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Bottom row, from left: Adam Silver, commissioner of NBA; Robert D. Manfred, Jr., commissioner of MLB; Kathy Milthorpe, chief financial officer, LPGA; Don Garber, commissioner of MLS; and Brian France, chairman and CEO of NASCAR.

Top row, from left: Craig Harnett, chief financial officer for NHL; Dennis Di Lorenzo, Harvey J. Stedman dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies; Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL; and Arthur R. Miller, associate dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business. | Photo courtesy of Mark McQueen/NYU

 

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NASCAR Chairman & CEO Brian France and the Commissioners of the NBA, NFL, MLB and MLS, led a group from across nine major professional sports leagues Monday at New York University to collaborate on social responsibility in sports.

 

The industry summit was hosted by the NYU School of Professional Studies Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business. The intent of Monday’s summit was to bring forth league leaders to exchange ideas in an open forum, and also to explain each sport’s own commitment to social responsibility.

 

“We are privileged that nine sports organizations, including NASCAR, have participated in this important discussion on the Social Responsibility of Sports at the NYUSPS Tisch Institute summit,” said Tony Ponturo, director of industry relations, NYUSPS Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business. “We thank Brian France, Chairman and CEO, for his participation, which underlines his leadership in and his commitment to this ongoing dialogue.”

 

France, who was joined by Commissioners Roger Goodell (NFL), Rob D. Manfred Jr. (MLB), Don Garber (MLS) and Adam Silver (NBA), discussed NASCAR’s wide range of social responsibility programs such as the NASCAR Foundation and NASCAR Drive for Diversity operated by Rev Racing.

 

Monday’s event is the latest example of how the leagues are joining forces when it comes to social responsibility. In 2015, NASCAR joined the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and others to partner with RISE, a non-profit started by Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross to promote diversity and equality through sports. France was named to the Board of Directors.

 

The nine leagues represented Monday at NYU include: LPGA, MLB, MLS, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA and WNBA.

 

“We are grateful for the leagues’ open cooperation and encouragement throughout this initial research phase,” said Arthur R. Miller, associate dean of the NYUSPS Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business. “With the information we have acquired, we hope to help them move forward in a constructive way in using Social Responsibility of Sports as a game changer for the industry.”

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Brian Vickers will be piloting the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet at Auto Club Speedway for the Auto Club 400 (March 20, 3:30 p.m. ET, FOX), according to the official race entry list, as Tony Stewart is still sidelined with an L1 vertebra burst fracture from an all-terrain vehicle accident.

SHR provided an update on Wednesday saying that Stewart’s doctors are now implementing a rehabilitation regimen to hasten the three-time Sprint Cup Series champion’s recovery. 

Vickers took the wheel for Stewart for the Daytona 500 where he finished 26th. Vickers also drove the No. 14 at Las Vegas and finished 36th.

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AVONDALE, Ariz. — Carl Edwards has finished second 22 times during his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career.

 

None were as tantalizingly close to victory as Sunday’s, however.

 

Edwards, driver of the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 19 Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet, engaged in a slam-bang battle on the final lap of the Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

 

Slam! The two make contact coming through Turn 4 with the checkered flag waving.

 

Bang! On the frontstretch for the final time they were door-slamming again with those in the grandstands on their feet.

 

Side-by-side the two flashed across the start/finish line.

 

And Edwards was — second.

 

RELATED: Watch the final laps from Phoenix

 

“We made him work for it,” Edwards, 36, said afterward. “That’s more than we’ve been able to do here the last few times.”

 

If there’s any solace for Edwards, it’s the fact that he pushed Harvick to the limit at a track where the SHR driver has now won eight times.

 

“I really wish it would have worked out a little bit differently, but it’s a good race,” Edwards said. “I ran into him about as hard as I thought I could without wrecking him, and it ended up being a drag race.

 

“It was kind of fun coming to the line because I thought, ‘Man, I got him,’ and then he doored me real hard and then he got a little run and then I tried to door him and slow him down, but it just didn’t work.”

 

The .010-second margin between winner and loser tied for seventh closest in Sprint Cup history since the advent of electronic timing and scoring, according to NASCAR. It was the second time this season the winning margin had been as narrow — Denny Hamlin nipped Martin Truex Jr. in the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway as well.

