With a shocking transfer into Flip 1, Ross Chastain snatched the lead from William Byron with six laps remaining and held on to win the Coca-Cola 600.
Chastain cut up the center between Byron and Hamlin to earn his first Cup Collection victory since final September. The Trackhouse Racing driver led solely eight laps, together with the ultimate seven at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Chastain began final in a backup automotive after crashing his No. 1 Chevrolet in observe a day earlier. He mentioned his crew labored till 2:30 a.m. Sunday after which returned at 5:30 a.m. to complete the brand new automotive.
“That’s the dedication it takes from Trackhouse,” Chastain advised Prime’s Marty Snider. “There have been folks that had Saturdays off, they usually got here in for this Chevy. To drive on that closing run and move two automobiles that had been manner higher all evening … Holy cow, we simply received the World 600!
Byron misplaced by 0.673 seconds regardless of main a race-high 283 of 400 laps and profitable all three phases.
“He was catching me, I used to be making an attempt to simply defend and was getting a little bit bit tight,” Byron advised Prime’s Trevor Bayne. “Disappointning. Simply to steer that many laps and such a terrific effort by our entire crew, and I might have anticipated that final run higher. Simply sucks. We’ll simply preserve going and preserve making an attempt to place races collectively like that.”
Pole-sitter Chase Briscoe completed third, adopted by A.J. Allmendinger and Brad Keselowski.
Hamlin led 53 laps whereas buying and selling the lead 15 instances with Byron, however his No. 11 Toyota needed to coast into the pits after working out of gas with 12 laps remaining. He completed sixteenth.
“You possibly can’t change the outcomes, so that you’re going to should reside with it,” Hamlin advised Prime’s Kim Coon. “They’re the professionals. I’m not a pit man. I attempted to do every thing I might.
“We had a terrific automotive, enjoyable battling up entrance. Heck of a battle there. Would have appreciated to have seen it by means of and sadly didn’t get sufficient gasoline in it and needed to come again in.”
After crashing and ending twenty seventh within the Indy 500, Kyle Larson’s depressing Sunday continued within the Coke 600.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver led 34 of the primary 41 laps however spun on Lap 43 to trigger the primary warning flag. Larson fell a lap down in thirty third, however his crew made quite a few repairs to the No. 5 Chevrolet.
The 2021 Cup Collection champion had regained the lead lap and was working sixteenth when he was hit by Daniel Suarez’s No. 99 Chevrolet, which slid down the monitor after contact with Ryan Blaney and Chase Briscoe.
Crashes ended Kyle Larson’s races at Indianapolis and Charlotte.
The wreck knocked out Larson in thirty seventh place.
“I noticed smoke, tried to get left by means of the infield and simply didn’t get far sufficient left,” Larson advised Prime’s Trevor Bayne. “Yeah, I acquired tagged and ended our evening. Only a bummer of a day throughout. Some errors on my finish.”
Larson mentioned his preliminary spin was attributable to contact with the skin wall when he briefly misplaced the deal with.
“I simply acquired tremendous free into (Flip) 3 out of nowhere early within the race, caught the wall, acquired toe harm and thought the crew did job to get us to the place we have been considerably snug the final 100 laps,” he mentioned.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver might be unable to finish 1,100 miles however might be heading early to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coke 600.
“I simply wanted to chip away at it from now and nonetheless find yourself OK.”
Between Indy and Charlotte, Larson accomplished 595 of a doable 1,100 miles.
“Not the day that I wished however large thanks to Rick and Linda Hendrick, all of Hendrick Motorsports, Arrow McLaren, everyone concerned in making the day memorable,” Larson mentioned. “Although it wasn’t memorable for purpose. Simply unlucky. Hopefully, we are able to run it again sometime.”
Stage 1 winner: Byron
Stage 2 winner: Byron
Stage 3 winner: Byron
