Denny Hamlin gained the lead on pit road preparing for a green-white-checker finish and held off Joey Logano to win for the fifth time in his career at Richmond.

After a drama-filled finish in Richmond, more short track racing is on the menu this weekend when the series heads to Martinsville.

Hamlin’s victory was his second of the season and pulled Joe Gibbs Racing even with Hendrick Motorsports with three wins each through seven races. It also was the 53rd of Hamlin’s career, 13th all-time. 

Hamlin led twice for just 17 laps while teammate Martin Truex Jr. led for 228 but finished fourth after a caution forced overtime. 

Joey Logano was second, followed by Larson. Chase Elliott finished fifth. 

Truex is the only driver to have finished on the lead lap in every race and remained the points leader by 14 over Larson and 18 over Hamlin. The caution that forced overtime was just the fifth in the race.

Larson won after starting 19th last spring. Practice and qualifying time is 3:30 pm Saturday afternoon. Race time is 2 pm on Sunday.

Chandler Smith took the lead with 59 laps to go and won the Xfinity spring race at Richmond for the second year in a row. The series joins the Cup series in Martinsville this weekend.

Smith led a 1-2-3 finish for Joe Gibbs Racing — Aric Almirola won the first two stages and finished second and Taylor Gray was third — and a 1-2-3-4 finish for Toyota, just the second in the manufacturer’s history in the series. 

The victory was the third of Smith’s career in the series and second this year. Austin Hill finished eighth, ending his streak of finishing in the top five in every race this year. He also lost the points lead, falling 10 behind Chandler Smith.

Practice and qualifying is this afternoon at 4 pm. Race time is 6:30 pm on Saturday.

Heim won in overtime at the Circuit of the Americas, his first victory this year and the sixth of his career as the Craftsman Truck Series gets back to action after a three-week break this weekend in Martinsville.

Practice and qualifying is this afternoon at 2 pm with race tiem at 6:30 pm.