All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown. My name is Jeff Buck,

and I'm my co-worker George George Bianchi. We are motorsports

writers at the athletic, and we have just watched the Roval Race, the Round 2 elimination race for

the NASCAR playoffs. Jordan is on site in Charlotte, and a little bit different race than I think we perhaps expected, especially after

the Xfinity race. You know, I think, you know, and everybody thought with similar forecasts

today this was going to be total chaos. In the end, a pretty straightforward professional race, I would say, though, Jordan.

What about you?

Yeah, I think we were all kind of parodying the same thing going into today, especially after

yesterday's Xfinity series race, that this was going to be to, this was going to be chaotic.

There was going to be heavy rain.

It was going to be puddles on the track.

And there was even some discussion of,

you know, do you think NASCAR may push this race until tomorrow if the conditions were like

they, you know, were during the Xfinity Series race? And this is, you know, I know you were talking

about this. And is this a way a playoff race should be, you know, the conditions that a playoff

race should be ran in. And guess what? We didn't have anything. It wasn't a chaotic race today.

It was a very calm race. This is the calmest roble race we've ever had. Very mild by an

elimination race standards. The four drivers that were below the cut line coming in or the four drivers

eliminated. It was a good race, but it just wasn't, it certainly was not at all what anybody was expecting.

Yeah, this race actually kind of reminded me more of the Daytona Roval Race in the summer than the previous two Roval Races.

And it's a great observation by you that this was the calmest of the three editions of the Roval Race so far.

I mean, the first, the inaugural Roval race so far um i mean the first the inaugural roval

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