Kyle Larson had dreams about celebrating at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May.
Now, two months later, Larson can kiss the bricks at Indy after winning NASCAR's Brickyard 400 on Sunday in double overtime under caution.
Larson bested Ryan Blaney on the second overtime restart and held off Tyler Reddick after taking the white flag before NASCAR officials threw a yellow flag for a Ryan Preece crash. Larson didn’t have to battle Reddick to the checkered flag and could instead coast across the yard of bricks for his first win at the iconic speedway.
“This is just such a prestigious place and such hallowed ground,” Larson said in a post-race interview with NBC Sports. “Pretty neat just to get an opportunity to race on the oval again. What a job by our team, who never gave up at all.”
Two months ago, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion strapped into an Indy car for the 2024 Indianapolis 500, seeking to become the first driver to win the motorsports double of the Indy 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. But a pit-road speeding penalty spoiled his Indy 500 bid as he finished 18th, and Mother Nature thwarted his plans at the Coca-Cola 600 when rain fell at both Indianapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Everything went right for Larson in the final stage of Sunday’s Brickyard 400, however, as his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team played the right fuel strategy and gave him a car that could rocket through the field — even as some contenders crashed out of the race and others ran out of gas.
“What a job by our team, they never gave up at all,” Larson said. “Today definitely felt meant to be for us. I just can't believe it. It's surreal to win here.”
But even as Larson and Hendrick Motorsports digs in to celebrate this momentous win – his series' leading fourth of the season and the 27th of his Cup Series career – he’s already thinking about next year and another attempt at the double.
“How about we come back next May and try and kiss these bricks in an IndyCar,” Larson shouted to the fans before detailing his plans, when asked if he was definitely running the double again. “I'd love to, I’d love to. We're working on it. So, I hope we can announce something soon and see you all next May.”
Continue reading below the photo for results and a recap of all the biggest moments from the 2024 Brickyard 400.
Here are the top 10 finishers of the 2024 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race ended under caution.
Click here for the full results of the 2024 Brickyard 400.
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Kyle Larson bested Ryan Blaney on the second overtime restart and shot to the lead before Ryan Preece crashed his No. 41 Ford into the inside wall after contact from Chase Elliott. NASCAR officials allowed the race to stay green as Larson took the white flag. But with Preece unable to get his car going, NASCAR threw a yellow flag on the final lap, giving Larson the win under caution ahead of Tyler Reddick and Blaney.
Brad Keselowski ran out of fuel just before the field took the green flag in overtime, giving up the lead and a chance for the win. With Keselowski pulling off, Kyle Larson moved up to the front row alongside Ryan Blaney on the restart before a huge crash erupted in the middle of the field.
Daniel Hemric and John Hunter Nemechek made contact and hit the inside wall, before coming up the track and collecting Chase Briscoe, Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman.
NASCAR officials threw a red flag to deal with the cleanup needed on the track due to all the mangled cars.
Once the red flag lifts, the field will have to run a second green-white-checkered overtime with many drivers close to running out of fuel. Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Todd Gilliland and Christopher Bell make up the top five.
Kyle Busch made contact with Denny Hamlin with two laps to go to bring out the caution and send the race to overtime. Busch, who was running sixth, tried to make a pass on Hamlin on the low side but came up the race track in his No. 8 Chevrolet. hit Hamlin and spun into the Turn 3 wall.
Hamlin had no damage to his No. 11 Toyota but was forced to come down pit road anyway because he was running low on fuel.
Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick will make up the first two rows on the green-white-checkered restart.
Martin Truex Jr., who had earlier crashed to open the third stage, crashed again on Lap 126 of 160. Truex's No. 19 Toyota spun and and the nose of the car hit the outside wall. Ty Gibbs, in the No. 54 Toyota, was forced to come down pit road for an engine issue.
Joey Logano and Jimmie Johnson crashed on a restart on Lap 110 seconds after the green flag waved.
