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NASCAR Cup Series

Ambetter Health 400

Atlanta Motor Speedway

March 19th, 2023

Race #5 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 325
- Shortened to 260 laps
Miles Raced : 400.4
Time of Race : 02 Hours 53 minutes 05 seconds
Average Speed: 138.800 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.193 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 34
Lead Changes: 20

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Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Joey Logano	1	1	5	1	1	23	4.1	+0	176	181	-5	133	9	93.1%	140	260	129.8	59
Brad Keselowski	4	27	1	2	1	29	5.2	+2	152	159	-7	118	0	96.2%	47	260	114.6	45
Christopher Bell	10	6	3	3	1	35	10.8	+7	218	198	+20	130	3	81.9%	6	260	92.0	39
Corey Lajoie	31	9	6	4	2	31	15.0	+27	227	212	+15	139	10	70.4%	0	260	96.9	34
Tyler Reddick	16	23	2	5	2	31	15.5	+11	236	211	+25	113	6	43.5%	0	260	86.5	39
Denny Hamlin	14	5	4	6	1	14	6.3	+8	186	178	+8	174	1	100.0%	14	260	107.8	40
Ryan Blaney	3	2	7	7	1	33	11.3	-4	130	145	-15	97	2	70.4%	5	260	96.1	37
Erik Jones	28	17	13	8	8	33	22.0	+20	250	247	+3	27	11	8.1%	0	260	59.7	29
Ty Gibbs	35	13	14	9	4	35	18.4	+26	220	203	+17	91	10	30.8%	0	260	78.9	28
Kyle Busch	17	33	8	10	1	33	11.2	+7	202	217	-15	128	7	77.3%	7	260	88.7	31
Austin Cindric	2	4	10	11	1	30	7.5	-9	183	196	-13	124	9	85.4%	5	260	93.0	45
Noah Gragson	22	24	11	12	3	28	16.3	+10	217	215	+2	105	2	48.9%	0	260	71.3	25
Ross Chastain	18	12	17	13	1	31	16.9	+5	275	262	+13	137	12	31.5%	5	260	72.1	24
Alex Bowman	15	7	12	14	2	24	11.1	+1	235	241	-6	179	5	84.6%	0	260	85.7	31
Todd Gilliland	23	20	9	15	7	30	20.6	+8	211	230	-19	78	4	25.4%	0	260	58.5	22
AJ Allmendinger	30	19	18	16	5	32	21.5	+14	257	244	+13	42	8	21.2%	0	260	63.6	21
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	27	11	19	17	1	31	16.5	+10	194	214	-20	102	5	50.4%	7	260	77.8	20
Josh Berry	21	14	23	18	3	32	20.1	+3	234	209	+25	48	16	20.4%	0	260	76.1	0
Martin Truex Jr	29	32	16	19	3	32	14.9	+10	266	252	+14	110	9	54.2%	0	260	86.9	23
Austin Dillon	13	34	21	20	7	34	20.3	-7	156	169	-13	36	9	36.5%	0	260	54.9	17
Michael McDowell	12	21	15	21	9	28	19.8	-9	228	274	-46	62	7	20.8%	0	260	52.2	16
Justin Haley	20	16	22	22	2	29	19.0	-2	233	221	+12	64	10	22.7%	0	260	53.4	15
Ty Dillon	26	30	20	23	12	33	26.5	+3	125	142	-17	0	7	0.8%	0	260	43.4	14
Chase Briscoe	8	25	24	24	7	34	23.6	-16	148	172	-24	37	15	15.8%	0	259	46.5	13
Cody Ware	32	29	25	25	1	35	31.0	+7	35	43	-8	0	3	0.4%	1	258	36.1	12
JJ Yeley	34	31	26	26	3	35	31.6	+8	22	28	-6	0	3	0.4%	0	258	30.6	0
Bubba Wallace	19	35	27	27	18	36	32.9	-8	11	8	+3	0	3	0.0%	0	255	30.2	10
Ryan Preece	24	36	28	28	20	36	31.9	-4	64	57	+7	0	4	0.0%	0	244	32.8	9
Daniel Suarez	25	10	29	29	4	27	17.1	-4	165	152	+13	81	2	50.8%	0	213	64.5	10
Aric Almirola	5	18	30	30	1	29	16.6	-25	102	110	-8	56	6	44.2%	17	208	69.0	7
Kyle Larson	9	22	31	31	2	28	16.7	-22	150	143	+7	85	7	47.7%	0	208	64.3	6
William Byron	11	8	32	32	1	28	15.1	-21	111	101	+10	97	4	69.6%	0	192	75.9	11
Kevin Harvick	6	15	33	33	1	27	20.0	-27	154	162	-8	80	3	28.5%	1	190	59.8	4
Harrison Burton	33	26	34	34	22	34	30.4	-1	136	142	-6	0	3	0.0%	0	190	33.5	3
Chris Buescher	7	3	35	35	1	29	15.2	-28	125	99	+26	88	3	66.9%	5	189	82.0	10
BJ McLeod	36	28	36	36	2	36	33.3	+0	25	25	+0	0	2	1.5%	0	189	27.9	1

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Race Fast Facts

Atlanta Motor Speedway
Ambetter Health 400
Race Winner: Joey Logano
Age: 32
Team : No. 22 - Autotrader Ford
Owner: Roger Penske
Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
Joey Logano won the Ambetter Health 400, his 32nd victory in 512 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 19 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 10th top-10 finish in 17 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2023.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his second top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Ty Gibbs (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joey Logano leads the point standings by 1 points over Christopher Bell.

