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SONOMA, Calif. – Martin Truex Jr. hit Sonoma Raceway’s pit road on Lap 63, handing the lead to teammate Kyle Busch. Truex re-took it when Busch pitted three laps later.

And, thus, the chase was on.

With 22 laps remaining in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350, Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota trailed Truex’s No. 19 by 8.3 seconds – seemingly insurmountable without a caution.

And then it was 6.3 (Lap 71).

Then 4.3 (Lap 73) …

… 3.1 (Lap 75)

… 1.9 (Lap 78).

The caution never flew, but Busch got to within 1.5 seconds of Truex with 10 laps remaining and appeared set to run down his equally talented, equally competitive teammate.

But this is Martin Truex Jr. we’re talking about. Late-race mistakes aren’t exactly part of his repertoire.

The No. 18 managed to get within 1.3 seconds of Truex – on the final lap – but was unable to reach his teammate’s bumper to even think about making a move, with the 2017 champ wheeling it flawlessly on the final run of the race to hold off perhaps his best competition going these days. The win was Truex’s fourth of the season and second in a row at the road course.

MORE: Truex holds off Busch for Sonoma win | Full results

“He was beating us pretty good there for a while. I just had to try to manage my car the best I could to not burn the tires off trying to go faster than it wanted to go,” Truex said. “I knew if we could just maintain a decent gap for long enough, we would start to equal out. With 10 to go, we were equaling lap times. From there, all right, you got to run 10 perfect laps and not screw up. Was able to do that fortunately and hang onto it.”

Despite the unsatisfying second-place run, Busch was in an upbeat mood – a quick post-race, self-dousing with a water bottle in the 90-plus-degree temps certainly helped there – joking about his disdain for getting beat by his teammate.

“I hate him,” Busch quipped with a wide, toothy grin on pit road following the race. “I mean, yeah, I guess you could say there’s sibling rivalries, there’s teammate rivalries, whatever you want to call it. Truex and I, we’ve always had a good relationship with one another, ever since the (Xfinity) Series days when we were rookies together … now he’s on my team and I know he’s got the same stuff, so no excuses.

“ … He’s one of the best here. Year in, year out he’s kind of the guy to beat. Last few years he’s been the guy to beat.”

RELATED: All of Truex Jr.’s career wins | All-time road course winners

With fellow “Big 3” member Kevin Harvick still winless as the season reaches its halfway point, the top tier of talent thus far in 2019 firmly lies with the pair of former champions.

At this point, it’s hard to envision both of them not making runs all the way to the Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, pushing each other hard as months tick off the calendar. You have to go back to 2016 for the last time both weren’t racing for the title, and 2014 for the last time neither was. They’re even better now.

The friendly rivalry will burn slowly all year before it all gets put on the line.

They’re good with it.

“I consider anyone that you have to beat to win races and championships a rivalry. I think it’s a good rivalry,” Truex said. “We’re obviously teammates. … We’ve known each other a long time. We’ve been racing together a long time. We’ve raced each other really hard, but with respect. I think that’s part of what’s made us good teammates is that we have that mutual respect for each other.

“Kyle hates to lose. Everybody knows kind of how he is. For me, to me, he’s just been an amazing teammate. He’s really smart about his race car, gives great information, helps the team make the cars better. We’re all better for it. … We have that mutual respect where we know we’re both fast, we both have great teams, we can push each other to be better. It really elevates the whole company. We race hard as we can possibly race on the race track and respect each other off it. It works out pretty good.”

The pair has now combined to win exactly half – four apiece – of the season’s 16 races thus far, with no signs of slowing. In fact, they might even be getting stronger.

As the arms race between teammates continues as the regular season winds down and playoff season ramps up, it’s evident they’re going to continue to pile up wins.

Only question now – do they keep score?

“I don’t. I don’t know if he does. I do know they told me in Victory Lane we have finished 1‑2 seven times (in our careers). I beat him four out of the seven, so I got the upper hand right now. I had no idea till they told me that.

“No, I don’t keep track of it. I don’t know if he does or not. He might,” Truex joked.

RELATED: Every  1-2 finish from Busch and Truex Jr.

As the series now shifts to next weekend’s Chicagoland Speedway – where Busch and Truex have combined to win the past three races – it’s all knotted up.

Game on.

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SONOMA, Calif. — Even though he ran a distant third to Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney’s fortunes at Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series road courses have been looking up.

