It’s all down to a final four. After nine playoff races – including three elimination races – Ryan Blaney, William Byron, ...

It’s time to crown another NASCAR Cup Series champion ... Blaney will make his second Championship 4 appearance in 2024. Byron was the fourth and final driver to clinch his spot in the Championship 4.

On the final restart of last year’s race, the Championship 4 drivers filled the front two rows. Let’s preview each championship-contending driver and where they stand heading to Phoenix.

NASCAR docked Bell the position, and that gave the final transfer position into the Championship 4 to Byron, moving Bell four points below the cutline. Meantime, Blaney was in Victory Lane ...

Christopher Bell's anticipated spot in the 2024 NASCAR Championship 4 vanished following a final-lap penalty at Martinsville Speedway. Bell's attempts to clinch a Championship 4 position initially ...

advancing to the Championship 4 to defend his 2023 title. The Nov. 10 championship race at Phoenix will feature Blaney vs.

The No. 20 driver initially advanced to the Championship 4, but NASCAR later penalized him for riding the wall on the final lap. “The Hail Melon’nt,” one fan wrote. Meanwhile, other fans ...

Two years after Ross Chastain made himself a viral star with the “Hail Melon,” the complexion of the NASCAR Cup Series’ Championship 4 field again ... in 2024 after a final-lap review ...

which NASCAR interpreted as being a safety violation. Byron, who finished the day in sixth, was awarded the final playoff spot, ensuring Hendrick made a Championship 4 for the ninth time.

Then, Bell's last ditch effort in the final corner occurred, but the fact that Bell rode the wall in Turn 4 -- a move outlawed by NASCAR following the Hail Melon -- immediately cast doubt as to ...

Hail Melon, part deux? NASCAR says no. But NASCAR ruled, after a lengthy deliberation, that Bell's move was an illegal wall ride safety violation, giving Byron the points edge and the final ...