{"id":11364,"date":"2025-07-15T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11364\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:06:07","slug":"ty-dillon-continues-in-season-challenge-run-advances-to-semifinal-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon continues In-Season Challenge run, advances to semifinal round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Dillon bumped Alex Bowman out of the way on the final corner of the final lap Sunday at Sonoma Raceway to continue his run in the In-Season Challenge and advance to the final four.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon, the last seed in the 32-driver field, is now two races away from winning $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a rough couple of laps there,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cAlex and I race really clean. I told him \u2013 man, if it wasn\u2019t for the million dollars, I probably wouldn\u2019t have done that, but I had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other three drivers left in the In-Season Challenge are John Hunter Nemechek, Tyler Reddick and Ty Gibbs.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon finished 17th to beat Bowman, who was 19th, to advance. Dillon has eliminated No. 1 seed Denny Hamlin, No. 17 seed Brad Keselowski and Bowman, the No. 8 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon will be paired against Nemechek next week at Dover Motor Speedway. Nemechek finished 28th to eliminate Legacy Motor Club teammate Erik Jones, who finished 29th. <\/p>\n<p>Nemechek, the No. 12 seed, has eliminated Josh Berry (No. 21 seed), Chase Elliott (No. 5 seed) and Jones (No. 20 seed).<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"History repeats: Shane van Gisbergen wins 3rd NASCAR Cup road course race in a row \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/history-repeats-shane-van-gisbergen-wins-3rd-nascar-cup-road-course-race-in-a-row\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"NASCAR Cup Series Toyota\/Save Mart 350\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752573967_115_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen ties mark set by Jeff Gordon for consecutive road course wins from the pole with Sonoma victory.<\/p>\n<p>Reddick finished sixth Sunday at Sonoma to eliminate Ryan Preece, who placed 12th. <\/p>\n<p>Reddick, the No. 23 seed, has eliminated Kyle Larson (No. 10 seed), Carson Hocevar (No. 26 seed) and Preece (No. 15 seed).<\/p>\n<p>Reddick will be matched against Ty Gibbs next week at Dover. <\/p>\n<p>Gibbs, the No. 6 seed, advanced by finishing seventh to Zane Smith\u2019s 27th-place result.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs has eliminated Justin Haley (No. 27 seed), AJ Allmendinger (No. 22 seed) and Smith (No. 14 seed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon bumped Alex Bowman out of the way on the final corner of the final lap Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-11364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}