Racing at Talladega Superspeedway can breed a lot of strategies. That’s something that drivers are apparently embracing on Sunday.
At the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Hellmann’s 500, three of the Joe Gibbs Racing drivers dropped to the rear of the field. Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards went to the rear of the restrictor-plate race in the opening laps.
. @mattkenseth , @KyleBusch and #CarlEdwards drop to the back of the field to hopefully avoid the "Big One". @dennyhamlin is p5. #TheChase
— Joe Gibbs Racing (@JoeGibbsRacing) October 23, 2016
Talladega always features diverse strategies in a bid to stay out of the multicar crash that often occurs at the track that puts drivers in tight packs of cars, storming around the track at 200 mph.