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NASCAR Cup Series

Explore the Pocono Mountains 350

Pocono Raceway

June 27th, 2021

Race #19 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 140
Miles Raced : 350.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 26 minutes 49 seconds
Average Speed: 143.036 mph
Margin of Victory : 08.654 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 15
Lead Changes: 12

Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane — Long Pond, Pennsylvania - June 27th, 2021: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Mini's Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pocono Green 225 Recycled by J.P. Mascaro & Sons at Pocono Raceway on June 27, 2021 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Photo by Sean Gardner | 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 Busch	19	1	6	1	1	30	9.1	+18	77	61	+16	36	19	79.3%	30	140	129.8	44
Kyle Larson	12	23	5	2	2	34	17.5	+10	106	50	+56	23	4	38.6%	0	140	83.7	38
Brad Keselowski	11	18	1	3	1	31	8.0	+8	68	52	+16	33	20	80.7%	31	140	124.2	50
Kevin Harvick	13	27	13	4	2	28	12.1	+9	76	64	+12	39	2	81.4%	0	140	96.5	33
Bubba Wallace	7	12	7	5	1	25	11.7	+2	73	60	+13	44	1	71.4%	3	140	88.1	38
Ryan Blaney	16	31	14	6	2	34	16.2	+10	74	83	-9	37	13	61.4%	0	140	97.7	38
Alex Bowman	20	8	15	7	1	24	12.0	+13	75	70	+5	32	4	71.4%	18	140	93.8	30
Ryan Preece	23	11	8	8	2	32	17.0	+15	85	63	+22	25	0	48.6%	0	140	73.8	29
Tyler Reddick	10	9	16	9	2	22	11.3	+1	73	62	+11	41	1	80.7%	0	140	92.3	31
Joey Logano	14	7	17	10	1	29	14.2	+4	77	67	+10	38	3	67.9%	0	140	83.1	28
Martin Truex Jr	3	4	11	11	1	24	8.8	-8	56	46	+10	31	10	85.0%	19	140	98.0	41
William Byron	18	19	2	12	1	33	8.5	+6	73	75	-2	42	16	81.4%	22	140	111.5	35
Austin Dillon	21	24	18	13	3	34	19.8	+8	77	80	-3	18	1	28.6%	0	140	70.8	24
Denny Hamlin	17	22	4	14	1	33	9.9	+3	73	75	-2	35	8	72.9%	1	140	102.1	32
Daniel Suarez	8	30	10	15	6	32	15.2	-7	67	66	+1	28	0	62.9%	0	140	70.8	24
Aric Almirola	5	5	22	16	2	26	9.8	-11	53	59	-6	28	1	77.9%	0	140	90.0	32
Michael McDowell	2	16	20	17	1	25	14.4	-15	57	83	-26	17	1	45.7%	7	140	69.8	25
Matt DiBenedetto	32	15	21	18	2	32	20.5	+14	75	81	-6	15	0	12.9%	0	140	60.0	19
Chris Buescher	1	17	24	19	1	30	19.6	-18	72	105	-33	17	6	25.0%	6	140	63.0	18
Kurt Busch	15	10	3	20	3	30	12.2	-5	84	76	+8	34	1	72.1%	0	140	77.0	17
Chase Briscoe	24	20	12	21	9	34	19.2	+3	93	77	+16	21	0	24.3%	0	140	58.5	16
Ryan Newman	37	25	9	22	9	37	20.8	+15	78	71	+7	13	0	18.6%	0	140	59.2	15
Corey Lajoie	36	21	23	23	7	36	25.3	+13	82	64	+18	5	0	1.4%	0	139	48.5	14
Cole Custer	38	14	26	24	14	38	22.8	+14	93	63	+30	2	0	2.9%	0	139	50.7	13
Justin Allgaier	27	26	19	25	15	36	26.4	+2	52	43	+9	2	0	0.0%	0	139	43.8	0
Ross Chastain	33	6	25	26	2	33	18.0	+7	79	77	+2	25	0	42.9%	0	139	57.3	12
Chase Elliott	9	3	28	27	1	32	15.1	-18	50	86	-36	25	2	57.1%	0	139	85.8	16
Cody Ware	25	29	27	28	19	33	27.3	-3	57	65	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	139	40.7	0
BJ McLeod	30	32	29	29	24	33	30.1	+1	25	40	-15	0	0	0.0%	0	138	38.7	0
James Davison	28	33	30	30	25	34	31.4	-2	26	29	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	137	35.8	7
Erik Jones	22	28	31	31	14	34	27.0	-9	51	55	-4	2	0	0.0%	0	136	43.7	6
Christopher Bell	4	2	33	32	1	34	13.1	-28	36	92	-56	21	6	65.7%	3	135	85.1	12
Quin Houff	31	35	34	33	31	37	34.5	-2	8	12	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	135	30.3	4
Anthony Alfredo	26	38	35	34	25	38	36.6	-8	15	10	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	134	27.2	3
Josh Bilicki	34	36	36	35	34	38	36.5	-1	8	4	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	132	27.5	2
Garrett Smithley	29	34	32	36	27	36	33.3	-7	18	40	-22	0	0	0.0%	0	122	31.0	0
Timmy Hill	35	37	37	37	33	38	37.2	-2	2	9	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	113	24.7	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	6	13	38	38	4	28	18.8	-32	58	87	-29	23	1	41.4%	0	111	62.2	5