In last year’s playoffs, Blaney won at the Charlotte Roval after Truex and Jimmie Johnson collided in the final chicane. And in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, he enjoyed a stress-free race running behind the leading pair of Truex and Kyle Busch.

“Kind of smooth day for us,” acknowledged Blaney, who leaves the 2.52-mile road course ninth in the series standings and well inside the playoff cut line. “Qualified decent. The way the stages are, you can either choose to finish the stage out, get stage points, but you have to restart way in the middle of the pack.

“Or (you can) pit early. That’s kind of the strategy we wanted to do.”

RELATED: Official race results

Sacrificing stage points by pitting early proved beneficial at the end of the race.

“Today, even though you hate giving up stage points, you just get yourself ahead of all the mess,” said Blaney, who finished more than 33 seconds behind the race winner. “You can kind of get in your own rhythm, do your own thing, not have to worry about someone behind you and in front of you all the time.

“A real decent day for the PPG Ford Mustang. Those top two guys were just gone. All the Gibbs cars looked pretty good. They got something figured out.”

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The race-winning Joe Gibbs Racing No. 19 Toyota of Martin Truex Jr. has passed post-race inspection at Sonoma Raceway with no issues.

The No. 19 Toyota was found to be compliant with the 2019 NASCAR Rule Book after Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350. No other issues were reported from technical inspection or the post-race lug-nut check.

With the post-race teardown complete, the race results are official.

RELATED: Official race results | Truex repeats at Sonoma

The post-race process is part of a new, more timely approach to inspection for all three NASCAR national series. Competition officials announced in February that thorough post-race inspections would take place shortly after the checkered flag at the track instead of midweek at the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina.

Those inspections come with a stiffer deterrence structure that includes disqualification for significant rules infractions — “a total culture change,” according to Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer. In the past, race-winning teams found in violation of the rules were penalized with post-race fines, points deductions and/or suspensions, but victories were allowed to stand.

Competition officials introduced the quicker post-race inspection timetable in an effort to make the results official on race day, aiming for a 90-minute target time frame to complete their scrutineering. The new post-race inspection process was also designed to deal with potential violations more promptly, avoiding any midweek news that might cloud the previous week’s results or the build-up to the following week’s event.

NASCAR will still inspect cars and parts at the R&D Center as needed, but the more comprehensive at-track inspection will take priority.

The first NASCAR national-series organization to run afoul of the new inspection system was Niece Motorsports, which absorbed a disqualification on June 16, stripping Ross Chastain’s No. 44 of an apparent Gander Outdoors Truck Series victory at Iowa Speedway. The first-finishing Niece truck failed to meet the minimum ride height, an infraction that was upheld after an appeal.

According to NASCAR statistical archives, the last time a premier series driver was disqualified occurred in 1973, when early retiree Buddy Baker was demoted to last place in the National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The last time an apparent race winner in NASCAR’s top division was disqualified came on April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis’ victory at Wilson (N.C.) Speedway was thrown out because of an oversized fuel tank on his No. 85 Chevrolet.

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SONOMA, Calif. – In the last 11 laps of Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, Matt DiBenedetto passed seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson for fifth place and 2014 champion Kevin Harvick for fourth.

When the race ended, the driver of the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Toyota was closing on third-place finisher Ryan Blaney before running out of laps. But DiBenedetto nevertheless scored the best result of his career, eclipsing the sixth he posted at Bristol on April 17, 2016.

RELATED: Official race results

“I’m just so lucky to be doing this,” an elated DiBenedetto said after the race. “My path to get here has been so out of the ordinary and old-school, and I’m so thankful. I can’t tell you how many people took a chance on me to have this opportunity.”

One of those people was the late J.D. Gibbs, the former president of Joe Gibbs Racing who was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame on Thursday night.

“It was so much fun — my home state,” DiBenedetto said of his run. “This one is for my buddy, AJ Allmendinger, for helping me so much.”

DiBenedetto also had some parting words for NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip, who on Sunday at Sonoma called his last race as an analyst for FOX Sports. DiBenedetto drove a throwback No. 95 Toyota with a retro design to honor one of Darrell Waltrip’s earliest rides.

“DW, this one’s for you, brother,” DiBenedetto said. “I’m glad we got you a good finish. You’ve done so much for me. You’re the best.”

