{"id":80366,"date":"2025-11-17T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/byron-and-larson-to-the-nascar-final-the-last-qualifiers-for-the-title\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:30:50","slug":"byron-and-larson-to-the-nascar-final-the-last-qualifiers-for-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/byron-and-larson-to-the-nascar-final-the-last-qualifiers-for-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron and Larson to the NASCAR final: The last qualifiers for the title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>William Byron Wins at Martinsville and Secures a Spot in the Championship 4<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting race at Martinsville Speedway, William Byron secured a crucial victory that guaranteed him a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4.\n\nByron, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet, showcased his skill on the track by overtaking Ryan Blaney in a decisive maneuver in turn 1 with 43 laps remaining.\n\nThe Hendrick Motorsports driver led most of the race, with 304 of 500 laps, earning his third win of the season. This victory also marks his first triumph in a playoff elimination race and his third at Martinsville.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I feel incredible. We&#8217;ve worked really hard and we give it our all on Sundays. Sometimes you don&#8217;t get anything in return. But sometimes life is like that. You have to be resilient. We were. It feels really good,&#8221; commented Byron after the race.<\/p><cite>William Byron<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBlaney, who also needed the win to advance, finished second after an intense battle on the track.\n\nKyle Larson, Byron&#8217;s teammate, secured the final spot for the championship with a fourth-place finish, surpassing Christopher Bell by seven points.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1026%2Fr1566436_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"William Byron celebra su victoria en Martinsville\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>William Byron led the final 43 laps to win at Martinsville Speedway, securing the third spot in the Championship 4. The final contender for the NASCAR Cup title will be Kyle Larson, who advanced on points and will join Byron, Denny Hamlin, and Ryan Briscoe.<\/em>\n\nDenny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe also secured a spot in the final round, despite suffering mechanical issues during the race.\n\nThe race for the championship will be decided at Phoenix Raceway, where the four drivers will compete for the title.\n\nHamlin, who started the third round with a victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, was affected by an engine problem that forced him to retire. Briscoe also suffered a mechanical failure, but had already secured his place in the Championship 4.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Byron Wins at Martinsville and Secures a Spot in the Championship 4 In an exciting race at Martinsville Speedway, William Byron secured a crucial victory that guaranteed him a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4. Byron, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet, showcased his skill on the track by overtaking Ryan Blaney in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10165,10166,182,3269],"class_list":{"0":"post-80366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-championship-4","9":"tag-martinsville-speedway","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-william-byron"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}