UPDATE: Ryan Preece (P2) and Joey Logano (P5) have been disqualified from Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 after failing post-race inspection.
After originally being credited with a career-best second-place finish, Preece was disqualified for having too many spoiler shims on the rear-end of his No. 60 CELSIUS Ford Mustang Dark Horse. Logano, on the other hand, was disqualified for missing a spoiler bolt on the rear-end of his No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse.
Austin Cindric has passed technical inspection and is the winner of the Jack Link’s 500.
Kyle Larson will be credited with a second-place finish, with his teammate William Byron just behind him in third place. Noah Gragson will now be credited for a top-five with Front Row Motorsports, in fourth, with Chase Elliott rounding out the top five.
Carson Hocevar, Alex Bowman, Bubba Wallace, Daniel Suarez, and Austin Dillon will complete the top-10.
Austin Cindric is now a three-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series.
In an incredible, and clean, finish to Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, Cindric beat fellow Ford Performance driver Ryan Preece to the start-finish line by 0.022 seconds to secure the victory, after several laps of side-by-side racing.
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It’s the 29th closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history, and the 90th NASCAR Cup Series event to feature a margin of victory measuring at less than a tenth of a second.
Despite a 62-lap green-flag run to the finish of the event, the pack remained extremely tight over the race’s final laps, with the top-19 drivers all finishing within 0.650 seconds, and the top-22 finishing within two seconds.
In the end, it came down to which driver — both of whom were Chevrolets — gave the line leader the best push. Kyle Larson was lined up inside with Austin Cindric, while two-time DAYTONA 500 winner William Byron was lined up with Ryan Preece.
Austin Cindric, Ryan Preece, Kyle Larson, William Byron, Joey Logano, Noah Gragson, Chase Elliott, Carson Hocevar, Alex Bowman, and Bubba Wallace were the top-10 finishers in Sunday’s Jack Link’s 500.
