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NASCAR Cup Series

Dixie Vodka 400

Homestead Miami Speedway

October 23rd, 2022

Race #34 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 05 minutes 24 seconds
Average Speed: 129.612 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.261 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 30
Lead Changes: 11
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 23 (64%)

Kyle Larson celebrates in victory lane — Homestead, Florida - October 23rd, 2022: Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 Valvoline Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Photo by Sean Gardner | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	5	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	60	40	20	7	267	199	5	1	1	Running
2	20	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	38	35	3	0	267	0	0	0	8	Running
3	10	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	267	0	0	6	0	Running
4	32	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	39	33	6	0	267	0	0	5	0	Running
5	9	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	42	32	10	0	267	0	0	7	5	Running
6	12	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	48	31	17	0	267	28	2	3	2	Running
7	14	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	31	30	1	0	267	4	1	0	10	Running
8	16	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	29	29	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
9	11	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	28	28	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
10	23	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	31	27	4	0	267	0	0	0	7	Running
11	2	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	26	26	0	0	267	4	1	0	0	Running
12	1	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	42	25	17	0	267	32	3	2	3	Running
13	8	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	24	24	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
14	3	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	31	23	8	0	267	0	0	8	6	Running
15	27	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
16	18	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	21	21	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
17	13	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	29	20	9	0	267	0	0	9	4	Running
18	17	22	Joey Logano	Ford	22	19	3	0	267	0	0	10	9	Running
19	26	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	18	18	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
20	21	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	17	17	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
21	28	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	16	16	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
22	6	23	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	0	0	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
23	31	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	267	0	0	0	0	Running
24	25	41	Cole Custer	Ford	13	13	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
25	24	48	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
26	30	42	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
27	4	45	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	0	0	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
28	15	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
29	33	77	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
30	22	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	264	0	0	0	0	Running
31	29	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	6	6	0	0	264	0	0	0	0	Running
32	34	15	JJ Yeley	Ford	0	0	0	0	263	0	0	0	0	Running
33	35	78	BJ McLeod	Ford	0	0	0	0	262	0	0	0	0	Running
34	36	51	Cody Ware	Ford	3	3	0	0	262	0	0	0	0	Running
35	7	8	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	9	2	7	0	242	0	0	4	0	Accident
36	19	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	1	1	0	0	160	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead Miami Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Corey Lajoie	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Todd Gilliland	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
John Hunter Nemechek	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	30	35	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	123	125	Green
Chase Briscoe	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	161	0	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	215	216	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Homestead-Miami Speedway
24th Annual Dixie Vodka 400
Race Winner: Kyle Larson
Age: 30
Team : No. 5 - Valvoline Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
Kyle Larson won the 24th Annual Dixie Vodka 400, his 19th victory in 293 Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and 17th top-10 finish in 2022.
This is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in nine races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Ross Chastain (second) posted his first top-10 finish in four races at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is his 19th top-10 finish in 2022.
AJ Allmendinger (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 11 races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Austin Cindric (19th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Joey Logano leads the point standings by 5 points over Ross Chastain.

Race Recap

Kyle Larson plays Playoff spoiler, wins at Homestead

October 23rd, 2022

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Larson has led a lot of laps and come awfully close to hoisting a trophy at Homestead-Miami Speedway. On Sunday he finally did both, winning the Dixie Vodka 400 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race in dominant form.

Larson swept both Stage wins and led 199 of the race's 267 laps in the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to pull away to a 1.261-second victory over Florida native Ross Chastain in the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevy.

Kaulig Racing's A.J. Allmendinger was third with Richard Childress Racing's Austin Dillon and Roush-Fenway-Keselowski Racing's Brad Keselowski rounding out the top five. It is the 2012 series champion Keselowski's first Top-five finish since becoming co-owner of the organization this season.

The win was 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion Larson's third of the year and 19th of his career - but the first at the 1.5-mile Homestead oval after a pair of previous near-misses. He led a race best 132 laps in 2016, but finished runner-up. He led 145 laps in 2017 and finished third.

"No matter what team I've been with, things haven't worked out on my end to get a win, so glad to get one today," Larson said.

"Definitely the best run we've had all year long," he added. "We've been capable of it I feel like many weekends, we just hadn't quite put it all together. [Crew chief] Cliff [Daniels] gave a great speech this morning and got us all ready to go and focused.

"Amazing race car," he noted with a smile.

The 30-year-old Californian was eliminated from the Playoffs in the last round, so Chastain was the top-finishing championship contender with only one race - next week at Martinsville, Va. - to set the four driver Championship field for the Nov. 6 season finale at Phoenix.

Only two Playoff drivers finished in the Top-10 Sunday at Homestead: Chastain and Denny Hamlin, who was seventh in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

Playoff drivers Christopher Bell (finished 11th), Sunday's polesitter William Byron (12th), Chase Elliott (14th), Ryan Blaney (17th) and Joey Logano (18th) were still running on the lead lap at the checkered flag. The eighth Playoff-eligible driver, Chase Briscoe, finished last (36th) after making contact with the wall on lap 160.

Hamlin (four laps), Bell (four laps) and Byron (33 laps) all spent time leading the field before various setbacks.

Team Penske's Logano is the only Playoff driver who has already earned his position in the Championship race thanks to a victory at Las Vegas a week ago. Chastain, Elliott and Byron now complete the Top-four driver ranking.

Hamlin sits in fifth place, five points below Byron. Blaney is 18 points below the cutline, Bell, 33 back and Briscoe now essentially in a must-win situation, trailing by 44 points.

With his victory, Larson's No. 5 Hendrick Chevrolet is eligible for the owner's title.

While Larson dominated the laps-led category and even paced the field by more than 9-seconds at one point late in the race, he had to earn this trophy after a late-race caution flag.

Martin Truex Jr. had taken the lead after a caution period with 46 laps remaining and pulled away to a nearly 2-second lead when the final yellow flag flew again with 23 laps remaining.

As the field pitted, Larson's Chevy was right behind Truex's Toyota and it appeared Truex was going to miss his pit box when Larson's car bumped Truex's car from behind. The contact spun Truex, whose team was still able to service the car, but he fell outside the Top-10 initially before racing back up to a sixth-place finish.

"I was just going behind him and he had a hard left and was hard on the brakes at the same time and I got into the back of him, ‘' Larson explained of the incident. "My team said he was late getting into his stall. I don't know. If it was my fault I'm sorry, but I don't think it was. It's hard to see on this pit road. .. hate that happened. He was definitely the one I was going to have to beat.”

Truex, who is still racing for his first victory of 2022, was obviously disappointed in the outcome, but could only shake his head at the circumstances.

"It's really hard to see through these windshields with the sun like that and all the stuff covering it," Truex said. "I did see my box late for sure, so I slowed down before I turned out of the way of the 5 (Larson) there.

"Partly on me, I didn't expect to get turned around and glad nobody got hurt there. Overall, just tough, just disappointing to have a good day going like that and have a shot at winning and couldn't close the deal. I hate it for my team.

"It's been one of those years.”

The final race to set the Championship 4 is next Sunday at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, the Xfinity 500 (2 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Hendrick Motorsports' Alex Bowman is the defending race winner, but won't be competing while recovering from concussion-like symptoms. His teammate Byron won at Martinsville earlier this season.