NASCAR at Iowa outcomes: William Byron saves sufficient gas to select up his second win of the 2025 season

After a tense run to the end wherein he wanted to each maintain Chase Briscoe at bay and save gas to make sure he’d make it to the checkered flag, William Byron managed to seek out each the tempo and gasoline he wanted to win the Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway for his second win of the 2025 season. Byron’s win is his first since he earned back-to-back Daytona 500 wins in February, and it’s also the fifteenth of his Cup profession.

So as to make it to the end after final pitting at lap 206 of 350, Byron needed to go greater than 140 laps on a tank of gas based mostly on his pit technique, and he needed to do it just one week after working out of gas on the ultimate lap of the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. Byron was significantly aided by a rash of mid-race cautions — the yellow flag flew 12 occasions in complete, which tied Texas in Could for probably the most cautions in any Cup race this season — however nonetheless needed to save a substantial quantity of gas with the intention to get to the end line.

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After catching lapped site visitors the way in which he wanted to within the remaining laps, Byron was capable of again off and run part-throttle sufficient to preserve what was in his gas cell, which ended up being sufficient to carry off Briscoe, Brad Keselowski and a hard-charging Ryan Blaney by a snug 1.192 seconds.

“How about that for some gas mileage?” Byron requested NBC Sports activities. “We have had our fair proportion of issues not go our approach with gas mileage, and simply tremendous grateful for [crew chief Rudy Fugle], all these guys, all of the engineers, all of the engineers again on the store, and simply this complete race group. We have been via so much this yr, it has been a whole lot of rising pains, it has been powerful on us. But it surely feels actually good immediately to get a win.

“Actually, it felt like we had a very good automotive and simply form of raced it and tried to be there on the finish, and we have been. And by chance, the gas was sufficient there on the finish.”

Byron’s win additionally offers him the sting within the battle for the common season championship, as he has now assumed the highest spot within the standings with simply three races to go within the common season. Byron now has an 18-point lead over Chase Elliott in what has turn out to be a good battle for the common season title and the numerous playoff factors bonus that comes with it: The highest 4 within the common season standings at the moment are separated by simply 51 factors, with Kyle Larson (-45) and Denny Hamlin (-51) nonetheless very a lot within the dialog.

Ryan Preece would spherical out the highest 5 behind Briscoe, Keselowski and Blaney, which made for a substantial improvement within the battle for the ultimate obtainable spot within the NASCAR playoffs. After getting into Sunday 42 factors behind RFK Racing teammate Chris Buescher for the ultimate playoff spot, Preece is now simply 23 factors under the playoff line, slicing his deficit almost in half because of his third high 5 of the season and a twenty second place end for Buescher.

Brickyard 400 champion Bubba Wallace completed sixth after going from laps down with toe hyperlink harm to ripping all the way in which from thirty second via the sphere on the ultimate run. Alex Bowman, Carson Hocevar, Joey Logano and Austin Dillon rounded out the highest 10.

Iowa Corn 350 outcomes

1. #24 – William Byron
2. #19 – Chase Briscoe
3. #6 – Brad Keselowski
4. #12 – Ryan Blaney
5. #60 – Ryan Preece
6. #23 – Bubba Wallace
7. #48 – Alex Bowman
8. #77 – Carson Hocevar
9. #22 – Joey Logano
10. #3 – Austin Dillon
11. #1 – Ross Chastain
12. #2 – Austin Cindric
13. #21 – Josh Berry
14. #9 – Chase Elliott
15. #42 – John Hunter Nemechek
16. #43 – Erik Jones
17. #20 – Christopher Bell
18. #16 – A.J. Allmendinger
19. #45 – Tyler Reddick
20. #8 – Kyle Busch
21. #54 – Ty Gibbs
22. #17 – Chris Buescher
23. #7 – Justin Haley
24. #11 – Denny Hamlin
25. #99 – Daniel Suarez
26. #41 – Cole Custer
27. #71 – Michael McDowell
28. #5 – Kyle Larson
29. #4 – Noah Gragson
30. #35 – Riley Herbst (R)
31. #88 – Shane van Gisbergen (R)
32. #51 – Cody Ware
33. #47 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
34. #34 – Todd Gilliland
35. #10 – Ty Dillon
36. #38 – Zane Smith
37. #66 – Joey Gase