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Greatness sometimes can be easy to overlook. It also can be easy to overdo.

Both concepts apply to Kyle Larson, who became the presumptive favorite for the 2024 Cup Series title with the most dominant performance of his career and in the illustrious history of his storied team, the winningest in NASCAR history.

Larson set a Hendrick Motorsports record by leading 462 of 500 laps Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway (most at the legendary short track in 47 years), and he also gained seven more playoff points by sweeping both stages.

He is reseeded atop the standings and 15 points ahead of Christopher Bell entering the Round of 12 at Kansas Speedway (where Larson won four months ago in the closest finish ever) with the chance to expand his playoff point cushion (47) to a full-race bulge (60) by the Round of 8.

RELATED: Larson dominates for Bristol win | Round of 12 field set

Larson has a career-best five poles this season, a series-high five victories (a personal best since his 2021 championship) and a series-high 12 stage wins.

He is a strong bet to make his third championship appearance in the past four years.

But aside from those two weeks he spent trying to win the Indy 500 (and cement his claim to being the world’s best race car driver), this season’s predominant Larson narrative has centered on his mini-slumps over the superlatives.

There was that pre- and post-Indy stretch when he finished outside the top 20 five times in 11 races.

And Bristol marked his first Cup win since the Brickyard 400, a late-summer swoon in which he finished outside the top 10 in four of six races with a best finish of fourth.

Never mind that two-month stretch also included winning the world’s biggest dirt race for a third time (again, greatness is easy to overlook), but Larson hardly lacked for speed in his No. 5 Chevrolet. He led four of those races and easily could have won at Michigan and Darlington.

The results might have made him look human, but Larson rarely is behind the wheel.

When he seems ordinary, it’s actually a sign that he has as much breathtaking speed as ever but is hunting the limit to harness it.

That’s why overdoing it is an accepted part of doing business for a sublimely talented superstar.

“Kyle is one of the best to ever drive anything, and he just has this natural ability to drive over the limit all the time and get away with it,” Bell, who knows Larson well from dirt and pavement racing, recently said. “I’d say that’s his Achilles’ heel, too. He can make mistakes at times, but I think his 100 percent is everyone else’s 110 percent, so he has that ability to push the car really hard and get away with stuff other guys can’t.”

And this should be what worries the rest of the championship contenders: The only blemish in Larson’s game this season has been the byproduct of the driver evaluating his team’s massive potential by occasionally taking maximum risks.

“Our strengths are our speed,” he said just before the playoffs began. “We’re really fast at every race track: road courses, superspeedways, all of that. I know it might not seem like it at times, but I think our execution is great. And I think we’ve also overcome a lot of adversity at times, so I think we’re well-rounded as a team.”

From unknown tire wear to unexpected traction compound, crew chief Cliff Daniels’ group solved a series of curveballs at Bristol.

But Larson stopped short of agreeing his 28th career victory stamped him as the driver to beat in the playoffs.

“We’ve dominated lots of races,” he said. “I think teams already know that we’re capable of doing it on any given weekend.”

That’s greatness personified — if not always appreciated.

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — The house of horrors that was Denny Hamlin’s opening Round of 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs finally had a well-timed bright spot, one that lifted the veteran out of a daunting postseason deficit. A fourth-place outcome on a Saturday night when Kyle Larson turned Bristol Motor Speedway into his own playground gave Hamlin and the No. 11 team perhaps the run they needed, if not the one they wanted.

Two of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates — Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr. — left with neither needs nor wants fulfilled in Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race. Both drivers were nabbed for speeding on pit road at different points of the 500-lap event, handing them insurmountable gaps and early eliminations. Gibbs dropped from six points above the elimination line entering Bristol to miss the cut by 11 points; Truex’s championship eligibility in his final full-time season expired, and he missed the mark by 21 points by night’s end.

The only driver to climb out of a pre-race deficit in the playoff picture was Hamlin, who went from minus-six to plus-15 in the elimination race. Advancing was no simple feat, not after confounding results of 24th (Atlanta) and 23rd (Watkins Glen) to start the three-race round.

“It’s just like, finally a decent run, right?” Hamlin said on pit road after reaching the Round of 12 for the sixth consecutive year. “I mean, we’re either in the 30s or top five, right? Just, I want to get back on track of contending for wins, and I think tonight’s a good step for that, and then we go to Kansas, where I really feel confident. So certainly I feel like this is a reset. This is time to put away the past and go all offense.”

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos

Finishes of sixth and third at the stages allowed the No. 11 team to pocket 13 additional points just past the halfway mark, putting Hamlin’s name in the green on the running playoff tally. No. 11 crew chief Chris Gabehart told Hamlin over the team radio communications that the prerace deficit had been made up, adding with a pep-talk flair: “We’re going to win, so it doesn’t matter, but just so you know.”

Hamlin reached as high as second in the running order, so the winning prediction fell a smidgen short, but holding on for a top-five effort at one of NASCAR’s tougher tests was just enough to survive the first-round gauntlet.

“Call me what you want, but my first emotion is, I’m mad we didn’t win at my favorite track,” Gabehart said with a laugh. “I mean, when I tell you this race means more to me than the playoffs, I mean it, and if we come here and put on a winning performance, the points take care of themselves. So, I wish we could have won. However, having said that, we didn’t have the margin that Larson or Bell or some of those other guys had to let it all hang out here, which is what you have to do with 200 (laps) to go to win this race. I mean, these guys, I so wish everybody understood how hard it is to do what you’re watching out there. At this level, you cannot give 99% — it’s not enough. So to race from a deficit and in the last 200, kind of have to not lose what you’ve earned, rather than have this big buffer to be able to risk it, that’s the difference.”

The buffers went away for Hamlin’s less fortunate teammates, who were the only drivers to reach this year’s playoffs on the basis of points.

Truex carried realistic hopes of advancing through the first two-thirds of the race, putting his No. 19 Toyota up to second place behind Larson and accumulating 16 stage points to bolster his chances. His speeding bust on Lap 333 during the final caution period of the race knocked him to 26th for the final restart and onto the other side of the playoff bubble.

