had an eventful race at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta) on Sunday. The location of his finest oval exhibiting within the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Elements Sequence (third) is now the location of his finest oval end in Cup, ending a formidable sixth.
SVG did that regardless of two mid-race journeys by way of the infield grass on the best way to bettering on his earlier finest oval end of tenth at Kansas final fall.
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Van Gisbergen began the race outdoors the highest 20, however rapidly moved ahead. By the tip of Stage 2, he was in place to attain loads of stage factors. He surged forward within the remaining nook, and was trying to move for third (eight factors) when Larson got here all the best way down the monitor and throughout SVG’s nostril.
Larson admits fault in SVG incident
Van Gisbergen spun wildly into the infield whereas Larson crashed into the skin wall, ending his day. The 2-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion took full accountability for the incident.
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“Yeah, I simply screwed up,” stated Larson in a media scrum that included Motorsport.com outdoors the infield care middle. “I knew the No. 45 [] was within me at some extent within the nook. I received away from him, however did not fairly notice that the No. 97 [SVG] had gotten within him, so as soon as I used to be clear, I simply needed to chop distance and short-cut my technique to the end of the stage. I hung a fast left and ran proper into him [SVG]. Nothign anyone else did unsuitable in addition to me. All on me, and hate it.”
SVG rapidly rebounded, however whereas knocking on the door of the top-ten, he spun on his personal exiting Flip 4 and took one other off-road tour by way of the infield grass. Regardless of all that, the No. 97 Chevrolet was nonetheless just about intact. He didn’t seem close to the entrance once more till the very finish of the race, as he was amongst those that pitted for contemporary tires throughout one of many late cautions.
The battle to the end
With higher grip, he lower a path ahead, and restarted seventh for the ultimate time beyond regulation restart. In the midst of a three-wide state of affairs, he discovered teammate and pushed him ahead. On the white flag, SVG was really operating fourth, proper behind Chastain.
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He pushed up within the remaining nook, permitting and to sneak by, however sixth was nonetheless sufficient for Sunday’s race to turn out to be his new finest exhibiting on an oval on the Cup degree.
The factors haul was important as effectively. After a Thirtieth-place end within the Daytona 500 put him twenty eighth within the championship standings, this weekend’s consequence vaults him as much as sixteenth within the factors. On the finish of Race #26, the highest 16 drivers within the standings will advance into ‘The Chase’ after NASCAR reconfigured its championship format for 2026.
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