Alex Bowman began Sunday’s race from pole place and was seeking to observe the instance set by Tyler Reddick final yr as the newest driver to win this race from the entrance of the grid. Bowman led 43 laps and was gathering stage factors all through the day.
On the ultimate restart with simply over 50 laps remaining, Bowman was in fourth however shortly made it three-wide for the race lead. Whereas Bubba Wallace escaped and drove away, he was in a position to run him again down inside 20 laps and energy into the race lead. Sadly for him, his teammate Kyle Larson was making a particularly excessive line work, operating proper up towards the surface wall.
Bowman tried to counter as his lead evaporated, however it did not work, because the wall grabbed him, slowing him down on the exit of Flip 4, coming to 6 to go. That made Larson’s job simple as he drove on by and by no means regarded again.
“I assume I choked that one away,” lamented Bowman after the race. “Noticed the 5 [Larson] coming, so moved round somewhat bit. Not when he handed me, however the time earlier than that I hit it arduous with the appropriate entrance and ended up simply bending one thing sufficient that I misplaced plenty of proper entrance really feel after which I pulled it off the wall too far proper there, and ended up hitting the fence fairly dangerous.
“So I hate that for this Ally 48 group. They deserve higher than that. Simply a few errors there. I felt like we have been okay all day. That final run was the most effective we have been … Hate it for Mr. Hendrick. Congrats to Kyle. We’ll strive get one other one this week.”
Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Picture by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photographs
Sunday’s runner-up outcome was Bowman’s greatest outcome since successful on the Chicago Avenue Course final summer time and his first top-five end ever at Homestead. He leaves this race third within the championship standings, trailing his Hendrick teammates Larson and William Byron, who sits atop the factors pile.
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