Despite starting from the pole, the only way that Austin Dillon was going to be able to get a season sweep at Kentucky Speedway was if two other cars had problems.
As it turned out, problems emerged for both Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Elliott Sadler, and that handed the win to Dillon.
“We lost power steering,” said Elliott Sadler to ESPN reporters after the race. “Nobody could touch us, either.”
Sadler looked like he was going to be on a cruising course to victory lane shortly after pit stops during the third caution of the day. However, it turned out that another round of pit stops would seal the fate of the race and give the second win of the career to rookie, Dillon.
The laps were starting to wind down and there was one pit stop that stood in the way of the leaders and the checkered flag. After running under green for the longest time in the race, the bumpyness of Kentucky speedway had started to take it’s toll on some of the cars.
One of those cars was then-leader Sadler.
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