Martin Truex, Jr. finally shook off his bad luck and broke through to score his second win of the season in Sunday night’s Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway for his first-career Darlington victory.
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But Sadler held strong through the final turns and crossed in front to earn the checkered flag at Darlington for the first time in 32 career starts – 18 in Sprint Cup, 13 in Xfinity and one in the truck series. When told of NASCAR’s demand, Stewart said, “Hey man, made it 25 races, I’d say that’s pretty good”.
Harvick led the most laps of any driver but errors during his pit-stops cost him multiple positions during the 367-lap race.
Harvick rallied, but was.607 seconds behind race victor Martin Truex at the end.
Kyle Larson finished third, Denny Hamlin fourth and Joey Logano fifth.
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However, when the race began at Darlington in 2003, it was exciting to watch from my old giant boxed television set in the basement from beginning to end. “The guys in the garage and at the shop continue to do a great job, and we continue to give it away on pit road”. I’ve led a lot of laps here and I feel like something always happens.
“It is cool to get to have that on your vehicle and be a part of what Darlington has put together, ” McMurray said.
WHO’S NOT: Jimmie Johnson had his troubles at Darlington where he’s won three times. Austin Dillon could also make the Chase for the championship in next week’s regular-season finale, as could Chris Buescher, last year’s Xfinity Series champion who used a win at rain-shortened Pocono to slide into title contention. Kyle Larson, days after his first Sprint Cup win, was third and challenging.
Paul Menard had a tire failure and hit Kurt Busch, who spun and hit the wall, destroying his Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet and bringing out the caution with 40 laps to go. Because in the last 14 races at Darlington, 10 of the winners have come from the top 10 spots on the starting grid. But Craven ran him down again and was able to get the big push by driving on the high line in turns three and four to get right back to the back bumper of Busch’s Ford.
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In his final Darlington start, Tony Stewart finished 35 after his engine blew on lap 318 and remained winless at the track.
