NASCAR Cup Series EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS: Goodyear 400 | 5/12/24 | Motorsports on NBC

Intro Jeff Burton had a great NASCAR career he is a Hall of Fame nominee and he has the green flag in hand as they rolloff turn number four and the Goodyear 400 is underway [Music] Race Tyler reic wasted no time as keslowski slides up in front of Gibbs to secure the second spot in turn four well you see Chris buscher down on the bottom of the racetrack right there and that's not where you want to be you want to run these cars on the bottom of the racetrack as little as possible on the apron as little as possible you don't want to do that uh very long because it is going to hurt those tires a lot faster than running that High Line being as easy as they're probably going be at the start of a run all day they're feeling their cars out trying to understand exactly where they are but everybody we talked to said about 15 laps as you see that left front tire of Ross Chastain lock up going into the corner in turn three and did he get into the wall I think he did now that's just casual contact we saw a lot of that yesterday in practice uh without any real ill effect yeah I think what happened right here is those cars checked up a little bit more in front of him and it's real easy to lock that left front tire up over there going into turn three when you have to apply too much break pressure he did get into the wall just a little bit though I think that'll be just fine wasn't hard at all William Byron Daniel hemrich as Chase Elliott leaves his box Joey Logano look at the keslowski almost pass re for the lead here they come there's the leaders very tricky Pit Road to get on uh you saw kazlowski stay up on the track and uh Reddit come down the racetrack so two different theories on how to get to Pit Road there everybody else has been to Pit Road now look at this they're going to get him boys these guys are getting passed who are they getting passed by short Pitt you got Byron in the lead by the way Byron somehow got around the five in Pit Road that's why you pit early now will you pay the price on the back side of these runs and that this this is when it becomes difficult right because you got to run that whole long run um all the way I mean it's going to be 50 plus laps so you never know with these guys they might decide to to split it up again but um that's going to be a long ways if we run the whole run yeah I mean I got to believe booty Barker is trying to go down the path Mike of absolutely splitting it dead in half which is about three laps from now lap 45 that may pay dividends on the top side but that's this is a lot of additional laps cuz he's given up again well over two seconds a lap not an easy thing to do against the the likes of the guys that are out here hounding on him I mean look at the Battle for oh squeezing him be careful here and that's the that's the type of stuff right there that you just got to be careful with right here you don't want to tear your car up look at the Gap that it afforded him though sometimes you got to be bold on this racetrack because it affords you opportunities to get away needed that clean air cannot be mired in that traffic it will wear these tires out in the meantime lson Byron and keslowski back there in the back are putting on a show you can see how much tire wear there are on a tear off man look at this holy cow hold on to a boys the corner eight to go in stage one you saw the pass for the lead Kyle Larson passing Tai Gibbs here to take over the front spot Tai was having trouble getting around Carson hos far in front of him and Larson caught him pretty quick put the pressure on him got into turn three Gibbs got loose rest is history yeah and that's real real easy to do in that corner we'd actually um it's a very common problem no matter what car you drive getting loose in into turn three the way that you carry the speed in and it has kind of a little bit of swell getting into the corner kind of a ridge that you go over now taking a look at stage points Ryan blay remember he was 18th before the pit Pit Stop Cycle he ran the first 45 laps before coming in he's up into the top 10 so a gain of eight with that strategy well both of these guys right here bubble Wallace and Ryan bling were the guys that that stayed out the longest so you know I think that that lap time difference in the new tires old tires it just became a little bit easier to make up that track position with what they gave up at the end of that that last first cycle this will be larsson's seventh stage win of the Season he only had eight in all of 2023 so he is on great Pace as he rounds off turn four in that great throwback scheme to Terry Leon's 96 Championship I think did he get him Kevin bring them back to green and again reic gets a good jump thank you number one pit stall well that's why Brad K kazlowski was so frustrated yesterday after qual qualifying because he knows how much easier that number one pit stall makes this day and you saw evidence of that as Tyler reick came off Pit Road first that time man look at blay coming by looking to the inside of Byron right there just keeps Maring up through them good day so far for Ryan blay well that green flag strategy has really paid off Eric Jones in his first race back in the number 43 crack vertebrae was not going to keep him away from Darlington one of his favorite tracks Kevin S you heard him throttle up and try to stay in position on that outside Kyle bus gets in a wall off of two yeah that's the second time he's been in the wall that one was a pretty good one you hit harder off a two than you do in the other Corners usually and it's the same same thing you know he's he's in traffic right there and sometimes you think you can get a little more and as the front of that car just doesn't want to turn uh it takes off from underneath you and winds up getting up in the fence quicker than you expected to got nean check around on the front straightaway guys facing the wrong way in that Lee Petty 1956 Dodge tribute car John Hunter neek was running 17th at the time of the spin this is the second caution of the day it comes at lap 121 well as we as we see so many times this year when the tires start to get wor and when this car when you try to get a little bit too much and you think you can just ride it out this car will just snap around on you and spin out that's exactly what happened right there yeah I think the right front blew when he was sliding so long with the wheels it was just like Kyle bus last week right like you just get to a certain point and that car just snaps around and Spins out I'm so glad you said that savior to Kyle [Music] bus three wide for third yes sir Here Comes William Byron on that inside they squeeze him TRX almost wrecked bling in