Chase Briscoe blew up with three laps remaining in the opening stage of the NASCAR Cup Series Season finale at Homestead-Miami, ending the stage early while Kyle Larson ran fourth.
With NASCAR’s new rule to end the stage if the caution is within 10 laps of the end, Larson took home the minimum seven points needed to clinch the Championship.
Larson was told he was one point shy over the radio, but he was 64 points above Christopher Bell and 76 points above Bell. He clinched the championship.
Kyle Larson joins the likes of Lee Petty, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Darrel Waltrip, Tony Stewart, and Joey Logano as a three-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion.
Through The Chase, Larson had an average of 49.5 points per race, easily rising to the top of the standings and then pacing the field from there.
Entering Homestead, it wasn’t given, but it was likely he could clinch the championship in stage one.
Victoria Beaver is a nomadic sports writer who spends her time hopping between race tracks and hippie farms. She’s covered every corner of motorsports that will let her in from 410 Sprints to NASCAR to Supercross. Her daily driver is a 2010 Subaru that she refused to do the smallest amount of preventative maintenance on. Instead, she spends her free time and money building a 42-foot Skoolie to one day travel the country full time.
