Then late in the race he tagged the wall and while still being able to maintain his up front status, it might have had a big hand in his inability to chase down Truex at the end. He just doesn’t know it yet. Then, the team was a novelty, a fun, fish-out-of-water tale of the little team that won a big race. Especially with the elimination-style, one-bad-race-can-ruin-you Chase for the Sprint Cup format, any driver who doesn’t win a championship really can’t look at it to define success. That’s something to be proud of when looking back on a season.
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The rest of the top ten starts with Matt Kenseth (No.20) finishing sixth, Kasey Kahne (No.5) seventh, Ryan Newman (No.31) eighth, Brad Keselowski (No.2) ninth and Chase Elliott (No.24) finishes tenth.
It was Truex’s first career Southern 500 win and the second for his Furniture Row Racing team. Two of the sport’s crown jewels, for sure. “We started 12th and eighth and sixth, and we had a great race vehicle all night”.
This season, Truex led the most laps and should have won at Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway, and did win at Charlotte Motor Speedway in a record-breaking performance in which he led 588 of 600 miles. This isn’t the time to get complacent.
“We never lost confidence”, Truex said.
“I’ve been wanting to win here for a long time, ” Sadler crowed after.
“But with that being said, we’ve got two, and I really feel like we’ve got a legitimate shot at this championship”.
Truex isn’t lying when he said he could have won several races this year. It was just frustrating to lead laps throughout my career here. Last year, he led 567.
Year after year die hard race fans like Zoe Brais and her best friend Kirby Groome come to the race. Klutt, who races in NASCAR’s Pinty series, won in Bowmanville last season on his way to rookie of the year honors. For Earnhardt, such interactions fuel his recovery – one he expects to be complete in time for next February’s Daytona 500.
“With the team we have and the way we’ve been running, we could honestly be sitting here with seven, eight, nine wins”, Truex said.
“We’re just mediocre on pit road”.
“It’s been a good season, but it definitely could be a great season”, he said.
The 10-race Chase for the Championship starts September 18 at Chicagoland Speedway.
“Dale senior use to beat his doors in coming around that corner on turn four, you get more aerodynamics on his vehicle to be able to win the races”. It is uncertain for now if Stewart and his team will be penalized anything because of the incident. Sunday night but was extremely upset afterward about the mistakes made on pit road. Crew chief Rodney Childers told Harvick the airgun was switched on to reverse and knocked all the lugnuts off of the tire with just over 80 laps remaining. There is a feeling of empathy, though, that many racers can relate to as they celebrate while another crew has their heads down in frustration. I disagree that I didn’t have anything for them. It’s not easy. They had a great vehicle again tonight. Like it or not, you can have one side of the team doing great and the other side struggling. The pit crew was flawless tonight.
They should be happy. He has 394 career Sprint Cup starts. “This is such a fun weekend with the throwback stuff”, Larson said.
I mean, Truex was good, don’t get me wrong, but he wasn’t driving with Harvickian aplomb.
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It’s been an ongoing source of frustration for Harvick this season. There’s some truth to that and it stretches beyond Kyle Busch and Joey Logano. “I just couldn’t be more excited”.
