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NASCAR Cup Series

Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart

Atlanta Motor Speedway

July 11th, 2021

Race #21 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 260
Miles Raced : 400.4
Time of Race : 02 Hours 50 minutes 08 seconds
Average Speed: 141.207 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.237 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 21
Lead Changes: 10

Kyle Busch congratulates his brother Kurt Busch — Hampton, Georgia - July 11th, 2021: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Skittles Gummies Toyota, congratulates his brother, Kurt Busch, driver of the #1 GEARWRENCH Chevrolet, after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | 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
Kurt Busch	8	3	2	1	1	11	2.2	+7	37	25	+12	33	62	100.0%	144	260	144.8	59
Kyle Busch	2	4	1	2	1	10	1.9	+0	32	30	+2	26	40	100.0%	91	260	130.5	54
Martin Truex Jr	5	20	4	3	2	34	11.1	+2	102	61	+41	44	20	76.5%	0	260	101.3	37
Alex Bowman	17	5	3	4	2	21	4.9	+13	58	47	+11	41	15	97.3%	0	260	114.2	48
Ryan Blaney	15	9	6	5	3	21	9.4	+10	76	65	+11	48	5	96.2%	0	260	100.5	36
Tyler Reddick	7	6	5	6	2	19	4.9	+1	42	44	-2	33	7	99.2%	0	260	108.0	42
Chase Elliott	1	16	7	7	1	25	12.1	-6	71	58	+13	32	6	67.3%	13	260	90.3	30
Christopher Bell	4	19	8	8	1	21	11.8	-4	69	69	+0	47	0	81.2%	0	260	89.5	29
Matt DiBenedetto	12	14	10	9	5	26	11.5	+3	68	70	-2	48	1	88.9%	0	260	87.9	28
Brad Keselowski	14	11	9	10	4	22	9.0	+4	66	72	-6	50	0	97.3%	0	260	96.3	30
Kevin Harvick	21	18	11	11	6	28	15.7	+10	101	85	+16	35	9	56.9%	0	260	78.8	27
Austin Dillon	13	12	14	12	4	22	12.9	+1	95	89	+6	51	3	81.2%	0	260	82.9	27
Denny Hamlin	3	8	15	13	1	22	9.2	-10	66	58	+8	30	6	81.2%	2	260	98.1	38
Bubba Wallace	24	15	13	14	9	32	15.3	+10	92	74	+18	30	3	64.2%	0	260	74.1	23
Chase Briscoe	11	21	18	15	11	26	16.9	-4	69	86	-17	22	0	26.9%	0	260	70.5	22
Chris Buescher	18	17	17	16	2	24	16.4	+2	95	82	+13	29	0	23.1%	0	260	71.2	21
Cole Custer	23	25	19	17	1	30	20.7	+6	88	89	-1	11	0	4.2%	1	260	61.4	20
Kyle Larson	6	7	20	18	3	21	8.8	-12	50	64	-14	35	7	80.8%	0	260	94.7	31
Joey Logano	10	13	12	19	2	29	12.6	-9	84	103	-19	38	12	75.4%	0	259	75.2	22
William Byron	19	10	16	20	4	24	12.5	-1	80	88	-8	36	1	65.0%	0	259	71.7	20
Ross Chastain	9	22	21	21	5	26	19.6	-12	64	93	-29	6	0	7.7%	0	259	59.3	16
Corey Lajoie	26	23	22	22	4	28	22.3	+4	70	79	-9	7	0	2.3%	0	258	55.7	15
Aric Almirola	20	1	23	23	1	25	20.5	-3	65	78	-13	17	3	15.8%	8	258	59.8	14
Erik Jones	22	24	24	24	7	33	23.5	-2	65	67	-2	4	0	1.9%	0	258	50.7	13
Ryan Preece	34	2	25	25	1	35	23.8	+9	70	73	-3	8	11	6.5%	1	258	51.5	12
Anthony Alfredo	32	27	28	26	23	32	27.3	+6	43	37	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	257	45.7	11
Michael McDowell	25	26	27	27	15	32	27.3	-2	48	51	-3	0	9	0.4%	0	256	45.8	10
Ryan Newman	29	29	26	28	15	33	25.1	+1	65	64	+1	4	13	1.2%	0	256	55.8	9
Justin Haley	28	28	29	29	17	31	28.6	-1	37	44	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	255	40.8	0
Garrett Smithley	37	33	31	31	28	37	32.4	+6	18	15	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	253	30.7	0
Bayley Currey	33	31	33	32	27	36	32.0	+1	16	22	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	253	33.3	0
Cody Ware	31	32	32	33	28	34	32.0	-2	22	27	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	253	32.3	0
Josh Bilicki	30	35	35	34	30	37	35.0	-4	5	13	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	248	26.0	3
Quin Houff	35	34	34	35	32	37	34.3	+0	9	14	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	248	25.3	2
Daniel Suarez	27	36	36	36	11	36	34.6	-9	16	12	+4	0	0	0.4%	0	243	32.5	1
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	16	37	37	37	13	37	34.8	-21	9	15	-6	4	0	1.2%	0	178	33.7	1

