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NASCAR Cup Series

Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 7th, 2021

Race #4 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 52 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 139.615 mph
Margin of Victory : 03.156 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 30
Lead Changes: 27

Kyle Larson his wife, son and daughter — Nashville, Tennessee - December 1st, 2021: The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series championship driver, Kyle Larson his wife, Katelyn, son, Owen and daughter Audrey for pose for photos at the Twelve Thirty Club on December 01, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. 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	3	6	1	1	1	17	3.4	+2	128	117	+11	123	57	98.9%	103	267	142.6	50
Brad Keselowski	10	8	2	2	1	22	4.2	+8	133	97	+36	113	30	95.5%	27	267	123.5	54
Kyle Busch	14	15	5	3	3	26	11.7	+11	143	126	+17	73	9	74.5%	0	267	95.2	36
Denny Hamlin	6	7	3	4	1	19	4.3	+2	94	97	-3	76	13	98.5%	47	267	116.6	48
Ryan Blaney	26	9	7	5	1	26	6.1	+21	120	93	+27	93	16	96.6%	1	267	111.5	46
Martin Truex Jr	4	14	4	6	1	23	7.1	-2	129	135	-6	98	6	97.8%	6	267	103.4	35
Christopher Bell	16	13	8	7	1	30	9.0	+9	139	136	+3	103	6	94.4%	0	267	99.8	39
William Byron	2	10	9	8	1	24	6.3	-6	126	119	+7	102	31	98.5%	25	267	111.4	40
Joey Logano	15	16	11	9	1	30	11.2	+6	139	143	-4	80	1	87.6%	7	267	90.6	30
Erik Jones	29	26	13	10	6	31	16.6	+19	151	139	+12	42	5	41.6%	0	267	81.7	27
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	17	18	14	11	3	27	15.1	+6	126	140	-14	53	1	62.2%	0	267	81.6	26
Austin Dillon	12	24	15	12	3	31	16.3	+0	126	124	+2	52	0	52.4%	0	267	78.5	25
Chase Elliott	8	19	16	13	1	31	12.4	-5	165	128	+37	96	18	68.9%	22	267	89.7	34
Chris Buescher	18	25	18	14	5	29	17.9	+4	140	144	-4	30	0	24.7%	0	267	74.0	23
Ryan Preece	19	23	19	15	4	31	18.9	+4	150	156	-6	38	0	36.7%	0	266	69.3	22
Matt DiBenedetto	30	20	12	16	2	30	11.3	+14	149	143	+6	85	3	83.2%	0	266	84.7	24
Michael McDowell	5	2	20	17	1	27	17.9	-12	136	149	-13	21	0	21.0%	9	266	69.3	20
Ryan Newman	13	27	22	18	7	31	20.4	-5	117	140	-23	18	0	13.9%	0	266	61.2	19
Kurt Busch	7	21	21	19	1	27	14.4	-12	149	143	+6	80	2	58.8%	0	266	77.0	18
Kevin Harvick	1	22	23	20	1	32	17.8	-19	150	158	-8	45	1	27.0%	0	266	66.4	17
Chase Briscoe	24	29	24	21	7	31	23.8	+3	116	125	-9	12	1	4.9%	0	266	49.9	16
Tyler Reddick	11	1	17	22	1	30	19.9	-11	157	164	-7	30	6	18.0%	7	266	60.1	15
Ross Chastain	21	28	25	23	5	29	21.9	-2	153	153	+0	14	1	5.6%	0	266	55.6	14
Anthony Alfredo	27	3	26	24	1	30	22.5	+3	133	137	-4	12	0	11.6%	1	266	50.7	13
Cole Custer	20	17	27	25	2	30	24.6	-5	131	139	-8	17	0	6.0%	0	266	47.7	12
Daniel Suarez	22	5	6	26	1	32	22.5	-4	120	123	-3	19	0	15.7%	12	265	51.1	11
Alex Bowman	9	11	10	27	2	29	10.7	-18	153	165	-12	101	14	82.0%	0	265	85.9	21
Bubba Wallace	23	35	28	28	16	38	31.6	-5	41	38	+3	0	9	0.0%	0	262	49.4	9
Justin Haley	25	12	29	29	8	32	28.6	-4	42	58	-16	9	0	3.0%	0	262	40.2	0
BJ McLeod	34	31	30	30	3	34	30.4	+4	31	33	-2	0	0	0.8%	0	260	37.3	0
Garrett Smithley	31	32	31	31	30	36	31.9	+0	17	15	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	259	34.8	0
Cody Ware	32	33	32	32	31	38	33.2	+0	21	19	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	259	34.5	0
Quin Houff	36	34	33	33	33	36	34.2	+3	18	18	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	256	29.7	4
Joey Gase	37	36	34	34	33	38	35.4	+3	10	10	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	255	27.5	3
Josh Bilicki	35	37	35	35	33	38	35.8	+0	15	12	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	252	28.8	2
Timmy Hill	38	38	36	36	36	38	37.0	+2	8	7	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	246	24.2	0
Corey Lajoie	33	4	37	37	3	33	27.6	-4	91	128	-37	14	0	9.7%	0	188	41.3	1
Aric Almirola	28	30	38	38	5	30	27.3	-10	90	87	+3	17	0	10.1%	0	178	48.2	1

