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NASCAR Cup Series

Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway

February 20th, 2022

Race #1 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
- Extended to 201 laps
Miles Raced : 502.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 31 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 142.295 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.036 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 37
Lead Changes: 35

Austin Cindric celebrates in victory lane — Daytona Beach, Florida - February 20th, 2022: Austin Cindric, driver of the #2 Discount Tire Ford, celebrates in the Ruoff Mortgage victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series 64th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Chris Graythen | 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
Austin Cindric	5	2	7	1	1	33	6.2	+4	168	181	-13	125	0	87.6%	21	201	122.4	45
Bubba Wallace	16	19	3	2	1	23	10.2	+14	253	237	+16	191	7	72.1%	12	201	104.7	43
Chase Briscoe	9	10	15	3	3	38	18.3	+6	209	192	+17	70	6	43.8%	0	201	75.0	34
Ryan Blaney	7	1	9	4	1	35	8.3	+3	163	181	-18	134	3	87.1%	36	201	107.5	33
Aric Almirola	38	11	18	5	3	38	15.9	+33	244	236	+8	97	4	51.7%	0	201	80.3	32
Kyle Busch	10	20	5	6	1	29	11.4	+4	255	246	+9	182	5	62.2%	28	201	101.4	31
Michael McDowell	6	8	11	7	4	32	11.9	-1	222	241	-19	160	2	71.6%	0	201	93.6	30
David Ragan	34	29	20	8	2	38	25.2	+26	110	119	-9	8	6	9.0%	0	201	63.7	29
Brad Keselowski	3	5	12	9	1	23	4.8	-6	171	170	+1	148	4	98.5%	67	201	121.3	44
Chase Elliott	11	23	13	10	2	26	16.1	+1	249	251	-2	131	6	46.3%	0	201	72.5	28
Ty Dillon	26	9	16	11	5	33	16.3	+15	210	230	-20	62	3	50.8%	0	201	77.7	26
Daniel Hemric	33	24	19	12	2	40	26.4	+21	96	98	-2	28	7	10.0%	0	201	60.6	0
Martin Truex Jr	14	18	14	13	1	23	11.9	+1	258	233	+25	192	4	71.1%	11	201	94.0	44
Corey Lajoie	24	25	22	14	1	36	25.2	+10	92	96	-4	0	2	3.5%	0	201	57.2	23
Landon Cassill	27	27	21	15	3	38	28.1	+12	71	73	-2	2	2	4.0%	0	201	51.7	0
Chris Buescher	4	3	2	16	1	34	7.9	-12	161	174	-13	136	1	86.1%	0	200	97.4	25
Cody Ware	32	28	23	17	12	39	27.1	+15	57	79	-22	0	4	0.0%	0	200	48.6	20
Daniel Suarez	21	22	24	18	5	32	21.3	+3	156	183	-27	65	4	14.9%	0	199	59.0	19
Kurt Busch	17	21	27	19	1	30	17.6	-2	201	180	+21	116	11	39.8%	0	199	74.5	22
Cole Custer	31	7	25	20	3	37	22.3	+11	127	144	-17	22	3	23.4%	0	199	55.2	17
Joey Logano	20	12	29	21	1	34	17.7	-1	244	194	+50	79	8	39.8%	1	198	83.5	31
Jacques Villeneuve	40	30	26	22	4	40	29.5	+18	50	55	-5	0	6	1.0%	0	198	42.7	15
Justin Haley	25	31	28	23	2	38	30.8	+2	67	72	-5	4	2	1.0%	0	198	41.4	14
