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NASCAR Cup Series

Echopark Automotive Grand Prix

Circuit of The Americas

March 26th, 2023

Race #6 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 68
- Extended to 75 laps
Miles Raced : 235.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 30 minutes 32 seconds
Average Speed: 72.886 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.411 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 17
Lead Changes: 16
Cars in Race : 39
Finished On Lead Lap: 29 (74%)

Tyler Reddick celebrates in victory lane — Austin, Texas - March 26th, 2023: Tyler Reddick, driver of the #45 Monster Energy Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas. Photo by Chris Graythen | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	2	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	50	40	10	6	75	41	6	0	1	Running
2	9	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	39	35	4	0	75	0	0	7	0	Running
3	6	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	41	34	7	0	75	0	0	4	0	Running
4	12	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	39	33	6	0	75	0	0	5	0	Running
5	1	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	42	32	10	1	75	28	6	1	0	Running
6	3	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	40	31	9	0	75	2	1	2	0	Running
7	18	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	35	30	5	0	75	0	0	0	6	Running
8	32	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	35	29	6	0	75	1	1	0	5	Running
9	17	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	28	28	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
10	36	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	27	27	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
11	27	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	26	26	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
12	20	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	33	25	8	0	75	0	0	0	3	Running
13	29	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	31	24	7	0	75	0	0	0	4	Running
14	13	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	27	23	4	0	75	0	0	0	7	Running
15	19	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	24	22	2	0	75	0	0	0	9	Running
16	21	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	21	21	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
17	25	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	20	20	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
18	24	15	Jenson Button	Ford	19	19	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
19	23	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
20	10	42	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	18	17	1	0	75	0	0	0	10	Running
21	38	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	16	16	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
22	16	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	15	15	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
23	8	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	17	14	3	0	75	0	0	0	8	Running
24	4	9	Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet	16	13	3	0	75	0	0	8	0	Running
25	37	51	Cody Ware	Ford	12	12	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
26	33	78	Josh Bilicki	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
27	5	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	15	10	5	0	75	1	1	6	0	Running
28	15	22	Joey Logano	Ford	9	9	0	0	75	1	1	0	0	Running
29	22	91	Kimi Raikkonen	Chevrolet	8	8	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	Running
30	39	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	7	7	0	0	74	0	0	0	0	Running
31	14	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	8	6	2	0	73	1	1	9	0	Accident
32	26	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	6	5	1	0	68	0	0	10	0	Accident
33	28	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	13	4	9	0	62	0	0	0	2	Accident
34	7	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	11	3	8	0	60	0	0	3	0	Accident
35	30	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	2	2	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Driveshaft
36	35	50	Conor Daly	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	16	0	0	0	0	Transmission
37	11	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	1	1	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	Accident
38	31	84	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DVP
39	34	77	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Echopark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Michael McDowell	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Jimmie Johnson	Commitment Line Violation Garage	Tail End	1	0	Yellow
Ty Dillon	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	1	0	Yellow
Denny Hamlin	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	7	8	Green
Joey Logano	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	7	7	Green
Corey Lajoie	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	8	9	Green
Michael McDowell	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	9	10	Green
Corey Lajoie	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	11	15	Yellow
Kyle Larson	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	31	32	Green
Ty Gibbs	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	31	32	Green
Ty Gibbs	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	33	34	Green
Josh Bilicki	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	42	43	Yellow
Ty Gibbs	Car/Truck pitting out of the assigned pit box	Tail End	42	43	Yellow
Ryan Preece	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	48	48	Green
Ryan Preece	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	48	49	Green
Harrison Burton	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	58	58	Yellow
AJ Allmendinger	Unspecified Short cut course	Tail End	59	61	Yellow
Denny Hamlin	Unspecified Short cut course	Tail End	59	61	Yellow
Austin Dillon	Unspecified Short cut course	Pass Thru	63	63	Green
Austin Dillon	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	64	0	Yellow
Kevin Harvick	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	68	70	Yellow
Ryan Blaney	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	68	70	Yellow
Ryan Preece	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	68	0	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	71	73	Yellow
Kimi Raikkonen	Unspecified Short cut course- 30 Second Post Race Penalty	Other - See Notes	75	75	Green

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Race Fast Facts

Circuit of The Americas
EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
Age: 27
Team : No. 45 - Monster Energy Toyota
Owner: 23XI Racing
Crew Chief: Billy Scott
Tyler Reddick won the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, his fourth victory in 116 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
Alex Bowman (third) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
Ty Gibbs (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
This is the fourth win for 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series - Talladega (2021), Kansas-1 (2022), Kansas-2 (2022), Austin (2023).

