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Noah Gragson placed fifth in the Drive for the Cure 200 presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding 40 points to his season total.

Gragson now sits at No. 7 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff standings with 2088 points. He’s collected eight top-five finishes in 2019.

AJ Allmendinger earned the checkered flag in the race, with Tyler Reddick taking second, and Austin Cindric placing third.

Chase Briscoe came away victorious in Stage 1, and Cole Custer took Stage 2.

Gragson qualified in 12th position at 98.455 mph. Gragson still is looking for career win No. 1, but boasts 10 top-five finishes and 22 finishes in the top 10.

Gragson battled 37 other cars in the field and the race saw seven cautions and 14 caution laps. There were seven lead changes before the checkered flag.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Allmendinger’s victory. Overall, Chevrolet ranks No. 1 with 1006 points, followed by Toyota in the No. 2 spot with 998. Ford sits at No. 3 with 988 points on the season.

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Austin Cindric finished third in the Drive for the Cure 200 presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding 45 points to his season total.

Cindric now sits at No. 4 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff standings with 2112 points. He’s collected 12 top-five finishes in 2019.

AJ Allmendinger finished out front in the race, with Tyler Reddick following in second. Justin Allgaier took fourth place, followed by Noah Gragson to round out the top five.

Chase Briscoe came away victorious in Stage 1, and Cole Custer won Stage 2.

Cindric qualified in third position at 100.181 mph. He led once for a total of one lap, but relinquished the lead for good after Lap 22. The third-year driver has tallied two career victories, 19 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 33 races.

There were 38 cars in the field, and the race endured seven cautions and 14 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were seven lead changes.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Allmendinger’s victory. Overall, Chevrolet ranks No. 1 with 1006 points, followed by Toyota in the No. 2 spot with 998. Ford sits at No. 3 with 988 points on the season.

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Erik Jones placed 40th in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding one point to his season total.

Jones now sits at No. 16 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings with 2009 points. He’s collected nine top-five finishes in 2019.

Chase Elliott took the checkered flag in the race, with Alex Bowman taking second, and Kevin Harvick placing third. Clint Bowyer took fourth place, followed by Brad Keselowski to round out the top five.

Kyle Larson came away victorious in Stage 1, and Elliott won Stage 2.

Jones qualified in 15th position at 101.887 mph. The fourth-year driver has tallied two career victories, 23 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 45 races.

Jones battled 39 other cars in the field and the race endured 10 cautions and 23 caution laps. There were 13 lead changes before the checkered flag.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Elliott’s victory. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 1058 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 1025. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 987 points on the season.

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Daniel Suarez finished 34th in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding seven points to his season total.

Suarez now sits at 707 points on the season. He’s collected three top-five finishes in 2019.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Alex Bowman taking second, and Kevin Harvick placing third. Clint Bowyer took fourth place, followed by Brad Keselowski in the No. 5 spot.

Kyle Larson came away victorious in Stage 1, and Elliott won Stage 2.

Suarez qualified in 13th position at 101.953 mph. Suarez still is looking for career victory No. 1, but owns seven top-five finishes and 31 finishes in the top 10.

Suarez battled 39 other cars in the field and the race saw 10 cautions and 23 caution laps. There were 13 lead changes before the checkered flag.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Elliott’s victory. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 1058 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 1025. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 987 points on the season.

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Ryan Newman placed 32nd in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding five points to his season total.

Newman now sits at No. 14 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings with 2070 points. He’s posted two top-five finishes in 2019.

Chase Elliott came away with the victory in the race, with Alex Bowman finishing second, and Kevin Harvick placing third. Clint Bowyer took fourth place, followed by Brad Keselowski in the No. 5 spot.

Kyle Larson came away victorious in Stage 1, and Elliott won Stage 2.

Newman qualified in 24th position at 101.148 mph. The 20th-year driver has piled up 18 career victories, 114 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 258 races.

There were 40 cars in the field, and the race endured 10 cautions and 23 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were 13 lead changes.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Elliott’s victory. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 1058 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 1025. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 987 points on the season.

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Bubba Wallace finished 24th in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding 13 points to his season total.

Wallace now sits at 403 points on the season.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Alex Bowman following in second, and Kevin Harvick crossing the finish line third. Clint Bowyer took fourth place, followed by Brad Keselowski in the No. 5 spot.

Kyle Larson came away victorious in Stage 1, and Elliott won Stage 2.

Wallace qualified in 25th position at 101.136 mph. Wallace still is looking for career victory No. 1, but boasts two top-five finishes and four finishes in the top 10.

Wallace battled 39 other cars in the field and the race saw 10 cautions and 23 caution laps. There were 13 lead changes before the checkered flag.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Elliott’s victory. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 1058 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 1025. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 987 points on the season.

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Alex Bowman finished second in the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, adding 35 points to his season total.

Bowman now sits at No. 9 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings with 3005 points. He’s collected five top-five finishes in 2019.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Kevin Harvick crossing the finish line third. Clint Bowyer took fourth place, followed by Brad Keselowski in the No. 5 spot.

Bowman has advanced to the next round of the Cup Series playoffs.

Kyle Larson came away victorious in Stage 1, and Elliott won Stage 2.

Bowman qualified in second position at 103.078 mph. The sixth-year driver has piled up one career victory, eight top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 23 races.

