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NASCAR Cup Series

Go Bowling at The Glen

Watkins Glen International

August 21st, 2022

Race #25 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 90
Miles Raced : 218.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 17 minutes 52 seconds
Average Speed: 95.962 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.882 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 11
Lead Changes: 12

Todd Gilliland, Joey Logano, and Ty Dillon race — Watkins Glen, New York - August 21st, 2022: Todd Gilliland, driver of the #38 MDStrucking.com Ford, Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, and Ty Dillon, driver of the #42 Allegiant Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. 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
Kyle Larson	2	6	2	1	1	30	7.7	+1	65	77	-12	28	10	86.7%	5	90	112.0	43
AJ Allmendinger	6	7	4	2	2	35	12.2	+4	97	79	+18	30	7	73.3%	0	90	106.4	0
Joey Logano	20	23	7	3	1	35	9.3	+17	105	73	+32	37	2	78.9%	15	90	114.0	49
Chase Elliott	1	2	1	4	1	24	4.4	-3	30	47	-17	20	22	94.4%	29	90	124.8	40
Daniel Suarez	9	11	6	5	2	27	11.1	+4	92	69	+23	44	1	83.3%	0	90	105.2	40
Michael McDowell	3	1	3	6	1	25	4.4	-3	66	76	-10	27	6	97.8%	14	90	119.3	42
Tyler Reddick	5	29	5	7	1	34	14.2	-2	91	67	+24	30	5	61.1%	2	90	88.2	39
Christopher Bell	38	4	9	8	3	38	12.9	+30	83	71	+12	25	0	74.4%	0	90	92.7	30
Chris Buescher	7	5	8	9	3	35	10.9	-2	107	122	-15	32	1	81.1%	0	90	104.9	32
Erik Jones	31	10	11	10	5	31	15.2	+21	108	81	+27	27	0	52.2%	0	90	80.2	27
Cole Custer	29	27	10	11	1	31	14.3	+18	104	77	+27	19	0	64.4%	7	90	93.4	28
Kevin Harvick	24	14	12	12	10	36	21.7	+12	101	95	+6	13	0	31.1%	0	90	59.0	25
Austin Cindric	8	21	13	13	2	33	16.4	-5	110	99	+11	28	0	54.4%	0	90	76.2	24
Alex Bowman	11	15	20	14	3	32	17.7	-3	68	87	-19	23	1	40.0%	0	90	65.2	23
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	21	8	18	15	2	30	15.7	+6	79	89	-10	27	0	54.4%	0	90	67.2	22
Ty Dillon	28	26	16	16	3	30	15.7	+12	104	80	+24	20	0	37.8%	0	90	80.8	31
Austin Dillon	12	33	22	17	1	34	16.6	-5	101	99	+2	23	0	43.3%	6	90	76.8	20
Justin Haley	13	13	24	18	7	39	25.3	-5	93	104	-11	9	2	16.7%	0	90	60.0	19
Brad Keselowski	15	17	19	19	4	31	20.7	-4	99	101	-2	11	0	13.3%	0	90	59.5	18
Denny Hamlin	22	34	15	20	13	38	26.6	+2	83	86	-3	3	0	4.4%	0	90	48.8	17
Ross Chastain	18	16	30	21	4	34	19.5	-3	91	88	+3	27	1	38.9%	0	90	67.6	22
William Byron	4	12	23	22	4	34	21.8	-18	84	77	+7	16	0	22.2%	0	90	52.3	15
Martin Truex Jr	25	22	14	23	14	35	21.1	+2	102	122	-20	7	1	16.7%	0	90	58.7	14
Ryan Blaney	26	9	17	24	4	31	18.1	+2	69	88	-19	11	0	33.3%	0	90	65.3	13
Chase Briscoe	14	32	26	25	1	35	24.6	-11	101	96	+5	19	3	20.0%	7	90	47.5	22
Corey Lajoie	32	30	25	27	2	33	17.8	+5	100	107	-7	12	0	44.4%	0	90	63.5	10
Harrison Burton	30	18	21	28	17	39	29.4	+2	67	81	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	90	37.8	9
Aric Almirola	35	24	27	29	14	39	30.0	+6	70	84	-14	0	0	1.1%	0	90	40.0	8
Mike Rockenfeller	33	31	28	30	3	34	25.2	+3	99	114	-15	16	0	17.8%	0	90	47.3	7
Joey Hand	17	3	31	31	3	32	15.4	-14	71	83	-12	16	1	50.0%	0	90	72.6	11
Kyle Busch	10	28	34	32	2	34	16.7	-22	102	79	+23	18	5	48.9%	0	89	82.4	16
Loris Hezemans	34	20	32	33	11	37	26.5	+1	73	90	-17	2	0	13.3%	0	89	41.0	0
Cody Ware	39	36	35	34	30	39	35.5	+5	25	21	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	88	29.7	3
Bubba Wallace	23	25	33	35	12	37	26.2	-12	87	77	+10	2	0	2.2%	0	83	47.3	2
Daniil Kvyat	36	38	36	36	24	39	36.9	+0	30	29	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	58	28.5	1
Kimi Raikkonen	27	35	37	37	8	32	27.5	-10	48	73	-25	6	0	17.8%	0	44	45.8	1
Todd Gilliland	19	37	38	38	1	36	28.0	-19	39	64	-25	26	3	30.0%	5	28	74.4	8
Kyle Tilley	37	39	39	39	32	39	38.7	-2	20	23	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	15	23.2	1

