KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kyle Larson needed all his talent and a bit of luck to capture the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history.
Larson and Chris Buescher leaned on each other door-to-door over the final hundreds of yards with Larson nipping Buescher by 0.001 seconds Sunday at Kansas Speedway. "I was good to get to his outside," Larson said. "And I was good to stay there.
The rest of it? A little bit of luck for sure. "With the way these cars are aero-wise, I thought I was going to murder the fence." NASCAR's timing and scoring initially showed Buescher as the winner, but NASCAR's photo finish system showed Larson as the winner. "We touched a little bit off of [Turn] 4 [and] I noticed that he was going to have the run back, so I hung a left and just tried to kill his momentum," Larson said about his side-drafting technique. "I've seen so many times in NASCAR where if the guy has got a run you can just door him and it kind of stops it.
That's what happened, and I got to the start-finish line, had no clue if I won or not. I guess I cared but really didn't honestly care because I was just like, ‘Man, that was freaking awesome.'" Takeaways after Larson and Buescher were followed by Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr.