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2020 Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series results
Kevin Harvick won the Brickyard 400, the 16th round of the NASCAR Cup Series at the hallowed grounds of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, after longtime leader Denny Hamlin crashed out of the lead with seven laps to go.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Jul 6, 2020, 3:49 AM
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Hamlin and Kevin Harvick battled hard at the start of the final stage, with Harvick holding sway. But Hamlin undercut Harvick in the final round of green flag pitstops, and rejoined well clear of him.
Harvick was chasing Hamlin down when Alex Bowman crashed heavily at Turn 1 on Lap 134 after a tire blew. The race went green with 23 laps to go, and Harvick suffered a bad restart but he caught Hamlin quickly but couldn’t find a way past.
With the race seemingly in his pocket, Hamlin pounded the wall at Turn 1 with just seven laps remaining with his right-front tire blew.
At the overtime restart, Harvick fired off at the front to beat Matt Kenseth, Aric Almirola and Brad Keselowski.
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Harvick won Stage 2, after a great pass on Hamlin that took him right to the edge of the grass on the backstretch. Chase Elliott led from the start of the stage, while Hamlin passed Matt DiBenedetto for second. A wicked crash befell Erik Jones, who blew a right-front tire and pounded the wall hard. He was unhurt.
Elliott almost missed his pit stall in the next round of stops, so Hamlin and Harvick jumped ahead of him. William Byron was the leader at the restart but blew a left-front tire on the backstretch.
Another caution almost happened immediately, when Ryan Blaney spun into the wall at Turn 3.
Byron won Stage 1, after he kept fellow tire strategy gambler Jones in his rear-view mirror in a frantic four-lap dash to the end. The race started an hour late due to lightning in the area. Poleman Joey Logano led until the competition caution on Lap 15, but a serious accident occurred in the pits.
The rear tyre changer on Blaney’s Penske Ford, Zachary Price, was struck during a multi-car accident and was taken to the medical center with leg injuries. The pileup included the cars of Martin Truex Jr and Justin Allgaier – the reserve driver for the Covid-positive Jimmie Johnson – and caused a red flag.
The race’s second caution was for Ryan Newman’s crash after a right-front tire went down at Turn 3.
Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race results
Cla Driver Laps Time Laps Led 1 Kevin Harvick
161 3:16'05.703 68 2 Matt Kenseth
161 3:16'06.446 12 3 Aric Almirola
161 3:16'07.329 4 Brad Keselowski
161 3:16'07.472 5 Cole Custer
161 3:16'08.480 6 Kyle Busch
161 3:16'09.163 7 Michael McDowell
161 3:16'10.103 8 Tyler Reddick
161 3:16'10.972 9 Bubba Wallace
161 3:16'11.850 10 Joey Logano
161 3:16'12.429 14 11 Chase Elliott
161 3:16'14.406 26 12 Christopher Bell
161 3:16'14.723 13 Kurt Busch
161 3:16'16.377 14 Ty Dillon
161 3:16'20.674 15 John Hunter Nemechek
161 3:16'20.675 16 Clint Bowyer
161 3:16'21.209 17 Ross Chastain
161 3:16'27.716 1 18 Austin Dillon
161 3:16'54.485 5 19 Matt DiBenedetto
161 3:17'03.335 20 Daniel Suarez
160 3:16'18.803 21 J.J. Yeley
160 3:16'21.753 22 B.J. McLeod
160 3:16'25.062 23 Quin Houff
159 3:16'26.539 24 Garrett Smithley
159 3:16'33.897 1 25 Josh Bilicki
158 3:16'28.816 26 Joey Gase
157 3:16'45.483 27 William Byron
156 3:16'26.332 15 28 Denny Hamlin
153 3:02'04.661 19 29 Timmy Hill
153 3:16'52.678 30 Alex Bowman
132 2:38'13.357 31 Chris Buescher
99 2:52'39.036 32 Ryan Blaney
96 2:05'15.360 33 Erik Jones
73 1:24'14.416 34 Ryan Newman
60 1:18'14.501 35 Brennan Poole
24 30'37.740 36 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
20 30'58.179 37 Justin Allgaier
17 28'29.600 38 Martin Truex Jr.
16 24'18.806 39 Corey Lajoie
15 16'50.975 40 Ryan Preece
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