Race Recap

Tyler Reddick wins first race with 23XI Racing at Circuit of The Americas

March 26th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime re-starts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing, with a 1.411-second victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix – the NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season.

It was a field of international champions and NASCAR’s very best at the famed Circuit of The Americas course but for most of the race the outcome looked to be decided in a good ole Texas duel between the two fastest cars all weekend driven by Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The pair exchanged the lead, lap after exciting lap for most of the afternoon.

And on the final two-lap restart Reddick was able to put his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front exiting Turn 1 - a tight left-hander - and power forward to the lead; while Busch and third-place finisher Alex Bowman, fourth-place finisher – and defending race winner - Ross Chastain and fifth-place Byron fought door-to-door bumper-to-bumper as they chased after him.

“I’ve been wanting to win here in a Cup car for a long time," the 27-year-old Californian Reddick said, who now has four NASCAR Cup Series wins, but noted this was his first as a Toyota driver and with his 23XI Racing Team – co-owned by fellow competitor Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“It means the world," said Reddick, who sat down on the track and leaned against his car with a bag of ice after winning to cool down on the typically Texas-hot afternoon. “This whole 23XI team has been working hard all winter long to make the road course program better and was extremely motivated to come in here and improve performance. Just so proud of this Monster Energy team and TRD (Toyota Racing Development). All the resources they’ve put in to turn around the road course program means a lot.”

As often happens late in a road course race, patience lags and urgency increases. That was certainly the case Sunday with three different overtime restarts deciding the outcome. Reddick and Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet combined to lead 69 of the race’s 75 laps with Reddick out front a race best 41 of those, most of them after hard-fought challenges and back-and-forth corner after corner with the race polesitter Byron.

“It feels good to get a top five, but we had a top-two race car really with the 45, he was really better than everybody, but I thought we were a close second," said Byron, a two-race winner already in 2023, whose fifth-place finish at COTA was his career best on a road course. “We’ll keep building on it."

Busch’s runner-up effort was an impressive comeback. He had been mid-pack for most of the afternoon but gambled on fuel strategy to move forward during some late race cautions in regulation.

“Even if we were on equal tires, they were lights out," said Busch, driver of the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“Overall, for as much effort as we put into coming here and focusing on this place and all the testing we did in the offseason, we’re coming out of here with a good finish. Tyler’s obviously a really good road course racer."

In addition to the NASCAR stars, the field that raced Sunday included four big names from other racing genres including IMSA champion Jordan Taylor, who drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for injured former COTA winner Chase Elliott; a pair of former Formula One champions in Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and popular IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly.

Among these four, the Englishman Button – the 2009 Formula One champion – claimed the top finishing position, 18th in the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford. Taylor, a two-time winner at COTA in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Series finished 24th but made a huge impression in his debut after qualifying fourth.

Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 World Champion from Finland, finished 29th but ran as high as fourth place late in the race. Daly only got 16 laps into the race before his team had to take his No. 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet behind the wall for extended repairs. He finished 36th.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t even get a full lap of green flag racing in only his second start of the 2023 season. The owner-driver of the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was collected in a multi-car accident that eliminated his Chevrolet and left him 38th in the standings.

Team Penske's Austin Cindric, 2023 DAYTONA 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., RFK Racing's Chris Buescher, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs and Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland rounded out the top-10.

Chastain takes over the championship lead by 19 points over Busch. Ty Gibbs, who finished ninth, continues to lead the Sunoco Rookie of the Year points standings.