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After going through what he did in the last two weeks, Kyle Larson put up quite a display at Homestead. He not only won the race, but he did so in quite some fashion. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led 199 laps in total, sweeping all three stages.

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However, despite that, it wasn’t as if there was no blip or a black spot in his day.

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There was an incident.

During an attempt to pit on lap 245, Martin Truex Jr. got spun by Larson from behind following a spin.

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This led to a lot of criticism coming the #5 driver’s way a week after he himself was wrecked by Truex’s Toyota teammate, Bubba Wallace, who was then suspended for the race in Miami.

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Some fans felt that Larson, too now, deserved such a punishment.

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Martin Truex Jr. addressed being spun by Kyle Larson

Speaking on the incident after the race, Martin Truex Jr, who put up a big fight to actually win the race, reflected on the little mishap situation with Kyle Larson on the pit road.

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“I definitely slowed down with where I committed to my box,” Truex said. “I seen it late — you can’t see a damn thing down on the pit road here at sunset with everything on your windshield.”

Truex described he turned late, and tapped his brakes just after, but Larson “never lifted.”

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Despite that, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver said he isn’t blaming it on the #5 entirely. “I can’t blame it on him; it was half my fault too. I would have thought I’d got a little courtesy of a little tap of the brakes, I mean come on,” he described.

“It is what it is.”

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