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There was slack drama in Richmond on Sunday, with Alex Bowman making a slack fee to beget interplay the checkered flag at NASCAR’s Toyota Owners 400.
Bowman held off Denny Hamlin to acquire the take.
Bowman made essentially the most of a restart with factual 10 laps final, darting ahead of Denny Hamlin to steal the take.
“To be factual with you, we were grisly on fast runs,” he mentioned after the bustle, per Holly Cain of NASCAR.com. “We restarted third, and I’m take care of, ‘If we score out of right here with a staunch high-5 we are going to be correct.’ We overcame loads on the present time.”
“I produce no longer know if [crew chief] Greg [Ives] pumped the pressures contrivance up or what he did, nonetheless that is extra grip than I’ve ever had in a bustle car at Richmond and it worked out truly properly,” he added.
Hamlin, obviously, was extra disillusioned with how the bustle unfolded.
“We factual didn’t engage off fairly as correct there on the stay,” he mentioned. “I tried to warm it up and produce all the issues that I would possibly well well per chance well—factual the 48 [Bowman] had a microscopic extra on these final few laps and I would possibly well well no longer abet the backside. Once he received the dispute, we were factual shut down there.”
Joey Logano executed third Sunday, followed by Christopher Bell and Martin Truex Jr. Hamlin received both levels, while Logano led for 49 laps (Truex led 107).
Hamlin sits atop the NASCAR Cup Sequence at ingredients, followed by Truex (353 ingredients) and Logano (352).
The Cup Sequence heads to the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama for the Geico 500 next Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.