DiBenedetto’s first top-five finish came in his 156th premier series start. The 27-year-old driver’s personal best helped to stem some of the rough patches in his first season with Leavine Family Racing’s No. 95 operation.

Contributing: Staff reports

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SONOMA, Calif. – Dominant in defense of last year’s victory in the Toyota/Save Mart 350, Martin Truex Jr. held off Kyle Busch, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, to win Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event at Sonoma Raceway.

With three-lap fresher tires after the final set of green-flag pit stops at the 2.52-mile road course — which for the first time since 1997 featured use of the carousel connecting Turns 4 and 7 — Busch closed an 8.269-second gap to slightly more than a second over the last 24 laps.

But the driver of the No. 18 Toyota could get no closer, given that Truex’s No. 19 Camry had better drive off the corners at the 12-turn course and was able to keep Busch at bay. Truex led three times for 59 of the 90 laps, including the final 24.

RELATED: Official race results
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“I just dug down deep and tried to be smooth and hit my marks,” said Truex, who won for the fourth time this season — all in the last eight races — the third time at Sonoma (including two straight, and with three different car owners) and the 23rd time in his career. “Luckily I began with a big enough gap where I could get away and not feel too much pressure.

“It was definitely a battle going on, as far as the race there at the end for us on tires. It felt terrible the last 20 laps. The last 10 it just felt like it was on ice — just no grip anywhere. I’m really proud of all these guys and everyone on this team and everyone back at JGR.

“What a season we’ve turned this into. This is great, man, unbelievable. Hopefully, we can keep it going.”

Joe Gibbs Racing has won 10 of the first 16 races this season. Truex, who moved from now-defunct Furniture Row Racing to JGR this year, has now posted at least four victories in four straight seasons, including the current one.

And with Matt DiBenedetto running a career-best fourth and Stage 2 winner Denny Hamlin driving from 26th to fifth in the final stage of the race after pitting during the second break, Toyota placed four drivers in the top five. The only interloper was third-place Ryan Blaney in a Team Penske Ford.

With four laps left, Busch had trimmed Truex’s advantage to 1.542 seconds, but Truex ultimately expanded the edge to 1.861 seconds at the finish.

WATCH: Busch ‘pumped’ with second

“Yeah, any time I had to lean on the left rear, I just didn’t have the drive that I needed,” Busch said. “Actually tried to hold on to it, trying to save it. I knew that was going to be our problem — that had been our problem all day long. You get closer, you’re like, ‘OK, I can get him, I better go, pounce on him fast, so then he doesn’t have the time to pick up the pace.’

“But it didn’t work. He was obviously saving a lot. I knew he was going to be saving a lot, have enough to be able to most likely hold us off. I was right. I still tried everything I could to get there and ran real hard. … Sucks to finish second to a teammate, but it’s good for the company. Overall Martin is really, really good here. I’m just pumped that I actually ran good here.”

Kevin Harvick and Ryan Newman claimed the sixth and seventh spots. Erik Jones, who started from the rear of the field after his team made repairs to the left rear quarter of his car post-qualifying, was eighth in the fourth JGR Toyota.

Aric Almirola and polesitter Kyle Larson completed the top 10. The winner of three straight poles at Sonoma, Larson posted his best finish at the road course.

The race ran caution-free, except for the two stage breaks. Front-row starter William Byron grabbed the lead from Larson on the first lap and won the stage wire-to-wire, but he lost track position while pitting under caution during the stage break and finished 19th.

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Chase Elliott’s hopes for a Sonoma Raceway victory hit a final-stage snag Sunday as his Hendrick Motorsports No. 9 Chevrolet lost power and went behind the wall for diagnosis.

Elliott had led three laps and was scored in third place behind race leader Martin Truex Jr. on Lap 60 of the 90-lap race, when he reported “blew up, blew up” as he coasted down pit road. His No. 9 crew raised the hood and performed some cursory checks before pushing the car to the garage, out of the race for good.

RELATED: Full race results

“I don’t know. I don’t think I missed any shifts or anything,” Elliott told his team on the radio, saying that the car had not shown any abnormal signs before its mechanical issue. Bill Elliott, his Hall of Fame father, was on spotter duty for the team this weekend and reported that the car had misfired on the final time past his location.

