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NASCAR Cup Series

WISE Power 400

Auto Club Speedway

February 27th, 2022

Race #2 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 400.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 03 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 114.222 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.195 seconds
Cautions: 12
Caution Laps: 59
Lead Changes: 32

Tyler Reddick leads the field — Fontana, California - February 27th, 2022: Tyler Reddick, driver of the #8 Lenovo Chevrolet, leads the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Wise Power 400 at Auto Club Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | 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	13	3	2	1	1	25	7.1	+12	83	59	+24	63	16	91.5%	28	200	116.3	52
Austin Dillon	16	12	3	2	2	31	15.6	+14	97	119	-22	52	3	59.0%	0	200	82.9	35
Erik Jones	2	7	6	3	1	12	4.3	-1	72	59	+13	64	23	100.0%	18	200	122.7	52
Daniel Suarez	15	26	4	4	1	31	14.5	+11	96	99	-3	54	0	57.5%	0	200	86.2	33
Joey Logano	7	4	1	5	1	20	5.4	+2	87	55	+32	66	5	99.0%	14	200	110.3	44
Aric Almirola	31	13	19	6	5	31	16.7	+25	94	118	-24	48	1	55.0%	0	200	77.0	34
Kevin Harvick	32	21	8	7	1	32	20.0	+25	106	83	+23	15	0	21.5%	1	200	64.7	30
Kurt Busch	36	22	9	8	5	36	21.3	+28	133	106	+27	42	0	30.0%	0	200	63.5	29
Daniel Hemric	5	34	12	9	5	35	26.2	-4	58	45	+13	28	2	22.5%	0	200	72.3	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	17	18	10	10	2	22	11.0	+7	121	101	+20	71	1	79.5%	0	200	91.1	28
Cole Custer	21	10	18	11	3	26	12.9	+10	75	103	-28	49	0	67.0%	0	200	83.3	31
Austin Cindric	1	8	14	12	1	25	9.7	-11	86	100	-14	61	1	89.5%	0	200	94.3	31
Martin Truex Jr	12	28	16	13	4	30	15.0	-1	91	98	-7	34	1	49.0%	0	200	77.3	24
Kyle Busch	3	33	26	14	3	36	28.6	-11	56	52	+4	8	2	10.5%	0	200	59.0	23
Denny Hamlin	4	24	5	15	3	31	10.3	-11	110	102	+8	70	0	84.5%	0	200	89.8	23
Chase Briscoe	24	5	15	16	1	31	14.3	+8	109	112	-3	43	9	45.5%	20	200	82.1	28
Ty Dillon	18	23	17	17	11	32	23.2	+1	99	137	-38	1	0	3.0%	0	200	46.5	20
Ryan Blaney	6	6	7	18	1	18	6.9	-12	119	59	+60	102	8	94.5%	1	200	97.6	29
Bubba Wallace	34	25	22	19	9	34	25.2	+15	72	69	+3	5	0	1.0%	0	200	42.8	18
Todd Gilliland	26	29	21	20	17	33	26.0	+6	48	82	-34	0	0	0.0%	0	200	41.8	17
Garrett Smithley	29	30	23	21	5	35	28.4	+8	18	16	+2	0	0	4.0%	0	200	37.8	16
BJ McLeod	30	31	24	22	9	35	28.4	+8	18	18	+0	0	0	3.0%	0	200	35.8	15
Justin Haley	35	15	13	23	9	35	20.1	+12	131	126	+5	29	0	19.0%	0	200	55.0	14
Tyler Reddick	11	2	27	24	1	30	8.4	-13	26	24	+2	23	39	72.0%	90	199	120.6	33
Alex Bowman	14	9	25	25	2	27	11.0	-11	62	89	-27	57	0	86.0%	0	199	78.7	17
Chase Elliott	8	19	20	26	1	34	18.9	-18	43	52	-9	17	10	37.5%	12	198	67.5	11
Brad Keselowski	9	11	28	27	4	31	19.2	-18	78	65	+13	32	0	34.0%	0	198	61.0	10
Corey Lajoie	25	27	29	28	14	32	25.0	-3	114	122	-8	0	0	1.0%	0	198	42.0	9
Ross Chastain	33	16	31	29	4	33	20.5	+4	72	80	-8	22	0	34.0%	0	198	49.5	8
Josh Bilicki	28	32	30	30	21	33	31.3	-2	12	23	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	198	30.2	0
Michael McDowell	23	17	11	31	9	23	18.0	-8	88	106	-18	18	0	20.5%	0	193	52.3	6
Cody Ware	27	36	32	32	27	36	34.6	-5	7	6	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	187	26.0	5
Harrison Burton	22	20	33	33	16	30	24.3	-11	83	102	-19	0	0	0.0%	0	157	42.7	4
William Byron	10	1	34	34	1	17	11.9	-24	46	27	+19	44	6	74.0%	16	151	97.3	13
Chris Buescher	20	14	35	35	8	31	24.2	-15	52	51	+1	27	0	31.0%	0	111	56.3	2
Christopher Bell	19	35	36	36	11	35	27.9	-17	34	26	+8	21	1	24.0%	0	94	41.9	1

