Treyten Lapcevich captured the checkered flag in Saturday night's South Carolina 400 while making some history in a night filled with competitiveness, emotions and nostalgia.
📸 Joshua White | The Podium Finish
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As for Treyten Lapcevich, he's a good kid with his head on his shoulders and he drives with such confidence and patience. He's going to go places.
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Give James Pike a lot of props tonight. He started off reporting from pit road. With unforeseen circumstances, he got to do the play-by-play to finish off the telecast and he did a great job.
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Yes, indeed! Treyten Lapcevich wins the 32nd South Carolina 400. Incredible win for Lapcevich and his No. 77 team! He dominated this race.
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Lapcevich dominates the #SouthCarolina400.
One lap to go! Can Treyten Lapcevich hang on for the victory?
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Treyten Lapcevich's off to a good lead following that most recent restart, enjoying a 0.7 second lead over Doug Barnes with 27 laps to go.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. clambers out of his No. 8 car and removes his helmet. It appears his race is over. Tough break after that incredible charge from the rear of the field to second tonight.
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According to Matt Weaver on the other website, Jr's engine has gone bad. the wonderful story has come to a tragic end.
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The hood is up on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 8 car.
Earnhardt remains on pit road with 31 laps to go as Treyten Lapcevich leads the way on this restart.
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Jr just had to pit for fuel but now the hood is up, I think something has gone wrong with the car. #SouthCarolina400
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is on pit road with 31 laps to go for fuel.
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Caution is out once more inside 31 laps to go.
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Treyten Lapcevich and Dale Earnhardt Jr. lead the field on this restart with 38 laps to go. Better restart by Earnhardt but Lapcevich pulls away.
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James Pike is doing a heckuva job tonight as a pit reporter AND now impromptu play-by-play announcer. Great job.
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I think they've lost the audio from the tower the pit reporter is doing commentary now.
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Back to green flag racing with 54 laps to go with Treyten Lapcevich and Dale Earnhardt Jr. leading the way!
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Caution on Lap 195 for an incident off Turn 2 for Alex Meggs.
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Flo's back!
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is starting to chip away at Treyten Lapcevich's lead. He's within 0.7 seconds with 64 laps to go.
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And picture is gone again...but now we have audio.
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Live timing is back at least. Treyten Lapcevich, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Doug Barnes, Riley Gentry, Brent Crews, Sam Yarbrough, Jacob Heafner, Brenden Queen, Kade Brown and Darren Krantz Jr. are your top 10 with 88 laps to go.
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FloRacing has picture again (finally) but no commentary. Lapcevich has opened up the gap on Jr to about a second.
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According to my on track source, Treyten Lapcevich is still leading with Dale Earnhardt Jr. in second. Carson Loftin is hovering inside the top 12.
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To recap: Jr is 2nd in the race, FloRacing stream has completely broken so unless you're watching via Matt Weaver's stream at the other place, we have nothing.
I hope to God Jr. doesn't win this thing. FloSports will get burned down if people miss it.
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FloRacing stream is down once more. Safe to say green flag racing's resumed.
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Apparently the race has restarted and FloRacing is just running the resume shortly screen. I'm tapping out and going to bed. What a disaster.
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FloRacing just took the stream down to hopefully work on it before we go racing again.
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Caution is out just at the halfway distance. Treyten Lapcevich leads the way with Dale Earnhardt Jr. in second. Both drivers have worked their way up the leaderboard.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. has taken the second position from Josh Berry in the closing laps of this first run. Incredible.
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