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NASCAR Cup Series

Goodyear 400

Darlington Raceway

May 14th, 2023

Race #13 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 293
- Extended to 295 laps
Miles Raced : 403.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 23 minutes 23 seconds
Average Speed: 118.880 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.781 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 47
Lead Changes: 19

Todd Gilliland, Michael McDowell and Chase Elliott — Darlington, South Carolina - May 14th, 2023: Todd Gilliland, driver of the #38 Serial1.com E-Bikes Ford, Michael McDowell, driver of the #34 StageFront.VIP Ford, and Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 LLumar Throwback Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | 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
William Byron	4	3	7	1	1	17	3.7	+3	42	41	+1	29	22	99.0%	7	295	126.2	56
Kevin Harvick	20	9	11	2	1	21	9.7	+18	48	44	+4	31	8	85.8%	5	295	99.2	42
Chase Elliott	21	11	10	3	2	25	12.4	+18	61	62	-1	42	1	85.8%	0	295	86.9	34
Brad Keselowski	10	7	6	4	2	14	6.3	+6	40	41	-1	34	6	100.0%	0	295	105.4	44
Bubba Wallace	2	20	15	5	1	23	10.1	-3	73	70	+3	34	15	73.9%	3	295	95.4	40
Harrison Burton	14	16	17	6	3	21	13.1	+8	51	61	-10	22	2	65.4%	0	295	82.3	31
Kyle Busch	12	4	4	7	2	19	5.5	+5	43	35	+8	33	9	97.6%	0	295	108.8	45
Justin Haley	22	26	19	8	4	30	22.4	+14	45	54	-9	2	0	5.8%	0	295	62.8	29
Ryan Blaney	11	17	14	9	1	22	12.0	+2	81	77	+4	45	18	94.2%	4	295	87.4	31
Chris Buescher	27	28	16	10	8	29	23.5	+17	51	55	-4	4	0	7.1%	0	295	61.0	27
Todd Gilliland	24	23	18	11	10	25	20.0	+13	64	67	-3	4	2	8.8%	0	295	69.6	26
Denny Hamlin	8	14	21	12	1	21	13.8	-4	64	74	-10	21	10	52.5%	9	295	80.5	25
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	3	6	24	13	3	27	11.3	-10	49	57	-8	26	0	72.2%	0	295	92.5	30
Christopher Bell	16	8	2	14	1	21	9.0	+2	54	39	+15	44	6	96.3%	0	295	93.1	29
Ryan Preece	32	24	12	15	8	32	21.6	+17	76	69	+7	18	1	21.4%	0	295	62.9	22
Ty Gibbs	13	21	20	16	7	25	19.6	-3	64	74	-10	12	1	5.1%	0	295	65.4	21
Chase Briscoe	31	29	22	17	14	32	27.2	+14	44	43	+1	3	0	1.7%	0	295	44.8	20
Joey Logano	15	13	5	18	3	27	14.7	-3	64	48	+16	31	3	57.3%	0	295	72.7	19
Austin Cindric	25	22	25	19	13	30	23.2	+6	44	39	+5	0	1	1.0%	0	295	54.6	18
Kyle Larson	7	5	1	20	1	28	8.5	-13	65	51	+14	34	20	83.7%	29	295	93.2	25
Aric Almirola	17	12	13	21	6	25	14.8	-4	53	62	-9	30	0	57.3%	0	295	66.8	16
Tyler Reddick	9	10	8	22	5	22	11.0	-13	46	40	+6	38	1	91.9%	0	295	77.7	17
AJ Allmendinger	30	30	23	23	22	33	28.0	+7	25	27	-2	0	1	0.0%	0	294	40.2	14
Corey Lajoie	34	33	26	24	24	34	30.7	+10	23	19	+4	0	3	0.0%	0	293	38.1	13
Erik Jones	28	15	29	25	5	33	20.6	+3	63	51	+12	7	3	22.4%	0	293	60.4	12
Noah Gragson	29	25	28	26	14	34	26.6	+3	56	53	+3	1	4	1.4%	0	293	44.5	11
Ty Dillon	33	34	30	27	26	35	32.4	+6	25	31	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	293	32.0	10
Ryan Newman	26	32	27	28	26	34	31.3	-2	30	32	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	291	35.3	9
Ross Chastain	5	2	3	29	1	10	3.9	-24	38	35	+3	31	31	97.3%	93	287	108.5	25
Josh Berry	23	31	31	30	20	34	28.2	-7	29	36	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	286	39.2	0
Martin Truex Jr	1	1	9	31	1	15	5.2	-30	42	44	-2	34	65	94.9%	145	280	113.2	17
BJ McLeod	35	35	32	32	32	36	34.3	+3	1	0	+1	0	1	0.0%	0	226	26.1	5
Michael McDowell	19	18	33	33	12	32	26.3	-14	44	45	-1	0	1	0.7%	0	200	40.4	4
Daniel Suarez	6	27	34	34	3	30	25.5	-28	46	46	+0	5	3	14.9%	0	199	49.0	3
Austin Dillon	18	19	35	35	12	34	24.0	-17	19	32	-13	5	0	4.8%	0	196	51.7	2
Brennan Poole	36	36	36	36	33	36	35.8	+0	4	4	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	39	24.3	0

