Trevor Bayne (18) and Noah Gragson (9) will lead the 38 car field, under clear blue skies, to the green flag. The stages for today’s event: 45-45-110 laps.
Trevor Bayne takes the early lead from the start.
Ty Majeski (66) won the truck race earlier today.
Caution on lap 2 of 200 for an incident involving JJ Yeley (66) who chase the car to the wall and collected Riley Herbst(98) as he neared the wall.
Restart on lap 7 of 200 with the same two up front.
Noah Gragson (9) takes the lead from Trevor Bayne (18) on lap 23 of 200.
Caution on lap 41 of 200 for Mason Massey (91) getting into the outside wall the CJ MacLaughlin (38) spun in the scramble to avoid the Massey incident.
The stage ends under caution with Noah Gragson (9) leading the field for the stage win. MRN reports it is Noah’s 15th stage win of the year.
Restarting on lap 50 of 200 with Ty ‘LittleJoe’ Gibbs (54) and Landon Cassill (10) on the front row.
Noah Gragson and Ty Gibbs race side-by-side trading the lead for four laps.
Austin Hill (21) joins the battle for the lead taking it from on lap 54 of 200 from Noah Gragson.
Josh Berry (8) pits on lap 69 of 200 for tires after losing a right rear and scraping the wall.
Noah Gragson (9) re-takes the lead from Austin Hill (21) on lap 70 of 200.
Sheldon Creed (2) pits on lap 75 of 200 with a right rear flat.
On lap 85 of 200 Ryan Sieg (39) heads to pit road. His car is creeping.
MRN reports on lap 86 of 200 Justin Allgaier (7) has a flat. He pits with a corded right front tire. You could see the cords flapping as he pulled into his pit stall.
Ryan Sieg’s car has come to a stop at the entrance to the cup series garage. His teams pushes the car behind the wall.
Noah Gragson (9) wins stage two 3.683 seconds ahead of second place.
Justin Allgaier (7) makes a green flag pit stop on lap 136 of 200. They couldn’t get the car up high enough on the right side then couldn’t get a right side tire off, then couldn’t get a left side tire off resulting in a very long pit stop.
Sheldon Creed (2) backs up pit road into his stall with a fire visible through the front right tire.
Leader Noah Gragson (9) pits on lap 141 of 200.
Trevor Bayne (18) is caught speeding on entry to pit road.
On lap 151 of 200 Trevor Bayne (18) passes the lead and un-laps himself after serving his penalty for speeding on pit road.
Austin Hill (21) pits from second on lap 152 of 200 for tires after reporting a worsening vibration.
Landon Cassill (10) pits on lap 158 of 200.
Justin Allgaier (7) scrapes the wall on lap 159 of 200.
MRN reports Austin Hill (21) had a loose left rear tire.
On lap 162 of 200 Austin Hill (21) un-laps himself.
Homestead always has some of the most beautiful skies at dusk. I still want to see those skies in person. Now that the race has been moved to earlier in the season the timing doesn’t quite work out. The race itself has a so-so reputation with me over the past several years, but the opportunity to be near the beach and enjoying a beautiful sunset may be worth sitting through some less-than-thrilling racing.
The race seems to have action throughout the field. Unfortunately the television broadcast is usually either showing track surface or something irrelevant so a viewer would only know there’s racing worth watching by listening to the MRN broadcast.
MRN’s Steve ‘Postie/Postman’ Post believes there will be another caution because the cars are sliding on the track. Several cars have bounced off the wall and have pitted without bringing out caution.
Josh Berry (8) passes AJ Allmendinger (16) on lap 182 of 200.
Justin Allgaier (7) pits on lap 182 of 200 for a flat tire.
On lap 185 of 200 there are nine cars on the lead lap.
On lap 186 of 200 Nick Sanchez (48) heads to pit road with a flat right front.
Stefan Parsons (45) brings out the caution on lap 187 of 200 with a spin from the wall into the infield.
The 28 of Kyle Sieg is missing his front right quarter panel.
Nick Sanchez’s (48) right front of the car is on fire as he stops on pit road.
Noah Gragson (9) about about nine seconds ahead of second position prior to the caution.
MRN reports Josh Berry’s (8) team took extra time working on the nose damage on his car. He came into the pits in second and left in ninth.
Restarting on lap 195 of 200 with Noah Gragson (9) and AJ Allmendinger (16) up front followed by Ty ‘LittleJoe’ Gibbs (54) and Daniel Hemric (11). Allmendinger and Hemric are Kaulig teammates.
Noah Gragson gets the early lead quickly.
Little Joe and Allmedinger chase down Noah Gragson.
Allmendinger wrests second from Gibbs and chases Noah for the lead.
Noah Gragson (9) holds on to win.
Noah Gragson (9) joins teammate Josh Berry (8) in the final four for the championship.
“We just kicked their ass baby! Come on! Let’s go!” Noah’s first words on his tv interview.
Noah starts out really excited then says he’s worn out and starts looking ill. He leans against the car and pours water on his head. Someone came over and poured water into his suit.
Noah is climbing the fence with his team and saluting the fans. He climbs down the fence and sits on the outside wall saying he needs some water.
Gragson said he “kicked their asses today same as the last three races here” in his radio interview. He said, “To have dominated the races for the last three years and not be able to bring home a trophy has sucked.”
“We laid it to it and we fucking got after it.” More of Noah’s radio interview. MRN’s Alex Hayden apologized for the language.
Someone needs to train Noah to speak without profanity in general, so he doesn’t have to try to watch what he says on television and the radio. He fails to do so when tired or excited or angry. He should remove the task by eliminating it from his vocabulary until it before second nature to say something appropriate when a microphone is placed in front of him.
The race was surprisingly interesting at times. The tires would intermittently fail resulting in the shuffling of the running order. For a period of time the leader was more than eight seconds ahead of second place in the final stage. That section ramped up the anticipation for what would occur to break things up. Eventually a spin brought out a caution which led to a five lap race to the finish that included strategic moves by the folks at the front of the field. I would say the race was exciting and competitive at times and, based on the radio broadcast, interesting and eventful at others. The television broadcast did an awful job or televising the on-track action during the third stage. There was intensity from some drivers – about 20 percent of the field. The race was not particularly memorable overall. Noah Gragson’s interviews are becoming less and less family friendly. On television he’s all about ass and balls. On radio he’s dropping f-bombs. NASCAR used to police
that sort of thing.
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