“No option other than to drive the piss out of it,” crew chief James Small told Truex on the No. 19 radio. Truex, however, managed just 24th place — his eighth consecutive finish of 20th or worse — and said later that his penalty was for .09 mph over the limit.

Martin Truex Jr.'s emotion after exiting his No. 19 Toyota on pit road at Bristol Motor Speedway
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“Just really frustrated, upset,” Truex said. “Hate it for my guys. You know, they worked so hard and we had a shot at it tonight. It wasn’t going to be easy. I know there was no guarantee. I think they said we had to run second or third to make it through, so it was going to be tough. I don’t know if we were quite good enough, but it would have been nice to find out at least, and just hate it that I screwed it up for everybody.”

Asked how he would walk away from Saturday night’s race with his hopes for a second Cup Series title dashed, Truex mixed the glum emotions with shades of optimism.

“I mean, been getting used to swallowing disappointment lately, so I don’t know,” Truex said. “It sucks, but we’ve got seven more races to try to go out on some high notes with this team and hopefully win a race. That’d be awesome, and that’s going to be our focus from here on out.”

MORE: Playoff Pulse: Round of 12 set | Suárez, Briscoe scoot by, advance

Gibbs’ speeding penalty came earlier, shortly after he’d placed a competitive eighth in Stage 1. The 21-year-old driver shaved too much time off Bristol’s curved Section 6 of pit road, and the punishment for the shortcut sent him to the tail of the lead lap — 24th place.

“The speeding penalty is on me,” Gibbs said post-race. “Just we run under the (tachometer) lights so close, and I just got a little bit too much, I guess. My fault. Unfortunate. Proud of these guys and all the effort that they’ve given me and we’ll keep hammering down.”

Gibbs never quite recovered, and the deficit left him out of the stage-point conversation at Stage 2. He diligently worked his way back to a 15th-place finish, but got no higher on the leaderboard after his tires gave out during the long, final green-flag stretch.

The penalty was a glaring mark for the No. 54 team on elimination night at Bristol, but the sum of his first-round finishes — including a 17th at Atlanta and a 22nd last weekend at Watkins Glen — made the difference.

“Just disappointing, right?” said No. 54 crew chief Chris Gayle. “In the grand scheme, what was it, 11 points out? There are a lot of places over the last three races that we collectively as a group left 11 points on the table. We needed to bring better cars last week, and we didn’t do it, you know what I mean. We had a good car at Atlanta and maybe didn’t get the finish at the end we needed. We had a speeding penalty today, got him in the position where he needed to drive his butt off, and he did at the end, and we just got the longer run and didn’t get those caution and split to where you could do that and not run the tires off of it.

“It is what it is. Learn from it, right? The first round is very important, right, especially if you start off with a bad run. You’ve just got to maximize what you’ve got.”

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — Daniel Suárez limped home to a 31st-place finish, four laps behind race winner Kyle Larson. Chase Briscoe impressed inside the top 10 and finished eighth.

Oddly enough, the end result Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway was the same for both: advancing to the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs by a scant 11 points over the elimination line.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos

Suárez’s Bristol weekend was nothing short of miserable, his No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 36th in practice, 35th on the starting grid and stuck in the rears all night. But a 36-point cushion entering Saturday’s Round of 16 elimination race provided Suárez and Co. enough buffer to survive a bad run after scoring a combined 73 points in the round’s opening races at Atlanta and Watkins Glen.

“I didn’t want to see it, but I knew since yesterday when we unloaded for first practice, I knew we didn’t have the speed,” Suárez said. “We practiced bad, we qualified bad, and we raced the same way. We were able to make the car a little bit better, but we were just not fast enough, you know? Luckily, things worked out right there and we were able to build a good cushion in Atlanta and Watkins Glen. But yeah, not ideal, but it worked out good. We were able to build a cushion the first couple races and that’s all what got us here.”

The No. 99 team’s ultimate goal over the final quarter of the 500-lapper was simple: keep Ty Gibbs in the rearview mirror. Gibbs was within striking distance of kicking Suárez outside the top 12 in points in the final 125 laps running just outside the top 10, but Suárez made it his job to block any advances of Gibbs, making the No. 99 Chevy as wide as possible against the No. 54 Toyota while other lead-lap cars charged past Gibbs. It worked, and Gibbs slowly bled points to widen Suárez’s margin above the elimination line.

“The first part of that was good communication so that Daniel knew what he needed to do there,” crew chief Matt Swiderski told NASCAR.com. “And then Daniel and Frankie (Kimmell II, spotter) did a great job of managing that, letting people by that wouldn’t affect us points-wise, just to make it harder for the 54 to move forward. So just letting certain cars — not easily get by us, but basically, if you had a choice to block one lane or another, you’re gonna block the one with the 54.”

Chase Briscoe drives in a NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs race at Bristol.
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On the other end of the finishing order was Briscoe, whose eighth-place result marked his third top 10 in the past four races. That one exception, however, was a 38th-place finish at Atlanta after getting collected in an early crash with Larson, netting the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford just one point in the postseason opener.

Briscoe left that race 21 points beneath the elimination line, one week after a last-gasp victory in the regular-season finale at Darlington propelled the No. 14 team into the playoffs.

“The only time I had any concern the entire time is when I was sitting on the backstretch unbuckling after crashing,” Briscoe said. “And then when the race played out at Atlanta, we were sitting there at the airport and it literally just showed minus-21. I took a screenshot of it, sent it to our team guys, and I said, “doable.” That’s all I said. I mean, we were 21 or 19 (points) out the last time we came to Bristol for the (elimination) race and we made up that. So yeah, I wasn’t really concerned at all being 21 down. I felt really confident about it.”

Turns out that confidence was well-placed. Briscoe collected 43 points on the Watkins Glen road course with seven stage points and a sixth-place finish. He only built upon that Saturday at Bristol with another seven stage points and a top-10 result.

“I don’t think anybody believes this, but I really think we can battle for the championship,” Briscoe said. “And I think these last two weeks show that. I mean, we gave them a race, right? We went to Atlanta and got one point. And tonight, we had a lot of adversity, and we were better than eighth place. And there at the end, just trying not to crash myself or do anything stupid. So yeah, I mean, we brought top-five race cars the last three weeks, four weeks I guess if you count Darlington, and we’re hitting our stride at the right time. And with this format, if you can just be good for 10 weeks, then you can be a champion. And I feel like we’re as strong as any team right now.”

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The No. 14 car’s night may have gone better than Suárez’s, but it was not without its own adversity. Briscoe’s digital rearview mirror faltered early; smoke at one point filled his cockpit; and a slow pit stop cost him positions that dropped him outside the top 10. But an unwavering effort led Briscoe into the Round of 12 for the second time in the past three seasons — all as Stewart-Haas Racing prepares to shutter Cup operations at the end of the 2024 campaign.

“He’s determined,” crew chief Richard Boswell told NASCAR.com. “He’s committed to finish this year out as strong as he can. And we know when he’s at his very best, he’s a championship contender, right? He proved that a couple years ago. And it’s been a tough year with everything that’s going on at SHR and had tough end of the year last year, so this is just a breath of fresh air to see this Chase Briscoe with this much confidence and a team that supports him 100%.”

The challenge to advance starts all over again at Kansas Speedway on Sept. 29 (3 p.m. ET, USA, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App). Suárez and Briscoe both enter beneath the elimination line all over again, with Suárez seeded 10th and six points out and Briscoe seeded 12th, tied with Alex Bowman seven points beneath the line.

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Four championship hopefuls were eliminated from title contention after the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night, resetting the standings board and cementing the Round of 12.

WINNER

Kyle Larson was the class of the field Saturday night, sweeping both stages and leading 462 laps of the 500-lap showdown around the short track to score his fifth win of 2024. The victory also advanced Larson into the Round of 12.

RELATED: Race results | Playoff grid

ELIMINATED DRIVERS

Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing
Martin Truex Jr., Joe Gibbs Racing
Brad Keselowski, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing
Harrison Burton, Wood Brothers Racing

ADVANCING TO THE ROUND OF 12

Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports, 3,047 points
Christopher Bell, Joe Gibbs Racing, 3,032 points
Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, 3,028 points
William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports, 3,022 points
Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, 3,019 points
Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing, 3,015 points
Chase Elliott, Hendrick Motorsports, 3,014 points
Joey Logano, Team Penske, 3,012 points
Austin Cindric, Team Penske, 3,008 points
Daniel Suárez, Trackhouse Racing, 3,006 points
Alex Bowman, Hendrick Motorsports, 3,005 points
Chase Briscoe, Stewart-Haas Racing, 3,005 points

WHO’S HOT? 

Kyle Larson. After one of the most dominant performances in the sport’s history, Larson now heads to Kansas Speedway, where he’s the most recent winner and has five top fives in the last six races at the 1.5-mile oval. While Talladega won’t favor Larson, another big points day next weekend could cancel out any woes at the superspeedway in October.

Alex Bowman. Bowman silenced any doubters through the first three races of the playoffs with top 10s at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Bristol, clinching a spot in the Round of 12 on points before the checkered flag waved Saturday night. Kansas has been a favorable venue for the No. 48 driver recently, with four consecutive top 10s.

WHO’S NOT? 

Daniel Suárez. Suárez scraped into the Round of 12 after finishing four laps down in 31st at Bristol. He needed every point he earned at Atlanta to open the playoffs to move on but will start the next round below the elimination line. Kansas is not one of Suárez’s better tracks, with just two top 10s in 15 starts.

William Byron. Byron continues to dip in performance after a mum summer, finishing 17th at Bristol. It’s his fourth result outside the top 15 in the last five races, and he owns just three top-five results dating back to Iowa Speedway. Kansas used to be a pretty consistent top-10 landing spot for the No. 24 team, but Byron had no speed in the spring with a 23rd-place result and was 15th in the playoff race there last year.

NEXT RACE

The Round of 12 opens at Kansas for the Hollywood Casino 400 Presented by ESPN BET on Sept. 29 (3 p.m. ET, USA Network, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

WHO IT FAVORS

Tyler Reddick. Struggles at Watkins Glen International and Bristol had the regular-season champ on shaky ground, but Reddick was able to advance to the Round of 12 where he should thrive. He won the Kansas playoff race last year that set the No. 45 driver up for a run to the Round of 8. The Toyotas are historically strong at Kansas, but 23XI Racing surprisingly did not have speed in the spring. That should be a different story next weekend.

WHO IT HURTS

Ryan Blaney. There’s a handful of Round of 12 drivers that could fit into this category for Kansas but the defending Cup Series champ’s numbers at the intermediate oval are alarming. Blaney has just one top 10 in the last seven Kansas races, which was only a ninth-place result in the fall of 2022. He’s also led just 20 laps combined across the last 10 races at the track. Entering only 11 points above the elimination line heading into next weekend, he’ll need to turn it around at Kansas before finding himself in a hole heading to Talladega and the Charlotte Roval to close the Round of 12.

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — It was a story of absolute domination on the part of Kyle Larson, who led 462 of 500 laps at Bristol Motor Speedway and won Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops Night Race by 7.088 seconds over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott.

Larson’s advance to the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs was hardly in doubt. Still, the vicissitudes of the elimination race were unkind to Ty Gibbs, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Harrison Burton, who are no longer eligible to compete for the series championship.

Sweeping both stages in front of a massive crowd on a near-perfect night, Larson set a record for laps led in a single race by a Hendrick Motorsports driver. He has now led 1,351 laps at Bristol, his most at a single track.

No driver has led as many laps in a victory at Bristol since Cale Yarborough led 495 in 1977.

The victory was Larson’s second at the 0.533-mile track, his series-best fifth of the 2024 season and the 28th of the career. He enters the Round of 12 as the top seed as the series moves on to Kansas Speedway.

“Man, that was just great execution all weekend by the team,” Larson said. “Practiced good. You’ve got to qualify good; we did that. Yeah, just had a great car. Thanks to the whole 5 team. They’re the best in the business.