 

RELATED: Closest finishes in NASCAR history

 

Had it not been for a final caution for Kasey Kahne‘s accident in Turn 3 with only four laps remaining, Edwards might not have gotten a shot at all.

 

With 20 laps remaining in the scheduled 312-lap race, Harvick led Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Hendrick Motorsports), Edwards, Kyle Busch (JGR) and Denny Hamlin (JGR).

 

When Kahne brought out the yellow, Edwards and Busch were among those to duck onto pit road for two tires.

 

Harvick, Earnhardt and Austin Dillon stayed out and restarted first through third, with Edwards and Busch rounding out the top five.

 

Despite his older tires, Harvick shot out quickly, but by the white-flag lap Edwards was second and closing.

 

And then it got interesting.

 

“We were fast and we had tires,” Edwards said. “Dave Rogers (crew chief) made a great call. I got down there and I was going to go to the top and he moved up so I went to the bottom and I thought ‘I’m going to move him out of the way.’ I didn’t want to wreck him.

 

“Those guys earned their spot; I moved him and it just was a drag race and we just lost.”

 

Too close to call and too close to forget.

 

“It’s going to be a tough one to swallow,” said Edwards, “but it was a lot of fun.”

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After a hectic, fender-banging finish Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was among those on pit road basking in the euphoria of the ending and the fruits of his Stewart-Haas Racing organization’s first victory of the season.


But Stewart, whose final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has been interrupted by a severe back injury, also had good news to savor in terms of his health.


“You’re not waiting on me as far as my mind, I’m ready to go,” Stewart told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio after Sunday’s Good Sam 500, won by SHR driver Kevin Harvick in thrilling fashion. Four races into his final season, Stewart has yet to turn a lap because of a burst fracture of his first lumbar (L1) vertebra — the uppermost bone in the lower back — in an all-terrain vehicle accident Jan. 31.


“It’s just, we had a good doctor visit this week and the X-rays were good,” he added. “It wasn’t really to see about the bone growth as much as just making sure the rods and screws were staying in place where they wanted them. They were really happy.”

A return to the cockpit is still on indefinite hold for Stewart, who announced last September that 2016 would be his final championship campaign in NASCAR’s premier series. The 44-year-old driver did not travel to the season-opening event at Daytona International Speedway, but has been at the track the last three weekends in his capacity as a team owner.


At least one of those visits was made against doctors’ orders, but he’s made progress in other areas unbeknownst to his medical team.



RELATED: SHR gives update on Stewart’s injury, recovery



“The funny part was when the doctor told me, or the surgeon cleared me to drive a street car,” Stewart said of his most recent doctor’s visit March 9. “I didn’t have the heart to tell him I’ve been driving for almost three weeks. I’m not really one to follow the doctor’s orders anyway, so we’re fine. I’ve been up all day today and I feel great, so we’re excited about where we’re at right now.”


Stewart told SiriusXM that part of his rehabilitation has involved strengthening his core; he is expected to make a full recovery. Stewart also indicated that his next scheduled doctor’s appointment would come in late April.


“So we’ll just have to wait and see,” Stewart said. “Just have to be patient and doing what I’m doing and he told me to listen to my body, that it will tell me what was too much. I’m pretty hard-headed, so hopefully my back is hard-headed as well and will put up with it. I don’t feel like I’ve been pushing it too hard at all.”


Stewart did enjoy the hard pushing on the last lap, with Harvick edging runner-up Carl Edwards by a hair under the checkered flag in the closest finish in track history. Despite the shoving and fender scrapes in the home stretch, Stewart called the last-lap tactics fair and square.


“What a finish. It was pretty cool watching that last corner there,” Stewart said. “Carl did what he had to do to nudge him, which was perfectly good the way Carl did it. It was awesome. He did it with class and then off of (Turn) four, it’s every man for himself. They got hammering on each other trying to break each other’s momentum, so it worked out good, though. I’m proud of Kevin and those guys.”


MORE: Relive Phoenix race in photos | Closest finishes in NASCAR history

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Brad Keselowski ran into late-race trouble in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, seeing a right-rear tire unravel in the 225th of 312 laps at Phoenix International Raceway.

Keselowski, who started 19th in the 39-car field, was the victim of the latest in a series of tire troubles in the Good Sam 500, the fourth of 36 Sprint Cup races this season. The right-rear tire on his Team Penske No. 2 Ford blew out on the backstretch dogleg, littering the back portion of the 1-mile track with debris.