the wall they're wrecking guys and they pile up accordion style behind him caution waves I think Blay's got a right rear toe link broke and this is a this is almost an identical situation that Truex was in last year uh in the middle right there he gets loose goes up the racetrack and blay gets in the fence got squeezed a little bit by Byron and Truex was trying to back out you'll see it on the replay here he was trying to back out but but he's tore up too soon as he backed out it looked like it got loose possibly that Gap that splitter uh right we you said that in the in the pre-race show Kevin cannot get that separation Byron just come just a little bit and gets into the side of TRX and TRX was trying to back out but big hit for blay that's out yeah 17's going to have that frontting damage like you're talking about let's watch from bubble [Music] wall oh o Larson may have more damage than we thought you see William Byron all the way down on the bottom the 12 gets to the outside and actually Clips the right rear the 19 slows him down opens the door for Byron they all know how important it is to get the track position and right here somebody's going to have to lift and nobody does and they rack yeah Blay's done he hit hard all right here's Blay's radio and I'm going to go kill both what I'm going do coming to you I can understand that frustration Kevin let's think he's going to show his displeasure right here when somebody falls out at somebody Replay else's Fortune look at that Lano Bubba Wallace up there filling them slots here they come boy reck had great fire off speed all day he just launches out ahead of the field going around Zay Smith is Rec on the front straightaway guys caution waves for the fourth time and Smith turns it around down on the apron everybody else gets by on the high side lap 164 caution flag number four see him get loose back there all by himself guys trying to stay out of the wall spun around gets into the inside wall caution easy to do here yeah and that that exit a turn four with with where he was all the way up against the wall if you follow that Arc of the rubber obviously we learned yesterday Clint don't follow the Arc of the wall because it's it's not in line with The Arc of the of the of the race line and that Tim Richmond Daytona consolation race winning graphic scheme on the number 45 reic will get the second stage win keslowski gives legano Larson oh they're banging put some pressure on him L looking to the inside yeah and you see Brad keslowski just kind of give that position up not yet not so fast still holding on the outside here comes a big push William Byron going around them both Byron again three wide way deep on the bottom but has to back out slide job larsson's going to slide up in front of him leaves him room on that outside [Music] respect these guys are raising for position they're not going to just yield this position to reic he's going to have to earn it and here comes six again on the bottom three wide careful he's going to get hemr trying to stay on the tail end of the lead lap in the 31 new leader Brad keslowski for the second time today Brad's had five second place finishes since his last Cup victory oo careful look at those tires coming Eric Jones on the oh Larson's got trouble did he have a flat just get rubber on his tires there got too high I think he got too high he got too high right there all right let's see if that draws the rest of them in so Kyle Larson was running third and clip Daniels and crew scramble to get ready to go to work let's hear what the five has to say oh he's around left rear theall left rear went off the beat loose or or excuse me flat tire and that will bring out a caution at lap 2 up and get stuck in brought right back in here leader just m one and two well that changes things you see that left rear soft already yep went off the bead right there yeah the lap times fell off because he I'm sure he felt that left your tire going down and there it went well that'll crush your corn flakes [Music] and reic can't clear well I think Brad knew exactly what he needed to do right there you see him shove him up the shove the 45 up the RAC track I think Brad feels like this is his what would have been his best chance to um drive by reic on the bottom but definitely saw him fighting for space on the entry to the corner and here we go again side draft off the 45 neither driver given an inch right here drag race down the front straightway here comes butcher to the inside he's going to give his teammate a huge shot how about that I'm surprised he didn't try to cross over he would have if that wasn't his boss could have got a two for one right there man they're going at it Kevin well both of these guys know how important that this is going to be the race for the win if the caution doesn't come back out you see Chris Bucher he's going to play a part in this if he can if he has the opportunity to help Brad as we saw he'll do it again fantastic racing door to door for these guys I thought reck might have rubbed the wall right there but he's leaning on him here it comes a crossover for bercher going to pass him both way down on the apron he's clear guys Chris buer now he's going to check up last week the bridesma now he's in the lead trying to hold off reic how about this Kevin well we said Brad needed to get aggressive but they they had definitely made contact and he put put reic in the fence off of turn four and it cost them both can you imagine if Chris busher puts his thing in Victory Lane after last week what he lose by by a nose allowing reic to drive right to his bumper now he's got him in the mirr and he's going to drive it in really hard and try to put the pressure on and getting into three yeah and what you here comes the dive bomb he's going to try to slide him he's going to try to slide him he's got Lo butcher got in the wall watch for the six car coming oh BR lose and he's looking he's mad he's not happy something's wrong they're both in trouble Ric's in trouble he's got a right rear flat to go and reic fences it again no caution yet he still going around there I'm not so sure that that 17 car has not got an issue as well yeah he's he's 17's pitting the six back to the lead oh my gosh Brad keslowski the keer B front here with 8 and a half to go this was a style of Racetrack and we knew he had a good car yesterday qualified well and that put him in position to do exactly what he's done today RFK they're here they're back both of those cars were a factor and it's Brad Kowski so happy for this guy three years of trying since Talladega April 21 Brad keslowski wins the goodye 400 36th career win Ford's first win too by the way hi I'm Parker cerman for more access like this from Pit Road be sure to click and subscribe to the Motorsports at NBC YouTube Channel