Larson Continues to Dominate, Wins in NASCAR’s Return to Nashville

Kyle Larson won the Ally 400 in NASCAR’s return to Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon.

Larson turned in another dominant performance on Sunday, and led a race-high 264 laps on his way to victory lane.

Larson was tasked with saving fuel over the final 70 laps, after a late pit stop forced many of the leaders to save almost 10 laps of fuel.  Larson quickly got out to a large lead, and he was able to save enough fuel over the final run.

Larson said his car was fast enough that he only had to defend the lead on restarts.

“We never really had to run behind people,” Larson said.  “If one of my teammates had gotten out front, it probably would have been hard to pass them.”

The victory was Larson’s third in a row, in addition to his win in last weekend’s All-Star Race.

Larson said his team brought another strong car to continue his dominant summer.

“The Valvoline Chevrolet was really good,” Larson said.  “Our pit crew did an awesome job again…I just hope we can keep it going.”

Ross Chastain was the highest-finishing driver who pitted under the final stop to top-off on fuel, and he finished second.  After he got around the other leaders who were saving fuel, he was still five seconds behind Larson and ran out of laps to catch the eventual winner.

Unofficial results:

1. Kyle Larson
2. Ross Chastain
3. William Byron
4. Aric Almirola
5. Kevin Harvick
6. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
7. Daniel Suarez
8. Kurt Busch
9. Christopher Bell
10. Joey Logano
11. Kyle Busch
12. Austin Dillon
13. Chase Elliott
14. Ryan Newman
15. Alex Bowman
16. Corey LaJoie
17. Michael McDowell
18. Anthony Alfredo
19. Tyler Reddick
20. Erik Jones
21. Bubba Wallace
22. Denny Hamlin
23. Martin Truex Jr.
24. Brad Keselowski
25. Matt DiBenedetto
26. Garrett Smithley
27. Josh Bilicki
28. JJ Yeley
29. BJ McLeod
30. Joey Gase
31. Cole Custer
32. Chase Briscoe
33. Ryan Preece
34. Chad Finchum
35. David Starr
36. Justin Haley
37. Chris Buescher
38. Ryan Blaney
39. Quin Houff