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NASCAR Cup Series

AdventHealth 400

Kansas Speedway

May 7th, 2023

Race #12 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 24 minutes 24 seconds
Average Speed: 117.564 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.307 seconds
Cautions: 11
Caution Laps: 57
Lead Changes: 37

William Byron leads to the green flag — Kansas City, Kansas - May 7th, 2023: William Byron, driver of the #24 Liberty University Chevrolet, leads to the green flag to start the NASCAR Cup Series Advent Health 400 at Kansas Speedway. Photo by Jonathan Bachman | 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
Denny Hamlin	8	3	3	1	1	22	3.6	+7	86	63	+23	71	44	98.9%	34	267	136.1	51
Kyle Larson	2	2	1	2	1	36	7.4	+0	125	81	+44	64	30	85.0%	85	267	116.4	38
William Byron	1	32	2	3	1	36	17.9	-2	76	97	-21	35	17	50.6%	10	267	108.1	34
Bubba Wallace	17	4	5	4	1	27	6.4	+13	110	85	+25	82	15	97.4%	9	267	113.4	37
Ross Chastain	3	5	4	5	1	27	7.4	-2	114	123	-9	78	5	91.0%	3	267	101.2	34
Joey Logano	6	20	6	6	1	31	12.8	+0	112	105	+7	58	3	65.2%	8	267	82.1	41
Chase Elliott	21	11	7	7	1	33	12.2	+14	143	113	+30	62	11	71.5%	5	267	89.1	30
Martin Truex Jr	4	1	8	8	1	22	4.1	-4	78	63	+15	64	30	98.9%	79	267	122.4	38
Tyler Reddick	5	6	9	9	1	25	8.3	-4	108	101	+7	80	10	89.5%	23	267	100.2	35
Austin Dillon	11	18	10	10	2	33	15.8	+1	113	111	+2	32	0	41.6%	0	267	76.8	31
Kevin Harvick	13	12	11	11	6	30	11.8	+2	123	119	+4	86	0	93.6%	0	267	85.8	26
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	33	26	13	12	5	34	21.5	+21	114	110	+4	36	0	36.0%	0	267	64.5	25
Aric Almirola	18	13	15	13	6	36	19.2	+5	105	100	+5	25	3	36.7%	0	267	74.9	24
AJ Allmendinger	27	19	14	14	5	30	19.0	+13	119	105	+14	8	0	22.1%	0	267	66.0	29
Daniel Suarez	9	16	17	15	3	30	13.0	-6	136	130	+6	65	0	60.3%	0	267	81.0	28
Ryan Blaney	10	15	12	16	3	24	10.6	-6	104	110	-6	82	0	94.4%	0	267	80.2	24
Chris Buescher	14	14	18	17	5	34	16.9	-3	137	136	+1	38	0	36.3%	0	267	65.7	25
Justin Haley	30	33	19	18	17	36	28.3	+12	95	96	-1	0	2	0.0%	0	267	50.7	19
Brad Keselowski	20	21	16	19	2	35	20.5	+1	121	138	-17	20	2	20.6%	0	267	50.5	18
Corey Lajoie	24	23	20	20	1	32	22.2	+4	112	125	-13	18	1	18.7%	7	267	52.8	17
Erik Jones	19	24	21	21	3	33	21.6	-2	138	119	+19	11	1	7.1%	0	267	52.3	23
Ty Dillon	26	27	22	22	7	35	25.1	+4	87	109	-22	2	0	3.4%	0	267	45.3	18
JJ Yeley	35	31	26	23	3	36	28.2	+12	62	87	-25	8	1	8.6%	0	266	38.9	0
Todd Gilliland	32	30	24	24	3	32	23.6	+8	113	151	-38	9	0	4.5%	0	266	46.7	13
Josh Berry	29	10	25	25	7	29	19.0	+4	117	104	+13	32	0	29.6%	0	266	58.8	0
Michael McDowell	23	22	23	26	1	31	19.5	-3	104	128	-24	31	1	27.0%	1	266	49.0	20
Ryan Preece	28	29	27	27	1	35	25.8	+1	115	131	-16	15	0	11.2%	0	266	35.2	10
Brennan Poole	34	28	28	28	13	36	28.6	+6	69	100	-31	2	0	1.1%	0	264	30.8	0
Noah Gragson	22	17	29	29	2	30	19.2	-7	98	106	-8	25	0	24.3%	0	262	54.0	16
Harrison Burton	25	25	30	30	7	33	25.2	-5	112	109	+3	12	3	7.5%	0	261	37.1	7
Austin Cindric	15	34	31	31	3	35	26.7	-16	42	49	-7	8	2	4.5%	0	260	44.7	6
Chase Briscoe	31	35	33	32	7	36	33.1	-1	60	66	-6	10	0	3.8%	0	260	29.0	5
Josh Bilicki	36	36	32	33	18	36	34.0	+3	36	42	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	260	24.8	4
Ty Gibbs	7	7	34	34	2	27	16.8	-27	86	67	+19	57	7	57.7%	0	176	86.8	11
Kyle Busch	16	8	35	35	4	32	21.6	-19	84	86	-2	44	1	42.7%	0	162	65.6	2
Christopher Bell	12	9	36	36	1	15	19.6	-24	78	71	+7	70	9	58.8%	3	157	77.3	6

