Race Results

NASCAR Cup Series

Goodyear 400

Darlington Raceway

May 14th, 2023

Race #13 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 293
- Extended to 295 laps
Miles Raced : 403.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 23 minutes 23 seconds
Average Speed: 118.880 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.781 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 47
Lead Changes: 19
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 22 (61%)

William Byron celebrates with a burnout — Darlington, South Carolina - May 14th, 2023: William Byron, driver of the #24 Axalta Throwback Chevrolet, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. Photo by Logan Riely | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	4	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	56	40	16	5	295	7	2	2	4	Running
2	20	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	42	35	7	0	295	5	2	8	7	Running
3	21	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	34	34	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
4	10	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	44	33	11	0	295	0	0	6	5	Running
5	2	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	40	32	8	0	295	3	3	3	0	Running
6	14	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	31	31	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
7	12	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	45	30	15	0	295	0	0	5	2	Running
8	22	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	29	29	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
9	11	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	31	28	3	0	295	4	2	0	8	Running
10	27	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	27	27	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
11	24	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	26	26	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
12	8	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	25	25	0	0	295	9	1	0	0	Running
13	3	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	30	24	6	0	295	0	0	7	9	Running
14	16	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	29	23	6	0	295	0	0	10	6	Running
15	32	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	22	22	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
16	13	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	21	21	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
17	31	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	20	20	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
18	15	22	Joey Logano	Ford	19	19	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
19	25	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	18	18	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
20	7	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	25	17	8	0	295	29	3	0	3	Running
21	17	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	16	16	0	0	295	0	0	0	0	Running
22	9	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	17	15	2	0	295	0	0	9	0	Running
23	30	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	294	0	0	0	0	Running
24	34	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
25	28	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	12	12	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
26	29	42	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
27	33	77	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
28	26	51	Ryan Newman	Ford	9	9	0	0	291	0	0	0	0	Running
29	5	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	25	8	17	1	287	93	4	4	1	Accident
30	23	48	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	286	0	0	0	0	Running
31	1	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	17	6	11	1	280	145	2	1	10	Accident
32	35	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	226	0	0	0	0	Steering
33	19	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	4	4	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Accident
34	6	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	199	0	0	0	0	Accident
35	18	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	196	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	36	15	Brennan Poole	Ford	0	0	0	0	39	0	0	0	0	Transmission

Race Infractions

Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Corey Lajoie	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Brennan Poole	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Daniel Suarez	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	38	40	Yellow
Michael McDowell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	194	196	Yellow
Austin Dillon	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	194	196	Yellow
Erik Jones	Tire violation 2 Lap hold	NASCAR Discretion	194	196	Yellow
Erik Jones	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	194	196	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	195	197	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	195	197	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	195	197	Yellow
Todd Gilliland	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	195	197	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	210	212	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	212	214	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	250	252	Yellow
Ryan Preece	Car/Truck pitting out of the assigned pit box	Tail End	276	278	Yellow
Christopher Bell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	278	280	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Darlington Raceway
Goodyear 400
Race Winner: William Byron
Age: 25
Team : No. 24 - Axalta Throwback Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
William Byron won the Goodyear 400, his seventh victory in 193 Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in ten races at Darlington Raceway.
Kevin Harvick (second) posted his 19th top-10 finish in 31 races at Darlington Raceway. It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2023.
Chase Elliott (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Darlington Raceway.
Ty Gibbs (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ross Chastain leads the point standings by 27 points over Christopher Bell.
This marks the 100th win for the No. 24 car

Race Recap

Opportunistic William Byron scores third win of 2023 at Darlington

May 14th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

William Byron took full advantage of a late on-track incident between Ross Chastain and Kyle Larson to triumph in Sunday's Goodyear 400 Darlington Raceway and become the first three-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series this season.

For Byron, the victory was sweet redemption for last season's spring race at the Lady in Black, where Joey Logano's bump-and-run denied Byron his first victory at the fabled speedway.

"Yeah, it's pretty amazing," said Byron, who earned the 100^th victory for the No. 24 team. "My granddad passed away on Thursday, and just, man, I wish my family could be here. Just things have a way of working out, honestly. It just worked out that way today. We didn't have the best third stage. We just kept battling, and things just kind of come back around.

"Definitely didn't expect this. But just thankful for a great team, and, yeah, just things have a way of working out, and to come back here to Darlington and have it go exactly the other way."

It was a Lap 288 crash between Chastain and Larson—while battling for the lead—that gave Byron the opportunity to collect his seventh career victory.

Taking the inside lane, with Larson beside him, Chastain led the field to a restart after an eight-car wreck necessitated the seventh caution on Lap 281. Chastain drove hard into Turn 1, plowed up the track and wrecked both his No. 1 Chevrolet and Larson's No. 5.

"How does that make any sense, running us into the fence?" Cliff Daniels, Larson's crew chief fumed on the team radio. "That's three races he's taken us out of—the 1 car—three races he's taken us out of."

Chastain took responsibility for the mistake that took him out of the race and relegated Larson to a 20^th-place result.

"Full commit into Turn 1," said Chastain, who finished 29th. "I got really tight and drove up and turned myself. I wanted to squeeze him. I wanted to push him up. We'd been racing back and forth all day. But I definitely didn't want to turn myself."

The incident forced overtime, handed the lead to the driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Byron outran Kevin Harvick in the final two-lap dash.

In a race that included massive wrecks on Laps 194 and 281, Chase Elliott ran third, followed by Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Harrison Burton, Kyle Busch, Justin Haley, Ryan Blaney and Chris Buescher.

In sharp contrast to the aggressive battling between Chastain and Larson, Harvick, whose No. 4 Ford had sustained front-end damage during the Lap 281 wreck, gave Byron plenty of room after the overtime restart on Lap 294.

"We had a good car all day," Harvick said. "We just never could get up towards the front in our Sunny Delight Ford Mustang. Struggled in traffic today, but we were really good at the second half of the run and just struggled at the beginning of the run.

"But we had good track position, then had a bad pit stop under green, and then wound up having everything work out there at the end. Didn't have anything for William. The front is torn up pretty good. But they did a great job and just kind of kept ourselves in the game, and you never know what's going to happen."

Pole winner Martin Truex Jr. had the dominant car for the first half of the race. The driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota handily won the first stage and led a total of 145 laps, but the handling on Truex's Camry tightened up during the second stage, allowing Chastain to pass for the lead on Lap 151.

Truex recovered to challenge Chastain for the Stage 2 victory, but on the final lap of the stage, Chastain braked hard behind a lapped car, bounced off the outside wall and sent Truex spinning toward the apron.

Chastain picked up his fifth stage win of the season, but Truex dropped to 10^th, and his car never recovered after the incident. And though Truex gained four spots on pit road after the sixth caution and restarted third on Lap 281, he was part of the massive eight-car wreck that decimated the field in the first two corners.

"When we got into Chastain there at the end of the second stage going for the win in that, it knocked the toe out, so we were tight from there on out," said Truex, who finished 31st. "Just an unfortunate deal. There was plenty of room there, but he just came off the wall and hit me.

"Like I said, knocked the toe out in the right front. Pretty crappy from there, and then on that restart (Lap 281), I guess I just got real tight and I don't even know who I squeezed into the wall, but I apologize to them. Probably my fault, just got real tight and couldn't stay down the track."