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Twice in the playoff era (2014 to the present), the eventual Cup Series champion has emerged from the seventh seed. It’s not that the seed is better than any others because more times than not — four, actually — the champion was the first seed. Two other times he came from the fifth seed. But the seventh seed is significant because it’s the lowest a driver started the playoffs and won the championship.
“I didn’t know that,” Blaney said. “I think we can definitely do it [too].”
Kevin Harvick, in 2014, was the first to do it in the debut year of the elimination format. Joey Logano was the most recent in 2018 and, more importantly, the only one to do so since the field was seeded based on regular-season performance and with playoff points in the mix.
If there was a consensus from the 2022 playoff drivers this week, it’s that there is no favorite for this championship. There were 16 different winners in the regular season, and with there still being unknowns about the Next Gen car, there’s no reason to count anyone out.
“It’s all about trying to just stay in the game,” Blaney said. “You never know what can change and who can have trouble. You just hope it’s not you, and you don’t want to make any mistakes. As a driver — as a team in general — there is going to be adversity you have to overcome. That’s part of it.
“You’re not going to have a completely smooth 10 weeks. You’re going to have things that are going to go wrong, and you have to adapt to them. I definitely think we can do it; it’s just a matter of improving on some stuff that’s kind of bit us throughout the year. But I think this team is ready to do it.”
RACER polled some of the other drivers seeded further down the grid on their optimism toward winning the championship from the lowest seed yet.
Tyler Reddick in the No. 8 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing is seeded eighth. It is Reddick’s second appearance in the playoffs, and this year he comes in with two wins.
Reddick: “With the way this year has looked and how tight the competition has been, I don’t know why we’d rule ourselves out before it gets started. The way this car’s raced, less and less you see the dominant car win. It’s about executing all day long. I think, why not? The eight seed is not a bad number. It kind of fits.”
Harvick was the first driver to not only survive and advance but win in NASCAR’s first-ever playoff elimination format. Two wins late in the regular season have Harvick and his Stewart-Haas Racing team looking every bit the contenders they expect to be regardless of being seeded ninth.
Harvick: “I think those are just numbers. I don’t think anything adds up this year compared to what it has in years past. It’s just so much different than anything we’ve done in the past. I think this year is way closer than it’s ever been before, from second to 16th. It sure feels wide-open. Based on the first 26 races, it feels like everybody’s got a chance.”
Elliott’s No. 9 might be the favorite by the numbers, but what does that really mean? Not much, reckons Harvick. Nigel Kinrade / Motorsport Images
Christopher Bell and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team are back for more in the Cup Series playoffs. After getting his first run at it last year, Bell believes his team is fully capable of going all the way from the 10th seed.
Bell: “Oh, absolutely. That’s really shocking to me that’s the case [of seventh being the lowest to win the championship], but I really think this year it’s anyone’s ballgame.”
While Kyle Busch is a two-time Cup Series champion, and neither one was easy to win, Busch was seeded first in both of those years (2015 and ’19). The only multiple-time champion in the field, if Busch wants to win a third, he will have to do it from the 11 seed. Naturally, Busch believes his team can.
Busch: “The points are really tight; there’s no real clear runaway. Chase [Elliott] has a little bit of a lead, but the rest of us are all pretty close, especially fourth on back. So, I’d like to think that this year is going to be a bit different for a lot of reasons, and I think the car is obviously a huge piece of that with just the parity.”
One of the first-time playoff drivers is Daniel Suarez in the No. 99 for Trackhouse Racing. Can he continue what has already been a career high by winning the championship from the 13th seed?
Suarez: “Yeah, I totally think so. If we were in last year, I would tell you, ‘Oh man, this guy