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NASCAR Cup Series

Coke Zero Sugar 400

Daytona International Speedway

August 28th, 2021

Race #26 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 160
- Extended to 165 laps
Miles Raced : 412.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 54 minutes 03 seconds
Average Speed: 142.201 mph
Margin of Victory : Under caution
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 31
Lead Changes: 45

racing during the Coke Zero Sugar 400 — Daytona Beach, Florida - August 28th, 2021: A general view of racing during the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International 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
Ryan Blaney	6	6	2	1	1	28	10.8	+5	295	304	-9	221	1	77.0%	7	165	96.0	45
Chris Buescher	13	3	4	2	1	31	13.5	+11	326	338	-12	221	1	66.7%	8	165	85.8	36
Bubba Wallace	20	12	25	3	1	36	14.0	+17	355	347	+8	191	2	52.7%	8	165	96.4	36
Ryan Newman	23	34	26	4	1	36	26.6	+19	148	159	-11	9	4	9.7%	2	165	65.7	33
Ryan Preece	24	24	19	5	1	37	17.9	+19	363	326	+37	149	5	31.5%	0	165	84.2	34
Tyler Reddick	17	2	29	6	2	35	16.7	+11	266	268	-2	101	3	31.5%	0	165	88.9	38
Justin Haley	28	25	20	7	3	31	20.7	+21	224	241	-17	71	3	21.8%	0	165	71.1	0
Alex Bowman	15	29	17	8	1	36	15.2	+7	373	348	+25	210	3	55.2%	0	165	89.2	29
Chase Elliott	5	16	11	9	1	23	8.0	-4	332	333	-1	273	4	89.7%	36	165	106.0	38
BJ McLeod	30	30	30	10	10	37	31.0	+20	58	81	-23	0	1	0.6%	0	165	52.0	0
Josh Bilicki	36	32	24	11	11	36	31.6	+25	41	65	-24	0	0	1.2%	0	165	47.8	26
Erik Jones	21	22	9	12	1	36	24.0	+9	205	210	-5	38	8	12.1%	0	165	62.1	25
Kurt Busch	8	36	8	13	4	37	22.1	-5	232	237	-5	104	7	31.5%	0	165	63.0	24
Denny Hamlin	3	18	14	14	1	33	11.3	-11	311	305	+6	200	5	68.5%	7	165	95.2	32
Aric Almirola	19	35	3	15	2	36	22.1	+4	241	217	+24	36	7	12.7%	0	165	64.1	22
Kevin Harvick	11	17	12	16	1	34	16.4	-5	335	346	-11	182	5	44.2%	4	165	69.7	21
Corey Lajoie	33	4	15	17	1	35	14.7	+16	354	309	+45	168	4	53.3%	1	164	78.0	24
Austin Dillon	27	11	21	18	1	28	8.5	+9	312	273	+39	226	1	86.7%	3	164	100.4	33
Ross Chastain	29	19	10	19	1	38	11.9	+10	339	307	+32	247	5	72.7%	14	164	86.8	25
Daniel Suarez	26	26	28	20	3	36	25.4	+6	148	120	+28	26	5	8.5%	0	164	59.4	17
Kyle Larson	1	21	18	21	1	32	18.7	-20	304	299	+5	105	6	30.9%	0	164	73.3	22
Chase Briscoe	16	14	27	22	4	36	19.4	-6	317	325	-8	120	5	36.4%	0	164	74.4	15
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	12	8	16	23	1	28	9.9	-11	298	293	+5	223	3	80.6%	0	164	95.6	18
Joey Logano	22	1	1	24	1	36	11.9	-2	254	253	+1	161	3	62.4%	37	164	84.2	26
Cole Custer	25	15	5	25	1	33	16.6	+0	312	313	-1	126	3	41.8%	0	164	65.7	12
Matt DiBenedetto	9	23	6	26	1	31	22.1	-17	184	235	-51	87	4	22.4%	0	164	52.6	11
Anthony Alfredo	32	38	37	27	27	39	37.1	+5	8	4	+4	0	1	0.0%	0	163	37.0	10
David Starr	40	37	34	28	28	40	36.4	+12	13	19	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	163	32.2	0
Cody Ware	31	27	36	29	2	37	30.5	+2	103	136	-33	1	3	1.2%	0	163	39.8	0
Martin Truex Jr	7	13	35	30	1	35	12.2	-23	275	280	-5	232	2	77.6%	13	163	85.7	13
Garrett Smithley	34	31	33	31	15	37	31.9	+3	51	89	-38	0	0	0.6%	0	163	36.3	0
Joey Gase	37	33	38	32	10	38	33.6	+5	49	75	-26	0	1	0.6%	0	162	32.5	0
Christopher Bell	14	5	7	33	1	26	10.5	-19	343	330	+13	250	4	78.2%	8	157	81.6	5
Brad Keselowski	10	10	23	34	1	35	16.5	-24	319	322	-3	213	1	59.4%	0	156	63.3	3
Kyle Busch	4	7	13	35	1	33	8.9	-31	282	277	+5	239	1	89.1%	5	156	94.3	13
Kaz Grala	38	28	22	36	5	38	28.3	+2	166	159	+7	0	5	2.4%	0	156	41.4	0
Landon Cassill	39	9	31	37	2	39	22.9	+2	255	270	-15	84	3	20.6%	0	146	66.8	0
William Byron	2	20	32	38	1	29	13.7	-36	263	272	-9	199	1	67.9%	12	146	86.1	9
Quin Houff	35	39	39	39	35	40	39.3	-4	1	9	-8	0	2	0.0%	0	136	25.2	1
Michael McDowell	18	40	40	40	16	33	37.6	-22	42	21	+21	0	5	0.0%	0	23	36.1	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
63rd Annual Coke Zero Sugar 400
Race Winner: Ryan Blaney
Age: 27
Team : No. 12 - BodyArmor Ford
Owner: Team Penske
Crew Chief: Todd Gordon
Ryan Blaney won the 63rd Annual Coke Zero Sugar 400, his seventh victory in 224 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in 13 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Bubba Wallace (second) posted his third top-10 finish in nine races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
Ryan Newman (third) posted his 13th top-10 finish in 40 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.
Today's race produced 45 lead changes, the most lead changes in the NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona since 2011.