Keselowski, last week’s winner at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, lost at least two laps as he stopped for repairs. He wound up six laps off the pace at the finish, nursing the No. 2 car home in 29th place.

“We ran in that 10th-place range pretty much the entire race until we cut the tire,” Keselowski said. “That was unfortunate and we aren’t really sure why but there isn’t anything we can really do about it. It is hard to say really where we would have been if that hadn’t happened.”

Earlier in the event, the Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets of Ryan Newman and Paul Menard, plus the Roush Fenway Racing Ford of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. encountered tire problems. Goodyear officials said that intense brake heat had melted the tire beads (where the edge of the tire sits on the wheel), causing the rubber to separate.

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It’s fitting, perhaps, that Kevin Harvick will make history at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday.

 

The driver of the No. 4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet who has had such dominance in the desert in recent years — he’s won five of the last seven races in Phoenix — officially made his 500th consecutive Sprint Cup Series start when the green flag dropped in the Good Sam 500.

 

In doing so, he passed Darrell Waltrip’s streak of 499 and joins an elite club. Only 14 drivers in NASCAR history have made 500 or more consecutive starts.

 

Recently retired Jeff Gordon leads the list with 797 consecutive starts.

 

Active drivers on that list include: Ryan Newman (507), Jimmie Johnson (507), Tony Stewart (521) and Matt Kenseth (571).

 

RELATED: See everyone in the “500 club”

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The NASCAR Sprint Cup and XFINITY Series will head to Auto Club Speedway while the Camping World Truck Series has it off. Check out the full weekend schedule below.


Note: All times are ET

SUNDAY, MARCH 20:

PRE-RACE SCHEDULE
—1:30:00 p.m.: NSCS Driver/Crew Chief Meeting (NXS Garage)
—3:00:00 p.m.: NSCS Drivers Introductions
—3:30:15 p.m.: God Bless America by: American Idol
—3:31:15 p.m.: Intro Presentation of Colors and Invocation by: California Army National Guard Color Guard
—3:31:35 p.m.: Invocation by: Jeff Hamilton, Official Chaplain of Auto Club Speedway
—3:32:15 p.m.: National Anthem by: Jon Foreman of SwitchFoot
—3:33:45 p.m.: Fly-by TOT: 2 F-16’s from the 16th Weapons Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (Backstretch to Frontstretch)
—3:38:45 p.m.: “Command to Start Engines” by: Eric Dane, Currently Starring as U.S. Navy Capt. Tom Chandler on TNT’s hit “THE LAST SHIP”
—3:47:00 p.m.: Start of the Auto Club 400 (200 laps, 400 miles)

ON TRACK
— 3:30 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 (200 laps, 400 miles), FOX (Results)


PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)

— 7 p.m. (approx.): Post-NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race


DAILY ROUNDUP
— Johnson wins in overtime at Fontana
— Danica upset after contact with Kahne
— Larson goes on a wild ride at Fontana
— See the best photos from Sunday’s race


FRIDAY, MARCH 18:

ON TRACK

— 1:30-2:55 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FS1 (Results)
— 3-4:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, FS1 (Results)
— 5:30-6:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series final practice, FS1 (Results)
— 7:45 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1 (Results)


PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)

— 12:30 p.m.: Kevin Harvick

— 1:05 p.m.: Brandon Jones

— 1:15 p.m.: Daniel Suarez

— 3:30 p.m.: Carl Edwards

— 4:30 p.m.: Kyle Larson

— 4:45 p.m.: Austin Dillon

— 9 p.m. (approx.): Post-NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying and Brad Keselowski

GARAGECAM (Watch live)
–1 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
–2:30 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series


DAILY ROUNDUP
See the at-track photos from Friday’s action
Dillon leads opening Cup practice at Fontana
Busch, A. Dillon top NXS practices at Fontana
A. Dillon wins Coors Light Pole Award



SATURDAY, MARCH 19:

ON TRACK

— 11-11:55 a.m.:: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FS2 (Results)
— 12:15 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1 (Results)
— 2:30-3:25 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, FS1 (Results)
— 4 p.m.: TreatMyClot.com 300 by Janssen (150 laps, 300 miles), FS1 (Results)


PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)

