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William Byron settles for 'irritating' runner-up in Coca-Cola 600 after dominant efficiency
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William Byron settles for 'irritating' runner-up in Coca-Cola 600 after dominant efficiency

Motorsports May 26, 2025
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CONCORD, N.C. — A sweep of three phases in Cup Collection factors races means victory for a driver apart from one — the Coca-Cola 600.

The last word endurance take a look at of man and machine in NASCAR’s longest occasion holds 4 equal phases of 100 laps and whereas William Byron stumped the sphere for the primary 300 laps, the flames of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet had been fanned within the last laps as Ross Chastain snuck by Byron with six laps to go to steal the crown-jewel trophy within the Queen Metropolis.

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“It’s simply irritating,” a dejected Byron stated shortly after exiting his car. “Don’t actually have the phrases for it.”

Byron did all the pieces proper Sunday evening at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

On prime of snagging three playoff factors, he led a whopping 283 laps, essentially the most on this occasion since his Hendrick teammate Kyle Larson led 327 circuits in his 2021 Coke 600 triumph.

With Byron’s hardest challenger Denny Hamlin fading and finally having his evening derailed after a fueling difficulty on the No. 11 staff’s last cease, it seemed just like the No. 24 was able to grow to be simply the seventh driver to win each the Daytona 500 and Coke 600 in the identical season.

However pitting a couple of laps afterward the cash cease, Chastain had the brisker tires and the higher automobile within the last 10 laps to get by Byron.

“He was catching me and I used to be attempting to defend. I felt like I put a pair good defensive strikes on after which simply actually didn’t get via [Turns] three and 4,” Byron stated. “Received actually unfastened over there and that was actually it. He had an enormous run down the frontstretch, tried to guard in opposition to that, nevertheless it was an excessive amount of.”

Byron’s dominance wasn’t a cruise by any stretch of the creativeness. He was handed by Larson within the opening body of the race earlier than the No. 5 wheelman hit the wall and finally spun on Lap 46.

Then got here a heavyweight tilt from Stage 2 onward with Hamlin as the 2 swapped the lead in a quintessential NASCAR battle in entrance of a sold-out crowd.

The 2 Cup Collection stars exchanged the lead eight occasions earlier than the ultimate pit cease separated the 2 for the house stretch.

Making an attempt to carry the lead whereas skirting via lapped site visitors, Byron had a detailed name with Tyler Reddick after the No. 45 acquired unfastened off Flip 2 and hit the surface wall simply in entrance of the No. 24.

Then, Joey Logano, who was preventing to remain on the lead lap, gave Byron matches as he tried to get across the defending sequence champion.

“He was doing the same old,” Byron stated of Logano’s defending. “What I didn’t like is he simply saved transferring round in three and 4. I don’t know what he was doing. I believe simply was in site visitors loads that run. The 45 was operating exhausting, after which misplaced a piece there when he acquired unfastened. I believe simply all of it sort of added up.”

A former Cup driver who is aware of a factor or two concerning the ups and downs of a 600-mile race occurs to be Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman Jeff Gordon, who’s first Cup win got here at Charlotte in 1994.

The four-time sequence titleholder was simple on Byron’s end result, however was glad with the No. 24 staff’s efficiency and what it equates to within the standings.

“Total, it was a very good race,” Gordon instructed NASCAR.com. “Disenchanted while you dominate and run that nicely and don’t get it performed. So I really feel for William and the staff, but in addition, there’s a ton to be happy with him. I believed he simply drove an excellent spectacular race at the moment.

“I’m fairly certain he most likely has the factors lead now, and, you already know, it’s like factors leads nice, and there’s factors for that. However you wish to win races and get these playoff factors. I believe general you simply take away how sturdy they had been within the hardest race and I really feel like due to that, they’ll proceed to construct some momentum.”

Byron will certainly depart Charlotte with a 29-point buffer atop the Cup Collection standings after earlier chief Larson failed to attain stage factors and had an early exit from the Coke 600 after getting caught up in a multicar wreck on Lap 247.

For no less than the subsequent week, nevertheless, the factors lead is just a comfort to what might’ve been one other feather within the cap for Byron, who’s already constructing fairly the resume in his Cup Collection profession at simply 27 years outdated.

“I’m certain there’s an even bigger plan sooner or later, so simply acquired to know what that’s,” Byron stated. ” Preserve working. I really feel like our staff’s means and my talents is actually good proper now. We simply acquired to capitalize. It sucks. All you are able to do is simply continue to learn from it and transfer ahead.”

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