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Harrison Burton finished fourth in the My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Burton’s top-five finish, the seventh time he has achieved that result this year, added 44 points to his season total.

Burton started in seventh position and led 17 laps in the race. The second-year driver has tallied two career victories, with eight top-five finishes and 15 results inside the top 10.

Burton made his career debut at Texas Motor Speedway in Saturday’s race.

The Huntersville, North Carolina native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting one spot higher than his career mark of 8.2 and completing the race 10 places ahead of his 13.9 career average finish.

Burton’s fourth-place finish was against 37 other drivers. The race endured nine cautions and 39 caution laps. There were 15 lead changes.

Austin Cindric secured the win in the race, followed by Chase Briscoe in second place and Justin Allgaier in third. Burton secured fourth ahead of Michael Annett’s fifth-place finish.

Allgaier got off to a strong start in the race, winning the first two stages, but couldn’t hang on to secure the race victory.

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Jeb Burton finished sixth in the My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

The top-10 finish for Burton, his first of the year, added 36 points to his season total.

Burton started in second position. The seventh-year driver has earned four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in his career.

In his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Burton has compiled one top-five finish and his sixth-place result marks the second top-10.

The Halifax, Virginia native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting 11 spots higher than his career mark of 13 and completing the race 10 places ahead of his 16.3 career average finish.

Burton battled against a field of 37 drivers on the way to his sixth-place finish. The race endured nine cautions and 39 caution laps. There were 15 lead changes.

Austin Cindric brought home the win in the race, and Chase Briscoe followed in second. Justin Allgaier crossed the finish line third, Harrison Burton took fourth, and Michael Annett rounded out the top five.

Allgaier got off to a great start in the race, winning Stages 1 and 2, but couldn’t hold on to secure the race victory.

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Brandon Jones finished seventh in the My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

The top-10 finish for Jones, his seventh of the year, added 47 points to his season total.

Jones started in sixth position. The sixth-year driver has collected two career victories, with 13 top-five finishes and 57 results inside the top 10.

In his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Jones has compiled one top-five finish and his seventh-place result marks the third top-10.

The Atlanta, Georgia native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting six spots higher than his career mark of 12 and completing the race nine places ahead of his 16 career average finish.

Jones raced against 37 other drivers on the way to his seventh-place finish. The race endured nine cautions and 39 caution laps. There were 15 lead changes.

Austin Cindric brought home the win in the race, and Chase Briscoe followed in second. Justin Allgaier placed third, Harrison Burton secured fourth, and Michael Annett grabbed the No. 5 spot.

Allgaier got off to a great start in the race, winning the first two stages, but couldn’t hold on to secure the race victory.

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Ryan Truex finished 13th in the Vankor 350 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Truex’s result added 27 points to his season total.

Truex started in 14th position. The sixth-year driver has earned 10 top-five and 19 top-10 finishes in his career.

Over the course of his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Truex has put together one top-five finish and two top-10s.

The Mayetta, New Jersey native began the race at his career mark of 13.5, but finished three places ahead of his career average of 16.3.

Truex competed with a field of 36 drivers on the way to his 13th-place finish. The race endured five cautions and 26 caution laps. There were 15 lead changes.

Kyle Busch earned the victory in the race, and Christian Eckes finished second. Matt Crafton placed third, Stewart Friesen secured fourth, and Brett Moffitt rounded out the top five.

After Busch won the first stage, Moffitt drove the No. 23 car to victory in Stage 2.

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Raphael Lessard finished 12th in the Vankor 350 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Lessard’s result added 25 points to his season total.

Lessard started in 16th position. The second-year driver has two top-10 finishes in his career.

Lessard had his career debut at Texas Motor Speedway in Sunday’s race.

The St.-Joseph de Beauce, Canada native began the race four spots behind his career mark of 12.2, but finished three places ahead of his career average of 15.4.

Lessard’s 12th-place finish was against 36 other drivers. The race endured five cautions and 26 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were 15 lead changes.

Kyle Busch secured the victory in the race, and Christian Eckes finished second. Matt Crafton placed third, Stewart Friesen secured fourth, and Brett Moffitt grabbed the No. 5 spot.

After Busch won Stage 1, Moffitt drove the No. 23 car to the win in Stage 2.

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Stewart Friesen finished fourth in the Vankor 350 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Friesen’s top-five finish added 33 points to his season total.

Friesen started in 18th position. The fifth-year driver has piled up two career victories, with 24 top-five finishes and 41 results inside the top 10.

