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Kyle Larson withstood a flurry of caution periods over the final 72 laps to claim victory in NASCAR's AdventHealth 400 race on Sunday at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion passed leader Christopher Bell's No. 20 following the fourth caution, overcame three more yellow flags and led the field for 49 green-flag laps to top the Toyota driver by 0.712 seconds for his 32nd career win, tying him with Dale Jarrett.
The Elk Grove, Calif., racer matched Bell for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series lead in wins with three with his third career Kansas win. He led 221 laps to score Hendrick Motorsports its 10th win at the track.
Ryan Blaney, Chase Briscoe and Alex Bowman rounded out the top-five finishers.
Chevrolet won for the third straight time at the speedway while Ford had its winless skid hit nine races in Kansas.
After A.J. Allmendinger's Chevrolet expired on the race's seventh lap, polesitter Larson and 19 others stayed out on the track -- and Larson's No. 5 Chevrolet rocketed away from the pack with a slight challenge on a restart.
With Larson pulling away in the 80-lap first segment, the front 20 drivers who stayed out had to pit around Lap 40 while the previous group continued to turn green-flag circuits. That put Denny Hamlin's No. 11 at the point as the field basically inverted.
Points leader William Byron had his right rear tire go flat on Lap 67 after a gamble on low air pressure, which ended with the No. 24 car completely losing grip and spinning on pit road.
Larson topped teammate Chase Elliott by just under two seconds to win the top bonus points in Stage 1. Bell, Blaney and Austin Cindric rounded out the top five.
In also winning Stage 2 by nipping Elliott, Larson reached 10,000 career laps led as he, Hamlin and Kyle Busch are the only active drivers to cross the milestone. Blaney, Josh Berry and Bell followed the Hendrick duo.
Chasing down Elliott after the No. 9 beat Larson on pit road, Brad Keselowski, without a top-10 finish during a miserable season, blew a tire on his No. 6 Ford while running second with 73 laps to go and crashed into the wall for his fifth Did Not Finish this season.
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