Denny Hamlin Runs Away With Richmond NASCAR Race

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart, Sprint Cup, NASCARRICHMOND, Va. -- Denny Hamlin was running away with a clean, almost caution-free Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway Saturday night when his teammate, Kyle Busch, suddenly showed up on his back bumper with about 35 laps to go.

Busch was able to make his move after learning some key inside information about tire pressures -- from Hamlin's team.

Busch kept the pressure on, and moved up to Hamlin's back bumper several times, but he ran most of the final laps a few car lengths behind Hamlin's No. 11 Toyota and faded at the end.

"It was just a game of patience," Hamlin said in victory lane. "I knew I had to keep my rear tires on it. I needed to make do with what I had, so I was patient with the tires. Our team has been performing like this for the last month. We just haven't got the finishes."

"They were a step ahead of us all night," Busch said during post-race interviews in the media center. "We can't be disappointed in a second." And he also noted, "They gave us our air pressure (numbers) that we started running about mid-race, and we really started clicking off and going forward." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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