Austin Dillon wins resumed Daytona race, makes NASCAR playoffs.
Hours ago, today's NASCAR Cup Series regular season finale at Daytona looked like it would end with Austin Dillon slipping through a. When the race resumed with just ten cars on the lead lap, and even fewer competitive and healthy cars, Austin Dillon took victory in a very different way.
That group ran in line for quite some time, but Dillon eventually bumped the leading Cindric in a corner. While it was not the egregious intentional wreck that won Dillon the Daytona 500 here years ago, the move was enough to unsettle Cindric and break up the pod. That left a chaotic shuffle over the last three laps, but Dillon had teammate Tyler Reddick behind with a heavy team incentive for Dillon to be the winning driver.
Cindric, for his part, saw it coming. As he told NBC,"I totally expected to get drove through, it was just a matter of time."
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