Kyle Larson’s chances to sweep all three of this weekend’s NASCAR national series races at Bristol Motor Speedway disappeared with a second-place finish in Friday night’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race.
Nevertheless, the driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR Cup Series Chevrolet still has two chances to honor his PR representative, Jon Edwards, who passed away unexpectedly during the week before the Bristol races.
Larson is scheduled to compete in Saturday’s SciAps 300 Xfinity Series event and in Sunday’s Food City 500 NASCAR Cup race where he will start third.
Edwards spent the majority of his career representing four-time series champion Jeff Gordon before working with Larson after Gordon retired from racing.
“He meant a lot to me and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports—Jeff Gordon especially,” Larson said after Friday night’s Weather Guard Truck Race. “It was terrible news, sudden… Just a sad week for NASCAR in general.
“I would have loved to have gotten a win (Friday night) for Jon and have it give us a shot at a triple for the rest of the weekend, but we still have two more shots to win in his honor, and we’re going to give it our best effort.”
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