For Edwards, the win is the first of his 2016 season and fourth at Bristol.
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“There was so many different things happening there – different things happening at different times”, the pole-sitter said from victory lane. A crew member told me that this wasn’t anything unusual as the strategy seemed to change race to race and in some cases like Sunday morning it could change just prior to the start of a race.
Earnhardt finished second after his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet failed to take off with the rest of the field at the very start of the race and he fell nearly three laps down almost immediately.
If you like underdogs, DiBenedetto provided a great run with a career-best sixth-place finish, the best ever for BK Racing. Still, Earnhardt, Jr. worked his back from two laps down for a runner-up finish.
Earnhardt’s finish marked a huge recovery from a stalled vehicle at the start that eventually left him two laps down. “Gained some spots by just being in the right lane”.
“But this team, this 19 team, the pit crew, the road crew, everyone gets along so good and Carl treats us with a lot of respect”. Combined, JGR had seven tire failures. “The whole sport, everybody pushes everything to the edge, and we don’t know, while we don’t know what happened, could have been debris or could have been anything, we’ll just go back and look at it and learn from it. Fortunately Kyle has a win, and our cars are up front every week, so hopefully it doesn’t hurt us too bad”.
Nico Rosberg of Mercedes escaped unscathed from a wild first lap at the Chinese Grand Prix, and then showed why he’s the driver to beat this year in Formula One. That one organization had three of its cars suffer identical issues indicates a team-specific issue related to chassis setups, which Kenseth disputes. Kyle Busch, trying for his third straight Sprint Cup win, blew two right front tires, hit the wall twice and retired from the race in 38th place. That was far from the end for “Rowdy” as he spun his No. 18 Toyota on Lap 117 before cutting a tire one last time on Lap 260. “I don’t know why it kept getting tight and it kept blowing right fronts”. And just like with Busch, the second time Kenseth’s JGR Toyota hit the wall, it went to the garage, all hopes of winning dashed.
Due to the volume of caution flags, Elliott was able to take two wave-arounds and made his way back on to the lead lap.
“We got real lucky the last three restarts to be on the outside line”, said Jr. So I at no point felt comfortable. So I went to the infield medical center and got checked out.
She finished 29th there in just her fourth career Sprint Cup race in August 2012, which included an an accident not of her making.
“…Guys brought a good vehicle this weekend”, said Elliott. Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman and Joey Logano rounded out the top ten.
That total includes six top-5s this season, a strong carry over from last years title run.
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“I was just cruising, I was just riding along and the vehicle felt fine”, Busch said. “You can’t come back from adversity if you don’t have a good racecar and my guys gave me a great racecar today”.
