After Locking into Playoffs, Austin Cindric Unlikely to Finish as Well as Expected
Source: Racing Reference

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May 25, 2025
After being originally and erroneously typecast as a road course expert, Austin Cindric has now found his primary niche as a drafting track driver and his secondary niche as an intermediate driver. Cindric has seemingly been fast in the first stage of every intermediate race this year, even winning Stage 1 at Las Vegas and Texas, but he hasn't really gotten the finishes corresponding to how he has run since he tends to run worse at the end of the race. However, Cindric's 14th place start tonight is his worst on an intermediate this season, just worse than last week's 13th at Kansas. This raises the question whether Cindric and the No. 2 team are no longer focusing as much on current races now that he is locked into the playoffs in order to prepare for the playoff races. Since this is Penske's consistent playoff strategy of late, be wary of starting Cindric anywhere unless he qualified terribly. Yesterday, he did not qualify terribly.--Sean Wrona - RotoBaller
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