The Auto Club 500 may have taken 2 days to complete, but you don’t have to wait as we show you the best parts with the Race Replay.
The Auto Club 500 may have taken 2 days to complete, but you don’t have to wait as we show you the best parts with the Race Replay.
Tony Stewart was dominant Monday in winning his second straight NASCAR Nationwide Series race, holding off hard-charging Kyle Busch again.
Stewart beat Busch, his teammate in the Sprint Cup series, in a 1-2 Toyota sweep in the Nationwide season-opener at Daytona. He made it look a lot easier in the rain-postponed race at Auto Club Speedway as he led 136 of the 150 laps on the 2-mile track formerly known as California Speedway.
Long delays? Stop-and-start racing? Carl Edwards didn’t mind. That may be why he won the Auto Club 500, Jorge Mondaca says.
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Carl Edwards charges past reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson with 13 laps remaining and wins the rain-delayed Auto Club 500.
Johnson, winner of the past two Cup titles, came out of the final pit stop in the lead with 26 laps remaining, but Edwards came from third to grab the eighth win of his career.
The race was stopped Sunday night after 87 of the scheduled 250 laps, and resumed Monday.
Bad weather affects a lot of people during race weekends. Larry McReynolds explains what it’s like before and after delays.
A week after winning the Daytona 500, Ryan Newman added a 10th-place finish in the rain-delayed Auto Club 500.
That left Newman second to Kyle Busch, Monday’s fourth-place finisher, in the season standings, trailing by six points as NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series heads for Las Vegas next Sunday.
“The car was just OK,” Newman said. “At times we were a seventh-place car and, at other times, we were a 15th-place car. If you average it out, I think we did a little bit better than we could have.