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NASCAR Cup Series

FireKeepers Casino 400

Michigan International Speedway

August 7th, 2022

Race #23 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 400.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 54 minutes 08 seconds
Average Speed: 137.825 mph
Margin of Victory : 02.903 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 36
Lead Changes: 15

Bubba Wallace, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson and Alex Bowman — Brooklyn, Michigan - August 7th, 2022: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 McDonald's Toyota, Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Light Apple #BuschelOfBusch Ford, Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, and Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. 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
Kevin Harvick	16	11	1	1	1	22	7.5	+15	73	89	-16	57	19	95.0%	38	200	123.0	43
Bubba Wallace	1	19	3	2	1	24	7.9	-1	75	72	+3	59	15	91.0%	22	200	118.4	35
Denny Hamlin	9	9	9	3	1	22	5.3	+6	91	55	+36	74	34	97.5%	38	200	128.6	53
Joey Logano	4	23	2	4	2	27	9.5	+0	73	81	-8	45	3	73.0%	0	200	100.0	36
Ryan Blaney	24	22	4	5	3	33	14.5	+19	69	79	-10	24	3	54.5%	0	200	85.0	32
Martin Truex Jr	7	14	6	6	3	21	9.0	+1	89	93	-4	59	4	93.0%	0	200	99.8	38
Kyle Larson	8	15	8	7	2	24	7.8	+1	86	72	+14	57	12	94.0%	0	200	105.3	38
Erik Jones	10	1	5	8	1	22	8.4	+2	85	67	+18	73	0	88.0%	5	200	97.3	42
Alex Bowman	30	21	7	9	4	30	14.0	+21	88	86	+2	35	1	59.0%	0	200	81.4	31
Ty Gibbs	11	20	12	10	1	32	14.0	+1	90	84	+6	34	6	63.5%	2	200	88.3	0
Chase Elliott	13	24	10	11	4	29	16.3	+2	108	98	+10	23	0	36.5%	0	200	75.2	26
William Byron	20	16	11	12	4	25	11.9	+8	92	72	+20	60	0	85.0%	0	200	83.5	31
Austin Dillon	26	5	16	13	3	34	17.1	+13	100	97	+3	26	4	33.0%	0	200	71.6	28
Ty Dillon	25	7	15	14	3	26	19.1	+11	82	91	-9	22	0	29.5%	0	200	66.3	23
Brad Keselowski	33	6	13	15	1	35	16.6	+18	87	76	+11	31	0	41.5%	0	200	67.3	28
Chris Buescher	19	2	19	16	1	25	13.8	+3	69	76	-7	34	1	62.0%	1	200	70.9	27
Justin Haley	21	27	17	17	8	34	21.2	+4	101	104	-3	13	0	7.0%	0	200	60.2	20
Austin Hill	31	8	20	18	4	37	22.5	+13	80	73	+7	12	0	10.5%	0	200	53.3	0
Corey Lajoie	32	26	18	19	2	36	22.1	+13	75	107	-32	13	0	11.0%	0	200	56.0	18
Chase Briscoe	23	4	21	20	4	30	16.0	+3	87	88	-1	37	1	43.5%	0	200	64.3	18
Josh Bilicki	35	12	22	21	4	36	23.9	+14	47	37	+10	3	0	6.5%	0	200	48.5	0
Cody Ware	34	17	23	22	6	36	25.1	+12	47	43	+4	0	0	2.5%	0	200	45.3	15
BJ McLeod	36	28	24	23	1	37	27.0	+13	19	17	+2	0	0	2.5%	1	199	40.5	0
Ross Chastain	22	25	25	24	1	31	12.7	-2	73	71	+2	24	6	59.0%	29	199	96.3	18
Daniel Suarez	15	3	14	25	1	29	12.3	-10	85	95	-10	38	4	60.0%	33	198	74.4	21
Christopher Bell	2	10	26	26	1	26	7.9	-24	54	48	+6	48	30	79.5%	31	193	93.7	28
Todd Gilliland	37	31	27	27	26	37	29.7	+10	11	7	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	188	34.5	10
Michael McDowell	14	30	28	28	9	34	26.8	-14	7	7	+0	5	0	11.5%	0	187	45.0	9
Tyler Reddick	6	13	29	29	2	29	19.0	-23	49	44	+5	34	5	47.0%	0	110	80.6	8
Noah Gragson	12	18	30	30	3	27	20.3	-18	43	62	-19	27	3	35.0%	0	109	72.0	0
Cole Custer	17	29	31	31	10	29	27.0	-14	27	47	-20	1	1	5.5%	0	94	42.1	6
Harrison Burton	27	32	32	32	25	37	31.7	-5	11	13	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	29	28.7	5
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	28	33	33	33	18	33	32.1	-5	11	9	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	25	30.0	4
Aric Almirola	18	34	34	34	15	32	32.1	-16	7	10	-3	0	0	0.5%	0	25	32.7	3
JJ Yeley	29	35	35	35	10	36	34.7	-6	6	16	-10	0	0	1.0%	0	24	24.2	0
Kyle Busch	3	36	36	36	3	22	32.3	-33	8	7	+1	7	3	11.0%	0	24	45.8	1
Austin Cindric	5	37	37	37	5	29	34.2	-32	2	10	-8	2	0	10.5%	0	24	33.5	1

