Hard Feelings at Darlington as NASCAR’s Joey Logano Punts William Byron

• Joey Logano won his first Cup race Sunday since the Bristol Dirt race last year.

• For the second Darlington race in a row, Kyle Busch made an early exit.

• Willam Byron was leading coming to the final lap, but Logano had other ideas.
  

For much of Sunday afternoon’s Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway it seemed like everyone was racing under double-secret probation. At the legendary track notorious for bad behavior, beating and banging, and wreck after wreck, drivers were mostly on their best behavior.

Which made Kyle Busch’s highlight-reel exit and Joey Logano’s bump-and-run winning pass coming for the white flag all the more surprising.

NASCAR’s best ran 293 laps around the witchy 1.367-mile track that is among the circuit’s most unforgiving. There was an early “competition caution” and scheduled cautions to end Stages 1 and 2. Other than those, the caution waved only six times, including four times for single-car incidents. All in all, it wasn’t the most scintillating show among the track’s 122 features dating to 1950.

One of the six involved Busch and triggered another of his trademark emotional reactions to adversity. He was involved when Brad Keselowski blew a tire and pinned Busch against the wall at lap 168. When it became clear Busch’s car was too damaged to continue, he manhandled it to the main entrance to the garage, then abruptly shut it down, climbed out, and walked to his nearby hauler, leaving the car in an awkward spot.