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NASCAR Cup Series

Verizon 200 at the Brickyard

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

August 15th, 2021

Race #24 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 82
- Extended to 95 laps
Miles Raced : 247.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 20 minutes 59 seconds
Average Speed: 69.171 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.929 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 25
Lead Changes: 13

AJ Allmendinger celebrates in victory lane at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — Indianapolis, Indiana - August 15th, 2021: AJ Allmendinger, driver of the #16 Hyperice Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photo by Sean Gardner | 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
AJ Allmendinger	8	20	7	1	1	36	12.0	+7	116	116	+0	27	3	65.3%	2	95	103.0	0
Ryan Blaney	16	14	5	2	2	30	12.7	+14	95	106	-11	31	0	81.1%	0	95	90.0	35
Kyle Larson	4	1	2	3	1	15	3.7	+1	54	64	-10	34	19	100.0%	28	95	127.7	36
Chase Elliott	3	3	8	4	1	23	4.8	-1	80	86	-6	35	4	96.8%	14	95	115.8	35
Matt DiBenedetto	15	25	4	5	1	38	13.7	+10	101	81	+20	29	0	64.2%	1	95	82.2	38
Kurt Busch	20	16	6	6	1	39	16.5	+14	126	127	-1	22	2	49.5%	0	95	82.0	31
Erik Jones	28	24	19	7	4	38	23.6	+21	106	81	+25	11	0	10.5%	0	95	59.8	37
Justin Haley	29	31	14	8	6	36	22.4	+21	142	82	+60	20	0	32.6%	0	95	64.5	0
Austin Cindric	13	13	21	9	8	38	21.7	+4	115	138	-23	12	3	24.2%	0	95	65.7	0
Ryan Newman	32	37	27	10	10	39	29.6	+22	62	90	-28	4	0	5.3%	0	95	54.0	27
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	29	18	11	4	37	21.0	+11	136	98	+38	19	0	23.2%	0	95	66.8	37
Chris Buescher	19	23	25	12	7	34	22.2	+7	92	120	-28	10	0	9.5%	0	95	63.5	25
Bubba Wallace	27	12	15	13	2	37	19.3	+14	89	123	-34	17	0	31.6%	0	95	66.3	24
Kevin Harvick	25	15	28	14	11	33	20.9	+11	102	111	-9	10	0	24.2%	0	95	65.5	23
Martin Truex Jr	6	4	23	15	4	39	17.7	-9	128	150	-22	25	5	48.4%	0	95	77.7	22
Corey Lajoie	26	27	17	16	7	39	25.4	+10	108	84	+24	4	0	6.3%	0	95	52.0	25
Alex Bowman	24	11	12	17	7	32	16.3	+7	96	118	-22	20	0	57.9%	0	95	75.3	20
Josh Bilicki	36	28	22	18	10	36	27.3	+18	115	76	+39	3	0	8.4%	0	95	47.5	19
Aric Almirola	18	38	29	19	18	39	32.6	-1	50	83	-33	0	0	0.0%	0	95	58.5	18
Kyle Busch	21	5	26	20	3	28	10.6	+1	89	88	+1	29	2	75.8%	0	95	86.8	17
Tyler Reddick	11	21	24	21	1	30	15.8	-10	107	61	+46	25	0	45.3%	6	95	77.1	36
Quin Houff	38	32	20	22	10	38	29.6	+16	120	106	+14	2	0	1.1%	0	95	40.2	15
Denny Hamlin	14	9	1	23	1	29	8.5	-9	74	110	-36	31	8	87.4%	27	95	96.5	14
Brad Keselowski	31	35	16	24	1	39	25.7	+7	97	114	-17	8	0	17.9%	2	95	47.7	18
Cole Custer	10	8	10	25	4	26	10.5	-15	81	105	-24	29	1	83.2%	0	94	87.4	12
Chase Briscoe	2	6	3	26	1	34	10.4	-24	86	151	-65	22	8	73.7%	12	94	81.3	13
Timmy Hill	40	34	31	27	25	40	34.9	+13	79	65	+14	0	0	0.0%	0	94	31.5	0
Garrett Smithley	39	33	30	28	18	39	33.0	+11	105	101	+4	2	0	0.0%	0	94	32.7	0
Ross Chastain	9	17	11	29	7	38	16.8	-20	95	122	-27	19	3	60.0%	0	93	77.9	8
Michael McDowell	12	18	9	30	1	36	18.2	-18	89	83	+6	9	1	31.6%	1	88	72.6	16
Austin Dillon	23	26	13	31	1	30	18.4	-8	108	62	+46	14	0	34.7%	1	88	69.3	23
James Davison	34	30	32	32	9	38	28.9	+2	110	71	+39	5	0	10.5%	0	80	47.3	5
William Byron	1	2	33	33	1	21	10.7	-32	59	78	-19	27	1	79.0%	1	77	98.8	4
Joey Logano	7	7	34	34	2	27	14.9	-27	84	108	-24	26	1	64.2%	0	77	89.3	3
Ryan Preece	30	22	35	35	2	30	21.6	-5	129	68	+61	16	0	22.1%	0	77	63.0	16
Christopher Bell	17	10	36	36	6	32	19.9	-19	90	115	-25	17	0	33.7%	0	77	77.2	1
Daniel Suarez	5	19	37	37	5	35	20.7	-32	78	116	-38	5	1	32.6%	0	77	72.8	1
Anthony Alfredo	33	40	38	38	33	40	39.1	-5	3	8	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	68	33.5	1
Andy Lally	35	36	39	39	8	39	33.0	-4	103	60	+43	5	0	7.4%	0	55	40.2	0
Cody Ware	37	39	40	40	14	39	35.6	-3	75	51	+24	2	0	1.1%	0	46	26.3	0

