{"id":84609,"date":"2025-11-22T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kyle-larson-two-time-nascar-champion-snapped-title-from-denny-hamlin-in-epic-final\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:32:29","slug":"kyle-larson-two-time-nascar-champion-snapped-title-from-denny-hamlin-in-epic-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/kyle-larson-two-time-nascar-champion-snapped-title-from-denny-hamlin-in-epic-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson, Two-time NASCAR Champion: Snapped Title from Denny Hamlin in Epic Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Larson Crowned NASCAR Champion in a Dramatic Final<\/h2>\n\nIn a race filled with emotions and unexpected twists, Kyle Larson claimed his second NASCAR championship, leaving Denny Hamlin heartbroken at the Phoenix Raceway.\n\nLarson, aware that he couldn’t catch Hamlin in the final laps without a yellow flag, received the help he needed when William Byron, another title contender, suffered a puncture that caused a crucial caution with only three laps to go.\n\n\n

“Simply incredible. I can’t believe it,” Larson declared.<\/p>Kyle Larson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Kyle
Kyle Larson celebra con sus hijos tras ganar el campeonato de la NASCAR Cup Series 2025. Es el segundo campeonato de Larson, quien gan\u00f3 su primer t\u00edtulo en 2021 cuando se uni\u00f3 a Hendrick Motorsports.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe yellow flag changed the course of the race, as Hamlin was leading and opted to change all four tires, while Larson only changed two. This put Larson in fifth place for the restart, while Hamlin fell back to tenth position.\n\nWith little time to recover, Hamlin finished in sixth place, while Larson secured third place, enough to win the championship.\n\nRyan Blaney, who was not in contention for the title, won the race.\n\n\n

\u201cYou have to feel empathy for Denny. He did a great job all day and it didn’t go his way. But that’s racing. Sometimes it’s tough,\u201d Blaney commented.<\/p>Ryan Blaney<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFor Larson, this is his second championship, after winning the first in 2021.\n\nWhile Larson celebrated, Hamlin remained motionless in his car for several seconds, visibly affected.\n\nLarson, who has had an irregular performance since his failed attempt on Memorial Day, was also surprised.\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t lead a lap and we won the championship,\u201d Larson said. \u201cWe had an average car at best and the right front tire blew, we lost a lap and got saved by the yellow. It\u2019s just unbelievable. What a year for this race team!\u201d<\/p>Kyle Larson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHamlin, visibly disappointed, admitted that there was nothing more he could have done.\n\n\n

\u201cNothing I could do differently. I prepared the best I could for the weekend and my team gave me a fantastic car,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t work out. I was praying there wouldn\u2019t be a yellow flag and we had one. What can you do? It just wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u201d<\/p>Denny Hamlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Denny
Es el sexto intento fallido de Hamlin por un campeonato de NASCAR en sus 20 a\u00f1os compitiendo para Joe Gibbs Racing. Lider\u00f3 208 de las 319 vueltas y parti\u00f3 desde la pole. \u201cNada que pudiera hacer diferente\u201d, dijo Hamlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThis is the sixth time Hamlin has seen a title slip away in his 20-year career.\n\nHamlin’s teammate, Chase Briscoe, finished 18th, while Byron, Larson’s teammate, finished 33rd after his late issue. Byron lamented having ruined Hamlin’s opportunity.\n\n\n

\u201cI’m very disappointed that there was a yellow flag obviously. I hate that. I hate it for Denny. I hate it for the 11 team,\u201d Byron said. \u201cI mean, Denny was on his way. I hate that. There’s a lot of respect there. Obviously I don’t want to cause a yellow flag. If I had known which tire it was, if I had known a tire was going flat before I got to the corner, I would have done something different.\u201d<\/p>William Byron<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Larson Crowned NASCAR Champion in a Dramatic Final In a race filled with emotions and unexpected twists, Kyle Larson claimed his second NASCAR championship, leaving Denny Hamlin heartbroken at the Phoenix Raceway. Larson, aware that he couldn’t catch Hamlin in the final laps without a yellow flag, received the help he needed when William […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[514,180,447,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-84609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-championship","9":"tag-denny-hamlin","10":"tag-kyle-larson","11":"tag-nascar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84609","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=84609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}