Race Recap

Blaney takes the victory, Reddick clinches Playoff spot and Larson wins Regular Season Championship at Daytona

August 29th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

The Coke Zero Sugar 400 NASCAR Cup Series' regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway unfolded as billed with dramatic action all Saturday night that included 45 lead changes, a 14-minute Red Flag period and a wild final lap of overtime to decide the championship Playoff picture.

Ultimately, Team Penske's Ryan Blaney managed it all and took his second NASCAR Cup Series victory in as many weeks as a huge multi-car accident happened behind him in the last corners of the track on the final lap.

Blaney's No. 12 Team Penske Ford led only seven of the 165 laps, but the 27-year-old North Carolinian took the lead from fellow Ford driver Roush Fenway Racing's Chris Buescher for the two laps of overtime to claim his third win of the season and seventh of his career.

Richard Childress Racing's Tyler Reddick earned the 16th and final Playoff position with a fifth-place finish in a close and suspenseful battle with his own teammate Austin Dillon.

"How about that," Blaney said. "That was a lot of fun. Gosh, we just barely missed that wreck. Got to line up on the front row and got a good push by the 7 (Corey LaJoie). You never know how the end of these things is going to play out. Down the back you don't know what lane is getting a bigger run. I guess someone got tangled up over there, hopefully everyone is okay."

LaJoie was one of the drivers who was collected in that nine-car crash in Turn 3 on the final lap. He was one of four drivers – including Austin Dillon, Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez – running among the top-10 on the final restart and needing a victory to qualify for the Playoffs. Instead, all four of them were unfortunately involved in the final incident that eliminated much of the front-running pack.

Kyle Larson, who has a series-best five wins on the season, clinched his first NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season Championship with a 21st-place finish. Both he and Denny Hamlin were in the last lap wreck. Hamlin, who has led the points standings for all but three of the previous 25 race weekends, finished 14th.

Blaney's Daytona wins caps an impressive summer run that is good enough to move him into second place in the Playoff standings – 28 behind Larson – heading into next week's Playoff opener at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.

Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch are ranked third and fourth in the Playoff re-set, followed by 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Hamlin and William Byron. Joey Logano, who led a race best 37 laps Saturday but finished 24th, is seeded ninth, followed by his Team Penske teammate Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch, Christopher Bell, this year's Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell, Aric Almirola, Reddick and Kevin Harvick.

"Got good momentum," Blaney said smiling. "Nice to make it three in a row. We'll see."

Bubba Wallace, who led eight laps late in the race, finished second – his best result of the 2021 season. Ryan Newman, Ryan Preece and Tyler Reddick rounded out the top five; a season best for Newman and Preece as well.

Haley was sixth, followed by Alex Bowman, who won the Xfinity Series race earlier in the afternoon. Chase Elliott, B.J. McLeod and Josh Bilicki rounded out the top 10. It was McLeod's first top-10 finish in 76 NASCAR Cup Series starts.

The 10-race elimination style NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs begin with next Sunday's Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway (6 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Kevin Harvick is the defending race winner. Martin Truex Jr. won at Darlington this spring.

UPDATED: No. 17 Disqualified