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Kurt Busch hits jackpot with first career win at hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway: With a career record of 0-for-21 coming into Sunday night’s South Point 400 at his hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch may have felt like a “long shot.” But with fortunate track position late in the race and some sure-bet restarts at the front of the field, Busch can now count himself a Vegas winner. The victory was a high stakes haul, automatically earning a position for Busch in the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs – moving the 2004 series champion from last place among the 12 Playoff drivers entering the race to the first driver with a guaranteed spot in the Round of 8.(Read More)(9-27-2020)

Paint Schemes

#1-Kurt Busch won the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday night following a two-lap overtime run to the checkered flag. The win is his first win of the year, first at Las Vegas, and 32nd career win. Busch, a Las Vegas native, locked himself into the Round of 8 in the Playoffs with the win. #1-Busch caught a break late in the race when a caution flag fell during a green flag cycle of pitstops. He had not yet pit when the yellow waved, giving him the much-needed track position.
#21-Matt DiBenedetto finished 2nd followed by #11-Denny Hamlin, #19-Martin Truex, Jr., #88-Alex Bowman, #18-Kyle Busch, #12-Ryan Blaney, #20-Erik Jones, #17-Chris Buescher, and pole-sitter, #4-Kevin Harvick.
Stage 1 was won by #11-Hamlin. Stage 2 was won by #9-Chase Elliott.
There were 20 lead changes among 11 drivers and 7 cautions for 36 yellow flag laps.
See race details at: Race Results, Drivers Points Standings, Owners Points Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report.

Where the 2020 Cup Series Playoff drivers finished at Las Vegas:
#1-Kurt Busch, 1st
#11-Denny Hamlin, 3rd
#19-Martin Truex, Jr., 4th
#88-Alex Bowman, 5th
#18-Kyle Busch, 6th
#4-Kevin Harvick, 10th
#14-Clint Bowyer, 12th
#2-Brad Keselowski, 13th
#22-Joey Logano,14th
#10-Aric Almirola, 17th
#9-Chase Elliott, 22nd
#3-Austin Dillon, 32nd

Race Fast Facts – Las Vegas:
Kurt Busch (P) won the 3rd Annual South Point 400, his 32nd victory in 715 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and 16th top-10 finish in 2020.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 23 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Matt DiBenedetto (second) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway. It is his eighth top-10 finish in 2020.
Denny Hamlin (P) (third) posted his eighth top-10 finish in 19 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Cole Custer (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kevin Harvick (P) leads the point standings by 3 points over Denny Hamlin (P)
(NASCAR)(9-27-2020)

Cup Series Playoff Standings after Las Vegas (race 30):
(6 races left in the season, 2 races left in the Round of 12)

Cars to the rear: none reported.

Pit Stall Selections: The selections of pit stalls for the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway have been made. Selections were made based on the starting lineup process.
Pole sitter #4-Harvick chose pit stall 1.
2nd place starter #18-Busch took the 6th stall, with an opening in front of it.
See all pit choices on the Pit Stall chart.(9-23-2020)

#4-Kevin Harvick will start from the pole for the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
#18-Busch will start second, followed by #9-Elliott, #10-Almirola, #22-Logano, #14-Bowyer, #3-Dillon, #88-Bowman, #1-Busch and #11-Hamlin.
The lineup was set by the new qualifying procedure, based on race finish, points position, and fastest race lap.
See the complete South Point 400 Starting Lineup.(9-23-2020)

Crew Rosters

Goodyear Tire Notes

The Entry List for the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is posted, 39 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
Some of the drivers entered include: #15-Poole, #27-Gaulding, #49-Finchum, #51-Gase, #53-Bilicki, #77-Sorenson.
See the full entry list on the Entry List (pdf).

Rules package: Teams will run the 550 hp package with aero ducts.

Fans: Fans will not be allowed at the Las Vegas races.

NASCAR Cup Series race

Motor car race

The 2020 Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube was a NASCAR Cup Seriesrace held on February 23, 2020, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the second race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. It was the first NASCAR Cup Series race run without Ryan Newman and David Ragan in the field since Loudon, 2001 and Homestead, 2006 respectively. Joey Logano was the race winner.

Report[edit]

Background[edit]

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Entry list[edit]

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes driver who are ineligible for series driver points.

