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NASCAR Cup Series

Bass Pro Shops Night Race

Bristol Motor Speedway

September 16th, 2023

Race #29 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 500
Miles Raced : 266.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 48 minutes 20 seconds
Average Speed: 94.990 mph
Margin of Victory : 02.437 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 53
Lead Changes: 10
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 10 (28%)

Denny Hamlin celebrates in victory lane — Bristol, Tennessee - September 16th, 2023: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Freight Direct Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	2	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	47	40	7	5	500	142	3	0	4	Running
2	36	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	46	35	11	0	500	20	1	8	3	Running
3	1	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	54	34	20	2	500	187	3	1	1	Running
4	20	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	37	33	4	0	500	1	1	0	7	Running
5	8	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	42	32	10	0	500	102	2	10	2	Running
6	4	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	36	31	5	0	500	0	0	0	6	Running
7	7	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	31	30	1	0	500	0	0	0	10	Running
8	6	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	33	29	4	0	500	0	0	7	0	Running
9	3	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	38	28	10	0	500	0	0	4	8	Running
10	25	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	27	27	0	0	500	0	0	0	0	Running
11	16	42	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	499	0	0	0	5	Running
12	17	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	27	25	2	0	499	0	0	0	9	Running
13	13	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	499	0	0	0	0	Running
14	9	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	31	23	8	0	499	0	0	3	0	Running
15	12	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	28	22	6	0	499	0	0	5	0	Running
16	30	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	21	21	0	0	499	0	0	0	0	Running
17	18	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	499	0	0	0	0	Running
18	26	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	19	19	0	0	499	0	0	0	0	Running
19	5	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	20	18	2	0	498	0	0	9	0	Running
20	15	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	498	0	0	0	0	Running
21	24	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	16	16	0	0	498	0	0	0	0	Running
22	11	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	15	15	0	0	498	0	0	0	0	Running
23	23	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	19	14	5	0	498	0	0	6	0	Running
24	31	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	497	0	0	0	0	Running
25	10	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	21	12	9	0	497	48	1	2	0	Running
26	35	15	JJ Yeley	Ford	0	0	0	0	495	0	0	0	0	Running
27	14	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	10	10	0	0	495	0	0	0	0	Running
28	32	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	9	9	0	0	495	0	0	0	0	Running
29	21	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	8	8	0	0	495	0	0	0	0	Running
30	22	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	491	0	0	0	0	Running
31	34	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	490	0	0	0	0	Running
32	29	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	5	5	0	0	488	0	0	0	0	Running
33	33	77	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	263	0	0	0	0	Accident
34	28	22	Joey Logano	Ford	3	3	0	0	262	0	0	0	0	Accident
35	19	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	261	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	27	51	Ryan Newman	Ford	1	1	0	0	260	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
AJ Allmendinger	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Denny Hamlin	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Austin Dillon	Safety violation	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Kyle Larson	Running over/under equipment	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Chase Briscoe	Commitment Line Violation	Tail End	71	76	Yellow
Ty Dillon	Equipment Interference	Tail End	72	76	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	109	113	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Unspecified Loss of wheel	Tail End	131	140	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	131	140	Yellow
Joey Logano	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	263	0	Yellow
Corey Lajoie	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	263	271	Yellow
Corey Lajoie	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	263	271	Yellow
Ty Dillon	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	263	0	Yellow
Justin Haley	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	263	0	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	270	271	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway
Bass Pro Shops Night Race
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 42
Team : No. 11 - FedEx Freight Direct Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Christopher Gabehart
Denny Hamlin won the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, his 51st victory in 643 Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his third victory and 17th top-10 finish in 33 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his 10th top-10 finish in 15 races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 15th top-10 finish in 2023.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his third top-10 finish in five races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Ty Gibbs (fifth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 11 points over Denny Hamlin.

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin dominates Bristol Night Race and advances to the Round of 12

September 16th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin landed a knockout punch in the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

NASCAR Cup Series regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr. survived to fight another round.

Bubba Wallace rescued himself from the brink of elimination from the series Playoffs and advanced to the Round of 12 by four points.

