Alex Bowman began Sunday’s race from pole place and was trying to observe the instance set by Tyler Reddick final 12 months as the most recent driver to win this race from the entrance of the grid. Bowman led 43 laps and was accumulating stage factors all through the day.
On the ultimate restart with simply over 50 laps remaining, Bowman was in fourth however rapidly made it three-wide for the race lead. Whereas Bubba Wallace escaped and drove away, he was capable of run him again down inside 20 laps and energy into the race lead. Sadly for him, his teammate Kyle Larson was making a particularly excessive line work, working proper up in opposition to the skin wall.
Bowman tried to counter as his lead evaporated, but it surely did not work, because the wall grabbed him, slowing him down on the exit of Flip 4, coming to 6 to go. That made Larson’s job simple as he drove on by and by no means appeared again.
“I suppose I choked that one away,” lamented Bowman after the race. “Noticed the 5 [Larson] coming, so moved round somewhat bit. Not when he handed me, however the time earlier than that I hit it arduous with the fitting entrance and ended up simply bending one thing sufficient that I misplaced a whole lot of proper entrance really feel after which I pulled it off the wall too far proper there, and ended up hitting the fence fairly dangerous.
“So I hate that for this Ally 48 group. They deserve higher than that. Simply a few errors there. I felt like we had been okay all day. That final run was the very best we had been … Hate it for Mr. Hendrick. Congrats to Kyle. We’ll attempt get one other one this week.”
Alex Bowman, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Picture by: James Gilbert / Getty Photos
Sunday’s runner-up consequence was Bowman’s finest consequence since profitable on the Chicago Road Course final summer season and his first top-five end ever at Homestead. He leaves this race third within the championship standings, trailing his Hendrick teammates Larson and William Byron, who sits atop the factors pile.
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