Sunday’s efficiency at Martinsville was a return to classic type for Denny Hamlin.
The Joe Gibbs Racing veteran gained Stage 2 and led 274 of the 400 laps to win the Cook dinner Out 400 in dominating trend. It’s Hamlin’s fifty fifth profession NASCAR Cup Sequence win, which ties him with Corridor of Famer Rusty Wallace for eleventh all-time.
Sunday’s win was the Virginia native’s sixth on the half-mile quick observe, however his first triumph there since 2015 and his first Cup Sequence win since Dover final April.
Pole sitter, and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Christopher Bell was second, with Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson rounding out the highest 5. Ross Chastain, Ryan Preece, Joey Logano, Chase Briscoe and Todd Gilliland accomplished the highest 10.
A 12 months faraway from Hendrick Motorsports ending 1-2-3 with Byron, Larson and Elliott in final 12 months’s spring race, Hamlin, Bell and Wallace made it a 1-2-3 for Toyota on Sunday. Together with his rally to eighth-place after spinning to convey out the race’s closing warning with 84 laps to go, Logano picked up his first prime 10 of the season seven races in.
Different notable finishers embrace Ryan Blaney in eleventh, Kyle Busch in seventeenth, Byron in twenty second, Bowman in twenty eighth and Josh Berry in thirty third.
The eighth race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Sequence season will happen at Darlington Raceway on April 6. The 293-lap race, which is a part of NASCAR Throwback Weekend, will go inexperienced shortly after 3 p.m. ET, with protection on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
