'A lot of craziness' wrecked havoc on Sunday's Nashville Cup race

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At one point while Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race struggled to a finish through a record five overtimes, it appeared anyone could end up the winner – and it came so close to happening.

In regulation, it looked at first like the race was going to come down to a battle of pit strategy between Denny Hamlin and last year’s race winner Ross Chastain . The two waged a wild battle for win at Nashville Superspeedway over the final 10 of the originally scheduled 300 laps. Hamlin took the lead with seven laps to go, and Chastain was mounting a return challenge when Austin Cindric spun out after contact with Noah Gragson with one lap to go.

” Running on empty Hamlin knew he was pushing his luck, deciding to stay on the track to start the second overtime as his crew chief, Chris Gabehart, told him he didn’t believe Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota could make the two laps. It did, but then Hamlin had no choice but to pit before the third overtime, which took him out of contention. “We ran out under caution. He was monitoring fuel pressure. I let him know what the fuel pressure was.

 

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