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

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

 

📸NASCAR: Joe Gibbs Racing and Jr Motorsports.

📸F1: 

📸IndyCar: McLaren.

 

NASCAR CUP SERIES: DENNY HAMLIN SURVIVES THE RAIN AND RESTARTS TO WIN AT DOVER!

 

After a 50-minute rain delay with 15 laps to go, Denny Hamlin survived multiple restarts to hold off his JGR teammate Chase Briscoe to tame The Monster Mile for the second straight year! 🏁

 

It’s his fourth victory of the year and the 58th of his career.

 

Briscoe, who had newer Goodyear tires on his No. 19 Toyota, just couldn’t work his way around the No. 11 on the last restart. 

 

With Ty Gibbs finishing fifth and Ty Dillon 20th, it will be Ty and Ty racing for the $1M dollars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the mid season bracket challenge.

 

Results:

1. Denny Hamlin – LLI Pick 1

2. Chase Briscoe 

3. Alex Bowman 

4. Kyle Larson 

5. Ty Gibbs – Still in Bracket Challenge

6. Chase Elliott – Stage 1 🏁 – LLI Pick 2

7. Bubba Wallace 

8. Ryan Blaney 

9. Chris Buescher 

10. Brad Keselowski 

11. Kyle Busch 

12. Tyler Reddick 

13. Michael McDowell 

14. Joey Logano

15. Austin Dillon 

16. Austin Cindric 

17. Justin Haley 

18. Christopher Bell – Stage 2 🏁 

19. Ryan Preece 

20. Ty Dillon – Still in Bracket Challenge 

21. John Hunter Nemechek 

22. Zane Smith 

23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 

24. Riley Herbst 

25. Todd Gilliland 

26. Daniel Suarez 

27. Erik Jones 

28. Josh Berry 

29. Cole Custer 

30. Shane Van Gisbergen 

31. William Byron – LLI Pick 3

32. Noah Gragson 

33. Ross Chastain 

34. JJ Yeley 

35. Carson Hocevar 

36. Cody Ware 

37. AJ Allmendinger 

 

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In the Xfinity Series, Connor Zilisch won a stage and led 77 laps on his way to victory. Zilisch was leading by 1.5 seconds over Aric Almirola when the rain started to fall with only 68 laps remaining. That would end up ending the race. 🌧🏁

 

This is the fifth career win for Zilisch, his fourth of the season, and his second in a row after last weekend’s win in Sonoma.

 

Zilisch also becomes the youngest driver to reach five victories surpassing Kyle Busch.

 

Almirola took second with Brandon Jones, Justin Allgaier, Jesse Love, Ryan Sieg, Taylor Gray, Sheldon Creed, William Sawalich, and Christian Eckes rounding out the top ten.

 

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INDYCAR: TWO WEEKENDS OF WINS FOR PATO O’WARD!

 

With the safety car being deployed with two laps to go, that sealed the deal for Pato O’ward as he conquered the streets of Toronto for his second consecutive weekend with a victory in the IndyCar Series! 🏆🇨🇦

 

This is O’ward’s second win of the season and the ninth of his career.

 

With two laps remaining, Felix Rosenqvist and Nolan Siegel collided and brought out the yellow flag. Both drivers were okay.

 

Rinus Veekay finished P2 for Dale Coyne Racing. A massive boost for one of the smaller teams on the grid.

 

Kyffin Simpson completed the podium for Chip Ganassi Racing.

 

Alex Palou continues to lead the points by 99 over O’ward.

 

Results:

1. Pato O’ward 

2. Rinus Veekay 

3. Kyffin Simpson 

4. Colton Herta – Pole-sitter

5. Marcus Ericsson 

6. Kyle Kirkwood 

7. Graham Rahal 

8. Callum Ilott 

9. David Malukas 

10. Scott Dixon 

11. Will Power 

12. Alex Palou – LLI Pick to Win

13. Christian Lundgaard 

14. Marcus Armstrong 

15. Conor Daly 

16. Robert Shwartzman 

17. Sting Ray Robb 

18. Nolan Siegel – Crash

19. Felix Rosenqvist – Crash

20. Christian Rasmussen 

21. Louis Foster 🟡 

22. Devlin Defrancesco

Out:

23. Jacob Abel – Crash🟡

24. Josef Newgarden – Crash

25. Alexander Rossi – Crash

26. Scott McLaughlin – Crash

27. Santino Ferrucci – Warm Up crash, DNS

Rookie – 🟡 

 

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It was an off weekend for Formula 1 and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

 

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