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A host of contenders found midrace trouble in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race after a multicar crash off Turn 4 at Michigan International Speedway.
Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet broke loose in the 116th of a scheduled 200 laps in Sunday’s FireKeepers Casino 400. His slide collected cars driven by Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Todd Gilliland and Chase Briscoe as the field scattered.
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Bell, Logano, Larson and Gilliland were sidelined by the crash and will finish 30th or worse in the 36-car field. The wreck also forced Stage 2 to finish under the yellow flag, and Kyle Busch was the stage winner.
The melee will potentially have a significant impact on the provisional Cup Series Playoffs elimination line, with Buescher and Wallace residing on the postseason bubble. After the Michigan race, just two regular-season events remain — Saturday night at Daytona and the following week at Darlington — before the 16-driver playoff grid is set.
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