Final eight Chasers determined after wild Talladega race

Sunday’s Hellmann’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway – the knockout event in the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup – had all the ingredients to be a wild, nerve-wracking race, and once the checkered flag flew, we all ended up experiencing a nail-biting main course.

Start of Sunday’s race. Photo by NASCAR/via Getty Images.Forty cars took the green flag for Sunday’s 500-mile event, all forty of them focused on capturing the checkered flag. Ten of them were focused on something else as well though – advancing to the third round of the Chase. Austin Dillon, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, and Chase Elliott were the four drivers outside of the cut-off mark heading into Sunday, but over…