Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the GEICO 500 Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, claiming the first victory of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career in dramatic fashion with an overtime pass of Kyle Busch for the win.
“The Big One” didn’t arrive until late Sunday afternoon, setting up a chain reaction of incidents that led to three restarts over the last 20 laps.
Stenhouse emerged the victor on the last lap, with Jamie McMurray edging Busch for second.
It was Stenhouse’s 158th career Cup start, and he started from the pole. But after leading a bunch of laps early, he had to work his way back to the front on several occasions — none bigger than what he was able to pull off at the very end.