The battle for victory sparked into life after Noah Gragson slammed the skin wall, forcing the sixth warning of the race, which noticed all of the lead-lap vehicles pit with Martin Truex Jr retaining the lead off pitroad.
With 55 laps to go, a number of vehicles began making what they hoped can be their closing pitstops, with Byron the primary frontrunner to take action. Race chief Truex adopted quickly after, pitting with 48 laps to go.
Berry, Michael McDowell and Todd Gilliland had been the one ones to decide to the no-stop technique to the end.
William Byron took the lead from team-mate Berry with 33 laps to go, however simply because the battle for the race lead began heating up, a warning flew for a spinning Tyler Reddick.
Following the chance to make a late pitstop, Larson led Berry out of the pits from Truex and Byron, however on the restart Christopher Bell pitched Byron right into a spin, whereas Truex struggled on scuffed tyres and tumbled down the order.
Whereas the Hendrick duo of Larson and Berry obtained away, Ross Chastain moved up into third, however no one might catch Larson who took victory by 1.5 seconds from team-mate Berry – who’s standing in for the injured Chase Elliott.
The victory is the 20th of Larson’s NASCAR Cup profession and his first of the 2023 season.
He turns into the sixth totally different winner within the first seven races, incomes the Hendrick squad its third win of the yr.
Race winner Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet Camaro
Photograph by: John Harrelson / NKP / Motorsport Images
“It is actually cool,” mentioned Larson. “We have been near successful a pair. William [Byron] has been extraordinarily good this yr. It was going to be between most likely him, the #19 [Truex], us, and the #20 [Bell] was actually good. So simply issues labored out.
“My pitcrew had an important cease. So shout out to Brandon Johnson. He’s our jackman. He simply turned 30 immediately. Our spotter, Tyler Monn, he turned 30 immediately. Nice day for them guys.”
Chastain held on to 3rd on the end forward of Bell and Kevin Harvick, with McDowell taking his greatest results of the season in sixth place.
Defending NASCAR champion Joey Logano obtained house in seventh in entrance of factors chief Alex Bowman, as Ty Gibbs and Brad Keselowski accomplished the highest 10 as Truex simply missed out in 11th.
Stage-one winner Byron was unable to get well from his late spin and got here house in 24th place.
NASCAR Cup Richmond – Race Outcomes (400 laps)
