NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — William Byron was already locked into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs and was second in the regular-season point standings heading into Sunday’s race at Iowa Speedway.

Still, Byron didn’t like how things were going heading into the closing stretch of the regular season.

Byron had five finishes of 27th or worse in the last eight races, and coming to a track where he has had success in the past, he wanted to regain some confidence with the playoffs approaching.

“I think we’ve been fast every weekend,” Byron said. “I mean, I can’t think of a week when we’ve been slow, it’s just the results haven’t come together. And it was starting to wear on us a little bit and starting to create some kind of, ‘What’s going to happen next?'”

What happened next, though, was Byron gettin

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