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Race Fast Facts

Pocono Raceway
48th Annual Explore the Pocono Mountains 350
Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 36
Team : No. 18 - M&M's Mini's Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
Kyle Busch won the 48th Annual Explore the Pocono Mountains 350, his 59th victory in 589 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and 11th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his fourth victory and 17th top-10 finish in 34 races at Pocono Raceway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 14 races at Pocono Raceway. It is his 13th top-10 finish in 2021.
Brad Keselowski (third) posted his 14th top-10 finish in 24 races at Pocono Raceway.
Chase Briscoe (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.
The win today was Joe Gibbs Racing's 16th NASCAR Cup Series victory at Pocono Raceway - Denny Hamlin (six wins), Kyle Busch (four), Bobby Labonte (three), Joey Logano (one), Tony Stewart (one) and Matt Kenseth (one).
23XI Racing and Bubba Wallace scored their first top-five finish of the 2021 season and first for the organization in the series.

Race Recap

Kyle Busch hangs on to win at Pocono

June 27th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

With remarkable perseverance behind the wheel of a car stuck in fourth gear, Kyle Busch saved enough fuel to win Sunday's Explore the Pocono Mountains 350, the second leg of a weekend NASCAR Cup Series doubleheader at Pocono Raceway.

After William Byron and Denny Hamlin ran out of gas ahead of him, Busch cruised to an 8.654-second victory over Kyle Larson, who started from the rear of the field in a backup car after crashing while leading in the final corner of Saturday's race.

Busch brought his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to pit road for the last time on Lap 95, one circuit after Hamlin and Byron—and that one lap of extra fuel made all the difference.

"Yeah, stuck in fourth gear, about out of gas, just saving, just riding, playing the strategy the best we could with what was given to us," said Busch, who won for the second time this season, the fourth time at Pocono and 59th time in his career—most among active drivers and ninth all-time.

"Just can't say enough about everybody on my team, everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota, TRD, all the work they're putting in.

"Sometimes these races aren't always won by the fastest car, but I felt we had the fastest car, even though we were in the back and behind and having to come through and persevere through being stuck in fourth gear, no clutch, all that stuff. It's all burned out. Nothing left in this M&M's Minis Camry.

"Really great to pull off another win here at Pocono. Feels good."

With the victory, Busch also snapped Hendrick Motorsports' six-race Cup Series winning streak.

Larson, also on a fuel-saving strategy in the closing laps, rallied for a runner-up finish after early contact with Hamlin's car dented the nose of his No. 5 Chevrolet. On a pit stop under caution, Larson's crew raised the hood of the car, pounded out the damage and secured it with tape.

"It's a surprising finish for us," Larson said. "Our HendrickCars.com Chevy was really loose for a majority of the race. Then we got a lot of nose damage there on one of the restarts. Was off on speed, I felt like after that.

"(Crew chief) Cliff (Daniels) and everybody did a really, really good job managing the race, coached me through saving fuel there at the end. Was hoping that the 18 (Busch) was going to run out. I saw the 11 (Hamlin) running out. I was, ‘OK, they're teammates, they got to be close to running out.'

"The 18 did pit a lap after us under caution. That actually probably won them the race. But, yeah, second-place finish… I thought we would be outside of the top 20 (at) a lot of points throughout the race today. We'll take it. Happy about the effort, for sure, all weekend."

Brad Keselowski led a race-high 31 laps but had to pit for fuel on Lap 132 of 140. As drivers ran out fuel over the final three laps, Keselowski held third at the finish, one spot head of fellow Ford driver Kevin Harvick.

"We ran a really good race but just didn't have enough fuel to make it to the end like those other guys did," Keselowski said. "They beat us on power and fuel mileage. We have a lot of work to do to keep up with those guys.

"I'm really proud of (crew chief) Jeremy Bullins and the team. They had the setup really well, and it put us in position and we ran a great race today and maximized our day."

Bubba Wallace ran fifth, the first top five for the 23XI team that debuted this year under the co-ownership of Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

Ryan Blaney, Saturday's winner Alex Bowman, Ryan Preece, Tyler Reddick and Joey Logano completed the top 10.

Despite finishing 14th after running out of fuel, Hamlin retained the series lead by four points over Larson. Sunday was another hard-luck story for the driver of the No. 11 Toyota.

"I mean, you're trying to win or you're trying to get the best finish that you can," Hamlin said. "But ultimately, we just didn't save enough. The 18 I think came in and got topped off because he had transmission issues. That was essentially the race."