Practice[edit]

First practice[edit]

Aric Almirola was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.226 seconds and a speed of 178.654 mph (287.516 km/h).^[10]

Final practice[edit]

Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 30.095 seconds and a speed of 179.432 mph (288.768 km/h).^[11]

Qualifying[edit]

Qualifying for Saturday was cancelled due to rain and Kyle Busch was awarded the pole as a result.^[12]

Starting Lineup[edit]

• Polesitter Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, and Christopher Bell all started at the back after failing inspection.^[13]

Race[edit]

Stage Results[edit]

Stage OneLaps: 80

Stage TwoLaps: 80

Final Stage Results[edit]

Stage ThreeLaps: 107

Race statistics[edit]

• Lead changes: 25 among 7 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 9 for 37
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 2 hours, 58 minutes and 11 seconds
• Average speed: 134.861 miles per hour (217.038 km/h)

Media[edit]

Television[edit]

Fox Sports covered their 20th race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mike Joy and 2001 race winner Jeff Gordon called from the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side. Larry McReynolds and Jamie McMurray provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio[edit]

PRN covered the radio call for the race which was simulcasted on Sirius XMNASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Wendy Venturini and Heather DeBeaux worked pit road for the radio side.

Standings after the race[edit]

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Kyle Larson rolled the dice and won.

Less than a year after he was fired from Chip Ganassi Racing and suspended by NASCAR for using a racial slur during a NASCAR iRacing event, Larson took home the victory in Hendrick Motorsports' No. 5 car in Las Vegas at the Pennzoil 400. Larson's win is his first top-row finish since 2019 and his first win since his firing and suspension.

Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Blaney filled out the unofficial top five. Kevin Harvick, the pole-sitter for Sunday's race, surprisingly finished in 20th place.

Larson is the fourth different winner in as many races in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, and Sunday was his second top-five finish of the year. He finished fourth at Homestead last week.

Larson signed with Hendrick Motorsports in October 2020, six months after he was fired by Chip Ganassi Racing and suspended by NASCAR for using the N-word during an iRacing event. The signing came less than two weeks after NASCAR reinstated Larson for competition, effective Jan. 1. 

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NASCAR at Las Vegas results

Official results.

NASCAR at Las Vegas live updates, highlights from Pennzoil 400

6:40 FINISH: Kyle Larson takes home his first win in two years and his first with Hendrick Motorsports. 

6:28 p.m.:  Kyle Larson in the lead with 25 laps to go. Brad Keselowski is behind him, with Hamlin, Truex and Busch rounding out the top five. 

6:12 p.m.:  54 laps to go, Larson, Hamlin, Keselowski, Blaney, Truex are the one-through-five.

6:03 p.m.:  Harvick and Truex fighting for first in an entertaining back-and-forth with 70 laps to go. Kyle Larson slips in.

5:50 p.m.:  Aric Almirola coming off, bad damage to the front right and left of his car after hitting the wall. He's coming off, and another caution is out.

5:41 p.m.:  Chase Elliott spins iut, damage to his left front fender, he's going to have to pit. Caution flag is out.

5:39 p.m.:  100 laps left after the restart. Kyle Larson still out front for the time being. Hamlin, Truex, Kyle Busch, Bowman round out the top five.

5:28 p.m. End Stage 2:  Kyle Larson wins Stage 2. 

5:21 p.m.:  14 laps to go in Stage 2, and Kyle Larson pulls out front.

5:13 p.m.:  Tyler Reddick takes the lead for the moment with several cars pitting. 29 laps to go in Stage 2. Michael McDowell, Daytona winner, in second.

5:08 p.m.:  Alex Bowman, Christopher Bell and a few others into pit road for green flag stops.

5:03 p.m.: 

4:49 p.m.:  Stage 2 underway and Keselowski is clinging to his lead. Chase Elliott all the way back to 22nd. 

4:39 p.m. End Stage 1:  Brad Keselowski takes his first stage win of the year after hanging around in the top five for most of the race. 

4:28 p.m.:  21 laps to go in Stage 1, Logano out front with Chase Elliott right on him. Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski and Ryan Blaney round out the top 10. 

4:24 p.m.:  Bubba Wallace is having an issue with an oil leak, so he's losing lots of laps right now.

4:19 p.m.:  Caution flag out after debris on the track. Kevin Harvick losing air in his front driver-side tire.

4:14 p.m.:  41 laps down in Vegas, Denny Hamlin and his pajamas still out in front.

4:08 p.m.:  We have a green flag again, Denny Hamlin jumps out to first. Keselowski and Kyle Larson behind him. Chase Elliott had some trouble in the pit, so he's lost some time. 

4:00 p.m.:  Competition caution at lap 25, with Chase Elliott out front. 

3:53 p.m.:  Into Lap 10 (of 267), William Byron at front, followed by Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson. Larson and Truex jockeying for fourth place. 

3:49 p.m.:  Green flag in Vegas, and the feidl stretches to four wide in the midfield and three wide at the front.

3:36 p.m.:  No cars to the back as we get started in Sin City.

3:30 p.m.:  Not far from race start today in Nevada.

NASCAR race start time today

The green flag for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is scheduled to wave at 3:49 p.m. ET.

