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Pit Stops : Texas Motor Speedway

Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY

Texas Motor Speedway , Fort Worth, TX

Sunday, May 4th, 2025 Race 11 of 36 2025 Season
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  • Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Hocevar's High-Speed Hoedown: First Career Pole Secured in Texas

Decked out in Texas-appropriate attire, Carson Hocevar put his No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet on the pole for Sunday’s WÜRTH 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY at Texas Motor Speedway.

With the second fastest lap in the era of the Gen 7 car, Hocevar toured the 1.5 mile track in 28.175 seconds (191.659 mph) to edge 2023 race winner William Byron (191.564 mph) for the top starting position by 0.014 seconds.

The Busch Light Pole Award is the first of Hocevar’s career, and at age 22, he’s the youngest-ever pole winner at Texas.

Clad in a firesuit designed as a cowboy outfit—courtesy of sponsor Chili’s—and sporting a black 10-gallon hat, Hocevar reveled in the moment after his lap stood up to all comers.

“Having the cowboy outfit—what better place to be on the pole,” Hocevar said. “I’m normally so hard on myself, and I didn’t think I nailed that lap at all, but I’m super proud of this team.

“I’m so proud, because I’ve never had the No. 1 pit stall, and I’ve had a lot of issues with pit road and we’ve had a lot of bad luck. So I finally get the No. 1 pit stall, and I’m pumped about that.”

Austin Cindric, last Sunday’s Talladega winner, qualified third at 191.523 mph in a closely compacted field. Larson, the last driver to make an attempt, was fourth at 191.421 mph.

With 10 drivers to go, Ty Gibbs topped the chart at 191.293 mph, but Michael McDowell, Hocevar’s teammate, eclipsed his time by 0.006 seconds in a lap at 191.333 mph.

“Obviously, with Michael going out and putting up a really good lap time, I felt like we were faster than him in practice, and that gave me a little bit of confidence that our stuff was going to be as quick, if not hopefully a little quicker,” Hocevar said.

McDowell will start fifth on Sunday, with Gibbs sixth. Josh Berry, three-time Texas winner Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace and AJ Allmendinger completed the top 10 on the grid.

One driver who left the session with regret was Cindric, who felt he could have gone faster.

“I feel like I left a pole lap out there,” he said. “I sent it into Turn 1 and didn’t quite get to the bottom and didn’t quite maximize my exit. I guess I can be happy with where we are at, but I definitely feel like you want to do it all.

“We’re in a great spot for (Sunday) and should have a good pit stall, so I feel good about where we are. We’ll try to go get another one.”

Defending race winner Chase Elliott will start 29th.

Note: Since the Gen 7 car was introduced in 2022, only Christopher Bell at Michigan International Speedway in 2023 has run a faster lap than Hocevar at Texas. Bell’s speed at the 2.0-mile track was 193.382 mph.

  • Texas Motor Speedway
  • W?rth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Carson Hocevar
  • Age: 22
  • Team : No 77 - Chili's Ride the 'Dente Chevrolet
  • Owner: Jeff Dickerson
  • Crew Chief: Lucas Lambert
  • Carson Hocevar won the Pole Award for the W?rth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY with a lap of 28175 seconds, 191659 mph
  • This is his first pole in 56 NASCAR Cup Series races
  • This is his first pole and fourth top-10 start in 2025
  • This is his first pole in three races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • William Byron (second) posted his seventh top-10 start of 2025 and his fifth in 11 races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • Austin Cindric (third) posted his second top-10 start at Texas Motor Speedway It is his seventh in 11 races this season
  • Riley Herbst (21st) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Sunday, May 4th, 2025
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Redemption in Texas: Logano Scores First 2025 Win After Talladega DQ

After Michael McDowell’s dream ended less than four laps short of the scheduled finish in Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY, Joey Logano took control and rode the NASCAR Cup Series rollercoaster to his first victory of the season.

A week after a missing nut on a spoiler bracket cost him a disqualification from fifth place at Talladega Superspeedway, Logano beat runner-up Ross Chastain to the finish line by 0.346-second in overtime to score his second victory at 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway and the 37th of his career.

In fashioning his first top-five finish of 2025, Logano successfully pursued McDowell, who had charged into the lead after a restart on Lap 245 of 271 and held it through two cautions and restarts.

On Lap 264, less than four laps from a finish, the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford went low on the backstretch, avoided a block from McDowell and passed the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet for the lead.

