Race Results

NASCAR Cup Series

Goodyear 400

Darlington Raceway

May 12th, 2024

Race #13 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 293
Miles Raced : 400.2
Time of Race : 03 Hours 12 minutes 30 seconds
Average Speed: 124.750 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.214 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 38
Lead Changes: 16
Cars in Race : 36
Finished On Lead Lap: 28 (78%)

Brad Keselowski celebrates in victory lane — Darlington, South Carolina - May 12th, 2024: Brad Keselowski, driver of the #6 Castrol Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	2	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	57	40	17	5	293	37	5	3	2	Running
2	4	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	52	35	17	0	293	34	1	2	3	Running
3	33	4	Josh Berry	Ford	34	34	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
4	7	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	36	33	3	0	293	1	1	0	8	Running
5	13	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	32	32	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
6	5	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	38	31	7	0	293	2	1	9	6	Running
7	8	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	33	30	3	0	293	6	1	10	9	Running
8	18	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	29	29	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
9	28	51	Justin Haley	Ford	28	28	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
10	16	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	27	27	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
11	9	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	27	26	1	0	293	0	0	0	10	Running
12	31	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	25	25	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
13	12	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	24	24	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
14	36	10	Noah Gragson	Ford	23	23	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
15	15	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	27	22	5	0	293	0	0	6	0	Running
16	24	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
17	26	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	20	20	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
18	34	15	Kaz Grala	Ford	19	19	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
19	30	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	18	18	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
20	25	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	17	17	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
21	14	22	Joey Logano	Ford	23	16	7	0	293	0	0	0	4	Running
22	35	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	15	15	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
23	20	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
24	19	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
25	10	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	18	12	6	0	293	0	0	5	0	Running
26	21	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	293	2	1	0	0	Running
27	11	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
28	23	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	293	0	0	0	0	Running
29	32	16	Derek Kraus	Chevrolet	8	8	0	0	292	0	0	0	0	Running
30	3	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	15	7	8	0	291	21	1	7	7	Running
31	22	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	6	6	0	0	291	0	0	0	0	Running
32	1	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	22	5	17	1	291	174	4	4	1	Running
33	29	31	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	290	0	0	0	0	Running
34	6	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	19	3	16	1	252	15	1	1	5	Accident
35	27	71	Zane Smith	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	161	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	17	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	4	1	3	0	129	1	1	8	0	DVP

Race Infractions

Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Daniel Hemric	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	91	97	Yellow
John Hunter Nemechek	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	123	127	Yellow
Martin Truex Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	129	133	Yellow
Ryan Blaney	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	129	0	Yellow
Kyle Larson	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	254	0	Yellow
Joey Logano	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	255	259	Yellow
Tyler Reddick	Commitment Line Violation	Pass Thru	285	287	Green

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Race Fast Facts

Darlington Raceway
Goodyear 400
Race Winner: Brad Keselowski
Age: 40
Team : No. 6 - Castrol Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Matt McCall
Brad Keselowski won the Goodyear 400, his 36th victory in 534 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his second victory and 12th top-10 finish in 21 races at Darlington Raceway.
Ty Gibbs (second) posted his first top-10 finish in four races at Darlington Raceway. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2024.
Josh Berry (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Darlington Raceway.
Josh Berry (third) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 30 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Brad Keselowski breaks 110-race drought with dramatic Darlington win

May 12th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

A combination of stubbornness and patience paid off handsomely for Brad Keselowski on Sunday at Darlington Raceway, where the driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford ended a 110-race winless streak with victory in the Goodyear 400.

Keselowski’s triumph, which came at the expense of hard-luck teammate Chris Buescher and pole winner Tyler Reddick, gave the Ford Dark Horse Mustang its first NASCAR Cup Series victory this season in 13 races and led to a heated exchange between Beuscher and Reddick on pit road after the fact.

It was also Keselowski’s first win as a principal in RFK Racing, his second at Darlington and the 36th of his career.

“What a heck of a day,” exulted Keselowski, who finished 1.214 seconds ahead of runner-up Ty Gibbs. “It’s Darlington, so whether it’s your first win, your last win, this is a really special track. The history of NASCAR, it’s as tough as it gets, and that battle at the end with my teammate and Tyler Reddick, we just laid it all out on the line, it was freaking awesome.

“I thought it couldn’t get much better than Kansas. It did today. That was awesome. I’m so glad you guys got to see that (addressed to the fans). That was incredible. Thanks for being here.”

Keselowski was stubborn in the way he raced Reddick after the final restart on Lap 261 of 293, aggressively staying beside the No. 45 Toyota and running him up the track in Turn 3.

For four straight laps, Keselowski and Reddick battled side-by-side, allowing Buescher to slip past into the lead at the start/finish line on Lap 264. Reddick cleared Keselowski shortly thereafter and took off in pursuit of Buescher.

That’s when Keselowski exercised patience as stayed within striking distance, waiting for the drama that unfolded ahead of him.

On Lap 284, Reddick’s ill-timed bid for the lead went awry, and his No. 45 Camry slid up the track into Buescher’s Ford, pinning it against the outside wall in Turn 4. Both cars were damaged and unable to maintain pace, and Keselowski charged into the lead on Lap 285.

Buescher, still smarting from last week’s loss to Kyle Larson at Kansas in the closest finish in Cup Series history (0.001 seconds), confronted Reddick on pit road after the drivers climbed from their cars.

“We got wrecked,” Buescher said later. “That one’s clear as day. Don’t need any cameras to tell us. I don’t know what to say. We’ve raced really clean through the years, tried to be really respectful about it, and we get used up.

“It (Reddick’s move) is just something that you know is not going to work. I’m just really pissed off about it right now. We certainly had a chance to win another one. I’m proud to have that speed. Just huge congratulations to Brad and the 6 bunch on their win. That’s awesome, but I wanted it for our group right here.”

Reddick took responsibility for the incident and punctuated his conversation with Buescher with the words “I know. I (screwed) up—I’m sorry.”

Reddick elaborated after he and Buescher separated.

“I completely understand where he is coming from,” Reddick said. “He was running the top, running his own race, running his own line to keep me at bay. I made a really aggressive move and was hoping I was going to clear him. When I realized I wasn’t going to, I tried to check up to not slide up into him, but, yeah, I wish I wouldn’t have done that.

“I completely understand why he is that mad. He did nothing wrong. Just trying to win the race, and to take myself out—that’s one thing—I can live with that, but just disappointed it played out the way that it did, and I took him out of the race as well.”

All but lost in the late-race drama was Gibbs’ career-best second-place finish. The driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota also finished second in Stage 1 and third in Stage 2 behind respective stage winners Kyle Larson and Reddick.

Josh Berry finished third in his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, followed by Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe. William Byron, Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley and Michael McDowell completed the top 10.

Hamlin led one lap during a cycle of green-flag pit stops in the final stage, extending his streak of consecutive races with at least one lap led to 17.

Larson (34th on Sunday after a late-race crash) leads the series standings by 30 points over Martin Truex Jr., who finished 25th after suffering alternator issues.