2025 NASCAR Cup Series entry list for Kansas spring race

Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 by Staff Report

After the NASCAR Cup Series experienced its closest-ever finish in series history at the track last year, the field once again returns to Kansas Speedway this Sunday for the AdventHealth 400 (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

KANSAS ENTRY LISTS: Cup Series | Craftsman Truck Series

Corey Heim makes his 2025 Cup Series debut, piloting the No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota crew-chiefed by Bootie Barker. Jesse Love will additionally race this weekend in the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet after the organization announced the 20-year-old will make two additional Cup Series starts for the team, with the other coming at Richmond Raceway Aug. 16.

See the full entry list for the 267-lap battle this weekend:

Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 by Staff Report

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is back in action for a Saturday showdown in the heartland with the Heart of Health Care 200 at Kansas Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NASCAR Racing Network Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

KANSAS ENTRY LISTS: Cup Series | Craftsman Truck Series

Not only is Xfinity Series regular Brandon Jones making a start this weekend with Tricon Garage, but Cup drivers William Byron and Carson Hocevar will also be in the field Saturday night under the Spire Motorsports banner.

See the full entry list for the race in the Sunflower State:

Posted on May 5, 2025May 12, 2025 by Staff Report

The 2025 NASCAR All-Star Race returns to North Wilkesboro Speedway on May 18 (8 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), and the chance remains open for fans to vote their favorite driver into the exciting event.

At the approximate midway point of the Fan Vote, the top 10 vote-getters in alphabetical order as of May 5 are as follows: AJ Allmendinger, Ty Dillon, Ty Gibbs, Shane van Gisbergen, Noah Gragson, Carson Hocevar, Erik Jones, Michael McDowell, Ryan Preece and Bubba Wallace.

The voting period closes at 11:59 p.m. ET on May 17, a day before the 2025 NASCAR All-Star Open (May 18, 5:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). The fan vote winner will be revealed after the All-Star Open and before engines fire for the main event.

Fans can vote up to five times per day, per unique email address. NASCAR Fan Rewards members will receive a one-time 25-point bonus for their first vote.

Notable past winners of the fan vote include Ken Schrader, who was first to receive the honor in 2004. Additional winners include Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2011), Danica Patrick (2013, ’15) and Clint Bowyer (2020). Noah Gragson has won the award each of the last two seasons (2023, ’24). Kasey Kahne (2008) currently stands as the sole fan vote winner to win the All-Star Race.

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Staff Report

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North Wilkesboro Speedway

$136,805 posted awards

RACING PURSE BREAKDOWN

*1st place monies includes the $3,500 Special Award Whelen Engineering “Winner of the Race” award paid to winning driver.

Total: $103,202

1st-$14,467
2nd-$5,484
3rd-$4,113
4th-$3,164
5th-$3,129
6th-$3,094
7th-$3,059
8th-$3,024
9th-$2,989
10th-$2,954
11th-$2,919
12th-$2,884
13th-$2,849
14th-$2,814
15th-$2,779
16th-$2,745
17th-$2,710
18th-$2,675
19th-$2,640
20th-$2,605
21st-$2,570
22nd-$2,535
23rd-$2,500
24th-$2,500
25th-$2,500
26th-$2,500
27th-$2,500
28th-$2,500
29th-$2,500
30th-$2,500
31st-$2,500
32nd-$2,500

($10,000 of the above purse is contributed by FloRacing.com)

QUALIFYING AND SPECIAL AWARDS

$1,150 Hoosier Tire “Pole Award” per event award to the eligible driver with the fastest qualifying time eligible to participate under the Manufacturers’ Prize Money Conditions.
$1,000 Hoosier Tire “Hard Charger” per event award to the highest finishing eligible driver who advances the most positions from the start of the race to the end of the race. In the case of a tie, the highest finishing driver will receive the award.
$550 Sunoco Spec Fuel per race award divided: 1st-$300 5th-$150 10th-$100
$400 Phil Kurze “Halfway Leader” Award presented by Josten’s per event award to the race leader at the halfway point of the event, regardless if the race is running under green or yellow.
One set of Hoosier Racing Tires – Product Award valued at $1,000 to be awarded as follows: At the conclusion of the event, the race winner will draw a pill to randomly select which finishing position of 10th through 25th will win this award.
One set of Hoosier Racing Tires – Product Award valued at $1,000 to be awarded to the highest finishing new team participating in the race. New team is defined as a new Car Owner to the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour or a Car Owner who has not participated during the past three (3) seasons of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. If there are no new teams that qualify for this award, a second pill will be drawn, by the race winner, and the tires will be awarded to a team that finishes between 10th and 25th positions.

Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 by Zack Albert

A week earlier as the NASCAR Cup Series’ world turns, the forecast was for Talladega Superspeedway’s calamitous tendencies to shake up the state of affairs.

Turns out, the NASCAR-sphere just needed to wait a week.

After a relatively tame event — by Talladega standards — a week ago, Texas Motor Speedway did its best impression of a chaos creator in Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly. Joey Logano was one of a handful of drivers to come away relatively unscathed, hoisting his first trophy of the season and becoming the seventh winner in 11 races this year.

Logano said he’d told his wife, Brittany, “Watch, we’ll go win this one,” after the way his recent run of luck had gone, topped by last weekend’s disqualification for a Talladega technical infraction. How about a prediction on Sunday’s rash of wrecks? “I didn’t tell her that part,” Logano said.

RELATED: Race results | Logano lands Texas win

Plenty of other contenders had their chance to lasso the Lone Star State oval’s prize. Of the 13 drivers who led laps in Sunday’s race, eight were involved in crashes, collisions or spins. Two others found trouble with pit-road penalties. The list of would-be front-runners was a long one.

In the end, Logano’s sailing was relatively smooth while many others found the going treacherous in the Texas chop. Post-race, the defending Cup Series champ couldn’t pinpoint exactly why.

“I think there’s a few reasons, and I don’t drive their race cars, right?” Logano said. “A lot of it could be setup choice. There’s definitely guys that I think have the ability to drive their car a little bit more on edge, and they’re willing to take that risk a little bit more at times. That’s either going to be good for you or bite you. That bump down in (Turns) 3 and 4, it’s brutal. Everybody is down on their rear limiters as much as they can be. If you are a little free and it hits the limiter, it’s gone. There’s no opportunity to save it.

“You’ve got to think of risk versus reward throughout the race. Not just on pit strategy, but when you are trying to pass somebody, how hard is it worth pushing it here to make a pass, and what is the ultimate goal? There’s times you’ve got to push your limitations, and there’s others you’ve got to stay within reason. Everybody does something different, but to answer your question, I can’t say why. I have some thoughts, but a lot goes into it. It’s not just the driver. It’s the setup as well.”

Be it setup, a mid-corner bump or difficulty maintaining the groove in the sweeping turns, Texas foiled both heavyweights and the lightly regarded. Points leader William Byron was predicted to win Sunday’s race in metrics and data analysis by Racing Insights, but a collision with Cole Custer on Texas’ tight pit road dinged his No. 24 Chevrolet. He fought on, but his streak of consecutive top-10 finishes ended at three.

MORE: Cup Series standings | At-track photos: Texas

Josh Berry intended to keep the hot hand on 1.5-mile tracks, leading 41 of the 271 laps. That’s where Berry was until his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford found the bump in Turns 3 and 4 and crashed midway through Stage 2, leaving him to finish 32nd. Austin Cindric, last week’s winner at Talladega, led 60 laps early and won Stage 1 in a bid to go back-to-back in Victory Lane. A multicar jam-up with 24 laps left spoiled those hopes. And Michael McDowell, eager to add a Texas Motor Speedway memory other than his dramatic qualifying crash from 2008, gave it his all with superb late-race restarts, a two-tire stop that vaulted him up the leaderboard and hunger for his first Cup win in nearly two years. His bold move to try to stave off Logano didn’t stick, and neither did his No. 71 Chevrolet in a crack-up that prompted the last of 12 cautions, sending the race to overtime.

In the end, Logano vaulted into the ranks of the Cup Series Playoffs ticket-punchers, and the rest of the provisional postseason picture went wild with movement. Of the 26 drivers ranked fifth to 30th on that chart, all but four had at least one spot gained or lost. Part of that is the Texas turn of events, but it also speaks to how tightly woven the standings are, 11 races into the season.