“We lost oil pressure but there is no oil leaking, so it must have been a belt, I guess,” Elliott said later. “And obviously when that happens, you’re not getting oil so things are going to not work when they’re not being loosened up and have oil to work with. I’ve been with Hendrick Motorsports for a number of years now running their engines, and I think this is the second time we ever broke one. So, I’ll take those odds all day long.”

Eight laps after Elliott pulled off the track, the team informed primary spotter Eddie D’Hondt that the No. 9 was done for the day in the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Elliott had finished in the top 10 in the past two Sonoma races, but was 37th Sunday, losing ground in the standings as a result.

Elliott has virtually clinched a spot in the 16-driver playoff field with his victory in April at Talladega Superspeedway.

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Which channels have NASCAR programming this week? We answer that and give you the weekly NASCAR television listings here in the NASCAR TV schedule.

Note: All times are ET.

MORE: Get the NBC Sports App | How to find FS1 | Get FOX Sports App | How to find NBCSN

Monday, June 24
5 p.m., NASCAR America Monday, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App

Tuesday, June 25
2:30 p.m., Glory Road: Modified Mastery (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
5 p.m., Dale Jr. Download, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App
8:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 (re-air), FS2/FOX Sports App

Wednesday, June 26
5 p.m., NASCAR America: “Motormouths,” NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App

On MRN
noon: NASCAR Coast to Coast

Thursday, June 27
5 p.m., NASCAR America: “The Motorsports Hour,” NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR K&N Series: Carneros 200, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN
1 p.m.:MRN Classic Races

Friday, June 28
2 p.m., NASCAR Decades — The 1980s (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3 p.m., NASCAR Decades — The 1990s (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3:30 p.m., NASCAR Decades — The 1990s (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
4 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series First Practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
5 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Qualifying, FS2/FOX Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
7 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Final Practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
8 p.m, NASCAR Presents: Davey Lives On (re-air), FS1/FOX Sports App
8:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FS1/FOX Sports App
9 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Camping World 225, FS1/FOX Sports App

On MRN:
9 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Camping World 225

Saturday, June 29
10 a.m., NASCAR Decades — The 1990s (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
10:30 p.m., NASCAR Decades — The 1990s (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
11 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series First Practice at Chicagoland Speedway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 2)
noon, NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying at Chicagoland Speedway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
1 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Final Practice at Chicagoland Speedway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 2)
3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Countdown to Green-Chicagoland, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3:30 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series Camping World 300, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 2)
6 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series Camping World 300 Post-Race Show, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6:30 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying at Chicagoland Speedway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)

On MRN:
11 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series First Practice
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Final Practice
3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Camping World 300
6:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying

Sunday, June 30
8:30 a.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series Camping World 300 (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
11 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Final Practice at Chicagoland Speedway (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
11:30 a.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FS1/FOX Sports App
noon, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying at Chicagoland Speedway (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
1 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
2:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Countdown to Green — Chicagoland, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 400, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 1,4,5)
6 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 400 Post-Race Show NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 400

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Denny Hamlin and crew chief Chris Gabehart’s decision to play for stage points paid off with a stage win in Stage 2 of the Toyota/Save Mart 350. This is Hamlin’s second stage win of the season.

With three laps to go, Martin Truex Jr. led the first three cars of himself, Chase Elliott and Kyle Busch to pit road for service ahead of the end of the stage and Hamlin took over the lead. Those three drivers did earn some stage points, though, as they cycled out in the top 10 at the end of the stage.

RELATED: Stage 2 results

Clint Bowyer made an unscheduled pit stop at Lap 28 for a loose wheel that brought him down pit road out of the top seven.

Finish Driver Team Points
1 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 10
2 Brad Keselowski Team Penske 9
3 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports 8
4 Joey Logano Team Penske 7
5 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Roush Fenway Racing 6
6 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing 5
7 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing 4
8 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports 3
9 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing 2
10 Bubba Wallace Richard Petty Motorsports 1

Stage 1 recap

William Byron took the lead early on the opening lap and didn’t look back to win the opening stage of Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Byron led all 20 circuits to score his first stage win of 2019.

Denny Hamlin took second, while Joey Logano came in third, but reported an electrical issue late in the run. Polesitter Kyle Larson and Aric Almirola completed the top five.

RELATED: Stage 1 results

Strategy was the name of the game late in the stage as several cars in the top 10 — Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney — pitted to position themselves better for later in the race and eschewed stage points in the opening stanza.