Alex Bowman	2	34	31	24	2	36	27.1	-22	132	137	-5	73	6	16.9%	0	197	65.8	13
Austin Dillon	36	26	30	25	2	37	27.2	+11	139	132	+7	14	3	5.0%	1	197	43.0	17
Kaz Grala	35	33	33	26	24	39	33.4	+9	52	56	-4	0	1	0.0%	0	196	35.8	11
BJ McLeod	37	32	32	27	7	38	32.4	+10	51	57	-6	0	2	1.0%	0	196	35.7	10
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	18	15	1	28	1	31	11.3	-10	248	230	+18	192	6	76.1%	16	194	93.9	22
Erik Jones	13	17	10	29	1	30	12.1	-16	216	237	-21	138	6	62.2%	3	191	81.0	11
Kevin Harvick	22	4	8	30	1	33	13.7	-8	212	242	-30	96	3	61.2%	0	191	72.8	10
Noah Gragson	39	14	17	31	3	39	18.9	+8	228	185	+43	45	4	36.8%	0	190	52.8	0
Kyle Larson	1	13	4	32	1	24	13.0	-31	261	274	-13	184	7	74.1%	1	190	81.2	9
Todd Gilliland	29	6	6	33	1	34	14.0	-4	227	220	+7	120	2	66.7%	0	190	69.9	13
Christopher Bell	12	35	35	34	2	35	25.9	-22	105	101	+4	102	0	30.9%	0	152	71.3	3
Tyler Reddick	15	16	34	35	4	31	21.6	-20	181	177	+4	70	4	27.9%	0	151	54.4	2
Greg Biffle	28	40	36	36	25	40	37.5	-8	39	50	-11	0	1	0.0%	0	136	27.5	1
Denny Hamlin	30	36	37	37	1	30	28.6	-7	121	100	+21	59	1	19.4%	0	63	54.5	1
William Byron	23	37	38	38	1	28	30.3	-15	141	124	+17	44	5	14.4%	1	62	46.4	1
Harrison Burton	8	38	39	39	1	24	30.3	-31	130	128	+2	68	1	18.9%	3	62	50.9	1
Ross Chastain	19	39	40	40	1	29	32.4	-21	145	143	+2	56	3	13.4%	0	62	41.9	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
64th Annual DAYTONA 500
Race Winner: Austin Cindric
Age: 23
Team : No. 2 - Discount Tire Ford
Owner: Team Penske
Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins
Austin Cindric won the 64th Annual Daytona 500, his first victory in eight NASCAR Cup Series races. He is the 41st different driver to win the Daytona 500
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in two races at Daytona International Speedway.
Bubba Wallace (second) posted his second runner-up finish and fourth top-10 finish in 10 races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2022.
Chase Briscoe (third) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Daytona International Speedway.
Austin Cindric (first) was the highest finishing rookie. Becomes the first rookie to win the Daytona 500.
Nine drivers have posted their first career NASCAR Cup Series victory with a win in the Daytona 500 ? Tiny Lund (1963), Mario Andretti (1967), Pete Hamilton (1970), Derrike Cope (1990), Sterling Marlin (1994), Michael Waltrip (2001), Trevor Bayne (2011), Michael McDowell (2021), Ausitn Cindric (2022).
This is Team Penske's third Daytona 500 victory - 2008 Ryan Newman, 2015 Joey Logano, 2022 Austin Cindric
This is Ford Motor Co.'s 17th victory in the Daytona 500.

