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NASCAR Cup Series

Pennzoil 400

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 6th, 2022

Race #3 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
- Extended to 274 laps
Miles Raced : 411.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 29 minutes 50 seconds
Average Speed: 117.522 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.178 seconds
Cautions: 12
Caution Laps: 60
Lead Changes: 23

Ross Chastain and Kyle Busch race — Las Vegas, Nevada - March 6th, 2022: Ross Chastain, driver of the #1 ACM Awards Chevrolet, and Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Ethel M Chocolates Toyota, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Photo by Meg Oliphant | 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
Alex Bowman	13	11	4	1	1	30	6.6	+12	84	52	+32	67	21	89.4%	16	274	118.2	50
Kyle Larson	2	2	12	2	1	32	7.3	+0	114	68	+46	77	13	90.2%	27	274	108.9	48
Ross Chastain	18	3	3	3	1	18	3.8	+15	82	66	+16	76	28	100.0%	83	274	128.3	52
Kyle Busch	37	6	1	4	1	37	9.7	+33	135	108	+27	60	26	73.4%	49	274	106.1	41
William Byron	14	12	5	5	1	25	6.5	+9	84	61	+23	78	13	97.8%	8	274	111.2	48
Aric Almirola	20	18	8	6	1	34	16.4	+14	105	141	-36	31	0	33.9%	0	274	78.5	31
Tyler Reddick	7	9	6	7	6	36	14.2	+0	131	93	+38	28	2	51.1%	0	274	85.0	30
Martin Truex Jr	12	7	2	8	1	35	7.0	+4	109	70	+39	75	34	90.2%	1	274	105.5	34
Chase Elliott	5	5	15	9	1	15	8.4	-4	79	92	-13	66	3	100.0%	0	274	95.3	43
Christopher Bell	1	4	14	10	1	34	13.7	-9	106	87	+19	72	9	69.3%	32	274	92.3	28
Austin Dillon	10	15	17	11	1	35	19.6	-1	100	155	-55	28	2	39.1%	0	274	69.8	26
Kevin Harvick	25	8	16	12	5	25	11.7	+13	93	99	-6	57	2	79.6%	0	274	82.8	28
Kurt Busch	31	28	9	13	1	34	16.0	+18	116	107	+9	45	1	58.0%	4	274	76.7	24
Joey Logano	6	13	13	14	2	28	10.7	-8	97	107	-10	80	4	92.3%	0	274	88.0	27
Corey Lajoie	29	23	20	15	2	36	22.5	+14	124	131	-7	2	1	3.3%	0	274	59.4	22
Harrison Burton	19	21	21	16	12	34	22.5	+3	116	122	-6	2	0	0.7%	0	274	53.3	21
Justin Haley	28	26	18	17	9	34	22.3	+11	118	99	+19	1	2	1.5%	0	274	58.5	20
Chris Buescher	27	22	19	18	10	32	20.4	+9	126	113	+13	12	0	8.8%	0	274	60.0	19
Austin Cindric	3	32	24	19	2	33	19.7	-16	102	115	-13	35	0	30.7%	0	274	64.8	18
Ty Dillon	32	24	22	20	1	33	23.8	+12	104	129	-25	6	0	7.3%	1	274	47.0	17
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	9	14	7	21	1	31	14.2	-12	103	105	-2	50	0	63.9%	4	274	71.8	16
Daniel Hemric	16	27	23	22	7	36	27.3	-6	68	67	+1	3	1	3.7%	0	274	42.4	0
Todd Gilliland	30	19	25	23	13	35	24.0	+7	134	148	-14	6	0	1.8%	0	274	48.8	14
Brad Keselowski	15	33	29	24	1	36	24.7	-9	66	71	-5	14	2	18.6%	3	273	58.3	13
Bubba Wallace	17	10	11	25	7	31	17.3	-8	106	119	-13	41	0	51.5%	0	273	63.2	13
Cody Ware	33	25	27	26	5	35	28.2	+7	38	73	-35	0	0	1.1%	0	273	38.5	11
Michael McDowell	22	16	26	27	1	35	21.2	-5	111	111	+0	25	0	18.3%	4	273	50.2	10
BJ McLeod	35	31	28	28	8	37	31.9	+7	21	27	-6	0	0	1.1%	0	272	31.5	9
Josh Bilicki	34	30	30	29	10	37	31.1	+5	19	46	-27	0	0	0.4%	0	271	32.7	0
Garrett Smithley	36	34	31	30	16	37	33.8	+6	4	7	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	267	28.7	7
Erik Jones	23	29	10	31	7	31	16.9	-8	157	101	+56	62	3	48.5%	0	264	65.9	6
Denny Hamlin	8	20	32	32	1	30	10.7	-24	74	72	+2	71	21	78.5%	31	219	101.4	14
Cole Custer	24	17	33	33	3	36	27.8	-9	61	95	-34	9	0	10.6%	0	171	38.2	4
Greg Biffle	26	1	34	34	1	34	31.9	-8	19	53	-34	0	0	1.8%	1	148	31.7	3
Chase Briscoe	4	35	35	35	3	36	24.1	-31	69	85	-16	52	0	39.8%	0	135	55.3	5
Ryan Blaney	11	36	36	36	1	20	24.2	-25	47	40	+7	46	10	37.6%	10	104	79.7	5
Daniel Suarez	21	37	37	37	13	34	31.3	-16	49	39	+10	12	0	6.6%	0	92	37.3	1

