Carl Edwards drove to victory lane Sunday night at Darlington Raceway. Edwards rallied from two laps down and survived a track-record eighteen cautions for his twenty-fifth career Sprint Cup Series victory.With just one week remaining in the regular season, this year’s list of Sprint Cup Series race winners shows eleven drivers – two fewer than in 2014 – heading into Saturday night’s race at Richmond International Raceway. Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson are tied for the series lead in wins with four apiece. Joey Logano and Matt Kenseth are right behind at three each. With a maximum of twelve race winners now possible, the remaining spots in the sixteen-driver post-season field will be filled based on regular-season point standings. The five highest-placed non-winning drivers in the standings today are Jamie McMurray, Ryan Newman, Jeff Gordon, Paul Menard and Clint Bowyer – who leads Aric Almirola by twenty-nine points for what would be the final spot on The Chase Grid with Kasey Kahne just two points further back. Hear Saturday’s race on WBUT 1050am and at wbut.com beginning at 6:30pm.
Carl Edwards’ victory in Sunday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington was the fourth Sprint Cup Series win for Toyota on the track “Too Tough to Tame.” All four have been registered by Joe Gibbs Racing … with four different drivers: Edwards, Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth … Edwards’ win Sunday night marked just the fifth time in NASCAR’s sixty-seven-year history that car Number-19 won a Cup Series race. Two of those wins have come by Edwards this season. The others? John Rostek at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in 1960 and Jeremy Mayfield twice – in 2004 at Richmond International Raceway and 2005 at Michigan International Speedway.
Daniel Suarez of Joe Gibbs Racing had the highest finish among rookies in either of NASCAR’s two top series that competed this past weekend, placing third in Saturday’s X-FINITY Series race at Darlington … Suarez collected a one hundred thousand-dollar bonus for being the highest-finishing eligible driver in the final round of the “Dash For Cash” promotion in Saturday’s V-F-W Sport Clips Help A Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway. Brian Scott finished twelfth, Ty Dillon fifteenth and Chase Elliott twenty-fourth.
With just two cautions for eight laps in Saturday’s X-FINITY Series race, Denny Hamlin’s winning average speed of 141.355 miles per hour broke Michael Waltrip’s track record of 138.140 miles per hour that was set in September 1992.
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