Late race charge makes Richmond's Cup Series final laps interesting | Extended Highlights

again larson on the inside ross chastain on the outside for short track racing at

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chastain throwing him into turn number one high trying to take the lead away from him when they come out of a two and that will be a lesson learned for many drivers now that outside The line worked on the start yeah I think you gotta be a little careful with that rick because we don't know how hard these guys drive. You know you can really damage your tires early in this

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, so you might want to take a little easy, maybe that's what Kyle Larson did there.

Bell now knows how to run on the high side here with all that ground experience, understanding how to use that higher line they're breaking there, yeah, if you're a spotter, you have to be. pay attention to this and you have to let your driver know if you are here in the middle of the group what is happening. I get that if you're in front you'll want to jump to the top right now, but get past the cars. This is clearly an option, man. Christopher Bell easily went around Harvick's flat right in front of the screen, right in front of this 47 car.

Christopher Bell now tries to pass even more cars on the high side, right in front of the 47 car. in front of Harvick there on the bottom of the screen 20 is flying able to pass to Dylan now there's three wide for that position as Christopher Bell on the 20 completes the pass so he saw what the 47 was doing and got that information from his spot. or just looking past about four cars, now back to the back of the track, focusing on Kyle Bush's 18, yes there are some stripes on the right side, they're Richmond stripes, he went into the turn three wall , right here, yes, alone.

Keep talking about people testing drivers trying to run the highest rut, they went in too high and you know these tires are getting old and the car doesn't respond the way you wanted it to, it just hit the wall once again in the scenery. One of Chastain will have a problem trying to get around Gilman and Hamlin will be able to close the gap down the stretch for the last time in this stage. There are still two car links separating these two. Hamlin stays a little higher, but off the turn, four Ross. chastain is going to win that's his fifth stage win this season again chastain on the inside larson on the outside back to the green and a little move there's a village all over the buffalo chest back on the

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track goes, he caught the five just a little bit of village putting a lot of pressure on Chastain's on that restart three wide behind him, Cole Custer on the 41 on the outside, chasing Elliott and Napa number nine in the middle, they saw Brad Keselowski, the six, make the pass right in front, although they fought for the lead. the 22 legato to the outside of the one in front immediately approaches entering turn one.

We've seen the outside line work for most of the first leg and now the legato stops even with Ross Chastain on the back leg, it looks like they're going. At the beginning of the race you can jump to that higher line and make some time for Legato to complete the pass, he is in front here at Richmond and how many times have we seen this? The Penske car appears at Richmond with a short sprint speed. I mean, this has been a Even before the next generation car, this has been something that Penske always seems to have when they come to Richmond, they can shoot right away on new tires, be faster than everyone else.

Chastain led 79

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to start this race. Justin Haley was in front for one now he's legano so you mentioned a pass here between delaney and chastain well this was some pretty

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action here this is just a few

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after kyle busch's 18th restart at corner 45 remember it's ty gibbs something like that look for the bottom, the 18 was clearly there in my mind the 45, I don't know if he thought he was going to take a break or he thought he could get the 18 to check, then the 45 goes back down to the corner. and he, you know, hey, he may only be 19, but I'm going to give you a little chance, hey, man, like, like, you know, I felt like I was there, I'm not sure if I totally agree without ty kim.

I saw it, but I will say that the 19-year-old definitely doesn't take any breaks from a 60-time winner like Kyle Busch when we talk about long green flag races and what that does for strategy, what it also does is when you have it . the handling slips away or the track position feels like quicksand you just don't have time to shift and as expected here comes the 40 oh my gosh so it didn't just keep going oh boy Ricky Stenhouse's 47 went over the box and now he'll try to get back to the pits next time, but to your point, Rick I saw some pretty heavy contact with the 19.

It looks like luckily he didn't spin the 19. It could have been crushed and I'm sure Fellaini will be frustrated on the last lap of the second stage. The distance between Legato and Larson is about six car lengths. Seven car lengths is growing in the

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stretch for the last time at this stage. Logano is looking for his third stage win of the year and will get a tiebreaker point and legato wins stage two the fight between these two for position quite a few fields are approaching the geico restart zone larson legano forming row one and stage three going to see if Logano can make that high line work, he'll meet multiple restarts, not this time, although see if he drives around the outside of Larson in three trying to do it, but Lawrence has too much speed, oh, Ricky behind, 18 laps around of Ross.

