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NASCAR Cup Series

Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

Texas Motor Speedway

October 17th, 2021

Race #33 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 334
Miles Raced : 501.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 42 minutes 54 seconds
Average Speed: 134.859 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.459 seconds
Cautions: 11
Caution Laps: 55
Lead Changes: 8

Kyle Larson celebrates in victory lane — Fort Worth, Texas - October 17th, 2021: Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas 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
Kyle Larson	1	1	1	1	1	16	2.1	+0	34	29	+5	32	104	100.0%	256	334	150.0	58
William Byron	12	2	2	2	1	14	2.5	+10	51	47	+4	43	57	100.0%	55	334	125.1	50
Christopher Bell	11	11	14	3	2	20	11.7	+8	70	71	-1	55	3	94.0%	0	334	92.2	34
Brad Keselowski	7	8	3	4	2	28	7.9	+3	76	64	+12	62	11	83.5%	0	334	101.0	40
Kevin Harvick	24	9	9	5	2	31	9.4	+19	93	94	-1	82	14	88.0%	0	334	101.1	39
Ryan Blaney	4	4	5	6	2	15	5.3	-2	76	63	+13	75	22	100.0%	0	334	112.7	48
Chase Elliott	6	14	7	7	2	24	10.3	-1	97	88	+9	70	5	90.4%	0	334	95.0	33
Kyle Busch	3	3	10	8	1	33	8.0	-5	83	74	+9	71	11	92.5%	20	334	103.0	40
Tyler Reddick	9	13	4	9	2	17	6.0	+0	65	73	-8	60	20	99.4%	0	334	109.4	32
Daniel Suarez	19	12	8	10	7	26	15.1	+9	89	89	+0	54	0	59.6%	0	334	76.5	27
Denny Hamlin	2	5	6	11	1	16	7.5	-9	73	73	+0	69	1	99.1%	2	334	101.9	34
Erik Jones	21	20	15	12	10	25	15.2	+9	86	87	-1	39	5	49.7%	0	334	80.5	25
Matt DiBenedetto	13	19	13	13	2	22	14.1	+0	64	81	-17	33	0	51.8%	0	334	81.0	24
Austin Dillon	15	18	19	14	7	22	16.6	+1	55	69	-14	16	6	22.2%	0	334	75.2	23
Chase Briscoe	26	10	16	15	5	32	13.5	+11	71	55	+16	49	0	60.5%	0	334	77.7	30
Kurt Busch	17	6	18	16	3	21	13.5	+1	70	60	+10	45	5	56.3%	0	332	81.5	33
Michael McDowell	16	16	20	17	10	27	19.3	-1	56	58	-2	9	0	8.1%	0	332	65.8	20
Aric Almirola	22	21	21	18	7	30	20.5	+4	36	23	+13	9	0	3.3%	0	331	64.8	19
Cole Custer	20	22	22	19	12	27	21.6	+1	32	34	-2	11	1	3.0%	0	330	61.4	18
Corey Lajoie	29	23	23	20	17	33	23.2	+9	28	23	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	329	61.2	17
Chris Buescher	10	17	12	21	4	27	15.0	-11	51	57	-6	30	0	49.7%	0	327	69.7	16
BJ McLeod	35	26	25	22	4	35	24.9	+13	16	25	-9	0	0	1.2%	0	324	56.5	0
David Starr	38	27	27	23	18	38	27.0	+15	10	10	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	323	49.3	0
Garrett Smithley	36	25	26	24	24	39	27.4	+12	10	10	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	321	43.0	0
Martin Truex Jr	8	7	11	25	1	17	10.3	-17	65	72	-7	59	0	94.6%	1	320	78.4	12
Josh Bilicki	33	28	28	26	15	34	28.6	+7	7	7	+0	0	0	0.3%	0	319	42.5	0
Timmy Hill	39	29	29	27	19	39	29.2	+12	4	8	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	317	44.2	0
Ross Chastain	25	30	30	28	18	34	29.5	-3	19	13	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	311	46.8	9
Anthony Alfredo	28	24	24	29	21	34	24.8	-1	13	20	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	299	52.7	8
Joey Logano	5	15	17	30	2	21	11.8	-25	49	63	-14	42	2	83.8%	0	298	86.5	7
Quin Houff	30	31	31	31	19	35	31.0	-1	2	19	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	59	33.5	6
Bubba Wallace	18	32	32	32	12	33	30.4	-14	10	13	-3	10	0	8.4%	0	38	47.2	5
Alex Bowman	14	33	33	33	13	33	31.7	-19	13	7	+6	0	0	0.3%	0	36	44.0	4
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	27	34	34	34	17	29	33.2	-7	12	10	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	31	37.2	3
Ryan Newman	31	35	35	35	16	31	33.9	-4	15	10	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	31	37.3	2
Ryan Preece	23	36	36	36	23	33	35.3	-13	7	14	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	30	29.8	1
Justin Haley	32	37	37	37	23	35	36.4	-5	10	1	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	30	29.0	0
Cody Ware	34	38	38	38	9	35	37.4	-4	5	6	-1	0	0	0.3%	0	30	26.2	0
Joey Gase	37	39	39	39	37	39	38.9	-2	1	1	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	29	23.3	0