Passed for second by Logano’s Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney a lap later, McDowell lost control in dirty air behind Blaney’s Ford and slammed into the Turn 2 wall, ending his race in 26th place.

“Sorry, boys, I tried,” a rueful McDowell radioed to his team.

On the subsequent overtime restart, Logano made it look easy. The reigning series champion cleared Blaney through the first two corners, as Chastain charged into second from the bottom lane.

Two laps later, Logano was on his way to Victory Lane, having scored the second straight win for Team Penske after Austin Cindric won at Talladega last Sunday.

“The sport changes so quickly,” Logano said after climbing from his car. “It’s crazy how you can just ride these rollercoasters and just proud of the team. Finally got (sponsor) AAA Insurance into Victory Lane. They’ve been a partner of mine since I’ve been to Penske, so 13, 14 years. I’ve yet to win with them. It was awesome to get that done here.”

Logano had to work his way forward from his 27th-place starting position. He did so relentlessly and without the sorts of mistakes that doomed the winning chances of others.

“Slowly, methodically, a couple at a time,” Logano said of his drive. “We had a really tough pit stall situation. The pit crew did a good job of managing that and just grabbed a couple (of positions) here and there.

“The car was fast. I knew that yesterday. We just did a poor job qualifying. Just grinded it. Just keep grinding a couple here and a couple there and eventually get a win here. It’s nice to get one. Real nice.”

Similarly, Chastain started 31st and didn’t make his presence known until the closing laps.

‘Gosh, that’s a working day,” Chastain said. “Just no confidence in the car yesterday. Y’all saw that. Just the speed of the Trackhouse cars on Saturdays is just terrible. We’re just not confident, all three drivers.

“So there was one pit stop today that (crew chief) Phil Surgen and the group—it takes a ton of people back at Trackhouse and on the box here in GM at Chevrolet. They made me a confident driver all of a sudden with one adjustment. It was small stuff. It doesn’t even make sense, but after that I was a confident driver.”

Blaney came home third, followed by Kyle Larson, who led a race-high 90 laps but surrendered the top spot to McDowell on the Lap 245 restart.

“You don’t want to give up the lead on a mile and a half,” Larson said. “It’s hard to get it back. Yeah, Michael just did a good job timing it.”

Erik Jones was fifth, scoring his first top five since last year’s fall race at Talladega. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Christopher Bell and Daniel Suarez completed the top 10.

Other expected contenders fell by the wayside as the race progressed.

Denny Hamlin’s streak of 21 consecutive lead-lap finishes—eighth-most all-time in the Cup Series—came to an abrupt end on Lap 75. One circuit earlier, Hamlin lost power with an engine the team was running for the third time.

As Hamlin slowed, flames shot from beneath the chassis of the No. 11 Toyota. Hamlin stopped the car, which was enveloped in dark smoke and climbed to safety.

“It was blowing up for about a lap or so before it really detonated,” Hamlin said. “I tried to keep it off to keep it from full detonating.

“That was so they can diagnose exactly what happened to it. It’s tough to say exactly what it is, but they’ll go back and look at it and we’ll find out in a few weeks.”

A promising run for Las Vegas winner Josh Berry likewise ended early on Sunday. Berry had led 41 laps and was running at the front of the field on Lap 125 when the treacherous bump in Turn 4 upset his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.

Berry slid into the outside wall, slamming the barrier on the driver’s side of the car.

“Just started to approach the lapped traffic,” said Berry, who returned to the track after repairs, 84 laps down. “You have no choice but to run the opposite lane. Your car is never going to turn if you follow them. I went around the 62 (Jesse Love) on the outside and felt pretty decent about it. Then caught the 51 (Cody Ware) and was working on the 51 and hit that bump and got loose.

“I don’t know what I would do too much different. Obviously, in these cars, especially at a place like this, if you’re going to be fast, it’s going to be uncomfortable and you’re going to be on edge. Unfortunately, it bit us today.”

In a race that produced 12 cautions for 73 laps, Austin Cindric led 60 laps but fell victim to a four-car crash on Lap 247. Ten laps earlier, pole winner Carson Hocevar, who led the first 22 laps but was relegated to the back of the field when caution interrupted a green-flag cycle of pit stops on Lap 219, suffered a similar fate in a three-car wreck.

