Denny Hamlin wins report eighth NASCAR Cup Collection Pocono Raceway race in a three-race streak within the Nice American Getaway 400.
Fairly merely, Pocono Raceway’s greatest was greatest as soon as once more.
Denny Hamlin Wins Eighth
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin hoisted his report eighth NASCAR Cup Collection trophy on the iconic 2.5-mile Pocono observe in Sunday’s The Nice American Getaway 400 offered by VISITPA – his No. 11 JGR Toyota holding off the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota of Tyler Reddick by 1.678 seconds in a dramatic fuel-saving dance to the checkered flag.
The victory marks the primary time in his 21-year full-time profession that Hamlin has gained three consecutive races – at Nashville, Michigan, and now Pocono. It’s positive been a productive summer season for the 45-year-old Virginian, who now has 64 collection wins – putting him ninth on the game’s all-time record, breaking a tie together with his former teammate, the late two-time collection champion Kyle Busch.
“Simply so particular right here,” stated a smiling Hamlin of his effort on the iconic Difficult Triangle.
“Simply so completely happy for this complete Joe Gibbs Racing workforce,” he continued. “This can be a workforce effort. They’ve given me quick vehicles. The pit crew is flawless proper now, we’ve simply acquired all of it going.
“I’d say it’s actually the most effective we’ve been,” Hamlin stated of his workforce’s present confidence stage. “We come to the race observe each week understanding that we’ve acquired an amazing shot to win. The workforce is doing an incredible job understanding precisely what I want within the automotive each week and that’s why we’re profitable.”
Now with solely ten races left to set the 16-driver Chase area, Hamlin’s win streak has decisively lower Reddick’s as soon as three-digit lead atop the NASCAR Cup Collection championship standings. Reddick is now solely 19 factors forward of Hamlin, who, together with NBA legend Michael Jordan, co-owns Reddick’s workforce. It’s the smallest margin atop the standings on the 12 months for the five-race winner Reddick.
“It’s a bummer,” conceded Reddick, who rallied from fifth to second place within the closing laps, after issues of a tire taking place on a late race restart.
“We positively misplaced time in a pair spots there. A few of it’s everybody’s racing onerous for observe place, and a few of it’s simply unhealthy luck, I assume, simply the place you catch vehicles.
“We knew qualifying was going to be tough coming into this and simply weren’t capable of get stage factors – scoring the factors we did, simply didn’t get the job completed.”
With the common season winding down, factors positions to find out which 16 drivers will race for the championship are shut. Trackhouse Racing’s Shane Van Gisbergen is 14th, ten factors away from Seventeenth-place Brad Keselowski. Jones and Austin Cindric are ranked fifteenth and sixteenth, each solely 4 factors forward of the lower line. Crew Penske’s Joey Logano is behind Keselowski, 21 factors out of sixteenth place.
Hamlin’s JGR teammate, Christopher Bell, who gambled with a fuel-saving technique within the closing laps, was handed by Hamlin with 5 laps remaining after which ran out of gasoline simply as the sphere took the white flag. He completed twenty sixth regardless of his valiant effort on the day, nursing a damaged left wrist he suffered in an accident final week in Michigan.
“We had been mired again within the 20s, so I believe it was an incredible name,” Bell stated of the gamble, calling the calculated danger “value it.”
Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron completed third within the No. 24 Chevrolet, adopted by Legacy Motor Membership’s John Hunter Nemechek – claiming his first top-five end of the season. His race greatest 42 laps out entrance within the No. 42 Toyota Sunday had been extra laps than he led in both all the 2024 or 2025 seasons.
Hendrick’s Kyle Larson completed fifth and led laps early. Legacy’s Erik Jones was sixth – his second consecutive top-ten – adopted by Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Chris Buescher, Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain, JGR’s Ty Gibbs, and Crew Penske’s Ryan Blaney.
Chase Elliott completed eleventh – simply lacking out on a fifth consecutive Pocono top-ten. Hamlin gained stage one, and Entrance Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland claimed the stage two win – his first profession stage victory.
Up Subsequent
The NASCAR Cup Collection will headline a triple-header weekend in Southern California with subsequent Sunday’s inaugural Anduril 250. The race begins 4 p.m. ET on Prime Video, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on the Qualcomm Circuit on Naval Base Coronado.
