HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Larson handed Alex Bowman with six laps remaining in NASCAR’s Cup Collection race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, giving the Hendrick Motorsports driver the thirtieth win of his profession at one in all his greatest tracks.
Larson sped by as Bowman scraped the wall on Flip 4 with the lead. Larson prolonged his edge to greater than a second over his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, then held on to beat Bowman by 1.205 seconds for his second profession Cup Collection win at Homstead, and his second victory of the weekend.
Larson fell one race in need of sweeping the triple-header weekend. He gained the Craftsman Truck race on Friday and completed fourth within the Xfinity Collection on Saturday. He hoped to be a part of Kyle Busch as the one drivers to comb a triple-header weekend — Busch did it at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2010 and 2017.
He was removed from dominant on Sunday. Larson, driving the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, led simply 19 of 267 laps and needed to overcome poor beginning place, pit highway mishaps and dangerous restarts to drag off the win — his first victory of the season and first within the Cup Collection at Homestead since 2022.
Bowman, who was Saturday’s pole winner, completed second within the No. 48 Chevrolet. Bubba Wallace was third for 23XI Racing after main 43 laps — probably the most laps he’s led in a race since September 2023. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin rounded out the highest 5.
Ryan Blaney was working third when his engine blew up on Lap 207, inflicting a thick cloud of smoke to cowl the monitor and a prolonged cleanup.
It had been a powerful race for Blaney earlier than then. He led 124 laps and gained Stage 1 after beginning sixth. It was the second time in three races that Blaney didn’t end a race due to an engine failure together with his No. 12 Staff Penske Ford.
“It simply stinks,” Blaney mentioned. “Led a variety of laps. Misplaced slightly little bit of monitor place there with some stuff on pit highway however bought again to 3rd. And it was an ideal race between me, Bubba and Larson. … It was going to be a heck of a battle the final 60 laps or so, however simply didn’t actually work out for us. We’ll hold our head up.
“It’s a kind of issues the place it’s probably not going our manner proper now, however the excellent news is we’re bringing quick automobiles.”
Pit highway mishaps
Whereas exiting pit highway on Lap 84, Josh Berry’s No. 21 Ford hit the aspect of Larson’s automotive, then hit Joey Logano’s No. 22 Ford. Each Logano and Berry spun then went the unsuitable course into their pit stalls to verify the harm. Larson’s automotive was barely broken from the contact.
One other incident occurred on Lap 172. Chase Elliott acquired a penalty for not being line up single-file coming into pit highway, regardless that Elliott may very well be heard on his in-car feed saying the he had veered left to keep away from hitting somebody, however gave the spot again. Elliott, driving a No. 9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, completed 18th.
Up subsequent
The Cup sequence races subsequent at Martinsville Speedway, the place Blaney gained in November to punch his ticket into final season’s playoff closing 4. Wiliam Byron gained Martinsville final spring.
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