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NASCAR Cup Series

AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500

Texas Motor Speedway

September 25th, 2022

Race #30 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 334
Miles Raced : 501.0
Time of Race : 04 Hours 21 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 114.784 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.190 seconds
Cautions: 16
Caution Laps: 91
Lead Changes: 36

Daniel Suarez and Austin Dillon race — Fort Worth, Texas - September 25th, 2022: Daniel Suarez, driver of the #99 Aguas Frescas Chevrolet, and Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 True Velocity Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Auto Trader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor 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
Tyler Reddick	4	22	1	1	1	33	9.3	+3	86	97	-11	55	38	76.4%	70	334	130.1	40
Joey Logano	2	18	2	2	1	27	9.4	+0	94	74	+20	52	5	72.2%	15	334	111.6	46
Justin Haley	31	23	5	3	3	33	17.7	+28	119	103	+16	23	3	35.9%	0	334	75.4	34
Ryan Blaney	14	3	10	4	1	22	10.0	+10	87	64	+23	59	18	81.7%	29	334	104.7	43
Chase Briscoe	30	26	4	5	3	32	19.6	+25	76	115	-39	13	0	32.0%	0	334	67.0	32
Erik Jones	27	5	11	6	1	29	11.8	+21	109	76	+33	76	14	70.7%	1	334	91.7	31
William Byron	3	9	7	7	1	27	6.7	-4	94	65	+29	74	21	94.6%	42	334	117.0	43
Brad Keselowski	1	12	13	8	1	33	12.6	-7	133	84	+49	75	19	63.2%	31	334	93.6	39
Kyle Larson	9	4	9	9	1	30	10.4	+0	107	56	+51	58	24	77.5%	19	334	101.2	38
Denny Hamlin	8	10	12	10	1	29	11.0	-2	117	91	+26	56	9	70.7%	2	334	93.0	36
Michael McDowell	5	15	6	11	1	30	10.2	-6	87	89	-2	66	4	86.5%	12	334	96.1	28
Daniel Suarez	10	11	14	12	1	29	12.0	-2	69	79	-10	49	1	78.4%	1	334	80.2	38
Ross Chastain	12	2	8	13	1	27	10.1	-1	94	64	+30	54	7	80.5%	1	334	89.5	39
Corey Lajoie	29	25	23	14	10	33	22.9	+15	125	150	-25	26	1	17.1%	0	334	51.4	23
Austin Cindric	11	17	28	15	5	32	17.2	-4	129	104	+25	45	4	42.2%	0	334	70.1	28
Ty Dillon	32	21	16	16	9	32	19.3	+16	107	130	-23	24	1	19.5%	0	334	59.2	21
Austin Dillon	7	8	22	17	1	27	12.1	-10	76	98	-22	50	3	68.9%	3	334	76.9	25
Harrison Burton	20	32	15	18	1	32	18.2	+2	99	120	-21	56	3	42.2%	15	334	65.9	19
Kevin Harvick	23	14	18	19	1	29	15.7	+4	88	84	+4	43	0	50.9%	9	334	67.6	18
Ty Gibbs	16	24	17	20	11	31	21.7	-4	94	139	-45	9	0	6.9%	0	334	48.8	0
Noah Gragson	26	13	21	21	6	31	17.7	+5	119	130	-11	42	1	45.8%	0	334	58.4	0
Landon Cassill	35	28	24	22	16	35	26.4	+13	59	93	-34	0	0	0.0%	0	334	39.3	0
Garrett Smithley	33	29	26	23	4	36	29.1	+10	18	29	-11	0	0	1.5%	0	334	36.8	0
Aric Almirola	25	20	20	24	7	31	21.3	+1	98	118	-20	13	0	12.3%	0	334	47.2	13
Bubba Wallace	19	7	25	25	3	36	22.2	-6	78	98	-20	19	10	23.1%	0	334	50.8	12
BJ McLeod	34	31	27	26	1	36	29.8	+8	12	19	-7	0	0	1.5%	1	333	32.5	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	21	19	19	27	1	33	17.8	-6	103	110	-7	12	3	26.4%	23	333	52.7	14
Todd Gilliland	28	27	3	28	1	33	23.7	+0	84	161	-77	7	2	16.2%	1	333	41.6	9
Alex Bowman	17	33	29	29	8	34	26.3	-12	22	16	+6	15	1	15.9%	0	329	63.7	8
Chris Buescher	13	16	30	30	3	31	18.0	-17	72	60	+12	41	6	44.0%	0	270	60.4	7
Martin Truex Jr	15	6	31	31	1	31	15.1	-16	119	66	+53	64	15	61.7%	15	267	75.1	8
Chase Elliott	6	1	32	32	1	14	17.0	-26	23	29	-6	23	12	55.1%	44	184	106.8	5
Cody Ware	36	30	33	33	19	36	32.6	+3	13	22	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	166	24.8	4
Christopher Bell	22	34	34	34	6	33	26.4	-12	62	39	+23	30	0	22.2%	0	136	48.5	3
Cole Custer	24	35	35	35	20	27	32.2	-11	26	31	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	77	30.0	2
Kyle Busch	18	36	36	36	4	20	32.8	-18	15	5	+10	9	0	6.6%	0	48	33.0	1

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Race Fast Facts

Texas Motor Speedway
18th Annual AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500
Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
Age: 26
Team : No. 8 - Lenovo/ThinkEdge Chevrolet
Owner: Richard Childress
Crew Chief: Randall Burnett
Tyler Reddick won the 18th Annual AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500, his third victory in 104 Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and 13th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in four races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Joey Logano (second) posted his 15th top-10 finish in 27 races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2022.
Justin Haley (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Austin Cindric (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joey Logano leads the point standings by 12 points over Ross Chastain.

