William Byron is considered one of the future stars of NASCAR — but Denny Hamlin showed the youngster on the final lap of Saturday’s XFINITY Series race at Michigan International Speedway that Byron still has at least a little left to learn.
And on that decisive final lap in the Irish Hills 250, Hamlin became the teacher and took Byron to school to come away with the win.
Byron seemed in position for his first series triumph after two textbook restarts at the end of the race.
With Hamlin starting on the outside on the next-to-last restart with nine laps to go, with Brad Keselowski to his inside, Keselowski got a tremendous push from Byron.