Truex wins Pocono 400 on restart

Martin Truex Jr. pulled away off a restart with seven laps left to win the NASCAR 400-mile Cup race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday and thrust himself back into the championship picture.

Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick had turned the season into a two-driver show, winning nine of the first 13 races. Each driver spent time in front and fought for the lead over the final laps until the final restart on the 21⁄2-mile track.

Truex showed why he’s still a threat to win his second straight title. He took the checkered flag in the No. 78 Toyota after two straight runner-up finishes in a season in which he was almost an afterthought compared with the Busch-Harvick dominance.

“I hope they got a lot of Yuengling in victory lane,” he said over the radio about the Pennsylvania beer. “We’re going to drink it all!”

Kyle Larson finished second, followed by Busch and Harvick. Brad Keselowski was fifth.

⏩ Ryan Hunter-Reay got his first IndyCar title since 2015, prevailing at Belle Isle in Detroit after teammate Alexander Rossi slid off the track at a turn with about seven laps to go.

Rossi, the pole winner from Nevada City, was struggling to hold off Hunter-Reay before the mishap at a right turn on lap 64 of 70. From there, it was smooth sailing for Hunter-Reay on the 2.35-mile street course. He finished more than 11 seconds ahead of Will Power, last week’s Indianapolis 500 winner.

Rossi fell to 12th and dropped out of the series points lead, replaced by Power.