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Race Results

NASCAR Cup Series

Pennzoil 400

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 5th, 2023

Race #3 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
- Extended to 271 laps
Miles Raced : 406.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 50 minutes 35 seconds
Average Speed: 142.980 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.622 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 26
Lead Changes: 13
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 18 (50%)

William Byron celebrates in victory lane — Las Vegas, Nevada - March 5th, 2023: William Byron, driver of the #24 RaptorTough.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Photo by Meg Oliphant | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	2	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	60	40	20	7	271	176	5	1	1	Running
2	6	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	53	35	18	0	271	63	2	2	2	Running
3	11	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	46	34	12	0	271	2	1	7	3	Running
4	13	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	41	33	8	0	271	0	0	8	6	Running
5	10	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	45	32	13	0	271	0	0	4	5	Running
6	9	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	31	31	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
7	15	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	42	30	12	0	271	3	1	6	4	Running
8	27	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	29	29	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
9	14	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	29	28	1	0	271	0	0	0	10	Running
10	24	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	27	27	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
11	12	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	35	26	9	0	271	10	1	5	8	Running
12	8	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	37	25	12	0	271	0	0	3	7	Running
13	3	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	24	24	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
14	5	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	25	23	2	0	271	0	0	9	0	Running
15	34	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	22	22	0	0	271	3	1	0	0	Running
16	21	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	21	21	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
17	7	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	23	20	3	0	271	5	2	10	9	Running
18	23	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	271	0	0	0	0	Running
19	22	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Accident
20	19	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
21	18	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	16	16	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
22	4	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	15	15	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
23	31	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	14	14	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
24	16	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
25	17	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	12	12	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	Running
26	35	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	11	11	0	0	269	0	0	0	0	Running
27	26	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	269	0	0	0	0	Running
28	20	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	9	9	0	0	269	0	0	0	0	Running
29	32	9	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	269	0	0	0	0	Running
30	25	42	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	269	0	0	0	0	Running
31	28	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	6	6	0	0	268	0	0	0	0	Running
32	36	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	266	0	0	0	0	Running
33	29	15	JJ Yeley	Ford	4	4	0	0	265	0	0	0	0	Running
34	33	77	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	265	0	0	0	0	Running
35	30	51	Cody Ware	Ford	2	2	0	0	259	0	0	0	0	Running
36	1	22	Joey Logano	Ford	1	1	0	0	183	9	1	0	0	DVP

Race Infractions

Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
BJ McLeod	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Tyler Reddick	Pre-Race to the Rear Engine Change	Tail End	0	0	White
Harrison Burton	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup Car	Tail End	0	0	White
Ty Gibbs	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Pass Thru	35	42	Green
Noah Gragson	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	36	39	Green
Michael McDowell	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	37	40	Green
Noah Gragson	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	39	41	Green
BJ McLeod	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	85	89	Yellow
Joey Logano	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	183	0	Yellow
JJ Yeley	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	223	226	Green
Noah Gragson	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	223	227	Green
Aric Almirola	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	264	269	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	267	269	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Race Winner: William Byron
Age: 25
Team : No. 24 - RaptorTough.com Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
William Byron won the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his fifth victory in 183 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 11 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his 10th top-10 finish in 14 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2023.
Alex Bowman (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 12 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Ty Gibbs (22nd) was the highest finishing rookie.
William Byron leads the point standings by 7 points over Kyle Larson.

Race Recap

William Byron leads 1-2-3 Hendrick Motorsports sweep at Las Vegas

March 5th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

William Byron won the most important race of Sunday afternoon—by inches off pit road.

Quick work by Byron's pit crew enabled the driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to beat teammate Kyle Larson off pit road for an overtime restart in the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and that was the decisive factor in Byron's fifth career NASCAR Cup Series victory.

When Aric Almirola spun into the Turn 4 wall with four laps left of a scheduled 267, the race turned upside down. Larson held a two-second lead at that point and appeared the almost certain winner.

After NASCAR called the fourth and final caution, Martin Truex Jr. stayed on the track, with Byron, Larson and most of the other contenders pitting for two tires. Byron's crew was a fraction of a second faster on the stop, and Byron claimed a front-row starting spot for the overtime to Truex's outside.

On the first overtime lap, Byron surged past Truex as the cars entered Turn 3 at the 1.5-mile track and pulled away to win by.622 seconds over Larson and by .766 seconds over teammate Alex Bowman. It was the third time Hendrick Motorsports had finished 1-2-3 in a Cup Series event.

The drivers accomplished the feat with their fourth driver, Chase Elliott, watching from North Carolina with team owner Rick Hendrick. Elliott broke his left tibia in a snowboarding accident in Colorado on Friday and will miss multiple races as he recovers from surgery.

Josh Berry, substituting for Elliott, finished 29^th, two laps down, in his first race in NASCAR's Next Gen car.

"Yeah, just been really confident about the group of guys that I have on this 24 team," said Byron, who led 176 of 271 laps, swept the first two stages and won for the first time at Las Vegas. "They work extremely hard, and we spent a lot of time in the offseason just going through running at the sim (simulator) with Chevy and running on iRacing and just trying to get better as a race car driver and as a team.

"Thinking of Chase back home. Wish he was out here with us. He's a great race car driver, great teammate. Wish he was out here."

For the overtime restart, Larson chose the inside lane behind Truex and was bottled up behind the No. 19 Toyota. But Larson acknowledged the race was lost on pit road.

"Damn," Larson said with a wry laugh. "It's just part of Cup racing. It seems like kind of laps down, lap by lap, and then, sure enough, the yellow lights come on. You've just got to get over that and then try to execute a good pit stop, and I thought I did a really good job getting to my sign, and getting to the commitment line.

"I had a gap to William behind me, and their pit crew must have just done a really good job and got out in front of us, and that gave up the front row. I knew I was in trouble with the 19 staying out. I felt like William was going to get by him.

"Yeah, just a bummer that we didn't end up the winner, but all in all, William probably had a little bit better car than I had today, and their pit crew executed when they needed to there at the end."

In the overtime scramble, Bubba Wallace finished fourth and Christopher Bell fifth, both in Toyotas. Austin Cindric, who had been lapped at one point, recovered to run sixth as the top-finishing Ford driver. Truex, Justin Haley, Kevin Harvick and Daniel Suarez completed the top 10.

In a race that featured 13 lead changes among eight drivers, Larson took the top spot in Lap 196, after restarting third behind Denny Hamlin and Bowman on lap 190. The 2021 series champion extended his advantage to nearly five seconds over Byron during an exchange of green-flag pit stops before Almirola's accident caused the fourth caution on Lap 263.

Byron had cut Larson's lead to two seconds before the accident forced overtime.

The first caution for an on-track incident didn't occur until Lap 183, nine laps after the final stage went green. Pole winner Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch were running three-wide through Turn 4 when disaster struck.

With Keselowski's No. 6 Ford in the middle, Logano ran out of room to the outside, and after contact with Keselowski's car, Logano's No. 22 Ford bounced off the wall and spun into the infield grass.

Logano brought his car to pit road, but his crew couldn't repair the Ford before the seven-minute time limit ran out under NASCAR's damaged vehicle policy.

Asked whether Keselowski pinched him into the corner, Logano replied, "Yeah, he did. I'm sure he didn't mean to do it. It is what it is. What are you going to do, right? We got fenced."