AUSTIN, Texas — William Bryon began on pole and delivered a dominant drive Sunday to win NASCAR’s first highway course race of the season on the Circuit of the Americas.

The Daytona 500 winner snatched his second win of the season and delivered the fourth in six races for Chevrolet. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led 42 of 68 laps and held off a hard-charging run from Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell over the ultimate two laps.

Bell shaved practically three seconds of Byron’s result in create some late drama earlier than Byron slammed the door over the ultimate corners. Byron earned profession win No. 12.

The Circuit of the Americas, a observe constructed for Components One, has been the opening highway course race for NASCAR every of the final 4 seasons. And in contrast to the crash-filled triple-overtime race of 2023, Sunday’s race was principally incident free as Byron made simple work of the sphere.

Byron led 23 laps of the primary two levels, however discovered himself rapidly dropped to 3rd in the beginning of the ultimate stage as Ross Chastain, who gained at COTA in 2022, jumped to the entrance.

Byron fought again to go him with 25 laps to go and each automobiles pitted on the identical lap. Chastain then acquired hung up in site visitors on the re-entry and fell a number of automobiles behind.

That gave Byron the prospect to open the hole he wanted to maintain Bell behind him on the finish. Ty Gibbs, the 21-year-old grandson of workforce proprietor Joe Gibbs, completed third after getting handed by Bell.

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The sequence strikes to brief observe racing subsequent Sunday at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia.