Instead, he is 19th in points but has 10 more races - including the Chicago street course race, road course events at Watkins Glen and Indianapolis and the regular-season finale at Daytona - to score a win before the playoffs begin. Not saying that we would have - because (Truex) was the car to beat all day - but I felt like we had the second-best car.”Ī victory would have put McDowell in the playoffs. If we had rolled off pit road there second or third, we would have a shot to win the race.

“We had great stops all day, (but) the money stop just didn’t go how we needed it to go,” McDowell said after his seventh-place finish. With three cars not pitting, McDowell restarted 13th. McDowell was third when the caution waved on Lap 93 for Denny Hamlin’s accident. Truex led 51 of 110 laps and won by nearly three seconds.įor Michael McDowell, it was a slow pit stop that cost him seven spots and ended any chance of winning. scored his second Cup win of the season Sunday at Sonoma Raceway.Įven if everything went well for competitors, it still would have been difficult to beat Truex and his Joe Gibbs Racing team. Throughout pit road, the thought of what might have been was prevalent after Martin Truex Jr.

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