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NASCAR Cup Series

Verizon 200

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

July 31st, 2022

Race #22 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 82
- Extended to 86 laps
Miles Raced : 224.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 40 minutes 18 seconds
Average Speed: 78.511 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.065 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 15
Lead Changes: 9
Cars in Race : 38
Finished On Lead Lap: 28 (74%)

Tyler Reddick celebrates with his son — Indianapolis, Indiana - July 31st, 2022: Tyler Reddick, driver of the #8 3CHI Chevrolet, celebrates with his son, Beau after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	1	8	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	40	40	0	5	86	38	3	0	0	Running
2	2	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	35	35	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
3	13	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	36	34	2	0	86	0	0	9	0	Running
4	9	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	38	33	5	0	86	4	1	6	0	Running
5	19	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	40	32	8	0	86	0	0	0	3	Running
6	5	22	Joey Logano	Ford	38	31	7	0	86	0	0	4	0	Running
7	20	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	86	3	1	0	0	Running
8	7	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	29	29	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
9	24	41	Cole Custer	Ford	31	28	3	0	86	0	0	0	8	Running
10	16	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	27	27	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
11	10	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	38	26	12	0	86	0	0	8	2	Running
12	4	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	35	25	10	1	86	17	1	0	1	Running
13	38	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
14	15	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	28	23	5	0	86	0	0	0	6	Running
15	35	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	24	22	2	0	86	0	0	0	9	Running
16	8	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	34	21	13	0	86	0	0	5	4	Running
17	26	45	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	0	0	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
18	31	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
19	17	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
20	12	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	17	17	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
21	25	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	17	16	1	0	86	0	0	10	0	Running
22	32	77	Josh Bilicki	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
23	3	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	28	14	14	1	86	5	1	1	7	Running
24	33	51	Cody Ware	Ford	14	13	1	0	86	0	0	0	10	Running
25	37	78	Josh Williams	Ford	0	0	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
26	6	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	20	11	9	0	86	17	2	2	0	Running
27	21	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
28	11	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	Running
29	27	15	Joey Hand	Ford	8	8	0	0	85	2	1	0	0	Running
30	29	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	85	0	0	0	0	Running
31	23	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	14	6	8	0	79	0	0	3	0	Accident
32	28	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	65	0	0	0	0	DVP
33	18	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	4	4	0	0	64	0	0	0	0	Accident
34	30	42	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	9	3	6	0	60	0	0	0	5	Accident
35	22	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	6	2	4	0	57	0	0	7	0	Accident
36	36	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toyota	1	1	0	0	43	0	0	0	0	Suspension
37	34	27	Loris Hezemans	Ford	0	0	0	0	34	0	0	0	0	Drivetrain
38	14	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	1	1	0	0	24	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Verizon 200 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Aric Almirola	Pre-Race to the Rear Engine Change	Tail End	0	0	White
Cody Ware	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Loris Hezemans	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	12	19	Green/Yellow
Chris Buescher	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	17	19	Yellow
Daniil Kvyat	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	36	39	Yellow
Kyle Larson	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	37	39	Yellow
Christopher Bell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	77	79	Yellow
Martin Truex Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	80	84	Yellow
William Byron	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	80	0	Yellow
Chase Briscoe	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	80	84	Yellow
Chase Elliott	Commitment Line Violation	Tail End	81	84	Yellow
Austin Dillon	Unspecified Shortcutting the course - 30 Second Post Race Penalty	Other - See Notes	84	86	Green
Ross Chastain	Unspecified Shortcutting the course - 30 Second Post Race Penalty	Other - See Notes	84	86	Green

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Race Fast Facts

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
29th Annual Verizon 200 at the Brickyard
Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
Age: 26
Team: No. 8 - 3CHI Chevrolet
Owner: Richard Childress Racing
Crew Chief: Randall Burnett
Tyler Reddick won the 29th Annual Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, his second victory in 96 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2022. His first victory in 2022 came at another road course - Road America.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Austin Cindric (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2022.
Harrison Burton (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.
Austin Cindric (second) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Tyler Reddick fashions convincing win in dramatic NASCAR Cup race at the Brickyard

July 31st, 2022

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

The NASCAR Cup Series has a new road course conqueror.

Tyler Reddick survived a wild overtime battle against Ross Chastain—who, as it turned out, was under penalty for finagling the first corner—to win Sunday’s Verizon 200 at the Brickyard.

