Ryan Blaney won a two-lap overtime shootout to take the final NASCAR checkers Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, and Kyle Larson held off Denny Hamlin to score the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Championship in Avondale, Ariz.

With Hamlin leading by nearly three seconds and seemingly headed to his first Cup title, the ninth caution waved with only three laps left when title chaser William Byron wrecked.

Most of the field pitted, and Larson's No. 5 team took two tires while Hamlin's No. 11 group chose four, putting Larson four spots ahead in the two-lap dash.

Larson started in the high groove and managed to move up to win his second championship after capturing the 2021 trophy as Hamlin could not catch up in the bottom lane.

Blaney won for the fourth time this year by 0.097 seconds as Brad Keselowski,

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