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Race Fast Facts

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
28th Annual Verizon 200 at the Brickyard
Race Winner: AJ Allmendinger
Age: 39
Team : No. 16 - Hyperice Chevrolet
Owner: Kaulig Racing
Crew Chief: Matt Swiderski
AJ Allmendinger won the 28th Annual Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, his second victory in 375 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Ryan Blaney (second) posted his first top-10 finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. It is his 12th top-10 finish in 2021.
Kyle Larson (third) posted his first top-10 finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Chase Briscoe (26th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Allmendinger becomes the fourth different driver since the inception of 'Select A Series' to win in the NASCAR Cup Series after not selecting to run for a championship in the series joining Trevor Bayne (Daytona, 2011), Brian Vickers (New Hampshire, 2013), Justin Haley (Daytona, 2019).

Race Recap

AJ Allmendinger wins wild NASCAR Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

August 15th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

The first NASCAR Cup Series road course race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was full of drama – for A.J. Allmendinger, who led only the last two laps of overtime to secure his second career NASCAR Cup Series victory Sunday, and for those who fell short of the cherished trophy in an action-packed final few laps.

Denny Hamlin was leading the race on the final restart with two laps to go before being hit from behind by rookie Chase Briscoe in Turn 10, just before Briscoe was supposed to serve a penalty for running off-course earlier in the lap. Instead of winning, Hamlin finished 23rd and Briscoe, 26th.

With those two cars derailed, Allmendinger moved up from third place to take the lead and hold off Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson by .929-second.

Before the race, Allmendinger shrugged off any suggestions that he shouldn't be considered an odds-on favorite despite his impressive road course background. This season he's competing fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Kaulig Racing and Sunday marked only his fourth NASCAR Cup Series start of the year.

But the former open-wheel star has an Indianapolis 500 start, leading 27 laps in a seventh-place finish in 2013 and this iconic track has long been considered hallowed ground by the 39-year old Californian.

"We just won at Indy, what's up," Allmendinger yelled toward the grandstands after screaming in excitement on his team radio during his entire victory doughnut celebration in the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet at Indianapolis' famed yard of bricks start/finish line.

