Take 5: O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway

Denny Hamlin notched his second win of the 2019 season on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, his first victory since 2010 at the 1.5-mile track. Featuring the baseline 550-horsepower rules package with aero ducts, the 500-mile event offered 27 lead changes and 13 leaders. Scroll through for five key story lines coming out of race weekend in the Lone Star State.

Not so 'Happy:' Kevin Harvick recorded his sixth straight top-10 finish at Texas Motor Speedway. But Harvick's reaction to his eighth-place run was less-than thrilled. "Drove terrible and that pretty much sums it up," Harvick said. "(We were) further off than we were last week." The No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing driver had three wins at this point last season, but is still searching for his first in 2019. Heading into the weekend, Harvick had won two of the last three races at Texas. "We haven't been close to a race-winning car in a race yet," he said. No. 4 crew chief Rodney Childers tweeted post-race that he wished he "could say something good or positive about today" but also acknowledged the significance of landing all Stewart-Haas Racing cars in the top 10 in the Lone Star State.

Top of their game: Denny Hamlin's win at Texas marked the fourth race of 2019 won by Joe Gibbs Racing drivers, all of whom led multiple laps in Sunday's race. The organization is the 10th team to win four of the first seven races in a single NASCAR season, with Stewart-Haas Racing accomplishing the feat most recently in 2018. Team Penske (three wins) is the only other team to have won in 2019 besides JGR – and team owner Joe Gibbs hopes his group can "stay up there." "We're thrilled to be a part of it, I'll tell you that," he said. "But in pro sports, we all know the hardest thing is to stay up there week in, week out, because we got so many really good cars, many good owners, good competitors. It's the best racing in the world."

Sick run: Another pesky illness claimed a NASCAR driver this weekend -- this time, Aric Almirola. The No. 10 driver said he "didn't sleep at all" the night before the race due to stomach bug symptoms. "We don't get to call in sick," he said after the race. "That's the challenging part of our job occasionally. The flu or a cold or a stomach bug pops up and you've got to fight through it." And fight through it he did. Despite feeling "depleted" after the 500-mile event, Almirola finished seventh, extending his streak of top 10s to six in the first seven races this season. He isn't the first driver to perform well under less-than-ideal health conditions in 2019; Brad Keselowski won at Atlanta in February after battling flu-like symptoms throughout the weekend.

Comeback kid: Erik Jones looked like he could be out of the running for a Texas win Sunday when his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota spun at Lap 16 in Turn 2. But the 22-year-old driver maneuvered his way through the field, capitalizing on Kyle Busch's loose No. 18 and taking the lead from "Rowdy" for the final time at Lap 276. A late green-flag pit stop for fuel ultimately hampered Jones' chances at the victory, leaving him with a still-solid fourth-place effort. "It's a good day, but it"s disappointing at the same time," Jones said. "We knew we had a car that could've won and to not capitalize on that is frustrating. But it's also nice to get on track and have some good runs again." Jones has now finished in fourth in his last three races at Texas.

No broom for 'Rowdy:' After winning the Gander Outdoors Truck Series and Xfinity Series races, Kyle Busch was thinking it might be broom time at Texas Motor Speedway heading into Sunday's 500-miler. But the No. 18 driver came up short, finishing 10th after pacing the field for 66 laps. "I hate it for all of my guys and everybody that works so hard," Busch said after the race. "They deserve to win, they should've won and (I) threw it away." In Busch's career, he's swept a three-race weekend twice -- both at Bristol Motor Speedway (2017, '10), site of next week's race.