Team Penske’s Austin Cindric finally reached Victory Lane on Sunday at the Talladega Superspeedway after several misses this season. Drafting skills need to be on point to win on such tracks, and they were for him.

LINCOLN, Ala. -- In yet another close finish at a track notorious for them, Austin Cindric edged out Ryan Preece in a photo finish to win the Jack Link's 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 champion and one of the best superspeedway racers in NASCAR, earned his first Talladega win and the third win of his Cup career.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Cindric and Preece were able to hold off several Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets behind them, not leaving either William Byron or Kyle Larson any room to draft around them in the final laps.