Nowadays, it seems that car ownership is as easy as it can be. Car reliability is at an all-time high, and most drivers tend to take this for granted. Whatever the weather, cars are always expected to start easily and perform properly any day of the year.
In what looked liked it was going to be all Max Verstappen going for his second win of the season, Lewis Hamilton passed the Red Bull Racing driver for the race win with three laps to go in Turn 1. Hamilton pitted on Lap 49 for fresh tires and made up a 20-second deficit to score his seventh Hungarian Grand Prix win.
With a strong showing in every category throughout the two-day Go Bowling at The Glen Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race (MENCS), Chase Elliott capped the weekend in his No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Camaro ZL1 by capturing his second victory of the 2019 season.
Started first, finished first is the name of the game for NASCAR's most popular driver, as Chase Elliott completely dominated to win his fifth Cup Series career victory and his second consecutive win at The Glen.
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS CAMARO ZL1 – Winner THE PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME, NOT ONLY GETTING THE POLE, LEADING 80 OUT OF THOSE 90 LAPS, CHASE ELLIOTT, YOU HAVE WON AT WATKINS GLEN AGAIN. “Very wild. Thank you, guys. That was frigging awesome. I've never been so far from home and felt like I was at my house, so thank you. Y'all are awesome.
Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. (second) was the highest-finishing Camry driver in Sunday afternoon’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Watkins Glen International.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Autotrader Ford Mustang – “We were a fifth to tenth-place kind of car all weekend and ended up ninth. I thought we could have been a little bit better at the end if I would have done a few things different, but nowhere near the speed we needed to run with the Gibbs cars or the 9 car, so we made the most of the weekend with what we had.” HOW FAR OFF FROM THE GIBBS CARS DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? “Here they were probably about a good half-second faster. That’s a lot of speed.”
In what was a whirlwind kind of day for Tyler Reddick and his No. 2 Anderson's Maple Syrup crew, Reddick was able to rebound to a top-five finish at The Glen.