William Byron stretched his gas mileage to take his second win of the season at Iowa Speedway last Sunday. The win gives him the Cup regular-season points lead by 18 points over Chase Elliott. The first two stages were relatively calm, but the final stage was like a Saturday night dirt track Bomber race, with the wreck/restart/wreck/restart sequence playing out multiple times.

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Watkins Glen is this weekend, and the big question is, “Can anybody beat Shane Van Gisbergen on a road course?” Aside from Christopher Bell’s win at the Circuit of the Americas in March, SVG has the rest — in Mexico, Chicago, and Sonoma — and has road course momentum. Chris Buescher is the defending Glen winner, but Hendrick drivers ruled from 2017-2023. Chase Elliott won in 2017 and 2019, Kyle Larson in 2021 a

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