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NASCAR Cup Series

Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway

March 21st, 2021

Race #6 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 325
Miles Raced : 500.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 27 minutes 41 seconds
Average Speed: 144.595 mph
Margin of Victory : 02.083 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 25
Lead Changes: 11

Ryan Blaney hands the flag to a young NASCAR fan — Hampton, Georgia - March 21st, 2021: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 BodyArmor Ford, hands the Sunoco flag to a young NASCAR fan after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 21, 2021 in Hampton, Georgia. Photo by Kevin C Cox | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Ryan Blaney	10	3	2	1	1	15	2.7	+9	46	38	+8	35	28	100.0%	25	325	127.9	57
Kyle Larson	6	1	1	2	1	12	1.3	+4	34	29	+5	25	104	100.0%	269	325	144.8	55
Alex Bowman	14	2	3	3	2	21	4.9	+11	60	53	+7	41	14	98.8%	0	325	114.1	47
Denny Hamlin	1	8	4	4	1	27	5.6	-3	82	81	+1	47	10	98.2%	27	325	114.2	41
Kyle Busch	19	5	6	5	2	20	6.6	+14	92	58	+34	63	15	96.0%	0	325	108.2	48
Austin Dillon	13	7	5	6	4	30	9.2	+7	81	74	+7	39	6	86.8%	0	325	95.8	35
Chris Buescher	17	9	9	7	3	21	10.0	+10	86	80	+6	51	10	91.7%	0	325	94.2	35
William Byron	9	6	8	8	1	17	7.4	+1	69	73	-4	46	5	99.1%	2	325	98.7	36
Martin Truex Jr	2	10	7	9	2	19	9.1	-7	85	89	-4	58	5	99.4%	0	325	92.6	32
Kevin Harvick	7	21	12	10	2	32	18.6	-3	62	48	+14	22	12	36.9%	0	325	85.4	27
Matt DiBenedetto	20	4	10	11	3	24	8.7	+9	60	60	+0	34	1	97.2%	0	325	93.2	31
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	12	12	11	12	6	30	13.7	+0	99	89	+10	44	1	70.2%	0	325	81.2	25
Ryan Newman	28	11	13	13	6	28	14.3	+15	98	92	+6	42	1	79.4%	0	325	78.9	24
Ross Chastain	21	23	14	14	6	30	19.3	+7	91	82	+9	18	3	21.2%	0	325	71.0	23
Joey Logano	3	16	15	15	2	22	13.1	-12	76	92	-16	42	0	88.0%	0	324	79.3	22
Bubba Wallace	15	18	16	16	2	28	16.7	-1	99	104	-5	28	0	26.5%	0	324	69.5	21
Daniel Suarez	25	14	18	17	1	28	15.1	+8	115	108	+7	44	9	46.8%	1	324	75.4	21
Cole Custer	27	17	17	18	9	30	17.0	+9	81	78	+3	17	0	15.4%	0	324	66.3	19
Michael McDowell	18	20	19	19	9	27	19.5	-1	72	78	-6	4	2	2.8%	0	324	60.8	18
Aric Almirola	16	19	20	20	1	27	18.9	-4	77	90	-13	14	0	7.7%	0	324	61.8	17
Christopher Bell	8	22	21	21	8	28	20.9	-13	60	74	-14	8	1	3.1%	0	323	60.2	16
Austin Cindric	39	26	24	22	8	39	24.3	+17	89	84	+5	4	1	0.9%	0	323	54.6	0
Chase Briscoe	24	25	23	23	4	30	25.2	+1	89	94	-5	5	1	0.9%	0	323	50.2	14
Erik Jones	22	27	22	24	18	31	24.8	-2	57	66	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	323	53.8	13
Ryan Preece	23	24	25	25	21	32	24.8	-2	66	71	-5	0	1	0.0%	0	323	51.4	12
Tyler Reddick	29	30	26	26	19	38	29.6	+3	43	43	+0	0	4	0.0%	0	323	49.6	11
Anthony Alfredo	32	29	27	27	11	32	27.9	+5	66	68	-2	2	0	0.0%	0	322	44.8	10
Brad Keselowski	4	13	28	28	4	30	20.3	-24	72	94	-22	28	5	37.2%	0	321	64.1	9
Corey Lajoie	30	28	29	29	1	31	28.0	+1	64	67	-3	7	29	1.2%	0	319	50.1	8
Justin Haley	26	31	30	30	26	33	30.7	-4	14	24	-10	0	9	0.0%	0	319	42.0	0
Cody Ware	33	34	31	31	31	37	33.0	+2	16	17	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	316	36.3	0
James Davison	34	33	32	32	31	37	33.4	+2	17	13	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	316	35.2	5
Quin Houff	35	32	33	33	13	36	32.4	+2	33	30	+3	2	0	0.3%	0	314	36.7	4
BJ McLeod	31	35	34	34	31	36	34.9	-3	9	14	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	313	31.2	0
Joey Gase	36	36	35	35	33	37	36.0	+1	6	6	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	308	29.0	2
Timmy Hill	38	37	36	36	36	39	37.1	+2	6	5	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	305	26.2	0
Josh Bilicki	37	38	37	37	37	39	38.2	+0	3	7	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	285	25.3	1
Chase Elliott	5	15	38	38	2	35	19.9	-33	74	58	+16	31	8	60.0%	0	220	74.0	4
Kurt Busch	11	39	39	39	1	20	27.2	-28	37	45	-8	31	7	34.5%	1	113	67.2	8

