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NASCAR Cup Series

YellaWood 500

Talladega Superspeedway

October 6th, 2024

Race #31 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 188
- Extended to 195 laps
Miles Raced : 518.7
Time of Race : 03 Hours 26 minutes 25 seconds
Average Speed: 150.773 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.006 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 24
Lead Changes: 66

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Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	32	10	2	1	1	32	11.3	+31	724	697	+27	467	1	71.8%	19	195	105.4	49
Brad Keselowski	13	34	3	2	1	37	19.1	+11	549	536	+13	239	4	43.6%	2	195	74.9	35
William Byron	16	6	6	3	1	35	13.8	+13	732	705	+27	393	2	65.1%	1	195	88.9	48
Kyle Larson	12	9	8	4	1	35	13.6	+8	691	656	+35	372	0	60.0%	1	195	89.9	42
Erik Jones	30	31	29	5	1	37	22.6	+25	634	635	-1	118	8	23.1%	0	195	70.3	32
Christopher Bell	21	20	21	6	1	39	19.7	+15	582	569	+13	195	3	34.9%	0	195	66.0	37
Justin Haley	35	19	31	7	1	39	21.2	+28	554	557	-3	216	3	36.4%	4	195	59.2	30
Austin Dillon	7	15	18	8	1	39	19.1	-1	614	649	-35	311	3	48.2%	1	195	70.9	29
Bubba Wallace	26	21	24	9	1	37	19.3	+17	673	667	+6	239	0	39.0%	3	195	75.5	32
Denny Hamlin	8	23	32	10	1	39	19.7	-2	614	663	-49	201	5	31.3%	0	195	67.0	27
Martin Truex Jr	24	40	20	11	5	40	25.9	+13	457	465	-8	76	2	14.9%	0	195	54.2	26
Cody Ware	34	37	34	12	1	38	26.1	+22	428	437	-9	63	4	12.3%	1	195	49.0	25
Ty Gibbs	15	22	30	13	1	36	17.3	+2	665	693	-28	275	1	48.2%	0	195	75.9	24
Carson Hocevar	37	16	25	14	2	39	27.7	+23	409	410	-1	27	9	6.7%	0	195	56.5	23
Shane van Gisbergen	17	1	27	15	1	37	18.8	+2	507	513	-6	132	9	38.0%	9	195	73.9	0
Alex Bowman	23	8	15	16	1	39	15.0	+7	719	666	+53	368	1	56.9%	1	195	80.9	26
Chris Buescher	20	24	23	17	1	31	12.3	+3	611	613	-2	428	5	67.2%	12	195	89.2	30
Corey Lajoie	28	12	19	18	1	39	20.4	+10	616	574	+42	152	5	30.8%	5	195	64.5	19
Kyle Busch	4	11	14	19	1	38	11.9	-15	596	633	-37	423	1	74.9%	7	195	82.9	26
Tyler Reddick	14	30	13	20	1	34	18.2	-6	649	639	+10	189	4	35.4%	2	195	76.7	22
Zane Smith	39	13	22	21	1	39	24.3	+18	581	583	-2	34	7	9.2%	0	195	57.7	16
BJ McLeod	38	18	33	22	1	39	27.7	+16	466	472	-6	27	6	8.7%	1	195	40.8	0
Todd Gilliland	3	36	35	23	1	37	18.4	-20	542	557	-15	345	3	48.7%	2	194	62.3	14
Anthony Alfredo	33	35	37	24	3	40	35.7	+9	157	164	-7	0	5	0.5%	0	194	42.0	0
Noah Gragson	22	29	12	25	1	36	19.7	-3	623	639	-16	254	4	33.9%	0	194	64.9	12
Daniel Suarez	31	39	36	26	23	40	37.7	+5	28	24	+4	0	4	0.0%	0	194	36.1	11
JJ Yeley	40	38	38	27	2	40	35.8	+13	147	151	-4	0	1	1.0%	0	193	32.3	0
AJ Allmendinger	25	32	26	28	1	39	25.3	-3	483	480	+3	131	14	18.5%	9	193	48.1	0
Chase Elliott	11	4	4	29	1	35	14.0	-18	699	685	+14	344	3	58.5%	1	190	79.2	17
Chase Briscoe	36	25	9	30	1	36	16.7	+6	673	654	+19	293	3	44.6%	0	189	75.1	10
John Hunter Nemechek	29	33	11	31	2	39	28.0	-2	355	361	-6	61	9	11.8%	0	188	48.7	6
Austin Cindric	2	5	1	32	1	19	6.1	-30	611	620	-9	539	2	93.3%	29	183	98.5	17
Joey Logano	6	7	5	33	1	35	12.3	-27	598	593	+5	368	2	69.2%	19	183	93.7	4
Harrison Burton	9	14	7	34	1	36	18.1	-25	642	662	-20	204	3	33.3%	0	183	73.0	3
Ryan Preece	18	27	10	35	1	35	20.3	-17	555	546	+9	275	8	41.0%	0	183	64.5	2
Josh Berry	19	28	16	36	3	38	25.6	-17	545	570	-25	69	7	6.7%	0	183	53.6	1
Michael McDowell	1	26	17	37	1	36	18.7	-36	406	439	-33	176	8	41.0%	42	183	74.9	1
Daniel Hemric	10	17	28	38	1	38	20.6	-28	662	692	-30	300	3	41.5%	1	183	66.8	1
Ryan Blaney	5	3	39	39	1	18	18.7	-34	374	387	-13	330	2	63.1%	6	124	95.4	5
Ross Chastain	27	2	40	40	1	38	23.5	-13	343	328	+15	168	1	36.9%	17	120	86.9	6

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Race Fast Facts

Talladega Superspeedway
YellaWood 500
Race Winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Age: 37
Team : No. 47 - Kroger Health/Palmolive Chevrolet
Owner: Gordon Smith
Crew Chief: Mike Kelley
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the YellaWood 500, his fourth victory in 431 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his second victory and 11th top-10 finish in 23 races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 16th top-10 finish in 32 races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his 13th top-10 finish in 2024.
William Byron (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 14 races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Carson Hocevar (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
William Byron leads the point standings by 17 points over Christopher Bell.

