NASCAR: 2018 Coca-Cola 600 results – Kyle Busch dominates
By Asher Fair
Kyle Busch dominated the 13th race of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Coca-Cola 600, for his first Cup Series win in a points race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch dominated the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway en route to taking his fourth victory through 13 races so far in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season. Busch has now won four of the last seven Cup Series races.
Busch, who started the race from the pole position, led 377 of the race’s 400 laps around the four-turn, 1.5-mile quad oval in Concord, North Carolina in his #18 Toyota en route to his dominant victory, which was the 47th of his Cup Series career but only the first of his Cup Series career in a points race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He won the All-Star race at the track last season.
Busch, who swept the race by winning the first three stages and the race itself, led a 1-2-3 Toyota sweep. He held off Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. in his #78 Toyota in second place by 3.823 seconds, and his teammate Denny Hamlin finished in third in his #11 Toyota.
Brad Keselowski was the highest finishing Ford driver of the race, as he finished in fourth place in his #2 Team Penske Ford. Jimmie Johnson was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of the race, as he finished in fifth in his #48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
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The race featured nine lead changes among four drivers. Aside of Busch, three drivers led at least one lap of the race. Those three drivers were Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Keselowski’s teammate Joey Logano.
The race also featured 11 caution flag periods, of which eight were related to on-track incidents and three came as a result of the endings of the race’s first three stages, for 54 laps.
Of the 40 drivers who started the race, 35 finished it, and of the 35 drivers who finished it, nine finished it on the lead lap. The five drivers who failed to finish the race were Kevin Harvick, William Byron, J.J. Yeley, Matt DiBenedetto and Ryan Blaney.
Here are the full race results of the 2018 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
| Rank | Driver | Car, Team, Manufacturer |
| 1 | Kyle Busch | #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 2 | Martin Truex Jr. | #78, Furniture Row Racing, Toyota |
| 3 | Denny Hamlin | #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 4 | Brad Keselowski | #2, Team Penske, Ford |
| 5 | Jimmie Johnson | #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 6 | Jamie McMurray | #1, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet |
| 7 | Kyle Larson | #42, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet |
| 8 | Kurt Busch | #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 9 | Alex Bowman | #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 10 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | #17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford |
| 11 | Chase Elliott | #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 12 | Clint Bowyer | #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 13 | Aric Almirola | #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 14 | Paul Menard | #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford |
| 15 | Daniel Suarez | #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 16 | Darrell Wallace Jr. | #43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 17 | Matt Kenseth | #6, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford |
| 18 | Michael McDowell | #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford |
| 19 | Erik Jones | #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 20 | Kasey Kahne | #95, Leavine Family Racing, Chevrolet |
| 21 | Ty Dillon | #13, Germain Racing, Chevrolet |
| 22 | Joey Logano | #22, Team Penske, Ford |
| 23 | A.J. Allmendinger | #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet |
| 24 | Ross Chastain | #15, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 25 | David Ragan | #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford |
| 26 | Corey Lajoie | #72, TriStar Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 27 | Parker Kligerman | #96, Gaunt Brothers Racing, Toyota |
| 28 | Landon Cassill | #00, StarCom Racing, Chevrolet |
| 29 | Chris Buescher | #37, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet |
| 30 | Jeffrey Earnhardt | #55, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 31 | Gray Gaulding | #23, BK Racing, Toyota |
| 32 | Timmy Hill | #66, MBM Motorsports, Toyota |
| 33 | B.J. McLeod | #52, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet |
| 34 | Austin Dillon | #3, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet |
| 35 | Ryan Newman | #31, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet |
| 36 | Ryan Blaney | #12, Team Penske, Ford |
| 37 | Matt DiBenedetto | #32, Go Fas Racing, Ford |
| 38 | J.J. Yeley | #7, NY Racing Team, Chevrolet |
| 39 | William Byron | #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 40 | Kevin Harvick | #4, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
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The next NASCAR Cup Series race is the Pocono 400. That race is set to take place at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania on Sunday, June 3. It is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 starting at 2:00 p.m. ET on that date.