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With a flurry of late-race cautions, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gained eight positions in the final 10 laps of Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race to earn a 14th-place finish in his Little Hug Fruit Barrels Ford.

Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Dow Camaro ZL1 Team Maximize Tire Strategy to Earn 12th-Place Finish "Considering the handling issues we fought throughout the weekend, leaving here with a 12th-place finish in the Dow Camaro ZL1 isn't too bad. Turn 3 was a challenge for us during practice, and continued to be during the race."

RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Menards/Duracell Ford Fusion - (Finished 6th) “It was a really hard day. We didn’t start out very good and worked on it really hard. I thought we were about a fourth or fifth place car and we were running fifth there when the caution came out. That jumbled everyone up and we came in and put two on it and my car didn’t really drive that good on two tires. We ended up sixth. I thought we were better than a couple cars that finished in front of us. We worked on it pretty hard all day and to make gains like we did through the day is a positive.”

Kyle Larson used determination and hard racing to earn his third runner-up finish of the year in his DC Solar Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway. Even though Larson came up just shy of scoring his first win of the season once again, he was happy with the team’s result.

KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 DC SOLAR CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 2nd - THAT RESTART, WITH LESS THAN 10 TO GO. GREAT MOVES BY THE 78 OF TRUEX BUT A GREAT COUNTER BY YOU “Yeah, I actually liked that the 78 tried to pull down and block me a little bit because it messed his angle up to the corner. I knew he would have to slow down a little more on entry and I was hoping I could get close enough to him to get him loose."

KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 Comcast Salute to Service Juniper Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Finishing Position: 1st - How does it feel to accomplish winning at Pocono in the Xfinity Series? “It feels good for as good as our car was. I tried to screw it up again early this week. My guys are amazing. Joe Gibbs Racing and everybody back in the Xfinity Series. They do a great job in the body shop and chassis shop. This car was on rails this week and last week, too. We were able to overcome our speeding issue we had this weekend to get back to the front. Want to say thanks to Comcast NBC Universal for the Salute to Troops Service Program that they have."

Austin Cindric scored his best finish in the 13-career NASCAR XFINITY Series races with a fourth-place effort Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway. Cindric grabbed his fifth top-10 finish of the season and moved up to 10th-place in the driver standings, a gain of two positions. He was also the top finishing Sunoco Rookie of the Race.

Ryan Reed drove his No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang to a 13th-place finish Saturday afternoon at the “Tricky Triangle” at Pocono Raceway. Reed started 20th and raced his way into the top five late in the race but settled into 13th as the laps wound down.

Daniel Hemric Records Fourth Third-Place Finish of 2018 at Pocono Raceway with South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet "I am very proud of the effort today. Our South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet was not very good to start the race, but we made a lot of strides throughout the afternoon. The guys on pit road were strong and my crew chief Danny Stockman did a great job setting up the car for this aero package."

Chase Briscoe worked his way inside the top-10 Saturday afternoon at Pocono Raceway after starting 16th, but got caught in the path of another competitor’s accident, forcing him to settle for a 38th-place result in the Nutri Chomps Ford Mustang.