Race Recap

Rookie Austin Cindric gets first NASCAR Cup victory in thrilling Daytona 500

February 20th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

On the 85th birthday of his car owner, Roger Penske, 23-year-old NASCAR Cup Series rookie Austin Cindric beat Bubba Wallace to the finish line by .036 seconds in overtime to win Sunday's 64th running of the Daytona 500.

In a thrilling run to the finish in NASCAR's new Next Gen race car at Daytona International Speedway, Cindric held off Wallace and Chase Briscoe (.091 seconds behind) to notch his first Cup victory in his eighth start in the series.

Cindric got the win in chamber-of-commerce weather with a sold-out crowd jamming the grandstands.

"Oh, my God-do you know what makes this even better? A packed house," Cindric exulted after climbing from his car. "A packed house at the Daytona 500. "Oh, my God, I've got so many people to thank. First and foremost, Roger Penske. Happy Birthday!

"Everyone has worked so hard on this Next Gen car and through the whole process. I am so excited. This makes up for losing a championship in the last race I was in (2021 Xfinity Series season finale at Phoenix Raceway).

"I'm surrounded by great people, that's all there is to it. I know there's going to be highs and lows, being a rookie. I'm just grateful for the opportunity and excited to climb the mountain ahead of us on the No. 2 team. We're in the Playoffs-that's one box checked. My gosh, what an awesome group of fans; what an awesome race car. I'm just really thankful."

A three-car wreck in Turn 4 on Lap 195 of a scheduled 200 wiped out the No. 47 Chevrolet of Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who was leading for a restart on that same lap but was turned by a push from Brad Keselowski. The incident forced the race to overtime, requiring one extra lap for Cindric to claim victory.

An earlier six-car accident on Lap 190 had eliminated reigning series champion Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick, Todd Gilliland, Erik Jones and Noah Gragson, who was making his first start in NASCAR's top division.

Cindric was the leader when the race restarted on Lap 200, and at the end of a wild two-lap scramble-after blocking a strong run from Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney-he arrived at the finish line roughly three feet ahead of Wallace, who was runner-up in the Great American Race for the second time.

"I thought our Toyota teammates did good work until they got picked off 1, 2, 3 throughout the race, so we just had to survive," said Wallace, who finished .260 seconds behind race winner Austin Dillon in the 2018 Daytona 500.

"Great Speedweeks, though. We'll come home second. I'm going to be pissed off about this one for a while. I was happy on the first second place we got a couple years ago. This one sucks when you're that close, but all-in-all, happy for our team, happy for our partners, and on to California."

Blaney came home fourth, followed by Aric Almirola, who will leave full-time racing at the end of the season. Kyle Busch, Michael McDowell, David Ragan, Keselowski and Chase Elliott completed the top 10.

Less than three laps from the end of the first stage, a push from Keselowski turned the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford of Harrison Burton sideways at the head of the outside lane. Burton's Mustang nosed down the track into the No. 24 Chevrolet of William Byron, whose car slammed nose-first into the inside wall on the backstretch.

Kyle Busch spun sideways during the ensuing eight-car wreck. Denny Hamlin's Toyota sustained terminal suspension damage, eliminating the field's only multiple winner of the Daytona 500. The No. 1 Chevrolet of Ross Chastain was also knocked out of the race.

After the impact with Byron's car and a jolt from the Toyota of Christopher Bell, Burton's Ford turned upside down and landed on top of the Chevrolet of Alex Bowman, who had started the race on the outside of the front row. The impact righted Burton's car, which a wrecker towed to the garage. Bowman lost four laps as his crew tried to return the No. 48 Camaro to raceable condition.

"I'm fine-I've hit a lot harder before, that's for sure," Burton said after a trip to the infield care center. "It's just unfortunate. I hate it for the Wood Brothers group. They brought a really fast Ford Mustang down here and ended up on our lid, so that's never good…

"I don't know, I just got pushed and didn't take it the right way-the car didn't take it the right way or got pushed in the wrong spot. I'm not sure. I couldn't really tell. I was looking out front to see what I had to do next to side draft the next guy that was on me, so just a bummer. I don't really know what we could have done different, but we'll move on and get better from it."

From Hamlin's standpoint, it was clear what happened.

"The 6 (Keselowski) was pushing the 21 (Burton) and you could see the 21 was kind of getting out of control there," said Hamlin, who failed to finish a Daytona 500 for the first time in 17 starts and lost his chance for a fourth visit to Victory Lane. "So you know the mind-set was that you've got to back off, but I think the 6 was just insistent on pushing him at all costs and eventually turned the 21 around.

"Tough, you know, considering it was just for the stage. We were kind of boxed in there where I noticed that something was going to happen, but I was boxed in, I was behind a teammate (Kyle Busch), and I wanted to try to help. Again, just too aggressive pushing right there when they weren't lined up and in control."

Truex won the first stage under caution and then claimed victory in the second stage, which ran under green-flag conditions from the restart on Lap 72 to the conclusion on Lap 130. Truex came from third to first on the final lap to grab the stage win.

Keselowski, however, was first off pit road under caution for the stage break and led the field to green for a restart on Lap 138. Keselowski held the top spot until Tyler Reddick's Chevrolet broke loose in Turn 4 on Lap 151 and started a wreck that damaged the contending cars of Truex, Joey Logano and Kurt Busch.