Who won the NASCAR race today? Autotrader 400 in Atlanta has 2-overtime finish originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The front of the field was just starting to separate themselves at the Autotrader 400 on Sunday in Atlanta when William Byron got loose, caused a big collision in the pack and sent the race to a caution — and to overtime.
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That set up a thrilling finish for all the fans who had gathered or turned on their televisions to watch 260 laps of racing. They got a couple extra — and a couple extra more, because Carson Hocevar caused another wreck, setting up another caution and another overtime restart.
Bubba Wallace was in the lead when the race resumed, with just the green-white-checkered finish, and they had to try it twice.
It was the second race of the season, and it had the potential to set up quite the early-season momentum for one driver.
Here’s how it finished.
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Who won the NASCAR race today?
Tyler Reddick won the Autotrader 400 on Sunday.
It’s two wins in a row for Reddick, who won the Daytona 500 to open the season a week ago.
He’s the sixth driver in NASCAR history to win the first two races of the season, and the first since Matt Kenseth in 2009.
Wallace tried to make a move up top early in the first lap of the second overtime, and it didn’t work. He got bumped way back into the field. Hocevar, too, fell back.
Sunday’s race featured 10 cautions, an action-packed experience that knocked out a number of drivers and created plenty of drama down the stretch.
In the end, fans certainly got their money’s worth.
The NASCAR Cup Series will be back in action in a week’s time. The drivers head to Circuit of the Americas for some road-course racing.
