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NASCAR Cup Series

Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400

Martinsville Speedway

April 9th, 2022

Race #8 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 400
- Extended to 403 laps
Miles Raced : 212.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 40 minutes 30 seconds
Average Speed: 79.244 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.303 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 36
Lead Changes: 5

Martinsville, Virginia - April 9th, 2022: A general view of racing during the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at Martinsville Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | 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
William Byron	5	1	1	1	1	12	1.7	+4	13	8	+5	12	72	100.0%	212	403	144.9	58
Joey Logano	14	3	3	2	2	14	4.8	+12	25	16	+9	24	22	100.0%	0	403	116.9	46
Austin Dillon	23	5	2	3	1	24	8.4	+20	41	23	+18	25	35	81.4%	1	403	105.1	39
Ryan Blaney	12	4	5	4	1	15	6.4	+8	30	27	+3	21	31	100.0%	5	403	105.8	44
Ross Chastain	27	18	6	5	2	29	14.5	+22	65	43	+22	29	17	56.1%	0	403	85.5	32
Kurt Busch	18	8	4	6	4	18	9.5	+12	43	33	+10	32	8	91.3%	0	403	95.9	32
Kyle Busch	11	10	9	7	2	26	12.4	+4	65	59	+6	36	7	71.7%	0	403	85.2	30
Aric Almirola	2	7	7	8	2	14	6.3	-6	28	32	-4	19	4	100.0%	0	403	102.5	39
Chase Briscoe	19	15	8	9	3	20	14.0	+10	62	55	+7	31	11	66.3%	0	403	82.0	28
Chase Elliott	1	2	11	10	1	16	3.9	-9	39	40	-1	27	69	100.0%	185	403	122.5	47
Austin Cindric	13	9	12	11	4	15	9.9	+2	43	45	-2	33	7	100.0%	0	403	85.7	31
Alex Bowman	15	14	15	12	7	24	14.2	+3	38	39	-1	16	2	88.1%	0	403	78.4	25
Erik Jones	24	23	13	13	5	28	21.1	+11	56	39	+17	26	1	24.6%	0	403	63.5	24
Kevin Harvick	6	11	16	14	6	18	10.7	-8	46	44	+2	30	4	83.4%	0	403	83.9	29
Chris Buescher	4	16	17	15	4	23	14.8	-11	45	61	-16	17	3	29.3%	0	403	71.8	22
Bubba Wallace	21	20	14	16	11	23	18.3	+5	51	44	+7	14	1	28.0%	0	403	64.2	21
Brad Keselowski	9	19	18	17	8	26	17.3	-8	31	31	+0	4	3	21.3%	0	403	68.5	20
Tyler Reddick	22	17	10	18	8	23	17.1	+4	51	60	-9	13	5	22.8%	0	403	63.7	19
Kyle Larson	8	12	19	19	5	22	13.0	-11	32	47	-15	19	3	75.4%	0	403	79.5	18
Christopher Bell	7	6	20	20	3	26	9.6	-13	33	48	-15	9	8	72.7%	0	402	93.7	26
Cole Custer	3	22	21	21	2	26	12.5	-18	36	40	-4	13	6	49.1%	0	402	81.8	30
Martin Truex Jr	20	13	22	22	7	29	18.6	-2	31	42	-11	7	11	25.8%	0	401	65.2	15
Ty Dillon	34	29	25	23	23	34	28.4	+11	29	20	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	401	41.7	14
AJ Allmendinger	36	30	23	24	22	36	28.8	+12	23	13	+10	0	10	0.0%	0	401	43.0	0
Michael McDowell	16	24	27	25	16	27	23.6	-9	26	37	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	400	50.2	12
Harrison Burton	29	25	29	26	15	30	27.0	+3	43	47	-4	4	0	0.0%	0	400	42.7	11
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	28	27	28	27	23	30	27.1	+1	36	37	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	400	41.8	10
Denny Hamlin	25	26	26	28	11	28	25.2	-3	51	37	+14	7	0	1.5%	0	400	47.0	9
Daniel Suarez	30	28	30	29	25	33	29.1	+1	14	13	+1	0	19	0.0%	0	399	42.4	8
Todd Gilliland	10	21	24	30	2	30	20.7	-20	46	68	-22	12	0	11.2%	0	399	46.8	7
Justin Haley	17	32	31	31	16	32	29.0	-14	10	22	-12	0	2	0.0%	0	398	43.8	6
Corey Lajoie	26	31	32	32	23	32	30.5	-6	17	24	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	397	37.7	5
Cody Ware	35	33	33	33	32	35	33.3	+2	14	10	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	394	29.0	4
JJ Yeley	32	35	34	34	31	35	34.1	-2	8	10	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	392	30.3	0
Josh Bilicki	31	34	35	35	31	35	34.2	-4	12	18	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	391	25.3	0
BJ McLeod	33	36	36	36	33	36	35.9	-3	0	2	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	132	23.2	1

