Kyle Larson dominated, then didn’t, then dominated once more to win the AdventHealth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on May 11 at Kansas Speedway.
Larson, the pole sitter, led all but a handful of the first 165 laps in sweeping the first two stages, then fell back to third for about 30 laps after losing track position on pit road.
But Chase Elliott fell out of the lead with a bad pit stop on the final sequence, and Larson sprinted past Christopher Bell on the restart to retake control of the front.
Larson led 221 of 267 laps and maxed out on points for the day. Bell was second, with Ryan Blaney in third.
Here are the winners and losers from Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas:
NASCAR Kansas winners and losers: Kyle Larson dominates at Kansas
Preece continues to try and dig himself out of the hole created by the disqualification at Talladega a couple weeks ago.
Sunday’s result will help. Preece raced into the top 10 early in the event and held serve throughout the afternoon en route to a seventh-place finish.
The No. 60 RFK Racing Ford was competitive all day among a group that often included Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano and teammate Chris Buescher. Playoffs or not, this has been a very encouraging first three months of the season for Preece with a new race team.
I’m not sure there was a driver all day that passed more cars (for position or not) than Josh Berry in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford.
Berry started last after hitting the wall in qualifying, then moved up into the top 10 by Lap 100. Then, a pit road speeding penalty pushed Berry from fourth back outside the top 20 with less than 100 laps to go.
On the final long green flag run, Berry drove from 17th to 6th to get a good result from an eventful weekend. If Berry and the Wood Brothers continue to be this good on 1.5-mile tracks, the No. 21 Ford will be a factor late into the season.
Keselowski’s nightmare season continued on Sunday despite a strong first couple stages. Keselowski passed Kyle Larson for second shortly after a restart after the final stage break, then closed to within a second of leader Chase Elliott before cutting a tire and slapping the outside wall.
Keselowski, who finished 37th, remains without a top-10 finish in 2025, with Sunday’s result the most teasing and disappointing of them all.
“We were playing to win, and we were in the right spot,” Keselowski said to FOX during his post-incident interview.
It was a short Sunday on the race track for AJ Allmendinger, who lost an engine on Lap 7 and finished 38th.
Sunday’s DNF was the second in a row for the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet and the third finish in a row outside the top 20. Allmendinger was vocally frustrated after the engine failure, knowing that the last-place run will further bury him in the playoff picture.
Two weeks ago, Allmendinger was in 14th in points and sitting in a wild-card spot. But he now is outside the top 20 in the points standings and faces a tall task in jumping back into wild-card contention. The summer road courses loom large for Allmendinger.
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