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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- We interrupt a season of Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota dominance on NASCAR Sprint Cup Series oval tracks to bring news of a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota win on the Watkins Glen International road course.?Denny Hamlin was the man in front when the checkered flag fell to end the Cheez-It 355, a race that nobody seemed to want to win.?It was a race that Hamlin didnt even think he would start. The 35-year-old Virginian woke Sunday morning with back spasms, barely able to move.?Despite enduring pain he described as the worst he had ever experienced during the course of a race, Hamlin maintained his poise while many others lost theirs.?The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Camry took the lead on a late restart and paced the last 10 laps to cross the line ahead of the Team Penske Fords of Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. Meanwhile the rest of the field self-destructed in their wake.?By NASCAR road racing standards, this was a strangely unsatisfying affair with a pair of red flags and a series of crashes in the second half of the race that eliminated the usual fuel-mileage-strategy tension.?There was sloppiness in the pits too, with 18 of the 40 drivers penalized for some kind of pit road infraction.?Eight drivers led laps during the 90-lap contest, and seven of them could legitimately say they had a shot at the win.?Martin Truex Jr. came closest, getting his Toyota to within a few feet of Hamlins similar car entering the last turn of the last lap. But Keselowski came in even hotter and spun Truex out and down to a seventh-place finish.?The biggest drama of the afternoon was whether there would be a postrace contretemps between Keselowski and Truex, who rammed and sideswiped Keselowkis car on the cool-down lap.?Keselowski quickly apologized to Truex for wrecking him, but by then, Hamlin was executing a quarter-mile long victory burnout down the pit straight.?It was Hamlins first Sprint Cup race win on a road course in 22 starts. More importantly, he felt vindication after blowing his chance to win on the Sonoma Raceway road course in June when he made a mistake on the last lap, allowing Tony Stewart to claim a surprise victory.?This time, Hamlin was error-free, left to ponder on how he managed to win a race he questioned whether he would be able to start.?Today I slept wrong or something, and woke up and knew I was in pretty big trouble, he said. If it was Friday or Saturday, no question, I wouldnt have turned one lap today. It was by far the worst conditions Ive ever had to drive in, over the knees or anything else. By far the worst pain-wise that Ive had to go through.?Hamlin who has driven with torn ACLs in both knees in the past, texted his crew chief Mike Wheeler the news, and an emergency plan was put in place to put Xfinity Series Chase grid leader Erik Jones in the No. 11 FedEx car if necessary.?Thats not something you really want to hear, said Wheeler, describing the wake-up text. You could tell he was in pain in the drivers meeting and there was nothing that could be done today to fix it.?At the end of the day, I know he mans up when he needs to, Wheeler continued. He definitely gets that attitude going in the car when he knows he has a winning car and can run out front. He knows the situation he was in, youve got to tough it out, and he did.Hamlin qualified sixth and prior to suffering the back spasms, was confident about his race prospects. He said the Gibbs team made changes since Sonoma that improved his feel for the car under braking.?That came in handy on a restart with 10 laps to go. Kyle Busch raced Keselowski so hard into Turn 1 that they both missed the corner, allowing Hamlin to dart through into a lead he would not relinquish.?Truex was in position to challenge for the win or complete a 1-2 finish for Toyota until Keselowski took him out on the last lap.?I saw them shoot forward and lunge into the corner and I knew there was no possible way to get out with any sensible speed, Hamlin said. It was my opportunity when they slid up the race track, and we executed and came through.?Hamlin said that his biggest disappointment in his narrow miss at Sonoma was not completing the cycle of victories on all types of tracks that NASCAR races on. The win Sunday at Watkins Glen ticked that box.?It wasnt a fluke -- thats the biggest thing, Hamlin said. Sometimes guys run up front at a road course and youre like Where did that come from? because it happens once.?But I really think weve turned the corner with all of our Toyota teams, he continued. When you have multiple cars with speed like we do, when one makes a mistake, theres another one there to pick up the pieces. We were there to pick up the pieces today.?What make it feel extra special is when it was game time, when it was go time, we got it done. Yohan Cabaye France Jersey . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. Adil Rami Jersey . They hope to persuade the other team owners and commissioner Roger Goodell to put pressure on Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to drop the nickname they find offensive. 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But he said he did nothing improper when he sold those shares over the next two days.​Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew was happy to have secured his first point of the new year in their 1-1 draw with Swansea. Scott Dann cancelled out Gylfi Sigurdssons free-kick opener as the Eagles ended a run of five straight Premier League defeats.It felt good, we knew we had to get something as we couldnt go another game under the pressure (of losing again) so it was a very important result for us, Pardew told Sky Sports. It was a tough game, there was a lot of energy and commitment from both teams but we just did enough. The start of the second half was our best period and that changed the game a little bit. We knew we needed to get off that 31 points because it was really starting to strangle us! Scott Dann said Palace had to dig in to secure a point in their 1-1 draw against Swansea Pardew also reserved special praise for Emmanuel Adebayor, who made his first start for the club at the Liberty Stadium.He had a couple of moments that were top drawer, said Pardew. He was good and you can see he wiill add something to us.ddddddddddddBut we need more players back, next week I get Connor Wickham and Gayley (Dwight Gayle) back and that will make a big difference to us because we look like we still need a bit more going forward at this level. Crystal Palace forward Emmanuel Adebayor says he is happy to be playing regular football again Palaces goalscorer Dann, meanwhile, said that his side had to dig in to secure the point.It was important, especially with the run weve been on of late to stop that run - and we did that, the defender told Sky Sports.We had to dig in at times, but second half we came out and made more of a game of it, got the goal and nearly nicked a second. We started the season really well, but now weve had a not so good run it was about making sure we didnt lose. Also See: Dann nets as Palace hold Swansea Swansea 1-1 Palace recap Palace stats Get a free ￡10 bet ' ' '