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NASCAR Cup Series

HighPoint.com 400

Pocono Raceway

July 23rd, 2023

Race #21 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 160
Miles Raced : 400.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 21 minutes 04 seconds
Average Speed: 119.363 mph
Cautions: 11
Caution Laps: 44
Lead Changes: 14

Martin Truex Jr and Christopher Bell race — Long Pond, Pennsylvania - July 23rd, 2023: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Interstate Batteries Toyota and Christopher Bell, driver of the #20 Yahoo! Toyota ace during the NASCAR Cup Series HighPoint.com 400 at Pocono Raceway. 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
Denny Hamlin	8	18	3	1	1	29	8.3	+7	93	70	+23	58	11	93.1%	9	160	118.7	55
Tyler Reddick	7	19	8	2	1	30	9.5	+5	92	71	+21	49	6	91.3%	15	160	109.6	47
Martin Truex Jr	2	2	4	3	1	22	6.5	-1	60	61	-1	37	20	96.9%	20	160	123.2	44
Kevin Harvick	4	7	6	4	2	31	10.5	+0	90	107	-17	47	2	73.1%	0	160	94.5	33
Ty Gibbs	11	1	7	5	1	28	8.6	+6	60	87	-27	32	5	83.1%	4	160	110.7	36
Christopher Bell	5	26	18	6	2	31	12.9	-1	82	111	-29	38	1	68.1%	0	160	90.3	31
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	31	10	7	2	35	19.4	+15	129	140	-11	19	0	26.9%	0	160	74.7	30
Harrison Burton	26	13	14	8	2	32	20.1	+18	124	126	-2	27	0	33.8%	0	160	65.0	29
Erik Jones	24	8	12	9	2	33	16.2	+15	106	102	+4	29	4	44.4%	0	160	79.7	29
Chase Elliott	35	3	11	10	3	35	14.2	+25	114	108	+6	42	4	62.5%	0	160	86.5	27
Bubba Wallace	10	24	17	11	3	31	13.8	-1	103	90	+13	42	3	64.4%	0	160	87.0	32
Aric Almirola	27	32	2	12	2	34	18.8	+15	130	100	+30	34	0	34.4%	0	160	62.8	25
Ross Chastain	21	33	20	13	10	34	20.8	+8	119	108	+11	22	2	16.3%	0	160	58.8	24
William Byron	1	17	9	14	1	26	6.0	-13	67	92	-25	33	17	87.5%	60	160	124.1	31
Todd Gilliland	36	15	23	15	3	36	23.6	+21	119	90	+29	26	0	27.5%	0	160	48.2	22
Brad Keselowski	13	30	21	16	4	32	14.7	-3	98	130	-32	23	0	48.8%	0	160	72.8	21
AJ Allmendinger	16	25	19	17	4	32	16.9	-1	117	100	+17	36	1	48.1%	0	160	72.5	26
Chris Buescher	18	28	13	18	4	32	14.8	+0	107	107	+0	24	1	49.4%	0	160	78.8	21
Michael McDowell	15	9	26	19	4	32	17.6	-4	91	99	-8	29	0	48.8%	0	160	67.7	23
Kyle Larson	3	6	1	20	1	34	10.6	-17	104	96	+8	38	8	70.6%	24	160	88.4	27
Kyle Busch	25	29	29	21	10	35	21.2	+4	122	128	-6	11	2	20.0%	0	160	58.8	16
Noah Gragson	32	11	15	22	5	34	22.5	+10	131	133	-2	22	0	16.3%	0	160	48.3	15
Austin Cindric	9	34	24	23	6	34	18.4	-14	107	145	-38	26	0	39.4%	0	160	57.2	14
Alex Bowman	20	16	5	24	3	33	14.4	-4	127	132	-5	38	7	63.8%	0	160	78.3	19
Cole Custer	31	22	31	25	6	35	30.1	+6	62	59	+3	0	0	1.3%	0	160	34.0	0
JJ Yeley	28	21	16	26	8	36	28.0	+2	74	73	+1	13	0	13.8%	0	160	36.7	0
Corey Lajoie	12	12	28	27	1	35	21.3	-15	114	108	+6	24	0	25.0%	5	160	54.2	10
Ty Dillon	33	10	30	28	2	33	24.3	+5	109	89	+20	10	0	10.0%	0	160	36.3	18
Chase Briscoe	29	14	32	29	7	35	27.5	+0	107	94	+13	8	0	5.6%	0	160	34.0	8
Ryan Blaney	14	20	22	30	1	31	12.7	-16	70	101	-31	29	6	67.5%	2	160	73.0	10
Ryan Preece	34	4	25	31	3	34	22.3	+3	111	113	-2	16	0	15.0%	0	159	44.8	6
BJ McLeod	30	23	33	32	20	36	31.6	-2	53	52	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	159	27.3	5
Justin Haley	19	27	27	33	8	32	20.8	-14	103	90	+13	13	1	20.0%	0	153	52.7	7
Austin Dillon	23	5	34	34	2	33	26.4	-11	88	78	+10	17	3	11.9%	0	105	44.8	3
Joey Logano	6	35	35	35	1	36	28.2	-29	5	7	-2	3	2	19.4%	21	48	83.3	12
Daniel Suarez	17	36	36	36	12	35	32.8	-19	29	20	+9	2	0	2.5%	0	37	28.0	1

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Race Fast Facts

Pocono Raceway
HighPoint.com 400
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 42
Team : No. 11 - Mavis Tires & Brakes Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Christopher Gabehart
Denny Hamlin won the HighPoint.com 400, his 50th victory in 635 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his seventh victory and 22nd top-10 finish in 34 races at Pocono Raceway.
Tyler Reddick (second) posted his third top-10 finish in six races at Pocono Raceway. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
Martin Truex Jr. (third) posted his 15th top-10 finish in 34 races at Pocono Raceway.
Ty Gibbs (fifth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Martin Truex Jr. leads the point standings by 30 points over William Byron.