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Race Fast Facts

Atlanta Motor Speedway
52nd Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart
Race Winner: Kurt Busch
Age: 42
Team : No. 1 - GEARWRENCH Chevrolet
Owner: Chip Ganassi
Crew Chief: Matt McCall
Kurt Busch won the 52nd Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart, his 33rd victory in 741 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his fourth victory and 16th top-10 finish in 31 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 24 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2021.
Martin Truex Jr. (third) posted his 12th top-10 finish in 24 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Kurt wins in Busch Family Duel; Secures Playoffs Bid

July 11th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Kurt Busch out-dueled his younger brother Kyle Busch in the pair's fourth career 1-2 finish to secure his 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs position and take his 33rd career victory in Sunday's Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart.

Busch, 42, has been particularly good at the 1.5-mile Atlanta Motor Speedway. Sunday's win was his fourth there, most among the current field, and the last trophy given before the historic NASCAR track is repaved and reconfigured going forward.

More importantly Sunday's work was a big statement for Busch, who started the race with only a 25-point buffer in the championship standings with six races left to set the 16-driver Playoffs field. Now with the win, he's "in" and his emotions climbing out of Chip Ganassi Racing's No. 1 Chevrolet certainly reflected the relief and joy.

He simultaneously earned a Playoffs position and evened the score with his brother – each have won two races in the four times they have finished first and second.

"Hell yeah, we beat Kyle," a smiling Kurt Busch said after climbing out of his car, putting his fists in the air and turning toward the cheering crowd in the grandstands.

"What a battle on an old-school race track," said Busch, who has 33 career NASCAR Cup Series wins.

"It's been one of those years where I knew we were going to have our back against the wall, just above the [Playoffs] cut-off line and needed to race hard and race smart."

Not too surprisingly, Kyle Busch's mood standing by his car on pit lane was markedly different than his brother's. He felt like Kurt's Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Ross Chastain interfered a bit as the two brothers were fighting for the race lead while navigating lapped traffic.

Kurt led a race high 144 of the 267 laps – the most he's led in a single race since 2015 (291 laps at Richmond, Va.) and the two each won a Stage. Kurt came out behind his brother on track when the final round of pit stops cycled out, but ultimately passed Kyle for good with 25 laps remaining and crossed the finish line 1.237 seconds ahead of his brother. Kyle was able to pull alongside Kurt with seven to go, but unable to make the pass in lapped traffic.

"I gave everything I had there early and then just smoked it behind the 42 [Chastain] obviously, shows you what kind of driver he is," Kyle Busch said. "Just trying to fight hard after that when I got passed.

"Great effort, the guys gave me a great piece," Kyle continued. "The 1 (Kurt Busch) was definitely better than us today, I just thought I had him."

Kyle's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. finished third, rallying from a 37th place starting position. Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman was fourth followed by Penske Racing's Ryan Blaney, who won at Atlanta this March.

Tyler Reddick, Georgia native Chase Elliott, Christopher Bell, Matt DiBenedetto and Brad Keselowski rounded out the Top-10.

Noticeably absent from that group is the series' only four-race winner Kyle Larson. He ran among the top five for most of the race, but was penalized for speeding on pit road during his final pit stop. He instead finished 18th.

Championship points leader Denny Hamlin, who is still looking for his first win of 2021, finished 13th. He also was handed a pit road penalty early in the race, which was red-flagged for about 20 minutes just after the completion of Stage 2 so track workers could repair the track surface.

The series moves to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway 1-miler next week for the Foxwood Resort Casino 301 (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

With five races remaining to set the 16-driver Playoffs field, 12 drivers have now earned automatic bids with a race victory. Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, who rallied to an 11th place finish Sunday, Austin Dillon and Reddick are the four highest-ranked drivers on points.