Ryan Blaney, in the No. 12 Ford, got turned into Austin Dillon's No. 3 Chevrolet by Carson Hocevar, who tried to make it three-wide middle in his in the No. 77 Chevrolet. That move triggered the crash that collected Logano's No. 22 Ford and Johnson's No. 84 Toyota.
Denny Hamlin, who had the lead at the restart, led a large pack of cars down pit road for fuel and tires. Those cars are hoping to make it to the end of the race without another stop for fuel.
John Hunter Nemechek, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley, Kyle Larson, Noah Gragson, Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott, Daniel Hemric, Tyler Reddick, Michael McDowell and Erik Jones stayed out. Nemechek and Chastain will restart on the front row.
A few moments into the start of Stage 3, Martin Truex spun and crashed into the Turn 3 wall on Lap 106 after making contact with the No. 5 car of Kyle Larson. Truex, in the No. 19 Toyota, had restarted in the Top 5 on the previous lap after staying out at the end of the second stage when others came down pit road for fuel and tires.
Josh Berry, running further back in the pack, also crashed into the wall after making contact with Ty Gibbs as the field slowed down for Truex's incident. Berry's No. 4 Ford featured WNBA star Caitlin Clark on the hood.
Denny Hamlin and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. lead the field on the restart with John Hunger Nemechek and Chase Briscoe on the second row.
Bubba Wallace took the lead on a restart on Lap 79 and held it until the end of the second Stage. It was the first laps led for Wallace since the May race at Darlington and his first stage win since 2022. Wallace, who is seeking his first victory of the season, is currently on the bubble to make the playoffs on points.
Chaese Elliott finished second and Denny Hamlin, who won the opening stage, third.
Here is the Top 10 finishers in Stage 2:
At least half of the field hit pit road for fuel and tires, but Hamlin, Nemechek, Stenhouse, Truex and Briscoe chose to stay out. Joey Logano came down pit road for fuel and tires with four laps remaining in Stage 2.
Kyle Busch took the lead on a restart on Lap 75 but before the lap was completed a big crash took place in the middle of the pack.
Ryan Preece made contact with William Byron, sending him hard into the inside wall. AJ Allmendinger and Harrison Burton were also collected in the pileup. Byron's No. 24 Chevrolet was totaled and he was forced to exit the race Burton drove his car back to the garage.
Busch led a number of cars down pit road for fuel and tires during the caution flag laps. Bubba Wallace and Chase Elliott stayed out, leading the field on the restart.
Legacy Motor Club driver John Hunter Nemechek took the lead from Tyler Reddick on the opening lap of Stage 2, leading 14 laps. The team also has Legacy co-owner Jimmie Johnson driving the No. 84 Toyota in today's race. Johnson, a seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and four-time Brickyard winner, has retired from full-time Cup Series racing but has run select tracks this year.
NASCAR threw a caution flag on Lap 70 for debris on the track after Cody Ware, in the No. 15 Ford, lost a tire. Brad Keselowski got the free pass. Most of the leaders came down pit road for tires and fuel, but Kyle Busch, who was running third when the yellow flag flew, elected to stay out.
Denny Hamlin earned his sixth stage win of the 2024 season and his first ever at the Brickyard 400 after winning the 50-lap opening stage. Hamlin held off Kyle Larson to take the checkered flag. Thirty-three cars finished on the lead lap, with just one car out of the race: BJ McLeod's No. 66 Ford.
Here are the top 10 drivers from Stage 1:
Most of the leaders made pit stops at the end of the stage, but Reddick and McDowell chose to stay out.
Denny Hamlin assumes the lead after all drivers made their green-flag pit stops. Kyle Larson, who raced the Indy 500 at the IMS oval in May, is running second, with Ryan Blaney third and William Byron fourth. Tyler Reddick, who started on the pole, had led every lap in the opening stage until he made his pit stop. He is now fifth in the running order. with less than 10 laps to go in Stage 1.
Chase Elliott was one of the first cars to hit pit road for green-flag pit stops during the opening stage. His team handled refueling and changing tires on the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet flawlessly, but when Elliott left pit road to return to the track, NASCAR officials ruled that Elliott had blended too early from the access road to the oval in Turn 1.
