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Photo finishes appeared to be the theme of the racing weekend as more than 24 hours after Kentucky Derby fans saw one of the closest finishes in recent memory, NASCAR fans got to see something similar play out at Kansas Speedway on Sunday night.

Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin all came down the front stretch in hopes of picking up a huge Cup Series win. Larson and Buescher were bumping each other as they exited the final turn.

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Kyle Larson, #5, crosses the finish line milliseconds in front of Chris Buescher, #17, for the win during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, on Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)

Buescher kept his composure, and it looked like he was going to lock in and edge Larson. However, the No. 5 car somehow picked up enough speed to narrowly cross the line in front of the No. 17. Larson won the race by 0.001 seconds in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history.

“Had no clue if I won or not,” Larson said. “But honestly didn’t really care. I was like, ‘Man, that was frickin’ awesome.’”

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It was a bit tougher for Buescher’s team to accept. Scott Graves, his crew chief, asked to meet with NASCAR officials in their hauler. He was shown the photo-finish and accepted the outcome.

“I don’t know what to say right now,” Buescher said “I haven’t seen a replay other than just the picture, and I sure can’t see in that picture. That sucks to be that close.”

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Buescher joked on X that he needed to pull a Lightning McQueen to beat Larson.

Kyle Larson, center, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, on Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)

“Guess I should’ve pulled a Lightning McQueen and stuck out my tongue,” he said in reference to the movie “Cars.”

A late caution forced the mad dash to the finish. Leaders went to pit to make adjustments and Larson came out the victor in the end.

“I mean, I’ll always remember this, for sure,” Larson said. “There’s definitely wins that you can kind of get lost in the distance a little bit, but when you finish and have the closest finish in Cup Series history, I don’t think you’re ever going to forget about it, even if it gets broken someday. Great to be on this side of it.”

Pole-sitter Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, Noah Gragson and Michael McDowell rounded out the top 10.

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Larson has two wins on the season and is leading the driver standings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Denny Hamlin was the leader of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway going into overtime, but that ended up being the worst place to be.

Hamlin was put three-wide on the restart when Kyle Larson dove inside him and Chris Buescher. It quickly took Hamlin from the race lead to third place. On the white flag lap, Hamlin was in a battle for third with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. and Chase Elliott.

Again, Hamlin found himself in the wrong spot. Stuck in the middle of Truex and Elliott in Turns 1 and 2, Hamlin lost his momentum and faded to a fifth-place finish.

“Well, a difficult spot, right?” Hamlin said of the overtime restart. “I needed to get the push from the 5 (Kyle Larson), but I knew he wasn’t going to stay in line, that he was going to go for the win. Unfortunately, it left me in a spot where I was vulnerable there in the middle.”

Hamlin led a race-high 71 laps and won the first stage of the AdventHealth 400. It was a battle between him and Buescher for much of the final stage, with the two moving into the top two positions off a restart with 62 laps to go after having stayed out to inherit track position.

The two swapped the lead repeatedly. Buescher led with 59 laps to go before Hamlin took the spot back with 52 to go. Buescher was ahead with 39 left and Hamlin with 38 remaining.

The two were still running first and second with less than 30 laps to go. However, they were both trying to save fuel as well. Hamlin was leading when the final caution flew with seven laps to go, sending the field to pit road for the final time.

Hamlin kept the lead on pit road while taking two tires and restarted on the bottom of the front row for overtime.

“I’ll tell you, with 70 (laps) to go, it wasn’t looking really good,” Hamlin said. “We had some pit road miscues that set us back, but Chris (Gabehart, crew chief) and the guys did a great job coming up with a strategy there to pit and then jump the field back. We were right on task there with about (seven) to go; felt good about getting another one. It’s just one of those things.”

The first miscue on pit road came after the first stage when Hamlin had trouble getting out of his pit stall because of how he was parked and where Austin Hill was in the stall in front of him. At the end of the second stage, Hamlin had to slow down for Ryan Preece, who was still making his way toward his pit stall, and lost time.

Hamlin had a driver rating of 124.6 (second only to winner Larson). The statistic is a formula of win, finish, top-15 finish, average running position while on the lead lap, average speed under green, fastest lap, led most laps and lead lap finish.