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NASCAR Cup Series

EchoPark Texas Grand Prix

Circuit of The Americas

May 23rd, 2021

Race #14 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 68
- Shortened to 54 laps
Miles Raced : 169.6
Time of Race : 03 Hours 07 minutes 11 seconds
Average Speed: 59.024 mph
Margin of Victory : Under caution
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 13
Lead Changes: 11

Chase Elliott celebrates in victory lane — Austin, Texas - May 23rd, 2021: Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 Llumar Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas on May 23, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Photo by Chris Graythen | 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
Chase Elliott	8	4	2	1	1	30	8.4	+7	96	84	+12	33	12	83.3%	5	54	121.0	49
Kyle Larson	2	14	4	2	1	20	7.2	+0	61	59	+2	51	3	90.7%	4	54	122.8	47
Joey Logano	6	19	6	3	1	30	6.6	+3	77	60	+17	36	2	90.7%	14	54	124.6	44
Ross Chastain	20	23	8	4	1	31	9.8	+16	86	68	+18	41	3	79.6%	4	54	110.0	36
AJ Allmendinger	7	17	12	5	2	27	13.6	+2	93	75	+18	41	1	61.1%	0	54	92.7	0
Chase Briscoe	27	12	13	6	4	35	12.4	+21	85	62	+23	44	0	79.6%	0	54	92.8	37
Michael McDowell	23	32	11	7	1	32	10.9	+16	88	43	+45	37	2	66.7%	3	54	107.9	39
Alex Bowman	12	8	1	8	1	36	14.8	+4	69	64	+5	27	0	61.1%	3	54	87.2	30
Tyler Reddick	1	7	16	9	1	28	14.5	-8	91	93	-2	26	0	51.9%	0	54	76.2	36
Kyle Busch	4	2	3	10	1	25	6.8	-6	90	82	+8	42	9	83.3%	12	54	114.7	39
William Byron	5	26	19	11	3	38	18.4	-6	75	106	-31	29	0	48.2%	0	54	82.5	26
Austin Dillon	16	5	9	12	5	33	19.1	+4	82	83	-1	14	0	38.9%	0	54	68.5	25
Chris Buescher	28	25	18	13	3	38	16.1	+15	74	59	+15	27	0	61.1%	0	54	76.5	29
Denny Hamlin	19	6	5	14	3	38	14.9	+5	85	70	+15	20	0	55.6%	0	54	74.2	23
Ryan Preece	36	1	20	15	1	36	11.9	+21	86	55	+31	28	0	68.5%	2	54	79.2	26
Erik Jones	29	16	23	16	9	37	20.3	+13	83	77	+6	13	0	22.2%	0	54	65.8	21
Ryan Blaney	9	22	24	17	9	39	22.8	-8	74	67	+7	12	0	25.9%	0	54	63.2	20
Anthony Alfredo	37	18	7	18	6	37	21.6	+19	83	91	-8	11	0	13.0%	0	54	58.5	19
Brad Keselowski	24	15	27	19	9	34	21.7	+5	87	74	+13	17	0	22.2%	0	54	56.8	18
Corey Lajoie	25	9	26	20	5	32	18.3	+5	86	85	+1	10	0	38.9%	0	54	63.2	23
Ty Dillon	33	10	28	21	8	38	22.3	+12	73	111	-38	10	0	20.4%	0	54	49.7	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	27	14	22	3	35	21.3	+0	73	62	+11	16	1	37.0%	0	54	61.5	15
Matt DiBenedetto	21	11	15	23	6	37	16.7	-2	73	78	-5	26	0	42.6%	0	54	68.2	15
Ryan Newman	34	21	25	24	7	36	22.4	+10	90	113	-23	14	0	22.2%	0	54	47.2	13
Austin Cindric	3	3	17	25	1	30	10.4	-22	55	70	-15	18	0	68.5%	4	54	74.6	0
Aric Almirola	26	20	22	26	10	39	22.7	+0	88	79	+9	7	0	13.0%	0	54	50.8	11
Kurt Busch	13	13	10	27	2	27	12.1	-14	67	77	-10	39	0	66.7%	0	54	76.5	18
Garrett Smithley	38	24	31	28	16	40	28.2	+10	63	89	-26	0	0	0.0%	0	54	37.7	0
James Davison	32	33	32	29	12	39	32.0	+3	49	35	+14	2	0	1.9%	0	54	45.3	8
Josh Bilicki	31	31	30	30	15	40	29.7	+1	66	71	-5	1	0	1.9%	0	54	49.7	7
Kyle Tilley	39	29	29	31	16	39	30.2	+8	66	64	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	54	44.8	6
Cody Ware	35	28	21	32	14	40	27.9	+3	68	82	-14	0	0	7.4%	0	53	52.2	0
Daniel Suarez	15	37	33	33	15	40	35.3	-18	26	32	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	46	49.3	4
Quin Houff	40	30	34	34	23	40	33.2	+6	39	43	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	38	30.7	3
Martin Truex Jr	17	34	35	35	1	27	25.4	-18	37	25	+12	20	0	24.1%	3	24	74.3	2
Cole Custer	14	35	36	36	14	37	30.4	-22	59	45	+14	1	0	1.9%	0	24	42.0	1
Kevin Harvick	11	36	37	37	11	34	33.2	-26	29	54	-25	1	0	0.0%	0	19	32.5	1
Christopher Bell	10	38	38	38	6	22	29.8	-28	34	55	-21	16	1	24.1%	0	18	52.0	1
Bubba Wallace	18	39	39	39	2	36	30.5	-21	26	59	-33	11	0	20.4%	0	18	68.2	1
Justin Haley	30	40	40	40	14	39	36.5	-10	28	58	-30	5	0	5.6%	0	12	34.0	0

