Xfinity 500 October 31st | RESULTS Phoenix Raceway Race Results NASCAR Cup Series Championship November 7th, 2021 Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum February 6th | RESULTS Race Lap Times Race OVERALL OVERALL 5 LAP 10 LAP 15 LAP 20 LAP 25 LAP 30 LAP Lap 25 Lap 1 Lap 2 Lap 3 Lap 4 Lap 5 Lap 6 Lap 7 Lap 8 Lap 9 Lap 10 Lap 11 Lap 12 Lap 13 Lap 14 Lap 15 Lap 16 Lap 17 Lap 18 Lap 19 Lap 20 Lap 21 Lap 22 Lap 23 Lap 24 Lap 25 Race Qualifying Practice 1 Raw Feed Stage 1 of 3 312 / 312 Laps / Total 312 / 312 Time Elapsed 11:06:32 Lead Changes 18 Leaders 7 Cautions 9 Best Speed 134.208 PRACTICE RESULTS TIME BEHIND LAPS DELTA BEST TIME BEST SPEED 1 Brad Keselowski 2 | | LEADER 43 LEADER 26.591 135.384 MPH 2 Kyle Larson 5 | | 0.018 46 0.018 26.609 135.293 MPH 3 Matt DiBenedetto 21 | | 0.054 34 0.054 26.645 135.11 MPH 4 Christopher Bell 20 | | 0.059 42 0.059 26.65 135.084 MPH 5 Chase Elliott 9 | | 0.072 50 0.072 26.663 135.019 MPH 6 William Byron 24 | | 0.109 43 0.109 26.7 134.831 MPH 7 Ryan Blaney 12 | | 0.231 48 0.231 26.822 134.218 MPH 8 Denny Hamlin 11 | | 0.251 43 0.251 26.842 134.118 MPH 9 Alex Bowman 48 | | 0.265 31 0.265 26.856 134.048 MPH 10 Tyler Reddick 8 | | 0.277 35 0.277 26.868 133.988 MPH 11 Kevin Harvick 4 | | 0.320 38 0.320 26.911 133.774 MPH 12 Ross Chastain 42 | | 0.334 37 0.334 26.925 133.705 MPH 13 Bubba Wallace 23 | | 0.352 17 0.352 26.943 133.615 MPH 14 Joey Logano 22 | | 0.379 37 0.379 26.97 133.482 MPH 15 Erik Jones 43 | | 0.381 29 0.381 26.972 133.472 MPH 16 Kyle Busch 18 | | 0.382 47 0.382 26.973 133.467 MPH 17 Kurt Busch 1 | | 0.385 35 0.385 26.976 133.452 MPH 18 Martin Truex Jr 19 | | 0.390 32 0.390 26.981 133.427 MPH 19 Corey Lajoie 7 | | 0.453 29 0.453 27.044 133.116 MPH 20 Cole Custer 41 | | 0.454 41 0.454 27.045 133.111 MPH 21 Aric Almirola 10 | | 0.504 33 0.504 27.095 132.866 MPH 22 Chris Buescher 17 | | 0.539 31 0.539 27.13 132.694 MPH 23 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 47 | | 0.566 35 0.566 27.157 132.563 MPH 24 Austin Dillon 3 | | 0.586 33 0.586 27.177 132.465 MPH 25 Michael McDowell 34 | | 0.625 32 0.625 27.216 132.275 MPH 26 Daniel Suarez 99 | | 0.626 38 0.626 27.217 132.27 MPH 27 Ryan Newman 6 | | 0.686 42 0.686 27.277 131.979 MPH 28 Justin Haley 77 | | 0.697 23 0.697 27.288 131.926 MPH 29 Chase Briscoe 14 | | 0.743 30 0.743 27.334 131.704 MPH 30 Quin Houff *37 | | 0.812 27 0.812 27.403 131.372 MPH 31 Anthony Alfredo 38 | | 1.129 41 1.129 27.72 129.87 MPH 32 Cody Ware 51 | | 1.298 21 1.298 27.889 129.083 MPH 33 BJ McLeod 78 | | 1.302 3 1.302 27.893 129.065 MPH 34 Quin Houff *13 | | 1.822 29 1.822 28.413 126.703 MPH 35 Joey Gase 53 | | 1.876 14 1.876 28.467 126.462 MPH 36 Quin Houff 00 | | 1.878 25 1.878 28.469 126.453 MPH 37 Josh Bilicki 52 | | 1.980 15 1.980 28.571 126.002 MPH 38 Garrett Smithley 15 | | 2.112 10 2.112 28.703 125.422 MPH 39 Quin Houff *66 | | 2.617 10 2.617 29.208 123.254 MPH RESULTS START POS FINAL STATUS LAPS COMPLETED LAPS LED POINTS PLAYOFF POINTS 1 Kyle Larson 5 | 1 Running 312 107 40 0 2 Martin Truex Jr 19 | 12 Running 312 72 35 0 3 Denny Hamlin 11 | 6 Running 312 0 34 0 4 Ryan Blaney 12 | 4 Running 312 33 42 0 5 Chase Elliott 9 | 2 Running 312 94 32 0 6 Aric Almirola 10 | 18 Running 312 0 31 0 7 Kyle Busch 18 | 13 Running 312 0 33 0 8 Kevin Harvick 4 | 9 Running 312 1 43 0 9 Christopher Bell 20 | 8 Running 312 0 28 0 10 Brad Keselowski 2 | 11 Running 312 0 31 0 11 Joey Logano 22 | 10 Running 312 0 28 0 12 Matt DiBenedetto 21 | 15 Running 312 0 26 0 13 Cole Custer 41 | 7 Running 312 0 28 0 14 Ross Chastain 42 | 16 Running 312 0 23 0 15 Austin Dillon 3 | 23 Running 312 0 22 0 16 Kurt Busch 1 | 5 Running 