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Ryan Newman traded tires for track position late in Sunday’s race and the big payoff was a trip to Gatorade Victory Lane at Phoenix Raceway. While race leader Kyle Busch and others pitted for fresh rubber during the day’s final caution, Newman kept his #31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the track and assumed the top spot on the ensuing restart. He then held off Kyle Larson over the final two green-flag laps to claim his 18th career victory and snap a 127-race winless streak dating back to July 2013 at Indianapolis.

Newman’s margin of victory over runner-up Larson was 0.31 of a second. Busch grabbed third place with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and Brad Keselowski completing the top five. Newman, who started 22nd in the 39-car field, led only the final six laps of the race, which was extended two laps past its scheduled distance by that final caution, caused when pole sitter Joey Logano blew a right-front tire and smacked the wall in Turn 1. Busch led a race-high 114 laps, all of which came in the final stage as he notched his first top-five finish of the season,

Newman’s victory Sunday also ended a long winless streak for Richard Childress Racing, which hadn’t won a Cup Series race since November 2013, when Kevin Harvick was victorious, also at Phoenix Raceway.

Logano and Chase Elliott won the first two stages of yesterday’s race and went on to finish 31st and 12th, respectively. Harvick went into the weekend having won six of the last nine Cup Series races at Phoenix and came away with a 6th-place finish.

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– story by John Singler
www.mrn.com
Concord, North Carolina

 

 

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