.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.CHARLOTTE NC, N.C.-- Kyle Larson didn't get to race at Charlotte nc Electric motor Speedway in Might, overlooking a competition that added to him coming up short for the regular-season title.His success Sunday at the track strengthened him as the championship favorite. Larson led 62 of the 109 tours for his sixth Cup triumph of 2024 as he cruised to the victory on the Charlotte nc road program, a blend of the egg-shaped and an infield portion of the facility.While Larson's succeed wasn't dramatic, various other parts of the race-- as well as postrace assessment-- were actually as his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman was invalidated for his auto falling short to comply with postrace weight requirements. The 38th-place coating for Bowman led to him certainly not evolving to the next round of the playoffs. The group may strike the selection, and the allure would certainly be actually heard this week.With Bowman being eliminated, Joey Logano moved into the last innovation area to the Sphere of 8 (NASCAR's model of a semifinal round). William Byron got in the race as the only vehicle driver secured into the semifinal around, where he will definitely be actually signed up with through Hendrick allies Larson and also Chase Elliott Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin as well as Christopher Alarm Group Penske's Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano and 23XI Racing's Tyler Reddick.Eliminated from the playoffs were actually Bowman, Austin Cindric, Daniel Suarez and also Pursuit Briscoe.Takeaways coming from Charlotte Nc: Bowman DisqualifiedBowman believed he had evolved with an 18th-place coating, yet his cars and truck was too lightweight in postrace weights. " Our experts are functioning to know the concern and also will certainly choose Monday about whether to send a beauty," Hendrick Motorsports claimed in a statement.NASCAR Mug Series rules demand the car to become 3,400-3,500 extra pounds, depending on the body weight of the chauffeur. The team gets 5 percent-- concerning 17 extra pounds-- of tolerance after a competition but the Bowman auto still carried out not create weight.The group was actually permitted to intensify to the auto as well as purge the water supply and put in new water." Our team ran it back on [the ranges] and sadly it was the same body weight," NASCAR Cup Collection Director Brad Moran said. "The cars and truck possessed a weight concern. ... That finds yourself in a disqualification." Due to the achievable charm, Moran will certainly not point out just how much weight the vehicle was actually listed below specifications.Larson Champ FavoriteThe quotations may reek of swagger yet they were actually extra practical as Larson currently has twice as many success as some other driver this season.Larson: "The industry recognizes that our company are actually solid. I believe the industry knows that our company could win at any type of track." Team main Cliff Daniels:" [Along with] a incredibly tough volume of respect for all the staffs that are actually going to reside in the Around of 8. Everybody has made their method to get there. I presume our No. 1 competitor is our own selves, and also I assume if our team perform things that our team need to have to perform, our staff can perform." The series heads to Las Vegas to open the next sphere, a keep track of where Larson has succeeded the final pair of races. He likewise has won at the various other tracks-- Ranch and Martinsville-- in the sphere." Our company desire to go to Vegas along with a bunch of confidence only in our current operate certainly there," Daniels mentioned. "We're visiting have a well-balanced volume of appreciation for that competition and prepared for every one of all of them." Reddick RalliesReddick, the regular-season champ, had difficult exposure to Hamlin attempting to prevent Austin Dillon in the second phase. He had to pit several opportunities for repairs as well as spent much of the celebration responsible for Logano in the war of what they assumed was actually the last location (till discovering the Bowman DQ hours after the race). Matching for tires with 27 laps remaining while Logano really did not want to surrender his monitor posture showed to be the appropriate phone call as Reddick blistered his means from 26th to 11th, leaving him 4 points in front of Logano, that dropped from 4th to 8th over the final 20 laps.Reddick did it usually tidy however performed possess exposure to Daniel Hemric in the barrette twist." He only miscalculated," Hemric mentioned. "I understood he was on fresher tires. ... Absolutely nothing outright, merely part of the chaos back there certainly. I recognize he performs tires and also has to act ahead yet wanted a little bit a lot more perseverance there." Beyond sensation negative for that blunder, it was a rough functionality for the driver for the group co-owned through Michael Jordan." That is actually not precisely the strategy of responding to the front, getting together along with fellow chauffeurs you appreciate," Reddick stated. "But it is actually racing. It's a deadline nationality. You've reached create vigorous steps and also you've got to go all out. I attempted to perform it as easily as feasible. ... It was actually absolutely an error." It doesn't transform the fact that it happened. It performed. However our company needed to pass some vehicles." Cindric, who ended up fourth, did as high as he could. Briscoe as well as Suarez had technical issues. " I believed that reasonably, without reviewing my mind, the group called a great race, I experienced I steered a terrific ethnicity-- simply insufficient," Cindric mentioned. "I seemed like our team were actually terrific yet not the best. Therefore truly amazing to carry that when our company required it the best. But we needed to find another degree to gain." Bob Pockrass deals with NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has invested many years dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, along with stints at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Performance journal and also The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire much more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your faves to get relevant information concerning activities, updates as well as more.