Cultural change.

These were the lyrics by Steve O'donnell, NASCAR's Executive Vice President of competition and racing development, applied in explaining one of the biggest story series of the season in the Monster Energy Cup series.

NASCAR has received a lot of criticism in recent years for the product on the highway, slack popularity and downgrading of television ratings.

In an attempt to straighten things out, the main body has performed some configurations, starting with fresh disqualification politicians.

1 of the most annoying things for fans was in order to leave the race track, believing that the driver actually won, only in order to identify after a number of days, in fact that the driver's car was not tested or tested in the research center NASCAR. As a rule, the outcome was docked points, fines or suspension of bosses crew. But the driver and the team saved the victory.

Now, with a fresh policy of disqualification, the winning car, the 2 space car and the occasional car will be inspected on the highway. If the winning car is in trouble, it will be disqualified, finish last and get points for the last space. He still tarnishes the trophy by winning prize money and stage points. All other cars on the background will go up to one space in the final order, which means that the actual car 2 space will be the winner — provided, in fact, that it will also leak test.

This procedure is used for all 3 state NASCAR — Cup, Xfinity and Truck series.

Actually that has the ability to lead to disqualification of the car? Between violations L1-violation of the lowest heights and weight of the car and the inaccessibility of 3 or more lugnuts. Violations of L2 include interference with tires, engines or fuel, and even serious violations of security.

“We can't allow inspection and fines to continue to be a long storyline, " O'donnell said in a press release. "It is expected that the actual race cars will stick to the rules from the opening of the garage to the checkered flag.”

Another necessary change in this season is considered to be a fresh aerodynamic bundle, designed to reduce the power and storage of cars closer friend to a friend, in fact that contributes to the passage and prepares the race more competitive.

This is similar to the bundle used on last year's all-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and will start on the proper week in the 2nd race of the season in Atlanta. For this season-the opening of the Daytona 500, the restrictive plates will be applied in the final time.

As a rule, there were configurations in the offseason.

Martin Truex less at the moment with Joe Gibbs racing in the No. 19 Toyota in the street later series race was blocked by the bench at the end of the 2018 season. Truex replaces Daniel Suarez, who moves to Stewart Haas Racing in Ford # 41. This journey was taken last year by Kurt Bush, who switched to Chip Ganassi Racing and the No. 1 Chevrolet, driven last year by Jamie McMurray, who retires subsequently the Daytona 500 and will be a television specialist.

Casey Kane has yet to hang up his personal helmet and will be replaced in Toyota's No. 95 Leavine Family Racing by Matt Dibenedetto.

According to the schedule, Pocono Raceway will again take on 2 dates of the NASCAR Cup. The Pocono 400 weekend from may 31 to June 2 includes the ARCA series and the Xfinity series. Gander Outdoors 400 weekend July 26-28 connects a series of ARCA and a series of trucks.

Some what monitoring on this season:

■ Paired with seven-time championship crew head kid Knaus, Daytona 500 pole-sitter William Byron will win his own first Cup series race, but not now. Alex Bowman will still get his first Cup win.

■ Subsequently, such as in 2018, he is winless and breaks up with Knaus, Jimmy Johnson will return to victory lane.

■ These 16 drivers will make the playoffs in the last 10 races: Arik Almirola, Ryan Blaine, Archer, Clint Boyer, Kurt Bush, Kyle Bush, Byron, chase Elliott, Danny Hamlin, Kevin Harwick Johnson, Eric Jones, brad keselowski, Kyle Larson, Joey and Logano and Truex.

The finish four for Homestead will be Kyle Bush, Harvey, Elliot and Larson.

And your 2019 favorite?

Elliott. Fresh most famous NASCAR racer that own 1st 3 Cup wins last season, in that number 2 in the second round of the playoffs. He will continue to progress, will win some more victories and will take the title.

Actually, as for the favorite of the current Daytona 500, it is not easy to discount the fact that actually arranged a fresh Ford Mustang during the qualifying battles, taking the 1st 3 spaces in both races. Find Clint Boyer, in Stewart Haas racing around 14 Ford, in order to arrest the checkered flag.

Scott Walsh Covers

Motor racing for the Times-Tribune. Contact him at

swalsh@timesshamrock.com; 570-348-9100 EXT. 5109; and follow him @swalshTT on Twitter.

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