The Round of 16 in this year’s NASCAR Cup Series playoffs kicked off Sunday with the Cook Out Southern 500 in Darlington, South Carolina.

It is the first race of a 10-week stretch of competition that ends in Arizona in November with just four drivers competing in the highly anticipated NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway.

Sixteen drivers participated in the Cookout Southern 500, an egg-shaped oval track made up of 367 laps. The field was made up of Chase Elliott, Joey Logano, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, Kyle Busch, Chase Briscoe, Daniel Suárez, Austin Cindric, Alex Bowman and Austin Dillon.

Here are the top moments from Darlington Raceway:

Setting the stage

Logano won the pole for Sunday’s race, followed by Bell, Byron, Reddick and Busch.

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