Sunday, June 20, 2021

Larson Continues to Dominate, Wins in NASCAR's Return to Nashville

 Originally written for CLNS Media.

Kyle Larson won the Ally 400 in NASCAR’s return to Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon.

Larson turned in another dominant performance on Sunday, and led a race-high 264 laps on his way to victory lane.

Larson was tasked with saving fuel over the final 70 laps, after a late pit stop forced many of the leaders to save almost 10 laps of fuel.  Larson quickly got out to a large lead, and he was able to save enough fuel over the final run.

Larson said his car was fast enough that he only had to defend the lead on restarts.

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“We never really had to run behind people,” Larson said.  “If one of my teammates had gotten out front, it probably would have been hard to pass them.”

The victory was Larson’s third in a row, in addition to his win in last weekend’s All-Star Race.

Larson said his team brought another strong car to continue his dominant summer.

“The Valvoline Chevrolet was really good,” Larson said.  “Our pit crew did an awesome job again…I just hope we can keep it going.”

Ross Chastain was the highest-finishing driver who pitted under the final stop to top-off on fuel, and he finished second.  After he got around the other leaders who were saving fuel, he was still five seconds behind Larson and ran out of laps to catch the eventual winner.

Unofficial results:

1. Kyle Larson

2. Ross Chastain

3. William Byron

4. Aric Almirola

5. Kevin Harvick

6. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

7. Daniel Suarez

8. Kurt Busch

9. Christopher Bell

10. Joey Logano

11. Kyle Busch

12. Austin Dillon

13. Chase Elliott

14. Ryan Newman

15. Alex Bowman

16. Corey LaJoie

17. Michael McDowell

18. Anthony Alfredo

19. Tyler Reddick

20. Erik Jones

21. Bubba Wallace

22. Denny Hamlin

23. Martin Truex Jr.

24. Brad Keselowski

25. Matt DiBenedetto

26. Garrett Smithley

27. Josh Bilicki

28. JJ Yeley

29. BJ McLeod

30. Joey Gase

31. Cole Custer

32. Chase Briscoe

33. Ryan Preece

34. Chad Finchum

35. David Starr

36. Justin Haley

37. Chris Buescher

38. Ryan Blaney

39. Quin Houff

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