The latest 'Big One' strikes just as the rains came; Martin Truex Jr. narrowly misses Playoff field.
Austin Dillon passed Austin Cindric with three laps remaining to win the 160-lap, 400-mile full-distance rain-delayed race that put him in the Playoffs.Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. went into the race winless, but high enough in regular-season points to be the only drivers eligible for the Playoffs based on points. Blaney ended up with the final Playoff spot.
led most of the last 16 laps and looked capable of winning the afternoon’s “second race” to knock Dillon to the sidelines.But in a “all’s well that ends well” drama, Dillon passed Cindric with three laps remaining to win the 160-lap, 400-mile full-distance race that put him in the Playoffs that begin next weekend at Darlington Raceway.
“I had a big run and had my teammate , back there . I knew we were in good shape there to the end. He did a good job checking up any kind of run. Just a little too much push there and got him loose.” Austin Dillon won his first race of the season at the right time and qualifies for the NASCAR Cup Playoffs.With more than a dozen “outsiders” scrapping for two Playoff spots, the prevailing attitude was, why hold anything back now? And so nobody did.
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