Kyle Larson defeated Chris Buescher in the closest finish in NASCAR history Sunday night at Kansas.
Larson got alongside Buescher in Turns 3 and 4 on the final lap after a green-white-checkered restart and somehow passed Buescher at the finish line as Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. tried to join the party. .
The finish was so close that the scoring monitors indicated that Buescher had won the race. Officially, Larson won the race by 0.001 seconds.
“That race from start to finish was incredible,” Larson said after getting out of his car.
Both Larson and Buescher used two tires in their pit stops during the final caution flag. The yellow one flew with less than 10 laps remaining to spin Kyle Busch. However, neither of them took the field to green with two laps remaining.
Denny Hamlin was the race leader with two laps remaining and chose the bottom lane for the restart. Buescher was next to him in the front row and Larson was behind him on the inside. Hamlin didn’t get off to a great start and Larson got on the inside as Buescher took the lead entering Turn 1.
Larson was behind Buescher when the white flag waved and raced down the stretch on the final lap. Buescher left a lane between him and the wall entering the final two turns and Larson got between them and didn’t back down.