Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted the 1,000th NHRA race in series history Sunday afternoon. Entering Vegas, the points situation was heating up with just two races left in the Countdown to the Championship.
The Tucson, Arizona, native spoiled the Playoff battle by claiming his first win at the Paperclip track amid a controversial incident with Denny Hamlin.
Behind the wheel of his No., 48 Ally Camaro ZL1 1LE, Alex Bowman stole the show and captured the checkered flag in the Xfinity 500, the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Round of 8 elimination race at Martinsville Speedway.
ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 48 ALLY CAMARO ZL1 1LE – Race Winner
HIS WORD TO ME, WOW. WHY THE CONTACT WITH DENNY HAMLIN? WHAT HAPPENED THERE?
“I just got loose in. I got in too deep, knocked him out of the way and literally let him have the lead back. For anybody that wants to think I was trying to crash him, obviously wasn't the case considering I literally gave up the lead at Martinsville to give it back to him.”
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Dent Wizard Ford Mustang -- “We gave it all we had. We just needed to be a little bit faster in stage two to get us a handful of points and be closer, and then at the end I was just too loose. I just couldn’t quite get it perfectly tweaked in, but, all in all, a pretty good run.”