See all the action from Sonoma with complete Toyota/Save Mart 350 video highlights

Check out everything that went down in wine country in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Sonoma Raceway.

Yes, it’s easy to joke about having to make right turns, but there’s a lot more going on whenever the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series visits a road course. In 2017, there’s the added wrinkle of stage racing for the first time, meaning it could be a memorable Toyota/Save Mart 350.

With cars that have been strong all season long like the No. 42 of Kyle Larson and the No. 78 of Martin Truex Jr., along with road course warriors like A.J. Allmendinger starting toward the front, there’s less certainty about what might happen than ever. The only thing that’s a definite is that the race should not be boring.

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The first caution of the day occurred during Stage 1 thanks to some contact between two drivers who really couldn’t afford a wreck while running in the top 10: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick.

Neither the 88 nor the 10 were knocked out of the race, but that was not ideal for two drivers who haven’t sniffed the top 10 too often in 2017.

Who took the green and white checkered flag at the end of Stage 1? Who else but Martin Truex Jr., as he added to his series-leading number of stage wins. He was able to pass A.J. Allmendinger with just a few laps left in the stage and easily take the 10 points and bonus playoff point.

Truex didn’t make a pit stop during the stage-ending caution, ensuring he also began Stage 2 in first place. A variety of different pit strategies were seen early on in the Toyota/Save Mart 350, which is exactly what was expected.

Not again! The second caution for on-track contact involved the 10 and 88 but also collected an innocent victim. An attempt to go three-wide didn’t work out, as Junior sent Patrick around. Unfortunately, it was Patrick’s boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. who took the worst of it.

The heavy front end damage to the 17 likely means the end of that car’s day on lap 31.

Denny Hamlin, who finished second to Tony Stewart in this race last year, made a move up to second place about halfway through Stage 2.

Unfortunately for the 11 team, a caution for debris in Turn 11 a short time later meant a pit stop for Hamlin while a bunch of cars stayed out. That sent him back out for a restart mired in mid-pack.

Can you believe that Jimmie Johnson had not won a stage before Sonoma despite three race wins? It’s true, but he managed to claim Stage 2 of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 without getting pressured too much as the laps wound down.

Johnson told Jeff Gordon and the Fox Sports team that he wasn’t sure exactly how the tire and pit strategies would all play out down the stretch, but you had to figure the seven-time Cup Series champion would be in good shape to contend for the win barring something crazy.

Most of the instances where drivers tried to go three-wide through the turns have ended badly, but this particular one wasn’t disastrous.

Larson, Kyle Busch and Kasey Kahne all held onto spots inside the top 10 with less than 50 laps to go.

Reports came in that Truex might be blowing up with less than 40 laps left, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

Truex quickly found himself in third after the engine scare. Brad Keselowski led after lap 80 but still had to make a pit stop before the end of the race. Unfortunately, Truex’s day would soon come to an end …

That’s just proof that you can lead the most laps at Sonoma and still see things not go your way.

One driver who did have things go his way was Kevin Harvick. Though Sonoma was one of the four current Cup Series tracks where Harvick had never won, he had very few worries once he got to the lead in the midst of an extended green flag run during the race’s final stage that lasted more than an hour.

Oh. and behind him, this was happening to Kasey Kahne behind the leaders. His hard hit pushed the wall back quite a bit where his No. 5 made contact.

Tough break for Kahne, especially with his future after this season rumored to be up in the air.

Harvick’s victory makes it 11 different winners (10 that count since Joey Logano’s win was encumbered) in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2017. It also locks him into the playoffs, though he was likely going to make it anyway with his standings in the points.

Earnhardt ended up with the top finish for any Chevy, coming home 6th for his third straight Sonoma top-10. He got a chance to sign off for his full-time racing career on Fox on a high note, which was nice to see.

Of course Earnhardt is headed somewhere he loves next week at the Coke Zero 500 at Daytona. The broadcasts also switch from Fox Sports to NBC Sports the rest of the way, which is always a notable part of any NASCAR season.