NASCAR Race Today: Winners, Losers from eero 400 at Chicagoland

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Sunday night’s eero 400 astatine Chicagoland Speedway demonstrated wherefore NASCAR made the close determination to instrumentality to this track. We got a fewer surprises successful the NASCAR contention tonight, with Tyler Reddick and Kyle Larson finishing adjacent the backmost of the field, and immoderate standouts delivering large finishes nether the lights with Chase Briscoe getting the win.

Let’s dive into our winners and losers from the NASCAR contention contiguous astatine Chicagoland.

Winner: Christopher Bell

Pitting a fewer laps aft Chase Briscoe successful the last signifier didn’t rather enactment retired for the No. 20 team, but Christopher Bell should inactive consciousness bully astir the result tonight. Still racing with a fractured wrist that is fundamentally making him thrust left-handed, Bell finished 2nd connected Sunday nighttime astatine Chicagoland and that gives him consecutive top-five finishes. Pulling that disconnected seemed intolerable a fewer weeks agone erstwhile galore assumed the wrist wounded mightiness support him retired of action. With 90 full points successful the past 2 races, Bell has fixed himself a 101-point vantage supra the cutline.

Loser: Connor Zilisch

NASCAR Race Today, eero 400, Connor Zilisch

Connor Zilisch is the unluckiest operator successful NASCAR, possibly ever. It had already been a disastrous rookie play for Zilisch coming into Chicagoland. At a minimum, the No. 88 squad conscionable wanted him to get laps successful truthful helium could summation a batch much acquisition aft picking up six DNFs this season. Seconds into the eero 400, inactive connected Lap 1, Ryan Preece got turned down the way aft contact, collected the No. 88, and sent Zilisch’s car skidding into the wrong partition with race-ending damage. Another last-place decorativeness for the 19-year-old, who mightiness request to prosecute an Etsy witch astatine this point.

Winner: William Byron

William Byron needed that Stage 1 win. Coming into the NASCAR contention tonight, helium sat 12th successful regular-season points. While helium was successful nary information of missing the 10-race chase, his positioning would beryllium costly for the points reset astatine the extremity of the regular season. The No. 24 squad needed to commencement prioritizing signifier points and they came done tonight. In summation to the 10-point drawback successful Stage 1, Byron won Stage 2 to maximize his time with 20 signifier points. The No. 24 squad desperately needed this and they should consciousness large astir the 53-point night.

Loser: Ryan Preece

NASCAR Race Today, eero 400, Ryan Preece

Similar to Zilisch, Ryan Preece got caught up successful the wreck connected Lap 1 that wasn’t created by his doing. What makes it costly is the interaction it has connected his chances of making The Chase. Entering the NASCAR contention tonight, Preece sat 15th successful points with a 13-point vantage implicit the cutline. Unfortunately for him, the No. 60 car needed to beryllium towed and that required a travel to the garage. He returned and spent astir of Stage 1 aggregate laps down, resulting successful a mediocre decorativeness that dropped Preece beneath the cutline.

Winner: Chase Briscoe

NASCAR Race Today, eero 400, Chase Briscoe

We astir picked Chase Briscoe to triumph the NASCAR contention contiguous earlier making a last-second flip to Tyler Reddick. Let it beryllium a acquisition to spot your gut. Briscoe was capable to clasp disconnected Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell connected fresher tires, each the portion dealing with postulation from lapped cars successful the closing laps of the eero 400. With the win, the No. 19 squad jumps up to 10th successful regular-season points, a singular feat considering they started the regular play with 25 points successful the archetypal 3 races combined.

Loser: Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson and the No. 5 squad came to Chicagoland with a aureate accidental to drawback their winless streak. Those hopes came crashing down successful Stage 2, erstwhile Larson deed the bump and spun retired into the grass. Getting stuck successful the mud, helium instantly fell a thigh down and had to get pulled retired of it. Unfortunately for Larson, helium besides had 4 level tires and that required a propulsion to pit roadworthy that enactment him 2 laps down. They ne'er recovered and Larson present leaves Chicago a whopping 68 points backmost of a top-three spot, with those bonus points viewed arsenic captious to winning the title this year.

Winner: Corey Heim and Riley Herbst

Corey Heim shocked the satellite with his first-ever Cup Series triumph 2 weeks agone astatine Naval Base Coronado. In his archetypal Cup contention since the travel to triumph lane, helium demonstrated wherefore he’s going to beryllium truthful unsafe arsenic a full-time Cup operator successful 2027. Heim snagged a ninth-place decorativeness successful the NASCAR contention contiguous and adjacent led a thigh astatine Chicago.

We besides person to extremity our headdress to Riley Herbst. 23XI Racing already announced helium won’t beryllium backmost with the squad successful 2027, but Herbst is proving wherefore he’ll beryllium racing successful the Cup Series adjacent year. Remarkably, Herbst has 2 top-10 finishes successful the past 3 weeks with an mean finishing presumption of 15.7 successful the past six races pursuing tonight’s 10th-place finish.

Loser: Tyler Reddick

MASCAR Race Today, eero 400, Tyler Reddick

In the archetypal fractional of the season, everything went close for Tyler Reddick. Things alteration rapidly successful NASCAR, arsenic caller weeks person demonstrated. A week removed from a 36th-place decorativeness astatine Sonoma owed to an contented with the car, atrocious luck virtually struck the No. 45 car erstwhile a portion of debris came up and deed the radiator. It led to a changeless leak of oil, requiring a lengthy travel to the store to regenerate the radiator. He ne'er recovered, finishing 30 laps down. Just implicit a period ago, Reddick led Denny Hamlin by much than 100 points. He present leaves Chicago trailing Hamlin by 44 points.

Winner: Alex Bowman

NASCAR Race Today, eero 400, Alex Bowman

There’s a crushed Hendrick Motorsports won’t voluntarily determination connected from Alex Bowman adjacent year. It’s been a turbulent twelvemonth for the operator of the No. 48 car, with the vertigo issues keeping him retired for astir a period and inactive causing him issues erstwhile helium returned to the track. Retirement is intelligibly connected the array and, fixed his past of injuries, nary 1 would blasted Bowman if helium walked away. However, Sunday night’s fifth-place decorativeness demonstrated what he’s susceptible of. It’s particularly noteworthy fixed Toyota mostly dominated connected the way tonight. Fingers crossed that Bowman decides to contention successful 2027.

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