By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
William Byron has picked up the first win of the season for Hendrick Motorsports. The RaptorTough.com driver won the Pennzoil 400 on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.
With the win, Rick Hendrick now has 294 wins in his 40-year career as a NASCAR Cup Series owner. Byron now has five career Cup Series wins in his six-year career.
“It was a great day,” Byron said. “I felt like in practice we had a good car. I was a little bit nervous about the wind today and how that would change what we had going on and whether or not we’d be as strong, but just kind of the consensus, I guess, in the garage and then talking to some of the drivers, they were pretty confident about what we had going on. I was happy about that.
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“Started the race good. I thought Kyle was really strong. He could stay close to me for a lot of the runs in the first and second stages, and I felt like I was a little bit tight, but just trying to navigate lap traffic and navigate the wind and how that would change the handling. Just happy with getting the first win of the year. It’s been a while since we’ve won. It’s been almost a year, and it’s nice to kind of just get back to what I feel like we’re capable of. Yeah, it’s been up and down, but I feel like this is what we’re capable of every week.”
This was the first time that he had won at the Las Vegas facility. He dominated the event as he led 176 laps of the 271.
“It was just a really good weekend,” Byron’s crew chief Rudy Fugle said. “Started yesterday with practice, and pleasantly surprised how much pace we had, long-run pace, short-run pace; qualified well; the car was handling well. Made yesterday making decisions for how we were going to race the car today pretty easy, and then just a super fast car all day long.
“We had one sequence where William went out the box a little hot, and we hung a left front coming off a little bit and got to fourth, and if it goes green, we finish second to the 5 because of that, but we got a chance here. It always seems like it always happens in Las Vegas, you get one last shootout at the end. The pit crew did an awesome job getting us off pit road second, and we were able to pass the 19 and hold everybody else off.”
Hendrick Motorsports swept the Top 3. HendrickCars.com driver Kyle Larson finished second.
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Ally-sponsored driver Alex Bowman finished third.
23XI Racing driver Bubba Wallace finished fourth in his Columbia Sportswear Company entry. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Christopher Bell finished fifth in his SiriusXM entry.
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