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2022 NASCAR Cup Series Go Bowling at The Glen Live Coverage

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The penultimate race of the NASCAR Cup Series schedule will be full of international drivers from seven different countries.
One of them is ex-Formula One driver and the 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who will make his return to NASCAR after more than ten years. Besides Kimi, Mike Rockenfeller (one of the winners in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2010) will also race for the win in the 2022 Go Bowling at the Watkins Glen International circuit.

Furthermore, there is a lot of competition for the playoff spots, and for the race today, Chase Elliot will start from the pole position. He is now tied with the other five drivers for most poles of any driver this season.

A lot of attention was on Kimi Raikkonen. After posting the 10th-fastest time in Group B practice, Raikkonen qualified 27th for his first Cup start in 11 years.

Kyle Larson had another excellent qualifying session, and he will start from second place, with a surprising Michael McDowell in P3.
Live updates (ended):

23:36 UTC  See you at the Coke Zero Sugar 400, the last race of the regular season.

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23:21 UTC  Larson wins here for the second year in a row. The Watkins Glen track suits him very nice.

23:21 UTC  The top ten after the race:

  • 1 - #5 - Kyle Larson
  • 2 - #16 - A.J. Allmendinger
  • 3 - #22 - Joey Logano
  • 4 - #9 - Chase Elliott
  • 5 - #99 - Daniel Suarez
  • 6 - #34 - Michael McDowell
  • 7 - #8 - Tyler Reddick
  • 8 - #20 - Christopher Bell
  • 9 - #17 - Chris Buescher
  • 10 - #43 - Erik Jones

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23:20 UTC  Aaaand Kyle Larson wins the 2022 Go Bowling at the Glen.

23:19 UTC  White flag and Larson is still leading.

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23:18 UTC  With two to go Allmendinger is not letting Larson to get away.

23:16 UTC  Four laps to go. Kyle Larson now leads Allmendinger, but it's not a comfortable margin.

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23:15 UTC  Larson takes the lead from Elliott!

23:14 UTC  Green flag is out again.

23:14 UTC  With five laps to go the restart will come.

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23:09 UTC  Field double filed up with nine laps to go. However, a lap later caution is out again because Hezemans has spun and is stuck in the sand trap.

23:06 UTC  A little bit of a weird spin to be honest.



23:04 UTC  Most of the drivers will stay out, but some of them like Justin Halley or Bubba Wallace are going to the pit road.

23:03 UTC  The caution is a enormous break for guys like Austin DIllon (P3). He has the freshest tires out of everyone.

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22:59 UTC  Joey Hand has spun and crashed into the tire barrier. Caution is out!

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22:57 UTC  Kyle Busch suffered damage to the tie-rod on his car in that incident. He and his team will just ride it out to the end.

22:57 UTC  Chase Elliott opens up a two second lead over Larson.

22:54 UTC  Kyle Busch has spun in-between Turns 1 and 2. He gets it looped back around and no caution will fly.

22:54 UTC  Chase Elliott easily overtakes Dillon for the lead. However Kyle Larson is getting closer and closer to him.

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22:48 UTC  Elliott will try to hunt down Dillon untill the end of the race. He might have a chance to win.

22:47 UTC  With less than 20 laps to go Elliott takes second from Corey.

22:45 UTC  Another spin in the bus stop. This time, it's Cody Ware. Looked pretty identical to what happened to Chastain and Briscoe.

22:45 UTC  Cole Custer pits from the lead coming to 24 laps to go. Austin Dillon takes P1.

22:44 UTC  Both Ross Chastain and Chase Briscoe spun in the bus stop.

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22:37 UTC  Cindric makes his stop while Custer is still running.

22:36 UTC  The top five cars have yet to pit: Cole Custer, Austin Cindric, Corey LaJoie, Austin Dillon, and Mike Rockenfeller.

22:36 UTC  What a shame because Kimi was running really good in this race.



 

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22:30 UTC  Joey Hand now comes to pit road. His last pit stop was on Lap 12, so Hand was getting very low on fuel.

22:30 UTC  Chris Buescher and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. now make their stops with a little bit over 30 laps to go.

22:27 UTC  Meanwhile, Michael is being challenged by Larson for second.

22:27 UTC  Chase Elliott has now opened up a 1.2 second lead over Michael McDowell.

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22:22 UTC  Chase Elliot overtakes McDowell to take the lead of the race.

22:20 UTC  Green flag back out at Lap 48. Michael McDowell still leads as Chase Elliott has a challenge with Christopher Bell for P2.



22:16 UTC  Actually, after the replay, Dillon got turned by Chastain. As a result, Kimi ended up making contact with Loris Hezemans. Raikkonen is out of the car and done for today.

22:15 UTC  Former F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen has crashed after hitting the tire barrier. WIth big front and rear damage his race might be over after his fight with Austin Dillon.

22:14 UTC  Three-wide for the lead entering the esses! McDowell went wide entering the esses, which gave both Elliott and Hand a chance to take a look to his inside. Intense battles for the lead.

22:13 UTC  Green flag at Lap 45.

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22:02 UTC  Top ten after Stage 2:

  • 1 - #22 - Joey Logano
  • 2 - #18 - Kyle Busch
  • 3 - #34 - Michael McDowell
  • 4 - #9 - Chase Elliott
  • 5 - #42 - Ty Dillon
  • 6 - #15 - Joey Hand
  • 7 - #17 - Chris Buescher
  • 8 - #5 - Kyle Larson
  • 9 - #41 - Cole Custer
  • 10 - #20 - Christopher Bell

22:01 UTC  Logano kept his lead over Busch to win Stage 2.

