Bojangles Southern 500 2018-09-02

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Date
Sun 2nd September 2018 (UTC)

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00:00:00 UTC

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League
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

Season
2018

Round
25

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Location
Darlington Raceway

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Description

The Bojangles' Southern 500 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car race at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina, United States. The race distance is 501 miles (806 km) and consists of 367 laps. From 1950 to 2003, and again since 2015, the race has been held on Labor Day weekend. The Southern 500 is largely considered one of the Crown Jewels of the NASCAR calendar, and has been nicknamed NASCAR's "oldest superspeedway race." For decades, the race has been considered by competitors and media as one of the more difficult and challenging races on the NASCAR schedule, owing much to the track's unusual, asymmetrical egg-shape, rough pavement, and overall unforgiving nature. Darlington Raceway itself has a long and storied reputation as the "Track Too Tough to Tame."

By a matter of inches, Brad Keselowski won the race off pit road under the final caution in Sunday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. That narrow margin was all the driver of the No. 2 Team Penske Ford needed to secure a stunning victory in one of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ marquee races.
On the flip side, Keselowski’s first victory of the season left Kyle Larson bitterly disappointed. Larson led 284 of the 367 laps in addition to winning the first and second stages of the race. But the work of Keselowski’s pit crew proved decisive.
Keselowski controlled the final restart on Lap 348 and pulled away, as Larson faded to third and had to fend off a determined charge by Kevin Harvick to hold that position. It was Joey Logano who passed Larson for second on Lap 352, giving team Team Penske a 1-2 finish and the organization its first win at Darlington since 1975.

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Result List

Result Description
Position/Driver/manufacturer/Laps/LapsLed/Points/PlayoffPoints

1/BradKeselowski/Ford/367/24/55/5
2/JoeyLogano/Ford/367/18/50/0
3/KyleLarson/Chevrolet/367/284/54/2
4/KevinHarvick/Ford/367/0/39/0
5/ChaseElliott/Chevrolet/367/0/40/0
6/KurtBusch/Ford/367/0/39/0
7/KyleBusch/Toyota/367/0/35/0
8/ErikJones/Toyota/367/0/44/0
9/JamieMcMurray/Chevrolet/367/0/30/0
10/DennyHamlin/Toyota/367/11/31/0

Drivers' Championship standings after the race

1/KyleBusch/1038
2/KevinHarvick/999
3/MartinTruex Jr./883
4/KurtBusch/835
5/JoeyLogano/818
6/BradKeselowski/785
7/KyleLarson/783
8/ClintBowyer/777
9/RyanBlaney/755
10/DennyHamlin/738

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