Another 1.5-mile track looms on the Cup Series’ calendar in Kansas Speedway, host of another 400-miler this Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). That’s another week to wait and see if the Texas turmoil deferred from Talladega carries over.

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Posted on May 4, 2025May 5, 2025 by Zach Sturniolo

A frantic run to the finish at Texas Motor Speedway left early contenders behind the wall and other drivers ready to pounce as Joey Logano scored the overtime victory Sunday afternoon.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos

Some competitors took advantage of the on-track adversity to exit with strong finishes, while multiple incidents collected some of the day’s front-runners and have them looking forward to next week’s race at Kansas Speedway (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

THREE UP ⬆️

1. Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

Started: 14th

Finished: 5th

What happened: Jones celebrated his 300th career Cup start with an impressive rally in the No. 43 Toyota, charging back from a Lap 83 speeding penalty to score his first top-10 finish of 2025. The fifth-place result marks Jones’ first top five since Talladega Superspeedway last fall. He and teammate John Hunter Nemechek scored double top 10s for Legacy, with Nemechek eighth, adding to a positive day for the Toyota twosome.

What’s next: Sunday also marked Jones’ first top five on an intermediate track since Kansas Speedway in 2023. Up next on the Cup schedule? Kansas Speedway, giving Jones an opportunity to build momentum.

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2. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

Started: 19th

Finished: 7th

What happened: A steady day in Texas earned Dillon his best finish of the 2025 campaign. Dillon, a 2020 winner at the Fort Worth race track, now has a three-race streak of top-10 finishes to his credit after 10th-place runs at both Bristol Motor Speedway and Talladega before Texas. The famed No. 3 Chevrolet capitalized on late-race attrition and restarts, moving forward late while defending other hard-chargers on the way to finishing seventh.

What’s next: Dillon has been a consistent top-15 driver at Kansas in recent outings, evidenced by six straight finishes between 10th and 14th from 2020 through 2023. Most recently, Dillon finished 12th at the 1.5-mile track last fall.

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3. Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

Started: 23rd

Finished: 12th

What happened: Despite late contact, Dillon walked away from Texas with his best Cup finish since August of 2023. The No. 10 Chevrolet collected minor nose damage in a four-car pileup at Lap 247, but Dillon maneuvered through the carnage to score his third top-15 finish of 2025. The positive result comes despite averaging a 28th-best average running position of 23.7, according to NASCAR Loop Data.

What’s next: Kansas has not been incredibly kind to Dillon, the younger of the two brothers, but he has two top-15 finishes in 14 starts there. His most recent result at Kansas was 21st during last fall’s playoff race.

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THREE DOWN ⬇️

1. Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Started: 1st

Finished: 24th

What happened: Hocevar scored his first career Cup Series pole on Saturday, but Sunday was a different story. Despite leading 22 laps, Hocevar found himself mired in traffic in the final stage after an untimely caution shortly after making a green-flag pit stop. While in traffic, Hocevar washed up exiting Turn 2 at Lap 237, pinching Ryan Preece into the outside wall and crashing both of them down the backstretch. Texas marks another “down” in an up-and-down season for the sophomore racer: In 11 races, he has five top-20 finishes and six of 24th or worse.

What’s next: In three Kansas starts, Hocevar has struggled to net positive results, posting finishes of 20th, 24th and 32nd in his trio of efforts. Additionally, though he has run better than he has finished at 1.5-mile tracks in 2025, the stat sheet says Hocevar has finished 24th or worse in four intermediate races this season (Las Vegas, Homestead-Miami, Darlington, Texas).

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2. Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford

Started: 7th

Finished: 32nd

What happened: Berry had a great day in progress until things went south at Lap 125. The Las Vegas winner was leading the race when he moved too high in Turns 3 and 4 and his car bottomed out, quickly spinning through the exit of Turn 4 and backing into the SAFER barrier. Berry is still looking for his first top-five finish since his March victory and leaves Texas with his fourth finish of 26th or worse in the last five races.

