.Bob Pockrass.FOX NASCAR Insider.CHARLOTTE NC, N.C.-- Kyle Larson really did not get to race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, missing a competition that added to him losing for the regular-season title.His success Sunday at the monitor hardened him as the champion preference. Larson led 62 of the 109 tours for his 6th Mug success of 2024 as he navigated to the accomplishment on the Charlotte street training program, a blend of the oval and also an infield portion of the facility.While Larson's win wasn't significant, various other component of the race-- as well as postrace evaluation-- were as his Hendrick Motorsports ally Alex Bowman was actually invalidated for his cars and truck falling short to meet postrace body weight demands. The 38th-place finish for Bowman led to him certainly not progressing to the following round of the playoffs. The crew can strike the selection, and the beauty would be heard this week.With Bowman being gotten rid of, Joey Logano relocated into the ultimate innovation place to the Around of 8 (NASCAR's model of a semifinal around). William Byron entered the race as the only chauffeur latched in to the semifinal around, where he will definitely be actually participated in by Hendrick teammates Larson as well as Pursuit Elliott Joe Gibbs Competing'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 Bowman, Austin Cindric, Daniel Suarez as well as Chase Briscoe.Takeaways coming from Charlotte Nc: Bowman DisqualifiedBowman presumed he had advanced along with an 18th-place coating, but his vehicle was actually too lightweight in postrace body weights. " Our company are operating to know the issue and also is going to choose Monday regarding whether to submit a beauty," Hendrick Motorsports claimed in a statement.NASCAR Mug Series rules need the automobile to be 3,400-3,500 pounds, depending upon the weight of the motorist. The crew receives 5 percent-- regarding 17 extra pounds-- of tolerance after a race but the Bowman car still did not bring in weight.The team was actually made it possible for to intensify to the auto as well as remove the water supply and also place in brand new water." Our experts ran it back on [the scales] and sadly it was the same body weight," NASCAR Cup Series Director Brad Moran said. "The auto possessed a body weight problem. ... That winds up in a disqualification." Due to the possible beauty, Moran would not claim the amount of weight the vehicle was below specifications.Larson Champ FavoriteThe prices estimate could stink of swagger but they were extra matter-of-fact as Larson now has two times as lots of victories as some other motorist this season.Larson: "The industry understands that our experts are actually tough. I think the field recognizes that our company could gain at any type of track." Crew chief Cliff Daniels:" [Along with] a quite powerful quantity of respect for all the teams that are actually visiting remain in the Sphere of 8. Everyone has gained their method to arrive. I believe our No. 1 competition is ourselves, and I assume if our company do the many things that we need to have to carry out, our staff may perform." The collection heads to Sin city to open up the upcoming sphere, a monitor where Larson has won the last 2 ethnicities. He additionally has actually won at the various other keep tracks of-- Home as well as Martinsville-- in the around." Our experts wish to most likely to Las vega with a lot of peace of mind simply in our current run there," Daniels said. "Our company are actually visiting have a well-balanced amount of regard for that competition and all set for every one of them." Reddick RalliesReddick, the regular-season champ, possessed challenging contact with Hamlin making an effort to steer clear of Austin Dillon in the 2nd phase. He must match a number of times for repair services and also spent a lot of the activity responsible for Logano in the struggle of what they believed was actually the final place (till discovering the Bowman DQ hrs after the race). Countering for tires along with 27 tours continuing to be while Logano really did not want to give up his keep track of position proved to become the best phone call as Reddick blistered his way coming from 26th to 11th, leaving him four points in front of Logano, who fell coming from 4th to 8th over the final twenty laps.Reddick performed it mainly tidy however carried out have exchange Daniel Hemric in the barrette turn." He merely made a mistake," Hemric claimed. "I understood he was on fresher tires. ... Nothing egregious, merely part of the mayhem back there certainly. I know he performs tires and also must act forward but wished for a bit more determination there certainly." Beyond feeling negative for that blunder, it was a sandy performance for the driver for the staff co-owned through Michael Jordan." That is actually not precisely the strategy of returning to the face, meeting along with fellow drivers you love," Reddick claimed. "Yet it is actually racing. It is actually a cutoff ethnicity. You've reached create aggressive moves and also you've got to go for it. I attempted to perform it as precisely as achievable. ... It was most definitely an error." It doesn't change the truth that it occurred. It carried out. But our experts had to pass some vehicles." Cindric, who ended up fourth, did as long as he could. Briscoe and Suarez had technical issues. " I thought that reasonably, without reviewing my mind, the team got in touch with a great ethnicity, I felt I drove an excellent nationality-- only not enough," Cindric claimed. "I seemed like we were actually excellent yet certainly not the best. Thus actually cool to deliver that when our experts required it the most. However our experts needed to have to discover one more degree to win." Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has actually spent decades covering motorsports, featuring over 30 Daytona 500s, along with jobs at ESPN, Sporting Updates, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Coastline) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass. Get much more from NASCAR Cup Collection Observe your faves to obtain info concerning games, information as well as more.