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NASCAR Cup Series

Echopark Automotive Grand Prix

Circuit of The Americas

March 26th, 2023

Race #6 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 68
- Extended to 75 laps
Miles Raced : 235.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 30 minutes 32 seconds
Average Speed: 72.886 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.411 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 17
Lead Changes: 16

William Byron and Tyler Reddick lead the field on a pace lap — Austin, Texas - March 26th, 2023: William Byron, driver of the #24 Liberty University Chevrolet, and Tyler Reddick, driver of the #45 Monster Energy Toyota, lead the field on a pace lap prior to the NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas. Photo by Chris Graythen | 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	2	2	1	1	1	25	3.7	+1	57	28	+29	32	13	93.3%	41	75	141.8	50
Kyle Busch	9	6	3	2	2	31	11.1	+7	85	80	+5	23	3	74.7%	0	75	101.1	39
Alex Bowman	6	7	6	3	2	24	7.3	+3	55	45	+10	25	1	89.3%	0	75	108.4	41
Ross Chastain	12	5	15	4	2	28	9.1	+8	73	61	+12	25	2	85.3%	0	75	107.1	39
William Byron	1	1	2	5	1	15	3.0	-4	32	32	+0	19	6	100.0%	28	75	128.8	42
Austin Cindric	3	10	12	6	1	31	11.7	-3	91	79	+12	31	4	69.3%	2	75	96.1	40
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	18	19	29	7	3	33	19.1	+11	105	87	+18	15	0	22.7%	0	75	76.2	35
Chris Buescher	32	16	13	8	1	36	15.8	+24	95	80	+15	34	0	64.0%	1	75	84.0	35
Ty Gibbs	17	31	14	9	7	33	18.8	+8	117	99	+18	30	1	40.0%	0	75	76.5	28
Todd Gilliland	36	17	16	10	7	36	20.2	+26	115	93	+22	18	1	20.0%	0	75	68.4	27
Corey Lajoie	27	35	20	11	11	37	29.4	+16	75	66	+9	8	0	8.0%	0	75	53.3	26
Michael McDowell	20	12	7	12	3	36	14.8	+8	127	97	+30	41	1	68.0%	0	75	92.2	33
Kevin Harvick	29	14	18	13	4	29	15.1	+16	93	88	+5	26	0	58.7%	0	75	88.0	31
Kyle Larson	13	26	32	14	5	36	22.9	-1	89	100	-11	21	3	34.7%	0	75	81.8	27
Chase Briscoe	19	22	11	15	6	37	16.6	+4	87	89	-2	31	0	50.7%	0	75	71.5	24
Denny Hamlin	21	20	22	16	3	37	21.6	+5	141	156	-15	4	0	12.0%	0	75	63.5	21
Martin Truex Jr	25	13	5	17	3	31	14.7	+8	103	94	+9	27	1	62.7%	0	75	77.4	20
Jenson Button	24	25	28	18	15	34	26.6	+6	104	92	+12	0	0	1.3%	0	75	48.7	19
Justin Haley	23	32	23	19	12	36	25.5	+4	115	86	+29	2	0	0.0%	0	75	50.8	18
Noah Gragson	10	23	9	20	7	31	16.9	-10	111	115	-4	23	0	44.0%	0	75	65.0	18
Ryan Blaney	38	34	19	21	14	38	29.3	+17	89	69	+20	1	0	0.0%	0	75	44.7	16
Harrison Burton	16	27	31	22	2	35	25.8	-6	75	99	-24	1	0	9.3%	0	75	45.8	15
Erik Jones	8	21	30	23	2	32	17.2	-15	81	80	+1	15	0	34.7%	0	75	71.8	17
Jordan Taylor	4	18	21	24	4	32	17.5	-20	95	109	-14	13	2	36.0%	0	75	66.4	16
Cody Ware	37	33	24	25	4	37	28.0	+12	97	131	-34	1	0	2.7%	0	75	36.8	12
Josh Bilicki	33	30	25	26	12	38	26.9	+7	100	100	+0	3	0	6.7%	0	75	43.0	0
Daniel Suarez	5	4	4	27	1	31	7.1	-22	54	70	-16	29	7	86.7%	1	75	101.6	15
Joey Logano	15	8	10	28	1	37	15.1	-13	70	118	-48	23	0	61.3%	1	75	65.5	9
Kimi Raikkonen	22	29	17	29	4	33	23.9	-7	100	111	-11	9	0	14.7%	0	75	48.3	8
Aric Almirola	39	28	27	30	12	39	27.6	+9	92	95	-3	4	0	4.0%	0	74	36.2	7
Christopher Bell	14	11	26	31	1	31	14.7	-17	79	97	-18	27	0	66.7%	1	73	71.5	8
Ryan Preece	26	15	8	32	7	33	20.8	-6	73	102	-29	12	0	30.7%	0	68	53.7	6
Austin Dillon	28	9	33	33	2	33	16.5	-5	59	53	+6	19	1	56.0%	0	62	80.1	13
AJ Allmendinger	7	3	34	34	2	32	12.5	-27	37	45	-8	21	2	73.3%	0	60	91.5	11
Brad Keselowski	30	24	35	35	14	37	27.4	-5	95	108	-13	2	1	5.3%	0	56	45.4	2
Conor Daly	35	36	36	36	25	37	35.5	-1	21	15	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	16	27.7	1
Bubba Wallace	11	37	37	37	11	33	33.6	-26	10	31	-21	8	0	13.3%	0	10	40.7	1
Jimmie Johnson	31	39	39	38	31	39	39.0	-7	7	6	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	0	27.0	1
Ty Dillon	34	38	38	39	34	38	38.0	-5	6	10	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	0	26.7	1

