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NASCAR Cup Series

South Point 400

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

September 26th, 2021

Race #30 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 46 minutes 08 seconds
Average Speed: 144.643 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.442 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 21
Lead Changes: 21

Denny Hamlin celebrates with a burnout after winning — Las Vegas, Nevada - September 26th, 2021: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Office Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Photo by Meg Oliphant | 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
Denny Hamlin	6	2	1	1	1	19	2.4	+5	46	37	+9	43	32	99.3%	137	267	140.4	58
Chase Elliott	11	25	2	2	1	25	7.2	+9	76	80	-4	54	29	89.9%	1	267	119.1	40
Kyle Busch	10	3	4	3	1	19	4.5	+7	77	62	+15	66	31	97.8%	2	267	118.5	52
Martin Truex Jr	4	8	3	4	1	25	8.7	+0	83	63	+20	53	3	89.9%	1	267	99.1	41
Ryan Blaney	2	4	6	5	1	22	6.8	-3	69	73	-4	47	12	92.1%	8	267	109.3	39
Tyler Reddick	13	5	5	6	1	14	6.3	+7	56	50	+6	51	20	100.0%	5	267	104.7	43
Brad Keselowski	8	12	8	7	1	21	9.9	+1	78	75	+3	59	6	95.1%	4	267	92.5	35
Kurt Busch	20	9	9	8	2	32	11.7	+12	86	68	+18	51	1	71.2%	0	267	85.4	33
Kevin Harvick	5	11	7	9	3	20	8.7	-4	76	78	-2	66	3	97.8%	0	267	95.0	34
Kyle Larson	1	1	11	10	1	21	6.9	-9	79	87	-8	63	43	86.5%	95	267	113.4	37
Joey Logano	9	10	10	11	3	32	11.8	-2	82	67	+15	56	1	81.3%	0	267	83.2	32
Matt DiBenedetto	14	7	13	12	3	24	11.4	+2	81	85	-4	48	3	76.0%	0	267	88.4	27
Austin Dillon	15	14	16	13	1	23	13.4	+2	74	69	+5	51	5	74.2%	7	266	78.8	26
Chase Briscoe	19	18	12	14	5	25	16.1	+5	73	71	+2	33	1	51.3%	0	266	74.7	23
Daniel Suarez	26	19	14	15	8	33	19.9	+11	86	82	+4	26	1	33.0%	0	266	62.6	22
Bubba Wallace	21	15	15	16	8	25	16.8	+5	77	86	-9	24	0	28.1%	0	266	68.5	22
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	23	18	17	4	31	20.8	+5	77	72	+5	10	1	6.0%	0	266	60.1	20
William Byron	3	24	21	18	1	31	11.1	-15	126	111	+15	66	21	65.5%	7	266	99.0	25
Aric Almirola	17	16	17	19	8	34	19.9	-2	74	66	+8	7	0	14.6%	0	266	60.5	18
Ryan Newman	29	17	19	20	12	29	19.8	+9	55	54	+1	9	0	5.6%	0	266	61.7	17
Michael McDowell	23	22	20	21	7	29	20.8	+2	61	69	-8	6	3	5.2%	0	266	54.4	16
Alex Bowman	7	6	23	22	3	29	14.1	-15	91	113	-22	52	6	63.7%	0	265	77.9	15
Ross Chastain	18	21	22	23	11	29	20.6	-5	78	74	+4	16	3	4.9%	0	265	63.4	14
Christopher Bell	12	26	25	24	5	33	22.8	-12	81	73	+8	23	3	15.0%	0	265	63.0	13
Chris Buescher	25	13	26	25	12	32	23.3	+0	95	109	-14	19	6	17.6%	0	265	55.6	12
Erik Jones	16	20	24	26	5	30	19.8	-10	79	96	-17	35	3	37.1%	0	265	66.7	11
Anthony Alfredo	32	30	28	27	22	32	28.0	+5	57	56	+1	0	1	0.0%	0	265	46.7	10
Ryan Preece	24	28	29	28	18	31	26.4	-4	55	64	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	265	46.8	9
Cole Custer	28	27	27	29	16	30	27.1	-1	51	63	-12	0	2	0.0%	0	265	42.1	8
Corey Lajoie	27	29	30	30	25	32	28.7	-3	41	46	-5	0	1	0.0%	0	264	43.2	7
Cody Ware	35	31	31	31	6	36	30.9	+4	10	12	-2	0	0	0.8%	0	260	37.5	0
Justin Haley	33	32	32	32	9	33	31.6	+1	10	11	-1	0	0	0.4%	0	260	38.5	0
BJ McLeod	34	33	33	33	4	34	32.8	+1	6	8	-2	0	0	0.4%	0	257	34.2	0
Quin Houff	36	36	34	34	34	36	35.1	+2	4	6	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	255	29.8	3
Garrett Smithley	30	35	35	35	29	35	34.6	-5	6	13	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	254	31.0	0
Josh Bilicki	31	34	36	36	31	36	35.2	-5	5	12	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	252	28.7	1
Joey Gase	37	37	37	37	37	38	37.3	+0	1	1	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	84	24.3	0
JJ Yeley	38	38	38	38	37	38	37.7	+0	2	3	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	76	24.2	0