312 1 23 0 17 William Byron 24 | 3 Running 312 0 26 0 18 Alex Bowman 48 | 14 Running 312 0 19 0 19 Tyler Reddick 8 | 20 Running 312 4 18 0 20 Ryan Preece 37 | 31 Running 312 0 17 0 21 Daniel Suarez 99 | 17 Running 312 0 16 0 22 Erik Jones 43 | 27 Running 312 0 15 0 23 Ryan Newman 6 | 19 Running 312 0 14 0 24 Michael McDowell 34 | 28 Running 312 0 13 0 25 Chris Buescher 17 | 26 Running 311 0 12 0 26 Justin Haley 77 | 29 Running 310 0 0 0 27 BJ McLeod 78 | 32 Running 309 0 0 0 28 Cody Ware 51 | 33 Running 306 0 0 0 29 Joey Gase 53 | 34 Running 303 0 0 0 30 Josh Bilicki 52 | 37 Running 303 0 0 0 31 Garrett Smithley 15 | 38 Running 301 0 0 0 32 Corey Lajoie 7 | 24 Running 281 0 5 0 33 David Starr 13 | 36 Brakes 273 0 0 0 34 Anthony Alfredo 38 | 30 Accident 242 0 3 0 35 Chase Briscoe 14 | 22 Accident 153 0 2 0 36 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 47 | 21 Accident 140 0 1 0 37 Quin Houff 00 | 35 Accident 122 0 1 0 38 Timmy Hill 66 | 39 Handling 57 0 0 0 39 Bubba Wallace 23 | 25 Accident 5 0 1 0 RAW FEED EXPAND Stage 1 of 3 312 / 312 Laps / Total 312 / 312 Time Elapsed 11:06:32 Lead Changes 18 Leaders 7 Cautions 9 Best Speed 134.208 POS 1 | LEADER POS1 LEADER Kyle Larson | POS 2 | 0.398 POS2 0.398 Martin Truex Jr. | POS 3 | 1.193 POS3 1.193 Denny Hamlin | Timeline Compare Live Standings Kyle Larson completes dream season with Cup Series title, race win at Phoenix AVONDALE, Ariz. — At the end of an almost mythical season came the quintessential story of redemption.Taking advantage of an opportune caution and a blazingly fast pit stop by his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet crew, Larson held off Martin Truex Jr. during a 24-lap green-flag run to the finish in Sunday‘s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race.RELATED: Race results | At-track photos from PhoenixThe victory — Larson‘s 10th of the season and the 10th at a track where he had never won before — made a deserving series champion of the 29-year-old Californian, who honed his racing skills in open-wheeled cars on dirt.As Larson slowed his car for the cool-down lap, the tears started flowing.“I can’t … I cannot believe it,” Larson said after climbing from his car. “I didn’t even think I’d be racing a Cup car a year and a half ago. To win a championship is crazy. I’ve got to say first-off thank you so much to (team owner) Rick Hendrick, Hendrickcars.com, Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, every single one of my supporters in the stands, watching at home and my family.“There were so many points in this race where I did not think we were going to win. Without my pit crew on that last stop (on Lap 285), we would not be standing right here. They are the true winners of this race. They are true champions. I’m just blessed to be a part of this group. Every single man and woman at Hendrick Motorsports, this win is for all of us, and every one of you.“This is unbelievable. I’m speechless.”RELATED: Kyle Larson caps dominant season with Cup championshipThis was the Kyle Larson who watched last year‘s Cup championship race from afar after drawing a suspension from NASCAR and losing his ride with Chip Ganassi Racing for using a racial slur during a non-NASCAR-related virtual race in April 2020.But after Larson did yeoman work to earn reinstatement, team owner Rick Hendrick hired the virtuoso driver, who won 46 dirt races in multiple divisions during his absence from NASCAR.Hendrick‘s decision paid immediate dividends and culminated in the 14th series championship for the organization (series-most).Until Lap 282 of 312, however, Larson‘s chances of victory were all but nonexistent. He was