May 11, 2019 – Brad Keselowski captured his third win of the season in the Digital Ally 400 at Kansas Speedway. Keselowski got by Alex Bowman on Lap 261 and then had to hold him off in an overtime finish to score his 30th career NASCAR Cup Series win. Kevin Harvick started from the pole and was dominating the race until he had a tire issue in the final stage. He was only able to race back to a 13th-place finish
May 11, 2018 – Noah Gragson scored his first NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series victory of the season, beating his car owner, Kyle Busch, to the finish in the 37 Kind Days 250 at Kansas Speedway. Starting from the pole for the second straight race, Gragson led 128 of 167 laps, swept all the stages of the event and captured the second truck victory of his career.
May 11, 2013 – Matt Kenseth got by his teammate Kyle Busch with 13 laps to go and went on to win the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. The win came a few days after his team won an appeal, getting most if its penalties reduced or rescinded for an underweight connecting rod discovered after last month’s win at Kansas. Kenseth’s win Saturday also came shortly after his son, Ross, won a late model race at South Boston Speedway. Trailing Kenseth across the finish line was Hamlin, running his first full race since suffering a fractured vertebrae in a last-lap crash in March at Auto Club Speedway. Jeff Gordon, making his 700th consecutive start, finished third. Kenseth won without crew chief Jason Ratcliff, serving a one-race suspension – reduced from six points races in that appeal – for the Kansas penalty. Wally Brown served as Kenseth’s crew chief.
May 11, 2012 – Joey Logano outran his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin on a green-white-checkered finish to take the win in the NASCAR Xfinity (Nationwide) Series VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway. Logano followed his win the previous week at Talladega Superspeedway with his first career checkered flag at the historic South Carolina track. Logano made contact with leader Elliott Sadler on a restart with five laps-to-go sending the Richard Childress Racing driver into the wall and out of the race. Sadler came into the race five points out of the lead in the Nationwide Series point standings, but his championship hopes took a big hit with the accident. Hamlin led a race-high 103 laps, but was forced to settle for second after he lost a cylinder under the caution.
May 11, 2007 – Denny Hamlin made it a repeat performance at Darlington Raceway as he won the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 for the second consecutive season from the pole. Hamlin, who led five times for 79 laps, held off Mark Martin by 1.3 seconds for his third career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory. The race was slowed by 10 caution flags for 48 laps.
May 11, 2002 – Bobby Hamilton Jr. captured his first career NASCAR Xfinity (Busch) Series win in the Busch 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Hamilton Jr. charged from 17th place in the final 63 laps, taking the lead from Shane Hmiel with 14 circuits remaining and then pulled away to win over Todd Bodine by 2.5 seconds. During a caution period with 70 laps to go, Hamilton Jr. came in with the lead. He went back out on the track after a four-tire and fuel pit stop, but the lug nuts on his left-rear tire weren’t tightened, so he was forced to come back into the pits and lost a lot of track position.
May 11, 1991 – Chuck Bown scored his first won three wins of the NASCAR Xfinty (Busch) Series season in the Pontiac 200 at Nazareth Speedway. Bown led 137 of the 200 laps and took the checkered flag 9.9 seconds ahead of Steve Grissom.
May 11, 1986 – Atlanta Motor Speedway hosted the “The Winston” All-Star race featuring 10 drivers. Bill Elliott led 82 of 83 laps en route to taking home $240,000 when he defeated Dale Earnhardt by nearly three seconds.
Other winners on this date: 1996 – Mike Bliss (Evergreen Speedway); 1974 – Richard Petty (Nashville); 1968 – David Pearson (Darlington); 1963 – Joe Weatherly (Darlington); 1958 – Bob Welborn (Greensboro Fairgrounds)
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