There were 40 cars in the field, and the race endured 10 cautions and 23 caution laps. There were 13 lead changes.

Chevrolet added 40 points to its season totals with Elliott’s victory. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 1058 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 1025. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 987 points on the season.

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NASCAR officials plan to speak with Bubba Wallace after his post-race altercation with Alex Bowman following Sunday’s Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer, indicated Monday morning on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that the competition department would intervene before this weekend’s events at Dover International Speedway.

“I would say I will be having a conversation with Bubba Wallace. That was really not classy whatsoever,” O’Donnell told SiriusXM. “I understand that drivers have issues with each other during the race. We totally get that, but with drivers on the ground being tended to by medical personnel, you need to be smarter than that, and we’ll have that conversation with Bubba and we’ll see how that goes, obviously prior to Dover.”

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After a pair of incidents in the first half of Sunday’s race, Wallace was still fuming after the checkered flag and marched to Bowman’s parked car. Bowman, who had carried an illness through the weekend, was being treated by medical personnel as Wallace approached. Wallace splashed Bowman with a drink before storming off.

In other remarks from O’Donnell’s appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Morning Drive:”

• O’Donnell indicated he was generally pleased with the second year of racing on Charlotte’s combination oval and road course, hinting that the event had a long-term future on the schedule.

“I thought it was as good as Roval, Round 1, and glad it’s on the schedule and here to stay,” O’Donnell said. “I think it’s an exciting weekend for the fans and presents a huge challenge for the entire industry.”

• O’Donnell provided an update on the aftermath of an unusual rash of engine failures during the Sept. 13 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

After an investigation revealed that extreme temperatures and engine load caused reliability issues for Ilmor Engineering’s power plants, ThorSport Racing — which was hit particularly hard by the failures — petitioned NASCAR to restore championship eligibility for ThorSport drivers Grant Enfinger and Johnny Sauter, who were eliminated from the postseason by early engine-related exits at Las Vegas.

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“We’re going to follow up with the race team. Our intent is not to do that,” O’Donnell said. “We understand that it was a really, really tough circumstance, and we’ve got to do everything in our power and we are to avoid that going forward. Ilmor has certainly gone to work to figure out exactly what happened there. Unfortunately, it’s one of these things where parts and pieces break at times on vehicles. That happens. That’s not something that’s acceptable in this case. We’ve got to get that fixed and we will. I think there’s a good plan in place to go forward.”

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CONCORD, N.C. — Defending race winner Ryan Blaney didn’t have a smooth afternoon in Sunday’s Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, but he salvaged an eighth-place finish with the help of two timely cautions and advanced to the second round of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.

Blaney made hard contact with the wall on Lap 58, and crew chief Jeremy Bullins contemplated bringing the No. 12 Team Penske Ford to pit road immediately, but opted against that course of action.

Daniel Hemric’s spin on the banking on Lap 62, gave Blaney a chance to come to pit road under yellow, and the team went to work on the rear suspension. Another caution, for eventual  winner Chase Elliott’s collision with the Turn 1 tire barrier on Lap 65, provided a chance for more repairs, and Blaney was able to improve his track position throughout the closing stages of the race, after restarting 36th on Lap 67.

RELATED: Race results | Elliott wins at Roval | Round of 12 field set

He was ninth for the final restart on Lap 104 and moved up one position before the finish, earning a trip to the Round of 12.

“We definitely had a lot of ups and downs,” Blaney said. “I thought we did a pretty decent job most of the day finding ourselves towards the front. There were a lot of mixed strategies with the way the cautions fell.

“I messed up really bad and hit the fence and really set us back, but I’m really proud of the whole group for fighting and getting it fixed to where we could make some ground.”

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The race-winning No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 driven by Chase Elliott passed post-race technical inspection Sunday evening at the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course with no issues.

The No. 9 Chevrolet was found to be compliant with the 2019 NASCAR Rule Book after Elliott won the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 16 elimination race at the Roval.

Additionally, all cars were found to be compliant with the post-race lug-nut policy. The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of William Byron will go back to the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina for further evaluation.

With post-race teardown complete, the race results are official.

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The post-race process is part of a new, more timely approach to inspection for all three NASCAR national series. Competition officials announced in February thorough post-race inspections would take place shortly after the checkered flag at the track instead of midweek at the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina.

Those inspections come with a stiffer deterrence structure that includes disqualification for significant rules infractions — “a total culture change,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer. In the past, race-winning teams found in violation of the rules were penalized with post-race fines, points deductions and/or suspensions, but victories were allowed to stand.

Competition officials introduced the quicker post-race inspection timetable in an effort to make the results official on race day, aiming for a 90-minute target time frame to complete their scrutineering. The new post-race inspection process was also designed to deal with potential violations more promptly, avoiding any midweek news that might cloud the previous week’s results or the build-up to the following week’s event.

NASCAR will still inspect cars and parts at the R&D Center as needed, but the more comprehensive at-track inspection will take priority.

According to NASCAR statistical archives, the last time a premier-series driver was disqualified occurred in 1973, when early retiree Buddy Baker was demoted to last place in the National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The last time an apparent race winner in NASCAR’s top division was disqualified came on April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis’ victory at Wilson (N.C.) Speedway was thrown out because of an oversized fuel tank on his No. 85 Chevrolet.