{"id":37276,"date":"2025-07-25T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37276\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:51:10","slug":"in-race-for-1-million-at-indy-two-laps-at-texas-could-hold-the-key-for-ty-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37276\/","title":{"rendered":"In race for $1 million at Indy, two laps at Texas could hold the key for Ty Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Two laps at Texas could be worth $1 million Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Ty Dillon and Kaulig Racing.<\/p>\n

In an In-Season Challenge finale no one could have foreseen, Dillon \u2014the last seed in the 32-driver event \u2014 will race Ty Gibbs. Whoever finishes the best among those two will win the big paycheck.<\/p>\n

Dillon looks back to his overtime restart at Texas with setting him up for this magical run.<\/p>\n

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Ty Dillon\u2019s overtime charge netted a season-best finish and made the disappointment of recent races fade away.<\/p>\n

Dillon went from 18th to 12th in the final two laps at Texas in May for what was then his best finish of the season. He passed Gibbs, Zane Smith, Chris Buescher, Justin Haley and Riley Herbst before moving ahead of William Byron just before the finish line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing about me beating William to the line there, it\u2019s probably insignificant at the end of the day, it\u2019s one point different, that\u2019s it \u2026 but for me it was a check on my list,\u201d Dillon told NBC Sports in May. \u201cOK, I feel confident in making that move for when it is for something super important.\u201d<\/p>\n

That came two weeks ago at Sonoma and then last week at Dover as Dillon found ways to advance in the In-Season Challenge.<\/p>\n

Dillon was matched against Alex Bowman at Sonoma in the third round. On the final lap, Bowman was ahead of Dillon entering the final corner.<\/p>\n

For Dillon, that brought to mind his Texas finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Texas restart where we passed a lot of cars \u2026 built confidence,\u201d Dillon said this week in response to a question from NBC Sports. \u201cIt builds confidence that the next time you get in that situation, you feel like you can get it done again.<\/p>\n

\u201cSonoma was the first time where backs against the wall, last restart, couple of laps to go, here\u2019s one of those moments. And was able to capitalize on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Denny Hamlin has raced his entire Cup career with Joe Gibbs Racing and has a deal in place to keep them there through 2027.<\/p>\n

Dillon advanced when he moved Bowman up the track to get by.<\/p>\n

Dillon then faced John Hunter Nemechek in last weekend\u2019s semifinals at Dover. They raced each other late to be in the free pass position if there was a late caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, it looked even more grim from my position of I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re going to make it around here, but if I can just get one more restart, that\u2019s the only moment I need,\u201d Dillon said this week.<\/p>\n

On a restart eight laps from the scheduled distance, Dillon went to the bottom lane to go three-wide with Nemechek and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in Turn 1. Dillon cleared Stenhouse and then completed the move by Nemechek in Turn 3.<\/p>\n

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There are only three former winners in the field of the crown jewel event.<\/p>\n

A caution soon came out, keeping Dillon ahead of Nemechek. Dillon held off Nemechek on the next restart before the caution came back out, going him the free pass over Nemechek. Dillon would finish as the last car on the lead lap. Nemechek would finish one spot behind, the first car a lap down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moments have been happening and I have been able to step through, so the confidence is there,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cAll I can hope is that the moment comes up again and I feel, ultimately, supremely confident that myself and our team will walk through that door and be able to capitalize.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I\u2019m not really thinking about the magnitude of the situation (at Indy) \u2026 I think we\u2019ve already won as a team and as a driver making it this far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Two laps at Texas could be worth $1 million Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Ty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-37276","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\/37276","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=37276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}