There was no lack of emotions and twists in the third race of the season Cup Series Nascar, held on the spectacular Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, where in 2011 the former Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon lost his life in IndyCar. The Hendrick Motorsport team driver won Alex Bowman, who beat teammate – and winner in California seven days ago – Kyle Larson in the sprint. The Nevada race, however, was conditioned by the many cautions that heavily affected the final outcome of the race. For the second time in three championship races, the race ended in overtime, in the additional laps added to the expected mileage to avoid the conclusion of the event under the Safety Car regime.
This is a solution that has also been discussed in the world of Formula 1 recently, especially after the discussed events of the Abu Dhabi GP, but which has been discarded due to the problems it would give rise to in terms of fuel management, as it is no longer foreseen. in the Circus – as opposed to what happens in the Cup Series – refueling while racing. Stage 1 had seen Bowman triumph, while the central stage of the race was the prerogative of Ross Chastain. The final race was then set for a spectacular head-to-head between the two Toyota of the Joe Gibbs Racing team, with the local idol Kyle Busch and his teammate Martin Truex Jr. who competed for leadership for several laps.
A side-by-side battle for the win.
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With less than two laps to go, when the victory seemed within reach for Busch, however, the accident of Erik Jones and Bubba Wallace forced the race direction to stop the race, automatically triggering the overtime. Here the Hendrick Motorsport team got the right strategy, stopping its three top drivers for a quick stop, with only two tires being replaced, while all the others opted to change the four tires. The move paid off, taking Bowman to victory ahead of Larson and the other Chevy of Chastain’s Trackhouse Racing team.
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