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Race Fast Facts

Texas Motor Speedway
17th Annual Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 29
Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 17th Annual Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500, his 14th victory in 257 Cup Series races.
This is his eighth victory and 24th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in 15 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
William Byron (second) posted his third top-10 finish in eight races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2021.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 51 points over Ryan Blaney.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson secures spot in Championship Four after dominant Texas win

October 17th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway had dramatic ups-and-downs all Sunday afternoon with the victorious exception of Kyle Larson, who absolutely dominated the race – leading 256 of 334 laps and holding off the field on seven different re-starts in the final 125 laps alone.

Larson's win by .459-seconds over Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron was his series best – and career best – eighth of the season and 14th of his career. Most importantly, it punched his ticket into the Championship Four at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 7 – the first time in the 29-year old Californian's career he will get to race for the NASCAR Cup Series championship trophy.

"This is unreal," a smiling Larson said. "I knew we had a good shot to win today. Our car was amazing, probably the best 550-package, intermediate car we've had all year.

"This is so cool. And we get to race for a championship in a couple weeks. This is crazy."

With a two-lap shootout to settle the checkered flag, the end of the race was dramatic up front. For much of the day, it was disastrous just behind. A 12-car incident on Lap 32 eliminated nine cars early on.

Playoff drivers Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. all suffered late race problems that impacted the championship standings with only two races remaining now to decide which three drivers join Larson in that Championship race at Phoenix.

Logano's No. 22 Team Penske Ford was sidelined after suffering a rare engine problem and both Hamlin and Truex were involved in collisions. Logano finished 30th – worst among the eight Playoff drivers. Hamlin's No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota soldiered on despite the heavy damage in two incidents and he finished 11th. Truex's No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was unable to finish the race after a hard hit in Turn 4 following a collision with Daniel Suarez. Truex finished 25th.

All these incidents were part of rapid-fire caution periods in the final third on the race; 11 on the day plus an 11-minute red flag. And on each ensuing re-start – no matter which driver was directly behind him – Larson was able to pull away and hold the lead.

"I just got good pushes from behind me, really," said Larson, who also added a series best 16th stage win.

"I tried to stay patient on the throttle to keep them to my back bumper and thankfully, I was able to just barely clear them every time going into [Turn] 1 and not have to fight off [Turn] 2.

"So thanks to William [Byron], Tyler [Reddick] and [Brad] Keselowski, anybody who was behind me, especially Brad on that last restart."

Ironically, the only member of the Joe Gibbs Racing team not still Playoff-eligible, Christopher Bell, finished best among his teammates Sunday, taking third place just ahead of Penske Racing's Keselowski and Stewart-Haas Racing's Kevin Harvick.

Penske driver Ryan Blaney, Hendrick Motorsports Chase Elliott, JGR's Kyle Busch, Richard Childress's Tyler Reddick and Trackhouse Racing's Suarez rounded out the Top-10.

"It's all about the push and I think here at Texas the shortest lane kind of wins out because of the way the track separates going into Turn 1, the Axalta Chevy was fast all day just never got control [of the re-starts]," Byron said. "I think he [Larson] was definitely better than us the first stage and I was right there with him the rest of the time, but it was just clean air basically.

"Congrats to those guys, Kyle really deserves it. They've been awesome all year, flawless on pit road and on pit calls."

Despite all the drama, the Playoff picture remains largely the same as when the drivers started the race. Larson's win locks him into the Championship Four. Blaney is second followed by Hamlin and Kyle Busch (who won Stage 1) among the top four positions.

Defending series champion Elliott is fifth, eight points behind Busch. Keselowski is sixth (-15) followed by Truex (-22) and Logano (-43).

"Just a bummer, what do you do, this is the first time we've blown a motor in a really long time," Logano said from the garage after retiring early.

"We have to move on," the 2018 series champion added. "It is what it is now. We can't change it. Not many points today, so that is a bummer. We will be fighting from here."

The NASCAR Cup Series moves to Kansas Speedway for next Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Logano won the Playoff race there last year. Kyle Busch won at the track in May. And Hamlin and Logano lead all active drivers with three wins each at Kansas.