This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. “Hopefully these next few weeks are a lot like today.” MORE NEWS: Michigan Community Choosing To Help Each Other In Time Of Need After Flint Home Explosion It’s not like something I am upset about if I don’t lead any laps in a race or anything, but once I am leading I want to stay in the lead to help catch that record or whatever,” he said. … I think somewhere in the back of my mind like it’s a goal. With 2,267 laps led, he is also in reach of Jeff Gordon’s record mark of 2,320 in a season since NASCAR went to a 36-race schedule in 2001. Larson said he doesn’t plan to race any differently at Kansas and Martinsville, looking to win stages and races to keep the momentum going into Phoenix.
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Truex and Hamlin have both won twice in that span, with Blaney the only one of that group without a victory there.įORT WORTH, TEXAS – OCTOBER 17: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 DEX Imaging Ford, and Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 Kelley Blue Book Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Octoin Fort Worth, Texas.
Eight of the last nine races in Kansas have been won by one of the seven remaining playoff contenders. That is another 1 1/2-mile track, where Busch won in May. It’s going to be the same way at Kansas.” “The way these cars race where we are packed up for a couple of laps, you just never know. I think we ended up gaining a point over the cut, somehow. “All the late-race restarts at the end get so wild and crazy and you have no idea what is going to happen, and who is going to get checked up and stuff like that,” Blaney said. Hamlin twice had contact in the closing laps and managed to stay on the lead lap even after having to pit and finished 11th. Three of the late restarts Sunday came after incidents involving Hamlin, Truex, and Logano. So that’s good”įORT WORTH, TEXAS – OCTOBER 17: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Craftsman Toyota, pits during the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Octoin Fort Worth, Texas. “I just was more worried about like if you get in the wall or something like Denny or Truex, or get caught up in a wreck, stuff like that, which now we don’t have to worry about. “It probably still would have been on my mind going to Kansas,” Larson said. Like he did after the race, he made reference to Harvick, who last year went into the round of eight with an even bigger margin but didn’t make the final four. He had also won in his previous All-Star race appearance, in 2019 while still with Ganassi, but missed last year’s big-money exhibition while suspended.Īlready 42 points above the cutline before Sunday’s race, Larson said then that he wasn’t exactly comfortable with that. READ MORE: Wixom Man Charged In Shooting Death Of Father's Ex-GirlfriendĪlong with his eight Cup wins and 16 other top-10 finishes this season, Larson also won at Texas in June, in the $1 million, non-points All-Star race. That cost him almost every sponsor, his seat with Chip Ganassi Racing, and nearly his career before Rick Hendrick signed him before this season.
Larson was suspended by NASCAR and didn’t race again last year after using a racial slur during a livestream while in a virtual race when on-track events were on pause during the pandemic. He is in the championship four the first time, eight years after his Cup debut.įORT WORTH, TEXAS – OCTOBER 17: Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 Chevrolet, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Octoin Fort Worth, Texas.
This has been quite a comeback season for Larson, the 29-year-old California native who wasn’t even racing in NASCAR at this time last year. He led the final 218 laps, staying in front through all of those restarts. Larson led 256 of 334 laps at the 1 1/2-mile Texas track for his eighth win this season, and third in seven playoff races. The next few races you just have to keep racing like you have.” I don’t think you can ever get comfortable unless you’re the 5 car (Larson). “You’ve just got to keep doing what you’re doing. I mean, you can have an issue in the first stage and all that’s gone,” Blaney said of being 17 points above the cutline. Defending Cup champion Chase Elliott is fifth, ahead of Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr., and Joey Logano. Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, and Kyle Busch are above the cutline going next weekend to Kansas, where Busch won earlier this year.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – OCTOBER 17: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Craftsman Toyota, and Joey Logano, driver of the #22 AAA Insurance Ford, lead the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Octoin Fort Worth, Texas.
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