Kyle Larson dominated yet another NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, with the No. 5 Chevy Camaro ZL1 driver sweeping the opening two stages of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway before taking the chequered flag in overtime.
The result, which was Larson’s second NASCAR Cup Series win in a row and his third so far this season, widdled away Denny Hamlin’s lead in the championship standings, with Larson now just 47 points shy of first after 16 of 36 races. Hamlin, despite being the championship points leader, still sits winless as the NASCAR Cup Series season approaches its halfway point.
While Larson dominated both stages at the 2.52-mile road course, a series of late-race caution periods and subsequent restarts made life hard for the 28-year-old. He managed to hold off a hard-charging Elliott on the restarts, though, while three-time Sonoma winner Martin Truex Jr. followed the two Chevys across the finish line to take third.
“It was not easy,” Larson said post-race. “Just keeping it on the track is tough, especially when you’ve got two of the best behind you on the last restart.”
“I felt like I did a good job on the (restart) before and was able to stretch it out a little bit,” Larson added. “I didn’t want to give it another try at it, but (Chase) kept the pressure on. Martin was strong, too.”
Joey Logano followed Truex Jr. across the finish line to take fourth, while Kyle Busch came home fifth. Busch later described the speed of Larson’s No. 5 car as “out of this world,” and didn’t seem overly surprised at his ability to keep Elliott behind him during the late-race restarts.
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway next for the non-points-paying 2021 NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday, June 13th. Check out the video embedded below for complete highlights from the Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Sonoma Raceway.
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Race on Sunday, racist on Monday….
Is that what you call your Asian Hate here?
You are more morally broke than woke.
Lol, stay on subject about Larson. He didn’t say anything in public about Asians but he said something about blacks ( and no, he didn’t say put the car in “neutral” either)…..
Larson is half Japanese.
If you are going to be stupid woke at least get your facts right.
Sure, Asians can’t practice bigotry….. 🙄
BTW America itself don’t have a great track record when it comes to Asia (Japan, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam……)
Please spend more time carefully proofreading the final copy. In this story the writer meant to say “whittled” and instead said “widdled”. That is not a word. Too often these days, proofreading is poor and authors and stories suffer a lack of credibility.
Larson is part Aisian, Duh?