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Kyle Larson overcame early rainy conditions to win Sunday's race at Watkins Glen International, his second Cup Series win of the 2022 season.
Larson held off a late charge from A.J. Allmendinger for Sunday's victory. It's his second straight year winning a race at Watkins Glen. Larson hadn't been in Victory Lane since the second race of the season.
With Larson's win, one playoff spot remains available ahead of next week's regular-season finale.
Here's a look at the top 10 finishers from Sunday's race, as well as a recap of the action.
Go Bowling at the Glen Results
1. Kyle Larson
2. A.J. Allmendinger
3. Joey Logano
4. Chase Elliott
5. Daniel Suárez
6. Michael McDowell
7. Tyler Reddick
8. Christopher Bell
9. Chris Buescher
10. Erik Jones
Full results available at NASCAR's official site
The race was delayed by lightning for 90 minutes before the drivers got going on the soaking-wet track. Visibility was an issue, and drivers started out with a cautious approach. The track eventually dried as the race went on.
The early part of the race was highlighted by Michael McDowell overtaking Chase Elliott for the lead. McDowell is known for his prowess on wet tracks, and he put it on full display by leading most of the first stage. But after McDowell chose to pit, it was Chase Briscoe who took the Stage 1 win.
After Stage 1 was completed, there were only 110 points available to win in the regular season. Elliott held a 119-point advantage in the Cup Series standings, making him the 2022 regular-season champion.
Early in the second stage, Todd Gilliland moved into the lead when he passed Joey Logano. But Gilliland's day was derailed by a broken axel, and Logano went on to win Stage 2.
Former Formula 1 Racing champion Kimi Raikkonen had been having a good day and even broke into the top 10 in the second stage. But his day came to an end with a crash on lap No. 46.
Late in the final stage, Elliott held the lead, but his teammate, Larson, managed to pass him on a restart coming out of a caution. Larson's pass caused Elliott to fall into fourth place. Allmendinger did his best to catch up to Larson, but the lead was never relinquished.
Larson had also won the Xfinity Series race on Saturday, giving him the weekend sweep.
The drivers will turn their attention to the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, which will be on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. ET. Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. are the top two drivers in the points standings who are vying for the final playoff spot.
The 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race brings together the best drivers on the circuit in a format that will challenge everyone over the course of 125 laps.
Incentives are attached to each of the first three stages of Sunday's exhibition race at Texas Motor Speedway.
The winners of the first three 25-lap stages will start in the first three positions on the grid for the final 50-lap sprint for the race title.
The shortness of the stages combined with the toughness of passing at Texas makes being at the front of the field a must from Lap 1.
Kyle Larson has won two of the last three All-Star Races. He captured the first checkered flag at Texas in 2021. The event was previously held at Charlotte from 1987-2019 and Bristol in 2020.
The All-Star race participants qualified by either winning a race in the last season or taking first in the Cup Series or the All-Star race.
Four additional drivers will be added to the field through the All-Star Open. The three stage winners and the first-place finisher in a fan vote advance to the All-Star Race.
NASCAR All-Star Race Info
Date: Sunday, May 22
Start Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: FS1
Live Stream: FoxSports.com and Fox Sports app
Entry List
Ross Chastain
Austin Cindric
Kevin Harvick
Kyle Larson
Brad Keselowski
Chase Elliott
Aric Almirola
Denny Hamlin
Ryan Blaney
Chase Briscoe
A.J. Allmendinger
Martin Truex Jr.
Christopher Bell
Joey Logano
Bubba Wallace
William Byron
Michael McDowell
Kurt Busch
Alex Bowman
Preview
The starting grid for the All-Star Race will be determined by a qualifying session on Sunday.
All of the drivers in the field will take part in single-car, one-lap qualifying drives around Texas Motor Speedway.
The top eight participants from that round of qualifying enter an intense fight for the pole position.
The eight drivers will be placed into an elimination bracket in which the winner starts first on the grid for the All-Star Race.
The head-to-head battles in the final part of qualifying feature a four-tire pit stop and a race down pit road with no speed limit.
Whichever drivers are the fastest around the circuit in that format advance to the next round, and the winner of the elimination bracket takes pole.
The losers in the first round of the elimination bracket will be lined up from fifth to eighth, while the two second-round losers will be third and fourth on the grid.
Then the drivers have to take on a 125-lap gauntlet around Texas Motor Speedway that is split up into four stages.
Stages 1, 2 and 3 will be 25 laps, and the winners of each stage will start first, second and third on the grid for the final stage.
There is one stipulation added to that. The Stage 1 and 2 winners must finish inside the top 15 in each following stage to confirm their spot at the front for Stage 4.
That should be a fairly simple task for the stage winners since there are only 24 cars in the field compared to a normal points race that has over 35 participants.
The fourth starter on the grid for Stage 4 will be the driver whose team completed the fastest pit stop following Stage 2. That driver also has the 15th or better stipulation attached to him.
If any of the stage winners fail to reach those criteria, they will start where they left pit road after Stage 3 and no replacements will be named to the front of the grid.
The All-Star Race comes with plenty of rules to keep track of, but the format is designed to produce excitement for each of the 125 laps.
The format could be confusing at times, but if it delivers throughout the 125-lap race, it could be a sign for the future of the All-Star Race.
Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover Motor Speedway has been postponed until Monday at noon ET after rain showers halted the race just 78 laps in.
Kyle Larson, the defending Cup Series champion, was the leader when the race was red-flagged. Chase Elliott was in second, and Ryan Blaney was in third.
Denny Hamlin, who led the race for 55 laps before the stoppage, finished the day in eighth after making a pit stop just before the red flag was waved.
NASCAR fans were disappointed with the news, with many believing the race should have started around noontime because rain was forecasted and the track still has yet to install lights for night racing.
In order for a NASCAR race to be official, it needs to be halfway finished.
This is the first Cup Series race to be postponed for weather this season. If Larson were to win Monday, it would be his second of the season and first since Feb. 27.
Last weekend's race at Talladega Superspeedway saw Ross Chastain capture his second career win. He passed both Larson and Erik Jones off Turn 4 in the last lap for an exciting win. His first victory came at Circuit of the Americas on March 27.
After Monday's race concludes, drivers will begin preparing for the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on May 8.
