Austin Dillon remained under an umbrella three or more hours before he'd really guarantee the checkered banner on Sunday and shrugged his shoulders. "A moment prior we were a lap down," the Cup driver told NBC Sports at that point, the race not yet finished. He added, "It's simply insane. No one can really tell what could occur at Daytona." It's valid. In the range of three downpour deferred hours yet just 21 laps around Daytona International Speedway, the No. Yet again 3 vehicle moved from sixteenth to first, then to second, then to first — all to procure a season finisher fixing excursion to Victory Lane in the last standard season race of 2022. "It's insane," Dillon told NBC Sports, new off of a couple of doughnuts before the group that persevered through the weather conditions delays in Daytona. "You simply never surrender and have confidence." Dillon's completing blows came as two maneuvers — and every one showed up with flawless timing on Sunday.


The main move? With 22 laps to go, the No. 3 vehicle detected the race's greatest wreck progressively, brought down into the cover and some way or another stayed away from the gore. He was actually the main driver to travel through the disaster area sound. The warning flew essentially following that due to rain. A three or more hour weather conditions delay started. However, Dillon never expected his dashing was finished, and that pre-arranged him for his subsequent winning move three hours after the fact with under 10 laps to go: After losing the lead on the restart, a couple of laps later, he knock freshman Austin Cindric far removed and held onto a lead with two laps to go.

What's more, Dillon wouldn't give up it. "We had a few intense completions this year like Charlotte, man. I'd pound myself over that," Dillon proceeded. "I took a decent action and simply didn't polish it off. In any case, today, we polished it off, and I'm so glad for these folks." Sunday's race results thump Martin Truex Jr., who wrapped up with the fourth-most places in the field however without any successes, out of the title pursue. The main driver in the end of the season games who didn't score an ordinary season win is Ryan Blaney, who edged Truex in the focuses fight. "Simply not quickly enough to stay aware of those folks," said Truex, whose vehicle was seriously harmed after the previously mentioned enormous wreck just before the race's warning. "We got the restart we wanted and got in a respectable spot there, just couldn't keep up. Totally open entire last run there. It's a disgrace. It smells. Be that as it may, just a lot of harm to have the speed to do what we expected to do." When the field gathered in front of Dillon's scramble to the front, Blaney had a noteworthy lead on Truex. In any case, with each of the impaired vehicles from the disaster area left, Blaney made up the laps he was behind on an enormous lump of the field, taking out the shortfall. What's more, when Truex tumbled from close to the lead back to eighth, the point differential swung for Blaney.




Tyler Reddick, Dillon's partner for Richard Childress Racing, completed in second. Cindric completed in third

With the success, Dillon procured his fourth triumph in 326 Cup Series races and his eighth top-10 completion in 2022. This is what else you want to be aware:

AUSTIN CINDRIC BEGINS FINAL RESTART WELL, NUDGED BY DILLON Cindric, who won the Daytona 500 before this ordinary season, completed second after a late-race actual move by Dillon.

"I got hit by another race vehicle rolling 190, 200 miles 60 minutes," Cindric said compactly when asked what occurred on the urgent play. "Happy I saved it. Happy I had a shot to return through the field. Yet, he's dashing for a season finisher spot. I completely expected to get passed through, it was inevitable, however lovely mooched on the grounds that we had a shot to win today." Said Dillon: "There was a ton happening there. That's what I knew whether we got to the white, assuming we stood by excessively lengthy, I was apprehensive someone would wreck behind us, so I needed to feel free to get the lead. We had the option to get it. I had a major raced to him, and afterward I had my colleague, the 8, back there. I realized we were looking good there toward the end."

Weather conditions AFFECTS RACING BEFORE RED FLAG The weather conditions posed a potential threat the entire end of the week at Daytona. It postponed the beginning of the Xfinity race on Friday. It delayed Daytona's Cup race from Saturday night to Sunday morning. In any case, it additionally affected Sunday's way of dashing. Stage 3 wrecks generally began from P2, P3 and P4 — a consequence of drivers not having any desire to be trapped in second when the unavoidable tempest made landfall. Michael McDowell, who destroyed in Stage 3, spoke the truth about his animosity. He talked on it after he rose up out of Daytona's infield care focus subsequent to destroying on Sunday.

"It's superspeedway dashing," McDowell said of his disaster area. "We were all putting it all on the line there. Clearly I might have carried out of the gas and remained behind the 22, yet in the event that it had been pouring at present, I would've been in second and been profoundly angry with myself. ... "We needed to win to get in the end of the season games, and we simply couldn't make it happen."

Justin Haley was authentic, as well. The No. 31 group chose to not pit when the remainder of the field did late in Stage 3, holding onto the lead and putting money on the way that severe weather conditions won't allow the competition to complete under green. He was correct about the climate. However, he wasn't in the number one spot when the disaster area emitted, despite the fact that he said downpour started to fall a lap before the race was ended with a warning. "It was pouring for a decent lap before we got down there thusly 1," Haley told the NBC broadcast. "Emerging from 2 the past lap, it was coming down, and we just lost foothold."

Haley proceeded to refer to NASCAR's treatment of the circumstance as "pretty unsatisfactory," adding: "It's simply extreme, man. Battling for my right, battling for my life consistently, so you accept these little open doors and attempt to make a big deal about it."


Serious RACING AT DAYTONA The foreboding shadows approaching above come Stage 3 made the drivers at or close to the front of the pack more forceful than any time in recent memory — every one of them, as previously mentioned, not having any desire to be discovered playing moderately when the race was called forever.




In any case, the power didn't start during the race's last stretch. It started early. Kyle Busch, the multi-time Cup title champ, let out a grin and shrugged when gotten some information about Sunday's extraordinary hustling. "I was very much like, 'For what reason would we say we are doing this at the present time? On Lap 2? Lap 3?'" he said. "So I carried out, and I went to the back, and I'm getting my balance and everything right and only sort of watching everything progress. Then I advanced up toward the front, and we had the option to gather some great stage focuses, which was great.

There were three other striking wrecks that posed a potential threat on Sunday. The main showed up on Lap 31: Denny Hamlin seemed to get free from the front and twist out. Erik Jones, Christopher Bell, Brad Keselowski and Blaney were totally involved. The disaster area took Keselowski out of the race — and thusly out of the end of the season games — and completely harmed Blaney's vehicle, as well. The second shown up on Lap 102, harming Truex, McDowell and Blaney further. Also, the third (just before The Big One) showed up at Lap 125, which fundamentally harmed Bubba Wallace's vehicle and sent Chase Briscoe out of sight. In complete there were seven alerts for 30 laps, per NASCAR.

WHO MADE THE CUP SERIES PLAYOFFS? The NASCAR Cup Series end of the season games start one week from now in Darlington. The drivers who make up the 16 vehicle field: Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Joey Logano, William Byron, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, Chase Briscoe, Kyle Busch, Daniel Suarez, Austin Cindric, Alex Bowman and Austin Dillon.

Different OBSERVATIONS AT DAYTONA ▪ Kyle Larson began the post on Sunday, however he was the main driver to leave the race due to a vehicle mechanical issue. He entered pit street and afterward drove his vehicle into the carport by Lap 15: "Bummer," the No. 5 vehicle driver said, "I'm certain we'll drop a couple of spots in the focuses, so that will sting for the end of the season games. ... However, I suppose there's one certain: I didn't become involved with an accident. ▪ Sunday included 39 lead changes and 19 distinct pioneers. Elliott drove a race-best 31 laps. Erik Jones drove 22 laps. Furthermore, Austin Dillon just drove 10.