LEBANON, Tenn. — Joey Logano felt he could not get to the end line quick sufficient together with his No. 22 Ford sputtering and practically out of fuel.

First, he needed to maintain off the driving force with the quickest automobile to win the rain-delayed race that seemingly would not finish Sunday night time at Nashville Superspeedway in a NASCAR Cup Collection-record fifth time beyond regulation.

Logano had a pack of pursuers on his bumper and knew he needed to make yet another transfer to dam Tyler Reddick in Flip 4. Then Logano went “bonkers” after making it over the road first on the Ally 400.

“Positively as shut as you may minimize it for positive,” Logano mentioned about stretching his gas virtually to the final drop.

Logano held off Reddick’s cost in Flip 1 on the ultimate lap and once more in Flip 4. He then beat Zane Smith, Reddick, Ryan Preece and Chris Buescher to the road within the race that began practically six hours earlier and went 31 laps longer than the 300 that have been scheduled.

The gas mild in Logano’s Ford got here on going into Flip 3 after the engine sputtered on the backstretch, and Logano — who ran the final 110 laps with out stopping on the 1.33-mile concrete oval — mentioned it stumbled throughout the road. All of the warning laps helped stretch a tank anticipated to final 85 laps at greatest.

“It is a much-needed win for positive,” a smiling and relieved Logano mentioned about his first victory this 12 months and thirty third of his profession.

If the end wasn’t thrilling sufficient, the mayhem continued. Chase Briscoe ran out of gas. Daniel Suarez and Martin Truex Jr. made contact, spinning Truex into the wall. Chase Elliott spun off Flip 4 and into the grass.

Smith wasn’t blissful at ending second, although he mentioned he would not do something totally different after the rookie’s greatest Cup end.

“I felt like I selected the proper lane, and it is loopy how a lot totally different these vehicles drive with cleaner air,” Smith mentioned. “Simply pleased with our technique there.

Reddick was upset with himself on pit street, satisfied he let his second victory of the 12 months slip via his fingers.

“All the nice vehicles ran out of gas, and we have been in place to cross the 22,” Reddick mentioned about Logano. “He hadn’t been good all day lengthy, and I did not get the job achieved.”

Denny Hamlin, who began on the pole and took the lead with seven laps left in regulation, was two laps from profitable when Austin Cindric’s crash arrange the chaotic end. Hamlin completed twelfth after pitting in time beyond regulation to keep away from working out of gas.

“It definitely stinks,” Hamlin mentioned,

A thunderstorm that pressured NASCAR to halt the race at 137 laps for 1 hour, 21 minutes washed off the traction that had constructed up. Consequently, a number of vehicles obtained unfastened and crashed into the wall or slid into the grass.

That helped arrange an exhilarating race after Christopher Bell gained the primary two phases earlier than crashing.

Hamlin took the lead going excessive into Flip 1, and Chastain went to the apron attempting to carry him off and wobbled. That was sufficient for Hamlin to cross Chastain’s Chevrolet in what turned out to be solely the primary late lead change of a race that featured repeated crashes on restarts.

“I had a shot to win,” mentioned Chastain, who led 45 laps whereas in search of his first win for the reason that 2023 season finale at Phoenix.

Cindric arrange the repeating overtimes when he made contact with Noah Gragson with two laps left. On the restart, factors chief Kyle Larson caught the apron and slid with the proper nook of his Chevrolet sending Chastain into the wall in Flip 1 for the twelfth warning.

Larson then ran out of fuel on one other restart, inflicting Kyle Busch to crash into him. That is when Hamlin went for fuel, scrambling the sphere for the wild end.

Bell, who gained final week at New Hampshire, gained the primary two phases earlier than hitting the wall on lap 228.

“Simply put myself in a foul spot and misplaced my cool,” Bell mentioned. “Bought again in visitors with all these yellow flags. Had a foul restart.”

Drivers tried to run as many laps as potential earlier than an incoming thunderstorm on a steamy, humid Tennessee afternoon.

Lightning introduced out the crimson flag, stopping the race after 137 laps with clouds in Flip 4 so heavy that it regarded like a funnel was attempting to kind earlier than heavy rain. The storm moved via rapidly and dryers hit the observe about 25 minutes after racing stopped.

Barely a half-hour after the race stopped, a rainbow might be seen. NASCAR despatched drivers again to their vehicles about 70 minutes after the crimson flag, and the stoppage lasted 81 minutes with 143 laps remaining.