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NASCAR Cup Series

Shriner's Children's 500

Phoenix Raceway

March 10th, 2024

Race #4 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 312
Miles Raced : 318.9
Time of Race : 03 Hours 00 minutes 45 seconds
Average Speed: 103.568 mph
Margin of Victory : 05.465 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 40
Lead Changes: 10

Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs lead the field to start — Avondale, Arizona - March 10th, 2024: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Mavis Brakes Plus Toyota, and Ty Gibbs, driver of the #54 Monster Energy Toyota, lead the field to start the NASCAR Cup Series Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway. Photo by Chris Graythen | 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	3	1	1	1	22	7.8	+12	108	80	+28	84	54	88.8%	50	312	125.1	50
Chris Buescher	14	12	3	2	2	32	12.5	+12	94	82	+12	38	9	56.1%	0	312	94.6	36
Ty Gibbs	2	13	2	3	1	20	6.3	-1	74	73	+1	48	18	93.6%	57	312	118.8	43
Brad Keselowski	18	9	5	4	4	24	9.8	+14	96	86	+10	52	3	88.1%	0	312	100.0	35
Ryan Blaney	16	8	9	5	3	31	9.2	+11	83	65	+18	52	9	96.8%	0	312	103.7	41
Ross Chastain	12	16	4	6	3	33	13.2	+6	70	82	-12	22	2	41.7%	0	312	81.8	31
Martin Truex Jr	11	6	22	7	1	23	7.9	+4	78	72	+6	54	43	89.7%	55	312	115.3	37
Michael McDowell	9	20	6	8	4	25	12.5	+1	67	75	-8	35	1	68.3%	0	312	83.7	32
Chase Briscoe	8	19	7	9	5	26	12.5	-1	77	94	-17	43	2	72.8%	0	312	81.1	30
Tyler Reddick	6	1	8	10	1	18	4.8	-4	57	46	+11	47	26	99.0%	68	312	121.8	46
Denny Hamlin	1	2	12	11	1	23	6.0	-10	47	41	+6	31	33	89.1%	68	312	111.7	42
Noah Gragson	7	10	11	12	2	18	10.4	-5	103	97	+6	79	4	98.4%	0	312	86.6	28
Daniel Suarez	15	14	13	13	3	22	13.5	+2	84	85	-1	54	2	88.8%	0	312	74.6	24
Kyle Larson	17	17	14	14	9	33	16.2	+3	113	88	+25	48	0	54.5%	0	312	74.2	23
Carson Hocevar	10	30	15	15	3	34	19.1	-5	103	90	+13	27	4	36.2%	0	312	67.8	22
Bubba Wallace	22	18	17	16	4	29	17.5	+6	93	79	+14	14	0	7.7%	0	312	64.5	21
Todd Gilliland	29	5	10	17	1	32	17.5	+12	102	112	-10	24	1	46.2%	14	312	64.6	20
William Byron	5	4	18	18	1	23	9.2	-13	64	70	-6	28	13	70.5%	0	312	88.8	31
Chase Elliott	3	7	19	19	3	21	9.9	-16	55	65	-10	25	7	69.2%	0	312	83.8	28
Alex Bowman	25	11	20	20	9	27	17.8	+5	92	85	+7	33	0	46.2%	0	312	60.8	17
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	20	33	16	21	2	34	22.7	-1	107	136	-29	24	0	13.1%	0	312	51.2	16
Kyle Busch	31	26	21	22	2	36	23.9	+9	106	101	+5	6	0	2.6%	0	311	51.3	15
Ryan Preece	27	21	23	23	2	32	18.2	+4	101	111	-10	13	11	22.8%	0	311	65.9	14
Justin Haley	33	29	25	24	17	35	28.2	+9	91	91	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	311	39.2	13
John Hunter Nemechek	19	24	26	25	10	30	23.9	-6	90	87	+3	8	2	1.9%	0	311	52.1	12
Josh Berry	36	25	24	26	6	36	24.8	+10	84	82	+2	3	0	0.6%	0	310	47.3	11
Harrison Burton	24	28	27	27	4	34	28.5	-3	85	90	-5	0	0	0.3%	0	310	37.7	10
Daniel Hemric	21	34	29	28	21	34	29.4	-7	59	73	-14	0	3	0.0%	0	310	38.9	9
Zane Smith	28	27	28	29	14	32	28.7	-1	83	96	-13	2	10	0.3%	0	309	40.0	8
Kaz Grala	32	32	30	30	7	36	32.1	+2	73	80	-7	4	0	0.3%	0	309	30.8	7
Erik Jones	4	15	31	31	1	31	16.2	-27	56	90	-34	27	6	52.6%	0	305	59.1	13
Austin Dillon	30	35	32	32	30	35	34.0	-2	5	8	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	304	27.0	5
Corey Lajoie	35	23	33	33	20	36	27.9	+2	78	66	+12	0	0	0.0%	0	204	43.7	4
Joey Logano	23	22	34	34	18	31	26.6	-11	54	59	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	203	44.8	3
Derek Kraus	26	31	35	35	5	36	31.8	-9	71	72	-1	6	1	3.9%	0	203	33.1	2
Austin Cindric	34	36	36	36	29	36	35.9	-2	10	5	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	6	23.3	1

