The NASCAR Cup Series visited Darlington Raceway on Sunday for the Goodyear 400. This race featured cars decorated in old paint schemes honoring NASCAR’s past. Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron started the race on the pole with RFK Racing driver Ryan Preece starting second.
William Byron dominated the race early leading 243 laps winning both stages. It was the most laps led in the race. There were eight cautions in this race for 45 laps. Two of those came from Kyle Larson. On the fifth lap, he got loose and hit the inside wall of the backstretch, and one lap 291 spun again in the backstretch sending the race to overtime. At the time of the caution, Ryan Blaney was leading Tyler Reddick.
During the caution, everyone went to pit road with Denny Hamlin beating the field for the lead with Tyler Reddick, William Byron, and Ryan Blaney behind him. On the restart, Hamlin cleared Reddick from the outside of Turn 1. He led the final two laps to beat William Byron by 0.597 seconds for his second straight win. He led a total of 10 laps in this race.
The rest of the top ten finishers were Christopher Bell third, Tyler Reddick fourth, Ryan Blaney fifth, Chris Buescher sixth, Ross Chastain seventh, Chase Elliott eighth, Ty Gibbs ninth, and Kyle Busch tenth. There were four lead changes among five drivers.
The Cup Series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway next Sunday at 3 pm on FS1. Purchase NASCAR Cup Series tickets today at StubHub.