— 6:30 p.m. (approx.): Post-NASCAR XFINITY Series Race


DAILY ROUNDUP
Thrilling final laps lead to A. Dillon’s Auto Club victory
Biffle, Larson involved in practice wreck
Practice wreck sends SHR’s Busch to backup car
France: New manufacturer in NASCAR a possibility
Edwards, Kenseth pace practices at Fontana

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All times ET

Monday, March 14
5:30 a.m., NASCAR Victory Lane (re-air), FS1
8 a.m., The 10: NASCAR’s Closest Calls (re-air), FS1
8:30 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Good Sam 500 (re-air), FS1
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
6:30 p.m., 100,000 Cameras: Daytona (re-air), FS1
6:30 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Jeff Gordon (re-air), FS1
8 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Good Sam 500 (re-air), FS1

Tuesday, March 15
7 a.m., NASCAR America (re-air), NBCSN
7:30 a.m., NASCAR America (re-air), NBCSN
9 a.m., NASCAR XFINITY Series Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 (re-air), FS1
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1

Wednesday, March 16
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1

Thursday, March 17
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1
6:30 p.m., NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race, NBCSN
7:30 p.m., NASCAR Whelen Modified Series, NBCSN

Friday, March 18
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FS1
3 p.m., NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, FS1
4:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub – Weekend Edition, FS1
5:30 p.m., NASCAR XFINITY Series final practice, FS1
6:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub – Weekend Edition, FS1
7:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1

Saturday, March 19
5:30 a.m., NASCAR XFINITY practice (re-air), FS1
7 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice (re-air), FS1
8:30 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying (re-air), FS1
10:30 a.m., WeatherTech Sportscar Championship: Sebring, FS1
11 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FS2
Noon, NASCAR XFINITY Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FS1
Noon, WeatherTech Sportscar Championship: Sebring, FS2
1:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub – Weekend Edition, FS1
2:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, FS1
3:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: XFINITY, FS1
4 p.m., NASCAR XFINITY Series 300, FS1
10 p.m., WeatherTech Sportscar Championship: Sebring, FS2

Sunday, March 20
8 a.m., NASCAR XFINITY Series 300 (re-air), FS1
1 p.m., NASCAR Race Classic: The 1993 Daytona 500 (re-air), FS2
1:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FS2
3 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series FOX Pre-Race Show, FOX
3:30 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 , FOX
10:30 p.m., NASCAR Victory Lane, FS1
3 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 (re-air), FS1

 

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AVONDALE, Ariz. — In recent years, Kevin Harvick has exercised his dominance at Phoenix International Raceway by crushing the competition.



In Sunday’s Good Sam 500 at the one-mile track in the Sonoran Desert, he maintained his mastery by a matter of inches, banging fenders with Carl Edwards in a side-by side overtime battle on the way to the finish line.



After the drivers traded shots on the way to the stripe, Harvick pulled ahead to win the fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season by .010 seconds (roughly four inches), the identical margin by which Denny Hamlin had beaten Martin Truex Jr. in the season-opening Daytona 500.



In the closest finish ever at PIR, Harvick won for the eighth time at the track and the fifth time in six starts since joining Stewart-Haas Racing. Harvick collected his 32nd career victory, nine of which have come since 2013.



The 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion seemed poised for a decisive win before Kasey Kahne blew a tire and smacked the outside wall on Lap 305 of a scheduled 312. That brought out the fifth and final caution of the race and forced a restart on Lap 312, sending the event one circuit beyond its posted distance.



Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Austin Dillon stayed out on old tires during the caution, but Edwards led a parade to pit road for fresh rubber, and by the time the front of the field cleared Turn 2 on the restart lap, Edwards had moved into second place.



As the cars sped through the final two corners on the last lap, Edwards nudged Harvick’s No. 4 Chevrolet and dived to the inside. Twice their cars collided in the final quarter-mile, with Harvick winning the drag race to the finish.



“Well, I knew he was better through (Turns) 3 and 4,” Harvick said of Edwards. “That was not the car that I wanted to see behind me. I knew I could beat him down there, and I tried to protect the bottom in (Turns) 3 and 4 and I just missed the bottom with all the rubber build-up on the tires and everything.



“But, all in all, I knew I was going to be on defense down there. I got up too high and wasn’t able to stay on the bottom like I wanted to, and then he got into me, like he should have, and I needed to get a good run off the corner, and I was going to have to get into his door and it worked out — just barely.”



