NASCAR at Pocono 2020 Results: Denny Hamlin Secures 4th Win of Season

It took a bit longer than expected due to a rain and lightning delay, but Denny Hamlin emerged victorious at the Pocono 350 on Sunday.   

Hamlin held off Kevin Harvick for the win, beating him by three seconds. Erik Jones, Chase Elliott and Aric Almirola rounded out the top five. 

The race came down to pit strategy with Hamlin and his team getting the better of Harvick in those decisions after waiting until Lap 120, which helped build up a nice lead. 

"Hoping for no caution. I knew we had the car, and I just kind of maintained my gap right there," he said of the strategy on the FS1 broadcast. "Didn't want to make any mistakes like I did at Bristol and gave that win away. I just tried to work through the traffic the best I could."

Harvick, meanwhile, ended up getting caught in traffic after taking an earlier pit. He wasn't unhappy with his team's strategy, however, as he told Reid Spencer of NASCAR.com:

"[Hamlin] just did the opposite of what we did. We didn't want to get caught with a caution and then wound up losing a little bit too much time in lapped traffic with all the cars that hadn't pitted. He was out there running clean laps and waited till right to the very end [to pit] and wound up in front of us. I'm proud of everybody on our team. Yesterday, [strategy] won us the race, and today we finished second."

For Hamlin, it was his fourth win of the season, putting him one ahead off Harvick, who got the better of him Saturday at the Pocono Organic 325.

As for the rest of the race, Kurt Busch won the first stage, while Brad Keselowski took the second. There was also the normal array of dustups and wrecks.

Up next for the NASCAR Cup Series is the Big Machine Vodka 400 on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.