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Watch: Wild Highlights of the NASCAR Races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Published 07/07/2020, 1:16 PM EDT

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Last week, fans witnessed some crazy on track moments in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity races at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The weekend was full of wheel to wheel racing and some crazy incidents.

The video includes all the major events like the crashes from both the races, Briscoe’s first Indy win, Denny’s incident, and Harvick’s victory.

NASCAR posted a video of the major highlights of the race on Twitter. They wrote, One track. Two courses. Take a look back at a wild @IMS weekend in 32 seconds.”

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Watch: Kevin Harvick Climbs the Indianapolis Fences as Stewart-Haas Racing Leads the Cup Table

NASCAR Xfinity: Chase Briscoe’s win at the road course

The video features highlights from the Xfinity’s first outing of the newly formed IMS road course. Indiana local Chase won the race and had a very emotional celebration. He climbed the fences and kissed the bricks just like his racing hero and team owner Tony Stewart.

Cup Series: Denny Hamlin’s tire fiasco

After that, the video features the unfortunate incident which took the Brickyard victory away from Hamlin’s grasp. A tire failure ended his run with just a few laps to go. Before the incident, Denny was pushing hard to keep his lead and the high downforce track took a heavy toll on his tires.

He himself admitted in an interview with NASCAR’s website. He said that he was pushing the tires hard and it was a gamble which turned against him.

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Hamlin said, “It’s kind of roulette if you’re going to get one that will stay together or not and mine didn’t. You saw the end result.”

Additionally, Stewart-Haas racing had a memorable week as the team won both the Xfinity and Cup race with Briscoe and Harvick.

Both the drivers paid tribute to the legendary team owner Tony Stewart and climbed the fences of the prestigious track.

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Mrinal Kuniyal has been a contributor to EssentiallSports since early 2020 and has focused on Formula 1, NASCAR, and IndyCar. He's a management graduate and his areas of interest include motorsports, marketing, and music.
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