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NASCAR Cup Series

Foxwoods Resort Casino 301

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

July 18th, 2021

Race #22 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 301
- Shortened to 293 laps
Miles Raced : 310.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 07 minutes 52 seconds
Average Speed: 99.004 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.697 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 47
Lead Changes: 14

Kyle Busch leads Martin Truex Jr at New Hampshire Motor Speedway — Loudon, New Hampshire - July 18th, 2021: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Interstate Batteries Toyota, leads Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Resers Fine Foods #LetsPicnic Toyota, and Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet, to the green flag to start the NASCAR Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor 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
Aric Almirola	22	4	3	1	1	26	8.1	+21	53	34	+19	36	22	84.3%	25	293	117.0	46
Christopher Bell	9	10	5	2	1	12	6.6	+7	45	48	-3	41	20	100.0%	0	293	109.0	40
Brad Keselowski	11	1	4	3	1	18	3.3	+8	47	42	+5	35	36	99.7%	53	293	129.9	53
Joey Logano	15	25	8	4	3	36	20.5	+11	58	27	+31	34	4	39.3%	0	293	93.9	33
Ryan Blaney	7	5	6	5	1	9	3.8	+2	39	33	+6	34	31	100.0%	64	293	121.5	50
Kevin Harvick	12	2	7	6	1	18	4.4	+6	26	30	-4	21	44	99.0%	66	293	121.1	47
Kyle Larson	10	6	9	7	3	22	8.1	+3	53	53	+0	36	12	93.5%	0	293	98.0	35
Ross Chastain	20	8	13	8	1	20	8.5	+12	40	38	+2	30	0	98.3%	3	293	94.2	34
Alex Bowman	5	12	14	9	3	31	11.2	-4	53	47	+6	41	1	94.5%	0	293	84.9	28
Denny Hamlin	6	3	17	10	1	26	10.7	-4	57	35	+22	26	24	71.7%	1	293	92.5	38
Matt DiBenedetto	14	13	1	11	1	16	10.2	+3	56	58	-2	49	9	99.7%	20	293	87.5	28
Martin Truex Jr	2	20	18	12	2	37	19.7	-10	73	45	+28	14	1	12.6%	0	293	76.6	25
Tyler Reddick	8	9	10	13	2	21	8.2	-5	43	46	-3	38	5	99.0%	0	293	91.5	33
Cole Custer	21	14	16	14	9	23	14.7	+7	51	57	-6	36	0	69.3%	0	293	76.3	23
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	29	16	15	15	11	29	16.5	+14	69	57	+12	16	2	43.7%	0	293	74.3	22
Kurt Busch	4	11	19	16	1	23	11.2	-12	25	42	-17	13	1	83.3%	2	292	75.4	22
Austin Dillon	13	28	20	17	9	30	19.7	-4	42	42	+0	8	0	27.3%	0	292	68.8	20
Chase Elliott	3	7	21	18	1	28	8.4	-15	48	50	-2	28	14	75.4%	53	292	97.3	32
Erik Jones	24	22	23	19	7	27	20.4	+5	66	78	-12	6	0	7.9%	0	292	62.0	18
Daniel Suarez	31	17	22	20	12	31	21.2	+11	61	51	+10	3	0	2.7%	0	292	59.2	17
William Byron	16	15	2	21	2	25	14.8	-5	74	67	+7	37	2	58.7%	0	292	67.3	16
Ryan Preece	25	26	26	22	16	34	23.9	+3	73	62	+11	0	0	0.0%	0	292	53.0	15
Corey Lajoie	26	21	25	23	4	34	23.8	+3	77	84	-7	8	0	4.1%	0	292	50.7	14
Ryan Newman	28	18	24	24	13	29	21.7	+4	60	69	-9	0	0	0.7%	0	292	54.7	13
Michael McDowell	23	23	27	25	12	29	23.9	-2	49	67	-18	1	0	4.1%	0	292	47.0	12
Bubba Wallace	18	27	11	26	3	34	22.3	-8	77	65	+12	10	3	9.6%	0	292	52.0	11
Chase Briscoe	19	24	12	27	5	32	23.2	-8	74	77	-3	7	0	7.5%	0	291	49.0	10
Justin Haley	30	19	29	28	12	33	26.2	+2	50	71	-21	3	0	1.0%	0	291	42.3	0
Chris Buescher	17	30	28	29	12	30	24.1	-12	43	45	-2	4	4	10.6%	0	290	54.8	8
BJ McLeod	32	29	30	30	19	37	29.6	+2	7	17	-10	0	0	0.0%	0	288	39.0	0
Cody Ware	34	33	32	31	20	36	33.3	+3	8	16	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	285	32.2	0
Anthony Alfredo	27	32	31	32	23	36	31.8	-5	13	13	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	285	34.8	5
Garrett Smithley	33	34	33	33	25	35	33.4	+0	5	17	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	283	29.8	0
Josh Bilicki	35	31	34	34	20	35	31.3	+1	16	22	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	280	33.3	3
Quin Houff	36	35	35	35	19	36	33.3	+1	6	23	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	187	30.8	2
James Davison	37	36	36	36	21	37	35.6	+1	7	19	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	40	23.7	1
Kyle Busch	1	37	37	37	1	36	36.0	-36	0	0	+0	0	4	2.7%	6	8	43.7	1

