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NASCAR Cup Series

GEICO 500

Talladega Superspeedway

April 24th, 2022

Race #10 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 188
Miles Raced : 500.1
Time of Race : 03 Hours 21 minutes 52 seconds
Average Speed: 148.637 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.105 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 28
Lead Changes: 41

Ross Chastain takes the checkered flag to win — Talladega, Alabama - April 24th, 2022: Ross Chastain, driver of the #1 Moose Fraternity Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. 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
Ross Chastain	19	15	5	1	1	38	17.0	+18	276	270	+6	114	3	52.1%	1	188	87.6	42
Austin Dillon	14	11	10	2	2	23	13.3	+12	276	267	+9	187	3	73.9%	0	188	90.2	35
Kyle Busch	12	14	19	3	1	38	14.8	+9	349	348	+1	135	10	54.8%	3	188	97.8	39
Kyle Larson	5	5	2	4	1	15	4.8	+1	212	197	+15	180	4	100.0%	32	188	118.0	50
Martin Truex Jr	2	2	8	5	1	23	8.1	-3	267	267	+0	199	3	93.6%	0	188	103.5	45
Erik Jones	16	4	3	6	1	17	5.9	+10	252	243	+9	223	0	97.3%	25	188	107.2	37
Chase Elliott	28	3	12	7	2	28	7.8	+21	274	252	+22	215	3	94.2%	0	188	103.0	44
Michael McDowell	21	28	17	8	8	37	25.1	+13	158	163	-5	31	9	16.5%	0	188	64.3	29
Alex Bowman	27	9	16	9	4	33	14.0	+18	334	303	+31	198	8	59.6%	0	188	87.2	36
Kevin Harvick	24	10	14	10	2	36	11.0	+14	290	283	+7	203	7	83.5%	0	188	96.1	27
Ryan Blaney	22	6	13	11	1	31	12.1	+11	303	304	-1	143	4	64.9%	23	188	87.7	26
Justin Haley	11	16	6	12	3	34	15.6	-1	257	274	-17	177	3	51.6%	0	188	75.5	25
Aric Almirola	23	17	15	13	2	38	19.4	+10	288	293	-5	108	3	33.5%	0	188	68.8	28
Corey Lajoie	33	19	9	14	1	38	20.6	+19	325	282	+43	42	10	14.9%	1	188	76.9	23
William Byron	8	1	4	15	1	19	4.9	-7	174	174	+0	141	5	96.3%	38	188	104.3	39
Kurt Busch	6	7	7	16	1	25	10.3	-10	315	310	+5	230	4	78.2%	1	188	87.4	26
Bubba Wallace	9	8	11	17	1	38	11.5	-8	322	320	+2	214	10	74.5%	15	188	87.1	30
Denny Hamlin	7	13	1	18	1	38	18.0	-11	240	257	-17	116	3	49.5%	9	188	66.8	19
Landon Cassill	39	22	20	19	6	39	28.1	+20	74	69	+5	32	3	5.3%	0	188	55.0	0
Noah Gragson	31	21	21	20	2	38	23.5	+11	173	172	+1	35	7	8.0%	0	188	53.6	0
Austin Cindric	18	25	18	21	3	37	20.9	-3	224	241	-17	36	7	11.2%	0	188	57.9	16
Christopher Bell	1	12	22	22	1	27	11.5	-21	237	243	-6	159	1	71.8%	7	187	82.0	23
Brad Keselowski	15	20	24	23	3	36	21.1	-8	158	191	-33	66	5	28.2%	0	187	62.9	14
David Ragan	36	18	23	24	2	37	24.0	+12	184	204	-20	13	5	6.4%	0	186	44.6	13
JJ Yeley	38	23	25	25	1	38	28.5	+13	104	107	-3	0	3	1.1%	1	185	37.5	0
BJ McLeod	37	27	26	26	1	38	28.0	+11	127	117	+10	1	0	1.6%	2	172	35.7	11
Todd Gilliland	32	31	27	27	13	37	25.2	+5	157	155	+2	18	1	3.7%	0	121	46.7	10
Cody Ware	34	26	28	28	16	38	29.2	+6	106	108	-2	0	1	0.0%	0	105	39.6	9
Cole Custer	29	24	29	29	1	33	24.0	+0	194	204	-10	63	5	15.4%	1	98	72.1	8
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	26	29	30	30	7	38	24.6	-4	185	160	+25	49	3	16.5%	0	95	71.4	8
Daniel Suarez	4	30	31	31	1	30	22.7	-27	85	115	-30	36	4	22.3%	28	92	68.1	6
Joey Logano	13	32	32	32	1	20	22.4	-19	175	186	-11	132	3	38.8%	1	89	59.6	5
Ty Dillon	20	33	33	33	4	31	24.4	-13	183	185	-2	93	1	25.0%	0	89	55.7	4
Harrison Burton	25	34	34	34	2	26	26.1	-9	193	190	+3	75	1	18.1%	0	89	48.2	3
Greg Biffle	35	35	35	35	17	37	31.6	+0	137	136	+1	0	2	0.0%	0	79	29.1	2
Daniel Hemric	3	36	36	36	3	17	27.0	-33	71	84	-13	68	0	29.8%	0	56	74.3	0
Chase Briscoe	17	37	37	37	14	38	33.7	-20	137	137	+0	11	6	1.6%	0	56	35.2	1
Chris Buescher	30	38	38	38	12	35	33.7	-8	134	122	+12	16	3	2.1%	0	56	35.9	1
Tyler Reddick	10	39	39	39	7	38	35.7	-29	75	105	-30	20	0	4.3%	0	31	31.2	1

