LONG POND – Kyle Larson was well on his way to extending a run of dominant performances.

A last-lap, last-turn flat tire prevented that from happening.

While Larson didn't continue his stretch of individual success Saturday at Pocono Raceway, teammate Alex Bowman carried on what has been a what a historic streak for Hendrick Motorsports.

As Larson sailed his No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet into the final turn with the checkered flag in sight, a tire failure sent Larson into the outside wall and out of the lead.

Bowman blew past, picking up his third win of the season in the Pocono Organics CBD 325, tying the team's NASCAR Cup Series Modern Era (1972-Present) consecutive wins record of six straight points victories by the organization set back in 2007.

The current streak start with a win by Bowman at Dover in mid-May.

But it has been highlighted by Larson's run of three-straight points race victories and a triumph in NASCAR's All-Star Race.

Larson got by Bowman for the lead with four laps to go after moving into second-place with 18 laps remaining and quickly pulled away before a flat tire sent him into the wall entering the final corner.

“I don't really know what to think,” Bowman said. “This is the strangest win I've ever been apart of. I thought I was running second, which was still going to be a good day for us for us with how we struggled throughout the course of the day.”

Bowman, in his No. 48 Ally Chevrolet, took the lead from Kyle Busch after a restart with 19 laps to go following a big push from Ryan Blaney.

Bowman was able to hold Larson back and make the most of the clear air he had in the lead.

“The Cup cars are super aero-dependent,” said Bowman. “If you don't have a car in front of you, your car makes way more downforce then if you have a car right in front of you. So I just tried to take as much air away from him as I possibly could. Spent a lot of time looking in the mirrors, seeing where he was running and trying to run similar lines to take the air away to keep him behind us.

“It quite honestly worked a lot longer than I thought it was going to work. But obviously it didn't work all the way to the end, I just kind of got lucky there that last lap.”

Larson led three times for 15 laps, while Bowman was out front twice for 16 circuits. He finished ninth.

Larson pitted from the lead for four tires with 38 laps to go, while Bowman came in for two tires the next lap.

The final caution came with 23 laps to go for debris, setting up the final restart.

“It was kind of up and down. When I got right to second I thought that I would pass Alex fairly easy because I was a lot better than him the run before,” said Larson. “But it seemed like in clear air, his car was really good, and I just couldn't get by him.

“So I got a little deflated, and then there were moments again where I thought I was going to get him now, the exit off the Tunnel (Turn) into Turn 3. But he got better in the Tunnel and I got worse. But then at the end I noticed he got pretty tight off of Turn 1 and I was still turning good and getting good runs. So I was able to get him to adjust his entries a little bit and mess his angles up on exit and I got the run that I needed finally.”

Kyle Busch, who led a race-high 30 laps, finished second. Busch won Stage 1.

William Byron, another Hendrick Motorsports driver, finished third and led 13 laps. Denny Hamlin and Blaney rounded out the top-five.

Kurt Busch, who won the second stage, finished sixth.

Hendrick Motorsports drivers had won the last five Cup Series points events on the 2021 schedule – Bowman (Dover), Chase Elliott (COTA) and Larson (Charlotte, Sonoma, Nashville) – making the 2021 season the fourth-time in the organization’s history to win five or more consecutive races in the series – twice in 2007 and once in 2014.

Six organizations in the Modern Era (1972-Presnt) have won four or more consecutive victories in the NASCAR Cup Series, led by Hendrick Motorsports with seven different streaks of four or more wins. In total, in the Modern Era, streaks of four or more wins by a single organization has occurred 16 times. Hendrick Motorsports is the only organization in the Modern Era to win five or more Cup races.

TRUCKING … John Hunter Nemechek won the Camping World Truck Series CRC Brakleen 150 earlier in the day. Nemechek got out front after restart with six laps to go ahead of team owner Kyle Busch. As Busch tried to find a way to track down Nemechek, Sheldon Creed made a move on the No. 51 truck in Turn 1 with three to go. Creed slid up the track and appeared to make contact with the left rear of Busch, allowing Nemechek to pull away. The victory was Nemechek's fifth of the season, and first at Pocono.

BACK AGAIN … The Cup Series will be on track again Sunday for the Explore Pocono Mountains 350. Green flag is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. The Xfinity Series will be on track first with the Pocono Green 225 Recycled by J.P. Mascaro & Sons at noon.