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NASCAR Cup Series

Bass Pro Shops Night Race

Bristol Motor Speedway

September 18th, 2021

Race #29 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 500
Miles Raced : 266.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 02 minutes 56 seconds
Average Speed: 87.409 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.227 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 71
Lead Changes: 23

Kevin Harvick exits his car — Bristol, Tennessee - September 18th, 2021: Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Subway Delivery Ford, exits his car after the NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol 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
Kyle Larson	5	1	3	1	1	14	2.5	+4	31	22	+9	30	97	100.0%	175	500	141.2	59
Kevin Harvick	8	6	2	2	1	14	3.7	+6	31	30	+1	31	60	100.0%	71	500	123.2	45
William Byron	14	4	4	3	2	18	7.7	+11	72	51	+21	72	19	100.0%	0	500	104.8	42
Ryan Blaney	7	7	5	4	1	15	5.1	+3	58	38	+20	58	34	100.0%	45	500	116.6	43
Alex Bowman	11	15	7	5	4	19	10.4	+6	40	40	+0	39	14	88.4%	0	500	93.2	32
Brad Keselowski	10	3	9	6	1	17	7.4	+4	57	49	+8	56	28	99.4%	10	500	104.7	46
Martin Truex Jr	1	16	11	7	1	16	10.0	-6	41	73	-32	41	24	96.4%	5	500	93.1	32
Erik Jones	22	13	10	8	2	22	13.7	+14	83	78	+5	48	13	63.0%	0	500	86.4	29
Denny Hamlin	2	2	19	9	1	22	5.5	-7	44	17	+27	33	50	88.0%	65	500	113.9	47
Matt DiBenedetto	19	19	13	10	5	23	16.8	+9	88	92	-4	25	4	29.2%	0	500	76.5	27
Joey Logano	3	12	12	11	3	25	13.5	-8	85	84	+1	61	2	66.6%	0	500	83.4	26
Tyler Reddick	13	9	17	12	5	27	16.2	+1	71	61	+10	33	3	50.0%	0	500	79.1	27
Chase Briscoe	20	20	14	13	4	24	16.5	+7	65	74	-9	21	2	31.0%	0	500	75.9	24
Ross Chastain	17	22	20	14	11	23	18.6	+3	81	83	-2	13	2	7.4%	0	500	69.2	23
Austin Dillon	18	17	16	15	8	22	15.9	+3	58	57	+1	26	1	50.4%	0	500	76.4	22
Bubba Wallace	28	11	15	16	4	28	17.6	+12	66	65	+1	35	3	49.2%	0	500	65.8	21
Ryan Preece	27	18	21	17	5	30	21.4	+10	86	88	-2	10	2	8.8%	0	500	61.2	20
Aric Almirola	12	23	18	18	3	27	13.9	-6	66	77	-11	26	1	66.4%	0	500	77.7	19
Kurt Busch	15	21	22	19	14	26	21.1	-4	49	57	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	500	60.7	18
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	23	14	23	20	7	26	18.1	+3	80	66	+14	32	1	33.0%	0	499	66.4	17
Kyle Busch	9	10	6	21	3	26	9.3	-12	57	66	-9	49	13	89.6%	0	499	87.2	21
Daniel Suarez	21	27	24	22	21	30	25.6	-1	46	37	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	498	52.0	15
Chris Buescher	25	24	25	23	9	30	25.2	+2	61	67	-6	0	1	0.2%	0	498	49.2	14
Michael McDowell	16	25	26	24	14	26	22.0	-8	49	57	-8	3	2	7.0%	0	498	56.4	13
Chase Elliott	4	5	1	25	1	26	7.4	-21	59	58	+1	45	34	83.6%	129	497	99.7	26
Corey Lajoie	31	28	27	26	26	32	27.6	+5	16	14	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	497	44.7	11
JJ Yeley	35	26	28	27	10	36	28.2	+8	21	18	+3	0	0	0.2%	0	495	44.7	0
Cole Custer	26	30	29	28	23	35	28.4	-2	13	13	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	494	50.7	9
Christopher Bell	6	8	8	29	1	29	9.2	-23	58	78	-20	57	10	92.2%	0	493	80.4	14
Garrett Smithley	36	31	30	30	30	36	32.1	+6	9	12	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	487	36.5	0
Josh Bilicki	33	32	31	31	30	36	32.8	+2	9	13	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	482	31.8	6
David Starr	38	33	32	32	32	38	34.5	+6	1	2	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	482	29.8	0
James Davison	37	34	33	33	33	38	35.5	+4	3	1	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	474	27.5	4
Quin Houff	34	29	34	34	29	36	31.8	+0	4	5	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	375	36.0	3
Anthony Alfredo	30	35	35	35	27	37	34.4	-5	11	14	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	313	33.0	2
Justin Haley	29	36	36	36	29	35	34.4	-7	15	15	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	216	29.5	0
BJ McLeod	32	37	37	37	29	32	34.3	-5	19	21	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	215	31.7	0
Ryan Newman	24	38	38	38	21	38	33.1	-14	7	15	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	177	39.3	1

