Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick were once again the cars to beat on Sunday. And Harvick beat Hamlin after Hamlin crashed while leading the Brickyard 400.
Hamlin’s right-front tire failed with fewer than 10 laps to go and he slammed into the wall. Harvick, who was running second, then sprinted away on the race’s final restart to claim the win over Matt Kenseth.
Hamlin’s tire failure happened after his teammate Erik Jones had a hard crash after a flat right-front tire. And Alex Bowman and William Byron both had tire issues during the race as well.
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There were no practices or qualifying sessions ahead of Sunday’s race because of NASCAR’s coronavirus protocols. And that might have helped lead to the tire issues we saw on Sunday as there was no green-flag run longer than 30 laps due to cautions for tire failures.
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