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NASCAR Cup Series

AdventHealth 400

Kansas Speedway

May 5th, 2024

Race #12 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
- Extended to 268 laps
Miles Raced : 402.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 10 minutes 42 seconds
Average Speed: 126.481 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.001 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 43
Lead Changes: 27

Ross Chastain and Christopher Bell — Kansas City, Kansas - May 5th, 2024: Ross Chastain, driver of the #1 Busch Light Crocs Chevrolet, and Christopher Bell, driver of the #20 Yahoo! Toyota, lead the field on a pace lap prior to the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas 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
Kyle Larson	4	4	3	1	1	14	2.8	+3	70	59	+11	58	28	100.0%	63	268	134.7	57
Chris Buescher	12	1	2	2	1	30	5.7	+10	73	61	+12	41	11	87.7%	54	268	123.1	51
Chase Elliott	9	11	8	3	3	28	11.5	+6	124	110	+14	77	10	95.2%	0	268	95.8	35
Martin Truex Jr	13	5	5	4	2	34	6.9	+9	96	73	+23	50	15	97.4%	0	268	108.0	43
Denny Hamlin	14	6	1	5	1	28	6.3	+9	107	95	+12	74	23	92.5%	71	268	124.6	50
Christopher Bell	1	9	6	6	1	18	7.6	-5	71	70	+1	53	3	98.1%	5	268	105.8	38
Alex Bowman	18	7	19	7	5	35	12.7	+11	118	104	+14	56	2	65.7%	0	268	86.5	34
Kyle Busch	5	2	4	8	1	23	5.3	-3	71	58	+13	45	14	96.6%	14	268	108.4	39
Noah Gragson	3	8	16	9	3	23	9.8	-6	84	98	-14	58	2	88.8%	0	268	94.8	31
Michael McDowell	8	14	11	10	5	30	13.2	-2	79	99	-20	32	0	84.7%	0	268	86.5	27
Brad Keselowski	30	13	9	11	1	31	16.3	+19	154	95	+59	43	19	48.5%	1	268	86.5	26
Ryan Blaney	26	17	10	12	4	33	16.5	+14	137	126	+11	25	0	36.6%	0	268	79.7	25
John Hunter Nemechek	29	34	23	13	8	36	24.1	+16	116	99	+17	10	1	12.3%	0	268	65.1	24
Todd Gilliland	25	23	7	14	1	37	20.2	+11	106	92	+14	7	5	25.0%	4	268	71.1	23
Josh Berry	17	27	17	15	5	36	25.0	+2	103	107	-4	5	1	7.8%	0	268	55.7	22
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	21	19	18	16	7	31	19.1	+5	114	101	+13	15	4	13.4%	0	268	65.3	21
Bubba Wallace	23	20	14	17	2	35	17.4	+6	111	122	-11	23	4	24.3%	0	268	68.7	20
Justin Haley	35	26	12	18	3	37	22.7	+17	128	125	+3	17	1	25.0%	0	268	60.9	19
Ross Chastain	2	10	25	19	1	25	9.5	-17	90	108	-18	58	7	76.9%	43	268	89.3	29
Tyler Reddick	15	15	13	20	1	34	12.5	-5	128	121	+7	62	18	82.1%	7	268	75.3	20
Chase Briscoe	10	31	27	21	3	36	26.9	-11	84	115	-31	6	0	8.2%	0	268	44.0	16
Corey Heim	20	37	24	22	6	38	30.9	-2	93	107	-14	2	1	1.5%	0	268	53.6	0
William Byron	36	12	20	23	7	36	16.3	+13	127	100	+27	29	3	48.9%	0	268	69.6	14
Carson Hocevar	22	18	15	24	3	30	18.1	-2	118	120	-2	32	1	29.1%	0	268	63.1	13
Austin Dillon	16	22	28	25	4	30	22.5	-9	99	120	-21	7	0	4.5%	0	268	52.8	12
Corey Lajoie	28	28	21	26	8	33	25.5	+2	96	113	-17	16	1	7.8%	0	268	47.9	11
Daniel Suarez	27	30	30	27	15	34	28.9	+0	93	111	-18	0	0	0.4%	0	268	38.7	10
Ryan Preece	32	29	26	28	15	38	30.2	+4	63	80	-17	3	0	0.0%	0	268	36.5	9
Zane Smith	24	24	29	29	5	30	25.0	-5	117	126	-9	6	1	2.6%	0	268	45.1	8
Daniel Hemric	33	33	31	30	3	37	31.4	+3	112	109	+3	7	1	2.6%	0	268	35.6	7
Derek Kraus	38	35	32	31	1	38	32.6	+7	62	66	-4	5	29	6.0%	6	268	40.3	6
Ty Gibbs	6	3	22	32	2	32	9.0	-26	60	83	-23	27	7	76.5%	0	267	80.2	15
Austin Hill	34	32	33	33	2	37	32.2	+1	100	104	-4	5	0	1.5%	0	267	28.7	0
Joey Logano	11	21	34	34	10	35	22.8	-23	76	86	-10	15	2	10.5%	0	266	52.3	3
Riley Herbst	37	38	35	35	27	38	36.4	+2	33	31	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	266	26.7	0
Harrison Burton	31	36	36	36	5	38	35.3	-5	76	78	-2	5	0	0.8%	0	262	25.5	1
Austin Cindric	7	16	37	37	5	29	21.0	-30	70	82	-12	24	1	38.8%	0	184	69.4	1
Jimmie Johnson	19	25	38	38	8	36	31.1	-19	94	101	-7	6	1	1.9%	0	175	42.6	1