Ross also has tane spins with jones contact on 43. and you see 20 sitting right behind the one thinking, the jackpot hit left, yeah, just like we planned, yeah, that's what his partner spits team, but yeah, he'll come to the pits, he'll get four new shoes and you talk about, you know, how you study well for the races in the spring, the yellow ones that we saw were at this point, it was the beginning of the

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stage like everyone They were a little enthusiastic, maybe junior and you know, less kind of give and take. because you know this thing could turn green so it's a little scraped too yeah big damage for Eric Jones that's unfortunate he's got a broken joint or some kind of problem with the right front suspension so a car falls into the turn and there is contacting left for a quarter panel of 18 of kyle bush kyle goes this way comes the 43 as ross slows down

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contact with the left rear of ross's car a small contact for the 19 also up guys yes you are absolutely right bam pretty hard contact on that left rear for the second time for the 19, it was hit earlier by the 47 that missed pit road and here it's hard to see in the smoke but you got right, we will see if the 19th, but there are very few. cars on the lead lap, I imagine Trex would go down in favor, at least check it out, Ryan on board, this would be a good look, still in, even with the first three behind, I have a lot to eat here, you're clear, so the 42 are inside. at least ross is a you know, ross thinks the 42 car is down there, tight, dylan as they go down the turn, so ross enters the turn aiming for the middle of the track and I don't think kyle bush thought there were three . wide, I don't think Kyle Bush thought three wide was happening, it's just that a lot of you know different perspectives or opinions on what was going on in that corner and you all went in there and mentioned a lot of contact he's having with Ty Dillon.

Very good race today, he is running in 11th place. You get there, but not all the way out, he is going for the lead. Harvick 22 clears it, although in the middle of the corner Harvick has another run off the turtle also from the back, he immediately goes inside. He's going to look there a little. This will be a tough pass for him inside. He knows that he would rather try to get to the outside of the 22. He entered one. He had a shot to go inside. He did not do it. Even try it now, he's going to push it last time, he didn't even try this, but now that Degano is on the track, Legano will catch him, he just can't go full throttle, legato with a lead on the back.

However, he is changing where Logano has to run by pressuring him while they do that. Chris Busher closes the gap even more. Chicano is more than happy to let Kevin Harvick sit on that inside and work on his tires now that he's back on the deep end. from the harvick racetrack to the top here he comes the four cars on the outside it's there big race for harvick down the stretch he can clear the 22 that's the place he wanted all along now he's going to pitch with his heart he's going to finish legato oh , look at the 47, it's got newer tires, it's going to put them on, but it's not a factor and harvick is out front, the crowd is on their feet roaring when they see happy harving up front here in

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, now denny hamlin's 11 giving up the lead and on pit road, the 20 and christopher bell have also arrived on pit road, parker, just as we see these Joe Gives race cars finally hit the road, here led by christopher bell and denny hamlin, four wheels traveling, this is not his last set of decals, he still will.

Got another set of stickers after this Dave Tight in that race, we'll see where he pedals and what he can do with 11 lap pressure tires that were a little slow right there, that won't help, yeah, absolutely excellent warning from the driver . and by the tire he leads to tell denny not to go and he left easily with a look as if the left front wheel was not off. Things are heating up on the front. You're watching Nascar Cup Racing presented by Toyota Chris Busher pressuring Kevin Harvick now. as he's running just three tenths of a second behind the race leader, Harvick, and now they have to deal with so much traffic and that's been an advantage for Chris so far and for Harvick, you know Harvick has had some trouble getting through the traffic. . but Chris was able to make that work for him, but he couldn't get the upper hand.

It was very frustrating to see him get stuck in traffic on the way back. There are new tires for the Larson five that aren't on the same lap right now, so Larson is trying to break out the lap. himself that's why you're seeing the five close the gap on 17. Now there are no cars between fourth and 17. Harvick is so disciplined that he's not going to make any mistakes watching him race down the back of this track at perfection, leaving that to the left. right tire right on the white line right on the yellow line a little bit of grip on that little yellow paint there keep the car spinning keep it spinning 20 within striking distance now one lap left presented by credit a bank kevin harvick no traffic 20 He's closed the gap, he's five behind Kevin Harvick as they come to the bell of the final turn, but there's not enough time for Kevin Harvick to win at Richmond, he's back to back, yeah guys, great job, great job, kevin harvick's 60 career wins When you see Bell coming up behind him, it was pretty close, but those 60 career wins tie him with Kyle Busch for ninth all-time.

I appreciate it, yeah, great job guys, way to adapt to that from the beginning. You said it, we were left forever without. winning you