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Race Fast Facts

Circuit of The Americas
Inaugural EchoPark Automotive Texas Grand Prix
Race Winner: Chase Elliott
Age: 25 Team : No. 9 - Llumar Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Alan Gustafson
Chase Elliott won the Inaugural EchoPark Automotive Texas Grand Prix, his 12th victory in 199 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2021. This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Circuit of The Americas.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Circuit of The Americas. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2021.
Joey Logano (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Circuit of The Americas.
Chase Briscoe (sixth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Denny Hamlin leads the point standings by 98 points over William Byron.

Race Recap

Road-course master Chase Elliott wins weather-shortened inaugural race at COTA

May 23rd, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

You can't call a Chase Elliott victory on a road course "unexpected," but little else was predictable in the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race at the Circuit of the Americas road course in Austin, Texas.

After all, Elliott came to COTA having won five of the previous 10 road races, and on Sunday the EchoPark Texas Grand Prix became No. 6 after NASCAR called the race 14 laps short of the scheduled finish because of excessive standing water on the track and potential danger to the drivers.

Elliott's first victory of the season and 12th of his career accounted for significant milestones. He delivered the 268th Cup win for Hendrick Motorsports, tying the organization with Petty Enterprises for most all-time.

It was also the 800th NASCAR Cup Series victory for Chevrolet.

"Yeah, man, I couldn't be more excited," said Elliott, the reigning Cup champion, who is tied for third with Rusty Wallace in all-time road course wins. "I've never won a rain race before, so it's kind of cool. Just super-proud of our team for continuing to fight.

"We kind of started the day, and we weren't very good. I just kept pushing myself and (we) made some good changes throughout the day and got to where I think we were on pace with those guys there at the end."

A week after Hendrick drivers finished 1-2-3-4 at Dover, the organization grabbed the top two spots at the 3.41-mile, 20-turn road course, with Kyle Larson running second when NASCAR red-flagged the event after 54 of a planned 68 and then called it when the rain failed to abate.

Joey Logano ran third, followed by Ross Chastain and AJ Allmendinger. Chase Briscoe, Michael McDowell, Alex Bowman, pole winner Tyler Reddick and Kyle Busch completed the top 10.

William Byron finished 11th, ending his streak of consecutive top-10 results at 11.

For all but the first few laps, drivers raced in the rain until it became too heavy to continue.

With challenging visibility on the long, high-speed backstretch, a crash on Lap 25 brought the race to a halt for the first time. Martin Truex Jr. slammed into the back of the Ford of Michael McDowell, who had slowed in traffic.

In a chain reaction, the Ford of Cole Custer plowed into the back of Truex's damaged Toyota, lifting the rear of the Camry off the pavement. Custer then hit the Armco barrier to the inside of the straight. Custer hastily exited the crippled Mustang, which had lit on fire.

NASCAR red-flagged the race and sent track dryers out to remove water from the racing surface.

"I'm all good," Custer said after a trip to the infield care center. "It didn't hurt as much as I thought it was going to be, but it's just that you can't see anything. It's pretty bad. I mean, you can't see a foot in front of your car.

"I was just rolling down the backstretch. You can't see anything. I'm just so frustrated about having our day end like this. It killed the car, and it's just really frustrating."

The cars of Custer and Truex were damaged too severely to continue. Before that wreck occurred, Kevin Harvick and Bubba Wallace already had been eliminated in a similar low-visibility crash on Lap 19.

Even before the race went green, teams were faced with a choice. With rain seemingly imminent but the track dry to start the event, would a change to slick tires be in order, or would crew chiefs opt to stay on rain tires, which NASCAR had mandated for the initial roll off pit road.

Most of the field opted for slicks, and Austin Cindric streaked to an early lead. But the rain intensified, and those who had taken the green on dry tires soon came to pit road for rain tires.

Earlier in the day, in only the second Cup qualifying session of the 2021 season, Reddick won the pole in dry conditions with a lap at 92.363 mph. The pole was the first for a Richard Childress Racing driver on a road course since Dale Earnhardt was top qualifier for the last time in his career in August 1996 at Watkins Glen.

"Road racing has been a big challenge in my career, and I've worked really hard to get better at it," said Reddick, who qualified fifth in the rain and finished eighth in Saturday's Xfinity Series race. "Running yesterday's NXS race helped me with some valuable seat time, so it's great to see all that hard work come together with a pole."