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The end of the Cook Out 400 featured some serious drama after a late caution led to overtime. Then Austin Dillon cleared out Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin in the final lap to take the win. Dillon had to get into Logano’s back bumper to spin him around or he wouldn’t have cleared him, so he did. “Whatever it takes,” Dillon said on the USA broadcast after a win that came out of the blue and clinched a playoff spot for him. That echoed what his crew had told him on the team radio just before the crash that determined the winner. According to The Athletic’s Jeff Gluck, Dillon’s team had a poignant …

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