Chase Briscoe scored his second NASCAR Cup Series win Sunday at Darlington, beating Kyle Busch in an epic battle to the finish and locking into the Playoffs.
The NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs got one last shock on Sunday, when Chase Briscoe scored the victory in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, putting himself and the soon-to-dissolve Stewart-Haas Racing into the championship fight.
Unfortunately for Kyle Larson, that's where the weakness of the Hendrick Motorsports entry was discovered: the short runs. For the first five to 10 laps after the restart, Briscoe, and sometimes even Denny Hamlin, would be able to keep pace with the No. 5, with things becoming less cut-and-dry at the front of the pack.
Busch made quick work of Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson, leaving the final 15 laps to be a one-on-one battle between himself and Briscoe, one that left the cars running inches from the wall every single lap, getting everything possible out of their racecars.The Richard Childress Racing driver managed to get extremely close to Briscoe, but not close enough and would have to settle for second place to the Stewart-Haas Racing driver, just under four tenths behind.
With the Southern 500 providing a new winner from below the cutline, Ross Chastain, Chris Buescher, and Bubba Wallace all failed to make the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, which begin next weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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