Entry List

The official 2023 Echopark Automotive Grand Prix NASCAR CUP Series entry list features top NASCAR drivers set to compete at Circuit of The Americas, highlighting the full lineup of race participants and teams.

Echopark Automotive Grand Prix

Sunday, March 26th, 2023

Circuit of The Americas, Austin, Texas

  • 19 Chevrolet
  • 14 Ford
  • 6 Toyota

  • Circuit of The Americas
  • EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: William Byron
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 24 - Liberty University Chevrolet
  • Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
  • Crew Chief: Brian Campe
  • William Byron won the Busch Light Pole Award for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix with a lap of 130.76 seconds, 93.882 mph.
  • This is his ninth pole in 186 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first pole and third top-10 start in 2023.
  • This is his first pole in three races at Circuit of The Americas. William Byron becomes the first driver in the NASCAR Cup Series to win a pole at four different road courses - Charlotte Roval (2019), Road America (2021), Indianapolis Road Course (2021) and Circuit of The Americas (2023).
  • Tyler Reddick (second) posted his first top-10 start of 2023 and his third in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Austin Cindric (third) posted his third top-10 start at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth in six races this season.
  • Noah Gragson (10th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Sunday, March 26th, 2023
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Tyler Reddick wins first race with 23XI Racing at Circuit of The Americas

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime re-starts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing, with a 1.411-second victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix – the NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season.

It was a field of international champions and NASCAR’s very best at the famed Circuit of The Americas course but for most of the race the outcome looked to be decided in a good ole Texas duel between the two fastest cars all weekend driven by Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The pair exchanged the lead, lap after exciting lap for most of the afternoon.

And on the final two-lap restart Reddick was able to put his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front exiting Turn 1 - a tight left-hander - and power forward to the lead; while Busch and third-place finisher Alex Bowman, fourth-place finisher – and defending race winner - Ross Chastain and fifth-place Byron fought door-to-door bumper-to-bumper as they chased after him.

“I’ve been wanting to win here in a Cup car for a long time," the 27-year-old Californian Reddick said, who now has four NASCAR Cup Series wins, but noted this was his first as a Toyota driver and with his 23XI Racing Team – co-owned by fellow competitor Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“It means the world," said Reddick, who sat down on the track and leaned against his car with a bag of ice after winning to cool down on the typically Texas-hot afternoon. “This whole 23XI team has been working hard all winter long to make the road course program better and was extremely motivated to come in here and improve performance. Just so proud of this Monster Energy team and TRD (Toyota Racing Development). All the resources they’ve put in to turn around the road course program means a lot.”

As often happens late in a road course race, patience lags and urgency increases. That was certainly the case Sunday with three different overtime restarts deciding the outcome. Reddick and Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet combined to lead 69 of the race’s 75 laps with Reddick out front a race best 41 of those, most of them after hard-fought challenges and back-and-forth corner after corner with the race polesitter Byron.

“It feels good to get a top five, but we had a top-two race car really with the 45, he was really better than everybody, but I thought we were a close second," said Byron, a two-race winner already in 2023, whose fifth-place finish at COTA was his career best on a road course. “We’ll keep building on it."

Busch’s runner-up effort was an impressive comeback. He had been mid-pack for most of the afternoon but gambled on fuel strategy to move forward during some late race cautions in regulation.

“Even if we were on equal tires, they were lights out," said Busch, driver of the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“Overall, for as much effort as we put into coming here and focusing on this place and all the testing we did in the offseason, we’re coming out of here with a good finish. Tyler’s obviously a really good road course racer."

In addition to the NASCAR stars, the field that raced Sunday included four big names from other racing genres including IMSA champion Jordan Taylor, who drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for injured former COTA winner Chase Elliott; a pair of former Formula One champions in Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and popular IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly.

Among these four, the Englishman Button – the 2009 Formula One champion – claimed the top finishing position, 18th in the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford. Taylor, a two-time winner at COTA in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Series finished 24th but made a huge impression in his debut after qualifying fourth.

Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 World Champion from Finland, finished 29th but ran as high as fourth place late in the race. Daly only got 16 laps into the race before his team had to take his No. 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet behind the wall for extended repairs. He finished 36th.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t even get a full lap of green flag racing in only his second start of the 2023 season. The owner-driver of the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was collected in a multi-car accident that eliminated his Chevrolet and left him 38th in the standings.

Team Penske's Austin Cindric, 2023 DAYTONA 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., RFK Racing's Chris Buescher, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs and Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland rounded out the top-10.

Chastain takes over the championship lead by 19 points over Busch. Ty Gibbs, who finished ninth, continues to lead the Sunoco Rookie of the Year points standings.

