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The NASCAR Cup Sequence had too wait an additional day to race at Dover Motor Speedway. Right here’s a have a look at the “Energy Rankings” following Monday’s rain-delayed Wurth 400:
Ross Chastain
He led 98 laps and was actually within the hunt to win the race however Chastain’s 4 tire cease on the ultimate journey to pit highway didn’t give him the benefit he wanted. His afternoon was shrouded in controversy – once more – after the contact with Poole, however Chastain was in a position to submit a runner-up Dover end.
Level Standings: 1st
Final Week: 2nd
2. Martin Truex Jr.
The 54-race winless drought is lastly over after Truex Jr. broke by way of on Monday at his true dwelling observe. A late race name for 2 tires proved to be the profitable transfer for Truex Jr. to maintain observe place and he was in a position to keep forward all the way in which to his first factors paying race checkered flag of the season.
Level Standings: 4th
Final Week: NR
3. William Byron
By far the quickest Chevrolet and Hendrick Motorsports driver of the day, Byron led a race excessive 193 laps on Monday and completed first and second within the opening two levels. He slid again some within the second half of the race and wasn’t in a position to contend for win quantity three of the season.
Level Standings: Eleventh
Final Week: third
4. Kyle Busch
Final week’s Talladega winner began from the pole after qualifying was rained out however Busch sadly went backwards from there. He was caught rushing on pit highway and likewise picked up some harm to his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet including as much as ending twenty first.
Level Standings: eighth
Final Week: 1st
5. Christopher Bell
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was in a position to make a little bit of a comeback Monday from some challenges to submit a top-10 efficiency. Bell and firm left the Monster Mile with a sixth place end.
Level Standings: 2nd
Final Week: seventh
6. Kyle Larson
A sufferer of an incident between Ross Chastain and Brennan Poole that took Larson out of rivalry Monday. He wasn’t proud of the state of affairs by any means and was notably upset with Chastain’s aggressiveness to set off the accident.
Level Standings: tenth
Final Week: 4th
7. Denny Hamlin
A fifth-place end for Hamlin however he was not happy with the trouble or extra accurately lack of execution by his staff on pit highway. The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing staff continues to be seeking to put collectively a completely executed race to search out Victory Lane.
Level Standings: seventh
Final Week: eighth
8. Tyler Reddick
He began seventh and completed seventh in Dover. Reddick had a bread and butter effort on Monday and stored his Toyota contained in the top-10 a lot of the 400 miles.
Level Standings: sixth
Final Week: ninth
9. Chase Elliott
His regular return from harm continued Monday at Dover. Elliott wasn’t in a position to replicate his Dover win from a 12 months in the past however nonetheless simply missed the top-10 with an Eleventh-place efficiency.
Level Standings: twenty ninth
Final Week: tenth
10. Joey Logano
A nasty day for Logano that ended worse than it started. A visit into the wall on lap 375 put the Group Penske driver out of the race and Logano left Dover with a disappointing thirty first place end.
Level Standings: thirteenth
Final Week: sixth
Dropped Out: Alex Bowman