NASCAR at Las Vegas lineup

Here is the complete starting lineup for Sunday's NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube:

With a career record of 0-for-21 coming into Sunday night’s South Point 400 at his hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch may have felt like a “long shot.” But with fortunate track position late in the race and some sure-bet restarts at the front of the field, Busch can now count himself a Vegas winner.

The victory was a high stakes haul, automatically earning a position for Busch in the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs – moving the 2004 series champion from last place among the 12 playoff drivers entering the race to the first driver with a guaranteed spot in the Round of 8.

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With only one top-10 finish in the last six races at the 1.5-mile Vegas track and so much on the line, Busch was understandably emotional as he climbed onto the hood of  his No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet to celebrate the big win after the checkered flag.

“This is what kids dream of when they grow up racing, you dream of winning at your hometown track,” Busch said. “For two decades it’s kicked my butt and tonight with this Monster Energy Chevy, I’m in awe.

SHOP: Kurt Busch winner’s gear

“I knew the race would come to us. We needed to get to nightfall and one of those quirky (crew chief) Matt McCall pit sequences finally unfolded and we got lucky. You have to be lucky and you have to be lucky in any race, but we did it tonight with teamwork, pulling through and not giving up.”

Busch held off Wood Brothers Racing driver Matt DiBenedetto by .148 seconds for the win – keeping the fan-favorite DiBenedetto from a first career victory celebration — again.

Denny Hamlin, who led a race-best 121 laps, finished third. Martin Truex Jr. and Alex Bowman rounded out the top five.

“It’s heartbreaking to come that close,” DiBenedetto conceded.

Busch’s younger brother Kyle finished sixth, followed by non-championship eligible drivers Ryan Blaney, Erik Jones and Chris Buescher. Championship leader Kevin Harvick rounded out the top 10.

RELATED: Joey Logano, Kyle Busch make contact

A caution flag flew on Lap 236 – just after the race’s leaders had pitted but before Busch and nine other cars had. That changed the complexity of the race and forced the more dominant cars such as Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and Hendrick Motorsports teammates Bowman and Chase Elliott to play catch-up in the closing laps. Those three drivers combined to lead 199 of the 268 laps. Busch led 29 in total, but, most importantly, the last 26 laps.

Hamlin’s 121 laps out front marked the fourth time this season he’s led at least 100 laps and the second time he did not win after doing so.

“Just same thing as happened at Darlington, untimely cautions,” Hamlin said. “That’s what’s keeping us out of Victory Lane. We obviously had a dominant car today and I’m proud of the whole FedEx team for giving me such a great car, by far the best car I’ve had in Las Vegas and maybe a long time at any mile-and-a-half (track). Just really happy with it.

“Really encouraged by the way we ran, obviously just very disappointed we didn’t get a win.”

Hamlin won Stage 1, his ninth stage win of the season. Elliott, who led 73 laps, won Stage 2 — his eighth stage victory — but he finished 22nd.

Two races remain in this second round of the playoffs, next weekend at Talladega Superspeedway and Oct. 11 at the Charlotte Roval road course. Eight drivers will advance to the penultimate three-races following Charlotte that will decide which four drivers contend for the NASCAR Cup Series championship trophy on Nov. 8 at Phoenix.

With his win Sunday, Busch has the automatic ticket into the next round. Harvick leads the playoff standings with a three-point edge on Hamlin. Brad Keselowski, Truex, Joey Logano, Elliott and Bowman round out the remaining provisional transfer spots after Las Vegas.

Kyle Busch heads to Talladega nine points behind Bowman for that final transfer position. Contact between he and Logano while racing for the lead on Lap 88 led to damage for both, significantly derailing the race for the No. 22 Team Penske driver. Logano had taken the lead on the restart but got into the No. 18 Toyota of Busch as Stage 1 winner Denny Hamlin slipped past in a three-wide pass for the lead. Logano incurred a left-rear tire rub, necessitating a trip to pit road and putting him a lap down — a lap he would not get back until a late caution on Lap 250 — and he would finish 14th.

Clint Bowyer is 20 points back, Aric Almirola is 27 points back and Austin Dillon is 32 points from the cutoff line. Dillon, who had a strong showing in the opening Round of 16, endured a rocky start to the next round with a pair of pitfalls in the final stage. Dillon lost ground with a pit-road penalty after a crewman toppled over the pit wall, then lost several laps while his Richard Childress Racing crew changed a broken power-steering belt on the No. 3 Chevrolet. He was 32nd at the finish.

Post-race inspection notes: The Nos. 1 (Kurt Busch), 21 (DiBenedetto) and 38 (John Hunter Nemechek) each had one lug nut not safe and secure. Their respective crew chiefs will face fines that will be on this week’s penalty report.

Contributing: Staff report