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Race Fast Facts

Talladega Superspeedway
53rd Annual GEICO 500
Race Winner: Ross Chastain
Age: 29
Team: No. 1 - Moose Fraternity Chevrolet
Owner: Trackhouse Racing
Crew Chief: Philip Surgen
Ross Chastain won the 53rd Annual GEICO 500, his second victory in 125 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in seven races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Austin Dillon (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in 18 races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2022.
Kyle Busch (third) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 34 races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Austin Cindric (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Ross Chastain captures checkered flag at Talladega on thrilling final lap

April 24th, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

One lap. That’s all it took for Ross Chastain to drop a watermelon and raise a trophy in celebration. The 29-year old Floridian led only the last - typically frantic - lap in the GEICO 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway on Sunday to take his second career NASCAR Cup Series victory.

Chastain was running third behind Erik Jones and Kyle Larson with one lap remaining. Larson pulled out of line to the outside poised to make a pass for the lead. But, Jones pulled in front of Larson to block the momentum while Chastain kept his No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet steady below them maintaining pace ultimately pulling away to the win as the other two cars lost momentum battling each other.

“Holy cow, we didn’t do anything,’’ Chastain yelled on his team radio after taking the checkered flag by a mere .105-second. “We just stayed down there.’’

And it worked.

“I’m always the one going to the top too early and making the mistake and there at the end, with like eight to go I was like “I’m not going up there again, I did that a couple times today,’ said Chastain, who earned his first career series victory at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on March 27.

“I was like, I’ll just drive the bottom, I’m not going to lose the race for us. They just kept going up and moving out of the way.”

Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon crossed the line in second, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch while the Hendrick Motorsports driver Larson was able to finish fourth for his first top-5 finish in a restrictor plate race in 31 tries.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Martin Truex Jr. was fifth followed by Jones, who came less than one lap away from giving GMS Petty Motorsports and team owner Richard Petty its first win since 2014.

“Just the last lap, it’s typical here,’’ said a disappointed Jones, who finished sixth. “I’ve been close here so many times in this race and the fall race.’’

“Looking back,’’ he continued. “I wish I’d stayed in the bottom but didn’t realize they were coming with that much speed. Tried to defend the 5 (Larson), but was too far ahead already and obviously it opened the door for the 1 (Chastain).

He did take solace in the showing, however.

“Happy to run up front and lead laps, just would really love to get that 43 to victory lane and thought today might be the day,’’ Jones said. “We were fast all day long, had speed and especially being out front there at the end I know we had a shot, just couldn’t quite close it out.’’

Larson was equally as disappointed hoping to turn his best race performance at Talladega into a trophy.

“I felt like I did a pretty near perfect job for me at a superspeedway until the last lap there,’’ said Larson, the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion. “I should have faked going high and gone back low. I had that run there.’

“Just that little inexperience there, probably,’’ he added.

Larson’s Hendrick teammate Chase Elliott, a former Talladega winner, finished seventh, followed by former DAYTONA 500 winner Michael McDowell, Hendrick’s Alex Bowman and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick.

The race ending capped off a typically dramatic day featuring 41 lead changes among 16 drivers. Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron led a race best 38 of the 188 laps and won Stage 2, but finished 15th unable to make up ground after his final pit stop in the dicey closing laps.

Bubba Wallace, who won last fall at Talladega and led 15 laps on Sunday, won Stage 1 – his first stage win of the season – but as with Byron, lost positions in the final laps. He was involved in a wreck coming to the checkered flag and finished 17th in the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota.

Elliott’s top-10 was good enough for him to extend the championship lead over 11th place finisher, Penske Racing’s Ryan Blaney. He’s now 21 points up on the field heading to Dover (Del.) International Speedway next weekend where the NASCAR Cup Series will race Sunday in the DuraMAX Drydene 400 presented by ReLaDyne (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Bowman is the defending race winner.