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Race Fast Facts

New Hampshire Motor Speedway
29th Annual Foxwoods Resort Casino 301
Race Winner: Aric Almirola
Age: 37
Team : No. 10 - Smithfield Ford
Owner: Tony Stewart
Crew Chief: Mike Bugarewicz
Aric Almirola won the 29th Annual Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, his third 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 fifth top-10 finish in 20 races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Christopher Bell (second) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2021.
Brad Keselowski (third) posted his 14th top-10 finish in 22 races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (27th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Denny Hamlin leads the point standings by 13 points over Kyle Larson.

Race Recap

Aric Almirola shakes up NASCAR Cup Playoff standings with unexpected win at New Hampshire

July 18th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

With a stunning victory in Sunday's Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Aric Almirola sent shock waves through the NASCAR Cup Series' Playoff standings.

With hard-charging Christopher Bell closing behind him, Almirola crossed the finish line at the 1.058-mile track .657 seconds ahead of the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to win the third race of his career and give Stewart-Haas Racing its first ostensible Playoff berth of the 2021 campaign.

After battling Team Penske teammates Brad Keselowski and Ryan Blaney—who waged their own internecine war shortly after the start of the third stage—Almirola had to hold off Bell to win for the first time this season and for the first time on a track that isn't a superspeedway.

Almirola entered Sunday's event 27th in the Cup standings. Leaving New Hampshire, he's eligible to compete for the series championship, barring the unlikeliest of circumstances.

"This is by far one of my favorite race tracks," an elated Almirola said after taking the checkered flag. "I love coming up to the New England area and racing. I love this race track. I had this race won a couple of years ago, and I gave it away—I lost it. And I am so glad to win a race here with this race team.

"It's so good, man. We've been through so much, and I just stood the test. Everybody has just been working so hard… There've been so many people who have continued to support us through the crappiest year ever. Man, this feels so good for them. My pit crew did a phenomenal job on pit road. There's no doubt we've struggled, but guess what? We're going Playoff racing."

It helped Almirola's cause that NASCAR cut the race eight laps short of the scheduled 301 circuits because of darkness, a move necessitated by a rain delay that commenced after eight laps had been completed and Kyle Busch's polesitting car had been wrecked beyond repair.

Bell thought an extra eight laps might have made the difference.

"I didn't know how many laps they cut it short, but definitely whenever I saw the board and saw that we were eight laps short, it stings, man, because I feel like I probably had a little bit better pace than him, and I was able to get to him," said Bell, who won Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the track.

"I know lapped cars were giving him a bad time, but I was able to get to him, and it was going to be a heck of a race."

Penske teammates Keselowski, Joey Logano and Blaney ran third, fourth and fifth, respectively, with Logano recovering from a two-lap penalty incurred during the rain delay. Nicked for the two circuits when a crewman worked on his car during the red-flag period, Logano used two free passes under caution to his advantage.

Kevin Harvick finished sixth after winning the first stage and leading a race-high 66 laps, the first time since May 9 at Darlington the driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford had been at the front of the field.

Ford drivers claimed five of the top six finishing positions, with Bell in a Toyota being the only exception. Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman and Denny Hamlin completed the top 10.

Almirola's victory set up a battle between Richard Childress Racing teammates Tyler Reddick and Austin Dillon for the 16th and final Playoff berth. Both were comfortably situated in points before the race, but Almirola's win reduced the number of available spots in the postseason from four to three.

Reddick currently leads Dillon by five points for the last Playoff-eligible position with four regular-season events remaining.

On Lap 6, as rain began falling with sudden intensity, frontrunner Kyle Busch spun into the Turn 1 wall, crushing the rear of his No. 18 Toyota. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. suffered a similar fate on the wet track, damaging the front end and splitter of his No. 19 Camry.

Hamlin spun behind Busch and Truex, making slight contact with the No. 48 Chevrolet of Bowman, but Hamlin had more time to react after witnessing the ill fortune of his JGR teammates and escaped major damage.

NASCAR officials were surprised at how quickly mist turned to hard rain rendered the track too treacherous to continue the race.

"As (race director) Tim Bermann is about to put out the yellow, we look down and (Busch) is already getting loose," said NASCAR executive director and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell.

"I've been here a number of years. That's the first time I've seen that in terms of how quickly it came upon us. Certainly mist, we've raced in mist conditions before. The track got slick, obviously, in a hurry, and it was unfortunate what took place."

The wreck eliminated Busch from the race in 37th (last) place. Truex recovered to finish 12th.

Logano suffered corollary damage when debris from the track stuck in the throttle linkage and prevented the throttle from opening fully. Because a crew member began working on the car before the red flag was lifted, Logano incurred the two-lap penalty.