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NASCAR Cup Series

Ambetter 301

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

July 17th, 2022

Race #20 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 301
Miles Raced : 318.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 14 minutes 45 seconds
Average Speed: 98.113 mph
Margin of Victory : 05.439 seconds
Cautions: 9
Caution Laps: 52
Lead Changes: 8

Martin Truex Jr and Kyle Larson lead the field — Loudon, New Hampshire - July 17th, 2022: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Interstate Batteries Toyota, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, lead the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Ambetter 301 at New Hampshire 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
Christopher Bell	5	11	1	1	1	14	6.8	+4	59	46	+13	58	28	100.0%	42	301	115.9	47
Chase Elliott	2	7	2	2	1	23	5.0	+0	58	30	+28	49	30	97.7%	13	301	121.3	50
Bubba Wallace	4	9	3	3	2	23	6.3	+1	53	40	+13	47	10	98.7%	0	301	106.9	44
Martin Truex Jr	1	1	5	4	1	11	3.2	-3	21	15	+6	21	48	100.0%	172	301	136.9	53
Kevin Harvick	10	4	4	5	2	11	5.2	+5	34	22	+12	32	34	100.0%	0	301	114.3	47
Denny Hamlin	14	22	8	6	5	24	12.3	+8	83	57	+26	56	5	84.1%	0	301	91.0	32
Brad Keselowski	9	23	11	7	7	26	14.3	+2	65	65	+0	33	0	67.8%	0	301	84.5	30
Ross Chastain	18	10	12	8	5	21	12.9	+10	75	69	+6	63	3	87.4%	0	301	86.5	33
Daniel Suarez	19	2	14	9	2	26	17.0	+10	60	61	-1	17	7	23.9%	0	301	76.7	28
Kurt Busch	3	5	23	10	1	27	6.5	-7	55	58	-3	34	22	92.0%	40	301	110.1	36
William Byron	6	14	10	11	4	22	10.4	-5	66	66	+0	60	4	96.4%	0	301	88.3	31
Kyle Busch	17	13	9	12	3	28	15.1	+5	56	56	+0	26	1	42.9%	0	301	77.2	25
Austin Cindric	28	8	18	13	1	29	16.9	+15	62	49	+13	22	2	44.2%	0	301	75.6	24
Kyle Larson	8	6	13	14	2	21	7.1	-6	52	49	+3	51	19	98.7%	0	300	92.7	37
Chase Briscoe	29	20	15	15	1	31	17.9	+14	58	58	+0	14	5	42.2%	6	300	64.9	22
AJ Allmendinger	20	19	16	16	14	27	17.6	+4	70	67	+3	11	0	16.0%	0	300	67.8	0
Chris Buescher	16	12	17	17	2	26	15.2	-1	45	72	-27	23	2	35.2%	0	300	68.1	20
Ryan Blaney	11	26	19	18	9	26	17.2	-7	61	60	+1	31	0	34.6%	0	300	62.5	19
Erik Jones	22	18	21	19	9	24	19.5	+3	60	72	-12	13	0	13.6%	0	300	56.5	18
Justin Haley	25	25	25	20	18	31	25.7	+5	39	47	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	300	48.7	17
Tyler Reddick	13	21	24	21	10	29	18.0	-8	89	52	+37	33	0	40.2%	0	300	62.0	16
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	24	28	22	22	12	30	23.5	+2	49	55	-6	5	0	0.3%	0	300	52.0	15
Austin Dillon	30	17	20	23	12	31	24.5	+7	69	62	+7	0	9	0.7%	0	300	52.2	14
Joey Logano	12	3	6	24	1	26	6.0	-12	22	44	-22	21	7	98.7%	25	300	93.9	20
Todd Gilliland	26	24	27	25	12	31	27.5	+1	33	38	-5	0	0	0.7%	0	300	42.2	12
Harrison Burton	31	27	26	26	1	31	23.3	+5	48	45	+3	5	0	8.0%	3	300	48.3	11
Cole Custer	23	15	7	27	2	28	17.5	-4	55	92	-37	8	1	29.2%	0	300	65.1	10
Michael McDowell	15	29	28	28	15	31	27.0	-13	31	48	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	299	41.0	9
JJ Yeley	33	30	29	29	14	35	29.3	+4	15	23	-8	0	0	0.3%	0	299	36.7	0
Cody Ware	36	31	30	30	30	36	30.9	+6	1	1	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	297	34.3	7
Aric Almirola	7	16	31	31	5	31	19.7	-24	20	39	-19	19	2	46.8%	0	282	65.0	9
Corey Lajoie	21	32	32	32	16	26	29.2	-11	15	18	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	88	39.5	5
Ty Dillon	35	33	33	33	31	35	33.0	+2	9	4	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	5	30.2	4
Josh Bilicki	34	34	34	34	33	35	34.0	+0	3	5	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	5	26.7	0
Alex Bowman	27	35	35	35	27	32	34.9	-8	2	6	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	4	26.0	2
BJ McLeod	32	36	36	36	32	34	36.0	-4	3	5	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	4	25.7	0

