Kyle Larsonꦗ was “super pumped” to cap off NASCAR’s Miami weekend with a Cup Series victory after a late heartbreak in the Xfinity race.

Larson was on course to take a brilliant win in the Xfinity event at Homestead-Miami on Saturday, only for𓂃 Sam Mayer to turn him around at the restart as the race went into overtime.

He eventually took t⛄he chequered flag in fourth, having led 132 outꦗ of 201 laps.

But the Hendrick Motorsport driver bounced back in the flagship Cup Series race on Sunday, passin✱g polesitter Alex ꧑Bowman with six laps remaining to win by 1.2s.

It was Larson’s first Cup Series victory of the year and 30th 🐼overall, propelling him from sixth in the championship to sec༒ond overall, 36 points behind his teammate William Byron.

The 32-year-🎉old revealed that he had several close moments with the wall at the 1.5-mile speedway, but ultimately described the race as one of his “coolest wins”.

“It was far from perfect. I gave up a spot and a half, almost two spots there by getting in the🦩 wall too many times,” he said.

“I knew I wasn’t going to get the best restart there. I knew I wasn’t ✃good on the short runs and just thought if I could hold off the 11 and the 45 behind me, you know, I could get Rheem in the top and the 19 too. Then I got in the wall and let him by.

“Just kind of had to keep plugging away at what I know and what’s good for me. So just proud of myself, proud of the team. Just a lot of gritty, hard work there today between damage on pit road, you know, qualifying bad, bad restarts, all that stuff.
Just super pumped.

“One of the coolest wins I think in my Cup career just becඣause of the heartbreak I’ve had here, the heartbreak yesterday, and to jus💎t keep my head down and keep digging feels really good.”

Larson was attempting to become only the second driver in NASCAR’s history to complete a tripleheader sweep, which involve🔯s winning the Truck, Xfinity and Cup Series races on the same weekend.

The💟 Californian made the perfect start to the weekend in the Trucks Series race on Friday, pulling off an impressive recovery drive to take victory in the #7 Spire Motorsports Chಞevrolet.

Sunday’s result in the #5 Hendrick M🐎otorsports Chevrolet brought doub𒀰le delight for Larson, but bad luck in the Xfinity race prevented him from making it three in a row.

A𝓀sked if it stings to miss out on a tripleheader sweep due to no fault of his own, he said: “Maybe as I go home tonight and lay down and think about the week more.

“But honestly, 💦right now I don’t think about it at all. I wasn’t thi🦋nking about that as I took the lead, anything like that.

“I was pretty disappointed all of the time after the race on Saturday, 💙but I woke up this morning feeling for the most part fine. Motivated, but fine. Kind of over 🎉the finish of yesterday.

“Yeah, I’m sure when I lay down tonight, I’l𒁏l probably think about it. But I’m just happy to get a Cup Series win. They’re so tough to 📖get.”

Larson will again attempt the three-race sweep at the Brist🍎ol Motorও Speedway in April.

Kyle Busch remains the only driver to achieve the feat, having won all three national races at Bristol in 2010 and again in ‘17.