.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- Kyle Larson didn't reach race at Charlotte nc Motor Speedway in May, missing a competition that contributed to him coming up short for the regular-season title.His victory Sunday at the path solidified him as the championship favorite. Larson led 62 of the 109 tours for his sixth Mug success of 2024 as he cruised to the accomplishment on the Charlotte roadway training course, a blend of the oblong as well as an infield part of the facility.While Larson's gain wasn't dramatic, various other portion of the competition-- as well as postrace evaluation-- were actually as his Hendrick Motorsports ally Alex Bowman was disqualified for his car falling short to fulfill postrace weight criteria. The 38th-place appearance for Bowman caused him certainly not progressing to the following around of the playoffs. The group can appeal the choice, and also the beauty would be heard this week.With Bowman being removed, Joey Logano moved in to the last innovation area to the Sphere of 8 (NASCAR's model of a semifinal sphere). William Byron got in the race as the only driver locked into the semifinal around, where he will definitely be joined through Hendrick colleagues Larson and Chase Elliott Joe Gibbs Dashing's Denny Hamlin and also Christopher Bell Group Penske's Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano as well as 23XI Dashing's Tyler Reddick.Eliminated from the playoffs were Bowman, Austin Cindric, Daniel Suarez and Hunt Briscoe.Takeaways coming from Charlotte: Bowman DisqualifiedBowman believed he had actually evolved with an 18th-place finish, but his cars and truck was as well light in postrace body weights. " Our company are actually working to recognize the problem as well as will certainly make a decision Monday concerning whether to provide a charm," Hendrick Motorsports pointed out in a statement.NASCAR Cup Series regulations demand the cars and truck to become 3,400-3,500 extra pounds, relying on the weight of the chauffeur. The group gets 5 per-cent-- about 17 extra pounds-- of tolerance after a race but the Bowman auto still did not make weight.The team was made it possible for to intensify to the automobile as well as remove the water supply as well as put in brand new water." Our team ran it back on [the ranges] and also unfortunately it coincided body weight," NASCAR Cup Series Supervisor Brad Moran said. "The auto possessed a body weight issue. ... That ends up in an incompetency." As a result of the feasible allure, Moran would not mention just how much weight the cars and truck was actually below specifications.Larson Champ FavoriteThe quotes might reek of swagger yet they were actually much more matter-of-fact as Larson currently possesses two times as several victories as some other chauffeur this season.Larson: "The industry knows that our company're powerful. I think the industry knows that we could possibly succeed at any type of monitor." Workers principal High cliff Daniels:" [With] a very tough quantity of respect for all the crews that are going to reside in the Round of 8. Everybody has earned their means to arrive. I presume our No. 1 rival is ourselves, and I think if our experts do things that we need to have to accomplish, our staff can carry out." The collection moves to Sin city to open up the upcoming sphere, a monitor where Larson has won the last pair of ethnicities. He also has won at the other tracks-- Ranch and Martinsville-- in the around." Our experts intend to visit Las vega with a considerable amount of assurance simply in our current run there," Daniels pointed out. "We're going to have a healthy quantity of respect for that race and prepared for all of all of them." Reddick RalliesReddick, the regular-season champ, had hard exposure to Hamlin trying to stay clear of Austin Dillon in the second phase. He had to pit numerous opportunities for repair services and also invested a lot of the event responsible for Logano in the fight of what they presumed was actually the final place (till discovering the Bowman DQ hours after the race). Pitting for tires along with 27 laps continuing to be while Logano didn't wish to surrender his monitor placement proved to become the appropriate telephone call as Reddick blistered his technique from 26th to 11th, leaving him 4 factors ahead of Logano, who fell coming from fourth to 8th over the final twenty laps.Reddick did it typically well-maintained yet did have contact with Daniel Hemric in the hairpin twist." He simply made a mistake," Hemric mentioned. "I understood he was on fresher tires. ... Nothing egregious, only aspect of the disorder back certainly there. I know he performs tires as well as has to make progress forward however yearned for a little bit much more perseverance there certainly." Beyond sensation poor for that blunder, it was an abrasive performance for the chauffeur for the group co-owned by Michael Jordan." That's certainly not exactly the planning of returning to the face, meeting with fellow motorists you respect," Reddick claimed. "However it is actually racing. It's a deadline race. You've come to bring in aggressive moves and you have actually come to go for it. I made an effort to perform it as precisely as possible. ... It was actually definitely a mistake." It does not transform the simple fact that it happened. It did. However our team had to pass some automobiles." Cindric, that completed fourth, carried out as much as he could. Briscoe and also Suarez possessed technical issues. " I felt like within reason, without reviewing my head, the team called a fantastic ethnicity, I experienced I drove a terrific race-- simply not enough," Cindric pointed out. "I felt like we were terrific but certainly not the most ideal. Therefore really awesome to carry that when our company needed it one of the most. However we required to find one more amount to succeed." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent years dealing with motorsports, including over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance magazine and The (Daytona Seaside) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Receive even more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your preferences to receive info concerning video games, headlines and also additional.