NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr wins at Talladega by .006 seconds

The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series play has been filled with adjacent finishes each twelvemonth agelong and Sunday’s Yellawood 500 astatine Talladega Superspeedway provided different classical moment.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was battling Brad Keselowski, William Byron and Kyle Larson for the pb connected the last overtime lap. As the battalion made its mode onto the frontstretch, Byron appeared to springiness Stenhouse the propulsion helium needed to get retired into archetypal place.

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Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. (47) battles Brad Keselowski (6) connected the last overtime thigh of the YellaWood 500 astatine Talladega Superspeedway. (Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)

Byron attempted to marque it three-wide arsenic the drivers neared the start-finish line, but helium was a small excessively late. Stenhouse crossed the enactment successful archetypal spot with Keselowski and Byron down him.

"This squad has enactment a batch of hard enactment in. Obviously, we haven’t won since the 500 successful 2023," Stenhouse said afterward, per NBC Sports. "It’s been an up-and-down season. It was a batch of hard enactment conscionable trying to find a small spot of speed, but we knew this was a way 1 ours to travel get. So, for each of our Southern Mississippi people, admit you each coming. 

"This means a lot, winning here."

Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. celebrates a triumph successful Victory Lane aft the YellaWood 500 astatine Talladega Superspeedway. (Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)

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Stenhouse won by 0.006 seconds, according to NASCAR. Keselowski finished successful 2nd spot and Byron was successful third. Kyle Larson and Erik Jones rounded retired the apical five.

Christopher Bell, Justin Haley, Austin Dillon, Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin completed the apical 10. Chris Buescher won Stage 1 and Austin Cindric won Stage 2.

Byron and Larson finishing successful the apical 5 helped their playoff standing. Byron was successful archetypal spot coming into the contention and Larson was third. Byron locked successful his Round of 8 spot.

Bell’s sixth-place decorativeness besides accrued his accidental astatine making the chopped earlier the tract narrows down to 8 drivers.

Austin Dillon (3) is shown earlier the YellaWood 500 astatine Talladega Superspeedway. (Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)

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Cindric, Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano were each progressive successful wrecks. Daniel Suarez besides had car troubles and finished successful 26th portion Chase Briscoe finished successful 30th.

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