LAS VEGAS — By all accounts, Denny Hamlin’s third-place run in Sunday’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway should have been classified as a success. Hamlin did, taking on fresh tires during the race’s penultimate caution period and rocketing forward. It’s by far the best car I’ve had in Las Vegas in a long time,” Hamlin said. Hamlin noted that the three late-race restarts Sunday night were each slightly different, but all generated plenty of chaos that was difficult to navigate, at times. When my car is on the bottom, I’d be faster than everyone, but when the train got going up top and the draft got going, you couldn’t overcome it,” Hamlin noted.

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