Martin Truex Jr. won the Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway on Saturday night, but the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race ended on a somewhat somber note after a frightening, fiery crash left driver Aric Almirola in a local hospital.
It was a wild night for sure, and not only because Almirola had to be airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center after being cut from his No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford.
There were a series of wrecks over the final 25 laps. Truex survived them all to win at Kansas after tough luck prevented him from doing so on two occasions recently when he had the dominant car but couldn’t park it in Victory Lane.