  • Drivers Entered: 39
  • Laps Scheduled: 68
  • Laps Actual: 75 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 01.411 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 30 Minutes 32 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 72.886
  • Cautions: 8 for 17 laps
  • Lead Changes: 16
  • Green Flag Passes: 3,110 (53.6 passes per green flag lap)

  • Circuit of The Americas
  • EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
  • Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
  • Age: 27
  • Team : No. 45 - Monster Energy Toyota
  • Owner: 23XI Racing
  • Crew Chief: Billy Scott
  • Tyler Reddick won the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, his fourth victory in 116 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Kyle Busch (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
  • Alex Bowman (third) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Ty Gibbs (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • This is the fourth win for 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series - Talladega (2021), Kansas-1 (2022), Kansas-2 (2022), Austin (2023).
 Ross Chastain celebrates by eating a watermelon
Austin, Texas - March 27, 2022 : Ross Chastain, driver of the #1 ONX Homes/iFly Chevrolet, celebrates by eating a watermelon after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Echopark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas.
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ENTRY
#
DRIVER
HOMETOWN
DOB
AGE
MAKE
SPONSOR
TEAM
CREW CHIEF

1
16
Los Gatos, CA
Dec 16, 1981
41
Chevrolet
Farmsmart
2
10
Tampa, FL
Mar 14, 1984
39
Ford
Smithfield
3
6
Auburn Hills, MI
Feb 12, 1984
39
Ford
Wyndham Rewards
4
11
Chesterfield, VA
Nov 18, 1980
42
Toyota
Interstate Batteries
5
84
El Cajon, CA
Sep 17, 1975
47
Chevrolet
Club Wyndham
6
22
Middleton, CT
May 24, 1990
32
Ford
Shell Pennzoil
7
4
Bakersfield, CA
Dec 8, 1975
47
Ford
Mobil 1
8
8
Las Vegas, NV
May 2, 1985
37
Chevrolet
Netspend
9
19
Mayetta, NJ
Jun 29, 1980
42
Toyota
Bass Pro Shops
10
34
Phoenix, AZ
Dec 21, 1984
38
Ford
Love's Travel Stops
11
3
Lewisville, NC
Apr 27, 1990
32
Chevrolet
Get Bioethanol
12
47
Olive Branch, MS
Oct 2, 1987
35
Chevrolet
Kroger/Blue Buffalo
13
5
Sacremento, CA
Jul 31, 1992
30
Chevrolet
HendrickCars.com
14
48
Tuscon, AZ
Apr 25, 1993
29
Chevrolet
Ally
15
12
High Point, NC
Dec 31, 1993
29
Ford
Menards\Knauf
16
7
Kannapolis, NC
Sep 25, 1991
31
Chevrolet
OpTic Gaming
17
77
Lewisville, NC
Feb 27, 1992
31
Chevrolet
Ferris Commercial Mowers
18
17
Prosper, TX
Oct 29, 1992
30
Ford
Fifth Third Bank
19
43
Byron, MI
May 30, 1996
26
Chevrolet
Allegiant
20
41
Berlin, CT
Oct 25, 1990
32
Ford
HaasTooling.com
21
99
Monterrey, Mexico
Jan 7, 1992
31
Chevrolet
Freeway Insurance
22
51
Greensboro, NC
Nov 7, 1995
27
Ford
PublicSq.
23
1
Alva, FL
Dec 4, 1992
30
Chevrolet
Worldwide Express
24
23
Mobile, AL
Oct 8, 1993
29
Toyota
MoneyLion
25
24
Charlotte, NC
Nov 29, 1997
25
Chevrolet
Liberty University
26
78
Menomonee Falls, WI
Jun 3, 1995
27
Chevrolet
Zeigler Auto Group
27
45
Corning, CA
Jan 11, 1996
27
Toyota
Monster Energy
28
31
Winamac, IN
Apr 28, 1999
23
Chevrolet
Celsius
29
20
Norman, OK
Dec 16, 1994
28
Toyota
DeWalt
30
2
Columbus, OH
Sep 2, 1998
24
Ford
Discount Tire
31
14
Mitchell, IN
Dec 15, 1994
28
Ford
Mahindra Tractors
32
21
Huntersville, NC
Oct 9, 2000
22
Ford
Motorcraft / Quick Lane
33
42
Las Vegas, NV
Jul 15, 1998
24
Chevrolet
TBD
34
54
Charlotte, NC
Oct 4, 2002
20
Toyota
He Gets us
35
38
Sherrills Ford, NC
May 15, 2000
22
Ford
Ruedebusch
36
50
Noblesville, IN
Dec 15, 1991
31
Chevrolet
BitNile.com
37
91
Espoo, Finland
Oct 17, 1979
43
Chevrolet
Onx Homes / iLOQ
38
15
Frome, Somerset, England
Jan 19, 1990
33
Ford
Mobil 1
39
9
Orlando, Florida
May 10, 1991
31
Chevrolet
UniFirst