William Byron takes victory at the historic Martinsville Speedway in the Cook Out 400 in the #24 car run by Hendric꧃k Motorsports in their 40th-anniversary race.

This was a hard-fought win for the Hendrick Motorsports team as a caution flag came out with only three laps to go, leading to a second overtime finish in 🌄the last t💧wo races.

Byron claimed his third win of the season today with previous wins at Daytona and COTA. But even more impressively the He🧸ndrick Motorsports team managed to round out a 1-2-3 finish꧑ for the first ever time at Martinsville.

Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott finished in second and third place. Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney rounded out 𝓡the top five places aft💖er 400 laps.

Joey Logano𝐆, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman, Ryan Preece and Chase Briscoe rounded out the top ten. Martin Truex Jr led the Championship coming into this round but only managed to finish in 18th place.

Larson led the drivers away at the start of the 400 laps after claiming൲ pole position by 0.001 seconds yesterday.

The first lead change of the race did not🍌 occur until the 88th lap of the race, the #22 car of Joey Logano jumped up five places in the pits and made his way into the lead ahead of Larson.

Lap 112 saw the first caution of the race, which was not for a stage end. This was because one of the most consisജtent drivers this season, Christopher Bell, had to dive into the pits due to damage to the front right side of his car after his wheel nut came off.

After the second pit stop in the race, at the beginning of the third and final stage, Hamlin maintainꦦed his lead position as he had previously taken over the lead at the end of the second stage. However, the most remarkable progress was made by Ryan Blaney,🧜 who impressively advanced 12 places up the order from 20th to eighth.

During the first stage of the race, Kyle Larson was the dominant driver. He led the♓ field for all 80 laps of the stage, winning his fourth stage of the season and his first-ever stage win at Martinsville.

Stage Two of the race was co𒈔nquered by Denny Hamlin after he led 11 laps out of a total of 100 in the second stage. After the early domination from Larson, the race lead had chaಌnged hands with Logano taking over. However, late in the second stage, the lead changed hands again as Hamlin took over.