fourth among the Championship 4 drivers and trailing Truex, the leader at the time, by more than four seconds.But on the lap that changed the race, the brakes in David Starr‘s No. 13 Toyota exploded and dropped a rotor in the low lane in Turn 3. Under the resulting caution, the ninth of the race, Larson‘s crew performed its second-fastest stop of the year and got Larson off pit road in the lead from pit stall No. 1, which the driver had earned by winning the pole during Saturday‘s qualifying.Larson restarted from the outside on Lap 289 with Hamlin beside him. Truex, who lost two positions on pit road, lined up behind Larson, with defending champion Chase Elliott to his inside. Larson surged into the lead, and Truex followed, passing Hamlin.Truex contested the lead early in the run before Larson established a more comfortable margin. But Truex was closing at the finish and was just .398 seconds behind when Larson crossed the stripe for the final time to earn the 16th victory of his career.RELATED: Martin Truex Jr. on finishing second again“I don’t know what the caution was for, but just untimely caution for us and lost two spots on pit road, and that was the race,” Truex said. “Twenty (laps) to go, you’re not going to pass one of the fastest cars out there. We just didn’t have the short-run speed all day, and then certainly with 20 to go, it’s going to be hard to pass anybody out front in clean air.“I think if we would have had the lead, we could have held him off. But hindsight is 20-20, and we didn’t have the lead, so here we are. Really proud of our team and our season. Come in here once again as underdogs and had a shot at it, so that was fun.”Before the Lap 282 caution Hamlin‘s No. 11 Joe Gibbs racing Toyota was closing on Truex, but the yellow flag foiled a well-executed game plan by Hamlin‘s team.“I really liked where we were at with about 25 to go,” said Hamlin, who came home third in front of Ryan Blaney and Elliott. “We were just exceptional in the long run, which wasn’t too surprising, but started running the 19 (Truex) back down there and got within a couple car lengths, and obviously that debris caution changed a lot.“Special congrats to Larson and his team. Those guys, any time you can win 10 races in a year, you’re absolutely a deserving champion. They did a great job on the last pit stop and got him out there, and it was just set sail after that.”Had he won, the 25-year-old Elliott would have become the youngest driver to win multiple Cup championships, but his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet didn‘t have either the track position or the necessary speed in the final run.“I felt like our NAPA Chevy was really good, and I thought our team did a really good job preparing this week,” said Elliott, who led 94 laps, second only to Larson‘s 107. “I was really proud of our group. I thought we brought a really good car and did a lot of things that we were wanting to do today. Just didn’t work out, and the sequence of the way all that went certainly was unfortunate for us.“But look, proud of our team, a lot to build on, and also congrats to Kyle and (crew chief) Cliff (Daniels). What an amazing season. Very, very deserving champions, and glad to see Kyle have success. When you’re a good driver and a good person, and you surround yourself with good people, success is warranted. It’s good to see that.