Finish Driver Team Points
1 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports 10
2 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 9
3 Joey Logano Team Penske 8
4 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing 7
5 Aric Almirola Stewart-Haas Racing 6
6 Chris Buescher JTG Daugherty Racing 5
7 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports 4
8 Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing 3
9 Paul Menard Wood Brothers Racing 2
10 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports 1
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SONOMA, Calif. – From headlining a sold-out Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center to the Sydney Opera House in Australia, stand-up comedian and actor Gabriel Iglesias does everything “big.”

So, of course, he’s up to the task – “OH, yeah,” he said – of the pressure and responsibility that comes along with driving the pace car for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway.

PHOTOS: Scenes from Sonoma | Full schedule for Sonoma

In fact, he was a little bummed there are rules in place that keep him from putting the pedal to the metal and really letting loose before drivers take the green flag on the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course.

“They told me that I was only going to be able to go 40 mph and I was like, ‘Really? That’s it? I can do that in my bus,’ ” Iglesias told NASCAR.com Sunday morning. “But when you’re out there and you’re driving and you’re hitting those turns, that’s when you feel it. It’s different when you’ve got a freakin’ bunch of cars behind you, too.”

Iglesias — known by his fans as “Fluffy” —  is the star and executive producer of the recently worldwide-premiered, multi-cam comedy series for Netflix, Mr. Iglesias, where he plays a good-natured public high school teacher who works at his alma mater. The series’ 10 half-hour episodes premiered this weekend to an “incredible response,” he said.

It’s not the native Californian’s first taste of NASCAR – he’s been to Auto Club Speedway and was on hand for the closest Daytona 500 finish in NASCAR history in 2016 ­– and it’s clear it won’t be his last.

RELATED: Closest Daytona 500 finishes in history | Buy 2020 Daytona 500 tickets

“Daytona was my first real NASCAR experience, and that’s a hell of a way to lose your NASCARd,” he said. “I remember that that race was stupid close, within inches. I remember how excited people got and I thought it was always that close. We were in the infield and I noticed it’s its own little community with where all the RVs and buses are at then a little bit down the way there’s some of the smaller RVs and cars and you keep going down and it’s tent city. … That was the first time I ever played cornhole and the first time I ate alligator.

“I’m a big fan of wrestling and I’m just a fan in general of events and this is right there in the vein of wrestling for me but it’s a little bit more … like, you can’t just walk into a wrestling locker room and talk to wrestlers while they’re lacing up their boots or oiling themselves up or doing some pushups, whereas here, fans are literally walking up to the cars while they’re revving them and putting gas in them and I’m like … this is very, very hands-on and I think people really appreciate that. … The fans appreciate that so much, because there’s so many events that happen that they can go to, but they’ll never get as close as they can get here.”

Not only is the NASCAR at-track experience a one-of-a-kind animal of its own volition, but there are also some parallels with the long road on the rise to stand-up comedy stardom, especially at his level.

Teams and drivers have to scratch and claw for every inch and every opportunity on the way up for years upon years – a hunger that can never cease even once a talent hits the upper echelon.

“(Comedy) is a hard grind, and some never get there,” Iglesias said. “I think it’s just one of those things where you have to constantly evolve and stay consistent. Any time you let off the gas, no pun intended, that’s when you’re going to run into problems. That’s why I tell people when they ask me, ‘When are you going to take a vacation?’ and I say ‘I don’t, because there’s somebody coming up right behind me and I’m always fighting for my spot.’ ”

That’s why Iglesias never plans to take his foot off the gas — not only behind the wheel of the pace car but with his comedy career, too.

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Four cars will start from the rear in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 for various reasons: the No. 41 of Daniel Suarez, the No. 20 of Erik Jones, the No. 15 of Ross Chastain and the No. 51 JJ Yeley.

RELATED: Sonoma starting lineup

Suarez’s No. 41, which was slated to start fifth, had an engine change that necessitated the move.

Jones, who suffered a flat left rear tire during qualifying and was starting 32nd, had an unapproved adjustment made on his No. 20 Toyota.

Chastain, who won Saturday’s Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, had a driver change after Kyle Weatherman qualified the No. 15 for him in Sonoma.

Yeley’s No. 51 was slated to start 36th, but will start at the rear for unapproved adjustments.