It was Kyle Busch who took the checkered flag and won his second consecutive Brickyard 400.
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Busch led a record 149 of 170 laps and beat teammate Matt Kenseth to the finish line in the second overtime by 2.126 seconds to win his second straight Brickyard 400.
“Tony, I know you don’t want to recognized and I know you’d rather keep it on the lowdown – but sorry, buddy, we’re in your home state; born and raised in Indiana”, Jeff started off. He has no experience in an open-wheel auto.
“The repeatability was something I was not looking forward to”, Busch said. “I’m not sure [when]”. “I had a decent restart the first time, and the second one I probably had just as good of a restart, but the 20 (Kenseth) got underneath me, and I was kind of stuck from that point and kind of fell into the clutches of the tires behind me”.
“I’ve never had a dominant vehicle like this”, Busch said after winning for the fourth time this season and sharing it with his wife and child.
I can’t climb up here on my pulpit and blame NASCAR or the rules package because I like the rules package per se.
“Almost impossible to describe how good this Dude is”, Andretti tweeted.
“It just was not good”, Logano said of the final restart. “But it meant a lot to me to be able to stand in front at the driver’s meeting and recognize him and then do that pace lap here at the end”.
And Busch has other things on his mind than the Indianapolis 500. He still doesn’t have a Brickyard win.
“I know that you don’t want to be recognized”, he said.
After Indy auto racing was unified as the IndyCar Series under Hulman &. “I think our Toyota today was strong, I think our Toyota tomorrow will be even stronger”.
“Our guys are getting after it”.
But George is more famous (or infamous) for creating the Indy Racing League and using the Indianapolis 500 as a bargaining chip in the quest to take control of Indy auto racing from CART.
The past tracks with heat races (Bristol, Richmond and Dover) had more dicey main events, in part because teams had a chance to work on their cars briefly between the heat and the main.
That made George’s ascension to the chairman’s seat of his family’s companies the biggest story of the day, marking a comeback that rivals any we’ve ever seen on the executive side of the sport. Jimmie Johnson broke up the expected Toyota parade in third. I had fun all day, had fun all weekend.
The race itself wasn’t what either driver hoped.
A day before the Brickyard, Busch chatted with IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden in the garage. Logano-606, 1; 9. Truex Jr-573, 1; 10.
As the Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway continues to be successful, the idea of more truck races on dirt is enticing.
I could go on and on about how historic Indianapolis is, but we all know this already.
Having swept both the Lilly Diabetes 250 and the Brickyard a year ago, it was going to be tough for Busch to up the ante this year.
“Eldora is just a unique place that fits well”.
While it’s been billed as their final race, it’s not likely to be their last time at the track.
“I enjoyed the moments”, Gordon said. I’m not saying it’s going to be a miracle cure, but I do think it would create some different scenarios where things would be happening that now aren’t.
The following two restarts also brought cautions, the eighth and final one coming when Jamie McMurray made an ill-advised lane change in front of Stewart near the end of pit road and spun sideways off the front bumper of Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet, also collecting Ryan Newman and Brian Scott. “Got through the gears fine and got in position, just couldn’t do anything when I got there”.
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“It was really cool”, Gordon said.
