LAST LAP INSIDER RACING RECAP – NASCAR, F1 AND INDYCAR:

 

📸NASCAR: FOX Sports and Jr Motorsports.

📸F1: Forbs.

 

NASCAR CUP SERIES: DENNY HAMLIN DELIVERS IN ST. LOUIS FOR FIFTH WIN OF 2025!

 

Denny Hamlin captured win number five of the season by winning the pole and the race at Gateway Raceway on Sunday!

 

Hamlin was the runner-up at Gateway the last two seasons.

 

Hamlin is now just one victory away from having 60 wins in his Cup Series career.

 

This is also the 200th victory for Toyota in the NASCAR Cup Series.

 

Playoff Drivers – ⭐️

 

Results:

1. Denny Hamlin ⭐️

2. Chase Briscoe ⭐️ – Stage 1 🏁

3. Chase Elliott ⭐️

4. Ryan Blaney ⭐️

5. Joey Logano ⭐️

6. John Hunter Nemechek 

7. Christopher Bell ⭐️

8. Bubba Wallace ⭐️ – Stage 2 🏁

9. Chris Buescher 

10. Ty Gibbs 

11. William Byron ⭐️

12. Kyle Larson ⭐️ – LLI Pick to Win 

13. Ryan Preece 

14. Michael McDowell 

15. Carson Hocevar 

16. Tyler Reddick ⭐️

17. Brad Keselowski 

18. Austin Dillon ⭐️

19. Austin Cindric ⭐️

20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 

21. Erik Jones 

22. Kyle Busch 

23. AJ Allmendinger 

24. Ross Chastain ⭐️

25. Shane Van Gisbergen ⭐️

26. Alex Bowman ⭐️

27. Cole Custer 

28. Justin Haley 

29. Cody Ware 

30. Noah Gragson 

31. Riley Herbst 

32. Todd Gilliland 

33. Zane Smith

Out:

34. Ty Dillon 

35. Daniel Suarez 

36. Josh Berry ⭐️

 

PLAYOFFS:

1. Chase Briscoe 🏁

2. Denny Hamlin 🏁

3. Kyle Larson +60

4. Bubba Wallace +50

5. Ryan Blaney +42

6. William Byron +39

7. Tyler Reddick +37

8. Christopher Bell +32

9. Chase Elliott +28

10. Joey Logano +21

11. Ross Chastain +19

12. Austin Cindric +11

 

Playoff Bubble:

13. Austin Dillon -11

14. S. Gisbergen -15

15. Alex Bowman -35

16. Josh Berry -45

 

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In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Connor Zilisch dominated Saturday night’s race at Gateway Raceway for another 2025 victory and capping off the regular season with the regular season championship!

 

This is the eighth win of the year for Zilisch (9 wins counting Parker Kligerman’s win at Daytona) and the tenth victory of the season for the No. 88 team.

 

For the second weekend in a row, William Sawalich finished second.

 

Christian Eckes, Brandon Jones, Jesse Love, Aric Almirola, Daniel Hemric, Parker Retzlaff, Corey Day, and Daniel Dye completed the top ten.

 

Zilisch, Allgaier, Meyer, Love, Jones, Smith, Sanchez, Gray, Kvapil, Creed, H. Burton and Hill are the 12 drivers in the hunt for this years championship.

 

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F1: MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS FROM THE POLE IN MONZA!

 

Although he had to relinquish the lead at the start for going off track, Max Verstappen quickly retook P1 from Lando Norris to dominate the remainder of the race to win the Italian Grand by 20-seconds over Norris!

 

This is career win number 66 for “Super Max!”

 

Just like they qualified, Lando Norris finished second with Oscar Piastri third.

 

Norris was able to close the points gap to his teammate, but not by much. Piastri leads the drivers standings by 31 points over Norris.

 

Verstappen sits third in the standings, 94 points behind Piastri.

 

Results:

1. Max Verstappen – Pole-sitter 

2. Lando Norris 

3. Oscar Piastri – LLI Pick to Win 

4. Charles Leclerc 

5. George Russell 

6. Lewis Hamilton 

7. Alex Albon 

8. Gabriel Bortoleto 

9. Kimi Antonelli 

10. Isack Hadjar 

11. Carlos Sainz 

12. Ollie Bearman – 10sec penalty – causing a collision.

13. Yuki Tsunoda 

14. Liam Lawson 

15. Esteban Ocon 

16. Pierre Gasly 

17. Franco Colapinto 

18. Lance Stroll 

19. Fernando Alonso – Broken Suspension

20. Nico Hulkenberg – DNS

 

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The IndyCar Series season has concluded.

 

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