Bryon started from pole position and delivered a dominant drive in NASCAR's first road course race of the season Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led 42 of 68 laps and built the big lead he needed to hold off a hard-charging run from Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell.
AUSTIN, Texas — William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas at full throttle.
“I was trying to not make mistakes,” Byron said. “I knew that last lap he was going to be pushing hard.”“Everyone is too good, and that car too close,” Byron said. Byron led 23 laps of the first two stages, but found himself quickly dropped to third at the start of the final stage as Ross Chastain, who won at COTA in 2022, jumped to the front.
“Another lap I would have gotten there for sure,” Bell said. “Passing would have been difficult. I needed him to make a mistake and he didn’t make a mistake.”The course had few track limits, but the ones enforced by race officials brought a hefty penalty for drivers who got caught.
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