Kyle Busch passed Brad Keselowski with 38 laps to go and held off hard-charging Kevin Harvick to win the NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Richmond Raceway on Saturday night.
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With a 1.3 rating and 2.14 million viewers, final TV numbers for the inaugural South Point 400 were slightly down from last year’s playoff race at Chicagoland Speedway (1.4, 2.31) which it replaced on the NASCAR schedule.
Unless it is George Foreman and his grills or the woman who plays Flo for Progressive Insurance, is there anybody who has appeared in more television commercials than Dale Earnhardt Jr.?
The inaugural South Point 400 raced around Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday. It was the first time NASCAR had visited the speedway twice in the same year.
Heat? What heat was that asked Kyle Larson, the second-place finisher in Sunday’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. combined to win 17 of 26 regular-season races but only Truex Jr. finished in the top three in Las Vegas.
A crowd estimated at 45,000 watched Brad Keselowski win the inaugural South Point 400, marking the first time that NASCAR had visited the Las Vegas Motor Speedway twice in the same year.
Red-hot Brad Keselowski held onto the lead after a late red-flag situation to win Sunday’s chaotic, crash-filled South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
There was no master plan, no call from the NASCAR hauler for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to make a smooth transition to the broadcast booth and ease into retirement the way he would ease into the lead at Daytona Speedway.
Ross Chastain led six times for 180 of the 200 laps and won all three race stages en route to his first Xfinity victory that wasn’t as easy as it might appear in the box score.