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Practice #1 : Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Pennzoil 400

Las Vegas Motor Speedway , Las Vegas, NV

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 Race 3 of 36 2024 Season
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  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Joey Logano
  • Age: 33
  • Team : No. 22 - Pennzoil Ford
  • Owner: Roger Penske
  • Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
  • Joey Logano won the Pole Award for the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube with a lap of 29.291 seconds, 184.357 mph.
  • This is his 30th pole in 546 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his second pole and third top-10 start in 2024.
  • This is his third pole in 22 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Kyle Larson (second) posted his second top-10 start of 2024 and his 11th in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Austin Cindric (third) posted his fourth top-10 start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his third in three races this season.
  • Carson Hocevar (14th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Kyle Larson holds off Tyler Reddick for second straight Las Vegas win

Based on the box score alone, you might think Kyle Larson dominated Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

You’d be wrong.

Yes, Larson led 181 of 267 laps at the 1.5-mile track. Kyle Busch led the second-most—18. And, yes, Larson swept the first two stages and took the checkered flag to secure his third victory at Las Vegas, tying Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski for most among full-time active Cup drivers.

The truth is that Larson had to use all his consummate skills behind the wheel to hold off Tyler Reddick after a restart with 27 laps left. Larson had the short-run speed, enough to build significant advantages early in a run.

But Reddick soon would begin closing the gap, so much so that with two laps left, Reddick was a scant 0.143 seconds behind Larson at the stripe, roughly one car-length.

Larson, however, was adept at putting his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in a position to block the progress of Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Toyota, and when the race ended two laps later, Larson had increased the margin to 0.441 seconds.

“I knew Tyler was going to be the guy to beat from the first stage,”said Larson, who won for the first time this season and the 24thtime in his career. “He was really fast there. I was hoping those guys were going to get racing a little bit longer behind me, because I felt like it was going to time out where he was running really hard and getting the tow to catch me at the end.

“Thankfully, (I) was able to air block him a couple laps and get him tight. I thought him and (23XI teammate) Bubba (Wallace) were going to get working together again to build a run, so I was happy that didn’t happen.

“But all in all, such a great job by this Hendrick Cars Chevy team and just their execution, pit road, restarts—all that was great. Cool to get a win here at Vegas again. Back-to-back, swept all the stages again. Can’t ask for much more.”

The closing laps brought a familiar pattern that had developed during the race. In both the first and second stages, Reddick was closing fast on Larson but couldn’t get close enough before the stages ended. The end of the race was déjà vu.

“Yeah, Kyle did a really good job there of pretty much taking away every option I had to close the gap,” said Reddick, whose cause was hurt by pit road issues, including a slide through his stall. “Yeah, he seemed pretty good in the middle, and I was obviously really good on the bottom. He just never let me have it.

“I kept trying to run higher and higher, and he was kind of running right in the middle of the race track there, was kind of pretty efficient to block both lanes. Every time I kind of got close, we’re running just wide open enough in Turn 1 and 2 that he could kind of defend pretty well. It’s frustrating. I feel like we were never up front really all day long until it got to the stage end.”

The victory was Larson’s second straight in Sin City and the 10that LVMS for team owner Rick Hendrick, whose cars have won four straight spring races at the intermediate track. It was the third straight win for Chevrolet to start the season.

Reigning series champion Ryan Blaney finished third, followed by Ross Chastain, who started from the rear of the field because of an unapproved adjustment to his No. 1 Trackhouse Chevrolet (replacing a dislodged portion of the wrap on his car). Chastain also overcame a pit road speeding penalty incurred during a green-flag stop on Lap 121.

Ty Gibbs rallied from an uncontrolled tire violation to finish fifth, followed by Noah Gragson, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, pole winner Joey Logano and DAYTONA 500 winner Willam Byron, who fought back from a lap he lost in removing a large trash bag that had attached to the nose of his car on the windswept track.

Larson took over the series lead from Busch, who finished 26thafter drawing a penalty for pitting outside his box midway through the final stage. Blaney is second in the standings, eight points behind Larson. Busch dropped to sixth, 23 points back.

  • Drivers Entered: 37
  • Laps Scheduled: 267
  • Margin of Victory: 0.441 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 0 Minutes 25 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 133.192
  • Cautions: 6 for 35 laps
  • Lead Changes: 24
  • Green Flag Passes: 4,659 (20.1 passes per green flag lap)

  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
  • Race Winner: Kyle Larson
  • Age: 31
  • Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
  • Owner: Rick Hendrick
  • Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
  • Kyle Larson won the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his 24th victory in 334 Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2024.
  • This is his third victory and 12th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Tyler Reddick (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in nine races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2024.
  • Ryan Blaney (third) posted his 10th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Carson Hocevar (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 8 points over Ryan Blaney.
 The #24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
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DRIVER
DRIVER
#
MAKE
SINGLE BEST LAP
RANK
SPEED
TIME
BHND
LAP
LAPS
TOTAL
MULTI-LAP AVERAGES
5-LAP
10-LAP
15-LAP
20-LAP
25-LAP
30-LAP
10-LAP AVG
SPEED
FROM
TO

