Larson cruises to third NASCAR Xfinity win of season at Dover

In fact, Larson’s win in Saturday’s OneMain Financial 200 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway is his third already this season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

That’s the most wins Larson has collected in any NASCAR series in a single season in his career so far.

Larson, who dominated much of the race, moved back into the lead the final time with 54 of 200 laps left in the race. He easily held off Ryan Blaney to secure the eighth series win of his career and first at Dover.

“I’ve had some good runs at Dover and I’ve had some bad ones, too, so to get a win is really cool,” Larson said in Victory Lane. “It was a heck of a race. The whole pit crew and everybody in the shop did an amazing job preparing this car. I had a blast.

“Blaney was probably as equal as me, we just got a better start there after that second Stage then he did.”

Daniel Suarez finished third, Cole Custer was fourth and Ryan Reed completed the top-five.

William Byron, who finished sixth, won the final $100,000 “Dash 4 Cash” bonus of the season. He was the highest finisher of the four drivers who became eligible earlier in the race.

“Hopefully, we can keep building on this,” said Byron, who earned his first top-10 finish in his last five races. “We got off (pit) cycle on the last stop. I wish we could have gotten a win but $100,000 is really good.

“Hopefully, we can get even better next week.”

Several lead-lap cars elected to pit during the break between Stages 2 and 3 but several remained on the track and Ryan Reed inherited the lead when the race returned to green on Lap 127.

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Stage 2

Darrell Wallace Jr. passed Blaney on a restart with five laps remaining and held on for the Stage 2 victory. It’s the first Stage win for Wallace this season.

Sadler finished third, Justin Allgaier fourth and Larson ended up fifth.

Wallace and Sadler – as the two highest finishing eligible drivers in the segment – became the third and fourth drivers to qualify for the $100,000 “Dash for Cash” bonus, which is paid at the end of the race.

Blaney led most of the way until a caution was displayed on Lap 112 for debris on the frontstretch. On the restart, Wallace used a deft move to get around Blaney for the lead.

During the break between the first two segments, Austin Dillon – who spun early in the race – remained on the track and inherited the lead when the race returned to green on Lap 68.

Stage 1

Larson dominated the first 60-lap segment, leading every lap, but held off Blaney in a side-by-side battle to claim the Stage 1 victory.

Erik Jones was third, Byron fourth and Brennan Poole fifth.

Byron and Poole – as the two highest finishing eligible drivers – became the first two drivers to qualify for the $100,000 “Dash for Cash” bonus in the final segment.

Two Joe Gibbs Racing drivers – Suarez and Matt Tifft – had to pit under green early in the race for tire issues and both fell a lap down.

Cla	#	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Laps Led
1	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	200	2:04'41	137
2	22	Ryan Blaney	Ford	200	1.173	28
3	18	Daniel Suarez	Toyota	200	4.078	19
4	00	Cole Custer	Ford	200	14.823
5	16	Ryan Reed	Ford	200	15.141	5
6	9	William Byron	Chevrolet	200	15.383
7	1	Elliott Sadler	Chevrolet	200	17.087
8	6	Darrell Wallace Jr.	Ford	200	20.274	7
9	19	Matt Tifft	Toyota	200	22.133
10	3	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	200	22.552
11	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	200	22.731
12	48	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
13	21	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
14	5	Michael Annett	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
15	14	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	199	1 lap
16	39	Ryan Sieg	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
17	90	Brandon Brown	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
18	96	Ben Kennedy	Chevrolet	199	1 lap
19	28	Dakoda Armstrong	Toyota	198	2 laps
20	62	Brendan Gaughan	Chevrolet	198	2 laps
21	4	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	198	2 laps
22	8	B.J. McLeod	Chevrolet	197	3 laps
23	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	197	3 laps
24	07	Ray Black Jr.	Chevrolet	191	9 laps
25	74	Mike Harmon	Dodge	191	9 laps
26	78	Jordan Anderson	Chevrolet	188	12 laps
27	0	Garrett Smithley	Chevrolet	176	24 laps
28	2	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	175	25 laps	4
29	33	Brandon Jones	Chevrolet	174	26 laps
30	24	Dylan Lupton	Toyota	170	30 laps
31	23	Spencer Gallagher	Chevrolet	166	34 laps
32	11	Blake Koch	Chevrolet	135	65 laps
33	99	David Starr	Chevrolet	107	93 laps
34	40	Chad Finchum	Chevrolet	105	95 laps
35	20	Erik Jones	Toyota	100	100 laps
36	52	Joey Gase	Chevrolet	99	101 laps
37	01	Harrison Rhodes	Chevrolet	91	109 laps
38	89	Morgan Shepherd	Chevrolet	50	150 laps
39	13	Timmy Hill	Toyota	39	161 laps
40	93	Jeff Green	Chevrolet	13	187 laps