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NASCAR Cup Series

Federated Auto Parts Salute to American Heroes 400

Richmond Raceway

September 11th, 2021

Race #28 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 400
Miles Raced : 300.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 03 minutes 06 seconds
Average Speed: 98.307 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.417 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 30
Lead Changes: 21

Martin Truex Jr celebrates after winning at Richmond Raceway — Richmond, Virginia - September 11th, 2021: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Red White Blue Toyota, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders at Richmond Raceway. 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
Martin Truex Jr	3	3	1	1	1	37	7.0	+2	88	99	-11	48	43	88.3%	80	400	125.5	51
Denny Hamlin	2	1	2	2	1	23	1.8	+0	65	64	+1	35	72	99.8%	197	400	138.9	55
Christopher Bell	10	8	3	3	1	19	7.7	+7	87	82	+5	59	74	97.3%	10	400	108.9	39
Chase Elliott	13	15	4	4	1	17	6.5	+9	73	69	+4	54	30	99.0%	58	400	117.6	42
Joey Logano	6	4	5	5	2	21	4.9	+1	69	67	+2	49	8	99.0%	0	400	112.7	46
Kyle Larson	1	7	8	6	1	35	8.2	-5	96	70	+26	60	33	91.8%	8	400	100.2	45
Ross Chastain	17	5	6	7	1	17	7.1	+10	89	74	+15	71	12	99.8%	4	400	102.4	39
Kevin Harvick	5	9	7	8	3	23	8.9	-3	73	80	-7	41	5	97.8%	0	400	93.6	32
Kyle Busch	15	2	9	9	1	32	7.3	+6	90	69	+21	51	15	90.8%	39	400	105.5	37
Ryan Blaney	8	13	11	10	2	15	9.1	-2	70	76	-6	49	3	100.0%	0	399	87.5	33
Austin Dillon	19	14	10	11	5	28	13.0	+8	83	81	+2	37	6	92.8%	0	399	78.8	26
Alex Bowman	12	12	13	12	6	19	11.9	+0	68	76	-8	47	3	99.5%	0	399	82.3	27
Brad Keselowski	7	10	12	13	3	17	9.3	-6	60	69	-9	45	1	99.8%	0	399	85.4	28
Aric Almirola	9	6	14	14	6	23	10.9	-5	83	93	-10	48	5	86.0%	0	399	84.9	27
Tyler Reddick	11	16	15	15	7	28	14.8	-4	79	78	+1	15	5	54.5%	0	398	79.1	22
Chase Briscoe	26	17	17	16	7	29	19.1	+10	96	99	-3	8	1	6.3%	0	398	64.9	21
Daniel Suarez	22	18	16	17	14	32	19.7	+5	100	90	+10	3	11	11.5%	0	398	61.7	20
Matt DiBenedetto	28	24	22	18	1	30	19.2	+10	131	108	+23	27	10	16.0%	0	398	68.6	19
William Byron	14	11	18	19	4	25	16.0	-5	82	90	-8	31	3	47.0%	0	398	68.8	18
Ryan Newman	24	22	19	20	13	30	20.6	+4	90	97	-7	3	0	2.5%	0	398	60.0	17
Erik Jones	31	23	20	21	12	31	21.1	+10	87	86	+1	0	1	0.5%	0	398	61.9	16
Cole Custer	21	20	23	22	7	36	23.2	-1	132	120	+12	9	8	2.5%	0	397	49.9	15
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	23	21	21	23	3	26	19.2	+0	109	111	-2	12	5	4.3%	0	397	64.6	14
Chris Buescher	18	26	24	24	11	31	25.7	-6	90	106	-16	2	1	0.3%	0	396	46.9	13
Ryan Preece	20	25	25	25	17	31	25.1	-5	90	80	+10	0	0	0.0%	0	396	49.7	12
Anthony Alfredo	30	29	26	26	5	32	27.9	+4	91	96	-5	3	0	0.5%	0	396	41.3	11
Justin Haley	29	30	27	27	18	33	28.0	+2	70	83	-13	0	0	0.0%	0	396	41.5	0
Michael McDowell	16	28	29	28	12	31	25.5	-12	80	92	-12	3	3	1.0%	0	395	56.6	9
Corey Lajoie	25	27	28	29	4	31	25.2	-4	81	97	-16	5	1	1.3%	0	395	50.4	8
BJ McLeod	32	31	30	30	10	35	30.2	+2	60	64	-4	2	0	0.0%	0	393	37.0	0
Bubba Wallace	27	19	31	32	9	32	25.6	-5	91	70	+21	3	3	0.3%	0	388	41.6	5
Joey Gase	34	36	33	33	33	37	34.7	+1	20	24	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	387	27.2	0
JJ Yeley	37	32	34	34	1	37	32.3	+3	32	41	-9	0	0	0.5%	0	386	29.7	0
Quin Houff	35	34	35	35	30	37	34.7	+0	21	21	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	386	28.5	2
Josh Bilicki	33	35	36	36	28	36	35.1	-3	11	19	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	385	28.3	1
Kurt Busch	4	37	37	37	1	4	33.5	-33	3	3	+0	3	2	10.0%	4	40	40.4	1

