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NASCAR Cup Series

Ally 400

Nashville Superspeedway

June 25th, 2023

Race #17 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 300
Miles Raced : 399.9
Time of Race : 03 Hours 00 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 132.914 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.789 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 24
Lead Changes: 21

Martin Truex Jr and Denny Hamlin race — Lebanon, Tennessee - June 25th, 2023: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, and Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway. Photo by Logan Riely | 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
Ross Chastain	1	5	1	1	1	14	2.7	+0	71	75	-4	49	37	100.0%	99	300	138.3	57
Martin Truex Jr	6	1	2	2	1	25	3.0	+4	83	84	-1	48	44	99.0%	50	300	124.7	51
Denny Hamlin	8	2	3	3	1	27	3.9	+5	73	66	+7	43	15	99.3%	81	300	117.4	50
Chase Elliott	14	6	4	4	1	17	6.7	+10	77	69	+8	45	17	98.7%	1	300	105.6	42
Kyle Larson	7	9	6	5	5	29	10.3	+2	103	109	-6	49	11	94.7%	0	300	99.0	35
William Byron	5	4	5	6	1	19	4.6	-1	76	78	-2	44	11	98.7%	5	300	108.6	46
Christopher Bell	22	8	7	7	1	25	8.3	+15	95	89	+6	53	12	88.7%	3	300	100.8	38
Erik Jones	23	12	8	8	5	28	13.7	+15	116	100	+16	42	1	63.3%	0	300	84.1	30
Kyle Busch	11	24	13	9	1	36	16.3	+2	129	105	+24	33	33	49.7%	12	300	85.8	32
AJ Allmendinger	19	7	9	10	4	26	12.3	+9	116	90	+26	53	5	82.7%	0	300	90.3	31
Brad Keselowski	20	11	10	11	1	28	14.7	+9	120	122	-2	38	7	56.0%	2	300	76.1	26
Daniel Suarez	10	13	12	12	1	36	16.4	-2	121	100	+21	35	3	55.3%	1	300	72.1	25
Austin Dillon	26	17	11	13	10	31	19.0	+13	103	106	-3	16	0	19.7%	0	300	66.3	24
Ty Gibbs	16	10	14	14	4	30	13.6	+2	121	130	-9	54	1	77.3%	0	300	80.9	23
Bubba Wallace	9	3	16	15	3	34	14.7	-6	106	107	-1	27	0	47.7%	0	300	71.5	27
Ryan Preece	25	31	17	16	16	36	25.1	+9	79	77	+2	0	2	0.0%	0	300	55.0	21
Alex Bowman	15	25	25	17	1	26	15.8	-2	107	116	-9	46	16	55.0%	9	300	70.4	20
Chris Buescher	12	14	15	18	7	24	13.4	-6	86	104	-18	33	1	71.7%	0	300	75.9	19
Joey Logano	4	15	18	19	3	25	13.6	-15	112	137	-25	48	1	57.3%	0	300	72.4	18
Corey Lajoie	36	18	19	20	3	36	21.9	+16	122	96	+26	14	0	8.0%	0	300	53.0	17
Harrison Burton	31	20	21	21	7	36	23.8	+10	117	105	+12	8	0	2.7%	0	300	51.2	16
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	28	19	23	22	10	34	21.1	+6	100	101	-1	6	0	2.0%	0	299	56.5	15
Justin Haley	3	21	20	23	3	30	19.2	-20	103	122	-19	22	2	27.3%	0	299	56.1	14
Kevin Harvick	17	16	26	24	4	34	17.1	-7	101	106	-5	16	11	28.7%	0	299	71.5	15
Aric Almirola	21	29	22	25	11	34	22.4	-4	106	107	-1	10	9	11.7%	0	299	52.4	12
Noah Gragson	30	22	27	26	3	31	24.5	+4	116	108	+8	16	0	6.0%	0	299	43.5	11
Austin Cindric	24	23	24	27	15	35	25.9	-3	104	92	+12	2	0	0.3%	0	299	42.2	10
Michael McDowell	33	28	28	28	23	36	30.3	+5	70	73	-3	0	4	0.0%	0	299	36.6	9
JJ Yeley	29	30	29	29	3	35	29.9	+0	72	81	-9	7	0	1.0%	0	298	35.3	0
Tyler Reddick	2	35	30	30	1	36	18.9	-28	51	53	-2	21	28	45.7%	33	298	92.3	17
Chase Briscoe	18	27	31	31	11	34	29.8	-13	73	94	-21	3	0	0.3%	0	298	33.8	6
Ty Dillon	34	26	32	32	1	34	29.5	+2	92	94	-2	9	0	3.0%	4	298	36.6	5
Brennan Poole	32	33	33	33	6	35	32.1	-1	66	73	-7	5	0	0.7%	0	297	29.0	0
Josh Bilicki	35	32	34	34	11	36	33.3	+1	72	69	+3	6	0	0.3%	0	297	25.5	0
Todd Gilliland	27	34	35	35	17	36	34.6	-8	51	64	-13	0	0	0.0%	0	296	25.3	2
Ryan Blaney	13	36	36	36	7	24	23.9	-23	57	66	-9	30	0	47.7%	0	146	56.0	1