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Race Fast Facts

New Hampshire Motor Speedway
30th Annual Ambetter 301
Race Winner: Christopher Bell
Age: 27
Team: No. 20 - Rheem/WATTS Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Adam Stevens
Christopher Bell won the 30th Annual Ambetter 301, his second victory in 92 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and 11th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (finished second last year).
Chase Elliott (second) posted his third top-10 finish in nine races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2022.
Bubba Wallace (third) posted his first top-10 finish in five races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Austin Cindric (13th) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Christopher Bell tames the Magic Mile securing first win of 2022 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

July 17th, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Christopher Bell has quietly established himself as a New England force over the past three years coming up the NASCAR ranks and on Sunday afternoon, he convincingly earned his biggest triumph to date there, a victory in the NASCAR Cup Series Ambetter 301 and a ticket to the 2022 Playoffs.

Bell led the last 42 laps of the 301-lapper at the one-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway claiming the trophy – and the traditional lobster hoist in Victory Lane – with a massive 5.767-second victory over last week’s race winner Chase Elliott.

It’s only the second NASCAR Cup Series win for the third-year driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota but oh, so significant as it launches the 27-year old Oklahoman into a guaranteed Playoff contention. The 14th different winner of the season came into the race ranked last among the top-16 drivers that would advance to the Playoffs. Now he has secured his title run.

“Man, that one was much needed right there,” said Bell, who won three consecutive NASCAR Xfinity Series races at the track from 2019-2021 and was runner-up in last year’s NASCAR Cup Series race there.

“I tell you what, that was a helluva race from my viewpoint. It was so much fun racing with the 45 (Kurt Busch), the 22 (Joey Logano) and the 9 (Elliott). We were all running different lines. That was a blast. Just so happy to be here at Joe Gibbs Racing and so good to get that 20 car back in victory lane.”

“Winning Cup races is hard,’’ he added with a smile, thanking the crowd. “Just seems like we’ve been close then we had fallen off a little bit last week. I was talking to my best friend and I told him, ‘earlier in the year I felt like we were right on the verge of winning. Then the last couple of weeks I felt like we were pretty far away.

“But here we are today.’’

Elliott, who hasn’t finished worse than second in the last four races (including two victories), said he just didn’t have anything for Bell at the very end.

“I feel like just a poor run of execution on my end in the last run,’’ said Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. “It took me a while to get past Joey (Logano) and the 45 (Busch) and I had to run harder than I wanted to.

“Just make a couple mistakes and couldn’t get much breathing room.”

The string of top-two finishes was of little consolation to the 2020 series champion.

“When you’re in position like we’ve been in, you need to finish it off.’’

Bubba Wallace, driver of the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota, turned in a career best day at New Hampshire finishing third – his second top-five of the season but first top-10 since a 10th place at Kansas eight races ago.

“Just proud of the team, proud of myself and proud of everybody at the shop,’’ Wallace said, adding, “It’s been hell for me the last month so good to come out with a top-five.

“This sport humbles you so there’s really no surprises. Have to keep the task at hand and be mindful of your surroundings and do your job.’’

Bell’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. finished fourth followed by Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick.

The pole sitter Truex won both stages – his series-leading sixth and seventh of the year – and led a race best 182 laps; including the first 95 consecutively to start the race.

His No 19 JGR Toyota certainly looked like the car to beat, but a two-tire stop for him – and for Harvick – with about 100 laps to go turned out to unsettle the car and he dropped briefly outside the top-10 before racing back to his fist top-five since a fifth place at Talladega, Ala. in April.

JGR’s Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Trackhouse Racing’s teammates Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez and 23XI Racing’s Kurt Busch rounded out the top-10. Seventh place was Keselowski’s best finish of the season in his first year as co-owner/driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Ford.

With Chastain’s 14th top-10 and Ryan Blaney’s 18th place finish, there was significant movement atop the championship standings. Chastain has moved into second place, 67 points behind the leader Elliott. Blaney – who is still looking for his first victory of the season – is now third.

Truex, who is also still racing for a Playoff-securing victory is now in the 16th and final Playoff position – 68 points ahead of Harvick, who has not won in 2022 either.