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Darlington Raceway
Goodyear 400
Race Winner: William Byron
Age: 25
Team : No. 24 - Axalta Throwback Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
William Byron won the Goodyear 400, his seventh victory in 193 Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in ten races at Darlington Raceway.
Kevin Harvick (second) posted his 19th top-10 finish in 31 races at Darlington Raceway. It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2023.
Chase Elliott (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Darlington Raceway.
Ty Gibbs (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ross Chastain leads the point standings by 27 points over Christopher Bell.
This marks the 100th win for the No. 24 car

Race Recap

Opportunistic William Byron scores third win of 2023 at Darlington

May 14th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

William Byron took full advantage of a late on-track incident between Ross Chastain and Kyle Larson to triumph in Sunday's Goodyear 400 Darlington Raceway and become the first three-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series this season.

For Byron, the victory was sweet redemption for last season's spring race at the Lady in Black, where Joey Logano's bump-and-run denied Byron his first victory at the fabled speedway.

"Yeah, it's pretty amazing," said Byron, who earned the 100^th victory for the No. 24 team. "My granddad passed away on Thursday, and just, man, I wish my family could be here. Just things have a way of working out, honestly. It just worked out that way today. We didn't have the best third stage. We just kept battling, and things just kind of come back around.

"Definitely didn't expect this. But just thankful for a great team, and, yeah, just things have a way of working out, and to come back here to Darlington and have it go exactly the other way."

It was a Lap 288 crash between Chastain and Larson—while battling for the lead—that gave Byron the opportunity to collect his seventh career victory.

Taking the inside lane, with Larson beside him, Chastain led the field to a restart after an eight-car wreck necessitated the seventh caution on Lap 281. Chastain drove hard into Turn 1, plowed up the track and wrecked both his No. 1 Chevrolet and Larson's No. 5.

"How does that make any sense, running us into the fence?" Cliff Daniels, Larson's crew chief fumed on the team radio. "That's three races he's taken us out of—the 1 car—three races he's taken us out of."

Chastain took responsibility for the mistake that took him out of the race and relegated Larson to a 20^th-place result.

"Full commit into Turn 1," said Chastain, who finished 29th. "I got really tight and drove up and turned myself. I wanted to squeeze him. I wanted to push him up. We'd been racing back and forth all day. But I definitely didn't want to turn myself."

The incident forced overtime, handed the lead to the driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Byron outran Kevin Harvick in the final two-lap dash.

In a race that included massive wrecks on Laps 194 and 281, Chase Elliott ran third, followed by Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Harrison Burton, Kyle Busch, Justin Haley, Ryan Blaney and Chris Buescher.

In sharp contrast to the aggressive battling between Chastain and Larson, Harvick, whose No. 4 Ford had sustained front-end damage during the Lap 281 wreck, gave Byron plenty of room after the overtime restart on Lap 294.

"We had a good car all day," Harvick said. "We just never could get up towards the front in our Sunny Delight Ford Mustang. Struggled in traffic today, but we were really good at the second half of the run and just struggled at the beginning of the run.

"But we had good track position, then had a bad pit stop under green, and then wound up having everything work out there at the end. Didn't have anything for William. The front is torn up pretty good. But they did a great job and just kind of kept ourselves in the game, and you never know what's going to happen."

Pole winner Martin Truex Jr. had the dominant car for the first half of the race. The driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota handily won the first stage and led a total of 145 laps, but the handling on Truex's Camry tightened up during the second stage, allowing Chastain to pass for the lead on Lap 151.

Truex recovered to challenge Chastain for the Stage 2 victory, but on the final lap of the stage, Chastain braked hard behind a lapped car, bounced off the outside wall and sent Truex spinning toward the apron.

Chastain picked up his fifth stage win of the season, but Truex dropped to 10^th, and his car never recovered after the incident. And though Truex gained four spots on pit road after the sixth caution and restarted third on Lap 281, he was part of the massive eight-car wreck that decimated the field in the first two corners.

"When we got into Chastain there at the end of the second stage going for the win in that, it knocked the toe out, so we were tight from there on out," said Truex, who finished 31st. "Just an unfortunate deal. There was plenty of room there, but he just came off the wall and hit me.

"Like I said, knocked the toe out in the right front. Pretty crappy from there, and then on that restart (Lap 281), I guess I just got real tight and I don't even know who I squeezed into the wall, but I apologize to them. Probably my fault, just got real tight and couldn't stay down the track."