Race Recap

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. bests Keselowski, Byron in intense Talladega Playoff race

October 6th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. held off the field in overtime to claim the victory in a dramatic NASCAR Cup Series YellaWood 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway – edging Brad Keselowski and William Byron by a mere .006-second in a thrilling three-wide finish.

That heart-stopping finish was indicative of the afternoon of competition at NASCAR’s biggest track (2.66-mile) – which once again lived up to its reputation and provided a thrilling Playoff race that has major implications for the championship contenders.

A massive 27-car accident with five laps remaining brought out a red flag and stopped the race for nearly 10 minutes. The incident affected eight of the 12 Playoff cars in varying degrees. There is only one more race remaining in this round to settle which eight drivers advance to the next round of championship competition.

Stenhouse, the 36-year-old Mississippi native who is not Playoff-eligible, hoisted his fourth career trophy – all coming at superspeedway tracks – and first in 65 races. His No. 47 JTG-Daugherty Chevrolet led 19 of the 195 laps, including the all-important last one after a side-to-battle with six-time Talladega winner Keselowski and this year’s Daytona 500 winner Byron.

This marks the third time in the five Playoff races that a non-Playoff driver has hoisted the race trophy.

“Felt really good, we had our Chevy teammates behind us and I was hoping Kyle [Busch] wouldn’t push the six [Keselowski] that hard, I knew the 24 was going to try to get to the line,’’ said Stenhouse, who scored his first career NASCAR Cup Series win at Talladega in 2017.

“Man, this team has put a lot of hard work in and obviously we haven’t won since the Daytona 500 in ’23. It’s been an up and down season, a lot of hard work this season trying to find a little bit of speed but we knew this track is one of ours to come get it.’’

The finish was set-up after the vast incident that took out several front-running cars and affected all but four Playoff drivers. Team Penske’s Austin Cindric – who essentially needed a victory to earn an automatic berth in the next Playoff round – was leading the race – having exchanged the top spot multiple time with Stenhouse in the closing 20 laps.

With five laps remaining, Cindric’s leading No. 2 Ford was hit from behind on the backstretch by Keselowski’s No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Ford which triggered an accordion-style accident from three rows behind the leader. Harrison Burton’s No. 21 Ford struck Joey Logano’s No. 22 Ford that then pushed Keselowski’s car forward and into Cindric.

The aftermath collected 27 cars in all, completely sidelining Playoff drivers Cindric, who was credited with a 32nd place finish, his Penske teammate Logano (33rd), and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe (30th).

“Obviously incredibly frustrated,’’ Cindric said. “Just really proud of my team and the full execution of the day. We got that stage win {second stage) and put ourselves at the front of that green flag pit cycle and had another shot [to win].

“I don’t feel like complaining right now, I’m too pissed off and it won’t do anything. But proud of the team. We’ve brought really fast race cars to every single race of the Playoffs and we’re going to have to bring another one next week and I need to go out and do my job.’’

His Penske teammate Logano, who was similarly frustrated, said there was nothing he could have done to avoid the accident.

“I don’t think we could have done anything much different,’’ the two-time series champion Logano said. “We had the bottom working fairly well and by the time we got off [turn] two, the push from the 21 [Burton] that transferred to the six (Keselowski) that transferred to the 2 [Cindric] just at a bad angle. And off he went.’’

Other Playoff drivers affected in the accident included, perennial Talladega race favorite Chase Elliott, who finished 29th after pitting for repairs following the accident.

Regular season champion Tyler Reddick was also in the accident and rallied to finish 20th. Alex Bowman, who was involved in two accidents on the day, finished 16th.

Reigning series champion Ryan Blaney ran among the leaders and scored points in both stages but was eliminated from competition mid-race in the day’s first multiple car accident, leaving him 39th of the 40 starters.

On the up-side, Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson finished fourth tying his best ever Talladega finish – only his second top-five at the track in 20 races. Non-Playoff driver Erik Jones was fifth.

Another Playoff competitor, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell was sixth, followed by Justin Haley, Austin Dillon, Bubba Wallace and Bell’s fellow Playoff driver and JGR teammate Denny Hamlin in 10th.

With Byron’s finish, he becomes the first and only Playoff driver to secure a position in the next eight-race round. Bell is next in the standings, holding a 57-point advantage on the Playoff cutoff line, followed by Larson, Hamlin, Bowman, Blaney, Reddick and Elliott.

Elliott is 13 points ahead of Logano going into next week’s road course race at the Charlotte ROVAL – the final race of this Playoff round which will set the next eight-driver round. Daniel Suarez, who rallied to a 26th place finish despite spending most of the race recovering from a pre-race penalty for equipment violations, is now 20 points behind Elliott for that final transfer position.

Cindric and Briscoe are 29 and 32 points back, respectively, essentially needing a victory at Charlotte.

The final race of this Playoff round is next Sunday, the Bank of America ROVAL400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course. A.J. Allmendinger is the defending race winner.