Kevin Harvick, winner of the first elimination Playoff in 2014, won’t be around to fight for the title in his final season of Cup racing. He joins defending champion Joey Logano on the outside looking in for the final seven Playoff races.

Despite a strong run on Saturday night, Michael McDowell didn’t get the win he needed to advance, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. likewise fell by the wayside in a car that couldn’t compete for a top-five position.

Taking the lead off pit road on Lap 366 of 500, Hamlin beat Kyle Larson to the finish line by 2.462 seconds. Hamlin led the final 135 laps in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, 142 overall, and second only to the 187 circuits led by pole winner and third-place finisher Christopher Bell.

Led by Hamlin, all five Toyota drivers in the Playoffs advanced to the next round.

“Can’t thank this whole FedEx team enough,” said Hamlin, who won for the third time this season, the third time at Bristol and the 51^st time in his career. “They’ve really kicked ass this whole first round. Really amazing how our team has been. So happy about the way we’re running. Can’t wait to keep going.

“It’s our year. I just feel like we’ve got it all put together. We’ve got the speed (at) every single type of race track. Nothing to stop us at this point.”

Chris Buescher followed Bell to the stripe, as the top four finishers all will race in the Round of 12. Brad Keselowski and William Byron (eighth and ninth Saturday) also advanced, as did 23XI Racing teammates Wallace and Tyler Reddick (13^th and 14^th), Truex (19^th), Kyle Busch (20^th), Ryan Blaney (22^nd) and Ross Chastain (23^rd).

Wallace finished 14^th, a lap down, but the eight points he gained by running third in Stage 1 proved decisive. Only 10 cars finished on the lead lap, the last of whom was Stenhouse, who ended the Round of 16 in 15^th, seven points behind Wallace.

Wallace was greeted with a chorus of boos when he climbed from his car, as was Hamlin.

“Like Coco Gauff said, all they’re doing is adding fuel to the fire—I love it,” said Wallace, who drives for Hamlin and co-owner Michael Jordan at 23XI. “I love where I’m at with this team. Wish my mom, dad, sister were here to celebrate with me.”

“I’m mentally exhausted. I’m wore out. Gave it our all there. Battled hard and executed. That’s what you got to do. We know next week’s a reset. We just got to go out and have some fun, work our asses off. Thank you to the ones that believe in me. Keep it going. Yeah, on to next week.”

A vicious wreck on the backstretch cost Joey Logano a chance to advance to the Round of 12—the first time under the elimination format that a defending championship has exited the Playoffs in the opening round.

Logano was a lap down, running toward the back of the pack, when Corey LaJoie went three-wide underneath the Chevrolet of Erik Jones and lost control of his No. 7 Chevrolet. LaJoie’s car swept up the track into the path of Logano, Justin Haley and Ryan Newman, all of whom were knocked out of the race in the accident.

“Yeah, I saw the smoke,” said Logano, who was credited with a 34^th-place finish and missed the Round of 12 by four points. “I saw the 7 spinning. (Spotter) Coleman (Pressley) was saying, ‘He’s coming up. He’s coming up’ as I was on the brakes to try to pull onto the bottom.

“I think it was Newman behind me, but I think someone hit him behind him, and it was just kind of a chain reaction into it. Once I got hit, I was like, ‘Shoot, I’ve got to go up now,’ because I couldn’t make the bottom, so I committed to that and the hole closed up.

“Obviously, it’s a real bummer. You get out of the race like that and you’re behind the wall and you’re in denial for a minute. You don’t want to believe that it happened, and you want to think that it’s fixable, but the car was tore up too bad.”

Harvick fought an ill-handling car from the outset and finished 29^th, five laps down. Like Logano, he finished four points behind Wallace in the battle for the final spot in the Round of 12.

“We’ve been like that all year,” Harvick said. “We’ve been hit-or-miss. Tonight, we just missed by a mile. I’ve had some good days and bad days, but that’s definitely the worst one I’ve had with fenders on it.”

Ty Gibbs finished fifth after leading 102 laps. McDowell ran sixth, followed by Chase Elliott, Keselowski, Byron and Stenhouse.