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NASCAR Cup Series

Coca-Cola 600

Charlotte Motor Speedway

May 29th, 2022

Race #14 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 400
- Extended to 413 laps
Miles Raced : 619.5
Time of Race : 05 Hours 13 minutes 08 seconds
Average Speed: 118.703 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.119 seconds
Cautions: 18
Caution Laps: 90
Lead Changes: 31

Denny Hamlin takes the checkered flag to win — Concord, North Carolina - May 29th, 2022: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor 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
Denny Hamlin	1	5	4	1	1	25	7.1	+0	123	126	-3	115	2	96.4%	15	413	114.9	42
Kyle Busch	4	4	7	2	1	35	12.9	+2	132	116	+16	78	17	67.8%	36	413	97.0	35
Kevin Harvick	18	12	13	3	3	33	16.8	+15	169	152	+17	81	0	53.8%	0	413	73.8	38
Chase Briscoe	15	8	2	4	1	29	8.9	+11	118	101	+17	81	20	78.7%	2	413	104.2	49
Christopher Bell	3	3	8	5	2	31	12.4	-2	151	142	+9	115	25	63.7%	0	413	98.4	41
Tyler Reddick	8	10	20	6	1	25	8.2	+2	115	124	-9	107	19	82.1%	19	413	113.6	50
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	29	11	15	7	3	32	14.1	+22	196	160	+36	119	5	68.3%	0	413	79.9	40
Michael McDowell	10	26	16	8	5	32	17.7	+2	147	154	-7	46	0	30.0%	0	413	67.8	29
Kyle Larson	36	22	1	9	1	36	12.3	+27	197	121	+76	77	22	65.4%	51	413	91.8	36
Alex Bowman	9	17	12	10	2	31	14.6	-1	172	188	-16	92	14	53.0%	0	413	76.8	29
Harrison Burton	17	24	18	11	7	32	23.6	+6	101	150	-49	4	0	3.2%	0	413	55.8	26
Martin Truex Jr	14	2	11	12	2	34	12.6	+2	151	101	+50	90	1	81.1%	0	413	80.6	30
Ty Dillon	28	16	17	13	7	32	22.6	+15	93	167	-74	11	0	7.8%	0	413	56.7	24
Erik Jones	25	9	9	14	2	26	12.7	+11	182	179	+3	121	0	72.6%	0	413	77.3	31
Ross Chastain	22	7	3	15	1	25	4.4	+7	83	73	+10	59	66	92.0%	153	413	121.3	48
Todd Gilliland	30	20	19	16	3	33	21.2	+14	117	147	-30	5	0	7.8%	0	413	57.3	21
Aric Almirola	24	13	14	17	6	31	17.1	+7	186	197	-11	72	0	46.5%	0	412	59.8	20
Cody Ware	33	23	22	18	6	36	26.9	+15	9	44	-35	0	0	0.7%	0	412	46.8	19
BJ McLeod	31	25	23	19	7	34	28.1	+12	14	25	-11	0	0	0.7%	0	407	44.0	18
Joey Logano	23	1	6	20	1	24	9.9	+3	118	102	+16	86	3	81.1%	9	405	83.3	27
Cole Custer	21	19	5	21	1	32	15.4	+0	140	181	-41	43	1	41.2%	0	405	64.6	20
Austin Dillon	16	15	10	22	1	28	14.5	-6	106	163	-57	77	0	59.6%	0	405	64.7	17
Kaz Grala	34	27	24	23	23	37	29.9	+11	6	6	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	400	38.7	0
Noah Gragson	27	18	21	24	8	36	24.3	+3	104	105	-1	13	0	8.7%	0	386	50.3	0
Daniel Suarez	12	6	25	25	1	29	10.8	-13	152	111	+41	122	51	68.0%	36	346	97.3	28
Chris Buescher	19	14	26	26	4	36	16.3	-7	119	117	+2	69	6	51.8%	0	346	74.1	14
Justin Haley	20	21	27	27	13	32	22.8	-7	105	124	-19	6	0	1.5%	0	343	52.7	10
Bubba Wallace	7	28	28	28	1	33	21.6	-21	73	41	+32	36	9	27.1%	1	200	61.4	15
Ryan Blaney	11	29	29	29	1	31	20.2	-18	89	72	+17	50	1	38.3%	2	195	63.8	13
Brad Keselowski	35	30	30	30	12	35	28.3	+5	96	89	+7	1	0	0.7%	0	193	35.8	7
Kurt Busch	2	31	31	31	1	18	20.3	-29	56	57	-1	54	9	45.5%	2	191	72.1	6
William Byron	5	32	32	32	1	26	20.9	-27	55	53	+2	48	4	42.1%	1	191	71.2	5
Chase Elliott	13	33	33	33	1	32	19.7	-20	41	31	+10	41	26	45.0%	86	188	94.7	14
Austin Cindric	6	34	34	34	5	30	27.4	-28	61	54	+7	27	1	17.4%	0	145	45.2	3
Corey Lajoie	37	35	35	35	17	37	34.3	+2	26	12	+14	0	1	0.0%	0	60	28.6	2
Josh Bilicki	32	36	36	36	3	35	35.6	-4	3	13	-10	0	0	0.5%	0	31	24.8	0
Ryan Preece	26	37	37	37	22	26	36.5	-11	15	16	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	16	24.5	0

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Race Fast Facts

Charlotte Motor Speedway
63rd Annual COCA-COLA 600
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 41
Team : No. 11 - FedEx Ground Toyota
Owner: Coy Gibbs
Crew Chief: Samuel McAulay
Denny Hamlin won the 63rd Annual COCA-COLA 600, his 48th victory in 592 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and 20th top-10 finish in 31 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his 21st top-10 finish in 34 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It is his 10th top-10 finish in 2022.
Kevin Harvick (third) posted his 21st top-10 finish in 40 races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Harrison Burton (11th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chase Elliott leads the point standings by 34 points over Ross Chastain.

