Denny Hamlin passes Kevin Harvick with 61st NASCAR Cup Series win at Las Vegas

Despite some sort of team error causing the Joe Gibbs Racing cars to repeatedly speed on pit lane and get sent to the back, Denny Hamlin charged back through the field to win his first race of the season in Las Vegas. This win put him ahead of Kevin Harvick on the all-time list, and his family was there to celebrate with him after the extremely difficult year they had last year both on and off the track.

Another storyline emerged in Vegas to watch this year: Tensions between former teammates Ross Chastain and Daniel Suárez have boiled over into a face-to-face confrontation. Their on-track encounters were not terribly severe, so whatever came up clearly goes back in their history.