Reddick’s NASCAR Cup Series victory at the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course was his second this month, the second of his career and his second at a road course.

There was one fundamental difference between Reddick’s win at the Brickyard and his victory on July 3 at Road America. Between the two triumphs, Reddick announced he would leave Richard Childress Racing for 23XI Racing after the 2023 season.

But Reddick proved on Sunday that lame ducks can still go fast.

“Well, we just know what we’re capable of, and we did that at Road America,” said Reddick, who led a race-high 38 laps on Sunday. “Certainly, (the announcement) was a little bump in the road, but we went out and won a race fair and square a couple weeks ago, and if we change nothing, we keep working really, really hard, we find a way back to Victory Lane.

“Just really glad to be able to do it here in Indianapolis. This is one really special place to race, and really excited to kiss the bricks here in a little bit and really excited we got (sponsor) 3CHI their win in their hometown.”

After a multicar melee in Turn 1 sent the race to overtime and dashed the hopes of Chase Elliott, who had restarted second beside Reddick on Lap 80, Reddick lined up beside AJ Allmendinger for the overtime restart.

Lining up fifth on Lap 85, Chastain steered wide on the restart and opted for the access road beyond the corner. He returned to the track after swapping the lead with Reddick throughout the first lap of overtime.

Reddick was shocked to see Chastain’s unorthodox strategy.

“I was like, ‘Uh-oh,’” Reddick said. “But that was a scenario that had been talked about. If you get bottled up, what do you do? Take the access road. I couldn’t believe he got ahead of me. I was kind of waiting to see if he was going to have a penalty, because I didn’t want to move him out of the way and make his race worse than what it was.

“Yeah, I was really surprised by that, but, hey, we made it work. Hats off to Ross for trying to do that, but really glad it didn’t end up working out, because I’d have been pretty pissed off.”

NASCAR frowned on Chastain’s artifice and assessed a 30-second penalty that dropped him to 27th at the finish, elevating DAYTONA 500 winner Austin Cindric to the runner-up spot.

“Just trying not to be in the chaos there in Turn 1,” Chastain said. “I thought we were four-wide, and couldn’t go any farther right, and decided to take the NASCAR access lane out there.

“Just pure reaction there, for our Worldwide Express Chevy. I took it in practice on exit, overshooting Turn 1… Yeah, just wanted to not get hit, and merged back on where I merged.”

Harrison Burton came home third, followed by Todd Gilliland and Bubba Wallace. The results were career bests for Burton and Gilliland, and with Cindric, it marked the first time since 1994 at Pocono that three rookies have finished in the top five in a Cup race.

(The three rookies at Pocono were Joe Nemechek and Jeff Burton and Ward Burton, Harrison Burton’s father and uncle respectively.)

Despite a multitude of early spins, the first caution for an accident in Sunday’s race didn’t come until Lap 62, and it set the stage for the chaos that followed.

After green-flag pit stops, Reddick had built a lead of more than three seconds over Christopher Bell when Kyle Larson’s Chevrolet hurtled out of control into Turn 1 and blindsided the Chevy of Ty Dillon with a bone-jarring impact.

The resulting caution tightened the field and set up a restart on Lap 65 with Reddick in the lead and Bell beside him in the outside lane and Ryan Blaney trailing in third.

The outside lane on that restart and the two that followed proved to be anathema for the drivers running second. Bell was shuffled back on the Lap 65 restart and ultimately caused the fourth caution with a blown right front tire that spread debris on the track.

Chase Elliott, who was tracking Reddick before that yellow, spun in a three-wide sandwich in Turn 1 with Blaney and William Byron on the Lap 80 restart. And defending race winner AJ Allmendinger, who had driven his No. 16 Chevrolet to second despite a malfunctioning cool suit, was forced wide on the overtime restart and dropped to seventh at the finish.

Blaney also was a victim of the final restart, spinning in Turn 1 and finishing 26th after spending the majority of the afternoon in the top five and leading 17 laps, tied for second most with Bell. That mishap cost Blaney a chance to put more distance in the standings between himself and Martin Truex Jr.

Blaney and Truex are 15th and 16th, respectively, in the Playoff standings with four races left in the regular season. After Sunday’s race, Blaney leads Truex by 25 points.