What’s next: Like Hocevar, Berry has a limited sample size of three starts at Kansas but placed 15th in last spring’s thriller. His other two starts produced finishes of 25th (May 2023) and 38th (September 2024).

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3. Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Started: 11th

Finished: 35th

What happened: Bowman was collected in a multicar pileup at Lap 172, ending his day early at Texas. The No. 48 car was running inside the top 15 when Bubba Wallace contacted the outside wall in a hornet’s nest of a restart to begin the final stage. Although Bowman avoided the start of the incident, AJ Allmendinger spun after contact and landed right in front of Bowman’s path. After spinning, Bowman was then struck by Chad Finchum, creating too much damage for Bowman to continue. What started as a promising season for Bowman has run into trouble in recent weeks as Texas also marks Bowman’s fourth finish of 27th or worse in the past five races.

What’s next: Bowman has been a contender at Kansas in years past and enters with five consecutive top 10s there. With 10 top 10s in 18 starts — including a runner-up effort back in 2019 — Bowman could easily get back on track statistically next week.

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Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 by Chris Murdock

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four cautions in the closing laps of the Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly at Texas Motor Speedway shaped the finish into a flurry of blows that saw Team Penske driver Joey Logano come home with the trophy at the end of a NASCAR Overtime restart. At the helm when the final fire-offs began were Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson and Logano’s Penske teammate Ryan Blaney.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Texas

Larson ran up front for most of the afternoon, leading 90 laps in Sunday’s event, the most of any driver. In the first of the restarts, Larson was bested in the restart zone by fellow Chevrolet driver Michael McDowell.

McDowell, whose team made a two-tire strategy call to put his No. 71 Spire Motorsports entry in the hunt, controlled the subsequent two restarts as Larson’s No. 5 car faded to the fourth position.

“He just did a good job of timing it,” Larson said of the restart. “He left right when I did, or a fraction before, and he had a push behind him. So, you know, if I could have gotten just any bit of nudge behind me, I could have been side-by-side with him still, but yeah, so he did a good job there and I didn’t. Just stinks to give up control like that and really just give up the race win there, but we’ll study it and I’ll try to do a better job.

“Obviously, you always know what you can do different the next time. But yeah, all in all, you know, good car and a great points day and another stage win. So you know, we’ll take it. We’d love to get a win, but it could have been worse.”

The 2021 Cup Series champion admits he was a little taken back by the late-race tire call made by McDowell and company at Lap 221, but commends his fellow Chevrolet driver for his effort despite crashing from third place with three laps to go.

“Yeah, I was slightly surprised that somebody took two tires,” Larson said. “But then, you know, the way it was working out with all the cautions, it was going to be fine for them. So, yeah, I don’t know, they did a great job. Michael did a really great job. I was pulling for him to win. You know, when I couldn’t win, I was hoping a Chevy could win that race, but it was gonna be tough to hold them off with two tires.”

MORE: Truce? Chipper Jones congratulates Logano on win one week after rant

Also on the wrong side of the finish was Team Penske’s Blaney, bringing his No. 12 Ford Mustang home in the third position as Ross Chastain charged to Blaney’s inside on the final restart for the runner-up spot.

Blaney was second under the caution and chose inside row two on the race-changing Lap 244 restart, where McDowell’s No. 71 car climbed around Larson on the outside and took the lead. The 31-year-old delved into his reasoning and choice to stay behind the driver of the No. 5 car.

“The top wasn’t very good at all. It was pretty dirty. And the one time I have a shot to do it, and don’t do it, the guy (McDowell) gets the lead,” Blaney explained. “So I just didn’t do a good job. Then it was hard to get it after that. Just didn’t get a good push, and just could never hang with them over in [Turns] 3 and 4.”

Ultimately, it was a positive day for the 2022 Cup Series champion, who started in the 24th position. Blaney was able to maneuver through the field, taking advantage of opportunities to pass, but came up just short of his first win of the 2025 season.

“Honestly, we really didn’t do it with strategy,” Blaney said. “We just kind of passed cars. So no, it was good and I thought our car was really good. I couldn’t get control of the race. So, overall, a proud day, fast car, and hopefully go forward. We’ve had speed all year, so it was nice that in the last couple of weeks, we’ve [Penske] gotten a car in Victory Lane. So that’s good, hopefully we can join them.”

Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 by Zach Sturniolo

One week after baseball Hall-of-Famer Chipper Jones laid into Joey Logano’s Talladega radio communications, Jones had a change of heart Sunday following the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.

Logano stormed to the victory Sunday with a late rally for his first win of 2025. Instead of more pointed comments for the three-time Cup champion, Jones offered a far more pleasant social-media message post-race.

MORE: Race results from Texas

“Congratulations to (Joey Logano),” Jones wrote on X. “A HOF (Hall-of-Fame) driver with a masterful win. This is what NASCAR fans expect from you. Hard charging wins and gracious top 5s and 10s. Well done!”

Jones, a longtime NASCAR fan in addition to his long, storied career with the MLB’s Atlanta Braves, previously took umbrage with Logano’s harsh critiques of his Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric for a lost stage win at Talladega Superspeedway. After learning of his comments afterward, Logano was “surprised” by Jones’ outburst.

Nonetheless, Jones was complimentary of Logano’s Texas performance just one week later.

“Backpedaling? No,” Jones wrote. “Appreciating a great race and sportsmanship. HOFers are always held to a higher standard and should be.”

Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 by Staff Report

Michael McDowell was fighting for the win late at Texas Motor Speedway, but a crash with three laps to go in regulation ended his day prematurely.

The Spire Motorsports No. 71 Chevrolet cleared Ryan Blaney for the lead on a restart with 10 laps to go but had been chased for the top spot with four laps remaining by Joey Logano. One lap later, McDowell fell to third behind Blaney. Exiting Turn 2, McDowell lost control of his car and crashed into the back straightaway’s outside SAFER barrier, relegating McDowell to a 26th-place finish.

MORE: Race results | Texas photos

“I just really hate it for everybody on this Spire Motorsports No. 71 Delaware Life Chevrolet,” McDowell told FOX Sports. “We were giving it everything we had there to try to keep track position.”

A fierce block from McDowell down the backstretch on Lap 264 brought both McDowell and Logano down to the inside wall, but Logano surged forward in Turn 3 for the lead. Blaney capitalized on McDowell’s lost momentum, and the two entered Turn 1 side-by-side before McDowell lost control.

“Joey got a run there; I tried to block it. I went as far as I think you can probably go. And then when Blaney slid up in front of me, it just took the air off of it and I lost the back of it,” McDowell said. “Still had the fight in me. I guess I should have conceded at that point, but I’m just proud of everyone at Spire Motorsports. I know that’s not the day we wanted, but we had an opportunity to win the race.”

McDowell was looking to snap a 58-race winless drought and score Spire Motorsports its first win since 2019 (Justin Haley, Daytona International Speedway). Instead, he remains without a top-10 finish through 11 races this season, with three best finishes of 11th (Daytona, Circuit of The Americas, Talladega Superspeedway).

Posted on May 4, 2025May 5, 2025 by Reid Spencer

FORT WORTH, Texas — After Michael McDowell’s dream ended less than four laps short of the scheduled finish in Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly, Joey Logano took control and rode the NASCAR Cup Series rollercoaster to his first victory of the season.

A week after a missing nut on a spoiler bracket cost him a disqualification from fifth place at Talladega Superspeedway, Logano beat runner-up Ross Chastain to the finish line by 0.346-second in overtime to score his second victory at 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway and the 37th of his career.

RELATED: Race results | Best photos from Texas

In fashioning his first top-five finish of 2025, Logano successfully pursued McDowell, who had charged into the lead after a restart on Lap 245 of 271 and held it through two cautions and restarts.

On Lap 264, less than four laps from a finish, the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford went low on the backstretch, avoided a block from McDowell and passed the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet for the lead.

Passed for second by Logano’s Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney a lap later, McDowell lost control in dirty air behind Blaney’s Ford and slammed into the Turn 2 wall, ending his race in 26th place.

“Sorry, boys, I tried,” a rueful McDowell radioed to his team.

SHOP: Race winner gear

On the subsequent overtime restart, Logano made it look easy. The reigning series champion cleared Blaney through the first two corners, as Chastain charged into second from the bottom lane.

