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Race Results

NASCAR Cup Series

EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix

Circuit of The Americas

March 24th, 2024

Race #6 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 68
Miles Raced : 213.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 43 minutes 15 seconds
Average Speed: 85.224 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.692 seconds
Cautions: 2
Caution Laps: 4
Lead Changes: 11
Cars in Race : 39
Finished On Lead Lap: 34 (87%)

William Byron celebrates in victory lane — Austin, Texas - March 24th, 2024: William Byron, driver of the #24 RaptorTough.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas. Photo by Sean Gardner | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	1	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	47	40	7	5	68	42	5	7	8	Running
2	4	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	45	35	10	1	68	9	2	1	0	Running
3	2	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	37	34	3	0	68	1	1	8	0	Running
4	17	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	33	33	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
5	3	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	34	32	2	0	68	1	1	9	0	Running
6	14	13	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
7	6	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	31	30	1	0	68	10	1	10	0	Running
8	20	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	29	29	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
9	16	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	28	28	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
10	7	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	35	27	8	0	68	2	1	0	3	Running
11	35	22	Joey Logano	Ford	26	26	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
12	28	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	34	25	9	0	68	0	0	0	2	Running
13	32	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	24	24	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
14	8	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	33	23	10	1	68	3	1	0	1	Running
15	10	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	22	22	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
16	9	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
17	13	51	Justin Haley	Ford	20	20	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
18	15	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
19	11	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	25	18	7	0	68	0	0	4	0	Running
20	34	71	Zane Smith	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
21	12	16	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
22	22	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	19	15	4	0	68	0	0	0	7	Running
23	18	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
24	24	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	19	13	6	0	68	0	0	0	5	Running
25	5	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	12	12	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
26	21	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	17	11	6	0	68	0	0	5	0	Running
27	26	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	17	10	7	0	68	0	0	0	4	Running
28	23	15	Kaz Grala	Ford	9	9	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
29	30	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	13	8	5	0	68	0	0	6	0	Running
30	25	50	Kamui Kobayashi	Toyota	7	7	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
31	29	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	6	6	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
32	19	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	14	5	9	0	68	0	0	2	0	Running
33	38	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	4	4	0	0	68	0	0	0	0	Running
34	36	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	8	3	5	0	68	0	0	0	6	Running
35	39	10	Noah Gragson	Ford	2	2	0	0	67	0	0	0	0	Running
36	31	4	Josh Berry	Ford	2	1	1	0	67	0	0	0	10	Running
37	37	66	Timmy Hill	Ford	0	0	0	0	66	0	0	0	0	Running
38	33	31	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	3	1	2	0	66	0	0	0	9	Running
39	27	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	9	1	8	0	51	0	0	3	0	Steering

Race Infractions

EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Timmy Hill	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Chris Buescher	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Ryan Preece	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
John Hunter Nemechek	Unspecified Short cut course - Turn 4	Pass Thru	5	6	Green
Chase Briscoe	Unspecified Short cut course - Turn 4	Pass Thru	11	11	Green
Bubba Wallace	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	16	18	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	16	18	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	24	25	Green
Shane van Gisbergen	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	25	26	Green
Michael McDowell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	31	33	Yellow
Chase Elliott	Unspecified Short cut course - Turn 4	Pass Thru	39	40	Green
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Unspecified Short cut course - Turn 4	Pass Thru	47	47	Green
Erik Jones	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	49	50	Green

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Race Fast Facts

Circuit of The Americas
EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
Race Winner: William Byron
Age: 26
Team : No. 24 - RaptorTough.com Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
William Byron won the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, his 12th victory in 222 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in four races at Circuit of The Americas.
Christopher Bell (second) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2024.
Ty Gibbs (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Circuit of The Americas.
Zane Smith (20th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Martin Truex Jr. leads the point standings by 5 points over Ty Gibbs.

Race Recap

William Byron takes the checkered flag at the Circuit of The Americas

March 24th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron turned in a steady and inspired drive to earn the NASCAR Cup Series victory from pole position in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Austin’s Circuit of The Americas road course Sunday, holding off the field by less than a second but dominating the field when he needed to.

Answering his season-opening Daytona 500 win, the 26-year-old Charlotte native becomes the first driver to win multiple races this season. This is his 12th career NASCAR Cup Series victory and gives his Hendrick team a series all-time best 28th win on NASCAR road courses.

While at times Byron made it look easy – holding a nearly three-second advantage on the field with 10 laps remaining, his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet did have to fend off a hard-charging Christopher Bell who made up four positions in those closing laps and kept Byron honest in what was ultimately a .692-second margin of victory around the 20-turn, 3.41-mile circuit.

“I feel like I made a lot of mistakes in the last 10 laps, just micro errors and Christopher [Bell] was really fast there on the longer run,’’ Byron said. “This sport is so hard and so difficult week in and week out to show up and have fast cars. We’ve had a little bit of a rough stretch the last few weeks but put a lot of preparation in this past week and just thankful for the team I have around me and all the people back home as well.

“Just super thankful to have this opportunity. It’s just a lot of fun to win races and it’s really difficult too.’’

For his part, Bell, driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and a winner at Phoenix this season, acknowledged it simply came down to a good road course battle among good teams and talented drivers.

“Obviously once I got to him, it was going to be tough to pass him, I just needed a couple mistakes, but William has been really good on the road courses and he was flawless today,’’ Bell said.

Just behind the pair was Bell’s 21-year-old JGR teammate Ty Gibbs, who is having a stellar sophomore season in NASCAR’s Cup Series. Gibbs ran top five for the majority of the day and was running second to Byron until Bell passed him with only two laps remaining. The third-place effort marks his fifth top 10 finish in the season’s six races.

“We were just a little too loose in the right-handed corner,’’ Gibbs said. “I just wish we were a little tighter, but we did a really good job today. …. Good points day. We’ll just keep working hard.’’

In fact, the effort now brings Gibbs to second place in the NASCAR Cup Series championship standings, only five points behind his teammate Martin Truex Jr.

Byron’s Hendrick teammate Alex Bowman finished fourth followed by 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick, the 2023 COTA winner.

Unlike the previous day’s races at COTA with NASCAR’s other two national series, Sunday’s race had only two caution flags – both for scheduled stage breaks. It was a clean race that still featured seven leaders and 11 lead changes. But Byron led a dominant 43 of the 68 laps.

One of the sport’s best road course racers, A.J. Allmendinger finished sixth, followed by the 2022 COTA winner, Ross Chastain. Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch and Truex rounded out the top 10.

The two “road course ringers” as they are referred to, New Zealander Shane van Gisbergen and Japan’s Kamui Kobayashi had solid, if not stand-out days, finishing 21st and 30th, respectively.

Zane Smith was the highest finishing rookie in 20th.