Where to watch NASCAR, IMSA, and F1 this weekend.
After a long Summer break, Formula 1 is back to close out the year with another nine races. Max Verstappen remains in control of the driver's championship and qualified fastest today, but this weekend's race grid will look very different after a series of grid penalties for major drivers looking to get ahead of engine wear.
Alongside Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon also took engine replacement grid penalties from the top five in qualifying. That leaves Carlos Sainz Jr. and Sergio Perez on the front row, followed by Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. The grid quickly gets more strange, with recently-extended Williams driver Alex Albon in sixth and recently-dropped McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo in seventh.
The championship fight in the pro-am GTD class is much more competitive. Four teams from four manufacturers sit within 100 points of the title lead, with a fifth team from a fifth manufacturer just 125 points back.NASCAR's regular season ends here, at a Daytona race that is suddenly much less dramatic than it had projected to be before Kurt Busch announced he would be stepping away from playoff contention to continue healing from a crash at Pocono last month.
Blaney leads Truex by 25 points, about half a race worth of points in this stage racing era, and would be most likely to be eliminated on points if he either crashes out late or allows Truex to score major points in both stages without scoring any stage points himself. While Daytona generally rewards more aggressive strategies, both Truex and Blaney will be more focused on staying in position to score those points.
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