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Still thought I had a chance there at the end. “I just didn’t get a couple cars when that first caution came out,” he told Fox Sports. Harvick, with four new tires for the final run, didn’t have a shot at returning to the lead. “We’ve done a good job to put ourselves in those positions on the front row with a shot at the end.” “He’s done a really good job strategy-wise and execution-wise,” Byron told Fox Sports. Harvick led 36 straight laps before the Burton caution scrambled things.įinishing behind Byron in the top five were Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Larson and Harvick.īyron said he owes crew chief Rudy Fugle for the two wins in a row. Harvick’s team changed four.īyron surged past Larson, who led a race-high 201 laps, on the restart of the two-lap overtime and wasn’t challenged over the final lap. That sent the race into overtime, with Larson and Byron on the front row after two-tire changes. The green flew with three laps to go, but another caution flew quickly as AJ Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs and Noah Gragson crashed near the back of the pack. Harvick had a four-second lead over Larson with 10 laps to go when Harrison Burton brought out a caution with a frontstretch slide and spin, stacking the field for a restart. Harvick steadily padded the lead as his car typically was stronger over longer runs.

#Nascar phoenix driver

MORE: Phoenix Cup results, driver points MORE: Jeff Gordon says confiscated parts ‘weighing on our minds’ at Hendrickīyron and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson could barely be touched at the front throughout the afternoon until Harvick drove under Larson to take the lead with 44 laps to go. William Byron, given a second chance at victory by a late-race caution flag, won Sunday’s 317-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway, scoring his second consecutive win.īyron’s team used a two-tire pit stop to return the Chevrolet driver to the track on the front row, putting him in front of Kevin Harvick, who appeared to be sailing to victory before cautions bunched the field in the final miles and led to overtime.