William Byron is looking for his first NASCAR Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday afternoon, but the competition will be fierce. Byron must beat Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, and Chase Briscoe to become the champion. So, why will the Hendrick Motorsports driver become the Cup Series champion?

After a dramatic victory in the Round of 8 elimination race last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, William Byron maintained a deliberately low profile on his trip to Phoenix Raceway for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race (Sun.

With a Championship 4 spot on the line, William Byron put the bumper to Ryan Blaney to win at Martinsville Speedway in the third-round finale of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

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Is the third time a charm for William Byron, who has been a finalist but fallen short in his quest for the Cup title the past two years?

William Byron’s 16th career NASCAR Cup Series victory might be his most impressive – and most important – of his eight-year career. Byron claimed at berth in the NASCAR Championship 4 with a victory in the season’s penultimate playoff race at ...

The good news for both is that aside from their previous victories in the desert (Larson's came in the 2021 Championship race), the duo have been solid throughout their careers at the 1-mile, dogleg oval. Larson is second (10.7) and Byron third (10.8) in terms of average finish among active drivers at Phoenix.

Unbelievable…I mean, these guys have just been building something special all year long. ” Jeff Gordon, Hendrick Motorsports vice-chairman and four-time Cup Series champion, said these words last week.

Byron made his move with 43 laps to go, moving Blaney off of the bottom groove in turn 1 to take the lead. But when a spin by Carson Hocevar brought out the caution with less than 20 laps to go, Byron and his crew had to execute both on their final pit stop and the final restart. They did so, earning the right to try and become a championship team.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Here are the winners and losers from Sunday’s Cup race at Martinsville Speedway, the next-to-last race of the season.

William Byron said his course through the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs could have simply taken one of two forks. One path would have been to dwell on the outcome of the last two weeks and the pair of dissimilar incidents that had carved out a cavernous 36-point deficit for him in the