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Race Fast Facts

Michigan International Speedway
54th Annual FireKeepers Casino 400
Race Winner: Kevin Harvick
Age: 46
Team : No. 4 - Busch Light Apple BuschelOfBusch Ford
Owner: Tony Stewart
Crew Chief: Rodney Childers
Kevin Harvick won the 54th Annual FireKeepers Casino 400, his 59th victory in 777 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and 12th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his sixth victory and 22nd top-10 finish in 42 races at Michigan International Speedway.
Bubba Wallace (second) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Michigan International Speedway. It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2022.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 17th top-10 finish in 32 races at Michigan International Speedway.
Todd Gilliland (27th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chase Elliott leads the point standings by 119 points over Ryan Blaney.

Race Recap

Kevin Harvick breaks 65-race drought with NASCAR Cup win at Michigan

August 7th, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

On a blustery Sunday in the Irish Hills of Michigan, Kevin Harvick saved his season.

Grabbing the lead and pulling away after a restart on Lap 166 of 200 at Michigan International Speedway, Harvick won the FireKeepeers Casino 400 by 2.903 seconds over pole winner Bubba Wallace and leap-frogged bubble-riding Martin Truex Jr. in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff standings.

Harvick’s victory ended a 65-race drought for the 46-year-old former series champion from Bakersfield, California. The win was his sixth at Michigan and his fifth in the last seven races at the 2.0-mile track.

Harvick now has 59 victories in the series, 10th-most all-time. With the win, the eighth straight at the track for Ford drivers, he is likely to qualify for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff. Harvick is the only driver to have earned a postseason spot every year since the current elimination format was introduced in 2014, the same year he won his series title.

“Everybody who doubted us doesn’t know us,” said Harvick, who led 38 laps on Sunday, 25 more than he had led in the previous 22 races combined. “They, obviously, know we thrive in these types of situations. And a lot of things went our way today, which we haven't had all year long—have things go our way and have things fall our way.

“And then there at the end we pitted, didn't go a lap down, and the caution came out, got control of the race. That's the thing I struggled with the most today was traffic and the restarts and just having to make up ground. Once I got clear track, that baby was hunting.”

As Harvick indicated, the race broke his way. The driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford brought his car to pit road on Lap 158 for a green-flag stop. A lap later, NASCAR called the seventh caution of the afternoon when Ross Chastain’s Chevrolet and Christopher Bell’s Toyota collided in Turn 4.

Harvick remained on the lead lap and inherited the top spot when the contending cars ahead of him pitted under the yellow. With Wallace bottled up behind Joey Logano’s Ford after the Lap 166 restart, Harvick opened a gap of more than four seconds in clean air and cruised to his first win since Sept. 19, 2020 at Bristol.

Wallace was disconsolate as he replayed the final restart in his head.

“Just replaying everything I could have done,” said Wallace, who led twice for 22 laps. “Took the top there on the restart. Thought I could hang with the 4 (Harvick), and just got to racing the 5 (Kyle Larson) and the 22 (Logano). And 22 did a good job of getting another Ford contract, helping a Ford win.

“Just all in all an incredible weekend. Appreciate my team. Wished we could have got Toyota in the Victory Lane. Wish we got (sponsor) McDonald's back in victory lane. She was fast all week, man. Just I'll wear this one on my heart for a while. I failed everybody.”

Denny Hamlin finished third in arguably the fastest car in the race. On his final pit stop under caution on Lap 160, Hamlin incurred a penalty for too many men over the wall when his crew corralled a runaway tire from an adjacent pit stall.

Hamlin restarted 22nd and charged to third, 3.910 seconds behind the race winner.

Logano came home fourth, followed by Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney. Martin Truex Jr., Larson, Erik Jones, Alex Bowman and Ty Gibbs (subbing for injured Kurt Busch) completed the top 10.

The race was delayed just over an hour due to inclement weather. That didn’t deter the fans in the grandstands, the largest crowd at Michigan International Speedway since 2016. In addition, infield camping was sold out for the weekend for the first time since 2012.

Blaney now leads Truex by 19 points for the final Playoff berth, which will be determined on points if there are no additional unique winners in the next three races.

An early nine-car accident in Turn 2 eliminated two of the top five qualifiers—Kyle Busch and Austin Cindric. Moments after a restart on Lap 25, J.J. Yeley’s No. 15 Ford got loose, checked up and turned sideways in the middle of the pack.

In the ensuing melee, Cindric’s No. 2 Ford crashed nose-first into the outside wall and Buch’s No. 18 Toyota also sustained terminal damage. The cars of Yeley, Almirola, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and rookie Harrison Burton also were knocked out of the race.

“Just chaos ensued on the restart there, and I don’t know what started it, but the 10 (Almirola) got spun in front of me, and then I got wedged between him and the wall,” said Busch, who had elected to pit on Lap 22 under a competition called because of a rainstorm that delayed the start of the race.

“When you get back there, things happen on restarts, especially when you have guys that stayed out and don’t have tires versus those that have four tires. Was not really in a hurry and knew we were coming to stage points in another 40 laps or so and it was going to be a long run to get there—and then we all just crashed.”