NASCAR's New (Old) Championship Format
The Teardown
Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM
4.6 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. |
| 0:19.9 | All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Tear Down season number eight of this podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | My name is Jeff Gluck, along with Jordan Bianchi. |
| 0:33.8 | We are motorsports writers for the athletics still, Jordan, amazingly enough. |
| 0:38.4 | And we are here on a what I think is a monumental day for NASCAR, the sport that we all follow so closely and care so much about. |
| 0:48.5 | We have just learned about a new NASCAR playoff format. |
| 0:53.7 | And it's an old playoff format, but it's one that I think |
| 0:56.6 | is going to be well received. So far, it seems like it from social media. The chase has returned, |
| 1:02.8 | the 10 race chase for the cup, is what they used to call it. It is going to be 16 drivers now |
| 1:09.5 | instead of the old 10 and 12. |
| 1:11.1 | 16 drivers, 10 weeks, whoever has the most points wins. |
| 1:15.4 | And it's a lot simpler to explain than the old elimination format that we had. |
| 1:19.9 | We just got done with the news conference down at NASCAR's new production facility. |
| 1:26.1 | And both of us drove up here to Junior Motorsports, |
| 1:29.9 | Dirty Mo Media Studios. |
| 1:31.7 | And so now I'm here with Jordan. |
| 1:33.8 | What are you thinking after what we just experienced down at that news conference? |
| 1:38.5 | I think you hit on it when you said this is a lot easier to explain. |
| 1:42.6 | And you heard Steve O'Danald say today and he told |
| 1:45.2 | it told me this as well when i talked to him for a piece on the athletic was i want to be able to |
| 1:49.3 | explain this format to somebody in an elevator from by the time i get on the ground floor to the 20th |
| 1:54.9 | floor so just a minute or two right and i want it to be a simplistic straightforward easy to |
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