Kyle Larson saved his #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet after making contact with teammate Chase Elliott at Iowa Speedway. His car got sideways after colliding with the #9 Chevrolet, but he managed to keep all four wheels on the track.The incident happened on the restart after the second stage, won by Brad Keselowski. The two HMS teammates were in the middle of the pack when they made contact. Based on the onboards, Larson seemingly turned late in turn one, while Elliott went down to the bottom early. The contact could have easily derailed Larson's progress, but he made an incredible save to get out of that situation unscathed.NASCAR posted the replay of the restart incident at the 0.875-mile Iowa oval on X. Take a look:“How did (Kyle Larson) save that?!” NASCAR wrote.This incident followed an earlier contact between the two HMS teammates in a restart before the end of the second stage. At the time, Kyle Larson was on the outside when Chase Elliott pushed him further into the wall, allowing a three-wide with AJ Allmendinger tucking himself in the inside.The 33-year-old Californian arrived at Iowa Speedway following a second-place finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last week. He failed to jump on Bubba Wallace in double OT, giving the 23XI Racing driver his first NASCAR Cup Series win in 100 races.Kyle Larson drives the #5 Chevrolet Camaro for Hendrick Motorsports - Source: ImagnBoth Larson and Elliott have qualified for the playoffs after scoring at least one race victory, with the former winning three. However, the #9 Chevy driver leads the standings without a single DNF and is 15 points clear of Larson. Winning the regular-season championship would add 15 extra playoff points.“That's wild”: Kyle Larson on NASCAR stat on short tracks amid Next-Gen eraKyle Larson responded to a NASCAR stat about pole sitters failing to win on short tracks since 2019. The #5 Hendrick Motorsports was surprised by the stat and admitted to not having a “great” answer apart from the field being closer amid the Next-Gen era.Larson, who last won a short track race at Bristol Motor Speedway from third this year, said in a pre-race interview at Iowa Speedway (via Cup Scene on YouTube):“I mean that's a surprising stat, so I'm not sure I have a great answer other than, you know, the field's just tighter now. So, there's more probably teams that have an opportunity to win if, you know, things go right and then, next gen races are a little bit more chaotic and stuff, but I would have thought that a pole sitter had won, you know, in that amount of time....So, I don't know. That's wild.” [0:55]Denny Hamlin won the 2019 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race - Source: ImagnDenny Hamlin was the last driver to win a short track race from pole position. The #11 Joe Gibbs Racing driver did so at Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol night race) in 2019.As for the 2025 Iowa Corn 350, Chase Briscoe is the pole sitter and started alongside William Byron in row one. Kyle Larson started in third after posting a 23.089-second lap time, 0.085 seconds behind the pole sitter.