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Race Fast Facts

Las Vegas Motor Speedway
24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 28
Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his seventh victory in 227 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 10 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
Kyle Busch (third) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 20 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.
This is Hendrick Motorsport's 265th NASCAR Cup Series victory and the sixth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
This is Chevrolet's ninth victory in the NASCAR Cup Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson wins NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 7th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Larson left little to chance Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway leading a race best 103 laps and pulling away to a convincing 3.156-second win over former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski to win the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube - his first victory in two years.

Larson, 28, of Elk Grove, Calif. became the quickest winner in Hendrick Motorsports long and esteemed history, taking the checkered flag in only his fourth start in the team's famous No. 5 Chevrolet.

It was a hard-earned and highly-emotional win for Larson, who missed most of last season serving a suspension for using racially-insensitive language. The popular young Californian was reinstated by NASCAR in the offseason after following a course of rehabilitation and sensitivity training. He came into the season with the Hendrick Motorsports opportunity, grateful and ready to redeem himself.

Larson was exuberant speaking to the team on the radio while driving under the checkered flag as the race winner. He did celebratory burnouts on the backstretch and then again under the flag-stand on the frontstretch telling his Hendrick Motorsports team on the car radio, "What a car, what an opportunity. Thank you, guys."

Just as Larson was finishing his live television interview, Keselowski ran across the infield grass to shake Larson's hand and congratulate him on a powerful race performance.

"I'm just really happy for him, I know he's been through a lot in the last year and he's a good kid who I've known for a little while and has a good family and I'm just happy to see him bounce back," the Team Penske driver Brad Keselowski said.

"He was really fast - had a lot of speed in all the lanes which was really impressive, usually you have to make a compromise, but they were really good. If Kyle Larson wasn't here, we would have had a dominant day," Keselowski added with a smile.

It was a highly competitive race from green to checkered flag with 27 lead changes among 12 different drivers. Five drivers led at least 20 laps. Keselowski won Stage 1 and Larson won Stage 2 - the first stage victories for both drivers this season.

In all, Larson led a race best six times, working his Chevrolet back to the front no matter the challenge, ultimately pacing the field for the last 30 laps en route to his seventh career win. It is his first on a 1.5-mile track after nine previous runner-up finishes on mile-and-a-half venues.

"It was such an awesome car," Larson said. "Cliff (Daniels, crew chief) and everybody did a great job preparing this piece. It was so much fun to drive. I could go wherever I wanted to. I know we had a really good car once we would kind of get single-filed out; but just drafting early in the run was tough.

"But thank you so much Mr. Hendrick, Jeff Gordon and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports for the amazing opportunity I've been gifted. Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet everybody at the engine shop. Thank you so much for all the hard work. This is definitely special."

Larson and Keselowski managed to use the final portion of the race to get around the full-on Joe Gibbs Racing team, whose drivers combined to lead 53 laps on the afternoon. Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Kyle Busch - a Las Vegas native - and Denny Hamlin finished third and fourth. Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney was fifth, his first top 10 of the season.

Two more Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas, driven by Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell were sixth and seventh, followed by last week's winner, Hendrick Motorsport's William Byron. Team Penske driver Joey Logano and Richard Petty Motorsport's driver Erik Jones rounded out the top 10.

Larson's teammate Chase Elliott - the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion - finished 13th after overcoming several problems. His team had a jack issue in the pits and contact with another car made for multiple long pit stops.

"We were good on the short run, just didn't quite have enough long run speed," said Denny Hamlin, who led 47 laps on the day. "Certainly I thought it was a good start, we'll just gather our data and try to figure out what we need to do to be better when we come back here and it really counts."

Hamlin and Keselowski, who are still looking for their first wins of the 2021 season sit atop the championship points standings. Hamlin leads by 38 points over Keselowski and Larson is third.