Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Collection race at Talladega could have lacked the Large One which followers come to anticipate, however it prolonged a historic streak of various winners when the checkered flag waved.
Staff Penske’s Austin Cindric won his third career Cup Series race by 0.022 seconds over Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Ryan Preece, who was later disqualified, alongside Cindric’s teammate Joey Logano, for spoiler violations.
The unpredictable nature of Talladega was on show as soon as once more as Cindric turned the 10th different winner within the final 10 races on the observe, courting again to Joe Gibbs Racing veteran Denny Hamlin’s win in 2020. The ten totally different winners in a row is a brand new observe file.
Seven totally different organizations have received in that span, which speaks to the parity the observe can produce on any given weekend.
There have been a number of cautions for incident – one coming to pit street and the opposite on the next restart late in Stage 1 when Denny Hamlin bumped teammate Christopher Bell popping out of Flip 2.
The thrilling motion, from fixed three and typically four-wide racing within the pack to the 67 lead adjustments amongst 23 drivers, are what followers anticipate when NASCAR visits the favored Alabama observe.
One thing else that’s not simply anticipated, however normally a near-guarantee at Talladega, is the Large One, which is when a giant crash takes place from all of the close-quarter, side-by-side pack racing. On Sunday, that shockingly didn’t occur over the course of 500 miles.
The race ended with a 62-lap green-flag run to the end. Per NASCAR Insights, that’s the longest run to finish a drafting-style race with no last-lap accident because the 2004 July Daytona race.
