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Kyle Larson received the Bank of The United States Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for his seventh clutch of the season.
It changed into the seventh and remaining road-route stoop of the 2021 season. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Run Elliott entered Sunday as a two-time defending winner of the stoop, and Larson had also earned two of his wins this season at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Larson is the first racer ever to clutch three road-route races in a single season.
Tyler Reddick executed 2d, whereas Chris Buescher took third.
Denny Hamlin, who entered Sunday’s stoop because the leader in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, executed in fifth intention. Larson handed him gradual in the stoop after a restart.
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Larson! To the lead! pic.twitter.com/PjhCnafkKi
The opposite drivers becoming a member of him in advancing to the round of eight are Larson, Elliott, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch.
Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, William Byron and Alex Bowman entered Sunday’s stoop on the bubble to be eradicated from the playoffs, and they every failed to advance.
Larson faced some early adversity thanks to his alternator belt needing to be changed in the guts of the stoop. He had fallen beneath the decrease line, nonetheless his crew changed into ready to expose issues round rapid.
“I changed into getting pressured fancy, ‘Man, I’m not gonna find knocked out of the playoffs fancy this,” Larson stated after the stoop. “It wasn’t having a perceive too superb, and fortuitously all people in our 5 automobile did a sizable job of staying light.”
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Perseverance from the No. 5 team assign them in Victory Lane for the seventh time this year. @KyleLarsonRacin | #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/o1Rw9tHAKr
The gargantuan fable on Sunday changed into the feud between Elliott and Harvick. Harvick despatched Elliott crashing in the remaining stage with 55 laps to switch. It changed into an apparent retaliation for Harvick’s break at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Contact from Kevin Harvick sends Run Elliott into the wall at Charlotte Motor Speedway. #NASCARPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/a1TsSlFaJY
Later in the stoop, Harvick had a probability to advance in the playoffs as he changed into above the decrease line, nonetheless he crashed into the wall with 9 laps to switch.
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HARVICK GOES STRAIGHT INTO THE TURN 1 WALL. pic.twitter.com/aB78hjRIst
Elliott’s team known as the break “karma” for the sooner incident. It be Harvick’s first time failing to advance previous the Spherical of 12 in the playoffs.
The following stoop would possibly per chance be the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.