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Race Fast Facts

Atlanta Motor Speedway
63rd Annual Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
Race Winner: Ryan Blaney
Age: 27
Team : No. 12 - BodyArmor Ford
Owner: Roger Penske
Crew Chief: Todd Gordon
Ryan Blaney won the 63rd Annual Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, his fifth victory in 204 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in seven races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2021.
Alex Bowman (third) posted his first top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (23rd) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Ryan Blaney wins at Atlanta, spoils Kyle Larson's dominant run

March 21st, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

You can call Ryan Blaney "The Spoiler."

With a pass for the lead with eight laps left in Sunday's Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Blaney took the air out of an otherwise dominating performance by Kyle Larson, who had to settle for second place after winning the first two stages and leading 269 of 325 laps.

"Gosh, we had a great long-run car all day," Blaney said after climbing from his No. 12 Team Penske Ford. "It took us a little bit to get going. I was pretty free all day, so we made a really good change to tighten me up where I needed it.

"It looked like Kyle was getting loose, and I'm happy it worked into our favor that there were a couple of long runs at the end (that) let us kind of get there, and he got slowed up behind some lapped traffic… It's nice to close out a race like that—it was awesome."

Blaney's first victory at Atlanta and the fifth of his career extended the streak of different NASCAR Cup Series winners this season to six. The victory was the fifth straight at the 1.54-mile track for Ford drivers.

For the fourth time in his career, Larson swept the first two stages of a race and failed to win the event.

"I think he (Blaney) just got a lot better that last stage, and that changed up my flow of the race a little bit," said Larson, who won each of the first two stages by more than six seconds. "I could get out to such big leads, and I could take care of my stuff and run the bottom where it was maybe slower, but I could take care of my tires.

"He was fast there (in the final run), and I just wanted to maintain that gap that I had, so I had to run in the faster part of the race track and just used my stuff up. He was a lot better than me there late in the run. I hate to lead a lot of laps and lose, but we had a really good car that we brought to the track. Our (No. 5) Hendrick Cars Chevy was stupid-fast there for a long time. I don't know if we got that much worse, or if he got way better."

Alex Bowman ran third, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. Austin Dillon, Chris Buescher, William Byron, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick completed the top 10.

The first two stages featured only one caution for an on-track incident. On a restart on Lap 113, after the break at the end of Stage 1, Kyle Busch spun his tires at the front of the pack in the outside lane, causing Chase Elliott and Kurt Busch to check up behind him.

Kurt Busch steered down to the middle lane, but off-center contact from Hamlin's Toyota sent the No. 1 Chevrolet into the Turn 1 wall and out of the race.

"Yeah, I think the No. 18 (Kyle Busch) was the outside-lead car," said Kurt Busch, who ran near the front of the field throughout the first stage. The No. 9 (Elliott) kind of checked-up, too. I checked up… It was just the accordion effect and then I jumped to the middle. I'm like ‘I'm here'; I positioned myself. It wasn't like I rearranged my lanes and made another block.

"He (Hamlin) didn't do anything vicious or malicious there. It's a 500-miler, and these are the days that it hurts the worst. This absolutely hurts the worst because we had a top-five, winning Monster Energy Chevy."

Elliott, the reigning series champion, sustained damage on that same restart, but his troubles didn't become terminal until the third stage, when his engine blew to cause the fifth caution of the afternoon.

"Yeah, obviously we broke a motor there later on," Elliott said. "We got some damage there on that restart. Kyle (Busch) kind of spun his tires and then I was pushing him, and Kurt (Busch) was pushing me. We all just really jammed together hard and ended up hurting the nose some. I don't know if that had something to do with breaking the engine or not."

Early tire troubles ruined the afternoon for defending race winner Harvick, who pitted with a flat left rear as the rest of the field restarted on Lap 32 after a competition caution. Larson lapped Harvick later in the first stage, and the 2014 series champion didn't get the lap back until he took a wave-around under the fifth caution, for Elliott's blown engine.

Harvick battled back to finish 10th but could advance no further.