“I think with two to go, I was starting to get choked up”, he said. We got back up and running and made some laps, and made a really bad day into just an okay day. We’ve worked really, really hard to get a win and just haven’t done it and finally all the hard work by everybody, hundreds of people at our race shop, people who’ve got me to the Cup series, it was all paying off.
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Larson, 24, whose mother is Japanese, is the first graduate of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity and the NASCAR Next programs to win a Sprint Cup race.
The Camping World Truck Series will race at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Ontario next Sunday while both the Xfinity and the Sprint Cup Series will be racing at Darlington Raceway next weekend.
Kyle Larson celebrates winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Michigan International Speedway, in Brooklyn, Mich., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016.
Kyle Larson won his first career Sprint Cup Series race Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Elliott, who spun his tires when the green flag was raised for the final time, settled for second.
Chase Elliott beat Larson off pit road by half a auto length during the final green-flag pit stops of the race as it appeared the former was going to take his first career chequered flag, but Michael Annett brought out the caution with 12 laps remaining.
Larson’s win also broke a 99-race winless streak for Chip Ganassi Racing. There are two races remaining before the start of the 10-race Chase.
Larson is one of 12 drivers with victories this year locked into the 16-driver Chase with races left at Darlington and Richmond before the field is set.
Moffitt finished second a week earlier to Ben Kennedy, who had started the year driving the Red Horse Racing No. 11 Toyota. Took me a few months to win when I got into USAC…
Didn’t quite catch her breath they’re happy I got card and I spent ten minutes agreement Tyler’s and turned at the performance of his career leading 41 labs and rocketing to the front of the final restart.
Elliott, a rookie, was going to be the next first-time victor and Larson was going to be forced to discuss another race that got away. I was able to give him a push, a really hard push and got sideways, there, and was able to get the lead. I got to leave in the end.
Martin Truex Jr. started 14th in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series race and by Lap 58 of 200 he vaulted into the lead. Logano, the pole victor, finished 10th. Assuming no other new winners like Larson, teammate McMurray is locked into a tight battle with Elliott, Austin Dillon and Ryan Newman for the final three spots in the Chase available to those qualifying on points. Buescher is seven points ahead of David Ragan for 30th place on the season. Earning a Chase berth will do that, apparently.
WHO’S HOT: Points leader Kevin Harvick followed up his win at Bristol with a fifth-place showing at MI.
But Ganassi has shown patience with his NASCAR rebuild and he’s got faith in the 24-year-old Larson. But we’ve been pretty decent on superspeedways this year, gotten our cars better.
I can’t say enough about the kid and the job he’s done over the last few years.
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INSPECTION: Keselowski’s No. 2 Ford failed post-race laser inspection. In the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet is that she gave cars here. After pitting cycled through, Jimmie Johnson have moved to the lead. His lead is at 35 points over Bayne, while Larson is tied with Kasey Kahne, 39 off the pace.
