NASCAR Cup Series race results at Pocono: Denny Hamlin wins

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Stage 3

Lap 160: Denny Hamlin wins! What a wild end to an eventful weekend of NASCAR at Pocono Raceway. The 11 car gets a great push on the restart and stays out front the whole way. Ryan Preece spins out with two laps to go, but NASCAR holds out on throwing the caution long enough for the white flag to wave. Then, once it becomes clear Preece can’t re-fire his car, the caution comes out, and Hamlin cruises to a win under yellow.

That’s Hamlin’s seventh win at this racetrack and his 50th Cup win of his career. Boos rain down. Tyler Reddick finishes P2, with Martin Truex Jr. in P3. The rest of the Top 10: Kevin Harvick, Ty Gibbs, Christopher Bell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Harrison Burton, Erik Jones and Chase Elliott.

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Lap 157: Green green green! Three to go to the checkered!

Lap 154: Caution! Justin Haley spins around! We get another restart, which is great because that last one was thrilling. Denny Hamlin displayed some aggressive racing, pushing Kyle Larson up the racetrack and out of the groove. The 11 cleared the field from there. Larson, once the yellow came out, sped up to Hamlin and mashed him against the wall to send a statement of frustration to him.

Take a look at what Hamlin did here:

Lap 149: Alex Bowman wrecks! Caution! The 48 spins out with Denny Hamlin right on his bumper, but there was no contact made. This isn’t the first entanglement with the 48 and the 11: The two have knocked into each other at Chicago, at Atlanta, and now (to consequential avail) at Pocono. We’ll go green with less than 10 laps to go!

Lap 147: Green green green! Not a great start for Denny Hamlin. Top 10 now that the restart has figured itself out: Kyle Larson, Martin Truex Jr., Alex Bowman, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Tyler Reddick, Ty Gibbs, Erik Jones, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Harrison Burton.

Lap 143: Caution is out! Ty Dillon appears to intentionally wreck Chase Briscoe on a turn, and that makes a tough weekend a bit tougher for the 14 team (in a brutally tough year, no less). The Top 3 cars — Corey LaJoie, Aric Almirola and Todd Gilliland — all head down pit road. Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. all stay out. Looks like it’ll be a race among these three for the win.

Lap 142: You always have a chance at Pocono. That’s at least true if you’re Kyle Larson. The driver of the 5 car and one of the best drivers in the world is running P4 right now, but the three cars in front of him — Corey LaJoie, Aric Almirola and Todd Gilliland — all need to pit before the end of the race. Will we see another Larson win?

Lap 129: Checking in. A bunch of Top 10 cars recently hit pit road, so the leaders are a bit out of whack. That said, our Top 10: Tyler Reddick, Erik Jones, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Corey LaJoie, Harrison Burton, Aric Almirola, Tod Gilliland, JJ Yeley, Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson. Denny Hamlin (P11) and Martin Truex Jr. (P12), at the moment, are still considered the favorites in this one

Lap 111: Green green green!

Lap 105: Some good racing going on! That means a bunch of passing, particularly thanks to a mechanical failure from Ryan Blaney sees him lose a whole bunch of spots ... and then another wreck! Caution! Again it’s at Turn 1. Again it’s Austin Dillon. Tyler Reddick is the one who makes the contact. Dillon throws his helmet at Reddick on the next lap! Frustration boils! Reddick, his former RCR teammate, over the radio: “Good throw, though.”

Lap 97: After Kyle Larson’s stage win, he needs a bunch of fuel and gets buried a bit on pit road. The Top 10 when we start up again: William Byron, Ty Gibbs, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr., Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski, Aric Almirola, Michael McDowell, Austin Dillon. (This is shaping up to be rookie Ty Gibbs’ best run of the season; he likely needs a win to make the 2023 playoffs.)

Stage 2

Lap 88: Christopher Bell spins, prompting a caution right before the end of Stage 2. That means we’ll see Stage 2 end under caution. Those collecting all-important stage points: Kyle Larson (who won... luckily staying out right when he was about to file down pit road for fuel), Ty Dillon (highest finish in a stage all year), William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Alex Bowman, Tyler Reddick. Ty Gibbs. Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Martin Truex Jr. (That’s five of six Toyotas in the Top 10. The only other one is Bell.)

Lap 79: Green flag pit stops have begun. Cars filing down pit road, mainly for fuel. William Byron and Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski all pit around the same time. How will this shake up Stage 2 results? Not clear at the moment. The big story: Chase Elliott has risen gradually up the field this race; he was running P7 before his pit stop after beginning on the last row.