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Bristol Motor Speedway
61st Annual Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 29
Team : No. 5 - Valvoline Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 61st Annual Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, his 12th victory in 252 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his sixth victory and 21st top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and eighth top-10 finish in 13 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Kevin Harvick (second) posted his 21st top-10 finish in 41 races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 19th top-10 finish in 2021.
William Byron (third) posted his second top-10 finish in seven races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (13th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell failed to advance to the Round of 12.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson wins wild NASCAR Cup elimination race at Bristol

September 18th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Larson celebrated victory in Saturday's Bass Pro Shops Night Race with a burnout on the frontstretch at Bristol Motor Speedway, as tempers flared between Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott on pit road.

With an assist from Elliott, who took Harvick's line at the .533-mile concrete track and slowed his progress, Larson made the winning pass on Lap 397 of 400 and sealed his sixth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season.

At the other end of the spectrum, Aric Almirola, Tyler Reddick, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were eliminated from the Playoffs in the cutoff race of the Round of 16. William Byron snagged the final transfer spot into the Round of 12 by finishing third behind Larson and Harvick.

That result gave Byron a two-point edge over Almirola and Reddick, the first two drivers out of the Playoff.

On Lap 465 of 500, as Harvick was attempting to pass Elliott for the lead, the driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford pinched Elliott's Chevrolet toward the outside wall, with contact between the cars cutting a tire on Elliott's machine.

Elliott brought his car to pit road on Lap 466, lost three laps in the process and returned to the track behind Harvick. On new tires, Elliott quickly passed Harvick to get one lap back and took Harvick's line at the top of the track.

Larson gradually closed on Harvick and made the winning pass on Lap 397. Larson did an admirable job keeping his car under control as Harvick retaliated with contact to the rear of Larson's Camaro on the frontstretch.

"Yeah, that was an awesome race," said Larson, who won for the first time at Bristol and the 12th time in his career. "It was so cool to be able to race there for the win. Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset. Kind of held him up. It got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom.

"I started to get some dive-ins working off of (Turn) 2, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit. Then he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild."

While Larson celebrated, Harvick and Elliott traded their views of the finish in a heated exchange on pit road.

"It's just chicken (expletive)," Harvick said after the confrontation broke up. "I don't know what else to say. Throw a temper tantrum like you're two years old because you got passed for the lead and got a flat tire. We barely even rubbed. It's all Chase's way, or it's no way. If he doesn't get his way, he throws a fit."

Not surprisingly, Elliott had a different interpretation of the events in the closing stages of the race.

"It's something that he does all the time," said the reigning Cup Series champion, who finished 25th. "He runs into your left side constantly at other tracks, and sometimes it does cut down your left sides. Other times it doesn't.

"Whether he does it on purpose, it doesn't matter. At some point, you've got to draw the line. I don't care who he is and how long he's been doing it. I'm going to stand up for myself and my team, and we'll go on down the road."

Of the 12 drivers who advanced to the second round of the Playoff, four represent Hendrick Motorsports (Elliott, Larson, Byron and Alex Bowman); four represent Joe Gibbs Racing (Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell); and three represent Team Penske (Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney).

Harvick is the lone driver from Stewart-Haas Racing to advance to the Round of 12.

Both Kyle Busch and Bell survived cut tires near the end of the race to clinch spots in the next round. Blaney finished fourth and Bowman fifth on Saturday night. Keselowski, Truex, Erik Jones, Hamlin and Matt DiBenedetto completed the top 10.

Harvick and Elliott later continued their discussion behind closed doors in Elliott's No. 9 transporter.