"I mean, it was survival of the fittest," Allmendinger said. "We probably had like an eighth, tenth-place car, sped on pit road. I thought we were going to finish 12th to 15th and then those restarts were just insane.v"It's great when you have a car owner that just says, ‘go get me trophies'. He doesn't care if that thing is torn up."

As Allmendinger was in the midst of his victory celebration, Hamlin walked through the smoke, down Indianapolis pit road to find Briscoe and discuss the incident.v"It's just lack of awareness," Hamlin said of Briscoe.

"I agree it's not on purpose, but my team told me he had a penalty right away and to me, it's obvious. If you cut the race track and end up in the lead, you're going to have a penalty.v"Lack of awareness. Race me for a lap. He went right in the back of me. We can't race that way. I don't think he did it maliciously. I've raced with him for a year now and he's not that kind of person. Just bad judgement."v"I can accept it [Briscoe's explanation to him]," Hamlin continued. "The roles have been reversed a couple times, I mean I've been doing this a long time and I've been on the giving end of mistakes, so I get it. To me, it's just a lack of situational awareness. Obviously, you're going to get a penalty if you go off the race track like he did. I'm not like, furious, it just sucks."vFor his part, Briscoe acknowledged his part of the incident but insisted he did not intentionally wreck Hamlin. He said he was glad to try and sort things out after the race.v"I explained to him that I didn't even know I had a penalty until I got to Turn 10," Briscoe said. "If I knew I had a penalty, there was no need for me to even try to pass him for the win. If I would have known that earlier, I would have done my stop-and-go and went on. As I understand it, at the moment in time I could still win the race and I was going for it and got into him accidentally.

"I think at the end [in discussing it] he kind of started to understand. He has been there when you are trying to get your first win and especially in our Playoff situation, you have to do what you have to do.v"That is what I get paid to do and that is what I was trying to do."

"I'm sorry it ruined his day, that was never my intention," Briscoe continued. "I don't want to wreck anyone for the win. I've never done that in my life."

After winning seven races last season, Hamlin is winless in 2021 with only two races remaining. And his 23rd-place finish cost him the championship points lead he'd held since the second race of the year in February. Briscoe was trying to win his first career NASCAR Cup Series race which is essentially the only thing that could put him in the Playoffs at this point as he is ranked.

Larson's third place run was good enough to move the five-race winner atop the standings, but Hamlin still secured a Playoff berth.

A pileup on the first overtime restart forced the double overtime period with six cars – including the two Richard Childress Racing cars vying for the final Playoff position – collected and eliminated as they negotiated a tricky Turn 5-6 combination with curbing issues that troubled the competitors all day.

With 11 laps to go, it appeared Larson would be picking up his fourth road course victory of the year as he held a commanding 4-second lead on the field. But a debris caution came out forcing the team's hand in pitting or gambling on a better restart position.

All but five cars pitted. Hamlin stayed out to take the lead in front of Kurt Busch, Matt DiBenedetto, Ryan Newman and Briscoe.vLarson led the pit parade in for tires and came out first – sixth position on track; followed by his Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron and Joe Gibbs Racing's Kyle Busch and Martin Truex, who filled out the top 10 for the restart with six laps remaining.

With a highly-motivated Hamlin out front – still looking for his first victory of the season after winning seven times last year – he fought off Briscoe to hold the lead on older tires. Battling furiously for position just behind them, a nine-car accident in Turns 5-6 brought out a red flag as NASCAR officials spent nearly 20 minutes actually removing some of the curbing that contributed to the melee.

The incident involved nine cars, eliminating frontrunners William Byron, Joey Logano, Daniel Suarez and Christopher Bell. Byron, had been in the top five when he hit the curbing. Just behind him Martin Truex Jr. spun then Logano and then Suarez.

Elliott finished fourth with DiBenedetto taking fifth place – his third top five of the season. Kurt Busch, Erik Jones, Allmendinger's teammate Justin Haley, Xfinity Series championship leader Austin Cindric and former Indy winner Ryan Newman rounded out the top 10.

"Wild is not a crazy enough term for what that was," DiBenedetto said of the afternoon.