Although it is disadvantaged on the tires in the latest race races, Denny Hamlin has put a defensive driving clinic to go back to Dover Motor Speedway, winning the Echopark Automotive 400 for the second consecutive year. Hamlin’s victory on Sunday is the 58th of his cup career and his fourth in 2025, giving him more victories than any other pilot in cup this season.
After the last stop at the stand, Hamlin ended up with tires which were several rounds older than that of Joe Gibbs Racing Christopher Bell, putting him disadvantaged, Bell began to close. With the threat of looming rain and the towers that ended, Hamlin was starting to make his car wide, doing all his car.
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Hamlin was held long enough to be at the front when the rains came, but the shower passed quickly enough to allow Nascar to dry the racetrack and run the last 13 laps. Hamlin rejected Bell on a restart – in a battle that ended with Bell turning Tour 4 – but he was quickly confronted with another JGR teammate in Chase Briscoe, who had opposed fresh tires after the red flag and made a tears to the second row per double extension.
Briscoe was able to drive alongside Hamlin during the final restart, but could not empty it before detaching himself in Hamlin inside when coming to the white flag. This break in the momentum was everything that needed to hunt in the last round and finish his defense of Dover.
“Winning here in Dover is super special for me,” Hamlin told TNT Sports. “It is a place where I was not very good in the first half of my career. And having consecutive in recent years is incredible. … I have just studied some of the grown -ups here. I was lucky to have Martin Truex as a teammate, Jimmie Johnson, watching him win 10 times here … You learn big and that you change your game to associate them, and you have succeeded like that.”
Briscoe should be satisfied with second place, followed by Alex Bowman, Kyle Larson and Ty Gibbs completing the first five. The rest of the top 10 consisted in Chase Elliott, Bubba Wallace, Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher and Brad Keselowski, seventh place in Wallace being particularly important. The Top 10 of Wallace and the problems of extension for Ryan Preece (which finished 19th) allowed Wallace to win its advantage on the cutting of the 16 -point qualifying series with five races to take place in the regular season.
Meanwhile, the last laps have seen massive development in the challenge in the season and the continuation of the biggest history of Cinderella in the tournament. After a battle for a race in his semi-final match with John Hunter Nemechek, Ty Dillon would finally gain the advantage when he received the free pass after the first prudence of extensions, putting him back on the head while Nemechek remained a turn.
With a 20th place, Dillon – The n ° 32 and final of the challenge in season – qualified for the final tour of the tournament, where he will participate in Gibbs (who won his clash against Tyler Reddick) for a price of $ 1 million in the Brickyard 400 of next weekend in Indianapolis.
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Sutrader Echopark Automotive 400 results
- # 11 – Denny Hamlin
- # 19 – Chase Briscoe
- # 48 – Alex Bowman
- # 5 – Kyle Larson
- # 54 – You Gibbs
- # 9 – Chase Elliott
- # 23 – Bubba Wallace
- # 12 – Ryan Blaney
- # 17 – Chris Buescher
- # 6 – Brad Keselowski
- # 8 – Kyle Busch
- # 45 – Tyler Reddick
- # 71 – Michael McDowell
- # 22 – Joey Logano
- # 3 – Austin Dillon
- # 2 – Austin Cindric
- # 7 – Justin Haley
- # 20 – Christopher Bell
- # 60 – Ryan Preece
- # 10 – Type Dillon
- # 42 – John Hunter Nemechek
- # 38 – Zane Smith
- # 47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- # 35 – Riley Herbst (R)
- # 34 – Todd Gilliland
- # 99 – Daniel Suarez
- # 43 – Erik Jones
- # 21 – Josh Berry
- # 41 – CUSTER COLE
- # 88 – Shane Van Gisbergen (R)
- # 24 – William Byron
- # 4 – Noah Gragson
- # 1 – Ross Chastain
- # 44 – JJ Yeley
- # 77 – Carson Hocevar
- # 51 – Cody Ware
- # 16 – AJ General