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NASCAR Cup Series

Xfinity 500

Martinsville Speedway

October 31st, 2021

Race #35 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 500
- Extended to 501 laps
Miles Raced : 263.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 42 minutes 48 seconds
Average Speed: 70.968 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.472 seconds
Cautions: 15
Caution Laps: 91
Lead Changes: 15

Alex Bowman is congratulated by Jeff Gordon — Martinsville, Virginia - October 31st, 2021: Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, is congratulated by Jeff Gordon, Vice Chairman of Hendrick Motorsports after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Photo by Logan Riely | 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
Alex Bowman	13	2	2	1	1	17	5.1	+12	40	21	+19	40	87	99.8%	9	501	124.4	52
Kyle Busch	7	8	8	2	2	21	8.1	+5	50	40	+10	40	2	86.8%	0	501	105.1	42
Brad Keselowski	6	9	4	3	2	14	6.9	+3	50	42	+8	49	8	100.0%	0	501	108.5	43
Martin Truex Jr	4	4	6	4	1	13	3.6	+0	27	32	-5	27	24	100.0%	9	501	117.7	48
William Byron	11	3	5	5	2	14	5.3	+6	42	32	+10	42	21	100.0%	0	501	113.1	47
Aric Almirola	23	7	7	6	3	26	10.0	+17	83	58	+25	69	14	90.8%	0	501	94.4	37
Kurt Busch	10	10	10	7	6	26	12.6	+3	70	66	+4	55	0	84.6%	0	501	87.3	31
Erik Jones	28	17	22	8	8	28	17.7	+20	67	72	-5	22	0	20.8%	0	501	74.7	29
Chris Buescher	15	14	14	9	8	20	13.9	+6	57	67	-10	54	0	71.9%	0	501	78.7	28
Joey Logano	5	18	9	10	1	21	10.4	-5	51	74	-23	38	1	77.1%	9	501	88.6	29
Ryan Blaney	8	13	13	11	5	22	13.6	-3	54	60	-6	36	0	63.1%	0	501	80.0	26
Kevin Harvick	9	15	16	12	6	21	13.5	-3	68	91	-23	56	1	76.9%	0	501	80.0	25
Austin Dillon	14	21	17	13	1	25	14.8	+1	71	67	+4	42	5	50.3%	5	501	84.8	28
Kyle Larson	1	11	15	14	1	22	9.1	-13	61	45	+16	37	34	80.0%	77	501	98.2	32
Matt DiBenedetto	21	24	21	15	13	31	23.8	+6	50	50	+0	10	0	3.2%	0	501	61.3	22
Chase Elliott	2	1	3	16	1	22	3.3	-14	34	23	+11	18	97	92.8%	289	501	129.6	41
Christopher Bell	12	6	11	17	3	22	9.3	-5	75	70	+5	56	4	91.6%	0	501	90.3	24
Tyler Reddick	18	20	18	18	2	23	18.2	+0	76	93	-17	10	0	6.4%	0	501	65.5	19
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	25	12	12	19	10	26	16.4	+6	94	66	+28	41	1	53.7%	0	501	70.9	18
Anthony Alfredo	32	26	20	20	18	32	24.6	+12	29	38	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	501	53.2	17
Corey Lajoie	29	23	25	21	18	32	25.1	+8	31	25	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	501	50.8	16
Chase Briscoe	22	19	19	22	2	23	18.6	+0	81	100	-19	14	0	7.2%	0	501	59.8	15
Cole Custer	24	22	23	23	3	30	21.4	+1	53	69	-16	1	0	2.6%	0	501	56.0	14
Denny Hamlin	3	5	1	24	1	34	9.5	-21	72	30	+42	35	36	75.9%	103	501	92.0	19
Bubba Wallace	17	16	24	25	10	25	16.1	-8	60	69	-9	45	10	55.5%	0	501	68.9	12
Michael McDowell	19	27	26	26	19	33	27.0	-7	25	34	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	499	47.0	11
Ross Chastain	16	25	28	27	10	33	24.3	-11	48	50	-2	8	19	9.0%	0	498	59.7	10
Daniel Suarez	20	28	27	28	16	32	27.8	-8	35	41	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	498	46.3	9
BJ McLeod	30	30	29	29	28	33	29.9	+1	17	22	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	496	39.2	0
Cody Ware	31	32	30	30	30	37	31.8	+1	12	12	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	495	34.8	0
Justin Haley	35	29	31	31	28	35	31.3	+4	26	28	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	492	36.2	0
Ryan Newman	27	31	32	32	26	33	30.7	-5	30	28	+2	0	19	0.0%	0	491	46.0	5
Garrett Smithley	37	34	33	33	32	38	33.9	+4	22	11	+11	0	0	0.0%	0	490	30.2	0
Quin Houff	36	35	35	34	33	37	35.2	+2	12	19	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	483	27.5	3
Josh Bilicki	33	33	34	35	32	37	34.5	-2	19	19	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	483	30.2	0
Ryan Preece	26	37	36	36	12	37	32.8	-10	20	35	-15	0	10	0.2%	0	414	48.0	1
Timmy Hill	38	36	37	37	22	38	33.1	+1	7	11	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	206	32.0	0
Joey Gase	34	38	38	38	31	38	38.0	-4	3	8	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	10	23.2	0