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Race Fast Facts

Watkins Glen International
36th Annual Go Bowling at The Glen
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 30
Team: No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 36th Annual Go Bowling at The Glen, his 18th victory in 284 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and 13th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in eight races at Watkins Glen International - won the race at Watkins Glen International last year.
AJ Allmendinger (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 11 races at Watkins Glen International. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2022.
Joey Logano (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Watkins Glen International.
Austin Cindric (13th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chase Elliott clinched the Regular Season Championship for the first time in his career.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson Sweeps the Weekend at Watkins Glen

August 21st, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

For the second-consecutive day Kyle Larson took his first lead of the race with five laps remaining and held off road course ace and fellow Californian A.J. Allmendinger for a trophy. Larson completed the rare weekend sweep at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International Sunday afternoon with a clutch win in the NASCAR Cup Series’ Go Bowling at the Glen.

Larson made a dramatic pass on his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott on a restart with five laps to go on the historic road course. As the race leader, Elliott got to choose where to lineup alongside Larson for the green flag and chose to start on Larson’s outside, setting up the dramatic contention for position.

Larson maneuvered past Elliott in the wide-sweeping turn with both Allmendinger and Joey Logano able to get around Elliott as well. Allmendinger gave chase to Larson, but for the second day in a row, Larson, the driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet again proved too much.

It was the second-consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victory for Larson, 30, at Watkins Glen - finishing .882-seconds ahead of Kaulig Racing’s Allmendinger. It’s Larson’s 18th career win and second of the 2022 season for the defending NASCAR Cup Series champion.

Team Penske's Logano finished third just ahead of Elliott, who could take some considerable consolation in officially securing the 2022 Regular Season Championship – his first – at the end of Stage 1 on Sunday.

Larson immediately addressed the winning move.

That was really my only opportunity (to go for the lead), I’m not proud of it,’’ Larson said, "But being in the inside lane, the right lane, being the leader, choosing the left lane, it definitely wins out. But when it gets late in the race, it's definitely risky.

"I knew that was my only opportunity to get by him. I feel like our cars were pretty equal today. Had a lot of fun after rate green flag cycle trying to chase hi down. Kind of burned my stuff up a little bit.

“But the restarts kept me in it and kept our team in it. I’m proud of my guys. Good to get another win here at Watkins Glen and get some more bonus points going into the Playoffs, we haven’t had a lot here this year.’’

Larson said he anticipated having a conversation with Elliott and reiterated that he was only making a move, he felt necessary, to go for the victory. Something he thought Elliott would have done as well.

“We have a competition meeting tomorrow.,’’ Larson said. “I think if I was in his shoes, I would understand the risk that I’m taking, taking the left lane also. I’m not proud of it but I did what I felt like I had to do to get the win.’’

For his part after the race, Elliott said only, “Congratulations to Kyle and everybody on the 5 team and at Hendrick Motorsports for getting the win.’’

Elliott - who led a race high 30 of the 80 laps - again took the company line when asked what he would say to Larson, “Congratulations. … always good to see HMS win. The boss [Rick Hendrick] deserves all the great wins that come for this company.’’

Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suárez finished fifth, followed by Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell, who led 14 laps.

Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell, RFK Racing’s Chris Buescher and Petty GMS Racing’s Erik Jones rounded out the top 10.

German driver Mike Rockenfeller – a sportscar ace and former Rolex 24 at Daytona winner – posted the best finish (30th) among a series-high seven international entries at Watkins Glen.

Formula One world champion Kimi Räikkönen had a solid effort in his NASCAR Cup Series debut – running as high as eighth place in Stage 2 before pitting. His day in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet came to an early end, however, when he was nudged off-track and into a tire barrier while racing among a large group of cars on the ensuing restart.

Räikkönen 41, of Finland, climbed out of his car and appeared fine physically. Although disappointed with the finish to what looked like a promising day, he said he was still overall happy with his debut in NASCAR’s big leagues.

“It was good fun, you know, and I felt more confident all the time and had some good battles and the car felt like it had a lot of speed in there, but that’s how it goes sometimes,’’ said Räikkönen, who officially finished 37th in the 39-car field.

With one race remaining in the regular season and one spot still to be settled for the 16-driver Playoff field, Team Penske's Ryan Blaney holds a 25-point advantage over Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. for the final transfer position should no new winner emerge next week. They finished 23rd (Truex) and 24th (Blaney) on Sunday and both drivers are still looking for their first victory of the year.