstretch. |
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| Corey Heim Penalized After Carson Hocevar Crash at
Phoenix NASCAR issued a $12,500 fine and a 25-point penalty to Corey Heim Wednesday for his actions during Friday night's Craftsman 150 at Phoenix Raceway. As this is considered to be a behavioral penalty, it cannot be appealed. |
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| 2024 ARCA Schedule Revealed The ARCA Menards Series released their 2024 schedule Wednesday. The biggest change here is that the series will not visit Pocono. Instead, the National Series will race at Dover Motor Speedway. |
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| Colin Braun Joins CrowdStrike Racing by APR for
2024 CrowdStrike Racing by APR announced Wednesday that Colin Braun will join the team full-time in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's LMP2 class in 2024 alongside George Kurtz. |
Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography and IMSA. Have news for Frontstretch? Don't hesitate to let us know; email us
at frontstretcheditors@googlegroups.com with a promising lead or tip. |
Seeking the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship: Final Points Update After Corey Heim's Penalty by Phil Allaway
As you saw above, Corey Heim was penalized 25 points for intentionally wrecking Carson Hocevar during Friday night's Craftsman 150. That intentional wreck realistically swung the championship as it set up all the shenanigans that followed. In the
Championship 4 points, the penalty means that Heim falls to fourth in the final point standings, having actually lost points in Phoenix from the 4000-point baseline. In the Old School and WC Points, the penalty would just mean that he would win the title by a smaller margin. In the additional playoff formats that we track, the penalty in the 2011 format would have actually tied him with
Christian Eckes, Friday night's winner. Eckes would likely had won it in that scenario by the second tiebreaker, second-place finishes (Eckes had two in the final 10 races of the year to Heim's one). In the 2004 and 2007 formats, he would win by 19 points over Eckes. Championship 4 Point Standings: 1) Ben Rhodes
4033, 2) Grant Enfinger -1, 3) Carson Hocevar -25, 4) Corey Heim -39. Eliminated Playoff Driver Standings: 5) Christian Eckes 2268, 6) Nick Sanchez -43, 7) Zane Smith -103, 8) Ty Majeski
-114, 9) Matt Crafton -127, 10) Matt DiBenedetto -166. Non-Playoff Point Standings (1-16): 1) Corey Heim 918, 2) Christian Eckes -103, 3) Grant Enfinger -114, 4) Carson Hocevar
-142, 5) Ben Rhodes -144, 6) Ty Majeski -174, 7) Zane Smith -185, 8) Nick Sanchez -214, 9) Matt Crafton -304, 10) Chase Purdy -336, 11) Matt DiBenedetto -366, 12) Stewart Friesen
-381, 13) Jake Garcia -384, 14) Tanner Gray -385, 15) Taylor Gray -428, 16) Rajah Caruth -436.
Best of the Rest: 11) Chase Purdy 582, 12) Stewart Friesen -45, 13) Jake Garcia
-48, 14) Tanner Gray -49, 15) Taylor Gray -92, 16) Rajah Caruth -100, 17) Tyler Ankrum -126, 18) Daniel Dye -193, 19) Hailie Deegan -197, 20) Dean Thompson -212. Note: Drivers
in italics are either outside of the playoffs, or ineligible for the playoffs. Playoff Points: 1) Corey Heim 38, 2) Christian Eckes -7, 3) Carson Hocevar -11, 4) Grant Enfinger -14, 5) Zane Smith
-16, 6) Ty Majeski -21, 7) Ben Rhodes -25, 8) Nick Sanchez -31, t-9) Matt Crafton -36, t-9) Matt DiBenedetto -36, 11) Tyler Ankrum -37. Stage Points: 1) Corey Heim
266, 2) Ty Majeski -37, 3) Zane Smith -52, 4) Christian Eckes -62, 5) Carson Hocevar -91, 6) Ben Rhodes -100, 7) Nick Sanchez -104, 8) Grant Enfinger -119, 9) Matt DiBenedetto -175, 10) Stewart Friesen
-176, 11) Matt Crafton -184, 12) Chase Purdy -190, 13) Tanner Gray -201, 14) Rajah Caruth -217, 15) Tyler Ankrum -219, 16) Taylor Gray -225. Note No. 1: If they were eligible
for stage points, Kyle Busch would be 14th and William Byron tied for 15th. Note No. 2: Standings include stage points for the Championship 4 drivers in Phoenix.
Old Point Standings (1-16): 1) Corey Heim 590, 2) Grant Enfinger -20, 3) Christian Eckes
-60, 4) Ben Rhodes -65, 5) Carson Hocevar -71, 6) Nick Sanchez -125, 7) Ty Majeski -136, 8) Matt Crafton -144, 9) Zane Smith -149, 10) Chase Purdy -167, 11) Jake Garcia -169, 12) Tanner Gray
-205, 13) Matt DiBenedetto -206, 14) Taylor Gray -217, 15) Stewart Friesen -230, 16) Rajah Caruth -244. WC Points (1-16): 1) Corey Heim 3333, 2) Grant Enfinger
-59, 3) Christian Eckes -131, 4) Ben Rhodes -188, 5) Carson Hocevar -198, 6) Nick Sanchez -398, 7) Zane Smith -428, 8) Ty Majeski -431, 9) Matt Crafton -482, 10) Chase Purdy -538, 11) Jake Garcia
-629, 12) Tanner Gray -669, 13) Stewart Friesen -719, 14) Rajah Caruth -817, 15) Matt DiBenedetto -845, 16) Tyler Ankrum -885. Race Winners: Zane Smith (Daytona, Austin), Kyle Busch (Las
Vegas, Pocono), Christian Eckes (Atlanta, Darlington, Kansas-2, Phoenix), Carson Hocevar (Texas, Nashville, Richmond, Homestead), Joey Logano (Bristol-1), Corey Heim (Martinsville, Mid-Ohio, Bristol-2), Grant Enfinger (Kansas-1, Gateway, Milwaukee), Kyle Larson (North Wilkesboro), Ben Rhodes (Charlotte), Ty Majeski (Lucas Oil IRP), Brett Moffitt (Talladega) Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of our own Danny Peters.
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