Race Recap

Tyler Reddick plays Playoff spoiler with win at Texas

September 25th, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

They say everything is "bigger” in Texas and certainly NASCAR's Round of 12 Playoff opener at Texas Motor Speedway lived up to the billing. From Playoff consequences to a red flag delay to bumper-banging aggression, tire fall-off and record statistical marks, there was no shortage of competitive drama in Sunday's AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500.

Ultimately Richard Childress Racing's Tyler Reddick prevailed as race winner – taking the green flag by 1.190-seconds over Penske Racing's Joey Logano in a final 24-lap green flag run to the checkered flag. It was the 26-year old Californian's third career victory and first win on an oval after claiming trophies on two road courses earlier this season.

"We had a lot of issues today, I'm not going to lie," Reddick said with a smile, listing a number of setbacks from pit road mishaps, vibrations in his No. 8 RCR Chevrolet to holding off a hard-charging Logano, who has now taken the NASCAR Cup Series championship lead by 12 points over Trackhouse Racing driver Ross Chastain.

"Every time we've had a strong car we've been bit by something," said Reddick, who announced earlier this season he is leaving the RCR team to go to 23XI Racing in 2024.

"This is a tough race, 500 miles here is not an easy feat and I know it wasn't easy on you," Reddick said motioning toward the grandstands. "So great to win here in a Cup car, been close here a couple times."

With the victory, Reddick becomes the fourth consecutive "non-Playoff” driver to win a race in four Playoff races of the 2022 season. Yet, there was still plenty of drama among the Playoff 12.

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron, who finished seventh, and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who finished 10th had a literal "run-in” late in the race. Byron said he felt Hamlin ran him up on track causing his No. 24 Hendrick Chevrolet to hit the Turn 2 wall and damage his car. And in retaliation, he bumped Hamlin's No. 11 JGR Toyota during a caution that ended up sending Hamlin spinning into the infield.

"It was really hard contact," the 24-year old Byron said of the incident that put his car in the wall, adding, "I didn't mean to spin him out over there but obviously I'm pissed off and not going to get run like that. We've always raced together so well so I don't know what it was all about.

"I went to go show my displeasure. Didn't mean to hit him and spin him out. … I'm just not going to get run like that. There's really no reason. We were running second and third at the time, I think."

Hamlin, 41, took exception to the hit, and tapped his Toyota into Byron's Chevy multiple times after his infield spin. He still appeared miffed after the race

"I don't think we touched but obviously he sent us through the infield under caution," Hamlin said.

"I keep hearing these guys and I'll just add it to the list, guys that when I get a chance, they're going to get it. It just works itself out. We'll be racing each other at some point. He'll lose a lot of spots because he's racing me

"This is hard racing obviously. I'm fine with hard racing. But wrecking me under caution is not what we bargained for. I'm thankful to my FedEx Toyota team for bouncing back."

It was an action-packed racing afternoon on all levels. There were a record 36 lead changes and a record 16 caution periods – including a 56-minute red flag period for rain just after Ryan Blaney claimed the Stage 2 victory.

When the race resumed, the resulting drop in temperatures – factoring in a light rain shower and nightfall – seemed to reinvigorate the racing on track. Side-by-side racing and passes throughout the field and multiple tire issues at the front of the field.

Martin Truex Jr., along with Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott all had tire issues while leading the race

The 32nd place finish dropped the 2021 series champion from the points lead coming into Texas to seventh in points – 26 points behind new championship leader Logano now - only four points above the cut-off line heading to Race 2 of this three-race championship round at the always unpredictable Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway next weekend.

"Something came apart, I could hear it flapping on the right rear, so if it wasn't down, it was certainly coming apart," Elliott said.

"It's not a great position to be in for sure, but it is what it is now. I hate it for our No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet team. We were actually decent here for once, and that was nice while it lasted. We'll go to Talladega and try to survive over there, get a win next week and go on down the road.”

Elliott was one of a handful of Playoff drivers who had "challenging” days in Fort Worth. Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell, who came into the race ranked sixth after turning in the best Round 1 Playoff showing of any of the 12 championship-eligible drivers. He suffered tire issues that ultimately eliminated him from competition as well.

As significant, the incident dropped him to 11th place n the Playoff standings, 39 points behind eighth place Daniel Suarez with eight drivers advancing to the next round of the Playoffs

"Very disappointing weekend and I was feeling optimistic when they dropped the green flag," Bell said, adding, "It makes our decision easy on how to play Talladega. We were hoping to come out of here good and be able to ride around and just survive Talladega. We are going to have to race and get some stage points and be up front all day."

Justin Haley finished third on the day with Playoff drivers Ryan Blaney (Penske Racing) and Chase Briscoe (Stewart-Haas Racing ) rounding out the Top-5. Erik Jones, Byron, Sunday's race polesitter Brad Keselowski, reigning series champion Kyle Larson and Hamlin rounded out the Top-10.

Byron holds onto the third Playoff spot, 13 points behind leader Logano. Larson is fourth (-14), followed by Blaney (-15) and Hamlin (-22). Elliott and Sunday's 12th place finisher Daniel Suarez are seventh and eighth in the Playoff standings, both 26 points behind Logano.

Briscoe, Austin Cindric, Bell and Alex Bowman (who finished 29^th) round out the Top-12 with Bowman 56 points behind leader Logano and 30 points out of the eighth place position that would advance to the Round of 8.