Martin Truex Jr. won the Toyota/Save Mart 350 from
Sonoma Raceway on Sunday afternoon.
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Truex had a dominant car throughout the race and led
62 of 110 laps, but he had to use pit strategy to take the lead for the final
time.
10 laps before making his final pit stop, Truex’s crew
chief called him to pit road, but told him to stay out at the last second. After hearing the call, Kevin Harvick pitted
and was forced onto a different pit strategy.
Truex said he trusted crew chief Cole Pearn’s
judgement.
“It’s all Cole,” Truex said. “I’m cool with whatever he wants to do…a lot
of trust in him.”
Once he had the lead, Truex was far enough ahead of
Harvick that he was never challenged for the lead over the final 20-lap run.
Truex said he was worried a caution would come out in
the closing laps and ruin their strategy.
“Honestly, all you’re doing is hoping that a caution
doesn’t come out,” Truex said. “Just
hoping for no cautions and don’t make any mistakes.”
Harvick said he didn’t blame his team for calling him
to pit road after they had been tricked by Truex.
“We all make mistakes…we all do things split-second
that aren’t right after it all happens,” Harvick said. “We had a shot today…and I was just too hard
on the car the first couple stages.”
Unofficial results:
1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Kevin Harvick
3. Clint Bowyer
4. Chase Elliott
5. Kyle Busch
6. Kurt Busch
7. Erik Jones
8. Aric Almirola
9. Alex Bowman
10. Denny Hamlin
11. Jimmie Johnson
12. Chris Buescher
13. Brad Keselowski
14. Kyle Larson
15. Daniel Suarez
16. Austin Dillon
17. Matt DiBenedetto
18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
19. Joey Logano
20. Kasey Kahne
21. Michael McDowell
22. David Ragan
23. Parker Kligerman
24. Ryan Newman
25. William Byron
26. Paul Menard
27. Trevor Bayne
28. Justin Marks
29. Darrell Wallace Jr.
30. Gray Gaulding
31. Chris Cook
32. Tomy Drissi
33. Ty Dillon
34. Ryan Blaney
35. Cole Whitt
36. Cody Ware
37. Jamie McMurray
38. AJ Allmendinger
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