Now that was a race. The closing laps of Sunday’s Pocono 400 were among the most riveting of the season, as Ryan Blaney drove the race of his life to first get past Kyle Busch for the lead and then hold off a furious charge from Kevin Harvick to win his first career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race and the first for the Wood Brothers since the 2011 Daytona 500.
Here are five takeaways from a sensational afternoon of racing at the Tricky Triangle:
The best stories in NASCAR are often about first-time winners and we’ve now had three in the past five races: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.