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Race Fast Facts

Nashville Superspeedway
Ally 400
Race Winner: Ross Chastain
Age: 30
Team : No. 1 - Worldwide Express Chevrolet
Owner: Justin Marks
Crew Chief: Philip Surgen
Ross Chastain won the Ally 400, his third victory in 168 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Martin Truex Jr. (second) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Ty Gibbs (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Martin Truex Jr. leads the point standings by 18 points over William Byron.

Race Recap

Ross Chastain Earns Hometown Win for Trackhouse Racing at Nashville Superspeedway

June 25th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Ross Chastain capped off a “perfect” race weekend, hitting all the right notes in Music City to earn the winner’s guitar trophy in Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway – his first NASCAR Cup Series race victory of the season, a day after claiming his first career pole position.

But before hoisting his new guitar, the 30-year old Chastain had a watermelon to smash – his trademark victory celebration – a nod to his family’s multi-generation watermelon farm in rural Alva, Florida. And the sold-out Nashville crowd – home to his race team owner Justin Marks – roared with enthusiasm for the long smoke-filled victory burnout he did in front of the grandstands to his enthusiastic melon drop.

“This is incredible,” a grinning Chastain said. “This is why every little kid out there, anyone in the world, when you get criticized and you’re going to if you’re a competitor, they will try to tear you down and you’ll start believing it and you can’t do that.

“Go to your people. Trust in the process. Read your books and trust in the Big Man’s plan upstairs. And just keep getting up and going to work on it.

“A lot of self-reflection through all this, but I had a group that believed in me and they didn’t let me get down,” he said of his challenges in 2023.

Chastain certainly proved that resilience and his faith in the process. He led early Sunday and then led late – thanks to incredibly fast pit stops from his Trackhouse Racing team helping position him for the race lead on the final round of stops of the night.

It’s the first race win of 2023 for Chastain, who led the championship standings for seven weeks early in the year, and the first win of the year and first pole position ever for Trackhouse Racing.

Ultimately Chastain had to hold off Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin by .789-second for the win – leading a race best 99 of the 300 laps, including the final 34.

Lapped traffic was a factor for Chastain to overcome all night. He lost his early race lead to Tyler Reddick after Noah Gragson raced Chastain hard trying not to be lapped. There is a history between Gragson and Chastain, who had a physical confrontation at Kansas Speedway in early May. Reddick went on to win Stage 1 after Chastain was unable to clear Gragson easily, but Reddick – who started the race alongside Chastain on the front row – spun out on pit road on a caution shortly thereafter and ultimately was not a factor for the win.

In the closing laps – with Truex hot on his bumper – Chastain had to navigate traffic again; and again cars held him up in an effort not to get lapped.

Fortunately for Chastain, some of that traffic made things difficult for Truex as well and the “Melon Man” as Chastain is nicknamed was able to pull away some in the final 20 laps.

It was a clean race – only two short extra caution flags beyond the two scheduled Stage breaks. Reddick took his third stage win of the season in Stage 1 and Hamlin notched his fourth in Stage 2.

“I just think we had a third place car,” Hamlin said. “I thought the 19 [Truex] was a little better and obviously the 1 [Chastain] came on really strong there at the end.

“Just didn’t have quite a fast enough car to go for the win,” he added.

With his runner-up showing Truex maintained the NASCAR Cup Series championship lead, now up by 18-points on both Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron and Chastain.

“Just needed to get the lead. Once we lost it, just too loose on the long runs, just could never get off the corner good to make a move,” Truex said, adding, “Just needed a little bit. Had a lot of speed. … overall a good night.”

The 1.33-mile Nashville oval has been a good place for Chastain. He finished runner-up in 2021 and was fifth last year. And having won his first career pole position on Saturday, he went into Sunday’s race feeling optimistic.

“I trust in my people, my family back home, the agriculture industry and all the people Justin Marks has in place,” Chastain said, adding, “It’s absolutely incredible the fight that we have.”

Chase Elliott, the 2022 Nashville winner, finished fourth, followed by his Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Larson and Byron. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell, Legacy Motor Club’s Erik Jones, Richard Childress Racing’s Kyle Busch and Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger – who won the Nashville NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday – rounded out the Top-10.