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Race Fast Facts

Richmond Raceway
64th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders
Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
Age: 41
Team : No. 19 - Bass Pro Shops Red White Blue Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: James Small
Martin Truex Jr. won the 64th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders, his 31st victory in 577 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 15th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 31 races at Richmond Raceway.
Denny Hamlin (second) posted his 19th top-10 finish in 30 races at Richmond Raceway. It is his 19th top-10 finish in 2021.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Richmond Raceway.
Chase Briscoe (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joe Gibbs Racing leads the NASCAR Cup Series in victories at Richmond Raceway with 17 wins: Tony Stewart (1999, 2001, 2002), Denny Hamlin (2009, 2010, 2016), Kyle Busch (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018 sweep), Matt Kenseth (2015), Carl Edwards (2016), Martin Truex Jr. (2019 sweep, 2021).

Race Recap

Martin Truex Jr. wins Playoff race at Richmond Raceway

September 11th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Martin Truex Jr. received a penalty on the opening lap of the race for crossing the start/finish line in front of polesitter Denny Hamlin at the green flag. But 400 laps later Truex led the field across the line again – this time as the race winner of Saturday night's Federated Auto Parts 400 Salute to First Responders at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.

The convincing 1.317-second margin of victory over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Hamlin and Christopher Bell marked Truex's third win in the last five races at Richmond, his fourth win of the 2021 season and, most importantly, gave him that coveted automatic bid into the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.

Truex joins Hamlin, who won last week's Playoff opener at Darlington, S.C. and Regular Season Champion Kyle Larson, who finished sixth on Saturday, as the only three drivers to have officially secured positions in the Playoffs' Round of 12 that begins in two weeks at Las Vegas.

The first thing Truex did after climbing out of his winning No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was acknowledge the importance of the September 11 date to our country and thank the fans for showing their support on the solemn anniversary and for their patriotic support of the sport of NASCAR.

As for his early setback, "That was frustrating, I'm not going to lie," Truex said of the race start. "But I knew we had a good enough car to overcome it. Just one of those things you have to put out of your mind and go race. A lot on the line tonight.

"But going to Bristol (Tenn.) next week without any worries is always fun," he added with a smile.

Truex, who led a total of 80 laps, took the lead for good – pacing the field for the final 51 laps – following a series of green flag pit stops in the final portion of the race. Just prior to the pit sequence, another JGR teammate, Kyle Busch, had positioned himself to be a factor at the checkered flag. Instead, Busch received his second pit road penalty of the night – a speeding violation during his green flag stop with 55 laps remaining. At the time, it dropped him to 10th place, the last car on the lead lap after he had been out front for 39 laps just prior to the green flag stops. He ultimately finished ninth.

Last week's winner Hamlin had been the strong car early, leading 100 of the opening 152 laps and a race best 197 on the night, winning both Stages. But the pit road sequence, lapped traffic and an awakened Truex forced Hamlin to play catch-up in the end.

"The whole JGR team had fast cars for all of us today. I really wish we had gotten two in a row, but regardless still a great day for the team," Hamlin said.

Unlike last week's Playoff opener at Darlington, when several of the 16 Playoff cars suffered setbacks and disappointing finishes, Saturday night those cars reminded why they are in position to challenge for a championship. Thirteen of the top 15 cars were driven by Playoff drivers.

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott finished fourth in a Hendrick Chevrolet and Team Penske's Joey Logano was fifth in a Ford. Larson finished sixth, followed by the only non-Playoff driver among the top 10, Ross Chastain.

Stewart-Haas Racing's driver Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Team Penske's Ryan Blaney rounded out the top 10.

Playoff drivers Alex Bowman, Brad Keselowski, Aric Almirola and Tyler Reddick finished 12th-15th. William Byron (19th), Michael McDowell (28th) and Kurt Busch (37th) rounded out the Playoff finishers.

Busch, who led laps early, suffered a tire problem that sent his No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet hard into the Turn 1 wall only 40 laps into the race.

"Something happened with that left rear, it let go," said Busch, who was running in the top-five at the time of his accident. "It let go of our points and it let go of our whole season right now. I don't know what we're going to have to do at Bristol other than win."

Despite the tough luck, Busch heads into Saturday night's Playoff Round of 16 finale at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in a mathematical tie with Bowman for the 12th Playoff position – and last transfer position.

Reddick (-5), Byron (-18), Daytona 500 winner McDowell (-38) are currently outside the top-12, with four of the 16 cars eliminated from the Playoffs following Bristol's Bass Pro Shops Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Harvick is the defending winner of the Bristol Playoff race. Joey Logano won the 2021 race at the Bristol track's inaugural dirt race in March. Kurt Busch has six previous wins at Bristol and his younger brother Kyle is the winningest active driver with eight victories.