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Race Fast Facts

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25th Wise Power 400
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 29
Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 25th Wise Power 400, his 17th victory in 261 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his second victory and fourth top-10 finish in eight races at Auto Club Speedway.
Austin Dillon (second) posted his third top-10 finish in eight races at Auto Club Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2022.
Erik Jones (third) posted his third top-10 finish in five races at Auto Club Speedway.
Austin Cindric (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Hendrick Motorsports leads the NASCAR Cup Series in wins at Auto Club Speedway with 12 victories ? Jeff Gordon (1997, 1999, 2004), Kyle Busch (2005), Jimmie Johnson (2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016), Alex Bowman (2020), Kyle Larson (2022).
Four different manufacturers have won in the NASCAR Cup Series at Auto Club Speedway; led by Chevrolet with 16 wins, followed by Ford (11), Toyota (four) and Dodge (one).
Today's race produced 32 lead changes the third-most all-time in the NASCAR Cup Series at Auto Club Speedway behind 2014 (35) and 2008 (33).

Race Recap

Kyle Larson wins action-filled NASCAR Cup Series race at Fontana

February 27th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson waited until late in Sunday's Wise Power 400 to flex his muscles.

But in the end, the driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet held off a charging Austin Dillon by .195 seconds at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., to notch his first victory of the season, his second at the 2-mile track and the 17th of his career.

In a race that featured 12 cautions for 59 laps, Larson, who started from the rear of the field because of unapproved adjustments to his Camaro, took the lead from Joey Logano on Lap 167 of 200 and held it for 27 of the final 34 circuits on the way to the victory.

That was after the dominant car of Tyler Reddick suffered a flat left rear tire while leading on Lap 152, and in the aftermath of that incident was collected by the sliding car of William Byron.

Reddick had led 90 laps to that point—17 more than in his first 75 Cup starts combined—and had won the first and second stages in convincing fashion.

Larson, however, outlasted arguably stronger cars and was in position to win at the end of the race.

"It's always fun to win here in the home state," said the Elk Grove, Calif., native Kyle Larson. "There were definitely some guys that were quicker than us, but they had their misfortunes.

"Just kept our heads in it all day—long race. Restarts were crazy. The whole runs were crazy. So definitely wild, but cool to get a win here in California and hope we get on a little streak."

Larson's victory came at the expense of teammate Chase Elliott, who fell two laps down after scraping the wall on Lap 33 and spinning off Turn 2 five laps later.

As the beneficiary under two cautions, Elliott regained the lead lap, drove through the field and was battling Larson and Logano for the lead when Larson shot up the track and pinched Elliott's Chevrolet into the outside wall. Larson said on his radio that he didn't know Elliott was there.

It was Elliott who spun on Lap 192 to cause the final caution and set up a dramatic four-lap sprint to the finish that saw Trackhouse Racing's Daniel Suarez briefly wrestle the lead from Larson, thanks to a push from Petty GMS Motorsport's Erik Jones. But Larson regained the lead off Turn 4 with just over two laps left and held it the rest of the way.

In a testament to the relative parity achieved by NASCAR's new Next Gen race car—admittedly with a small sample size so far—nine different Cup organizations finished in the top 10 at Fontana.

One of those was the Trackhouse Racing team of Suarez, who rolled home fourth behind the Chevrolets of Larson, Dillon and Jones.

"We're going to win a few races very soon here," Suarez said. "I just can't thank everyone enough on my team. We had a fast car, but we went through a lot of adversity. We had a few issues. We hit the wall once. We had an issue with a diffuser. My pit crew, those guys are legends, it's unbelievable.

"It's the best pit crew I've ever had, and it's a lot of fun to race like that. The Freeway Insurance Chevrolet, everyone that helps Trackhouse out, to be able to be here and perform this way… I can tell you that I'm going to work very, very hard to go to Victory Lane very, very soon here."

Logano ran fifth, followed by Aric Almirola, Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch (who started from the rear and served a pass-through penalty to start the race because of three inspection failures). Daniel Hemric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top 10.

Polesitter and Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric finished 12th after suffering damage in a four-car accident involving Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace and Harrison Burton on Lap 158.

Larson, who won 10 races last year in his first season at Hendrick Motorsports, led four times for 28 laps, second only to Reddick's 90. All told, there were 32 lead changes among nine drivers in an event in which radical shuffling of the running order was commonplace.