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NASCAR Cup Series

Cook Out 400

Richmond Raceway

August 11th, 2024

Race #23 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 400
- Extended to 408 laps
Miles Raced : 306.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 03 minutes 19 seconds
Average Speed: 100.155 mph
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 26
Lead Changes: 26

Joey Logano reacts after the Cook Out 400 — Richmond, Virginia - August 11th, 2024: Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, reacts after the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 at Richmond 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
Austin Dillon	6	7	2	1	1	21	6.2	+5	110	107	+3	81	12	98.3%	35	408	116.6	50
Denny Hamlin	1	3	1	2	1	15	2.8	-1	81	81	+0	63	33	100.0%	124	408	132.1	52
Tyler Reddick	10	4	4	3	1	29	7.2	+7	89	84	+5	58	10	95.3%	8	408	99.8	40
Bubba Wallace	8	10	5	4	2	20	7.8	+4	116	106	+10	68	3	98.0%	0	408	102.6	42
Ross Chastain	22	13	6	5	4	25	9.6	+17	119	105	+14	67	4	96.8%	0	408	95.3	32
Christopher Bell	5	2	12	6	1	26	4.9	-1	100	102	-2	64	58	99.3%	122	408	122.7	50
Kyle Larson	15	5	7	7	1	29	10.8	+8	128	120	+8	77	2	92.4%	17	408	84.9	30
Carson Hocevar	19	12	10	8	1	22	13.3	+11	146	128	+18	60	4	64.0%	2	408	81.6	31
Chase Elliott	4	16	13	9	1	22	11.2	-5	133	141	-8	77	8	88.0%	5	408	87.9	34
Daniel Suarez	21	1	15	10	1	22	8.9	+11	135	124	+11	79	42	71.1%	93	408	104.6	37
Ryan Blaney	11	18	16	11	3	24	13.4	+0	137	140	-3	75	7	69.4%	0	408	82.6	26
Kyle Busch	12	19	24	12	4	29	18.5	+0	145	148	-3	35	31	8.8%	0	408	79.2	25
William Byron	13	14	11	13	3	25	12.5	+0	128	132	-4	66	2	85.8%	0	408	80.8	24
Josh Berry	3	17	9	14	3	25	12.8	-11	128	137	-9	61	0	71.8%	0	408	79.7	24
Michael McDowell	28	8	8	15	2	33	13.8	+13	142	129	+13	69	0	75.5%	0	408	78.5	27
Brad Keselowski	29	15	18	16	5	31	21.6	+13	145	128	+17	22	15	14.0%	0	408	54.7	21
Todd Gilliland	23	26	17	17	7	31	20.8	+6	122	121	+1	15	23	6.6%	0	408	62.0	20
Chris Buescher	7	22	19	18	6	35	18.0	-11	101	116	-15	9	4	29.4%	0	408	80.3	22
Joey Logano	9	6	3	19	1	20	4.5	-10	88	81	+7	67	22	99.3%	2	408	104.5	32
Noah Gragson	16	28	25	20	14	33	24.3	-4	123	133	-10	1	2	0.0%	0	407	51.8	17
Chase Briscoe	25	27	21	21	16	35	23.9	+4	137	139	-2	0	5	0.0%	0	407	44.2	16
Ty Gibbs	14	21	27	22	8	28	20.9	-8	122	134	-12	23	7	15.7%	0	407	56.8	15
Zane Smith	20	25	22	23	14	33	24.0	-3	125	124	+1	0	2	0.3%	0	407	54.1	14
Austin Cindric	18	24	23	24	9	29	20.6	-6	139	147	-8	17	0	5.6%	0	407	59.8	13
Ryan Preece	26	20	20	25	10	30	22.0	+1	137	134	+3	7	13	3.7%	0	407	56.1	12
Ty Dillon	30	29	26	26	21	37	29.6	+4	102	93	+9	0	21	0.0%	0	407	39.8	0
Justin Haley	36	31	31	27	23	36	30.8	+9	104	96	+8	0	2	0.0%	0	406	43.4	10
Alex Bowman	17	23	28	28	6	32	23.0	-11	111	126	-15	8	1	0.7%	0	406	50.7	9
Erik Jones	27	32	30	29	17	35	29.1	-2	99	96	+3	0	9	0.0%	0	406	41.7	8
Daniel Hemric	32	30	29	30	29	36	32.2	+2	94	95	-1	0	2	0.0%	0	406	35.3	7
John Hunter Nemechek	35	33	32	31	28	37	32.6	+4	79	82	-3	0	3	0.0%	0	405	31.5	6
Harrison Burton	31	34	33	32	28	37	32.2	-1	57	62	-5	0	1	0.0%	0	405	35.9	5
Riley Herbst	34	35	35	33	26	37	33.9	+1	82	85	-3	0	3	0.0%	0	405	31.3	0
Corey Lajoie	24	36	34	34	23	37	33.4	-10	59	64	-5	0	18	0.0%	0	404	34.5	3
Parker Retzlaff	37	37	36	35	32	37	36.4	+2	19	20	-1	0	2	0.0%	0	402	24.4	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	33	9	14	36	2	33	17.4	-3	132	118	+14	44	2	50.3%	0	397	51.1	1
Martin Truex Jr	2	11	37	37	2	21	18.0	-35	62	99	-37	37	4	60.1%	0	250	86.8	9

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Richmond Raceway
Cook Out 400
Race Winner: Austin Dillon
Age: 34
Team : No. 3 - Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet
Owner: Richard Childress
Crew Chief: Justin Alexander
Austin Dillon won the Cook Out 400, his fifth victory in 395 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 21 races at Richmond Raceway.
Denny Hamlin (second) posted his 24th top-10 finish in 36 races at Richmond Raceway. It is his 10th top-10 finish in 2024.
Tyler Reddick (third) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Richmond Raceway.
Carson Hocevar (eighth) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Austin Dillon Wins Overtime Thriller at Richmond Raceway

August 11th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

It took a controversial full-contact finish but Austin Dillon claimed his first NASCAR Cup Series victory in two seasons in Sunday night’s Cook Out 400 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway – vaulting from a 32nd place in the points standings before the race to an automatic Playoff berth with the win.

