{"id":27807,"date":"2016-06-06T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=27807"},"modified":"2016-06-06T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:26:55","slug":"larson-takes-win-in-rain-shortened-pocono-green-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/larson-takes-win-in-rain-shortened-pocono-green-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Larson Takes Win in Rain-Shortened Pocono Green 250"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"NASCAR<\/a>
Photos: NASCAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kyle Larson ran circles around the competition at the Tricky Triangle called Pocono Raceway to win in Saturday\u2019s debut of the NASCAR Xfinity series in the abbreviated Pocono Green 250, stopping three laps after the halfway point due to rain.<\/p>\n

Erik Jones was chasing Larson down approaching the magical lap of 100, and in the process of making his comeback found the sudden downpour as another disappointment to his season, where Larson played the odds to be out front when the rains came to get his first Xfinity win of the year and fourth of his career.<\/p>\n

“The rain was coming, and it was starting to sprinkle on my windshield,\u201d said a grinning Larson. \u00a0\u201cWe weren\u2019t quite to halfway yet, so I wasn\u2019t really saying much on the radio, but once we did get to halfway, it started coming down a lot harder. \u00a0We were going to be racing a lot harder in the next lap or half a lap maybe, so I\u2019m happy that it started down pouring when it did. \u00a0I had kept a gap on him (Jones) for about four laps when he was in second.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson was lucky, using track position on lap 33 during the third caution, taking left side tires to get him back out first.\u00a0 In addition, credit goes to his Chip Ganassi team meteorologist predicting the impending storm, timing it just right finding them in the top spot and on to the win.\u00a0 That was all he needed with Jones, Ty Dillon, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano in close proximity.\u00a0 Many times Larson had a challenge at the front with Dillon and later Jones, but playing his pit strategy to perfection was just what they needed to give\u00a0him just the right advantage over everyone else.<\/p>\n

Just as Larson was celebrating in victory lane, it was during the same red-flag period for the rain that fireworks flew back in the NASCAR Xfinity Garage Area between the crews of Ryan Reed and Ryan Sieg.\u00a0 Punches were thrown between the crews arguing over contact between the two drivers earlier in the race that took out Sieg on the Long Pond straightaway.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

Later, Reed blew a tire hitting the turn two wall on lap 38 colliding with Jeremy Clements.\u00a0 The Roush racer was having his car towed back to the garage to his team\u2019s trailer with Reed checking in from the infield medical center to meet back up with his crew.\u00a0 It was at that moment the awaiting Sieg crew, who was parked alongside of them, couldn\u2019t hold back their emotions any longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWent into Turn 1 and Ryan Reed \u2013 I should\u2019ve been a little smarter than I was,\u201d an upset and furious Sieg said. \u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t race around the kid. \u00a0He has a lot of money and he\u2019s got a Roush car but he can\u2019t drive it. \u00a0Just an idiot. \u00a0Everywhere he goes, it seems like he\u2019s always in a wreck.\u00a0 Money can’t buy skill, obviously with him.”<\/p>\n

Reed saw things differently.\u00a0 “Emotions run high, obviously,” he said. \u00a0“It\u2019s racing. \u00a0I look forward to talking about it in a calm, cool, collected manner and working it out. \u00a0Obviously, we race every week, and it\u2019s not going to do us any good to go out there and get into a battle royal.”<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what the penalty call of these incidents NASCAR officials will make on Tuesday.\u00a0 Xfinity practice starts on Friday at Michigan International Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Larson had luck on his side when rain ended the Pocono Green 250 early, making him the winner.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3424,3470,22],"tags":[2951,4419,1529,682,683,3176,4560,4561,3106],"class_list":["post-27807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-erik-jones","tag-jeremy-clements","tag-joey-logano","tag-kyle-busch","tag-kyle-larson","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-ryan-reed","tag-ryan-sieg","tag-ty-dillon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/featured1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}