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Kansas Speedway
AdventHealth 400
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 31
Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the AdventHealth 400, his 25th victory in 343 Cup Series races.
The margin of victory was .001 seconds, the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history.
This is his second victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2024. This is his second victory and 11th top-10 finish in 19 races at Kansas Speedway.
Chris Buescher (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 17 races at Kansas Speedway. It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2024.
Chase Elliott (third) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 17 races at Kansas Speedway.
Josh Berry (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 29 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Kyle Larson beats Chris Buescher at Kansas in closest NASCAR finish ever

May 5th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

In the closest finish in NASCAR history, Kyle Larson beat Chris Buescher to the checkered flag by roughly one inch to win Sunday night’s AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway.

After Kyle Busch’s spin on Lap 261 of a scheduled 267 sent the race to overtime, Buescher took the lead on the restart of the two-lap shootout, only to have Larson pull even on the backstretch on the final lap.

Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet and Buescher’s No. 17 Ford banged doors twice coming to the finish line. Buescher held the edge a foot from the stripe, but Larson surged ahead to win in a photo finish, with timing and scoring showing a margin of 0.001 seconds.

The victory was Larson’s second of the season, his second at Kansas and the 25^thof his career. The win was the sixth this season for Hendrick Motorsports, most in the NASCAR Cup Series so far this year.

“That was wild,” said Larson who had faded from second to fourth before Busch’s spin. “I was obviously thankful for that caution. We were dying pretty bad. Was happy to come out third (off pit road), and figured my best shot was to choose the bottom and try and split three-wide to the inside.

“Worked out my car turned well and was able to get some runs. Got through (Turns) 1 and 2 really good down the backstretch and had a big tow on Chris, and got him to kind of enter shallow, and I just committed really hard up top.

“Wasn’t quite sure if we were going to make it out the other side. I got super loose in the center, and then we’re just trying to… I’m trying not to get too far ahead of him to where he can side draft, and then I was just trying to kill his run. It was crazy.”

In the frenzied overtime, Chase Elliott was third, 0,059 seconds behind Larson, followed by Martin Truex Jr., who trailed the leader by 0.075 seconds.

The caution for Busch’s spin negated the fuel-saving measures that had dominated the final stage of the race. The lead-lap cars pitted en masse on Lap 263, with most taking right-side tires only, and Truex opting for fresh rubber on all four corners.

Fifth-place finisher Denny Hamlin was first off pit road and chose the bottom lane for the overtime restart with Larson behind him and Buescher to his outside. But Larson ducked to the inside entering Turn 1, abandoning Hamlin and allowing Buescher to surge into the lead.

Buescher, who scored his first career top five on an intermediate speedway, held the top spot until Larson surged ahead by a half-car-length on the backstretch to set up the wild drag race to the finish line.

“That sucks to be that close,” said Buescher, who overcame a penalty for a pit crew member over the wall too soon during the Stage 2 break. “It was a great finish for us, a really strong day. A lot of speed in this Castrol Edge Ford Mustang, and we really needed that. Needed a win more, and I thought might have had that one.

“Had a lot of speed there firing off. We were really good really all day, and really proud of that. Had some good strategy to get us back up there and tried to cover what I could and gave him half a lane too much, I suppose, but good hard race right there down to the line. But, yeah, it just hurts.”

The race featured 27 lead changes among 10 drivers and seven cautions for 43 laps. Except for stage breaks, the race ran caution free until Lap 176, when contact from Corey LaJoie’s Chevrolet sent seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson spinning in a three-car accident that slowed the race for seven laps.

Three more cautions followed in rapid succession, creating varying strategic options as drivers either chose to pit for fuel or to stay out. Truex, who had ample fuel, was closing fast late in the race on then-leader Hamlin, who was saving gas, when the caution for Busch’s spin forced the overtime.

Pole winner Christopher Bell ran sixth, followed by Alex Bowman, Busch, Noah Gragson (scoring his third straight top 10) and Michael McDowell.

“That race from start to finish was amazing,” said Larson. “That first stage was incredible. The second stage at the end was fun, and then that whole last stage with the wrecks and cautions and then fuel strategy and tires running long and all that was wild.

“You guys got your money’s worth today, and I’m just proud to be a part of the show.”

Notes:Hamlin won the first stage and Buescher the second… The previous closest finishes in NASCAR history were Ricky Craven’s 0.002-second win over Kurt Busch on March 16, 2003 at Darlington and Jimmie Johnson’s victory over Clint Bowyer at Talladega on April 17, 2011 by the same margin… Corey Heim finished 22^ndin relief of injured Erik Jones, who will return to action next weekend at Darlington… Larson extended his series lead to 29 points over Truex in second… Larson’s victory by the closest of margins kept Ford drivers winless through 12 races this season.