Ross Chastain
1
Chevrolet
1
184.269
29.305
0.000
2
22
29.894
30.666
176.098
13
22
Noah Gragson
10
Ford
2
183.661
29.402
0.097
3
21
29.810
0
0
Ty Gibbs
54
Toyota
3
182.859
29.531
0.226
6
26
30.073
30.251
30.420
178.562
6
15
Tyler Reddick
45
Toyota
4
182.846
29.533
0.228
2
22
29.855
30.014
30.138
179.924
6
15
Denny Hamlin
11
Toyota
5
182.723
29.553
0.248
2
28
29.972
30.339
30.439
30.530
178.040
6
15
Bubba Wallace
23
Toyota
6
182.673
29.561
0.256
2
21
29.906
30.119
30.211
179.301
6
15
Chase Briscoe
14
Ford
7
182.439
29.599
0.294
3
16
29.861
0
0
William Byron
24
Chevrolet
8
182.346
29.614
0.309
4
29
29.762
29.986
30.132
30.228
180.098
2
11
Kyle Larson
5
Chevrolet
9
182.328
29.617
0.312
4
25
29.742
29.938
30.100
30.166
30.238
180.385
2
11
Chris Buescher
17
Ford
10
182.094
29.655
0.350
7
17
29.915
0
0
Michael McDowell
34
Ford
11
182.088
29.656
0.351
3
20
30.520
0
0
Alex Bowman
48
Chevrolet
12
182.045
29.663
0.358
4
22
29.886
30.411
177.569
11
20
Carson Hocevar
77
Chevrolet
13
181.824
29.699
0.394
2
20
30.389
30.538
176.838
8
17
Chase Elliott
9
Chevrolet
14
181.775
29.707
0.402
4
22
29.838
30.086
179.503
1
10
Corey Lajoie
7
Chevrolet
15
181.586
29.738
0.433
2
16
29.852
0
0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr
47
Chevrolet
16
181.507
29.751
0.446
4
25
29.941
30.139
30.297
30.391
179.180
1
10
Kyle Busch
8
Chevrolet
17
181.421
29.765
0.460
6
25
29.822
30.044
30.257
30.392
30.447
179.752
2
11
Joey Logano
22
Ford
18
181.299
29.785
0.480
5
23
29.923
30.223
30.356
178.693
2
11
Christopher Bell
20
Toyota
19
181.220
29.798
0.493
5
24
29.877
30.115
30.269
30.384
179.326
2
11
Daniel Hemric
31
Chevrolet
20
181.208
29.800
0.495
6
17
30.766
0
0
Ryan Blaney
12
Ford
21
181.141
29.811
0.506
5
24
30.073
30.189
30.277
30.296
178.878
3
12
Zane Smith
71
Chevrolet
22
181.044
29.827
0.522
8
25
29.962
30.079
30.234
30.417
179.531
5
14
Daniel Suarez
99
Chevrolet
23
180.911
29.849
0.544
6
24
30.028
30.243
178.569
5
14
Ryan Preece
41
Ford
24
180.560
29.907
0.602
3
3
0
0
Austin Cindric
2
Ford
25
180.517
29.914
0.609
5
24
30.133
30.388
177.722
1
10
Josh Berry
4
Ford
26
180.451
29.925
0.620
1
23
30.099
30.285
30.415
178.316
6
15
Martin Truex Jr
19
Toyota
27
180.367
29.939
0.634
4
27
30.128
30.313
30.416
30.475
178.151
6
15
Brad Keselowski
6
Ford
28
180.252
29.958
0.653
6
16
30.128
0
0
Austin Dillon
3
Chevrolet
29
179.820
30.030
0.725
5
20
30.115
30.238
178.592
1
10
Justin Haley
51
Ford
30
179.283
30.120
0.815
3
11
30.441
0
0
John Hunter Nemechek
42
Toyota
31
178.826
30.197
0.892
7
25
30.391
30.486
177.129
16
25
Kaz Grala
15
Ford
32
178.159
30.310
1.005
2
16
30.358
0
0
Erik Jones
43
Toyota
33
177.515
30.420
1.115
4
15
30.713
0
0
Derek Kraus
16
Chevrolet
34
177.293
30.458
1.153
8
23
30.529
30.705
175.877
4
13
Todd Gilliland
38
Ford
35
176.546
30.587
1.282
12
12
30.734
30.947
174.505
3
12
Harrison Burton
21
Ford
36
175.861
30.706
1.401
3
17
31.037
0
0
JJ Yeley
44
Chevrolet
37
164.991
32.729
3.424
2
2
0
0