The 2024 Cup Series points leader was forced to come back to pit road one lap later to serve a pass-through penalty.
NASCAR Cup Series drivers have taken the green flag for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin were on the front row. Reddick surged ahead to lead the opening lap.
Martin Truex Jr., who qualified 14th, will drop to the rear before the green flag and will also have to serve a pass-through penalty after the opening lap because the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team made an adjustment that NASCAR did not approve of following yesterday's tech technical inspection. Truex's car chief was also ejected.
Austin Cindric will also drop to the rear, though he had qualified 38th so was already starting on the last row. The No. 2 Team Pense team repaired Cindric's car after he hit the wall on Saturday.
Fifteen drivers have won at least one NASCAR Cup Series race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval since the first race in 1994, but only two are still active: Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski. Winners of the Brickyard 400 in order of most victories:
5: Jeff Gordon (1994, ’98, 2001, ’04, ‘14).
4: Jimmie Johnson (2006, ’08. ’09, ‘12).
3: Kevin Harvick (2003, ’19, ‘20).
2: Kyle Busch (2015, ‘16); Dale Jarrett (1996, ‘99); Tony Stewart (2005, ’07).
1: Dale Earnhardt (1995); Bill Elliott (2002); Kasey Kahne (2017); Brad Keselowski (2018); Bobby Labonte (2000); Jamie McMurray (2010); Paul Menard (2011); Ryan Newman (2013); Ricky Rudd (1997).
The Brickyard 400 is 160 laps around the 2.5-mile track for a total of 400 miles. The race will feature three segments (laps per stage) – Stage 1: 50 laps; Stage 2: 50 laps; Stage 3: 60 laps.
The Brickyard 400 is being broadcast nationally by NBC.
The Brickyard 400 can be live streamed on the NBCSports website and the NBC Sports app. The race is also available to stream on Fubo.
According to AccuWeather, there will be periods of clouds and sunshine around Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday; a nice afternoon for the race. High temperature will be around 83 degrees.
Tyler Reddick will start on the pole for the Brickyard 400 after the 23XI Racing driver qualified first on Saturday. Reddick earned his second pole of the season and the eighth of his Cup Series career. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who qualified second, will also start on the front row.
(Car number in parentheses)
In just a few short months, Caitlin Clark has already become synonymous with Indiana. Now, the basketball superstar will be riding around the state’s most iconic venue.
The Indiana Fever rookie, who has already taken the WNBA by storm, is coming to NASCAR for Sunday’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and she will have her own car.
Well, sort of.
Clark’s image from her record-breaking college basketball career at Iowa will be featured on the hood of driver Josh Berry’s Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Ford in Sunday’s Brickyard 400.
Read the full story here.
Kevin Harvick won back-to-back Brickyard 400s in 2019 and 2020, the last time the Cup Series raced on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. In 2020, Harvick won in a green-white-checkered overtime finish, edging Matt Kenseth by 0.743 seconds after leading 68 of 161 laps.
On the road course, AJ Allmendinger won in 2021, Tyler Reddick in 2022 and Michael McDowell in 2023.
Following Sunday’s race, NASCAR will take two weekends off during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here are the four races that conclude the regular season (all times PM and ET):
Five races remain in the regular season, including Sunday’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, before the 16-driver NASCAR Cup Series playoffs begin on Sept. 8 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. A regular-season win virtually locks up a playoff berth, but the possibility still remains that there could be more race winners than available playoff spots since 12 drivers have at least one victory this season.
2024 winners (points in parentheses): Kyle Larson 3 (700); Denny Hamlin 3 (683); William Byron 3 (646); Christopher Bell 3 (616); Ryan Blaney 2 (627); Chase Elliott 1 (703); Tyler Reddick 1 (688); Brad Keselowski 1 (599); Alex Bowman 1 (596); Joey Logano 1 (522); Daniel Suarez 1 (431); Austin Cindric 1 (408).
The Brickyard 400 starts at 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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