Shane Van Gisbergen led a race-high and career-Best 60 laps and reduced the ground in NASCAR’s historic road-gourd race on Sunday afternoon, won Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromeo Harmanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, Mexico.
Auckland, New Zealand, native, who won three titles in the supercar series, won their second NASCAR Cup series by easily removing their number 88 trackhouse racing Chevrolet on Christopher Bell’s number 20 Toyota.
The first year full-time cup driver won this season in 16.57 seconds in his 16th start and earned a place in 10-race Postsen despite being 33rd in the race points.
The second point of the six-twisting layouts was the first points of the second point since 1958, when the series competed in Toronto.
Chase Elliot, Alex Bomman and Michael McDowell scored the top-five finishers.
For the last week’s winner Denny Halin (childbirth), Ryan Truex was ranked 23rd at the beginning of his first cup since 2014.
For the disappearance on the Auto Club Speedway in California in March 2014, Hamlin’s absence started in the 406 cup race.
20-Lap Stage 1 was immediately removed as the rain started falling on 1. This led to the polisiter van Gisbergen and almost the entire ground to reach the pit for rain tires, although Chris Busher and Austin Cyndric stayed on the slix without any profit.
As the cars slipped on the 2.42-mile, 15-turn track, Bush lost control of his number 8 Chevrolet and landed a debris on Lap 7, in which Kyle Larsen, Zen Smith, Justin Haley, AJ Olmander and Chess Brisco also gathered.
With the rain in the second half of the segment and van Gisbergen passed the Ty Gibbs for the lead, the number 88 driver created a five-second lead, but saved to change back into slixs with two laps.
Ryan Preis claimed stage 1 and was followed by Ryan Blanne and Ross Chastain.
Gibbs’ number 54 Toyota led most of Stage 2, but he stood with two laps to leave. Van Gisbergen defeated Bell and Boman to win the segment in Lap 45.
With the van Gisbergen already standing, the battle between 88 and 54 took a turn when Carson Hosavor took a precaution in a blind corner on lap 66. This pits Gibbs in the end, lost several positions and ended the chance to win his first cup.
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