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Kyle Larson outduels Denny Hamlin on overtime restart for second NASCAR Cup championship
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Published November 2, 2025 06:56 PM
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Kyle Larson captured his second Cup Series championship, finishing third on an overtime restart at Phoenix Raceway as Denny Hamlin endured yet another title heartbreaker in NASCAR’s premier series.
Hamlin, who was trying to punctuate his 20th Cup season with the first championship of his career, finished sixth after leading a race-high 208 of 319 laps. He was three laps from winning the title (or “40 seconds from a championship,” as Hamlin later put it) when a yellow flag flew for title contender William Byron, whose No. 24 Chevrolet hit the wall with a flat tire while running second (and with no shot to catch Hamlin at more than 2 seconds behind).
“Man, if you can’t win that one,” Hamlin told NBC Sports’ Dave Burns after coming up short in his fifth Championship 4 appearance, “I don’t know which one you can win.”
Among the other two contenders in the Championship 4, Chase Briscoe was 18th, and Byron finished 33rd.
Larson added a title to his 2021 crown despite being the only title contender who failed to lead a lap at Phoenix in Sunday’s race that went seven laps beyond its scheduled 312-mile distance on the 1-mile oval.
Rating: 5