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Race Fast Facts

Kansas Speedway
AdventHealth 400
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 42
Team : No. 11 - FedEx Express Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Christopher Gabehart
Denny Hamlin won the AdventHealth 400, his 49th victory in 626 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his fourth victory and 13th top-10 finish in 30 races at Kansas Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 17 races at Kansas Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2023.
William Byron (third) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 11 races at Kansas Speedway.
Noah Gragson (29th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ross Chastain leads the point standings by 31 points over Christopher Bell.

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin breaks drought with last-lap tap-and-pass at Kansas

May 7th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin didn't tap-dance around the tap that helped him to a much-needed victory at Kyle Larson's expense in Sunday's AdventHealth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway.

On the final lap, after an intense chase that began with a restart on Lap 221 of 267, Hamlin closed in on Larson's Chevrolet and further loosened an already loose race car. Slight contact from the right front of Hamlin's Toyota turned Larson into the outside wall as Hamlin streaked past and took the checkered flag.

Larson recovered to finish second, 1.307 seconds behind the winner, who ended a 33-race drought with his fourth victory at Kansas and exited his car at the finish line to a chorus of boos from fans who didn't like the way he had won the race.

"Yeah, I got position on him there, tried to side-draft him and clipped his left rear," said Hamlin, who collected his 49th career victory, tying him with Tony Stewart for 15th most all-time. "But I'm glad he was able to at least finish.

"Credit to my FedEx team, though. Four hundred wins for Joe Gibbs Racing (203 in the NASCAR Cup Series, 197 in the Xfinity Series)—it's such a great accomplishment for them."

Hamlin's last-lap pass for the win was the first at Kansas. The race featured 37 lead changes among 12 drivers, the most lead changes in NASCAR history in a 400-mile race on a 1.5-mile intermediate speedway.

Larson led seven times for a race-high 85 laps that included a stretch of 46 straight before Hamlin grabbed the win on Lap 267.

"I haven't seen a replay," Larson said, "but obviously, he was side-drafting really aggressively, like he would. He was touching me, it felt like, and it had me really out of control. I we wish we could…"

As Larson uttered those words, his attention turned to a confrontation between fifth-place finisher Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson, who swapped sheet metal at least twice during the race. The drivers took a couple of swings at each other before being restrained.

"I got tight off of (Turn) 4, for sure," said Chastain, who ran Gragson up toward the wall during the final stage. "Noah and I have a very similar attitude on the racetrack. We train together, we prepare together, and we know every little thing about each other.

"Yeah, I definitely crowded him up off of 4, and he took a swipe at us in 3, and came down and grabbed ahold of me (after the race). A very big man once told me we have a no-push policy here at Trackhouse (Racing)."

Pole winner William Byron ran third, after recovering from a speeding penalty that put him two laps down. Bubba Wallace passed Chastain with 15 laps left to secure the fourth position. Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., Tyler Reddick and Austin Dillon completed the top 10.

The fact that Larson was able to contend for the win at all was a reflection of his talent, given thorny circumstances that set him back in the early going. In a three-way battle for the lead before the race was five laps old, Reddick tried to shoehorn his No. 45 Toyota between Larson, the leader, and Ross Chastain, then running third.

But Reddick tapped the rear of Larson's Chevrolet and sent the No. 5 spinning toward the apron. Larson avoided contact with the wall and recovered to reassume the lead during the second stage.

As Hamlin's crew chief Chris Gabehart noted after the race, "Denny Hamlin just beat the most talented race car driver in the world. What does that say?"

Consecutive wrecks late in Stage 2 scrambled the running order and handed the stage win to Logano, who had stayed out under the sixth caution for Christopher Bell's wreck on the backstretch on Lap 159.

As Chastain slowed slightly on the backstretch, Bell steered his No. 20 Toyota to the inside, then moved up the track and clipped Chastain's Chevrolet. Bell spun into the wall and damaged his car beyond repair.

"Just tried to get a little too aggressive on the side-draft, got into the 1 (Chastain) and spun out," Bell said succinctly after leaving the infield care center.