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For 35 races, NASCAR’s championship format is a confusing maze of stage points and elimination lines. At the end, though, it gets very simple. Four championship competitors are left among the field, and the best finisher from those four cars is the series champion no matter what else happens.
Well, four cars are left in the owners’ championship. Four drivers are left in the drivers’ championship. That is normally an irrelevant distinction, but Kurt Busch’s choice to withdraw from the NASCAR playoffs this year due to injury threw a wrench in the works that uniquely left the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team of Kyle Larson qualifying only for an owner’s title while his teammate, Chase Elliott, qualified only for a driver’s title. The other three contenders are qualified for both.
The split championship is in play in two different ways. If Larson wins, the owners’ title will go to his team and the next-highest eligible driver will win the drivers’ title. The reverse is true for Elliott and the drivers’ championship, which means any of the three drivers qualified for both could still win an owners’ title but not a drivers’ title.
Larson, Logano, and Elliott are the three drivers who have been in a Championship Four before. Coincidentally, all are also recent series champions. While Larson may not be competing for the more prestigious honors, the other two will have a chance to become two-time driver’s champions with a finish over their competitors Sunday. Past history tells us that beating out a full field of contenders will most likely result in a win.
Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain, meanwhile, are shock inclusions in the Championship Four. Each are relatively new to this level of competition, both in their second full-time season with a team that has any expectation of winning races. Each are also very new to winning themselves, combining for five victories this season after Bell took just one win in 2021 and Chastain went winless in his career to date before this year.
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