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Race Fast Facts

Martinsville Speedway
73rd Annual Xfinity 500
Race Winner: Alex Bowman
Age: 28
Team : No. 48 - Ally Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Greg Ives
Alex Bowman won the 73rd Annual Xfinity 500, his sixth victory in 224 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 16th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 12 races at Martinsville Speedway.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his 20th top-10 finish in 33 races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his 21st top-10 finish in 2021.
Brad Keselowski (third) posted his 17th top-10 finish in 24 races at Martinsville Speedway.
Anthony Alfredo (20th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. have all advanced to the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Championship 4 Round.

Race Recap

Alex Bowman triumphs at Martinsville, as Martin Truex Jr. gains Championship 4

October 31st, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin provided the perfect capstone to a day of banged-up stock cars, hurt feelings and crushed dreams.

Alex Bowman took the checkered flag in Sunday's Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway after sliding up into Hamlin's race-leading Toyota on Lap 494 of 501 and knocking Hamlin's car up the track and into the outside wall.

As Bowman tried to start a burnout to celebrate his fourth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season and his first at the .526-mile short track, Hamlin drove to the frontstretch and expressed his displeasure by twice blocking the progress of Bowman's No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

"I just got loose in," Bowman said of the accident that gave him the lead. "I got in too deep (into Turn 3), knocked him out of the way and literally let him have the lead back. For anybody that wants to think I was trying to crash him, obviously that wasn't the case, considering I literally gave up the lead at Martinsville to give it back to him.

"He's been on the other side of that. He's crashed guys here for wins. I hate doing it. Obviously, I don't want to crash somebody. I just got in, got underneath him, spun him out...Regardless, we get a free grandfather clock (trophy), which is pretty special."

By the time Bowman took the checkered flag, his teammate, defending Cup champion Chase Elliott already had clinched a spot in next Sunday's Championship 4 race at Phoenix by sweeping the first two stages of the event.

Elliott joins another teammate, two-time Round of 8 winner Kyle Larson, Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. in the quartet that will vie for the series title at the one-mile track in the Sonoran Desert.

With a damaged car that had slapped the outside wall at the exit of Turn 2 on Lap 471, Truex eked out his berth in the championship race by three points over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch, who finished second to Truex's fourth but lost his slim pre-race advantage in the first two stages.

Eliminated from the Playoff with Busch were the Team Penske Fords of Brad Keselowski (third Sunday and eight points below the cutoff), Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano.

Hamlin, who started from the rear after his car twice failed pre-race inspection, had enough of a margin entering the race that his 24th-place finishing position didn't cost him a chance at the championship. But that was little consolation for the lost opportunity to add to his collection of five grandfather clocks.

"He's just a hack," Hamlin said of the race winner. "Just an absolute hack. He gets his ass kicked by his teammates every week. He's (expletive) terrible. He's just terrible. He sees one opportunity, he takes it.

"Obviously, he's got the fast car of the week and he runs 10th. He didn't want to race us there. We had a good, clean race. I moved up as high as I could on the race track to give him all the room I could - he still can't drive."

Lane choice helped Truex gain the final four after Aric Almirola got loose and forced him up the track on Lap 471, costing Truex positions and the eventual scrape with the wall. Truex gained spots on the subsequent restart on Lap 478 and chose the outside lane—directly behind Busch—for the final restart on Lap 500.

"I have no idea how we finished fourth," Truex said of the contact with the wall. "I'm going to buy a lottery ticket on the way home."

Even though Busch struggled with the handling of his No. 18 Toyota throughout the afternoon at Martinsville, he blamed his 28th-place finish last weekend at Kansas for his failure to advance to the Championship 4 Round.

"We just missed last week," said the two-time series champion—and the only active driver with more than one title. "That's where we lost all the ground. Could have come in here with 15 more points, we would have been fine on the cut. Just wasn't it. Wasn't meant to be. Obviously, it was Truex's day. We had a Hail Mary opportunity there at the end. Just didn't materialize.

"All in all, just proud of the effort for sure. We slung everything and anything at this thing today, couldn't really make it come alive. Great effort. That was there, for sure. We've just got to get better, everybody included, the whole team, in order to be able to go race with the best and race for a championship. We're not going to do that this year."

Neither will Bowman, who was eliminated from the Playoffs in the Round of 12. But the victory at NASCAR's most venerable track, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year, was ample compensation.

Not to mention the free clock.