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Race Fast Facts

Phoenix Raceway
Shriners Children?s 500
Race Winner: Christopher Bell
Age: 29
Team : No. 20 - Rheem Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Adam Stevens
Christopher Bell won the Shriners Children?s 500, his seventh victory in 148 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in nine races at Phoenix Raceway.
Chris Buescher (second) posted his third top-10 finish in 17 races at Phoenix Raceway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2024.
Ty Gibbs (third) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Phoenix Raceway.
Carson Hocevar (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ryan Blaney leads the point standings by 10 points over Kyle Larson.

Race Recap

Christopher Bell claims victory in Toyota domination of Phoenix

March 10th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

There were so many variables in Christopher Bell’s victory in Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway that it’s difficult to pinpoint the determinative factor.

First, Toyota introduced a new body style in the NASCAR Cup Series this season. Second, NASCAR debuted a new short-track competition package in Sunday’s race. Third, the Toyotas unloaded for Friday’s 50-minute practice with consistent speed—allowing them to test their long-run prowess.

That combination of factors conjured up a decisive victory for Bell at a track where Toyota drivers had led a total of 15 laps in four Next-Gen-era races combined.

Bell and his Camry compatriots turned that statistic upside down on Sunday, combining to lead 298 of 312 laps. After Denny Hamlin started from the pole position, all four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers led significant numbers of laps—Hamlin with 68, Ty Gibbs with 57, Martin Truex Jr. with 55 and Bell with 50.

Tyler Reddick, a 23XI Toyota driver, contributed 68 laps led, as Bell ended Chevrolet’s three-race winning streak to start the season.

And while some drivers had difficulty in dirty air, Bell’s No. 20 Camry had no trouble passing cars, coming from 20^th on a restart on Lap 221 to claim the lead and beat Ford driver and runner-up Chris Buescher to the finish line by a distant 5.465 seconds.

“Man, this one feels really good,” said Bell, who was eliminated from last year’s Championship 4 race at Phoenix when his brake rotor exploded. “Just a credit to (crew chief) Adam (Stevens), man. Adam, my engineers… all the mechanics on this thing.

“You don’t get cars like that very often, as you know. Just super, super proud. Proud to be on this 20 car. This Rheem Camry was amazing today. I feel like we have capability of running races like this a lot. Hopefully, this is the first of many this year.”

The victory was Bell’s first at Phoenix and the seventh of his career.

Divergent pit strategies under the sixth and final caution for Hamlin’s spin in Turn 2 on Lap 215—as he broke loose to the inside of Reddick’s car while fighting for the lead—scrambled the running order, with Truex and eight other drivers staying on track while the rest of the field came to pit road.

With the final 92 laps running caution-free, Truex had to pit for fuel and tires on Lap 272, surrendering the lead to Bell, who held it the rest of the way.

After crashing out in 37^th place last Sunday at Las Vegas, Buescher was happy with his solid second-place run.

“I didn’t quite see the 20 (Bell) there at the end, so I know they were lights-out,” Buescher said. “We have some work to do to get to that point. What thrills me is we were by no means perfect on balance, so we have a lot of room to make this thing better, which is awesome.”

Gibbs, who regained track position with a two-tire pit stop on Lap 218, came home third, a career-best finish. Brad Keselowski ran fourth, two spots behind his Roush Fenway Keselowski teammate; and reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney came home fifth, ending a streak of three straight runner-up finishes at the one-mile track in the Sonoran Desert.

Ross Chastain, a Phoenix winner last November, was sixth, and Truex worked his way through the field on fresher tires to finish seventh. Michael McDowell, Chase Briscoe and Reddick completed the top 10. Hamlin finished 11^th after his Lap 215 spin.

Blaney overtook 14^th-place finisher Kyle Larson for the series lead. He leaves Phoenix 10 points ahead of Larson and Truex, who are tied for second in the standings.

Notes: Chastain was the only Chevrolet driver to finish in the top 12… The only non-Toyota driver to lead laps was Todd Gilliland, who ran long in his Front Row Motorsports Ford during a cycle of green-flag pit stops in Stage 2 and held the top spot for 14 circuits… Reddick won the first stage, and Bell claimed victory in the second stage.