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway
25th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Race Winner: Alex Bowman
Age: 28
Team : No. 48 - Ally Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Greg Ives
Alex Bowman won the 25th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his seventh victory in 228 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 11 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 12 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2022.
Ross Chastain (third) posted his first top-10 finish in eight races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Harrison Burton (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 6 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Alex Bowman wins at Las Vegas following two-tire gamble and thrilling overtime charge

March 6th, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

LAS VEGAS _ Alex Bowman won in a dramatic overtime ending in the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday - gambling on a two-tire final pit stop for his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and holding off the field in a two-lap sprint to decide the NASCAR Cup Series race.

Bowman and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson made up the front row on the restart - the pair along with teammate William Byron took two tires on the final pit stop while Kyle Busch, who had led 40 of the previous 45 laps opted to get four tires and start just behind on the second row.

The two-tire stop, however, proved to be enough with Busch unable to even make a pass attempt as the Hendrick cars decided the trophy. The Tucson-native Bowman, 28, crossed the line .178-seconds ahead of the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Larson to earn his first trophy of 2022 and seventh of his career. It was Bowman's first Top-20 finish after a frustrating start to the three-race old season.

"This thing was so fast all day,'' said Bowman, who led 16 of the 274 laps. "Just never really had the track position to show it. But man, what a call by [crew chief] Greg Ives and the guys to take two [tires] there and obviously it paid off.

"Racing Kyle [Larson] is always fun and I've got to race him for a couple wins and we always race each other super clean and super respectively. Just can't say enough about these guys.

"It's been a pretty awful start to the year so to come out here and get a win on a last re-start, I feel like that's pretty special.''

The runner-up finish for Larson, who led three times for 37 laps on the day, was good enough to propel him into the championship lead for the first time this season. He holds a six-point advantage over Joe Gibbs Racing's Martin Truex Jr., who finished eighth on Sunday.

Trackhouse Racing's Ross Chastain, who led a race-best 83 laps and scored the two-year-old team's first Stage victory, finished third. The Las Vegas native Busch was fourth and a third Hendrick Motorsports teammate, William Byron rounded out the Top Five.

Stewart-Haas Racing's Aric Almirola earned his third consecutive Top-10 with a sixth place finish. Tyler Reddick, Truex, Hendrick's Chase Elliott and polesitter, Christopher Bell completed the Top 10.

For most of the race's final laps, it looked like Busch would claim his first NASCAR Cup Series trophy at his "home track" since 2009. It's been 46 series wins since that triumph.

And Busch's work in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on Sunday was especially impressive considering he crashed in opening practice on Saturday and was forced to use a back-up car originally sent to the track for spare parts. The car wasn't prepared in time for qualifying so Busch started last in the race.

His rally for a near-win was enthusiastically appreciated by the home crowd even if the ultimate Top Five was still a bit disappointing for the former two-time series champion considering his time out front (49 laps) in the closing laps.

"Everybody really had a hand in making us go today, really appreciate that,'' Busch said, acknowledging crew members from all four JGR cars frantically worked to get his car race ready.

"It was good, fast at the end and tried to do what I could there to hold the lead with Truex. Felt like I inched away finally, and we were coming to the white [flag] but it wasn't meant to be. Not our day. See you next week.''

The race featuring the 1.5-mile debut of the NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen cars produced 23 lead changes among 15 different drivers with Bowman (Stage 1) and Chastain (Stage 2) winning the stages.

"We were like 30th in first practice, right off the truck and we slowly built up to it and if we can keep doing that and have cars like this, obviously we can compete,'' Chastain said.