Ninety-three races of nope but Jake Garcia finally gets his Bristol moment
ake Garcia earned his first career Truck Series victory as Layne Riggs and several other Chase drivers endured a miserable night at Bristol.
ake Garcia earned his first career Truck Series victory as Layne Riggs and several other Chase drivers endured a miserable night at Bristol.
Denny Hamlin hasn’t exactly set the Chase on fire, but somehow he’s still leading it. After another mediocre Sunday at Gateway, his cushion is down to six points.
Kyle Larson finally found Victory Lane, surviving two overtime restarts and a brake-rotor apocalypse that chewed through NASCAR’s Chase field at Gateway.
Ryan Blaney was eight points from the Chase lead when his brakes failed at Gateway. One trip into the wall later, his championship hopes had taken a massive hit.
Jesse Love finally ended his 25-race winless streak at Gateway, while a chaotic night of crashes, feuds and pit road mayhem reshuffled the Chase standings.
Pit road is supposed to be where drivers slow down. Apparently nobody got that memo Saturday night, when 10 cars became involved in a frightening Gateway pileup.
Denny Hamlin got knocked into the wall, went a lap down and finished 18th at Darlington. Somehow, he still leaves as the Chase points leader.
William Byron had an eighth-place car at Darlington. Then it spun, smoked and died, sending the No. 24 from ninth to 37th and straight to the Chase cellar.
Darlington chewed up tires, rain interrupted the proceedings and Kyle Larson tried to steal it. None of it mattered. Christopher Bell finally got his win.
Sheldon Creed got the tires right, kept his No. 00 Chevrolet pointed in the right direction and opened the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Chase with a huge win at Darlington.