“We dominate a lot of races, but we might not close them all out, so it feels really good to close one out here in this HendrickCars.com Chevy. We’ve got (team owner) Rick Hendrick here today, too. He hasn’t been to many races this year …

“Just a phenomenal car, could kind of manage my stuff and then really pass some cars there at the end.”

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos

Unfortunately for Gibbs and Truex, Saturday night’s race also was the story of crippling penalties. Gibbs was flagged for speeding on pit road during the first stage break and spent the rest of the race fighting his way toward the front.

By Lap 500, however, Gibbs had worn out his right-rear tire, finished 15th and lost the final Round of 12 position to Daniel Suárez and Chase Briscoe by 11 points.

“Speeding penalty is on me,” Gibbs said. “You run the lights so close … it’s my fault. Unfortunate.”

Entering the race 14 points below the elimination line, Truex ran fourth in the first stage and second in Stage 2, but the driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota sped on pit road during the fifth and final caution and finished 24th, 21 points short of advancing to the Round of 12.

“We did good in the first two stages — we got a lot of points,” said Truex, who will retire from full-time Cup racing at the end of the season. “I guess we would have had to run second or third to make it through. Who knows if we would have been able to? I wish we could have seen if we could have done that.

“I’m just gutted for my team. We worked so hard this week. We all put in a lot all season long, and in the last three weeks, just snake-bit. Can’t do anything right … .09 mph (over the pit road speed tolerance) hurts really bad to take the chance away to know if we even could have done it. I don’t know if we could have run second … maybe. We were close to it all day, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. I feel terrible for my guys.”

Non-playoff driver Bubba Wallace finished third on Saturday night, followed by Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell and defending series champion Ryan Blaney, who secured spots in the Round of 12.

Hamlin entered the race six points below the elimination line but maintained a presence in the top five all race long.

“My aspirations were to win it, but it looked like the 5 (Larson) there was better than all of us,” Hamlin said. “Solid car. I thought we were really good towards the middle of the stages, and then at the end, got too loose and couldn’t hang onto what we had.

“Overall, top-five day, good stage points, kind of in the mix, just not really as good as we’ve been here the last few times. But overall, I want to thank this whole FedEx Toyota team for giving me something I can move on with.”

The NASCAR Playoff Grid, with the Round of 12 filled in

MORE: Latest NASCAR Playoffs standings | Cup Series schedule

Ryan Preece ran seventh, trailed by Briscoe and pole winner Alex Bowman, who was locked into the next playoff round after finishing seventh in Stage 2. Austin Cindric (13th), William Byron (17th), Tyler Reddick (20th) and Joey Logano (28th) also were among the 12 drivers to advance.

Logano already had secured his spot with a victory in the playoff opener at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Larson took charge early, passing Bowman for the lead on Lap 33. Adroitly working traffic as the first 125-lap stage progressed, Larson lapped three playoff drivers in succession — Suárez on Lap 64, Burton on Lap 86 and Keselowski of Lap 104.

Bowman led a lap under caution during the first stage break, but Larson had the top spot back out of the pits one circuit later and continued to assert his authority in Stage 2. Suárez lost a second lap to the leader on Lap 194, putting his playoff future in dire peril — temporarily.

Burton suffered the same fate on Lap 207, all but assuring his elimination. His fate was sealed when he took his No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford to the garage on Lap 235 to repair a power steering issue.

Gibbs’ penalty was the saving grace for Suárez, who finished 31st, four laps down but was able to move on.

“It was a struggle,” Suárez acknowledged. “Since yesterday when we unloaded the car for first practice, we just didn’t have the speed. As you know, with a short amount of practice, qualifying, and going to the race, if you don’t have speed out of the trailer, it’s very, very difficult to bring it back to speed.

“We made it better, but it wasn’t good enough. We were running 30th, 28th, 32nd all night long, and that’s what we had. Luckily, we had a great Atlanta (a runner-up finish), decent Watkins Glen after a broken wheel, and we were able to build a cushion, and we definitely used every single point out of that cushion.”

SHOP: Race winner gear

Interestingly, the rapid tire fall-off that exerted a profound influence over this year’s spring race at Thunder Valley was a non-factor on Saturday. Before the race, after consultation with the drivers, NASCAR opted to spray PJ1 traction compound on the bottom two feet of the track.

The Cup Series Playoffs kick off the Round of 12 next Sunday at Kansas Speedway in the Hollywood Casino 400 Presented by ESPN BET (3 p.m. ET, USA, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

NOTE: Post-race inspection in the Cup Series garage at Bristol concluded without issue, confirming Kyle Larson as the race winner.

Contributing: Staff report

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WINCHESTER, New Hampshire — No driver has been as dominant on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour as Patrick Emerling in the last two months.

That momentum continued for Emerling in Saturday’s Winchester Fair presented by USNE at Monadnock Speedway. Not only did a spirited drive give Emerling his third victory of 2024, but he also took home a $3,000 bonus by claiming the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup that encompassed the three Monadnock events.

RELATED: Complete results from the Winchester Fair pres. by USNE

Pursuing and then overtaking Matt Hirschman for the victory was an arduous task for Emerling, who credited everyone within owner Rich Gautreau’s organization for consistently providing stellar cars in their first year together.

“That was a really hard race out there,” Emerling said. “We all raced each other like gentlemen up front there. I knew we had a really good car today, but it came down to strategy. There was a lot of stuff going on there at the end, but we stuck to our plan. I’m so grateful to run with this Fleetworks No. 1 team and we’ll keep on rolling.”

Two consecutive third-place performances in the previous Monadnock races gave Emerling the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup points lead heading into Saturday.

An eighth-place qualifying effort that was not influenced by the redraw meant Emerling would have to fight to maintain his points lead at the end of the evening. Further complicating matters was Hirschman starting in the sixth position, who trailed Emerling by three points in the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup standings.

