Larson’s sweet Fontana sweep

The 24-year-old wins the Auto Club 400 in overtime a day after Xfinity Series victory.

After the recent postrace fight between NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch and Joey Logano, fellow driver Kyle Larson — a slight, 24-yearold Californian — was asked if he could ever punch another racer in anger.

“Look how big I am,” Larson quipped. “I’m scared that I am the one that is going to get beat up.”

On Sunday, though, it was Larson who refused to back down during a spree of late-race restarts to win the Auto Club 400 in an overtime finish at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.

The victory in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race gave Larson a sweep of the weekend in Fontana. He also won Saturday’s race in NASCAR’s second-level Xfinity Series.

Larson also was a prerace favorite Sunday because he put his No. 42 Chevrolet on the pole position and because he arrived in Southern California having finished second in the three prior races.

“I’ve been watching all the TV like, ‘He doesn’t know how to win,’ but we knew how to win today,” said Larson, who drives for the Chip Ganassi Racing team. “This is just amazing.”

Larson is in his fourth full year in NASCAR’s top-tier series, and the victory was his second Cup win. The first came last year at Michigan Speedway, another two-mile oval very similar to the Fontana track.

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