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NASCAR Cup Series

4EVER 400 presented by Mobil 1

Homestead Miami Speedway

October 22nd, 2023

Race #34 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 11 minutes 54 seconds
Average Speed: 125.221 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.651 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 35
Lead Changes: 25

Martin Truex Jr and Tyler Reddick race — Homestead, Florida - October 22nd, 2023: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, and Tyler Reddick, driver of the #45 McDonald's Toyota, race during the NASCAR Cup Series 4EVER 400 Presented by Mobil 1 at Homestead-Miami 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
Christopher Bell	13	16	4	1	1	25	11.0	+12	89	80	+9	56	16	74.5%	26	267	105.3	42
Ryan Blaney	10	3	3	2	1	19	3.9	+8	90	81	+9	68	22	98.5%	53	267	123.7	53
Tyler Reddick	3	6	8	3	1	15	6.9	+0	87	83	+4	74	7	100.0%	1	267	106.3	42
William Byron	7	4	1	4	1	20	3.6	+3	77	77	+0	59	19	99.3%	25	267	120.5	49
AJ Allmendinger	25	10	10	5	3	25	11.4	+20	117	97	+20	68	2	87.3%	0	267	90.0	32
Bubba Wallace	2	18	7	6	1	24	12.7	-4	114	117	-3	52	5	57.3%	9	267	83.0	31
Ty Gibbs	9	7	11	7	4	27	11.7	+2	122	126	-4	56	14	78.7%	0	267	91.7	34
Joey Logano	36	11	6	8	2	36	14.4	+28	141	119	+22	58	3	71.9%	0	267	84.6	30
Aric Almirola	30	15	9	9	6	33	18.4	+21	121	101	+20	29	1	35.2%	0	267	74.4	28
Austin Dillon	6	8	18	10	3	32	8.8	-4	115	107	+8	70	4	92.1%	0	267	96.1	32
Kevin Harvick	22	20	5	11	3	28	15.0	+11	136	134	+2	52	3	51.3%	0	267	78.1	26
Austin Cindric	26	23	12	12	3	29	17.2	+14	136	124	+12	46	4	27.0%	0	267	72.1	25
Ryan Preece	29	19	16	13	12	36	19.7	+16	136	130	+6	21	1	25.5%	0	267	62.4	24
Erik Jones	19	17	20	14	3	34	19.3	+5	146	143	+3	28	1	24.3%	0	267	65.4	23
Chase Elliott	16	21	13	15	2	34	19.1	+1	145	160	-15	24	0	16.1%	0	267	64.5	22
Daniel Suarez	14	22	2	16	1	26	19.8	-2	132	143	-11	21	0	15.4%	0	267	61.2	21
Chase Briscoe	21	14	15	17	7	32	20.5	+4	123	116	+7	10	4	19.5%	0	267	60.6	20
Kyle Busch	18	24	14	18	5	35	17.1	+0	135	139	-4	48	0	43.5%	0	267	64.7	19
Alex Bowman	12	28	19	19	8	35	25.1	-7	84	98	-14	15	0	6.7%	0	267	54.0	18
Corey Lajoie	20	12	17	20	4	22	15.3	+0	125	127	-2	44	0	55.4%	0	267	69.3	17
Chris Buescher	17	26	23	21	11	32	25.6	-4	70	79	-9	2	2	0.4%	0	267	51.2	16
Michael McDowell	15	25	21	22	5	31	22.9	-7	71	84	-13	16	0	12.0%	0	267	49.0	15
Justin Haley	27	27	22	23	22	34	27.4	+4	70	69	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	267	46.7	14
Ty Dillon	33	29	26	24	3	35	28.4	+9	83	85	-2	9	5	3.4%	0	266	38.9	13
Todd Gilliland	32	32	25	25	24	36	30.0	+7	54	53	+1	0	1	0.0%	0	266	35.7	12
Ryan Newman	34	31	27	26	13	36	31.0	+8	58	56	+2	2	0	0.0%	0	265	33.7	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	23	36	30	27	8	36	30.4	-4	46	39	+7	2	1	1.1%	0	263	43.2	10
Brad Keselowski	4	2	24	28	1	28	8.0	-24	55	75	-20	39	16	79.0%	16	262	86.9	24
Martin Truex Jr	1	5	28	29	1	21	9.3	-28	70	89	-19	46	6	78.7%	10	237	88.9	19
Denny Hamlin	11	13	29	30	1	22	9.3	-19	95	82	+13	70	44	87.3%	31	236	90.2	19
Ross Chastain	8	9	31	31	5	31	13.2	-23	70	87	-17	49	1	76.8%	0	221	74.6	6
John Hunter Nemechek	24	34	32	32	24	36	33.5	-8	25	33	-8	0	6	0.0%	0	218	28.9	0
JJ Yeley	31	35	33	33	8	36	33.4	-2	55	60	-5	9	0	2.6%	0	218	29.7	0
Kyle Larson	5	1	34	34	1	30	9.0	-29	59	54	+5	44	38	79.4%	96	214	110.7	21
Josh Bilicki	35	33	35	35	14	36	33.4	+0	47	56	-9	1	0	0.0%	0	201	24.2	0
Harrison Burton	28	30	36	36	23	34	30.8	-8	78	75	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	165	36.3	1

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Christopher Bell Wins in Miami: Back to Championship 4

October 22nd, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

In one of the most thrilling NASCAR Cup Series Playoff races of the season, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Christopher Bell rallied from a frustrating race start to lead the final 16 laps of Sunday’s 4EVER 400 presented by Mobil 1 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to earn a second straight appearance into the Championship 4.

