NASCAR has finished its first short-track series of the year with Alex Bowman’s win at Richmond. It’s his third career win. Kevin Harvick’s wreck with twenty laps to go left Denny Hamlin with the lead off of pit road. But Bowman passed him with nine laps left leaving Hamlin with another disappointing result.
Hamlin led 207 of the 400 laps on the .75 mile track but was left with his eighth top-five finish in nine races this year. It was his first runner-up but he has four thirds.
Bowman is the eighth winner in the first nine races.
NASCAR leaves the short ovals for its longest oval next week, moving to Talladega.