NASCAR Playoffs 101: What you need to know | NASCAR.com 1-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18+, "Chevy again because I feel good about them right now.". The drivers who failed to meet the criteria will compete in the All-Star Open, which this year will be a 50-lap race divided into three stages. And, by the way, people reallydo win! In the name of health and safety, NASCAR wants to keep teams and officials away from the track as much as possible, which is why it decided qualifying would not be necessary for races through June 21 at Darlington, Charlotte, Bristol, Atlanta, Martinsville, Homestead-Miami and Talladega. Bold idea: NASCAR should have made the first stages of races shorter NASCAR remains committed to running a complete schedule of 36 Cup Series races in 2020, including a 10-race playoff slate it hopes will remain intact with originally scheduled tracks and dates. NASCAR STAR ALEX BOWMAN FLIPS AND LANDS HARD IN SCARY SPRINT CAR CRASH, "Doesnt make any sense to me. Most NASCAR races have 3 stages, where the first two stages make up the first two quarters of the race, and Stage 3 makes up the second half. The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs consist of four rounds: the Round of 16, the Round of 12, the Round of 8 and the Championship 4. Essential floor careRobot vacuums, stick vacuums, high-performance mops and more are up to 35% off during this Target deal. He almost won Talladega. No championship points are awarded. Poole took it a step further in an interview with FOXs Jamie Little. NASCAR introduced stage racing in 2017 as a way to make the sport more competitive and to better resemble the other major American sports. NASCAR All-Star Race format: Explaining the extra stages, inversions Below are the details of NASCAR's new procedure for competition cautions, which will take place in "the early portions of the race": The competition caution for the first Darlington race on May 17 arrived at Lap 30.