2020 Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series results

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.

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	14	13'20.554
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