A week after Kyle Larson won the closest-ever NASCAR race at Kansas Speedway, the NASCAR circus rolled into South Cꦑarolina, and the Darlington Raceway, for the Goodyear 400.

Coming into this race Tyler Reddick🐓 grabbed pole position, and📖 Larson held the Championship lead.

After 249 laps♛ it was Brad Keselowski who won the Goodyear 400 and dominated Darlington. This was Keselowski’s first win of the season and first win in 110 races. This was also Ford’s first race wiღn of the 2024 season.

Reddick dominated the start of the race until the first pit stop when the #45 lost the lead of the race for the first time. With Reddick’s first pitstop of the race being one second slower than it should have been, it was Ty Gibbs who grabbed the lead anꦦd led his first ever laps at Darlington.

Gibbs ended up struggling with the lapped car traffic and this allowed Kyle Larson to get the jump on the youngster and grab the lead. At the end of Sta꧋ge One, it was Larson who won the stage, but Reddick regained the lead after the end of stage p🌃it stop.

The first caution of the race not for a stage end came on lap 121 as John Hunt♒er Nemechek blew his right front tyre on the front straight. From the restart of th𒆙e first caution, another caution came out after William Byron, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney, Larson and Bubba Wallace came together.

The thi🅺rd racing caution of the race came out as Zane Smith spun from 33rd place in the race o༒nly 23 laps before the end of the second stage.

For the start of the third and🧜 final st൲age, Reddick got the lead once again straight after winning the second stage moments before.

The fina🔯l caution of the race came late on in the race as seventh place Larson spun around after a rear left blowout. Keselowski had been leading the race, but this caution is not at a▨ll what he would have wanted.

Drama struck with 10 laps to go as Chris Buescher and Reddick crashed into one anothꦅer and they both had flats, but the race stayed green. Keselowski grabbed the lead with Gibbs now in second place.

Behind Keselowski was Gibbs and Josh Berry in second and third place. Then further back Denny Hamlin andಌ Chase Briscoe finished in fourth and fifth place.

Rounding ou🦄t the top ten this weekend were William Byron, Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley and Michael McDowell.

After 90 laps it was Larson who took victory in the opening stage of the race after gr🐟abbing the lead of the race just before the end of the stage to get 10 extra points.

Stage two saw a completely different story as Reddick took victory in the penultimate stage of the race gaining 10 extra꧟ Championship points. This stage was dominated by cautions and safety car periods slowing the pace of the race.