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Race Fast Facts

Circuit of The Americas
EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
Age: 27
Team : No. 45 - Monster Energy Toyota
Owner: 23XI Racing
Crew Chief: Billy Scott
Tyler Reddick won the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, his fourth victory in 116 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
Alex Bowman (third) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
Ty Gibbs (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
This is the fourth win for 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series - Talladega (2021), Kansas-1 (2022), Kansas-2 (2022), Austin (2023).

Race Recap

Tyler Reddick wins first race with 23XI Racing at Circuit of The Americas

March 26th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime re-starts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing, with a 1.411-second victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix – the NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season.

It was a field of international champions and NASCAR’s very best at the famed Circuit of The Americas course but for most of the race the outcome looked to be decided in a good ole Texas duel between the two fastest cars all weekend driven by Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The pair exchanged the lead, lap after exciting lap for most of the afternoon.

And on the final two-lap restart Reddick was able to put his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front exiting Turn 1 - a tight left-hander - and power forward to the lead; while Busch and third-place finisher Alex Bowman, fourth-place finisher – and defending race winner - Ross Chastain and fifth-place Byron fought door-to-door bumper-to-bumper as they chased after him.

“I’ve been wanting to win here in a Cup car for a long time," the 27-year-old Californian Reddick said, who now has four NASCAR Cup Series wins, but noted this was his first as a Toyota driver and with his 23XI Racing Team – co-owned by fellow competitor Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“It means the world," said Reddick, who sat down on the track and leaned against his car with a bag of ice after winning to cool down on the typically Texas-hot afternoon. “This whole 23XI team has been working hard all winter long to make the road course program better and was extremely motivated to come in here and improve performance. Just so proud of this Monster Energy team and TRD (Toyota Racing Development). All the resources they’ve put in to turn around the road course program means a lot.”

As often happens late in a road course race, patience lags and urgency increases. That was certainly the case Sunday with three different overtime restarts deciding the outcome. Reddick and Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet combined to lead 69 of the race’s 75 laps with Reddick out front a race best 41 of those, most of them after hard-fought challenges and back-and-forth corner after corner with the race polesitter Byron.

“It feels good to get a top five, but we had a top-two race car really with the 45, he was really better than everybody, but I thought we were a close second," said Byron, a two-race winner already in 2023, whose fifth-place finish at COTA was his career best on a road course. “We’ll keep building on it."

Busch’s runner-up effort was an impressive comeback. He had been mid-pack for most of the afternoon but gambled on fuel strategy to move forward during some late race cautions in regulation.

“Even if we were on equal tires, they were lights out," said Busch, driver of the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“Overall, for as much effort as we put into coming here and focusing on this place and all the testing we did in the offseason, we’re coming out of here with a good finish. Tyler’s obviously a really good road course racer."

In addition to the NASCAR stars, the field that raced Sunday included four big names from other racing genres including IMSA champion Jordan Taylor, who drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for injured former COTA winner Chase Elliott; a pair of former Formula One champions in Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and popular IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly.

Among these four, the Englishman Button – the 2009 Formula One champion – claimed the top finishing position, 18th in the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford. Taylor, a two-time winner at COTA in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Series finished 24th but made a huge impression in his debut after qualifying fourth.

Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 World Champion from Finland, finished 29th but ran as high as fourth place late in the race. Daly only got 16 laps into the race before his team had to take his No. 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet behind the wall for extended repairs. He finished 36th.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t even get a full lap of green flag racing in only his second start of the 2023 season. The owner-driver of the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was collected in a multi-car accident that eliminated his Chevrolet and left him 38th in the standings.

Team Penske's Austin Cindric, 2023 DAYTONA 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., RFK Racing's Chris Buescher, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs and Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland rounded out the top-10.

Chastain takes over the championship lead by 19 points over Busch. Ty Gibbs, who finished ninth, continues to lead the Sunoco Rookie of the Year points standings.