Two laps later, Logano was on his way to Victory Lane, having scored the second straight win for Team Penske after Austin Cindric won last Sunday at Talladega.

“The sport changes so quickly,” Logano said after climbing from his car. “It’s crazy how you can just ride these rollercoasters and just proud of the team. Finally got (sponsor) AAA Insurance into Victory Lane. They’ve been a partner of mine since I’ve been to Penske, so 13, 14 years. I’ve yet to win with them. It was awesome to get that done here.”

Logano had to work his way forward from his 27th-place starting position. He did so relentlessly and without the sorts of mistakes that doomed the winning chances of others.

“Slowly, methodically, a couple at a time,” Logano said of his drive. “We had a really tough pit stall situation. The pit crew did a good job of managing that and just grabbed a couple (of positions) here and there.

“The car was fast. I knew that yesterday. We just did a poor job qualifying. Just grinded it. Just keep grinding a couple here and a couple there and eventually get a win here. It’s nice to get one. Real nice.”

MORE: Stack-up slows final stage in Texas

Similarly, Chastain started 31st and didn’t make his presence known until the closing laps.

“Gosh, that’s a working day,” Chastain said. “Just no confidence in the car yesterday. Y’all saw that. Just the speed of the Trackhouse cars on Saturdays is just terrible. We’re just not confident, all three drivers.

“So, there was one pit stop today that (crew chief) Phil Surgen and the group — it takes a ton of people back at Trackhouse and on the box here in GM at Chevrolet. They made me a confident driver all of a sudden with one adjustment. It was small stuff. It doesn’t even make sense, but after that I was a confident driver.”

Blaney came home third, followed by Kyle Larson, who led a race-high 90 laps but surrendered the top spot to McDowell on the Lap 245 restart.

“You don’t want to give up the lead on a mile and a half,” Larson said. “It’s hard to get it back. Yeah, Michael just did a good job timing it.”

Erik Jones was fifth, scoring his first top five since last year’s fall race at Talladega. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Christopher Bell and Daniel Suarez completed the top 10.

Other expected contenders fell by the wayside as the race progressed.

Denny Hamlin’s streak of 21 consecutive lead-lap finishes — eighth-most all-time in the Cup Series — came to an abrupt end on Lap 75. One circuit earlier, Hamlin lost power with an engine the team was running for the third time.

As Hamlin slowed, flames shot from beneath the chassis of the No. 11 Toyota. Hamlin stopped the car, which was enveloped in dark smoke and climbed to safety.

“It was blowing up for about a lap or so before it really detonated,” Hamlin said. “I tried to keep it off to keep it from full detonating.

“That was so they can diagnose exactly what happened to it. It’s tough to say exactly what it is, but they’ll go back and look at it and we’ll find out in a few weeks.”

A promising run for Las Vegas winner Josh Berry likewise ended early on Sunday. Berry had led 41 laps and was running at the front of the field on Lap 125 when the treacherous bump in Turn 4 upset his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.

Berry slid into the outside wall, slamming the barrier on the driver’s side of the car.

“Just started to approach the lapped traffic,” said Berry, who returned to the track after repairs and finished 84 laps down. “You have no choice but to run the opposite lane. Your car is never going to turn if you follow them. I went around the 62 (Jesse Love) on the outside and felt pretty decent about it. Then caught the 51 (Cody Ware) and was working on the 51 and hit that bump and got loose.

“I don’t know what I would do too much different. Obviously, in these cars, especially at a place like this, if you’re going to be fast, it’s going to be uncomfortable and you’re going to be on edge. Unfortunately, it bit us today.”

In a race that produced 12 cautions for 73 laps, Austin Cindric led 60 laps but fell victim to a four-car crash on Lap 247. Ten laps earlier, pole winner Carson Hocevar, who led the first 22 laps but was relegated to the back of the field when caution interrupted a green-flag cycle of pit stops on Lap 219, suffered a similar fate in a three-car wreck.

William Byron, who finished 13th, retained the series lead by 13 points over Larson.

The Cup Series’ next race comes on another 1.5-mile oval, as the circuit heads to Kansas Speedway for Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

NOTE: Post-race inspection concluded without issue, confirming Logano as the race winner.