Brad Keselowski scored his second career win in NASCAR‘s top division at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday (8/2) in the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301.

Racing on the track known as the “Magic Mile” is typically exciting to watch. This race had action from start to finish. There were 11 caution periods during the race. The first was for a crash by Kyle Busch that ended his race on lap 17. There were more on track incidents, a rain caution and cautions at the end of the first two stages. Denny Hamlin won stage one and Brad Keselowski won stage two.

These two drivers were among the seven drivers that would exchange the lead of the race 22 times. Brad was able to dominate the race as he led a race high 184 laps in the 301 lap race. He was able to hold off a hard charging Denny Hamlin on the final restart of the race and get out to a fairly comfortable lead. He held that lead for the final 81 laps of the race to claim his third win of the 2020 season.

Denny Hamlin finished second with Martin Truex Jr. in third place. Joey Logano claimed a fourth place finish and Kevin Harvick fifth. See the complete race results for the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 here.

Following the race at New Hampshire Kevin Harvick remains the leader in the point standings. Brad Keselowski is in second in point total. Denny Hamlin holds third place. Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott round out the top five respectively.

However, the Playoffs rankings is slightly different. Denny Hamlin is ranked first right now looking ahead to the Playoffs. Kevin Harvick is ranked second. Brad Keselowski is third followed by Joey Logano fourth and Chase Elliott fifth. See the complete NASCAR Cup Series point standings sorted by Playoffs ranks here (click on the points column at the top to sort by points).

The next stop for the NASCAR Cup Series drivers and teams is a doubleheader weekend at Michigan International Speedway for the FireKeepers Casino 400 Saturday, August 8th and the Consumers Energy 400 Sunday, August 9th.

By: Buck Stevens