NASCAR 2024

Gotta love this no track limits. Cars so far wide beyond the kerbs. Remind me again, any caution for the stage breaks?

I see SVG is a little higher up the field as it's a road course. Should be interesting seeing him on the restarts and if he can capitalise.

Not really the most exciting race really. I prefer these cars on super speedways.

I can't believe this. Turned on the NASCAR and it was raining and I was depressed because you don't know if it'll go ahead or not. Then they interview Alex Bowman and he says he can't wait to go on the wet tyres as it should be really interesting on an oval.

Hopefully this is a thing they'll do on all tracks from now on and no waiting to see if a race will get going.

Anyway, Bowman had a serious car in qualifying and practice and he's my pick for tonight coming off a good performance last week.

Two men must be sick after that, Truex because there was a yellow with him about 100 yards from the white flag and losing first place on pit road and Logano losing the front row. I think if Logano had been on the front row he'd have won it.

Denny was very unlucky but he's won enough at this early stage of the season. Delighted for Chase to finally end that bad run, I can see him being regularly competitive again now.

Nascar have to do something to fix this passing issue. Larson was dominating and then couldn't get back near the top ten after his troubles and ended up finishing 21st.

That was a genius strategy by the Toyotas but their own wreck really stuffed them. Unfortunate. Horrible hits into the wall.

Three wins for both Hamlin and Byron and we've only had 11 races.

I thought Larson was going to get him.

Don't know what happened to Truex, he looked like the winner but his car fell off a lot. He was trying to complete the double double. His brother won the Xfinity last year and he won this race. His brother won the Xfinity this year again. Dover is the closest track to where they come from so they really want wins there.

Looking like the rain is holding up the start. No time yet. Over to watch Danica so on Sky F1...

boogity boogity boogity as my favourite Nascar commentator, Darrel Waltrip, used to say.

He was so funny, one time Bubba went between two cars on the race track and he immediately quipped 'I never thought I'd see a drive through on a NASCAR track' Bubba was sponsored by McDonalds.

Anyway this is a strange track, sometimes you get a bunch of yellows, other times you get none besides the stage ones.

Byron starting at the back but this is his type of race and the 45 car has some record in recent times on this track so Reddick is a live contender.

He clearly moved down to hit him twice. You don't get disqualified as far as I'm aware unless it can be deemed that it was purposely done to gain an advantage. In this instance it's very clear that it was purposely done to gain an advantage, I'm talking about the second time he moved down.

The difference there was the two cars were running close together so it's not clear that the incident was purposeful, even though you, I and everybody else knew it was.. This one was clearly intentional he moved down the track twice, he could get away with the first one but the second was so egregious there was no doubt.