Austin Cindric, who is 25 years old, thinks the upcoming race at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is a chance for his team to start fresh. He said, “The last couple of weeks have been pretty funky with getting knocked out the first couple of laps at Phoenix and then obviously last week’s craziness and all the tire failures that we experienced.”
Cindric has raced in different types of cars on road tracks and has won six times on road courses in NASCAR’s Xfinity and Trucks series. Although he hasn’t won a road race in the Cup series yet, he has been competitive.
This will be Cindric’s fourth time racing at COTA. He has qualified in the top 10 for the race every season and finished in the top 10 in the past two races there, with his best finish being sixth last season.
Cindric said, “The last two weeks have been wildly out of the control of what I feel like our race team is capable of in a few different ways, but as far as COTA stacks up for me, no matter how you cut it, it’s been a race track that I’ve been able to be competitive at and lead laps every time I’ve been there in a Cup car.”
He added that even though COTA isn’t his favorite track, he has performed well there. He is eager to have a race where everything goes smoothly.
Cindric mentioned that COTA is a challenging track with different types of corners and surfaces that affect tire wear. Despite these challenges, he believes having a complete understanding of the track is key to being competitive there.
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