LEBANON, Tenn.– Ross Chastain held back Martin Truex Jr. and won the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday night, his 3rd profession NASCAR Cup Series triumph.
This was Chastain’s very first win considering that Talladega in April 2022, and he drove his Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet to the group’s very first triumph this year at its house track. Chastain had actually begun on the pole for the very first time in his profession.
Chastain got in 4th in the season points race and end up leading a race-high 100 laps at the 1.33-mile, D-shaped concrete oval. That consisted of the last 34 laps as the 30-year-old needed to weave by some slower traffic to hold back Truex by 0.789 seconds.
The motorist called “Melon Male” commemorated clinching a playoff berth with a burnout prior to smashing a watermelon onto the start-finish line. Chastain, who has actually been slammed for his aggressive driving design, called this win a tip to every rival not to think their critics.
” I got to inform you a great deal of self-reflection through all this, however I had a group that thought in me and they didn’t let me come down,” Chastain stated. “And they bring spaceship, and I simply attempt to point them to triumph lane.”
Truex led 50 laps as the season points leader attempted to string together back-to-back wins. He won at Sonoma entering into NASCAR’s only break in the 38-race season.
” Simply that close once again,” stated Truex, who notched his 6th top-five surface and extended his points lead. “We keep doing that we’ll be okay.”
Truex completed ahead of Joe Gibbs Racing colleague Denny Hamlin, both in Toyotas. Chase Elliott was 4th and Hendrick Motorsports colleague Kyle Larson was 5th.
Hamlin led 81 laps and stated he believed he had a third-place cars and truck with Truex a little much better.
” The 1 (Chastain) certainly came on strong there at the end,” Hamlin stated. “We offered ourselves a possibility, simply didn’t have rather a quick adequate cars and truck to increase and compete.”
Tyler Reddick began next to Chastain on the front row and won the very first phase.
As they started the 2nd phase, Truex went three-wide at the front with Chastain and William Byron for some exhilarating racing on a track understood for having uninteresting competitors for several years after opening in 2001.
The Xfinity Series race on Saturday was disorderly, with warns beginning on the opening lap.
The 2nd care on Sunday didn’t come till lap 138 when Reddick lost his ideal rear tire as he attempted to guide his Toyota onto pit roadway simply after having actually pitted. His cars and truck got loose, and he spun into the lawn with the tire coming off at the entryway to pit roadway.
The 3rd care out of 4 in the race began lap 146 on the reboot on the frontstretch as Ryan Blaney crashed head-on into an interior wall after being tapped from behind by Kyle Busch with Alex Bowman likewise included. Blaney left of the infield care center after what he called the hardest hit of his life.
Blaney stated he looked into the reboot and got struck from behind, then he could not get his Ford cleaned after striking the lawn. He called it “quite outrageous” there was no SAFER barrier on the infield wall.
” Stinks going home early,” Blaney stated.
Bubba Wallace made his 200th Cup Series begin, aiming to contribute to his 2 profession wins and 15 leading fives. He began ninth in the No. 23 Toyota for 23XI Racing and completed 15th.