“But we’ll be back stronger next year and try to give them a run.”MORE: Chase Elliott’s post-race interviewNotes: Post-race inspection as well as the vehicle and engine teardown confirmed Larson as the race winner and champion. The No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of driver Kyle Busch was found to have two lug nuts not safe and secure. The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of driver Denny Hamlin, the No. 2 Team Penske Ford of driver Brad Keselowski, the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford of driver Matt DiBenedetto, the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of driver Martin Truex Jr. and the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Larson each had one lug nut not safe and secure. Fines to those respective crew chiefs will be assessed on the NASCAR penalty report, which is typically released on Tuesdays. DRIVERS COMPARISON Position Speed Time Kyle Larson (P) Martin Truex Jr. (P) Flag State Fastest Lap #1 Kyle Larson (P) Martin Truex Jr. (P) Denny Hamlin (P) Ryan Blaney Chase Elliott (P) Aric Almirola Kyle Busch Kevin Harvick Christopher Bell Brad Keselowski Joey Logano Matt DiBenedetto Cole Custer Ross Chastain Austin Dillon Kurt Busch William Byron Alex Bowman Tyler Reddick * Ryan Preece Daniel Suarez Erik Jones Ryan Newman Michael McDowell Chris Buescher Justin Haley(i) BJ McLeod(i) Cody Ware(i) Joey Gase(i) Josh Bilicki(i) Garrett Smithley(i) Corey LaJoie * David Starr(i) Anthony Alfredo # Chase Briscoe # Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Quin Houff * Timmy Hill(i) Bubba Wallace #1 LAP SPEED 126.725MPH LEADER LEADER AVG RUNNING POS 3.243 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 26.868 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH) 133.988 LAPS LED 0 #2 Martin Truex Jr. (P) Kyle Larson (P) Denny Hamlin (P) Ryan Blaney Chase Elliott (P) Aric Almirola Kyle Busch Kevin Harvick Christopher Bell Brad Keselowski Joey Logano Matt DiBenedetto Cole Custer Ross Chastain Austin Dillon Kurt Busch William Byron Alex Bowman Tyler Reddick * Ryan Preece Daniel Suarez Erik Jones Ryan Newman Michael McDowell Chris Buescher Justin Haley(i) BJ McLeod(i) Cody Ware(i) Joey Gase(i) Josh Bilicki(i) Garrett Smithley(i) Corey LaJoie * David Starr(i) Anthony Alfredo # Chase Briscoe # Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Quin Houff * Timmy Hill(i) Bubba Wallace #2 LAP SPEED 126.707MPH 0.39800000000105 (Time Behind) 0.39800000000105 (Time Behind) AVG RUNNING POS 3.712 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 26.967 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH)) 133.496 LAPS LED 0 LIVE STANDINGS FAVORITES POINTS BEHIND DELTA STAGE ONE POINTS STAGE TWO POINTS STAGE THREE POINTS RACE POINTS 1 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 2 A.J. Allmendinger 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 Martin Truex Jr. 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 LIVE STANDINGS POINTS BEHIND DELTA STAGE ONE POINTS STAGE TWO POINTS STAGE THREE POINTS RACE POINTS 1 A.J. Allmendinger 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 2 A.J. Allmendinger 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 Brad Keselowski 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 4 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 5 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 6 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 7 A.J. Allmendinger 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 8 Martin Truex Jr. 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 9 A.J. Allmendinger 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 10 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 Listen to driver & spotter audio Access to Officials channel Tune-in to the radio broadcast New subscriptions can be purchased through the NASCAR Mobile app SUBSCRIBE NOW Already a Subscriber? LOG IN