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| Austin Dillon won the July race at Texas. |
It’s the AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500, the second of three races in the Round of 8 that has only one berth locked in with Joey Logano’s win last week at Kansas Speedway.
Three spots remain for the other seven drivers to fight over.
NASCAR CUP SERIES
AUTOTRADER ECHOPARK AUTOMOTIVE 500
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AUTOTRADER ECHOPARK AUTOMOTIVE 500
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Race:Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500
Date: Sunday, October 25, 2020
TV-Time: NBCSN, 3:30 p.m. ET
Venue: Texas Motor Speedway
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Will drivers like Kevin Harvick, who has won at Texas the last three seasons, layback and try to get in on points as he sits 41-points above the cutoff or will he go all out for the win to avoid any catastrophes next week at Martinsville Speedway?
He should probably be safe either way.
“I feel a lot better after (Sunday), getting out of (Kansas) with a good day, leading laps there,” Harvick said of his runner-up last week. “I feel good about that leading into Texas. I think as you look at Martinsville, I feel a lot better about it than what we were the first race. Obviously, the first race we had a whole bunch of problems with no fans, alternator, all the things that went wrong. We ran well at Phoenix. I think we just have to see how the chips fall in the next three races and see where it all ends up.”
Harvick was 15th in the first Martinsville on June 10 which used the 750 hp package that he’s won two of his series-leading nine races with. It sounds like he wants the Championship 4 clinch this week so he doesn’t have to sweat Martinsville which is part of the reason the Westgate Las Vegas has him listed as the 5/2 favorite to win while William Hill sportsbooks have listed lower at 2/1.
Another reason is that seven of his wins this season came using this week’s race package, although only one of them came on a 1.5-mile track (Atlanta, June 7).
The thing about Harvick at Texas is that he didn’t win in his first 29 Cup starts there, but now has three wins in his last six starts. He’s currently on a run of 12 straight top-10 finishes at Texas, nine of them top-fives, and it all coincides with his move to Stewart-Haas Racing to start 2014. In the July Texas race, he led 40 laps and finished fifth.
Harvick deserves to be the favorite. He’s a badass at Texas.
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