Byron’s victory secures Harvick, Keselowski Playoff berths; Wallace, Gibbs still in the hunt.
-place finish in the Go Bowling at The Glen. “We have nothing to lose. That makes us dangerous. We have really strong momentum, and we can’t take that for granted. We’re showing a lot of speed and clicking when it counts.”Sunday, cited track position as critical in the 90-lap road course event that had only one caution period.
Harvick was without crew chief Rodney Childers, who left Saturday for North Carolina where his mother was hospitalized in ICU and on a ventilator after suffering heart failure. In a social media post on Sunday, Childers said he would be in the SHR war room in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for the Watkins Glen event. Stephen Doran substituted for Childers at the New York road course.
“Clearly, a miscalculation with the nine car and that was huge,” Hendrick Motorsports Vice Chairman Jeff Gordon said. “He came in a little bit short the first stop and so they were trying to stretch it to get closer on the strategy of the others. You always want to pad yourself here just in case there’s a lot of restarts at the end. The fuel just wasn’t there. So, it’s really unfortunate. They had a great car.
“I don’t think I had one lap where I said I was going to suck, so it was good. That’s the first time I felt proud of myself at a road course race. I just executed and didn’t lose focus. Martin Truex Jr. holds a commanding 39-point lead over Denny Hamlin for the regular-season points championship.Entering next Saturday’s regular season finale, Denny Hamlin can’t help but think about the 25-point penalty he drew from NASCAR after admitting on his podcast that he intentionally put Ross Chastain into the wall at Phoenix in the season’s fourth race.
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