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21:59 UTC  Trouble for Corey LaJoie on pit road. His crew lost the gas can as LaJoie was pulling out of his stall.

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21:54 UTC  Daniil Kvyat has gone to the garage area, where he joins Todd Gilliland and Kyle Tilley.

21:53 UTC  Tyler Reddick and Mike Rockenfeller spun.

21:49 UTC  With nine to go in Stage 2 Joey Logano holds the lead over Busch.

21:47 UTC  Todd Gilliland going to the garage with a broken axle. Terrible news for him.

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21:42 UTC  Green flag is out again at Lap 24. The new leader is rookie Todd Gilliland.

21:39 UTC  The track returned to dry conditions so NASCAR announces all restarts will be double-file.

21:38 UTC 

21:38 UTC  With the amount of points now available to drivers with Stage 1 complete, Chase Elliott has officially clinched the NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship. That means Elliott will be the top seed in the playoffs and earn 15 bonus playoff points.

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21:34 UTC  Finally we have a stage completed after all the rain and delays.

21:31 UTC  Top ten after Stage 1:

  • 1 - #14 - Chase Briscoe
  • 2 - #8 - Tyler Reddick
  • 3 - #99 - Daniel Suarez
  • 4 - #38 - Todd Gilliland (R)
  • 5 - #1 - Ross Chastain
  • 6 - #22 - Joey Logano
  • 7 - #42 - Ty Dillon
  • 8 - #34 - Michael McDowell
  • 9 - #18 - Kyle Busch
  • 10 - #16 - A.J. Allmendinger

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21:29 UTC  Chase Elliott has now come to pit road. Denny Hamlin and Austin Cindric also on pit road.

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21:23 UTC  Reddick misses the entry to the bus stop! It's now a three-car battle for what will be the lead between Briscoe, McDowell, and Buescher. Meanwhile, McDowell peels off to pit road.

21:18 UTC  A lot of cars down in the pit road.

21:18 UTC  Joey Logano comes to pit road for slicks on Lap 10.

21:15 UTC  Chase Briscoe has come to pit road to switch over to dry tires. Meanwhile, Tyler Reddick has caught Michael McDowell for the race lead.

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21:10 UTC  Michael McDowell leads that lap and has opened up a couple carlengths on Tyler Reddick. Chase Elliott's car doesn't look very comfortable, which has caused him to drop back to third.

21:10 UTC  Kyle Larson misses the entry to the bus stop! It will cost him about five seconds.

21:07 UTC  Michael McDowell makes a power move to the outside of Chase Elliott to take the top spot. Elliott trying to fight back entering the inner loop.

21:07 UTC  Corey LaJoie and Harrison Burton spun in Turn 1.

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21:06 UTC  Chase Elliott leads Lap 2. Four car breakaway from the rest of the field.

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21:05 UTC  Michael McDowell overtakes Kyle Larson for P2 as drivers go through a heavy level of spray going down the backstretch entering the inner loop. Incident free so far.

21:03 UTC  Green flag is out, and we're racing at Watkins Glen!

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20:56 UTC  Engines have been re-fired. Sun is actually starting to shine at Watkins Glen.

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20:49 UTC  I know that maybe you are angry because the race is delayed for almost two hours. But you need to understand that going at huge speeds when you almost don't see anything (because of the water spray) it's very dangerous.

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20:25 UTC  NASCAR officials are going to take the sweeper trucks out to move from standing water out of the inner loop.

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20:19 UTC  Michael McDowell asks if he should run his defroster. Told that he should.

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20:15 UTC  NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace gives the command to start engines.

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20:07 UTC  Due to the wet conditions, the initial start with be single-file, and all restarts will be single-file until NASCAR deems the track to be dry enough for double-file restarts.

20:07 UTC  There will be a 10-minute interval between the national anthem and the command to start engines as teams change from dry slicks to wet weather tires.

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20:00 UTC  The lightning hold has been lifted at Watkins Glen. Pre-race ceremonies will begin in short time.

19:39 UTC  One of the rules is that with each lightning strike within an eight mile radius will reset the clock. Now, another lightning strike has been reported in the area, so there will be another 30 minutes before pre-race ceremonies.

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19:14 UTC  No updates for the moment. All we know is that the weather is bad. Maybe it's Kimi's fault.

19:02 UTC  Rain reportedly starting at Watkins Glen. The sky is very dark and the wind has picked up.

19:01 UTC  Weather will be a significant factor in this race, so here are some details and statistics. If rain prevents the race from being completed, this will be considered an official race at the end of Stage 2 at Lap 40.

If weather delays create a situation where the race must be shortened due to impending darkness, sunset should be at approximately 7:59 p.m. local time.

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18:57 UTC  Today's top ten for the race start at the 2022 Go Bowling at The Glen:

  • 1 - #9 - Chase Elliott
  • 2 - #5 - Kyle Larson
  • 3 - #34 - Michael McDowell
  • 4 - #24 - William Byron
  • 5 - #8 - Tyler Reddick
  • 6 - #16 - A.J. Allmendinger
  • 7 - #17 - Chris Buescher
  • 8 - #2 - Austin Cindric (R)
  • 9 - #99 - Daniel Suarez
  • 10 - #18 - Kyle Busch

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