“I’m proud to get to victory lane with this group”. Several potential wins over the past three years have gone by wayside as a result, with the problem so prevalent SHR switched Harvick’s crew with that of teammate Tony Stewart for the 2014 Chase playoffs, which Harvick ultimately won.
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Larson, who’s led a career-best 181 laps this season should also be smack in the middle of your fantasy roster. Last race: Brett Moffitt won for the first time in a major NASCAR series at MI. The only blips on the radar have been wrecks not of Larson’s making; wins have a way of turning pesky Lady Luck back around.
Truex got past Ryan Newman and Brad Keselowski on the race’s next-to-last restart and sprinted away to the lead. Now NASCAR’s top drivers are parking and working in his garage.
“Of course this is the first one that we have been too that Junior hasn’t been here”, mentioned Owens. Apparently he got mad at me.
It remains to be seen what Harvick can do for this season.
If viewers tuned in without knowing it was throwback weekend it would have left them scratching their heads because few cars had recognizable paint jobs, with maybe the exception of the No. 43 Ford with the familiar Richard Petty STP colors.
The remnants of Hurricane Hermine have already interrupted on-track action for Darlington this weekend.
Millican had a track-record time of 3.692 at 316.82 on Saturday. Were along for the ride when it comes to Mother Nature..
Poles won by Denny Hamlin this season.
The duo was racing together on lap 203 when the fireworks started.
Laps completed by Trevor Bayne.
LeeRoy Yarbrough (1969), David Pearson (1976) and Jeff Gordon (1997) are the only other drivers to win the three biggest races.
The Southern 500 is the next stop on the Sprint Cup schedule, and will we ever have lot to discuss. “You’re not going to win races like that”. His 6.5 average finish at the track is the best in the series, and he has a series-leading eight top 10s in the last ten races here, including four finishes of third or better in his last six starts. The Southern 500 is a tough race. That being said, the seven-time Darlington victor has seven top 10s and an 8.8 average finish in the last ten races here, so he is still my C-List choice. Jamie McMurray tinkered around with his radio controlled auto. It was Larson’s 99th start in stock car’s top series.
A TASTE OF SUCCESS: Kyle Larson almost made it two straight wins before finishing third Sunday.
When Clint Bowyer and Aric Almirola tangled shortly thereafter, destroying Almirola’s handsome No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports throwback auto, Harvick caught a break. You nearly always see a short-term boost after these types of “executive” shakeups; Darlington gives hope in the form of an 11th-place finish last season. While Truex has been running well for much of the season, he certainly hadn’t been as much of a contender as he had been earlier in the season. Joey Logano and Kyle Busch are right behind at 7/1.
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“We weathered the storm, got everything we could to set up, we’re ready to roll”, said Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan and Charleston native Lance Kenyon.