Race Recap

Joey Logano drives dominant Ford to victory in NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta

March 19th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Deftly maneuvering his No. 22 Ford through the final two laps of Sunday's Ambetter Health 400, Joey Logano finished the NASCAR Cup Series race where he started—at the front of the field.

With a push from Christopher Bell on the backstretch on the final lap, Logano moved to the outside of leader Brad Keselowski with huge momentum and charged past Keselowski's No. 6 Ford into the lead.

Logano pulled down to the inside lane through the final two corners and crossed the finish line .193 seconds ahead of Keselowski and .194 seconds ahead of third-place Bell.

"Yeah, first off so special to win Atlanta for me," said Logano, a Connecticut native who began to refine his talent racing Legends cars at Atlanta. "So many memories of me and my dad racing right here on the quarter mile. This is the full circle for us. So many memories gritting over there with the Legends car, racing, having a big time.

"Dreaming of going straight at the quarter mile and going onto the big track. That was always the dream to do it. To finally win here means so much to me here personally, but the team.

"The Auto Trader Mustang—this thing was an animal. Very, very fast. Able to lead a ton of laps, race really hard there at the end, get a good push from the 20 (Bell) to clear myself. Huge victory. Nice to get one early in the season. Always feels better, but what a great day for us."

Logano's first victory of the season and first at Atlanta was no surprise. On Saturday, the reigning series champion led eight Ford drivers into the top eight starting positions for Sunday's race.

Logano won the first stage wire-to-wire, leading the first 63 laps. In Stage 2, he finished second to Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric. All told, Logano led 140 of the 260 laps. Keselowski was second with 47 laps led.

The victory was Ford's first of the season after Chevrolet drivers claimed trophies in the first four events. Logano is the second straight driver to win from the pole at Atlanta, following Chase Elliott last summer.

Disappointed with second place, Keselowski was nevertheless elated with the quality of racing in the closing laps.

"The coolest thing about this race is two veterans showed you can run a race here side-by-side, bump-drafting, and not wreck the field," Keselowski said. "It can happen if you race respectfully. I thought everybody did a great job.

"We were right there. Proud of my team and the effort. Nothing much we could do there at the end."

Not that there wasn't plenty of action before the final laps ended with Logano's 32^nd career victory.

After two relatively placid stages where single-file racing predominated, the intensity increased exponentially as the end of the race approached.

On Lap 190, one lap after Kevin Harvick had taken the lead for the first time, Chastain pulled up close behind Harvick in the draft. Harvick's No. 4 Ford broke loose and triggered a massive wreck on the backstretch that involved 14 cars.

Harvick was eliminated, along with William Byron, Chris Buescher, Harrison Burton and BJ McLeod. The defending race winner, Byron was seeking his third straight Cup victory of the season.

"It looked like the No. 1 (Chastain) and the No. 4 just got connected there into Turn 1 and got the No. 4 loose," Byron said after a mandatory visit to the infield care center. "It's just part of racing. That's the way it goes—not really in our control. We were up there running in the top-five and doing what we needed to do."

Harvick's assessment of the wreck was essentially the same.

"I think he just caught me so quick right there in the middle of the corner, and then he kind of was up on the right rear part of the (car) and he came back down, and when he came back down it just spun the thing out," Harvick said. "I don't think he actually even hit me, but it started chattering the rear tires, and then I was just along for the ride."

Nineteen laps later, a five-car accident off Turn 4—triggered when one of then-leader Aric Almirola's tires went flat—knocked Almirola, Kyle Larson and Daniel Suárez out of the race.

"There was nowhere to go," Larson said ruefully. "Nobody had been having tire issues, so I wasn't even expecting the No. 10 (Almirola) to have a tire issue in front of me. Even if I did, I didn't have time to react.

"It's a bummer. Just frustrating.. I was finally up front on this style of race track and still end up with a DNF (did not finish). I don't know—just frustrating."

Corey LaJoie finished a career-best fourth, followed by Tyler Reddick, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, Erik Jones, Ty Gibbs and Kyle Busch. LaJoie also gave Logano a push as the winner worked his way back to the front.

"I hope he gives me a shout-out for pushing him," LaJoie said. "Gave him a good shot there at the end."