It was a dominating performance for Martin Truex Jr and his Furniture Row Racing team today at Auto Club Speedway. Truex won his first race of the 2018 season and the 16th of his career, taking the pole and winning both stages in the event as well. It was an old fashioned whooping. Truex held off Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano for victory.
Kevin Harvick's chances at a fourth consecutive victory were dashed after an accident on lap 39. Harvick made contact with Kyle Larson battling for hte third position and the contact led to Harvick losing control of his Ford Fusion and tagging the outside wall. He would continue but finish in the 35th position.
We'll also discuss the other happenings during the Auto Club 400 and including how 13 cars did not pass pre-qualifying inspection, leading to NASCAR changes the rules in the middle of the week. Was that the right call and is there anything NASCAR can do to prevent this in the future? Or is it on the teams?
Plus we'll touch on the NASCAR XFINITY Series Roseanne 300 at Auto Club Speedway in which Joey Logano dominated, taking the victory in the No. 22 Ford for Team Penske. The NASCAR XFINITY Series has two weeks off before its next event at Texas Motor Speedway in April and we'll talk about what we think of the series through the first five races so far this season.
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