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Homestead, fla. – Ryan Blaney can be next. Or maybe it will be Alex Bowman. Then again, Christopher Bell has won three times the season and was able to contribute his total Sunday on Homestead-Miami Speedway.
In a world where ‘A’ means the best, it is the B’s that win in Nascar.
Alex Bowman earns his sixth Career Cup.
The first five points races of the cup season were all won by a driver with a family name starting with B.
William Byron won the Daytona 500. Call won the next three races. Josh Berry Last weekend’s race in Las Vegas.
“It’s just a funny stat, a funny coincidence,” says Berry, who will start second on Homestead. “I think if your surname starts with a b, at least you feel good.”
OK, so not Josh Berry, who will win the weekend to continue the line?
“Ryan Blaney,” Berry said. “He was very fast every week and had just a little accident.”
Denny Hamlin, a three-time winner of the homestead, takes note of the ‘interesting trend’ of this year’s B-Wen and said if not him, his choice to continue with the line would also be Blaney.
It’s not going out on a limb. Blaney has completed the runner -up on this track for the past two years. Tyler Reddick passed Blaney on the last shot to win last fall.
“It was clear that he had good runs here over the past few years; just to try to find out a way to exclude it,” says Blaney, who will start sixth. “I won the race last year and I didn’t do a very good job on the last round and lost the race for us.”
Nascar’s reaction comes after Christopher Bell stopped in a teammate’s stall last weekend in a teammate’s stall to catch a loose wheel.
But it is not just a recent tendency of drivers with the family name of B who win so often in Nascar. Of course, it helps that eight of the 37 drivers in Sunday’s Homestead race have names that start with B.
Along with Bell, Byron, Blaney, Berry and Bowman, the group Kyle Busch, Chase Briscoe and Chris Buescher include.
Since the beginning of the 2023 season, drivers with a family name starting with B have won 45.5% of the races (35 of 77). Since 2022, managers with family name starting with B have won 39.8% of the race (45 of 113).
“I would like to keep it going,” says Buescher, who will start the 11th.
The first five races provided a variety of storylines for this season.
But Buescher has another idea that can help him return to Victory Lane for the first time since last year’s play -off match at Watkins Glen.
“I walked with Christopher Bell and I joked with him that I was going to change my first name to Christopher, because it works quite well for him,” Buescher said.
It is true, but do not throw away the B theory yet.
Four of the top five qualifiers for Sunday’s race have all of names starting with B.
“At least we’re the ones ahead,” Bowman says, who won his sixth career pole on Saturday. “I think we’ll make it shoot. If there is a conspiracy that gets me a win, I’ll take it. “
Carson Hcevar added a silent B to the beginning of his family name on social media in the hope of being the next manager. But he did not add the B to his driver’s uniform.
“I need it,” he said.
But he was the only manager asked who was willing to change his family name to include a B.
Reddick is not phased by the success of the B’s.
“It will work out soon,” he said.
Chase Elliott laughs at the idea of changing his name to add a B.
Then he said, “No, I don’t think so … I think we’ll just try to win.”
