By Matt Marr
Pole Sitter Michael McDowell brought Austin Cindric and the rest of the field to the green to start the Geico 500.
Kyle Larson had a pass-thru penalty as part of his punishment for pre-race inspection penalties.
Denny Hamlin spun coming onto pit road during green flag pit stops on lap 18.
Cindric won Stage One just beating Chase Elliott to the line.
Corey Lajoie spun coming off pit road during green flag pit stops on lap 104 but it stayed green.
Chris Buescher threaded the needle between Cindric and Joey Logano to take the lead.
Logano held off the rest of the field to win Stage Two.
The first caution for an accident involved both Christopher Bell and Justin Haley.
Another caution came out with 33 laps to go, the Toyota train got bottle-necked with John Hunter Nemechek shoving Bubba Wallace into Erik Jones and putting him in the wall and collecting Hamlin in the process.
McDowell led Brad Keselowski and Tyler Reddick in the final ten laps.
Coming through the tri-oval on the final lap Keselowski went high to pass, McDowell blocked. Keselowski dove down and McDowell tried blocking again but got turned causing The Big One. This allowed Reddick to fly by and steal the Geico 500 win.
Geico 500 Top 5:
1. Tyler Reddick
2. Brad Keselowski
3. Noah Gragson
4. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
5. Alex Bowman