After ripping the walls all day at the top of the racetrack and summoning speed at the most important times, Kyle Larson saw Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman come on five laps to win his first victory of the 2025 season with a straight talk wireless 400 at Homestead Miami Speedway. Larson’s victory became the 30th in his NASCAR Cup Series career and the third-highest winning driver in Hendrick Motorsport history.
After repeatedly grinding the walls while running along the line at the top of the racetrack and dealing with left-side damage from a pit road collision, Larson’s car came to life in the final 20 laps, surged from fourth to second by the time the race reached 10 laps. Bowman tried to align with Larson’s line to stop his advance, but he went into the wall and stepped on the line that came in five laps to scrape away a significant speed on the five laps, giving Larson the chance he needed to get the lead.
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“I just had to keep plugging in what I know and what’s good for me,” Larson told Fox Sports. “I’m just proud of myself, I’m proud of my team. Between the damage on today’s pit road, bad, bad reboots, all that, there’s a lot of today’s gritty, hard work. I just super pumped. For yesterday’s heartbreak, I’m just going to dig into one of my cup careers, yesterday’s heartbreak, and just a bow to dig into it.”
Larson’s victory has been a near-perfect weekend, if not due to one wound, with his second Cup victory at Homestead and his second in the last four years. After winning the Artisan Truck Series race on Friday, Larson dominated the Xfinity Series race on Saturday – leading 132 laps and wrapping everything except the top five cars – setting up a reboot where Larson’s car couldn’t be launched after Sam Mayer was hit from behind. Larson came in fourth, and spent the opportunity to become the second driver in history to wipe out all three races in one weekend, something Kyle Bush achieved in Bristol in 2010 and 2017.
The victory marked Kyle Larson the third-largest driver in the history of Hendrick Motorsports, with 24 career victories in team history at Hendrick Kerr, behind NASCAR Hall of Fame Jeff Gordon (93) and Jimmy Johnson (83).
Bowman eventually finished second to Larson, followed by Baba Wallace. Baba Wallace led 56 laps, including many of the last 100 – Chase Brisco and Denny Hamlyn. Chris Busher, AJ Allmendinger, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Preece and Justin Haley were to close out the top ten.
Ryan Branny was particularly absent in the top 10. He had a dominant car in the first half of the race and paced the field with a Race High 124 lap. Blaney’s race ended suddenly at 60 laps, with the engine exploding and it came to third place. Meanwhile, Cup Series champion Joey Rogano continues to be locked out of the top 10 as he was caught up in a pit road accident with both Larson and Las Vegas winner Josh Berry and Berry spinning near the exit of Pit Road. Logano recovered after finishing 14th, but he continues to build at the longest start of the season without a top-10 finish for the history champion.
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