NASCAR Winless Streak Ending Wins - Darlington Raceway (2024 Southern 500 Update)

[Music] he got a lap and a half to go exactly less than three miles away from his first win in almost two year awesome Bill Elliot started ninth today in the Budweiser Ford thunderberg white flag and listen to this crowd the eighth time most popular driver in [Music] NASCAR try to hang on to get his first win zart runs in second spot Morgan sheeper third Ricky rut fourth and Sterling Marlin in fifth position you can almost Coast around now make it Terry yeah if it blows up now he can probably Coast to the star finishland 45th annual Southern 500 comes to a close and Bill Elliot takes the win as he waves to the crowd and beneath that helmet he has got to be small yeah get that net down so he can wave to those fans one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR and boy are they celebrating in the pits let's go to Marty re this race is over yeah he will catch the 21 car there's Elliot Sadler those cars are on the lead left so they're not going to give way they're going to want to stay there with a couple left to go and then again they might give away but Ward will have to contend with them well I don't don't believe that it' be a big enough Factor though that that DJ can catch it White Flag This Time by for 38-year-old Ward Burton out of turn four Jimmy H waves the White Flag Burton goes by J goes by final lap at Darlington Raceway 1.9 second lead that time by and as Ned said a lot a lot of traffic in front of w Burton what he needs to do is let bill evot pass him by which he is doing slower down he's got it under control all he's got to do is get that thing back to start finish I hope those cars don't wreck in front of him he get caught up in it 15 Carls on of turn four Here Comes Jared 12 Carlins but he will not have enough time it's 10 carlink but Ward Burton will take the victory at Darlington his first since October of 95 Jared finishes second nard is third as they flash by Tony Stewart in fourth position fifth spot goes to Jeff Burton sixth to kenen Here Comes Jeff Gordon as they battle side by side Gordon trying to catch the four car but Gordon will finish eigh finishes seventh and Matt Ken in sixth with Mark Martin in ninth and Kevin Le rounding out the top 10 let's go down to righton left and that leaves W Burton in the clear cuz oh man Big Trouble in turn one big wreck in one keep coming keep coming Ward Burton Racing back to the caution flag and a win in the southern 500 Dale Jun was in the wck Dave blle was in the wreck most everybody else is driven away it's Gordon racing bom Le B for second behind bur who comes to the caution in White flags and wins the southern 500 and two will be clear just stay in your groove buddy it looked like what happened on that guys we'll watch the replay but looked like the 93 go down in there and a turn one on the bottom and ran up the RAC track and got into Dale Jr as long as Ward Burton can follow the pace car around for one half a lap here at Darlington Raceway he's going to win one of the sports biggest prizes he'll come from 37th starting spot to do it believe it or not the second year in a row that the winner of this race has come from a provisional starter well evidently Dave Burns did not move he stayed in the same spot and CAU those guys J the luck they needed there was nobody better here it's Gordon second Bobby leani third Tony Stewart fourth through the melee Bill Elliott fifth there's there's Junior there is that junior junior I can't see the number then Jeff Burton came all the way from last on the lead lap up to sixth through the accident followed by Rd Harvick Na and Sher and the checkered flag is up for Ward Burton he's done it he's won the 52 on New Southern 500 and he came a long way to do it second win for first one here in Darlington since 1971 when Buddy Baker did it and for Ward Burton his third career win two of them have come side by side two laps to go somebody's got a g getting into turn one nobody and in the wall goes Bush that's not that was not a very good idea look the crossover move he got into it come on good job man hang in there realiz that was a good move that last time White Flag here he goes he's going to try to slide under him here come on baby and Blay's coming both these cars are driving terrible right now not to go n they're driving good com he's got him this time it's going to be a drag bre they touch they touch got him got got him right what a finish correct you RVP the last Darlington Race that Terry the he led more than six laps September 1984 he's out in front now on the White Flag lap here in the 2003 Southern 500 half a lap to go it's going to be a popular win oh is this going to be popular you're going to see the crews out on Pit Road applauding in the other drivers giving him congratulations two Time Winston Cup champion Terry Leon at age 46 will take the checker flag and win the 4 Southern 500 that's pretty cool all right guys we did it we did it way to go everybody good job of Def you guys Wonder for right there all right and so it'll be like a Saturday night short track Victory lap but it's in Darlington in the southern 500 [Applause] Co that's better than the burnout everybody else does burnouts give me that Eric Jones needs to be perfect while Kyle bus just gave him an opening you know the spotters come over the radio that 20 car telling him about Kyle bus getting in the fence say back it down Jones back it down EAS up we don't have to run hard you can see 18 is not in the mirror anymore but you have to hope you have to hope that he doesn't cut a tire that this is on the on the he's in defense again he's got the now go to the line as hard as you can now the 20 needs get to the White Flag out of turn four one lap to go presented by Credit One Bank all right he's got to get around here flag one more time brother all clear and Kyle Bush is in big trouble in the wall all the way down the front straightway that's true there could be some debris look at the 20 running to very low line staying very low trying not to get any type of three on the racetrack Larson three and A2 seconds back running second Eric Jones in his 100 start in the Monster Energy Cup series is going to win the southern 500 Eric Jones wins in 2019 yes sir I cannot tell you how proud I am of you Eric Jones way to freaking dig man all this pressure and you did it man you should be proud of yourself right now man thank you Chris perfect perfect adjustment of the you hit it right on thank you there pulls away on the back straightway Denny deep into turn three what will he try to do Denny Hamlin up to the back bumper but the 43 of Eric Jones comes out of turn number four Jones is going to win the southern [Music] 500 that is the 200th win for the 43 there's a second behind with three to go well I'm bad at math Mike bring it around here to two to go you know that kid's giving it us all tys trying to become the first first time winner at Darlington since rean Smith clean track ahead no lap traffic stay out of this fence get you a good solid comfortable lap this is a huge win five times a bridesmaid 110 races got to get around here to be official this last lap is a lap right kazlowski has been raing waiting three years to run and you're right he came over here big gamble put it on his shoulders and did it left a championship continuing team and organization White Flag one lap to go sponsored by Credit One Bank well Brad kazlowski is Four Corners away from getting back into Victory Lane he has done a fantastic job we knew that this was a style of RAC track 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 keslowski 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 well they have definitely made a whole bunch of ground from where they were 10 weeks ago appr at TJ apprciate toer flag down there if you got one 500 miles one lap to go presented by Credit One Bank can Brisco hang on or has Kyle Bush got something both guys are going to break a very long winless streak but who will it be Kyle Bush throwing everything at Chase Brisco he can it's a win and you're in and the 29-year-old from Mitchell Indiana Chase Brisco wins the southern 500 and is going to the playoffs two weeks in a row we have been treated to a win and you're in this time it's chasing Frisco good dude holy f