NASCAR Cup Series: Martin Truex Jr. wins 2019 Coca-Cola 600

Martin Truex Jr. earned his third victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season by winning the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. appeared to be out of the fight to earn his third victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season in the season’s 13th race, the Coca-Cola 600, at Charlotte Motor Speedway after blowing a tire and hitting the wall early.

But Truex Jr., who started the 400-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway oval in Concord, North Carolina in 14th place in his #19 Toyota, rallied and won the race for the second time in the last four seasons.

Truex Jr. won this race by 0.330 seconds over Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who finished in second place in his #22 Ford, and he has now won three of the last five races after failing to win any of the first eight races in his first season driving for Joe Gibbs Racing.

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Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch finished Truex Jr. and Logano in third place in his #18 Toyota. Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of the race. He finished in fourth in his #9 Chevrolet. Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top five by finishing in fifth in his #17 Ford.

JTG Daugherty Racing’s Chris Buescher, Hendrick Motorsports teammates Alex Bowman, Jimmie Johnson and William Byron, who started the race from the pole position, and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #37 Chevrolet, #88 Chevrolet, #48 Chevrolet, #24 Chevrolet and #4 Ford, respectively.

This race featured a total of 30 lead changes among 11 drivers. Aside of Truex Jr., who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 116 laps led, 10 other drivers led at least one lap of the race.

The 10 drivers aside of Truex Jr. who led at least one lap of this race were Busch, Elliott, Bowman, Byron, Harvick, Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney, Front Row Motorsports’ David Ragan, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski and Richard Childress Racing rookie Daniel Hemric.

The race also featured a season-high 17 caution flag periods, including three for the endings of stage one, stage two and stage three, as the race was a four-stage race as opposed to a three-stage race, and 14 as a result of on-track incidents.

The last time a Cup Series race featured at least 17 caution flag periods was in the November race at Martinsville Speedway in the 2015 season. This race featured a total of 18 caution flag periods. Of the 40 drivers who started tonight’s race, 32 finished it, and of these 32 drivers, 17 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Martin Truex Jr.
2nd – Joey Logano
3rd – Kyle Busch
4th – Chase Elliott
5th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
6th – Chris Buescher
7th – Alex Bowman
8th – Jimmie Johnson
9th – William Byron
10th – Kevin Harvick
11th – Aric Almirola
12th – Corey LaJoie
13th – Ryan Blaney
14th – Paul Menard
15th – David Ragan
16th – Ryan Newman
17th – Denny Hamlin
18th – Daniel Suarez
19th – Brad Keselowski
20th – Matt Tifft
21st – Daniel Hemric
22nd – Michael McDowell
23rd – Ty Dillon
24th – Clint Bowyer
25th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
26th – Parker Kligerman
27th – Kurt Busch
28th – Quin Houff
29th – B.J. McLeod
30th – Reed Sorenson
31st – Ryan Preece
32nd – Kyle Larson
33rd – Austin Dillon
34th – Joey Gase
35th – Bayley Currey
36th – Ross Chastain
37th – Landon Cassill
38th – Cody Ware
39th – Matt DiBenedetto
40th – Erik Jones

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The Pocono 400 is the next race on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, and it is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 2. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET.

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