Bell, who only made his first appearance inside the top five on track with less than 50 laps remaining, got around a pair of the day’s front runners in the final laps to blaze to the lead in the No. 20 JGR Toyota and claim that automatic championship admission ticket. It’s the 28-year-old Oklahoma native’s second win of the season – sixth of his career – and the first of the season’s eight Playoff races to date.

Last year Bell famously pulled off a “walk off” victory in the regular season finale at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway to claim his first NASCAR Cup Series championship bid, ultimately finishing third in the title run. His win Sunday had that same “rally” feel and he now joins last week’s winner, Kyle Larson as the only two Playoff drivers set for the title run with one race remaining to decide the other two.

Bell led fellow Playoff driver, Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney to the Homestead checkered flag by a 1.651-seconds – just ahead of Playoff drivers, 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger rounded out the top five.

“I’ve got the best team behind me, honestly I don’t know [how we did it], that race was a whirlwind,’’ Bell said. “I was about ready to throw the towel in during that second stage, I got really frustrated. But [crew chief] Adam Stevens kept after it and gave me what I needed. Whenever we got some clean air this thing was really good.

“I cannot say how proud I am to be here with our partners, driving these Toyota Camrys. Thank you to everyone who supported me. This is better than a dream come true.’’

Although disappointed to not secure the win after leading 53 laps, Blaney said, “We were trying, we just needed laps.

“The long run car was really good. I just couldn’t fire off for 10 laps or so. I think the track cooling off [during the red flag] helped those guys. I think we were better in the hotter, sliker conditions when “fire off” speed didn’t matter as much and it fell off quicker. That played into our benefit.

“We ran out of laps a little bit,’’ he added. “I am proud of the effort. It was a really good day, we just got beat a little bit there at the end.’’

It was certainly the cap to a thrilling final 40 laps of competition to cap off the sunny South Florida afternoon.

In a matter of five minutes during those closing laps, Bell took the race lead and two of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates also in the Playoffs – Denny Hamlin and regular season champion Martin Truex Jr. – fell out the race with major problems. Hamlin’s No. 11 JGR Toyota slammed into the Turn 1 wall. And as the field slowed for that caution period, Truex turned down pit road and told the team his car “might be blowing up.’’

As Hamlin sat on pit wall, disappointed and speaking with his crew, Truex turned the engine off and the crew pushed his No. 19 JGR Toyota it into the garage. Both Playoff drivers were done for the day and dropping below the crucial top-four threshold that will advance to the Nov. 5 Championship 4 race in Phoenix. Truex was scored 29th and Hamlin, 30th.

All of it making for an even more intense race at the half-mile Martinsville (Va.) Speedway next week that will formally set the four-driver NASCAR Cup Series championship field.

“We tried and it just didn’t work out,’’ an obviously disappointed Hamlin said.

“It shows you how hard our sport is, that’s two cars and we had been up front,’’ JGR team owner Joe Gibbs said. “It also shows you in sports – particularly in ours with that 20-car (Bell) – it shows never to stop fighting.’’

With only that Martinsville race remaining, Byron now sits 30 points ahead of the championship cut-off line with Blaney in fourth place – 10 points up on Reddick. Bell’s JGR teammates Truex and Hamlin are now both 17 points below the Cut-off line.

Among the eight Playoff drivers, Roush Fenway Keselowski’s Chris Buescher – a three-race winner this season – struggled the most, going two laps down midway through the second stage and never cracking the top 20. He’s now in eighth place, 43 points back with a 21st place finish Sunday and will need to win the Martinsville race to advance to his first Championship 4.

One of the more unusual incidents of the entire season – let alone the Playoffs – happened during a green flag pit stop and involved Blaney and Larson – who were running first and second at the time with 53 laps remaining.

As their two cars approached pit road, Blaney slowed significantly, and Larson was still going faster directly behind him. While trying to avoid ramming into the back of Blaney’s Ford, Larson turned his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy to the right and went full-on into the sand-filled protective barriers at pit entrance causing them to explode with sand.

It caused enough damage on Larson’s car that he had to take it into the garage and the team retired it. Blaney was able to finish his pit stop and make his way back on track. He reassumed the lead when the rest of the cars pit following a nearly 13-minute red flag period.

“I need to look at data,’’ said an apologetic Larson, who finished 34th despite leading a race best 96 of the 267 laps. “I knew where the yellow line was but on the replay it looked like I missed it by a lot. So I need to look at data. I knew where the yellow line was and I was under control getting there and then he just slowed down, I locked the brakes, clipped him and hit the barrels.

“I’m upset with myself more than anything. Whether he got to pit road speed sooner than the yellow line or not, I could have just done a little better job.

“I hope they’re able to recover and he can get a good finish or the win and get the finish he (Blaney) deserves. Just a bummer. I thought we had a great car today and just made a mistake.’’

23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace, Joe Gibbs Racing’s rookie Ty Gibbs, Team Penske’s Joey Logano, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola and Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon rounded out the top 10.

The NASCAR Cup Series moves to the famed Martinsville (Va.) Speedway half-miler for next Sunday’s Xfinity 500 (2 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to close out this round of competition and formalize the Championship 4 competitors for the Nov. 5 Phoenix season finale. Bell won last year’s Martinsville Playoff race. Larson won the Spring race this year.