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NASCAR Cup Series

Instacart 500

Phoenix Raceway

March 14th, 2021

Race #5 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 312
Miles Raced : 318.9
Time of Race : 03 Hours 00 minutes 20 seconds
Average Speed: 103.808 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.698 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 45
Lead Changes: 22

Brad Keselowski leads the field — Avondale, Arizona - March 14th, 2021: Brad Keselowski, driver of the #2 Wurth Ford, leads the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Instacart 500 at Phoenix Raceway on March 14, 2021 in Avondale, Arizona. Photo by Christian Petersen | 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
Martin Truex Jr	5	4	3	1	1	32	6.3	+4	86	70	+16	46	52	89.7%	64	312	124.7	49
Joey Logano	9	1	1	2	1	13	2.5	+7	41	37	+4	30	38	100.0%	143	312	134.8	54
Denny Hamlin	3	6	5	3	1	11	3.8	+0	44	41	+3	38	38	100.0%	33	312	125.0	49
Brad Keselowski	1	5	2	4	1	28	3.9	-3	61	63	-2	32	14	99.4%	19	312	116.6	48
Chase Elliott	6	9	8	5	3	30	11.8	+1	139	104	+35	50	10	64.4%	0	312	93.7	40
Kevin Harvick	18	7	6	6	4	29	7.7	+12	105	104	+1	70	11	99.0%	0	312	102.9	40
Kyle Larson	2	22	4	7	1	33	10.6	-5	145	108	+37	63	45	74.4%	1	312	99.7	32
William Byron	10	8	7	8	5	32	10.6	+2	134	106	+28	75	7	84.9%	0	312	94.3	36
Christopher Bell	4	10	13	9	2	19	8.6	-5	84	83	+1	65	10	96.5%	0	312	97.3	29
Ryan Blaney	8	3	11	10	1	17	4.8	-2	68	72	-4	44	14	100.0%	35	312	107.4	43
Aric Almirola	32	11	9	11	5	32	14.0	+21	139	125	+14	60	0	67.3%	0	312	82.2	29
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	11	16	15	12	1	23	12.5	-1	104	112	-8	48	1	83.0%	1	312	84.3	25
Alex Bowman	21	14	17	13	11	33	17.2	+8	146	110	+36	33	1	51.9%	0	312	76.2	24
Matt DiBenedetto	20	12	18	14	8	27	13.9	+6	98	106	-8	52	1	72.8%	0	312	81.6	24
Kurt Busch	12	13	12	15	6	26	13.6	-3	107	109	-2	49	0	77.9%	0	312	81.0	22
Bubba Wallace	25	24	16	16	1	26	15.7	+9	136	136	+0	35	4	39.4%	4	312	74.5	21
Austin Dillon	13	25	14	17	11	33	21.3	-4	103	93	+10	11	4	14.7%	0	312	64.1	20
Chris Buescher	17	19	25	18	13	29	22.9	-1	121	137	-16	3	0	1.6%	0	312	57.2	19
Ross Chastain	22	20	19	19	10	28	20.2	+3	100	105	-5	7	0	5.1%	0	312	61.0	18
Erik Jones	14	15	21	20	8	30	17.1	-6	113	132	-19	20	0	37.8%	0	312	67.3	17
Daniel Suarez	27	23	20	21	14	33	23.8	+6	113	111	+2	2	0	0.0%	0	312	52.5	16
Chase Briscoe	26	18	22	22	2	29	19.2	+4	140	149	-9	16	0	25.6%	0	312	64.7	15
Michael McDowell	16	27	23	23	11	31	24.2	-7	102	106	-4	3	0	6.4%	0	312	52.3	14
Justin Haley	29	28	26	24	3	33	28.1	+5	87	92	-5	4	0	1.0%	0	312	46.3	0
Kyle Busch	7	30	24	25	5	31	17.5	-18	104	109	-5	45	1	46.5%	0	311	80.7	17
Ryan Preece	15	26	27	26	12	31	25.3	-11	97	96	+1	11	0	2.2%	0	311	48.8	11
Corey Lajoie	33	2	28	27	1	33	23.9	+6	84	88	-4	5	0	13.8%	12	311	53.3	10
Ryan Newman	19	29	29	28	15	33	26.9	-9	65	85	-20	5	0	0.3%	0	311	45.7	9
Tyler Reddick	23	17	30	29	7	31	20.9	-6	104	114	-10	18	0	12.2%	0	310	55.3	8
BJ McLeod	30	31	31	30	2	31	29.3	+0	51	88	-37	6	0	1.9%	0	309	39.5	0
Cole Custer	24	21	10	31	9	32	18.9	-7	133	140	-7	47	6	29.8%	0	308	59.1	6
Quin Houff	35	32	32	32	28	36	32.7	+3	33	30	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	305	33.5	5
James Davison	38	33	33	33	23	38	33.1	+5	11	17	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	303	33.0	4
Garrett Smithley	34	34	34	34	33	38	34.9	+0	7	11	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	300	28.7	0
Josh Bilicki	36	35	35	35	33	37	35.2	+1	8	8	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	258	28.7	2
Cody Ware	31	36	36	36	4	37	34.6	-5	4	8	-4	0	0	0.3%	0	101	32.2	0
Anthony Alfredo	28	37	37	37	22	35	35.9	-9	9	21	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	87	30.0	1
Timmy Hill	37	38	38	38	37	38	38.0	-1	2	2	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	15	23.2	0