Race Recap

Polesitter Denny Hamlin overcomes chaos to win wild Coca-Cola 600

May 29th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway started with Denny Hamlin out front and ended with Denny Hamlin out front.

What happened in-between defied belief. And a driver who claims to thrive in chaos proved to be a man of his word.

Hamlin won the longest race in NASCAR history—619.5 miles—in two overtimes, beating Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch to the finish line by .014 seconds.

With the victory—the second this season and the 48th of his career—Hamlin now holds trophies in all three of NASCAR’s Crown Jewel races: the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600 and Southern 500. Kevin Harvick is the only other active driver with all three titles.

Hamlin’s victory spoiled what could have been one of the most astonishing comebacks in racing history. Kyle Larson started from the rear in a repaired car, suffered three pit road penalties, a spin off Turn 4 and a fire in his pit stall but—miraculously—was leading the race on the next-to-last lap of regulation when Chase Briscoe spun underneath him while battling for the lead and caused the 17th caution of the night.

A wreck on the first attempt at overtime collected Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet and scrambled the running order, leaving Hamlin in the lead on four fresh tires.

“The first half (of the race) was a struggle for all of us,” said Larson, who finished ninth. “I was especially frustrated with myself. To rebound from that and have a shot to win there late was something to be proud of. Our team fought really hard. Happy with that.

“Briscoe was really good, that long run there. Wish we would have just been a little bit better so he never would have got to me, ultimately spin.”

After the second overtime restart, Hamlin and Busch battled side-by-side until Hamlin pulled ahead on Lap 412 of 413, 13 laps beyond the scheduled distance. Busch rallied but couldn’t get back to Hamlin’s bumper.

“It's so special,” Hamlin said. “It's the last big one that's not on my résumé. It meant so much.

“Man, we weren't very good all day. Just got ourselves in the right place at the right time. What a battle there!”

Hamlin, however, was far from the likely winner as the race unfolded. Daniel Suarez arguably had the fastest car. His Trackhouse Racing teammate, Ross Chastain, led 153 laps—more than any other driver.

In the closing stages of regulation, it appeared for all the world that Larson and Briscoe would decide the outcome between them, until Briscoe spun as he was attempting to pass the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion to the inside.

But in the first attempt at overtime, Austin Dillon’s bold move on four fresh tires to Larson’s two went awry off Turn 4, damaging seven cars and setting up Hamlin’s win in the second overtime.

That was merely the concluding chapter in a five-hour thriller.

On a night that already had seen a surfeit of breathtaking action, Suarez’s Chevrolet turned sideways on Lap 346 after contact with Briscoe’s Ford an ignited a four-car wreck that ended with Chris Buescher’s Ford barrel-rolling five times through the frontstretch infield and landing on its roof.

Buescher climbed from his car uninjured, but a strong run for the Roush Fenway Keselowski driver ended abruptly. So did a remarkable run from Suarez, who had led four times for 38 laps, only to lose spots on every pit stop, with the cars of Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin blocking his egress from pit road.

“I’m going to be a bit sore tomorrow,” Buescher said after an obligatory trip to the infield care center. “I haven’t been upside-down in a really long time. The team did a really nice job. We had great speed and had a chance at this thing, it just didn’t work out.”

The opening laps of the event were an omen of things to come.

How intense was the racing? Here’s a microcosm: The first lap ended in a dead heat, with Kurt Busch nosing ahead of Hamlin by less than one thousandth of a second. Racing side-by-side with Hamlin, Busch extended his lead to .004 seconds on Lap 2—roughly six inches.

A determined Hamlin regained the top spot on Lap 3, but only by .011 seconds. The opening action set the tone for the entire race, which produced 31 lead changes between 13 different drivers.

But what happened at the front of the field was multiplied exponentially by aggressive, close-quarters racing throughout the pack.

On Lap 192—eight laps short of the halfway point—the close-quarters competition ended badly. In the second turn after a restart following the 10th caution, Ryan Blaney’s No. 12 Ford hooked the apron with the left-front tire and spun sideways.

That misstep triggered a 13-car wreck that eliminated the contending cars of Blaney, Kurt Busch and William Byron.

“I was tucked up tight behind the 8 (Tyler Reddick), and he was kind of lower than I thought on the frontstretch and kind of ran through the turf, and then got to (Turn) 1 and jerked right,” Blaney said after the wreck.

“I think he was up behind the 99 (Suarez) and thinking he was going hit the apron, and I didn’t have time to kind of get right, and I just kind of hit the apron and got me loose. I hate that other cars got tore up.”

That wreck wouldn’t be the last. By the end of the race, 17 pf the 37 cars that started the event already sat in the garage in various states of disrepair.

Kevin Harvick soldiered to a third-place finish, followed by Briscoe and Christopher Bell. Tyler Reddick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Michael McDowell, Larson and Alex Bowman completed the top 10.