The fourth place result for Friesen marks the third time he has finished in the top five at Texas Motor Speedway and his fourth top-10.

The Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario native began the race four spots behind his career mark of 13.9, but finished 10 places ahead of his career average of 14.

Friesen took on a field of 36 drivers on the way to his fourth-place finish. The race endured five cautions and 26 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were 15 lead changes.

Kyle Busch secured the win in the race, followed by Christian Eckes in second place and Matt Crafton in third place. Friesen took fourth ahead of Brett Moffitt’s finish to secure fifth.

After Busch won the first stage, Brett Moffitt drove the No. 23 car to victory in Stage 2.

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Brett Moffitt finished fifth in the Vankor 350 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Moffitt’s top-five finish added 48 points to his season total.

Moffitt started in eighth position and led seven laps in the race, holding the lead a total of two times. The sixth-year driver has tallied 11 career victories, with 31 top-five finishes and 40 results inside the top 10.

In his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Moffitt has compiled two top-five finishes and his fifth-place result marks the second top-10.

The Grimes, Iowa native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting three spots higher than his career mark of 10.8 and completing the race six places ahead of his 11.5 career average finish.

Moffitt’s fifth-place finish was against a field of 36 drivers. The race endured five cautions and 26 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were 15 lead changes.

Kyle Busch brought home the win in the race, and Christian Eckes followed in second. Matt Crafton placed third, with Stewart Friesen securing fourth place. Moffitt rounded out the top five.

After Busch won Stage 1, Moffitt drove the No. 23 car to the win in Stage 2.

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Tyler Ankrum finished sixth in the Vankor 350 at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday.

The top-10 finish for Ankrum added 47 points to his season total.

Ankrum started in ninth position. The third-year driver has one career victory, with four top-five finishes and 12 results inside the top 10.

In his career at Texas Motor Speedway, Ankrum has compiled one top-five finish and his sixth-place result marks the third top-10.

The San Bernardino, California native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting three spots higher than his career mark of 11.5 and completing the race seven places ahead of his 13.2 career average finish.

Ankrum competed against 36 other drivers on the way to his sixth-place finish. The race endured five cautions and 26 caution laps. There were 15 lead changes.

Kyle Busch secured the victory in the race, and Christian Eckes took second. Matt Crafton placed third, Stewart Friesen brought home fourth, and Brett Moffitt closed out the top five.

After Busch won the first stage, Moffitt drove the No. 23 car to the win in Stage 2.

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A late-race miscue by rookie Quin Houff carried major ramifications for the outcome of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, dramatically altering the playoff picture at the season’s midpoint.

Houff’s ill-timed dive toward the pit-road entrance clipped two cars — the No. 95 Toyota of rookie Christopher Bell and the No. 21 Ford of Matt DiBenedetto — before sending his own No. 00 StarCom Racing Chevrolet careening into the outside retaining wall.

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That chain of events prompted a caution period with 29 laps remaining and in the middle of a pit-stop cycle, catching several contenders a lap down after stops. That sequence opened the door for Richard Childress Racing drivers Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick to vault ahead in the running order and ultimately claim a 1-2 finish. It also allowed Dillon to snatch up a playoff spot, tightening the postseason picture for drivers who have yet to clinch.

“An unfortunate ending to our day in Texas,” Houff said. “I’ll just go ahead and knock this out of the way, we were trying to get to pit road and I didn’t get called off in time and the guys that were committed underneath me were already there, and that’s my fault. I had a spotter mirror there that we use in the window on the left side of the car, and it had fallen off so I couldn’t see out of that. So, rookie mistake. It’s one of those really tough learning instances.”

Houff, who was several laps down at the time of the incident, exited with a 34th-place finish. DiBenedetto salvaged a lead-lap finish in 17th, and Bell placed 21st, three laps off the pace. DiBenedetto was among those critical of Houff, who was making his 35th Cup Series start.

Brad Keselowski, who shares a Penske-related affiliation with Wood Brothers driver DiBenedetto, was among those chiming in with his opinion on the late-race crash. Keselowski, who wasn’t among those caught a lap down at the time of Houff’s incident, led 15 laps and ultimately finished ninth.

“I think there are two ways to look at it. There’s the entertainment way to look at it and say that probably created a more entertaining finish, so if you like chaos, then that was good. I think on the other side of that there’s the, ‘Hey, I’m a professional race car driver that’s worked my entire career to get here. Had to jump through a lot of hoops to make it and would like to think that those efforts have created a spot for me in this series to be joined with peers of similar talent levels.’ ”

Keselowski also floated the idea of adding a relegation structure to NASCAR’s developmental ladder.

