This one is for the Clauson family. We got back up and running and made some laps, and made a really awful day into just an okay day. “I love you guys, we’re going to miss him”. “What if you would have moved him?’ Now I won, so we don’t have to talk about that anymore”. We want to cookie-cutter them into saying, ‘He’s this, this driver is this, this team is that, this team is that.’ Really, they’re all different. Regularly Kyle Larson exhibited why so many people often compared him to Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, former open-wheel sprint auto standouts who evolved into NASCAR greats.
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“I was relieved that the caution came out because there was absolutely no way I was going to win the race had that yellow not come out”, Larson said. One driver who will not be in the Chase is Dale Earnhardt Jr., who will not drive the No. 88 vehicle for this weekend’s MI race nor for Darlington the following week.
The victory came in Larson’s 99th career start and was the first win for Chip Ganassi Racing in 99 races.
“Yeah, no question the kid has talent, he can drive”, said team owner Chip Ganassi. “Dave (crew chief Rogers) did a great job there at the end”. The team rallied around him.
“When we took that last restart I saw three guys up there that hadn’t won before”, six-time series champion Jimmie Johnson said. Do the math. I made like the third or fourth most points in the Chase.
Ganassi, whose open-wheel teams have won IndyCar championships and Indy 500s, was nearly as happy as his driver.
As the laps wore down, the # 42 Chevy of Kyle Larson held the lead.
“We had a lot of work to do after the first third of the race”. Thanks to (sponsor) Target. “We messed up that last stop but we made it back”.
“For sure I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t”, said Elliott when asked if he felt frustrated. Runs smoothly or maybe the best auto but from us today we’re third place vehicle we kind of finish her reserve and and at the end there I gave how really get pushed my case quite exhausted a little bit and next thing you know we’re off to races I got the second I just wasn’t as fast is it case is in the binding house in the driveway. Brett Moffitt won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at MI and Michael McDowell took the checkered flag in the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin to go along with Larson’s win at MI. By the second lap he went from 14th to 10th. It ended up being something a little more simple than I guess we originally figured. You know hundreds of people underage child.
On the flip side, I really feel bad for Chase Elliott. If you are lagging behind in your league, picking the popular lineup isn’t going to help you close the gap.
“I think this package is pretty strong”, he said. I can’t tell you how much respect I have for the people on the team that do the work, that hung in there, kept me in the game as well. “Just try to fix it. Hope you have more opportunities to improve and to show that you can do it down the road”. The leaders pitted for the final time under green on lap 156 of 200 and Elliot beat Larson out of the pits and took the lead. Even going back, today I think about days like at Dover where we finished second behind Matt. Here are my early picks to get you started, but check back again after qualifying for my final picks and fades. “I like it a lot”.
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The Freaky Fast Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick led 33 laps and rounded out the top five in the fifth position. There are just three races to go before the Chase field is set, and Larson, Kahne, A.J. Allmendinger, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Ryan Blaney are all within striking distance of making the playoffs on points.
