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NASCAR Cup Series

Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 7th, 2021

Race #4 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 52 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 139.615 mph
Margin of Victory : 03.156 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 30
Lead Changes: 27
Cars in Race : 38
Finished On Lead Lap: 14 (37%)

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FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	3	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	50	40	10	6	267	103	6	0	1	Running
2	10	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	54	35	19	1	267	27	4	1	2	Running
3	14	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	36	34	2	0	267	0	0	0	9	Running
4	6	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	48	33	15	0	267	47	4	4	3	Running
5	26	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	46	32	14	0	267	1	1	3	5	Running
6	4	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	35	31	4	0	267	6	1	10	8	Running
7	16	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	39	30	9	0	267	0	0	6	7	Running
8	2	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	40	29	11	0	267	25	2	7	4	Running
9	15	22	Joey Logano	Ford	30	28	2	0	267	7	2	9	0	Running
10	29	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	27	27	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
11	17	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	26	26	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
12	12	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	25	25	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
13	8	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	34	24	10	0	267	22	3	2	10	Running
14	18	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	23	23	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
15	19	37	Ryan Preece	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
16	30	21	Matt DiBenedetto	Ford	24	21	3	0	266	0	0	8	0	Running
17	5	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	20	20	0	0	266	9	1	0	0	Running
18	13	6	Ryan Newman	Ford	19	19	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
19	7	1	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
20	1	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	17	17	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
21	24	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	16	16	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
22	11	8	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	266	7	1	0	0	Running
23	21	42	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
24	27	38	Anthony Alfredo	Ford	13	13	0	0	266	1	1	0	0	Running
25	20	41	Cole Custer	Ford	12	12	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
26	22	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	265	12	1	0	0	Running
27	9	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	21	10	11	0	265	0	0	5	6	Running
28	23	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	9	9	0	0	262	0	0	0	0	Running
29	25	77	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	262	0	0	0	0	Running
30	34	78	BJ McLeod	Ford	0	0	0	0	260	0	0	0	0	Running
31	31	53	Garrett Smithley	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	259	0	0	0	0	Running
32	32	51	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	259	0	0	0	0	Running
33	36	0	Quin Houff	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	256	0	0	0	0	Running
34	37	15	Joey Gase	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	255	0	0	0	0	Running
35	35	52	Josh Bilicki	Ford	2	2	0	0	252	0	0	0	0	Running
36	38	66	Timmy Hill	Toyota	0	0	0	0	246	0	0	0	0	Running
37	33	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	188	0	0	0	0	Rear End
38	28	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	1	1	0	0	178	0	0	0	0	Accident

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Race Fast Facts

Las Vegas Motor Speedway
24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 28
Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his seventh victory in 227 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 10 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
Kyle Busch (third) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 20 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.
This is Hendrick Motorsport's 265th NASCAR Cup Series victory and the sixth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
This is Chevrolet's ninth victory in the NASCAR Cup Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson wins NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 7th, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Larson left little to chance Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway leading a race best 103 laps and pulling away to a convincing 3.156-second win over former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski to win the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube - his first victory in two years.

Larson, 28, of Elk Grove, Calif. became the quickest winner in Hendrick Motorsports long and esteemed history, taking the checkered flag in only his fourth start in the team's famous No. 5 Chevrolet.

It was a hard-earned and highly-emotional win for Larson, who missed most of last season serving a suspension for using racially-insensitive language. The popular young Californian was reinstated by NASCAR in the offseason after following a course of rehabilitation and sensitivity training. He came into the season with the Hendrick Motorsports opportunity, grateful and ready to redeem himself.

Larson was exuberant speaking to the team on the radio while driving under the checkered flag as the race winner. He did celebratory burnouts on the backstretch and then again under the flag-stand on the frontstretch telling his Hendrick Motorsports team on the car radio, "What a car, what an opportunity. Thank you, guys."

Just as Larson was finishing his live television interview, Keselowski ran across the infield grass to shake Larson's hand and congratulate him on a powerful race performance.

"I'm just really happy for him, I know he's been through a lot in the last year and he's a good kid who I've known for a little while and has a good family and I'm just happy to see him bounce back," the Team Penske driver Brad Keselowski said.

"He was really fast - had a lot of speed in all the lanes which was really impressive, usually you have to make a compromise, but they were really good. If Kyle Larson wasn't here, we would have had a dominant day," Keselowski added with a smile.

It was a highly competitive race from green to checkered flag with 27 lead changes among 12 different drivers. Five drivers led at least 20 laps. Keselowski won Stage 1 and Larson won Stage 2 - the first stage victories for both drivers this season.

In all, Larson led a race best six times, working his Chevrolet back to the front no matter the challenge, ultimately pacing the field for the last 30 laps en route to his seventh career win. It is his first on a 1.5-mile track after nine previous runner-up finishes on mile-and-a-half venues.

"It was such an awesome car," Larson said. "Cliff (Daniels, crew chief) and everybody did a great job preparing this piece. It was so much fun to drive. I could go wherever I wanted to. I know we had a really good car once we would kind of get single-filed out; but just drafting early in the run was tough.

"But thank you so much Mr. Hendrick, Jeff Gordon and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports for the amazing opportunity I've been gifted. Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet everybody at the engine shop. Thank you so much for all the hard work. This is definitely special."

Larson and Keselowski managed to use the final portion of the race to get around the full-on Joe Gibbs Racing team, whose drivers combined to lead 53 laps on the afternoon. Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Kyle Busch - a Las Vegas native - and Denny Hamlin finished third and fourth. Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney was fifth, his first top 10 of the season.

Two more Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas, driven by Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell were sixth and seventh, followed by last week's winner, Hendrick Motorsport's William Byron. Team Penske driver Joey Logano and Richard Petty Motorsport's driver Erik Jones rounded out the top 10.

Larson's teammate Chase Elliott - the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion - finished 13th after overcoming several problems. His team had a jack issue in the pits and contact with another car made for multiple long pit stops.

"We were good on the short run, just didn't quite have enough long run speed," said Denny Hamlin, who led 47 laps on the day. "Certainly I thought it was a good start, we'll just gather our data and try to figure out what we need to do to be better when we come back here and it really counts."

Hamlin and Keselowski, who are still looking for their first wins of the 2021 season sit atop the championship points standings. Hamlin leads by 38 points over Keselowski and Larson is third.