“One thing I would like to see, and I think I’ve been pretty consistent with this, is I would like to see drivers be able to graduate into this level and equally I’d like to see them be able to be removed from this level when they have repeated issues,” Keselowski said. “I can’t speak enough to the gentleman that had that issue today, but I have seen in the past where drivers that have had this issue multiple times somehow are still here, where I think they should effectively be placed in a lower series or asked to go back to a more minor-league level to prove their salt. But that’s ultimately not my decision to make. It’s what I would like to see, but it’s not my decision to make and until it is, I guess I should probably just shut up, but I certainly think there’s some merit to it.”

Monday morning in an appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Scott Miller — NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition — said that officials planned to consult with Houff before the next Cup Series race, scheduled Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM) at Kansas Speedway.

“I think nobody could argue that it was a very poor decision,” Miller told SiriusXM. “And yes, we do review every incident of every race. We didn’t speak to the driver last night, but we will before we get going again at Kansas. Got to do better than that. Racing incident, things are going to happen. Every decision that’s made out on the race track is an instantaneous, spur-of-the-moment decision, but I think that nobody could argue that wasn’t a poor one.”

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Austin Dillon held a hard-charging field off three times on restarts in the closing laps to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2020 season in Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was a 1-2 finish for the Richard Childress Racing team with Dillon’s rookie teammate Tyler Reddick finishing a mere .149-seconds behind.

Before the Texas green flag, Dillon was 24 points outside the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs top 16 and now the Texas winner has an automatic berth. It’s his third career victory – with other trophies in the 2017 Daytona 500 and NASCAR’s longest race, the 2018 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway – 88 races ago.

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Dillon, 30, grandson of NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress, was emotional after the win, screaming “thank yous” into his team radio and then dedicating the victory to his wife Whitney and their one-month old son, Ace, back at home in North Carolina.

“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, right,” Dillon joked after climbing out of his No. 3 RCR Chevrolet, a reference to his upbringing in NASCAR’s brand of royalty and comment last year by Alex Bowman.

“Tyler Reddick, he raced me clean. 1-2 for RCR. This has been coming. We’ve had good cars all year. I’ve got my baby Ace back home and my wife and I love them so much. I’m just so happy. Thank God. To tell you the truth, it means a whole lot [to be in the Playoffs] for the family, for all our of partners.”

Team Penske driver Joey Logano finished third, reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch was fourth, still looking for his first victory of 2020. NASCAR Cup Series points leader Kevin Harvick finished fifth.

Erik Jones, Ryan Blaney, Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski and Aric Almirola rounded out the top 10.  Blaney led a race-best 150 of the 334 laps and swept the opening two stages, but it marks the second time he’s led at least 100 laps at Texas and didn’t get to collect the trophy.

Blaney and several other of the day’s frontrunners were making their way forward after green flag pit stops when a caution came out with 31 laps remaining for young driver Quinn Houff, who crashed while trying to get to the pit lane. That changed the complexion on the race and many of the afternoon’s best cars were then left to play catch-up while Reddick and Dillon were able to pit under caution instead of the green flag as the others had.

“Disappointing finish for sure,” said Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford. “Dominant car all day, especially on long runs. Really proud of that. Just unfortunate the way it ended for us.”

“I’m proud of the speed we have and I feel like we can compete with the four and the 11 and those guys who have a lot of wins this year,” he added.

Reddick acknowledged the track position was a huge help at the end. And runner-up is a career-best finish for the former two-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champion in the NASCAR Cup Series.

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“We had to catch a few breaks,” Reddick said. “Can’t ask for much more than we got there, me and my teammate on the front for the last couple restarts. He’s done this a little longer than I have and I’m a little bit rusty, haven’t been on the front row in a while.

“I just wanted it to be between us, not bring other cars into it and make sure we could fight it out,” Reddick added. “We got the restarts and just kept getting opportunities and couldn’t get it done today. But hats off to the three guys. They work hard and this gets one RCR Chevrolet into the playoffs. We’re below the cutoff line, so we’ve got to keep fighting. If we can keep running like this, hopefully we won’t have to worry about points.”

With his 11th top-five finish, Harvick now leads the NASCAR Cup Series standings by 91 points over Ryan Blaney in second.

Ten drivers have now clinched playoff berths with victories leaving six positions open with eight races remaining to set the 16-driver postseason field. The NASCAR Cup Series races next at Kansas Speedway Thursday night (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).