LAS VEGAS — Josh Berry of Wooden Brothers Racing pulled forward of Daniel Suarez with 14 laps to go and earned his first profession NASCAR Cup Sequence victory on the Pennzoil 400 on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Berry’s win is the a hundred and first within the NASCAR Cup Sequence for Wooden Brothers Racing, their first since Harrison Burton ended a seven-year drought at Daytona final August. Berry entered the race coming off a career-best fourth-place end at Phoenix final week, and his first profession win is available in simply his fifth race with the Wooden Brothers. Berry had 40-to-1 odds to win coming into Sunday’s race.
Suarez, Ryan Preece, William Byron and Ross Chastain rounded out the highest 5. Berry’s victory additionally ended Christopher Bell’s successful streak at three races. Bell completed the race in twelfth.
A six-car wreck took Ryan Blaney out of the race on Lap 194, ending a disappointing weekend for the No. 12 crew. The wreck additionally took Kyle Larson out of first place after a dominant effort to that time, pushing him to 18th place on the restart. Larson was unable to make his method again to the highest of the sector, ending ninth on a day the place he led 61 laps with the clear greatest automobile.
Larson pushed forward of Byron with three laps remaining within the second stage, changing into the primary driver to earn a second stage win this season. The No. 5 automobile took management early within the stage, passing Bubba Wallace on the one hundredth lap of the race with a robust push off Flip 4. Larson asserted himself for the rest of the stage, regaining the lead twice after cautions and ensuing pit methods briefly knocked him out of the highest place.
Wallace led the sector to begin the second stage, beating Austin Cindric and Chase Elliott off pit street. Cindric narrowly held off Alex Bowman to win the primary stage, stopping Bowman from making a transfer within the 15 laps earlier than the stage warning. Joey Logano led 16 of the primary 17 laps till a warning on Lap 34 halted what was poised to be a dominant stage victory.
The warning in query occurred when Chase Briscoe misplaced his left rear wheel in the course of a inexperienced flag pit cycle, forcing a number of drivers to go a lap down and use a wave-around. Kyle Busch additionally misplaced his wheel later within the race on Lap 113, forcing his automobile into the wall.
Each Briscoe and Busch had been handed necessary two-lap penalties for his or her respective incidents and the offending pit crew members are topic to a two-race suspension. Busch completed the race 35 laps down on account of his incident, whereas Briscoe finally made it again to the lead lap from as many as 4 laps down to complete in seventeenth.
–Will Despart, Discipline Stage Media
