Who won the NASCAR race yesterday? Full results from Atlanta race

The winner of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway needed some help to get to Victory Lane.

Ryan Blane took the remainder of the Honors QuickTrip 500 with eight laps from Kyle Larson and then rolled in a win of 2.083 seconds. It was Blaine’s first win of 2021 and the fifth win of his Cup Series career. Blaney became the sixth different winner in the first six races of the season.

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Larsen won the first two stages of the race and took a major lead late in Stage 3, only to wear his tires down and slow his car while running long green-flags. That Blaney closed the gap and eventually drove the checker flag.

Below is more about Blaney’s win, as well as the full results of Sunday’s race.

Who won the NASCAR race yesterday?

Ryan Blandy charged late to Kyle Larson, who led 269 out of 325 laps of the race.

“Gosh, we had a great long car all day.” Told Fox Sports after the race. “It took us a while to get going. I was very independent all day, so we made really nice changes to tighten up where I needed it and it felt like Kyle was getting loose.

He said, “I’m glad it worked in our favor that in the end there were long runs of one or two. Allow us to get there. And he slowed down behind some lumpy traffic.”

Blaney’s team Penske’s teammate Joey Logano made the biggest difference to “lapped traffic”. Logano was on the run in front of Larsen and Blaney, when Blane made a pass for the lead.

Larson was not happy with Logano being in the way.

NASCAR Results from Atlanta

Ryan Bland and Kyle Larson were 1-2, followed by Alex Bowman in third, series leader Denny Hamlin in fourth, and Kyle Busch in fifth.

“I think he’s just much better out there that has changed my flow of the last leg and race a little bit,” Larsen After the race, he said about Bly for Phane Sports. “I can get out of such a big lead and I can take care of my stuff and run down to where it was probably slow but I could take care of my tires.

He said, “He was fast there and I just wanted to keep the gap that I had, so I had to run on the faster part of the race track and just use my stuff. And then he was late in scoring. Were much better than me. “

Hamlin took his lead in the fifth top-fifth series of the season.

The Cup Series now shifts its focus to next Sunday’s race in Bristol (3:30 pm ET; Fox, PRN, SeriousXM NASCAR Radio). The event will be the first race of the series on dirt since 1970.

NASCAR on Atlanta results