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NASCAR Cup Series

Bass Pro Shops Night Race

Bristol Motor Speedway

September 17th, 2022

Race #29 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 500
Miles Raced : 266.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 01 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 88.286 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.458 seconds
Cautions: 11
Caution Laps: 80
Lead Changes: 12

Kyle Busch exits the track — Bristol, Tennessee - September 17th, 2022: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Toyota, exits the track to his hauler after an engine failure during the NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Media reporters throng him the second he exits the car and shove cameras and microphones in his face. Do we really want or need them to go that far? 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
Chris Buescher	20	14	1	1	1	20	5.7	+19	66	44	+22	57	61	89.8%	169	500	133.3	44
Chase Elliott	23	4	2	2	2	28	11.0	+21	154	129	+25	92	16	75.6%	0	500	96.3	42
William Byron	16	7	3	3	2	23	9.3	+13	89	80	+9	69	7	84.8%	0	500	99.3	40
Christopher Bell	8	1	5	4	1	19	5.1	+4	84	60	+24	73	85	95.2%	143	500	131.0	52
Kyle Larson	5	9	4	5	1	17	6.0	+0	109	92	+17	109	43	99.0%	34	500	117.4	40
Ross Chastain	12	2	6	6	2	25	10.8	+6	86	76	+10	61	8	81.2%	0	500	89.5	40
AJ Allmendinger	13	16	7	7	3	25	13.1	+6	103	110	-7	52	3	61.0%	0	500	81.0	0
Cole Custer	11	17	8	8	2	32	12.2	+3	78	80	-2	45	5	80.4%	0	500	83.7	29
Denny Hamlin	4	24	9	9	1	25	8.7	-5	54	42	+12	46	17	88.4%	0	500	98.7	28
Kevin Harvick	7	10	11	10	2	21	6.9	-3	64	45	+19	57	37	97.0%	0	500	104.5	28
Michael McDowell	18	12	10	11	5	27	13.9	+7	76	81	-5	33	0	67.6%	0	500	74.7	26
Justin Haley	19	19	12	12	6	32	15.6	+7	112	121	-9	55	4	68.0%	0	500	70.2	25
Brad Keselowski	10	13	14	13	1	20	8.2	-3	68	62	+6	43	52	83.4%	109	499	107.6	34
Chase Briscoe	2	3	13	14	2	19	10.6	-12	85	81	+4	73	2	95.2%	0	498	83.4	38
Corey Lajoie	31	25	15	15	5	34	21.8	+16	84	97	-13	4	0	16.6%	0	497	50.7	22
Harrison Burton	27	15	17	16	6	35	22.1	+11	52	44	+8	14	0	9.4%	0	497	56.5	21
Cody Ware	32	27	18	17	14	33	23.8	+15	64	69	-5	3	0	8.2%	0	497	42.7	20
Todd Gilliland	30	20	20	18	9	31	21.2	+12	108	115	-7	16	1	10.2%	0	496	46.7	19
Daniel Suarez	29	11	21	19	5	33	18.7	+10	110	140	-30	59	0	33.4%	0	494	54.8	18
Austin Cindric	9	31	22	20	9	36	26.5	-11	38	43	-5	0	1	8.8%	0	493	45.5	17
Erik Jones	24	28	19	21	8	32	24.2	+3	100	102	-2	0	0	0.4%	0	492	44.2	16
Landon Cassill	35	29	23	22	22	36	28.9	+13	15	8	+7	0	0	0.0%	0	492	37.0	0
JJ Yeley	36	32	25	23	23	36	30.2	+13	11	6	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	491	32.5	0
BJ McLeod	33	30	24	24	23	36	28.9	+9	8	7	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	491	32.3	0
Tyler Reddick	17	23	27	25	2	30	21.6	-8	90	102	-12	22	1	16.8%	0	469	52.2	15
Ty Dillon	34	26	16	26	9	34	22.6	+8	93	120	-27	8	0	4.0%	0	457	41.7	11
Joey Logano	15	18	26	27	4	30	16.1	-12	101	114	-13	50	0	38.2%	0	437	61.7	10
Aric Almirola	1	21	28	28	1	31	18.8	-27	50	62	-12	20	10	25.6%	36	418	58.1	9
Bubba Wallace	14	35	29	29	2	35	23.6	-15	36	56	-20	23	12	28.6%	0	408	81.1	8
Ryan Blaney	6	36	30	30	1	36	29.2	-24	22	17	+5	20	12	18.2%	9	338	54.2	7
Austin Dillon	28	8	31	31	7	32	25.3	-3	104	113	-9	11	1	7.0%	0	279	47.1	9
Alex Bowman	3	6	32	32	1	23	19.6	-29	71	68	+3	60	5	48.0%	0	277	73.6	15
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	26	22	33	33	13	29	26.2	-7	111	109	+2	13	0	6.4%	0	276	48.5	4
Kyle Busch	21	5	34	34	3	25	21.9	-13	84	74	+10	68	9	38.4%	0	269	69.1	17
Ty Gibbs	25	34	35	35	14	35	30.9	-10	59	69	-10	0	9	0.8%	0	265	41.7	0
Martin Truex Jr	22	33	36	36	8	22	27.1	-14	51	41	+10	11	7	14.4%	0	198	43.4	2

