Last Lap Insider Racing Recap – NASCAR, F1 & INDYCAR

KYLE LARSON CAPTURES FIRST VICTORY OF 2025!

 

Kyle Larson passed his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman with six laps remaining to record his first victory of the season and his second at his favorite racetrack, Homestead-Miami Speedway! 🏁

 

Sunday’s win is also the 30th of Larson’s career.

 

Bowman was close to capturing the checkered flag but with six laps to go, the No. 48 hit the wall, allowing Larson to easily swoop on by for the victory.

 

Results:

1. Kyle Larson – LLI Pick 1

2. Alex Bowman – Pole-sitter

3. Bubba Wallace 

4. Chase Briscoe 

5. Denny Hamlin 

6. Chris Buescher 

7. AJ Allmendinger 

8. Tyler Reddick – LLI Pick 2

9. Ryan Preece 

10. Justin Haley 

11. Zane Smith 

12. William Byron – LLI Pick 3

13. Austin Dillon 

14. Joey Logano 

15. Erik Jones 

16. Noah Gragson 

17. Josh Berry 

18. Chase Elliott 

19. Austin Cindric 

20. Michael McDowell 

21. Kyle Busch 

22. Daniel Suarez 

23. John Hunter Nemechek 

24. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 

25. Ty Gibbs 

26. Brad Keselowski 

27. Ty Dillon 

28. Cole Custer 

29. Christopher Bell 

30. Todd Gilliland 

31. Ross Chastain 

32. Shane Van Gisbergen 🟡

33. Riley Herbst 🟡

34. Cody Ware 

35. JJ Yeley 

36. Ryan Blaney 

37. Carson Hocevar 

Rookie – 🟡 

 

 

In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Kyle Larson dominated, but on the final restart, Larson got a bad push from Sam Mayer, causing the No. 17 to wiggle, opening the door for a surprise victory for Justin Allgaier! 🏁

 

It was the second straight win for Allgaier and the 27th of his career, placing him ninth on the all-time wins list in the Xfinity Series.

 

Allgaier also took home the $100,000 Dash4Cash prize.

 

Sam Mayer had the second best car all day and that’s where he would finish with Austin Hill, Kyle Larson, Sheldon Creed, Jesse Love, Brandon Jones, Nick Sanchez, Daniel Dye and Carson Kvapil completing the top ten.

 

 

In the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Kyle Larson came back from a spin with 40 laps to go to take the lead away from Layne Riggs with two laps remaining to win Friday night’s Craftsman Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway! 🏁

 

For Larson, it’s his fourth career win in a truck.

 

Corey Heim dominated the event but had his truck unexpectedly turn off twice within the closing laps, ending his hopes of sweeping all three stages.

 

Layne Riggs, Corey Heim, Tyler Ankrum, Daniel Hemric, Ross Chastain, Jake Garcia, Chandler Smith, Grant Enfinger and Kaden Honeycutt rounded out the top ten.

 

 

MCLAREN RUN AWAY WITH CHINESE GRAND PRIX VICTORY!

 

McLaren qualified 1-2, and McLaren finished 1-2. From the pole, Oscar Piastri had a perfect race from start to finish to win the race in Shanghai for his third career F1 triumph! 🏁

 

Piastri’s teammate Lando Norris was struggling with his brakes in the closing laps. Norris was extremely worried with his brakes getting worse and worse with every turn. If the race was just a couple of corners longer, Norris would’ve lost P2 to George Russell.

 

Fortunately, Norris had just enough pace to give his team a 1-2 finish with Russell standing on the final step of the podium for Mercedes.

 

Max Verstappen crossed the line fourth with Charles Leclerc somehow ending up fifth with a broken front wing he suffered on the opening lap.

 

With two races in the books, Norris leads the points by 8 markers over Verstappen.

 

Results:

1. Oscar Piastri – Pole-sitter – LLI Pick

2. Lando Norris 

3. George Russell 

4. Max Verstappen 

5. Charles Leclerc 

6. Lewis Hamilton – Sprint winner

7. Esteban Ocon 

8. Kimi Antonelli 🟡

9. Alex Albon 

10. Ollie Bearman 🟡

11. Pierre Gasly 

12. Lance Stroll 

13. Carlos Sainz 

14. Isack Hadjar 🟡

15. Jack Doohan 🟡

16. Liam Lawson 🟡

17. Gabriel Bortoleto 🟡

18. Nico Hulkenberg 

19. Yuki Tsunoda 

20. Fernando Alonso

Rookie – 🟡 

 

 

ALEX PALOU IS UNTOUCHABLE SO FAR IN 2025!

 

In the NTT IndyCar Series, Alex Palou did it again!

 

Palou, who won last year’s race at the Thermal Club, opens the 2025 IndyCar Series season with two straight victories! 🏁

 

Pato O’ward and McLaren won the pole and dominated nearly the entire Grand Prix, but with ten laps to go, Palou easily passed O’ward like the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda had turbo boost.

 

It’s Palou’s 14th career win.

 

The three time and defending series champion continues to lead the driver standings by 63 points ahead of O’ward.

 

This race was actually yellow free. Not one single caution. It’s the first race to run caution free since the Indianapolis Grand Prix way back in 2020.

 

Results:

1. Alex Palou – LLI Pick

2. Pato O’ward – pole-sitter 

3. Christian Lundgaard 

4. Colton Herta 

5. Felix Rosenqvist 

6. Will Power 

7. Marcus Armstrong 

8. Kyle Kirkwood 

9. Alexander Rossi 

10. Scott Dixon 

11. Graham Rahal 

12. Christian Rasmussen 

13. Josef Newgarden 

14. Santino Ferrucci 

15. Kyffin Simpson 

16. Conor Daly 

17. Rinus Veekay 

18. David Malukas 

19. Nolan Siegel 

20. Devlin Defrancesco 

21. Marcus Ericsson 

22. Robert Shwartzman🟡

23. Sting Ray Robb 

24. Louis Foster 🟡

25. Jacob Abel 🟡

26. Callum Ilott 

27. Scott McLaughlin

Rookie – 🟡

 

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