Richmond Recap

Welcome back to Captain Josh's Pit Stop. Today we recap the action from "the action track" itself Richmond. The Xfinity Series ran Saturday with Kyle Larson winning the race and Justin Allgiaer winning the dash-for-cash. Also the top headline coming into the weekend was the announcement of Dale Jr's retirement after the 2017 season. There will be a blog on that coming up. One more note to mention was Vallterri Bottas won his first career Formula One race at Russia on Sunday with Sebastian Vettel finishing 2nd. Vettel is the current points leader. Now to the Cup race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The Toyota Owners 400 ran on Sunday with Matt Kenseth winning his first pole of the season. Ryan Blaney was once again alongside on the front row. The first and second stages consisted of 100 laps with the third stage making up the final 200 laps, and that would make up the 400 lap race. And Dale Jr would start his first race since announcing his retirement from 12th. Photos courtesy of Google images.

The action would start early as Erik Jones made contact with Kasey Kahne and cut a tire into turn 3. The incident occurred in stage 1 on lap 6. Jones was out of the race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The action continued as Ricky Stenhouse Jr would hit the wall going into turn 3 in stage 1 with 35 to go. He would rebound however to a top 5 finish. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Matt Kenseth won stage 1 after leading the whole stage. There would be no cautions in stage 2 and Brad Keselowski took the second stage. Photos courtesy of Google images and Fox Sports.

Dale Jr's bad luck would continue, as he made contact with his teammate Jimmie Johnson off of turn 2, and then cut a tire going into turn 3 as a result. The caution came out in stage 3 with 56 to go. Then Dale Jr's day came to an end with 44 to go when he cut another tire from the damage he suffered and spun into the wall. Photo courtesy of Google images.

During the caution for Dale Jr's spin, Clint Bowyer and Ty Dillon got together going into the pits for caution flag stops. Both continued on.

Matt Kenseth would have his luck run out as he made contact with Chase Elliott on the restart. He would soldier on. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The theme of cut tires came to an end with Ryan Blaney being the last victim. He made contact with Kurt Busch in turn 3 with 24 to go in stage 3. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Joey Logano went on to win his first race of the year. He would continue his rivalry with Kyle Busch however when he would hold up Busch going into the pits with a late decision to pit. Busch was unhappy for sure. That's all for now. Next up, Talladega. Join me next week to recap the Cup race from Earnhardt country. Goodnight everyone. Also coming up is a blog updating Dale Jr's retirement. Stay tuned. Photos courtesy of Google images.