With ten Races to go, Who can Make it to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs?

10 races left in the NASCAR regular season. The title is still up for grabs. The playoffs are just around the corner. This implies NASCAR is in the territory to set the 16-driver field. This is eccentric 2020, nobody comprehends what that field resembles. NASCAR has just released the timetable up until August 2nd.

Michigan, Watkins Glen, Dover, and Daytona are likely to be the four tracks that would round out the calendar driving into the postseason.

Additionally, that just carries the calendar to 24 races. Two additional races need to be filled in the calendar to finish the full 26-race regular season.

There have been bits of gossip around these two outstanding races. Will we see a doubleheader at Michigan or at Dover? Those have been the two alternatives.

The Michigan and Dover circuit host two races, while the first ones have been postponed, the second races are still in place. There are high chances of a doubleheader at one of these circuits. NASCAR ought to be near releasing the following bit of the timetable.

In any case, the drivers won’t give it a second thought. In the wake of sitting at home for two months, they are ready for a trip to any place.

NASCAR playoffs scenario

Bob Pockrass has provided with a playoff grid which states the eight drivers that have already booked their seats for the playoffs. It also portrays the difference of points of the ninth position driver from the seventeenth.

A glance at the point standings out of Indianapolis shows that the best eight drivers have secured their season finisher spots through successes. Sufficiently simple to comprehend. From that point, it gets gripping as 111 points separate Aric Almirola in ninth place and Erik Jones in seventeenth, the principal driver out of the top 16.

As reported by Fox Sports, Almirola said: “One of the high priority goals for me, when I saw the schedule come out for this year, was to make Daytona not matter. I want to go to Daytona and not have that anxiety or that pressure to either have to get into the playoffs or that you have just a slight points cushion and you’re trying to be conservative and preserve.

“But then you are worried about guys behind you in points collecting a lot of stage points from being aggressive and/or winning the race [and that’s] just not a place I want to be in.”

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