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Race Fast Facts

Las Vegas Motor Speedway
4th Annual South Point 400
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 40
Team : No. 11 - FedEx Office Toyota
Owner: Coy Gibbs
Crew Chief: Christopher Gabehart
Denny Hamlin won the 4th Annual South Point 400, his 46th victory in 573 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and 21st top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and 10th top-10 finish in 21 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Chase Elliott (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 11 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2021.
Kyle Busch (third) posted his 12th top-10 finish in 22 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 14 points over Denny Hamlin.

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin Secures Spot in Round of 8 with Las Vegas Win

September 26th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

As he crossed the Las Vegas Motor Speedway finish line to claim the South Point 400 trophy, Denny Hamlin screamed into his team radio, "Viva Las Vegas." And indeed, it was that kind of night for the perennial championship contender, who led a race best 137 of the 267 laps to earn his first Las Vegas victory in 20 starts and take an automatic bid into the next round of the Playoffs.

The 40-year old Virginian edged reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott by .442-seconds. Elliott cut into Hamlin's lead on every one of the closing 10 laps, taking full advantage of traffic, but was ultimately unable to catch Hamlin's No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

Hamlin's JGR teammates Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. finished third and fourth with Penske Racing's Ryan Blaney rounding out the Top-5 – all Playoff drivers.

Tyler Reddick, who just missed advancing to this three-race Playoff round by a mere two-points last week, finished sixth after running among the Top-3 for much of the late race laps.

Penske Racing's Brad Keselowski, Chip Ganassi Racing's Kurt Busch, Stewart-Haas Racing's Kevin Harvick and regular season champion, Kyle Larson rounded out the Top-10. Keselowski, Harvick and Larson are also championship eligible.

Hamlin led seven different times, won Stage 2 and took the lead for good with 39 laps remaining – facing that challenge from Elliott in the waning laps of a what was a relatively clean race – only one yellow flag outside of the competition caution and two stage breaks.vThe only other caution for an on-track incident came out for a single car accident involving driver Joey Gase, who whose No. 15 Chevrolet lost a tire and made heavy impact with the wall. He was examined in the Infield Care Center but transported to an area hospital for a precautionary exam.

"It feels so good to win in Vegas, last couple times I've been so close but just didn't have the right breaks, but they got the car great and great to hold those guys off," said Hamlin, who earned his 46th career victory and becomes the first driver to officially earn a shot into the Playoff Round of 8.

"I'm so happy to not have to worry about the next two weeks, but I am a professional and I will work just as hard each and every week to win."

Obviously disappointed not to win, Elliott was still enthusiastic about his runner-up finish – his 12th top five of the season – rallying from a pit stop strategy that put him a lap down at one point.

"We were really close, just not quite close enough," Elliott said. "Denny did a really good job controlling the gap to me and he was having a hard time [lapping] with the 21 (Matt DiBenedetto).

"Super close. Really proud of our NAPA team and I feel like we've been performing at a really nice level the last three or four weeks, just haven't had great results to show for it.

"Proud of the effort tonight and looking forward to the next two [races]. It's going to be wild."

Elliott's Hendrick Motorsports teammate Larson certainly looked like the driver to beat early on. He led 95 laps and won his series best 15th Stage win in the opening portion of the night, but a different pit strategy put him a lap down mid-race and he never fully recovered to challenge for the lead again.

While Hamlin earned the automatic bid into the next round of the Playoffs, Larson still leads the championship standings – 22 points over Kyle Busch.

With his seventh-place finish Keselowski moved into the eighth position in the standings, with races at Talladega, Ala. and the Charlotte ROVAL remaining to determine which eight drivers move on in the championship battle.

Hendrick Motorsports William Byron, who suffered a tire problem late in the race, finished 18th and is now four points below the cutoff line. Even with his Top-10, Harvick remains ninth in the standings – still looking for his first victory of the season.

Hendrick driver Alex Bowman finished 22nd and is 13 points behind Keselowski and Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell finished 25th, two laps down Sunday night fighting through several setbacks. He is 25 points out of that transfer position.

The second race in this Playoff NASCAR Cup Series round is the YellaWood 500 next Sunday at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway (2 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Keselowski won at Talladega this April. Hamlin is the defending Playoff race winner there.