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NASCAR takeaways: Kyle Larson avoids extra Homestead-Miami heartbreak
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NASCAR takeaways: Kyle Larson avoids extra Homestead-Miami heartbreak

By Miles Cooper March 24, 2025
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No warning, no warning, no warning.

That’s what thinks each time he holds a late lead, particularly at .

And particularly Sunday.

After constructing an enormous 16-second lead within the remaining eight laps of the Xfinity Collection race Saturday, a yellow flag got here out and caused an extra time restart. Larson completed fourth.

However in Sunday’s , he snatched the highest spot from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman with seventh laps to go. This time, the warning flag didn’t fly, and Larson prevailed.

“Simply tremendous pumped,” he stated. “One of many coolest wins I believe in my Cup profession simply due to the heartbreak I’ve had right here, the heartbreak yesterday, and to only maintain my head down and maintain digging feels actually good.”

Larson earned his first Cup Collection victory of the season and thirtieth of his profession. He additionally captured Friday’s Truck Collection race.

Listed here are three takeaways from the weekend finale:

1. Hendrick Motorsports finishes 1st, 2nd with Kyle Larson, Alex BowmanNASCAR takeaways: Kyle Larson avoids extra Homestead-Miami heartbreak

Larson picked up Hendrick’s second victory of the season. Teammate William Byron opened the 12 months with a Daytona 500 victory. After three Christopher Bell wins and a Josh Berry victory over the past month, Larson put his group again in Victory Lane.

His No. 5 Chevrolet handed Bowman’s No. 48 when the latter hit the wall on the exit of Flip 4. Larson led a complete of 19 laps.

Bowman maintained the entrance for 43 laps, trailing solely Bubba Wallace’s 56 and Ryan Blaney’s race-best 124. Bowman received the pole by laying down the Saturday.

“I suppose I choked that one away,” he stated.

2. Ryan Blaney hits career-long string of DNFsMar 23, 2025; Homestead, Florida, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney (12) races during the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

Blaney managed almost half of Sunday’s race. He was working third when his engine blew on Lap 268.

That continued his string of powerful luck.

Two weeks in the past, his engine gave out at Phoenix. Final week, his stint in Vegas ended with a wreck. Miami gave him a 3rd straight “didn’t end,” the longest streak of his profession.

Formally, he positioned thirty sixth out of 37 vehicles.

“I didn’t have any warning,” Blaney stated. “It simply laid over after I acquired again to wide-open down the entrance, and that was all she wrote. It simply stinks.”

3. NASCAR Cup Collection turns to MartinsvilleMar 23, 2025; Homestead, Florida, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Josh Berry (21) races during the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

Onto the Half Mile of Mayhem.

After Homestead-Miami, NASCAR will flip its consideration to Martinsville Speedway subsequent weekend. Sunday’s Cook dinner Out 400 will function the headliner.

Drivers will make 400 laps across the shortest observe within the circuit, measuring in at 0.526 miles.

Byron received the regular-season race at Martinsville final April. In November, Ryan Blaney clinched the playoff race there.

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