Coming to the checkered flag during the final lap of overtime, Dillon’s No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevy hit the rear bumper of the race-leading No. 22 Team Penske driven by Joey Logano crashing Logano’s car into the catchfence. Then Dillon immediately moved low on track and hit Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota as he was driving by. It allowed Dillon to take the checkered flag only a few feet ahead and claim the all-important win by a slight .116-second.

As Logano and Hamlin drove their dented, smoking cars to pit lane, the 34-year-old North Carolinian Dillon did victory doughnuts and spoke about the win and the move he used to gain it. He reminded reporters later that this was short track-style racing and that he’s seen both Logano and Hamlin make similarly aggressive moves to win a trophy.

“I don’t know man, it’s been two years and this is the first car I’ve had a shot to win with,’’ Dillon said when asked if he thought it was a fair move for the win.

“I felt like with two to go, we were the fastest car. Obviously we had to have a straightaway. Wrecked the guy. I hate to do that, but sometimes you just got to do it.

“I got to thank the good Lord above. It’s been tough for the last two years man. I care about RCR, these fans, my wife. This is my first [win] for my baby girl. It means a lot. I hate it, but I had to do it.’’

“When given that shot, you’ve got to take it,’’ Dillon added.

It’s Dillon’s first win in the last 68 races and fifth of his career. His last trophy came in the final regular season race of 2022 at Daytona International Speedway which earned a last chance position in that Playoff run. He was ranked 32nd in points coming into this Richmond race – 258 points behind the Playoff cutoff line – and now he becomes the 13th driver to win his way into championship contention.

Noted his grandfather, team owner and NASCAR Hall of Famer, Richard Childress, “He knew what he had to do and they (Logano and Hamlin) would have done it to him.’’

After speaking briefly with reporters alongside his car on pit road, an angry Logano went immediately to the NASCAR officials team hauler.

“It was chicken &*#! – there’s no doubt about it,’’ the two-time series champion Logano said of Dillon’s move. “He was four car-lengths back, not even close. Then he wrecks the 11 [Hamlin] to go along with it.

“I mean I get it, bump and run,’’ Logano continued, “I’ve done that, but he just drove through me, it’s ridiculous.’’

Logano’s crew chief Paul Wolfe was frustrated as well.

“It’s just a joke to call that racing. … something like that, that’s not racing,’’ Wolfe said. “We all put too much in this … that’s not professional what happened tonight.’’

Hamlin, who led the most laps (124) on the night, was equally as frustrated.

“There are no penalties for rough driving so it opens up the opportunity for Austin to just do whatever he wants,’’ said Hamlin, who was scored second.

“I got hooked in the right rear again. I was just minding my own business and he hooked me in the right rear and put me in the fence. I don’t know. The record book won’t care about what happened, He’s going to be credited with a win but obviously he’s not going to go far [in the Playoffs] because you got to pay your dues back on stuff like that.

“But it was worth it because he jumped 20 positions in points, I understand that and there’s no ill will there, but I just hate that I was a part of it. … I understand it but I don’t agree with it.’’

Finishing just behind Hamlin were 23XI Racing teammates Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace. Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain was fifth. These positions were important with only three races remaining now to set the 16-driver Playoff field.

Playoff eligibility changed throughout the race – sometimes dramatically so.

Wallace’s top-five run was enough to move him from a seven-point deficit outside the Playoff 16 to just inside the top 16. He has a three-point advantage in that final Playoff position now over both Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Chris Buescher, who finished 18th Sunday night, and Chastain.

Martin Truex Jr. who led the championship standings for much of the early season and held a 102-point advantage inside the standings at the Richmond green flag, took a big hit in the points. His No. 19 JGR Toyota had to retire early with engine problems taking a last place finish in Sunday’s 37-car field and now the 2017 series champion holds only a 78-point advantage above the Playoff cutoff – ranked 14th still the highest ranked driver without a win.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs is 15th with a 19-point cushion above the cutoff line, followed by Wallace, Buescher and Chastain.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Bell, who led 122 laps and won Stage 1 – a series best 10th stage win – finished sixth, followed by Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson, Spire Motorsports’ Carson Hocevar, Hendrick’s Chase Elliott and Trackhouse Racing’s Daniel Suárez rounding out the Richmond top 10.

Larson continues to lead the standings – now with a five-point advantage over Reddick and a six-point lead on his teammate Elliott. Hamlin is fourth, only 21 points back.

Not only was the race noteworthy for its dramatic ending and the shake up in the points standings, it was a test run of the new option tire that allowed teams to have a choice of Goodyear rubber in-race. It certainly created a new element of strategy and suspense.

Suárez who tried the new tires early, for example, made up 15 points and took the lead immediately after his pit stop to change them.

“The Option tire worked exactly as it was intended,’’ said Goodyear’s Director of Racing Greg Stucker. “They fired off immediately and were more than a half-second faster than the Prime, which is big on a short track. Also, the Options gave up significantly more than the Primes over a long run, as intended.

“What was really exciting was how different teams used the Option tire at different times to accomplish their own goals,’’ he added.

With all the storylines, dramatic finish, and important new tire element, Reddick offered the understatement of the evening, “Wild way to end the night.’’