.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Expert.CHARLOTTE NC, N.C.-- Kyle Larson really did not reach competition at Charlotte Electric motor Speedway in Might, missing a competition that brought about him coming up short for the regular-season title.His triumph Sunday at the keep track of strengthened him as the champion preference. Larson led 62 of the 109 tours for his sixth Cup victory of 2024 as he cruised to the triumph on the Charlotte nc roadway training course, a mixture of the oval and an infield portion of the facility.While Larson's succeed wasn't dramatic, other aspect of the race-- and postrace assessment-- were as his Hendrick Motorsports ally Alex Bowman was precluded for his cars and truck falling short to comply with postrace body weight criteria. The 38th-place appearance for Bowman led to him not accelerating to the upcoming sphere of the playoffs. The team may appeal the choice, and the allure will be heard this week.With Bowman being removed, Joey Logano relocated in to the final advancement area to the Around of 8 (NASCAR's model of a semifinal round). William Byron entered into the race as the only driver latched in to the semifinal round, where he will be actually signed up with through Hendrick colleagues Larson as well as Hunt Elliott Joe Gibbs Competing's Denny Hamlin and also Christopher Alarm Staff Penske's Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano and 23XI Dashing's Tyler Reddick.Eliminated coming from the playoffs were actually Bowman, Austin Cindric, Daniel Suarez and Hunt Briscoe.Takeaways coming from Charlotte: Bowman DisqualifiedBowman presumed he had actually accelerated with an 18th-place surface, yet his automobile was actually as well lightweight in postrace body weights. " Our company are actually operating to know the concern and also is going to decide Monday about whether to send a beauty," Hendrick Motorsports claimed in a statement.NASCAR Cup Series regulations need the cars and truck to be 3,400-3,500 extra pounds, depending on the body weight of the vehicle driver. The staff gets 5 percent-- about 17 extra pounds-- of tolerance after a competition yet the Bowman automobile still carried out certainly not create weight.The staff was enabled to fan to the automobile as well as purge the water supply and put in brand new water." Our company ran it back on [the ranges] and unfortunately it was the same weight," NASCAR Cup Collection Director Brad Moran mentioned. "The cars and truck had a weight problem. ... That finds yourself in an incompetency." Due to the possible allure, Moran will not claim how much weight the auto was listed below specifications.Larson Champ FavoriteThe quotes could stink of swagger but they were more matter-of-fact as Larson currently possesses two times as numerous wins as any other driver this season.Larson: "The industry recognizes that our experts're powerful. I assume the area knows that we could possibly succeed at any path." Crew principal Cliff Daniels:" [With] a incredibly strong amount of respect for all the staffs that are going to remain in the Round of 8. Everybody has actually earned their means to arrive. I presume our No. 1 competitor is ourselves, and I think if our team carry out the many things that we need to have to perform, our group can perform." The set moves to Las Vegas to open up the upcoming around, a track where Larson has actually succeeded the final pair of races. He also has actually won at the other monitors-- Farm and Martinsville-- in the around." Our experts would like to go to Las vega with a ton of self-confidence merely in our latest run there," Daniels said. "Our company are actually mosting likely to possess a healthy and balanced quantity of appreciation for that competition as well as all set for every one of them." Reddick RalliesReddick, the regular-season champ, possessed hard contact with Hamlin attempting to stay clear of Austin Dillon in the 2nd stage. He must pit a number of opportunities for repair services as well as invested considerably of the occasion behind Logano in the war for what they thought was actually the final spot (till learning about the Bowman DQ hrs after the competition). Countering for tires with 27 laps staying while Logano didn't intend to quit his keep track of setting confirmed to be the right ring as Reddick blistered his technique from 26th to 11th, leaving him four aspects in front of Logano, that lost coming from 4th to eighth over the final twenty laps.Reddick performed it typically clean however performed possess exchange Daniel Hemric in the barrette twist." He simply made a mistake," Hemric pointed out. "I recognized he got on fresher tires. ... Nothing at all outright, simply part of the chaos back there certainly. I know he's on tires and has to make progress onward but wished for a bit extra perseverance there." Beyond emotion bad for that oversight, it was a gritty performance for the motorist for the staff co-owned through Michael Jordan." That's certainly not exactly the program of getting back to the front end, meeting along with fellow motorists you care about," Reddick claimed. "However it is actually racing. It is actually a deadline ethnicity. You have actually reached create assertive actions and also you've come to go all out. I attempted to perform it as easily as feasible. ... It was actually certainly a mistake." It does not modify the fact that it occurred. It performed. Yet our company needed to pass some cars." Cindric, that completed fourth, carried out as much as he could. Briscoe and also Suarez had mechanical difficulties. " I seemed like within reason, without examining my mind, the crew called a terrific ethnicity, I experienced I drove a great race-- just not nearly enough," Cindric said. "I thought that we were actually fantastic but certainly not the greatest. Therefore truly great to carry that when our company needed it the most. But our company needed to have to locate yet another amount to win." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually invested decades dealing with motorsports, consisting of over 30 Daytona 500s, with jobs at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Performance publication and also The (Daytona Beach Front) News-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Acquire even more coming from NASCAR Cup Series Follow your favorites to receive info about activities, news and more.