Kyle Larson passes defending race winner Martin Truex Jr. with eight laps to go to take the lead and claim his second NASCAR Cup win at Sonoma.
Kyle Larson celebrated
's 2021 Cup champion and moved him to the top of the current series standings. Despite his early season dominance, it took until Tuesday of this week for 's longest race of the season on the same day, but rain in both Indiana and North Carolina ruined the attempt. The Indy 500 was delayed four hours by rain, which forced Larson to miss the start of the Coca-Cola 600. By the time he arrived in North Carolina, the race had been stopped for rain there, never resumed and Larson never turned a lap. Because of that, it took
would have looked had it ruled against the Hendrick Motorsports driver. Larson led 19 of the 110 laps and passed defending race winner Martin Truex Jr. with eight laps remaining to uphold the win in his No. 5 Chevrolet. It is his 20th win since joining Hendrick in 2021 which ranks third in the organization behind Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. Truex was going to finish second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing but ran out of gas before he reached the finish line.
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