I feel like our car was good enough, depending on restarts since you can’t pass at all, especially the leader anyways.”īusch had led all 25 laps in a caution-free first stage after starting from the pole.Ĭindric was first at the end of the second segment. “It just let go in the center and took off," Larson said. Larson hadn't changed tires, and had a right front tire go down. That came only a few laps in the second stage after Larson, who had won his previous two All-Star starts (20), got loose going into fourth turn and slammed hard into the wall before sliding through the grass infield. 18 car wiggled coming out of the fourth turn because of a flat right rear tire, before slowing on the frontstretch.
I just kind of messed up and didn’t get the gap shot quick enough."īusch was the polesitter and had led all but one of the first 48 laps before the wreck.
I just kind of misjudged it,” Elliott said. I knew he was going to go straight, I just didn’t realize he was going to go that far right that quick. I guessed left and I should have guessed right,” Chastain said.Įlliott said he saw Busch having difficulty and saw Chastain hit him really hard. “I saw Kyle have an issue with a tire down. 1 car went almost all the way on its left side after the rattling collision, before dropping back on all four tires and then careening toward the outside of the track and into 2020 All-Star winner Elliott. He was slowing and going toward the bottom of the frontstretch when he was hit from behind by Ross Chastain, who was going about 185 mph.Ĭhastain's No. Tonight will be fun.”īusch, the polesitter and 2017 winner, was leading when he had a flat right rear tire coming out of the fourth turn on lap 48 late in the second stage. “I am really glad we ended up winning that after that last caution. “This Mustang was a rocket ship,” Blaney said. It was the fourth All-Star race victory for Roger Penske’s team. Daniel Suarez, who got into the main event like Stenhouse through a 16-car open qualifier earlier in the day, finished fifth.įormer NASCAR All-Star winners Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson all crashed out in the second stage. Miller said the window net was up and there was no way for NASCAR to know if Blaney got it 100% latched, but also couldn't be certain at that point if he didn't have it done.Ĭindric finished third and Joey Logano, another Team Penske driver, was fourth. Blaney said the net was latched and he had both hands on the wheel. Wish we wouldn’t have done that.”īlaney, who said he can understand Hamlin's frustration, said NASCAR deemed the net safe when he was on the backstretch before the final restart. The race director looked up, and I’m not sure what he saw, but he immediately put it out. we all watch and we saw the car and mentioned the car against the wall, riding the wall down back the back straightway. “Obviously I think everybody knows that we probably prematurely called that yellow flag,” Scott Miller, NASCAR’s senior VP for competition, told reporters. Blaney W, NASCAR L,” Hamlin tweeted minutes after the race. To make up for it they let him break a rule. They put Blaney in the situation he was in. “Never should have been a yellow in the first place. going into the wall on the backstretch in the back of the field. Hamlin said NASCAR was wrong on both fronts, first for even calling the caution for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. “I appreciate NASCAR for not making us come down pit road to fix it and letting me get it clipped back again to where we could stay out there,” Blaney said. Pushed by his Penske teammate Austin Cindric on the restart, Blaney was able to stay in front and hold off Denny Hamlin, who finished 0.266 seconds behind. “I got it rigged up enough to where it halfway stayed.”Īfter the caution period, when Blaney was fiddling with the net while having to maintain speed, he stayed in front through a green-white-checkered finish. My left arm is worn out from trying to get that damn thing back up,” Blaney said. I already took my window net down and everything. “That rule was never kind of relayed to us. But the All-Star race has to finish under green. 12 Ford after crossing the start-finish line.
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NASCAR acknowledged afterward that it “probably prematurely called” that final yellow flag.īlaney’s crew was already celebrating the victory in the pits and the driver had already lowered the window net of his No. He had to get his window net back in place and go two more laps. FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The checkered flag was already waving for Ryan Blaney when the caution lights came on just yards before he got to the line to win NASCAR's All-Star race and $1 million.
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