Hirschman successfully took the lead from Craig Lutz after 77 laps, all while Emerling patiently worked his way to second. Emerling kept Hirschman within striking distance, but could not erase enough ground to challenge Hirschman for the top spot.

A late caution for Trevor Catalano’s spin in Turn 4 gave teams an opportunity to change a tire of their choice, providing both Emerling and Hirschman with some fresh rubber ahead of a sprint to the finish. It took a second restart for Emerling to get the run he needed on the top line to finally put Hirschman in his rearview mirror.

Despite taking control of the race and the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup, Emerling still faced one more challenge from Anthony Nocella in the No. 17 owned by Michelle Davini. Nocella bounced off the wall attempting to chase down Emerling, but ended up settling for a runner-up finish.

Nocella wanted to deliver a strong performance for Michele, who lost her husband and team co-owner Mike Davini earlier this year. While he would have loved to bring home a victory, Nocella was satisfied to see the team get rewarded for a weekend of strenuous work.

“It means a lot,” Nocella said. “[Michelle] wanted to keep going and let us keep racing. This is my second time out with these guys. We had a good car at Loudon and unloaded here fast all day. We had to keep the car clean and stay up there. We had one shot to move [Emerling], but I didn’t do it. We got a little too tight and he got away.”

With the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup points so tight, it was paramount for Emerling to fend off Nocella after rigorously working his way to the front all night. His triumph makes him the third different Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup champion in three years, joining Hirschman and Doug Coby.

For Emerling, capturing the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup in year one highlights how quickly Gautreau’s team has matured. Building a notebook has been a crucial part of that development, particularly when it came to perfecting the setup for Saturday’s Winchester Fair.

“We just had to execute,” Emerling said. “We knew we were going to have a good car coming into the day and were really fast the last couple of races here. There’s races where the driver doesn’t have to work as hard, but we had to work hard tonight.”

Now that they have the Whelen Granite State Short Track Cup secured, Emerling and his team are turning their attention towards making a run at the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship.

Hirschman settled for third after a dominant start to the Winchester Fair. He was followed in the top five by Lutz and Woody Pitkat.

Matthew Kimball came home sixth in front of the two championship contenders, Ron Silk and Justin Bonsignore, who had multiple run-ins with one another during the closing laps. Rounding out the top 10 were Tommy Catalano and Austin Beers.

Only three races remain before the 2024 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season concludes. Next up is a trip to North Wilkesboro Speedway on Saturday, October 5 for the Brushy Mountain Powersports 150, which will be broadcasted live on FloRacing at 7:30 p.m. ET.

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The four lottery players eliminated from the NASCAR Powerball Playoff have each won $2,500, they include:

  • Shunda Davis – Magnolia, MS
  • Marilyn Elkie – St. Michael, MN
  • Mary Mauro – Denver, CO
  • Fawn Senn – Fox Lake, WI

The 16 lottery players entered the national Powerball promotion through one of 27 participating state lotteries. Participating lotteries held in-state contests and second-chance drawings throughout the 2024 NASCAR regular season to form a national pool of entrants. The 16 lottery players were randomly selected from the national pool in a preliminary drawing to advance to a series of Playoff drawings.

RELATED: Learn more about the NASCAR Powerball Playoff

The next drawing in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff will be for the Round of 8. The eight lottery players advancing in the playoff will be announced during the Bank of America ROVAL™ 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, Oct. 13. The four players eliminated from the Playoff at that time will win $5,000 each. The race will air live on NBC, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio at 2 p.m. ET.

The four lottery players still in the Playoff after the Championship 4 drawing will win a VIP trip for two to NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway®, Nov. 8-10, plus entry into the drawing for the $1 million prize.

The $1 million drawing will be broadcast live during NBC’s pre-race coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™ on Sunday, Nov. 10. Cash prizes will be awarded to all 16 lottery players based on their elimination position.

Playoff drawingsDateRace announcementsNotes
Round of 16Sept. 1Cook Out Southern 500, Darlington Raceway16 semi-finalists advance
Round of 12Sept. 21Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol Motor Speedway12 semi-finalists advance, 4 eliminated win $2,500
Round of 8Oct. 13Bank of America Roval 400, Charlotte Motor Speedway8 semi-finalists advance, 4 eliminated win $5,000
Championship 4Nov. 3Xfinity 500, Martinsville Speedway4 semi-finalists advance & win VIP trip, 4 eliminated win $7,500
$1 Million ChampionshipNov. 10NASCAR Cup Series Championship, Phoenix Raceway1 $1 million winner, 3 $10,000 winners

The VIP trip experience includes roundtrip airfare for two to Phoenix, Ariz., three nights hotel accommodations – double occupancy, two Ally Curve Hospitality Club passes for both the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race on Nov. 9 and the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race on Nov. 10, two passes for VIP experiences at Phoenix Raceway during the NASCAR Championship Weekend including Cup Series™ VIP access, NASCAR team hauler tour, MRN radio booth tour, pace car rides, Victory Lane access, welcome dinner and all meals, and ground transportation to scheduled events and activities.

Players can follow the NASCAR Powerball Playoff on Facebook, Instagram, and online at Powerball.com.

NASCAR® is a registered trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. Copyright ©2024 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. All Rights Reserved. NASCAR®, LLC is not a sponsor of this promotion.

