Kyle Larson, the poster boy of Hendrick Motorsports’ resilience in the NASCAR Cup Series, has had to weather many a storm to win on various tracks. Be it the bumper-to-fender racing in the short tracks or the tire-burning smell of gravel on the road tracks,

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Owen Larson called it when he said his dad wouldn’t win the Daytona 500 because “he probably needs to try really hard because he’s not good at superspeedway racing.”

Kyle Larson is a generational talent, but when it comes to superspeedway racing the California driver has his challenges. Currently in his 13th season in NASCAR’s Cup Series, Larson has yet to secure a victory at Daytona or Talladega.

Superspeedways have never been Kyle Larson's cup of tea, but he drove one of the best speedway races of his life in Sunday's Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.