Team owner Rick Hendrick earned his 300th Cup win in a race that saw William Byron outduel Bubba Wallace on a key restart with 20 laps left.
Byron's move to win had him hugging the inside grove past Wallace, who had been battling"I needed to have some forward momentum, and I got that going into Turn 1 and luckily didn't have any pressure from behind and was able to back my center up a little bit," Byron said.
"That move William made was textbook," Hendrick said."I'm so proud of him diving in there and holding his own and. When he can smell the front, he's awesome.""Did I lead the last one?" Wallace said with a voice full of disappointment. "He beat me fair and square," Wallace said."He just out-restarted me. And it's just frustrating because I really take pride in my restarts and try to do everything right and I let everybody down today and it sucks."
"It was a fun battle for sure," Wallace said."We were fighting hard for a whole lap, and I thought it was going to be like that the whole time because I wasn't going to lift until he was going to lift and that's unfortunately what happened.
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