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Winchester Fair pres. by USNE

Monadnock Speedway

  • Race results
Pos No. Name Sponsor Laps
 Diff
1 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc 200
2 17 Anthony Nocella Xtreme Racing/Sekor Machine/Zilinski Heating & Cooling 200 0.366
3 60 Matt Hirschman Elite 200 0.517
4 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 200 0.884
5 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Avenue Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 200 1.13
6 43 Matthew Kimball J&M Towing and Recovery/Poodlack Wealth Mgmt 200 1.366
7 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 200 1.722
8 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications, Inc. 200 2.11
9 54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports 200 2.323
10 64 Austin Beers G&G Electrical Supply/Dell Electric/Lumiere Electrical 200 2.643
11 21 Stephen Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Karchner Warehousing 200 4.808
12 56 Trevor Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 200 4.926
13 3 Tyler Rypkema USNE/Northeast Drilling 199 1 Lap
14 15 Joey Cipriano III* Dependable Energy & Bass Plating 199 1 Lap
15 22 Kyle Bonsignore Chalew Performance/MTT/Munns Auto 198 2 Laps
16 81 Nathan Wenzel* 1812 Paint & Auto Body/Gene’s Ford & Chev Serv 197 3 Laps
17 19 Anthony Sesely Franzosa Trucking Co/Karchner Warehousing 196 4 Laps
18 18 Ken Heagy Buoy One Seafood & Restaurant 196 4 Laps
19 84 Tyler Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 191 9 Laps
20 10 Bob Reis* IronListing.com/B.R. Machineworks 190 10 Laps
21 79 Jonathan McKennedy McKennedy Racing 94 106 Laps

 

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We’re bringing you live updates covering Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race from Bristol Motor Speedway, the Bass Pro Shops Night Race (7 ET, USA Network, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App). Bookmark this page and check back often as we chronicle the action from ‘The Last Great Colosseum.’

Overview: 

• Iconic NASCAR short track Bristol Motor Speedway hosts the 500-lap Round of 16 playoff elimination race Saturday night. 

• Among the 16 playoff contenders, four drivers will leave Bristol eliminated from the championship fight. And, considering Bristol is famously known for its full-contact short-track racing action, expect some flared tempers and hurt feelings. Bristol, baby!

If it helps to get you in the mood, you can check out past Bristol races ad-free on NASCAR Classics. 

All times listed are Eastern.

Saturday, September 21 

11:00 p.m., checkered flag: That’s it for tonight’s live blog coverage. Thanks for joining us! Race recap | Race results

10:47 p.m., checkered flag: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kyle Larson will enter the Round of 12 as the top-seeded driver.

10:40 p.m., checkered flag: How about some non-playoff drivers in the top 10? Bubba Wallace finished third, finishing off a top-five run for most of the night. Ryan Preece picked up a seventh-place finish for back-to-back top 10s, following a ninth-place effort at Watkins Glen last week. Ross Chastain came home 10th.

10:38 p.m., checkered flag: Chase Briscoe keeps Stewart-Haas Racing’s championship hopes alive in the team’s final season.

10:36 p.m., checkered flag: Brad Keselowski won’t add a second championship trophy to his collection this year.

10:34 p.m., checkered flag: Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin will carry the banner for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Round of 12, with Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr. eliminated.

10:32 p.m., checkered flag: Despite finishing 31st tonight, Daniel Suárez will advance to the Round of 12. A runner-up finish at Atlanta and a solid outing last week at Watkins Glen saved his playoffs.

10:29 p.m., checkered flag: This is Kyle Larson’s series-leading fifth win of 2024, and the 28th of his career.

10:26 p.m., checkered flag: See the unofficial results from tonight’s race.

10:23 p.m., checkered flag: The Round of 12 is set, kicking off next Sunday at Kansas Speedway (3 p.m., USA Network).

10:21 p.m., checkered flag: Larson’s performance tonight, leading 462 laps, eclipsed Jeff Gordon’s performance at Martinsville in 1997 (431 laps led) for the most laps led in a single race for a Hendrick Motorsports driver.

10:20 p.m., checkered flag: Kyle Larson’s son Owen has joined Dad for a victory celebration.

10:18 p.m., checkered flag: Ty Gibbs, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Harrison Burton will not advance to the Round of 12.

10:17 p.m., Lap 500: 🏁 Checkered flag! Kyle Larson has walloped ‘em, leading 462 of 500 laps.

10:16 p.m., Lap 499: ⚪️ Final lap for Kyle Larson and the Round of 16.

10:15 p.m., Lap 491: A single-digit lap count remains for Kyle Larson, who has a 5.6-second lead.

10:13 p.m., Lap 487: Chase Briscoe is in position to advance despite numerous issues tonight — a failing rear-view camera, cockpit smoke caused from brake fans, and a bad pit stop late. He’s running sixth, 11 points ahead of elimination.

10:09 p.m., Lap 474: Meanwhile up front, Kyle Larson has stretched his lead to nearly four seconds over Chase Elliott.

10:08 p.m., Lap 469: The No. 54 is going the wrong way as the lap count dwindles. Ty Gibbs has fallen to 12th.

10:06 p.m., Lap 462: Ty Gibbs needs six points in order to advance; he’s running ninth and falling backward. He’ll need to find some speed — fast — or hope for misfortune from Denny Hamlin (+10), Chase Briscoe (+8) or Daniel Suárez (+6).

10:03 p.m., Lap 450: Brad Keselowski, who’d hoped for a caution on a Hail Mary strategy play, has now pitted under green. That will likely end his playoff hopes.

10:02 p.m., Lap 445: Kyle Larson has now led over 400 laps tonight. A total butt-kicking so far — but this one’s not over yet.

10:01 p.m., Lap 444: Here’s the playoff picture with 56 laps to go.

1. Joey Logano, advanced to Round of 12
2. Kyle Larson, advanced to Round of 12
3. Christopher Bell, advanced to Round of 12
4. Alex Bowman, advanced to Round of 12
5. Chase Elliott, +30
6. Austin Cindric, +26
7. Ryan Blaney, +24
8. William Byron, +17
9. Tyler Reddick, +16
10. Denny Hamlin, +8
11. Chase Briscoe, +7
12. Daniel Suárez, +4
— Top 12 drivers after Bristol advance — 
13. Ty Gibbs, -4
14. Martin Truex Jr., -21
15. Brad Keselowski, -36
16. Harrison Burton, -54

9:51 p.m., Lap 405: We’re within the final 100 laps of the Bristol Night Race now — notoriously some of the most intense laps of racing in NASCAR. Hang on, folks.

9:48 p.m., Lap 393: Martin Truex Jr. has not moved from 24th place following his pit penalty. He’s 21 points below the elimination line. That penalty might have cost Truex a shot at a second championship; the 2017 champ announced he’s retiring from full-time competition at the end of the year.