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway
62nd Annual Bass Pro Shops Night Race
Race Winner: Chris Buescher
Age: 29
Team : No. 17 - Fastenal Ford
Owner: RFK Racing
Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Chris Buescher won the 62nd Annual Bass Pro Shops Night Race, his second victory in 250 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 13 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Chase Elliott (second) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 12 races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2022.
William Byron (third) posted his third top-10 finish in eight races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Harrison Burton (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season becomes the fifth different season to reach 19 different winners (series-most in a single season); joining the 1956, 1958, 1961 and 2001 seasons. Among the five seasons to reach 19 different winners the 2022 season reached the record in the fewest races (29 races); the previous record was 36 races in 2001.

Race Recap

Chris Buescher triumphs at Bristol as Playoff field is trimmed to 12

September 17th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

With Chase Elliott pursuing him relentlessly for the final 50 laps, Chris Buescher held on to win Saturday's Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motors Speedway, becoming the 19th different NASCAR Cup Series winner this season.

After the event that set the field for the Round of 12 in the series Playoffs—and eliminated superstars Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick from the postseason—a dozen drivers were breathing sighs of relief and hoping fervently for a return to stock car sanity in the next round.

A two-tire pit stop under caution on Lap 438 of 500 put Reddick in the lead for a restart on Lap 444. The driver of the No. 17 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford led the final 61 laps and a race-high 169 overall to give the RFK organization its first victory since Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took the checkered flag at Daytona on July 1, 2017 at Daytona.

The victory was the first for RFK Racing since Brad Keselowski joined the organization as an owner/driver after the 2021 season.

Buescher was the third straight non-Playoff driver to win a race in the Round of 16, an unprecedented occurrence.

“It’s so special here,” said Buescher, whose only other Cup win came in a rain-shortened race at Pocono in 2016. “I love this racetrack. I love the fans. I love every time we come here. It’s so special. It’s pretty awesome.”

Buescher said he wasn’t worried about starting the final run on two fresh tires, even though everyone chasing had four.

“I wasn’t a bit,” he asserted. “It was up to me at that point. I made it work, and we had a really fast (car). We knew we had a really fast race car in practice and didn’t quite get the job done in qualifying (20th)—but what a race car.

“I don’t know what all to say right now. I’m out of breath. This place will wear you flat-out, and I love that about it. It’s just a special night.”

Elliott was .458 seconds behind Buescher at the finish. William Byron came home third, followed by Christopher Bell, who posted his third straight top-five finish in the Round of 16. Kyle Larson was fifth and Ross Chastain sixth, as all five drivers immediately behind Buescher in the finishing order advanced to the Round of 12.

Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Daniel Suarez, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Alex Bowman also clinched spots in the next round, though all had serious issues during the race.

Elliott got closer to Buescher on the final two laps but ran out of time.

“I felt like we were gaining, but it was… I wasn't close enough to do anything with him,” Elliott said. “But I appreciate the effort. We had a long day yesterday. Was able to battle back from a bad qualifying effort (23rd) to get a top two, so proud of that.

“Glad to be moving on (in the Playoff) and looking forward to some more opportunities here these coming weeks.”

Needing a victory to advance to the next round, Harvick ran consistently in the top five after staying out at the end of Stage 1 to gain track position. But Harvick’s chances evaporated in the pits on Lap 438 when his crew failed to secure the left-rear on his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford.

As the tire rolled away, Harvick had to back up into his pit stall. The lost time left him 10th for the final restart on Lap 444. That’s where he finished, exiting the Playoffs in 16th place.

“It was pretty tough,” Harvick said. “We pitted in front of the 17 (Buescher), so just kind of the way the year has gone. Just went from having a chance to lead the parade to being a part of the parade. Just difficult to pass.”

Busch’s ouster was a touch-and-go affair. Both he and Tyler Reddick fell two points short after Austin Cindric, who finished seven laps down in 20th place but gained enough positions by passing back markers to advance.

Busch had accumulated 14 points in the first two stages and was running above the cut line when his engine blew on Lap 270—Busch’s second such failure in the three Playoff races.

“It just goes with our year,” Busch said. “I don’t even know what to say. I’m flabbergasted. I just feel so bad for my guys. They don’t deserve to be in this spot. They work too hard. We are too good of a group to be this low—down on the bottom, fighting for our lives just to make it through. Two engine failures in three weeks, that will do it to you.”

Reddick and Richard Childress Racing teammate Austin Dillon both failed to make the Round of 12 after both drivers’ Chevrolets were damaged in a 12-car pileup on the backstretch on Lap 277. Reddick finished 25th and Dillon 31st.

Keselowski led 109 laps and appeared to have race-winning chances until his right-front tire went flat on Lap 414 while he was leading.

“We had two cars that were really good today and one that was unlucky and one that executed, and everything came the right way for them,” Keselowski said.