In a race that was twice delayed by lightning, Chase Elliott defeated a group of Toyota drivers that established early supremacy.
After a late caution stopped Sunday's Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, Elliott stayed on the track and led the pack to a restart with four laps remaining.
Kurt Busch, who finished in second position, was passed by Elliott, who then used his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to win by a margin of 0.551 seconds.
Elliott earned his second NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season, his first at Nashville, and the 15th of his career.
At the 1.33-mile concrete track, Elliott defeated three Toyota drivers, pole-sitter Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., and Kyle Busch, who combined led 250 of the 300 laps.
Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that Josh Bilicki's Chevrolet blew an engine on lap 293 and the Toyota drivers pitted during the 10th and final caution.
Elliott and Kurt Busch remained on the road with eight other drivers as Kyle Busch, Truex, and Hamlin all stopped at pit road for new tyres.
Only Hamlin, who finished sixth overall behind Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, and Ryan Blaney, survived the last four laps.
Kyle Busch and Truex experienced heavy traffic on the last lap and placed 21st and 22nd, respectively, in the standings.
Hamlin led the first 41 laps and a race-high 114 laps when the race was delayed for one hour and 28 seconds by lightning.
On Lap 66, Truex passed Hamlin for the lead. He kept it through the end of Stage 1 despite the restart and two more flags.
Truex dominated the second stage as well, leading 82 laps on six separate occasions. Elliott's vehicle, though, picked up speed in the final portion of the race.
With nine laps remaining, Elliott led Kyle Busch by one second, Hamlin was in third, and Truex was in fourth when Bilicki's engine failure brought out the final caution.
I wanted to fling some fenders, but I didn't succeed in doing so, the driver of the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota said.
Everyone will be beaming, yet I let them down. I should have come up with a better plan of action.
During the second lightning delay, which also brought rain and necessitated track drying. It occurred on lap 139, only 11 laps shy of the halfway point.
Austin Cindric, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, and Kevin Harvick finished sixth through tenth, respectively. In the overall series standings, Elliott leads Chastain by 30 points.
On lap 50, just after the first delay, Alex Bowman's day came to an abrupt end. After making contact with Corey LaJoie, his No. 48 Ally Chevrolet spun into the Turn 2 SAFER barrier.
Although Bowman was able to continue driving after the collision, a flat right front tyre seriously damaged several body parts.
Bowman's litany of disappointing summer outcomes grew when the team was unable to finish the repairs before the damaged vehicle policy's six-minute time restriction expired.
On lap 61, during a collision with Ty Dillon, Chase Briscoe's No. 14 Ford veered off course as it approached Turn 1, both vehicles were able to continue.
This will be the second Cup race at Nashville, a 1.33-mile concrete oval in Lebanon, Tennessee.
After Kyle Larson won the first race in Nashville in 2021, Hendrick Motorsports went on to win every race there after that.