9:42 p.m., Lap 372: Tonight now marks the most laps led for Kyle Larson in a single race — and there are still over 125 laps remaining. Larson led 327 laps in the 2021 Coca-Cola 600.

9:39 p.m., Lap 359: Corey LaJoie is officially done for the day, ending his Spire Motorsports tenure prematurely.

9:39 p.m., Lap 359: Chase Briscoe is digging. He’s already up to fifth, up eight spots since the restart. Similarly, Ty Gibbs restarted 15th and he’s up to eighth.

9:33 p.m., Lap 338: 🟢 Green flag again for Kyle Larson, who’s now led 300 laps tonight. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott has come to life in the final stage; he now runs second.

9:32 p.m., Lap 336: Look away, No. 19 fans. Martin Truex Jr. will give up second place and go to the end of the line for the restart after speeding on pit road. This puts him below the elimination line as they run.

9:30 p.m., Lap 333: Time for more pit stops. Kyle Larson again led the field off pit road after a speedy four-tire stop, while Chase Briscoe lost a considerable amount of track position after an equipment issue. It seems Briscoe will restart 14th.

9:26 p.m., Lap 329: 🟡 Caution No. 5. Corey LaJoie has crashed in his final race driving for Spire Motorsports. LaJoie was having a solid run in the top dozen for most of the night. It seemed LaJoie’s No. 7 broke loose, and Josh Berry made contact while LaJoie tried to gather up the car. Justin Haley moves from the No. 51 to the No. 7 next week, while LaJoie takes over Haley’s ride at Rick Ware Racing.

9:24 p.m., Lap 324: There’s an intense three-wide battle happening for second between Martin Truex Jr., Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin. Chase Elliott’s ready to pounce in fifth. Hamlin backed out, leaving Truex and Briscoe to battle for second.

9:22 p.m., Lap 316: Harrison Burton re-entered the race 77 laps off pace.

9:19 p.m., Lap 303: Ty Gibbs is putting in work in 16th place after his penalty on the first pit stop of the night. He’s passed Chris Buescher and Carson Hocevar since the restart, and there are still 200 laps for the sophomore driver to continue moving forward.

9:14 p.m., Lap 287: The difficult night for Daniel Suárez continues. Since the restart, he’s lost four positions, now running 33rd. He’s three points below the elimination line as they run.

9:10 p.m., Lap 271: Bubba Wallace has moved up to third. Could he play playoff spoiler?

9:07 p.m., Lap 260: 🟢 Back to green for the final stage — the longest one of the night. Kyle Larson leads Martin Truex Jr.

9:06 p.m., Lap 258: Alex Bowman has clinched his spot in the Round of 12 thanks to the stage points he’s earned tonight.

9:03 p.m., Lap 255: Holding steady in fifth, Bubba Wallace remains the only non-playoff driver in the top 10.

9:00 p.m., Lap 251: 🟡 Caution No. 4 for the end of Stage 2, the halfway point of the night. Kyle Larson picked up the stage win, just ahead of Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin. On old tires, Tyler Reddick picked up seven stage points by finishing fourth — that’s a success for the No. 45, though he’ll now need to pit and will likely restart outside the top 20.

8:58 p.m., Lap 248: 🟢 Tyler Reddick leads the field to green on old tires, but Kyle Larson quickly pounces and retakes the top spot.

8:56 p.m., Lap 246: Tyler Reddick opted to stay out and inherit the race lead; he’d been running around 18th place all night, so stage points here could benefit his race. Reddick’s decision to stay out also traps some cars a lap down who might have otherwise stayed out and taken the wave around at the stage break.

8:55 p.m., Lap 245: Cars are again on pit road. This stage ends in five laps, which will make for an interesting strategy decision — stay out to try to go for stage points, or set up for the best position in the final stage?

8:54 p.m., Lap 243: 🟡 Caution No. 3. Joey Logano has crashed from 12th place after a stack-up while negotiating lapped traffic. Luckily for Logano, he’s already locked into the Round of 12 thanks to his Atlanta win.

8:53 p.m., Lap 240: Harrison Burton has gone behind the wall with power steering issues. That will likely end the playoff hopes for the No. 21 team, even if they can get Burton’s car back on track.

8:51 p.m., Lap 234: Kyle Larson has eclipsed the 200-laps-led mark tonight.

8:42 p.m., Lap 200: It’s been a miserable night for Daniel Suárez. At the 200-lap mark, he’s two laps down running 32nd, and his 36-point advantage entering tonight has virtually vanished.

8:37 p.m., Lap 183: Keep an eye on Denny Hamlin in third. The defending race winner has moved up three spots since the restart and it seems his car gets better over a run. Teammate Christopher Bell is in his sights.

8:36 p.m., Lap 178: Ty Gibbs has only moved up one position after his penalty. He’s running 23rd, and the leaders are coming quickly.

8:27 p.m., Lap 144: William Byron has already lost three spots after the restart. Byron’s never led a lap at Bristol.

8:25 p.m., Lap 136: 🟢 The green flag is back out for Stage 2!

8:24 p.m., Lap 134: Well, scratch that note about Ty Gibbs; he’s been penalized for speeding on pit road. He’ll restart 24th instead of sixth.

8:22 p.m., Lap 131: Kyle Larson keeps his lead after a four-tire pit stop. Christopher Bell exited pit road second, moving past Alex Bowman. Ty Gibbs jumped from eighth up to sixth, while Chase Briscoe slipped from seventh to ninth.

8:22 p.m., Lap 131: After earning stage points in Stage 1, Christopher Bell now has enough points to advance to the Round of 12. That’s a sigh of relief for the No. 20.

8:19 p.m., Lap 129: Time for the first pit stops of the night.

8:15 p.m., Lap 126: 🟡 Caution No. 2. Kyle Larson has won Stage 1, his 11th of the year — that’s a playoff point and 10 stage points for the No. 5. Alex Bowman, Christopher Bell, Martin Truex Jr., William Byron, Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Ty Gibbs, Chase Elliott and Bubba Wallace collect stage points, too. Wallace is the only non-playoff driver in the top 10.