Edwards deliberately moved Harvick on the final lap, but, just as deliberately, the driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota stopped short of wrecking his opponent.



“We made him work for it,” Edwards said. “That’s more than we’ve been able to do here the last few times. Just a lot of fun. I really wish it would have worked out a little bit differently, but it’s a good race. 



“I ran into him about as hard as I thought I could without wrecking him, and it ended up being a drag race. It was kind of fun coming to the line because I thought, man, I got him, and then he doored me real hard and then he got a little run, and then I tried to door him and slow him down, but it just didn’t work.”



Denny Hamlin came home third, followed by pole winner Kyle Busch, as Joe Gibbs Racing claimed the second, third and fourth finishing positions. Earnhardt fell from second to fifth after the final restart. Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, rookie Chase Elliott, Austin Dillon and rookie Ryan Blaney completed the top 10.



Harvick started the race from 18th and gradually worked his way to the front, taking the lead for the first time after a restart on Lap 169. From that point, Harvick led a race-high 139 laps and opened a lead of more than two seconds over Earnhardt before the final caution.



Harvick leaves Phoenix tied for the series lead with Kyle Busch, but Harvick holds the tiebreaker on the strength of his first victory of the season. Busch has yet to win this year.

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RELATED: Harvick heads to Victory Lane after photo finish | Full race results

 

AVONDALE, Ariz. — For Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Greg Ives, there were no regrets over the decision to stay out under the final caution in the Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday afternoon.

 

An accident in Turn 3 involving his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne on Lap 306, with Earnhardt running in second place, brought out the fifth and final caution flag to set up a NASCAR overtime finish.

 

Eventual race-winner Kevin Harvick, Earnhardt and Austin Dillon stayed out while the Joe Gibbs Racing trio of Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch led a brigade of cars onto pit road for two tires.

 

In the closing two laps, Earnhardt slid back to fifth after starting on the inside, which he said “doomed us.” Harvick and Edwards bumped and battled for the victory with Harvick emerging as the victor by 0.010 seconds.

 

RELATED: Closest finishes in NASCAR history

 

“I like the call we made,” Earnhardt said after the race. “If another car, one more car would have stayed out and been on that outside, second row that would have been the decision maker that that was a good call. The guy in fourth place (Edwards) had tires so he could jump to my right rear and get on me and pinch me down. He’s got new tires, I got old tires. He’s going to win.”

 

Ives told NASCAR.com that the gamble to stay out was one they needed to take, but not what he was initially thinking.

 

“I was hoping that more people would stay behind us and we could have just raced the 4 (Harvick),” Ives said on pit road. “At the time, I wasn’t going to tell him to do the opposite. You come down pit road and you never know what is going to happen. The plan was two tires and I just called him off there at the end. I was hoping there would be a row or two in between us but there wasn’t. That’s the gamble you got to take to try and win one of these races.”

 

And Earnhardt backed Ives’ decision all the way.

 

“I know our fans are wondering why we made the call we made, but it’s not an easy deal,” Earnhardt said. “The guy that won the race stayed out. It’s not easy to make those calls so I don’t hold anything against Greg and I love what he did and I back it. Second, fifth. I mean who the hell cares in the long run, really. We want to win.”

 

The start of the race saw Junior moving through the field at a blistering clip in his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. After starting the day 26th (although scored in 24th at the time of the green flag since teammates Kahne and Jimmie Johnson had to move to the rear of the field due to qualifying mishaps), Earnhardt wasted no time moving up the field. By Lap 21, he was in the top 10. By Lap 60, he was in second. By Lap 75, he had caught Kyle Busch and taken the race lead, which he held for 34 laps on the day.

 

MORE: Relive the race day in photos

 

The loop data from the day backed up how fast Earnhardt’s car was. The 41-year-old had the second-fastest laps run (62) as well as the fourth-most quality passes (22) on the afternoon.

 

And that came amid Junior admitting he burned the front brakes off of the car in the middle of the race.

 

“Lost a lot of track position (in the middle of the race) just because I couldn’t run hard,” Earnhardt said. “We fixed that and got the car running good and I took care of it so we were good at the end of a long run. What a car.

 

” … This new aero package gives you the ability to pass. I would have never been able to do that with that old aero package. I would have been stuck behind them guys. What we’re doing in the sport, you’re seeing some good racing.

 

“It’s been a blast. I had a good time today.”

 

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