William Byron, who finished 13th, retained the series lead by 13 points over Larson.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 267
  • Laps Actual: 271 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.346 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 28 Minutes 40 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 116.885
  • Cautions: 12 for 73 laps
  • Lead Changes: 20
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,074 (10.5 passes per green flag lap)

  • Texas Motor Speedway
  • W?rth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY
  • Race Winner: Joey Logano
  • Age: 34
  • Team : No 22 - AAA Insurance Ford
  • Owner: Roger Penske
  • Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
  • Joey Logano won the W?rth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY, his 37th victory in 590 Cup Series races
  • This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in 2025
  • This is his second victory and 16th top-10 finish in 30 races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • Ross Chastain (second) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Texas Motor Speedway It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2025
  • Ryan Blaney (third) posted his ninth top-10 finish in 17 races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • Riley Herbst (14th) was the highest finishing rookie
  • William Byron leads the point standings by 13 points over Kyle Larson
Joey Logano pits
Avondale, Arizona - November 10, 2024 : Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, pits during the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway.
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Aggregate of each driver's pit stops during the race.

 
DRIVER
START
FINISH
STATUS
# STOPS
DRIVER / PIT CREW
FASTEST
SLOWEST
AVG TIME
RANK
DRIVER
AVG TIME
RANK
PIT CREW
AVG TIME
RANK

Michael McDowell
5
26
Accident
7
30.752
37.108
35.065
1
26.488
12
8.577
1
Austin Cindric
3
25
Running
5
30.772
38.522
35.096
2
26.356
9
8.740
2
Kyle Larson
4
4
Running
5
31.140
36.544
35.185
3
25.985
3
9.200
4
William Byron
2
13
Running
5
31.047
37.251
35.530
4
26.602
19
8.928
3
Chase Briscoe
22
27
Suspension
4
30.980
38.812
35.852
5
26.622
20
9.230
5
Erik Jones
14
5
Running
6
33.459
37.095
35.867
6
25.547
1
10.320
18
Daniel Suarez
25
10
Running
5
33.707
36.920
36.003
7
26.475
11
9.528
6
Carson Hocevar
1
24
Running
6
30.751
38.612
36.044
8
26.285
7
9.760
10
Josh Berry
7
32
Running
4
32.272
38.051
36.133
9
26.218
6
9.915
12
Ty Gibbs
6
23
Running
5
35.730
36.548
36.190
10
26.518
13
9.672
8
Ryan Preece
33
29
Accident
5
31.188
39.542
36.279
11
26.631
22
9.648
7
Austin Dillon
19
7
Running
5
31.612
40.710
36.358
12
26.634
23
9.724
9
Zane Smith
13
17
Running
5
32.959
39.208
36.455
13
26.675
28
9.780
11
Chris Buescher
12
18
Running
5
31.095
44.367
36.516
14
26.524
14
9.992
13
Denny Hamlin
8
38
Engine
1
36.571
36.571
36.571
15
26.131
5
10.440
21
Bubba Wallace
9
33
Accident
4
35.984
37.614
36.595
16
26.540
17
10.055
15
Chase Elliott
29
16
Running
5
35.927
37.948
36.611
17
25.691
2
10.920
23
Cole Custer
20
19
Running
4
32.272
40.429
36.687
18
26.662
26
10.025
14
Noah Gragson
18
34
Accident
3
36.100
37.719
36.743
19
26.643
24
10.100
16
Ryan Blaney
24
3
Running
5
36.205
39.264
36.960
20
26.668
27
10.292
17

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

DRIVER
LEADER LAP
DRIVER LAP
DRIVER TIME
CREW TIME
TOTAL
TYPE

AJ Allmendinger
166
166
26.598
10.400
36.998
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
126
126
26.231
11.740
37.971
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
82
82
26.661
17.900
44.561
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
21
21
26.881
20.380
47.261
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
126
126
26.673
5.720
32.393
TWO WHEEL CHANGE RIGHT
Brad Keselowski
220
220
26.062
10.320
36.382
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
166
166
26.741
10.460
37.201
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
21
21
27.467
11.040
38.507
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
82
82
26.352
14.460
40.812
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Denny Hamlin
23
23
26.131
10.440
36.571
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
126
126
26.329
9.920
36.249
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
166
166
26.611
9.760
36.371
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
82
82
26.579
9.900
36.479
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
21
21
26.628
16.020
42.648
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
21
21
25.998
5.460
31.458
TWO WHEEL CHANGE RIGHT
Kyle Busch
220
220
25.945
9.740
35.685
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
267
266
26.017
10.000
36.017
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
82
82
25.938
11.460
37.398
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
126
126
25.951
11.680
37.631
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
166
166
26.031
18.080
44.111
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE