Go Bowling at The Glen

Date
Sun 5th August 2018 (UTC)

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League
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

Season
2018

Round
22

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Location
Watkins Glen International

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Chase Elliott holds off Truex for first career Monster Energy Series win by a whopping 7.560 seconds over reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. That description, however, doesn’t do justice to Elliott’s magnificent drive over the final 32 laps of Sunday’s Go Bowling at the Glen, with Truex hounding him every inch of the way before running out of fuel with two corners left.
Elliott led the field to green for a restart on Lap 59 of 90, after race leader Kyle Busch had to return to pit road on Lap 56 to take on fuel after a snafu on the previous lap left him 10 gallons short of a full tank. It took Truex most of Lap 59 to pass Kurt Busch for second, and by then Elliott had pulled away to a lead of more than 1.5 seconds, on the way to Chevrolet’s first victory since Austin Dillon took the checkered flag in the season-opening Daytona 500.
After the fueling glitch, Kyle Busch drove from 31st to finish third without benefit of a subsequent caution. His Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, Daniel Suarez and Erik Jones, ran fourth and fifth, respectively.

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Result List

Result Description
Position/Driver/manufacturer/Laps/LapsLed/Points/PlayoffPoints

1/ChaseElliott/Chevrolet/90/52/50/6
2/MartinTruex Jr/.Toyota/90/4/51/1
3/KyleBusch/Toyota/90/31/43/0
4/DanielSuarez/Toyota/90/0/34/0
5/ErikJones/Toyota/90/0/39/0
6/KyleLarson/Chevrolet/90/0/34/0
7/JamieMcMurray/Chevrolet/90/0/35/0
8/WilliamByron/Chevrolet/90/0/37/0
9/KurtBusch/Ford/90/0/28/0
10/KevinHarvick/Ford/90/0/31/0

Drivers' Championship standings after the race
1/ Kyle Busch/ 934
2/ Kevin Harvick/ 864
3/ Martin Truex Jr./ 813
4/ Kurt Busch/ 705
5/ Clint Bowyer/ 703
6/ Joey Logano/ 691
7/ Brad Keselowski/ 670
8/ Kyle Larson/ 660
9/ Denny Hamlin/ 650
10/ Ryan Blaney/ 639

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