8:10 p.m., Lap 104: Tough going for Brad Keselowski, running 27th, the second playoff driver to lose a lap to leader Kyle Larson.

8:08 p.m., Lap 93: Chase Briscoe has told his team his rear-view camera — the equivalent of a mirror — isn’t functioning. He’s running sixth but will need to rely on his spotter and team to defend his position.

8:06 p.m., Lap 87: Running 28th, Harrison Burton has gone a lap down. He’s 47 points below the cut line and will need some help to keep his season alive.

8:05 p.m., Lap 85: The No. 5 car is getting bigger and bigger in the mirror for playoff drivers Harrison Burton and Brad Keselowski. Leader Kyle Larson will fight to put them a lap down next.

7:59 p.m., Lap 63: The Joe Gibbs Racing cars seem to have solid long-run speed. Christopher Bell has moved up to fifth past Chase Briscoe; behind them, Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs are picking off cars one at a time and closing.

7:51 p.m., Lap 34: Kyle Larson has passed teammate Alex Bowman for the top spot, the first lead change of the night.

7:50 p.m., Lap 27: On the other hand, Brad Keselowski is struggling. He started 23rd and has already fallen to 27th. Driver No. 6 started this one below the elimination line, so look for some adjustments over time for the three-time Bristol winner.

7:48 p.m., Lap 20: Daniel Suárez started deep in the field — 35th — after a disappointing qualifying run, but he’s up to 29th. He entered tonight with a healthy points cushion.

7:45 p.m., Lap 11: 🟢 Back to green! Alex Bowman is still in command. Follow along with our Race Center Live Leaderboard.

7:42 p.m., Lap 7: It’s not immediately clear what went wrong for Nemechek, who’s not in playoff contention, but a damaged car will make for a long night at Bristol. 

7:40 p.m., Lap 4: 🟡 Caution No. 1. It didn’t take long for the first yellow flag of the night. John Hunter Nemechek has gone for a spin at the back of the pack, damaging the rear of his No. 42.

7:39 p.m., Lap 2: Pole-sitter Alex Bowman cleared teammate Kyle Larson and he’s set sail.

7:39 p.m., Lap 1: 🟢 Green flag! Let’s go racing for 500 laps under the lights.

7:35 p.m.: Cars are rolling and it’s time to get this one underway.

7:20 p.m.: The Motor Racing Outreach kids — children of NASCAR drivers and crews — are kicking things off with a wonderful performance of the national anthem. Great singing, kids!

7:12 p.m.: This 500-lapper has stage breaks at Lap 125 and 250. Stage points will play a factor tonight.

7:05 p.m.: Here’s my Fantasy Live lineup for this evening. It’s heavy on Hendrick Motorsports, and I selected William Byron in my NASCAR.com 36 for 36 pick, too. We’ll see if qualifying speed translates to results.

7:01 p.m.: Last night in the Xfinity Series, we watched Justin Allgaier’s seemingly-insurmountable 43-point lead vanish after a crash, handing the regular-season title to race winner Cole Custer. In other words, nobody’s safe from elimination — other than Joey Logano, who’s headed to the Round of 12 thanks to his Atlanta win two weeks ago.

7 p.m.: It’s almost time to end the Round of 16! Let’s take a look at playoff standings heading into tonight’s race while we fire up USA Network, shall we?

1. Joey Logano, advanced to Round of 12
2. Christopher Bell, +46
3. Austin Cindric, +43
4. Alex Bowman, +41
5. Daniel Suárez, +36
6. Tyler Reddick, +30
7. Chase Elliott, +30
8. Ryan Blaney, +29
9. Kyle Larson, +26
10. William Byron, +25
11. Chase Briscoe, +6
12. Ty Gibbs, +6
— Top 12 drivers after Bristol advance — 
13. Denny Hamlin, -6
14. Brad Keselowski, -12
15. Martin Truex Jr., -14
16. Harrison Burton, -20

 

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Winchester Fair pres. by USNE

Monadnock Speedway

  • Qualifying results
Pos. No. Driver Sponsor Best Time Best Speed In Lap Laps Diff.
1 64 Austin Beers G&G Electrical Supply/Dell Electric/Lumiere Electrical 11.723 76.772 2 2
2 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 11.882 75.745 2 2 0.159
3 17 Anthony Nocella Xtreme Racing/Sekor Machine/Zilinski Heating & Cooling 11.898 75.643 2 2 0.175
4 54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports 11.911 75.56 2 2 0.188
5 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications, Inc. 11.931 75.434 2 2 0.208
6 60 Matt Hirschman Elite 11.948 75.326 1 2 0.225
7 21 Stephen  Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Karchner Warehousing 11.996 75.025 1 2 0.273
8 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc 12.028 74.825 2 2 0.305
9 56 Trevor Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 12.03 74.813 1 2 0.307
10 22 Kyle Bonsignore Chalew Performance/MTT/Munns Auto 12.05 74.689 1 2 0.327
11 15 Joey Cipriano III* Dependable Energy & Bass Plating 12.094 74.417 2 2 0.371
12 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 12.102 74.368 2 2 0.379
13 84 Tyler Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 12.105 74.349 2 2 0.382
14 43 Matthew Kimball J&M Towing and Recovery/Poodlack Wealth Mgmt 12.166 73.977 2 2 0.443
15 79 Jonathan McKennedy McKennedy Racing 12.179 73.898 2 2 0.456
16 3 Tyler Rypkema USNE/Northeast Drilling 12.301 73.165 2 2 0.578
17 19 Anthony Sesely Franzosa Trucking Co/Karchner Warehousing 12.304 73.147 2 2 0.581
18 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Avenue Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 12.327 73.01 2 2 0.604
19 18 Ken Heagy Buoy One Seafood & Restaurant 12.415 72.493 2 2 0.692
20 81 Nathan Wenzel* 1812 Paint & Auto Body/Gene’s Ford & Chev Serv 12.878 69.887 1 2 1.155
21 10 Bob Reis* IronListing.com/B.R. Machineworks 12.943 69.536 1 2 1.22