Kyle Larson started a weekend that he hopes will culminate with him being just the second driver to sweep three NASCAR races at the same track in one weekend after spinning and winning Friday night’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. In Bristol in 2010 and 2017, Kyle Busch became the only driver to win all three national series races at the same track on the same weekend. Larson is competing in all three Homestead races for the third time. Larson said, “That’s the main goal going into this weekend was to win all three,” to an NBC Sports query. “I thought, ‘damn, it’s over now,’ after the spin. was only able to accomplish a few things in order to win.
“Like you said, you can’t win all three without winning the first. For the remainder of the weekend, I like my chances. Austin Hill will be challenging, in my opinion, because he did a great job here last year (winning the Xfinity race). My car will be fine, I’m sure. As I did tonight, you simply need to keep it off the wall. I’m confident my Cup car will be fantastic. Due to my lack of truck experience, the short runs, the aggressive drivers, and other factors, I (felt) heading into the weekend that the truck race was the largest uncertainty and possibly the hardest to win. It feels good to finish this one.
At Lap 91 of the 134-lap race, Larson was in the top five alongside Layne Riggs when he came up the track, collided with Riggs’ truck, and spun to issue the race’s last caution. “I just misjudged the run I had,” responded Larson. At 40 laps remaining, he restarted in 22nd place. When Corey Heim, who led a race-high 78 laps, experienced several power outages on his truck, Larson surged through the field and received some assistance. After placing third, Heim remarked, “At the end of the day, we had the fastest Tundra, the fastest truck out there by a lot, I thought.” “I was only controlling the race, and I had a one-second lead.”
“I got it re-fired after the problem occurred for the first time, and I was able to pass those men once again. It was simply unbelievable…. With all of those problems, it was challenging to settle into a pattern. We know we had speed, I suppose, at the end of the day. Riggs came in second. Fourth place went to Tyler Ankrum. The top five was completed by Daniel Hemric. Sixth place went to Ross Chastain.