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Race Recap

William Byron is NASCAR Cup’s first double winner with victory at Martinsville

April 9th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

The first night race for the NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway was a cakewalk for Hendrick Motorsports—until a late caution sent the race to overtime, that is.

But William Byron survived a final restart and a mistake on the white-flag lap to win Saturday night’s Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at the .526-mile short track.

Byron led 212 of the 403 laps. Teammate and pole winner Chase Elliott led the first 185 circuits, as Hendrick Motorsports surpassed 10,000 laps led at Martinsville, becoming the first Cup organization to hit that prodigious number at a single track.

At the end of the two-lap overtime, Byron crossed the finish line .303 seconds ahead of runner-up Joey Logano, who couldn’t get close enough to Byron’s No. 24 Chevrolet in the final corner to make a move for the win.

Byron, who also won Thursday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, is the first driver to win two events this season. Saturday night’s Cup victory was his first at Martinsville and the fourth of his career.

With his parents on his pit box for the entire race, Byron dedicated the win to his mother.

“When that last caution came out (for Todd Gilliland’s brush with the Turn 4 wall on Lap 393), I thought everyone behind us would pit,” Byron said. “Luckily, we stayed out—we were aggressive. We felt like we could refire on the tires and be OK.

“You’ve got one of the most aggressive guys behind you with Logano. I chattered the tires in (Turns) 3 and 4 (on the white-flag lap) and left the bottom open, but I was able to kind of block my exit to get a good drive off (the corner).

“This one’s for my mom. This same weekend last year, she had kind of a mini-stroke and was diagnosed with brain cancer. It means a lot to have her here, and it’s been a crazy year, but she’s doing great, and thanks, everybody, for the support. I kind of felt like she was riding in there with me. It’s cool to have her here, and I’m definitely going to enjoy this one.”

Logano had mixed emotions after the race. The strong second-place run was gratifying, but it was second place, not first, and it extended his winless streak to 37 races.

“That final restart there, had a front row,” Logano said. “That’s what you can ask for. Got cleared to second, and Willy kind of messed up off of (Turn) 4 and let me get to him, and he did a really good job of brake-checking… He did what he was supposed to do, and kind of got me all stuffed up behind him, and I couldn’t accelerate off the corner and be as close as I needed to be down into 3 to execute the ol’ bump-and-run.

“Couldn’t get quite to him, but his corner entry was really strong, too, which I think allowed him to get in there pretty strong. Overall, the Shell-Pennzoil Mustang had a solid run. Just hate being that close to winning and not making it happen. But big points today, and it just stings. Second just sucks sometimes, that’s all.”

Austin Dillon ran a strong third behind Logano, with Ryan Blaney and Ross Chastain claiming the fourth and fifth positions, respectively.

Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola, Chase Briscoe and Elliott completed the top 10. Elliott leads the series standings by three points over second-place Blaney. Byron is third, 12 points back.

Leading the first 185 laps, Elliott won the first two stages in the process. But Byron won the race off pit road under caution at the second stage break and remained out front for 118 laps until he came to pit road during a cycle of green-flag stops midway through the final stage.

Blaney held the top spot for five laps before making his final stop, and Byron regained the lead when Blaney came to pit road on Lap 308.

After completion of the green-flag cycle, NASCAR called the third caution of the race when Denny Hamlin’s ill-handling car stopped on pit road. Byron retained control of the race after the subsequent Lap 325 restart, with Austin Dillon moving past Joey Logano into the second position.

That was the last yellow flag until the final caution on Lap 393. The four cautions total—with two for stage breaks—were the fewest in a Cup race at Martinsville since 1997. Then again, Saturday night’s race was shortened from 500 to 400 laps.