“I feel pretty confident that we will be fine in the Chase”.
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He admitted to sweating down the stretch.
Image Credit: Examiner ” These rain races, a lot of it is luck”, Larson said.
The victory was Larson’s first of the season and fourth in the series, but it was a source of frustration to runner-up Erik Jones, who arguably had the fastest vehicle and was closing rapidly on Larson when a rain shower blew in from the west and stopped the action.
Earnhardt Jr. wound up finishing second. “He couldn’t make it all the way running hard, and I didn’t know if we could. Hopefully, the luck has turned and maybe we can start winning some Cup races, as well”.
“Our rule of thumb is that we’re not going to start an event without full intentions of completing it in its entirety”, said Kerry Tharp, NASCAR’s senior director of communications.
Truex will start a little farther back than he’s been accustomed lately. He’s led just 49 laps all season (and led in just two races) and hasn’t been in the lead at any point over the last nine.
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After the restart on Lap 44, Larson pulled away to a lead of almost two seconds before Jones starting gaining ground on the No. 42 Chevrolet. One of his pit crew members threw a shoulder block into a side panel, which caused a dent that potentially could give the auto more sideforce and an aerodynamic edge on the track.
Daniel Suarez holds an 11-point lead over Elliott Sadler in the point standings.
“Obviously, there are so many good cars each week”, Elliott said during media interviews in advance of Sunday’s Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 (1 p.m. ET on FS1). If a change is made at the track, a crew chief in North Carolina still can see what happens.
“With a better forecast, we would have had a better weekend all the way around, but the forecast scared a lot of people off”, Igdalsky said.
But Gibson was hardly forgotten, so Busch and Klausmeier left a space between them in a winner’s circle photo with their arms around nothing but air.
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“I couldn’t tell where the 24 (of Elliott) was … we were in line going down the straightaway and he dove in the corner underneath me”. There really wasn’t a doubt (about fuel). He kept giving me numbers. He not only had fuel to finish the race, but did a cool-down lap and a long burnout in front of the main grandstand. That’s when Jeremy Mayfield bumped the late Dale Earnhardt out of the lead in turn 3 on the final lap to win the Pocono 500.