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Phoenix Raceway
17th Annual Instacart 500
Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
Age: 40
Team : No. 19 - Bass Pro Toyota
Owner: Coy Gibbs
Crew Chief: James Small
Martin Truex Jr. won the 17th Annual Instacart 500, his 28th victory in 554 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021, breaking a 29-race winless streak. Truex's last win came at Martinsville Speedway on June 10, 2020.
This is his first victory and 13th top-10 finish in 31 races at Phoenix Raceway.
Joey Logano (second) posted his 14th top-10 finish in 25 races at Phoenix Raceway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2021.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 19th top-10 finish in 32 races at Phoenix Raceway.
Chase Briscoe (22nd) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joe Gibbs Racing (Truex, Christopher Bell) joins Hendrick Motorsports (William Byron, Kyle Larson) with two drivers qualified for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.

Race Recap

Martin Truex Jr. ends 29-race winless streak with Phoenix victory

March 14th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Martin Truex Jr. overcame an early-race brush with the wall and took the lead on the final restart with 25 laps remaining to earn his first victory of 2021 and first in 31 career starts at Phoenix Raceway.

Truex's No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota ultimately held off Joey Logano's No. 22 Penske Racing Ford by a convincing 1.698-seconds for the win in the Instacart 500. The 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion Truex took the race lead from the outside on a bold restart move - pulling away in the closing laps of a spirited race that featured 22 lead changes.

Truex, 40, of New Jersey, is now the fifth different winner in as many NASCAR Cup Series races this season joining Michael McDowell, Christopher Bell, William Byron and Kyle Larson who have also earned spots in the Playoffs.

"Just an awesome job by everybody, [crew chief] James [Small], all the pit crew guys fixing it, just really solid," said Truex, who now has 28 career wins. "At the beginning of the race I thought we were going to run 15th or so. Man, I just really can't believe it. I'm kind of speechless.

"This feels pretty amazing. Phoenix has been a tough one for us.

"I wish it was November and I was in the Final Four," he added with a smile, referring to the season championship finale at Phoenix Raceway later in the year. "Just so thankful and proud of everyone at JGR, everyone who makes this possible."

Statistically, Logano's Ford was the dominant car on the afternoon, leading a race best 143 of the 312 laps and winning Stage 2 - his first stage win of the year. His Penske Racing teammate Ryan Blaney won Stage 1 (also his first stage victory of 2021) and all three Penske Racing cars finished in the Top-10. In all, the Penske trio of Logano, Blaney and Keselowski combined to lead 197 laps - out front 63 percent of the day.

Logano started alongside Truex on the front row for the final restart and mounted a challenge for the lead, but he couldn't hold off Truex even with a more favorable inside starting position.

"I was surprised he was able to hang with me on that [final] start," a disappointed Logano conceded of Truex's winning move. "He had a good start too, but I had a good one on the bottom and I thought might have short-cut it on the dogleg and I thought, boy I might have him cleared. Then we went into that corner still door-to-door and when you're door-to-door the outside car has control.

"I'm pretty sure even if I beat him even on that start he was still going to hound me and probably get by me. They had the best car. We had a good car for sure, but once they tuned it in toward the second stage, it was the best car on the race track."

Truex's JGR teammate Denny Hamlin was third, followed by Logano's teammate Brad Keselowski and last November's Phoenix winner Chase Elliott in fifth.

Kevin Harvick, a nine-time Phoenix winner, was sixth, earning his fourth Top-10 finish in the season's opening five races. Last week's Las Vegas winner Kyle Larson was seventh, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron was eighth followed by JGR driver Christopher Bell and Blaney to round out the Top-10.

Even without the victory, it was an impressive showing for the three Hendrick Motorsports cars that rallied to a Top-10. Elliott, Larson and Byron all had to start from the rear of the field on Sunday with inspection issues. And the fourth Hendrick car, driven by Alex Bowman, was equally resilient with a 13th place finish despite hitting the wall and bringing out an early race caution flag.

Larson, in particular put on a lesson in resiliency. He rallied to race among the Top-10 - even lead a lap - a third of the way into the race - but was sent back to the rear of the lead lap cars twice after that because of pit road speeding violations.