Lap 51: At last, we are green, and no one wrecked on Turn 1! A reminder of the Top 10 now that we finally can catch our breath: William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Ty Gibbs, Brad Keselowski, Christopher Bell, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman. (An update: Daniel Suarez and Joey Logano are done for the day after their respective wrecks.)

Lap 46: OK, what is going on here?! Kyle Larson spins from the front row on the most recent restart after Christopher Bell pushed him too far in to the corner. That’s three cautions in three laps.

Lap 42: Another wide restart! Another caution! This time it’s Austin Dillon who slides coming out of Turn 1. It appears to just be him involved in the incident. This is good news for Joey Logano, who rejoins the field.

Lap 33: We have a shoving match at the Stage 2 restart! Caution! Daniel Suarez gets pushed into the wall and sustains huge damage. Joey Logano involved too; the 22 has to get helped down pit road because he gets four flat tires. The Stage 1 winner will be multiple laps down when he re-enters the race. The Top 10 when we go green again: William Byron, Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, Brad Keselowski, Ty Gibbs, Alex Bowman, Austin Cindric, Kyle Busch.

Lap 32: About half the cars run down pit road, and the other half stay out. Denny Hamlin wins the race off pit road. Fresh tires have proven helpful here; just take Ricky Stenhouse Jr. holding off Joey Logano at the end of Stage 1 to keep him from going a lap down before the stage break.

Stage 1

Lap 30: Joey Logano takes Stage 1! A bunch of cars filed down pit road under green right before the stage break. Several didn’t, of course. Among those who stayed out and are fighting for a good finish to Stage 1: Logano (and that obviously paid off), Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell, Bubba Wallace, Justin Haley, Chris Buescher and Erik Jones.

Lap 12: Green green green! Joey Logano hops out to the lead. Kyle Larson and William Byron and Kevin Harvick go three-wide on the restart lap — and Larson makes a key pass. The 5 car rests in second. Corey LaJoie also makes an emergency trip down pit road after kissing the wall and seeing a right-side tire go down. The full Top 10 now: Logano, Larson, Byron, Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, AJ Allmendinger.

Lap 6: JJ Yeley slides coming off Turn 1. His left-front rams into the inside wall, causing some damage. Caution is out. First caution of the day. Restarts are generally the most exciting parts of this race with its wide and long frontstretch — a prime opportunity for passing. William Byron starts out front again.

Lap 3: The front of the field has begun to move into single-file as drivers try to get into a rhythm. Cars are moving at 170 miles per hour on the front straightaway. The Top 10 as we see it now: William Byron, Martin Truex Jr., Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Bubba Wallace, Christopher Bell, Austin Cindric, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney.

Green flag, 2:51 p.m.: Let’s gooooo racin’!

2:36 p.m.: Officials from Pocono Raceway announce a sellout on Sunday. Flyover has occurred, and engines will be fired in about a minute. It’s a bit cloudy, but local forecasts say rain this afternoon is unlikely.

2:09 p.m.: There are only five spots unaccounted for in the 2023 playoffs. Among the winless drivers who are either trying to make it on points or score a crucial win today: Kevin Harvick (who’s starting P4), Brad Keselowski (P13), Chris Buescher (P18), Bubba Wallace (P10) and Michael McDowell (P15).

1:30 p.m.: This race weekend last year was the site of so much: of a Kurt Busch injury that would send him into retirement; of a Chase Elliott win that came only after a Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch disqualification. Sunday’s race is expected to be less notable — it will probably be either a fifth win for pole-sitter William Byron at his “best track” or a continuation of a dominant summer for Joe Gibbs Racing — but ... who truly knows?

A quick look at betting odds as of earlier today, per CBS Sports: Denny Hamlin (5-1), Martin Truex Jr. (11-2), Kyle Busch (6-1), Kyle Larson (7-1) and William Byron (17-2). Chase Elliott still sits at 12-1 odds even despite a spin and slide during Saturday’s qualifying session that will ultimately force him to start at the rear of the field.

The green flag is scheduled to wave just past 2:30 p.m. ET. Catch the race around the three-turn, 2.5-mile track on USA Network (TV), MRN (radio), the NBC Sports App and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).

TV info, purse, details for NASCAR race at Pocono

• Race: HighPoint.com 400

• Place: Pocono Raceway

• Date: Sunday, July 23

• Time: 2:30 p.m.

• Purse: $7,243,361

• TV: USA, 2 p.m. ET

• Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio

• Distance: 400 miles (160 Laps)

• Stages: Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 95), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 160)

Starting lineup for Cup Series race at Pocono