Kyle Larson came out on top of a fierce battle with Tyler Reddick to win Sunday night\u2019s NASCAR Cup playoff opener at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
are the lowest drivers in points without a win and in danger of being eliminated from further title contention.Hamlin ran down Reddick for the lead with 24 laps to go and held on for the Stage 1 win as Wallace spun off Turn 4. Larson was third, Harvick fourth and Blaney fifth.Hamlin held off Larson by 0.509 seconds in a one-lap dash following a late caution to claim the Stage 2 win. Jones was third, Reddick fourth and Byron rounded out the top five.
NASCAR was forced to throw a caution on lap 179 and red-flagged the race for nearly seven minutes to repair the inside lights in Turn 3, which went dark.Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, several lead-lap cars elected to pit but Hamlin stayed on the track and remained in the lead when the race resumed with 131 laps remaining.
With 100 laps to go, Hamlin maintained the lead but had Reddick, Byron and Harvick in close pursuit asAfter completing his stop, Hamlin reported a loose wheel on his No. 11 Toyota and was forced to pit a second time under green. He returned to the track in 30th and scored one lap down.With under 60 laps to go, Harvick closed to second behind Reddick and dove onto pit road for his final green flag pit stop just as Newman spun out off Turn 4 to bring out a caution.
When the rest of the field pit, Larson was first off pit road and took over the lead when the race resumed with 51 laps remaining. Harvick lined up 26th on the restart.
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