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin Wins HighPoint.com 400 at Pocono Raceway

July 23rd, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin prevailed in a tight door-to-door bump-and-go pass on Kyle Larson with seven laps remaining to claim a historic all-time best seventh NASCAR Cup Series victory at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway – the win in Sunday's HighPoint.com 400 also marking Hamlin's 50^th career trophy and second of the 2023 season

The race ended under caution for a last lap incident elsewhere on track, and the Pocono crowd voiced its displeasure, booing loudly as Hamlin's No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota led the field to pit road at the 2.5-mile track after the checkered flag. Hamlin, 42, maintained the action was just close-quarter racing for a win. Larson, who finished 21^st after the contact, disagreed and was none too happy with his good friend and golf partner.

"Both guys wrecked themselves," Hamlin said of Larson and contact he had earlier with Larson's teammate Alex Bowman. "There was a lane. He [Larson] missed the corner first and evidently didn't have his right side tires clean and when he gassed up and got going again, you have an option in those positions to either hold it wide open and hit the fence or lift and race it out.

"Those were choices they made. I didn't hit either one of them. Didn't touch them."

"I love it, I love it," Hamlin said, acknowledging the boos.

"I thought we had the best car and the strategy worked out. Just so happy we're winning these races we should win."

Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, did not mince words after climbing out of his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Instead of a Top-5 finish – or possible victory – he recovered from the incident to cross the finish line 21^st.

"First off, really proud of my team, they got us in position to race for the win," said Larson, who did earn the Stage 2 win – his third of the year. "We got spun early [in the race] and the car was never really the same after that, but we played the strategy really well to get us up there. Just unfortunate.

"I've been cost a lot of good finishes by him throughout my career, and I know he says that I race a certain way, but I don't think I've ever had to apologize to him about anything, not that I'm sure he'll say ‘I'm sorry' after this but it is what it is.

"Just move on and try to go to Richmond, where we won earlier this year.

"It is what it is. Yeah, we're friends. Yes, this makes things awkward. But he's always right. All the buddies know, Denny's always right. It is what it is. I'm not gonna let it tarnish our friendship off track. But I am pissed, and I feel like I should be pissed.

"I think at this point I have the right," Larson said of potentially racing Hamlin differently on track going forward. "Like I've said, I've never had to apologize to him about anything I've done on the racetrack. I can count four or five times where he's had to reach out to me and say, ‘sorry I've put you in a bad spot there.' So eventually, like he says, you have to start racing people a certain way to get the respect back."

Hamlin earned Toyota its 600^th career win in the three NASCAR national series combined and led his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. across the finish line. Tyler Reddick, who drives for the 23XI Racing Toyota team that Hamlin is part-owner of, finished third. Stewart-Haas Racing's Kevin Harvick and the remaining two JGR cars of rookie Ty Gibbs and Christopher Bell rounded out the Top-6.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Harrison Burton and Hendrick's Chase Elliott rounded out the top-10. It marked the second top-10 of the season for the 22-year old Burton. And the effort from Elliott leaves him 59-points out of the 16-driver Playoff pool with five more regular season races remaining for the 2020 series champion to race for another trophy, after missing six races in 2023.

Elliott's Hendrick Motorsports teammate, the race polesitter William Byron, led the most laps (60) of the day, but finished 24^th. He now trails Truex by 30 points for the regular season title.

Varying pit strategies – and in particular on the final green flag run – changed the leaderboard in the last 30-40 laps of the race. Some drivers that hadn't run top-5 all day postponed their last stop hoping for a caution flag. However, the day's strongest cars were in position to settle the trophy; some – such as Larson and Hamlin – on a two-tire pit stop and some – such as Truex and Byron – with four fresh tires.

There were 11 cautions on the day and incidents on three consecutive restarts after the Stage 1 break impacted the Playoff situations of multiple drivers

The first re-start following the Stage break not only involved the Stage 1 winner Joey Logano, but also collected Trackhouse Racing's Daniel Suarez who went into the race a mere 1-point behind Michael McDowell for that 16^th and final Playoff position. McDowell's car suffered some damage too, but he was able to drive on. Logano's No. 22 Penske Racing Ford was towed back and repaired but Suarez's No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet pit needing extensive work and ultimately drove back to the garage.

With five races remaining, Suarez dropped to 18th in the championship standings and his deficit to 16^th place McDowell now stands at 23 points..

"At the end of the day it's our fault we shouldn't be back there with those guys, squirrels," a frustrated Suarez said, adding, "It was a racing incident, but we shouldn't be racing those guys. We can only control what we can control.”