Food City Dirt Race April 17th | RESULTS Talladega Superspeedway GEICO 500 Race Results April 24th, 2022 DuraMAX Drydene 400 presented by RelaDyne May 2nd | 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 Raw Feed Stage 1 of 3 188 / 188 Laps / Total 188 / 188 Time Elapsed 11:21:50 Lead Changes 41 Leaders 16 Cautions 6 Best Speed 195.796 RESULTS START POS FINAL STATUS LAPS COMPLETED LAPS LED POINTS PLAYOFF POINTS 1 Ross Chastain 1 | 19 Running 188 1 42 5 2 Austin Dillon 3 | 14 Running 188 0 35 0 3 Kyle Busch 18 | 12 Running 188 3 39 0 4 Kyle Larson 5 | 5 Running 188 32 50 0 5 Martin Truex Jr 19 | 2 Running 188 0 45 0 6 Erik Jones 43 | 16 Running 188 25 37 0 7 Chase Elliott 9 | 28 Running 188 0 44 0 8 Michael McDowell 34 | 21 Running 188 0 29 0 9 Alex Bowman 48 | 27 Running 188 0 36 0 10 Kevin Harvick 4 | 24 Running 188 0 27 0 11 Ryan Blaney 12 | 22 Running 188 23 26 0 12 Justin Haley 31 | 11 Running 188 0 25 0 13 Aric Almirola 10 | 23 Running 188 0 28 0 14 Corey Lajoie 7 | 33 Running 188 1 23 0 15 William Byron 24 | 8 Running 188 38 39 1 16 Kurt Busch 45 | 6 Running 188 1 26 0 17 Bubba Wallace 23 | 9 Running 188 15 30 1 18 Denny Hamlin 11 | 7 Running 188 9 19 0 19 Landon Cassill 77 | 39 Running 188 0 0 0 20 Noah Gragson 62 | 31 Running 188 0 0 0 21 Austin Cindric 2 | 18 Running 188 0 16 0 22 Christopher Bell 20 | 1 Running 187 7 23 0 23 Brad Keselowski 6 | 15 Running 187 0 14 0 24 David Ragan 15 | 36 Running 186 0 13 0 25 JJ Yeley 55 | 38 Running 185 1 0 0 26 BJ McLeod 78 | 37 Running 172 2 11 0 27 Todd Gilliland 38 | 32 Accident 121 0 10 0 28 Cody Ware 51 | 34 DVP 105 0 9 0 29 Cole Custer 41 | 29 Engine 98 1 8 0 30 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 47 | 26 Accident 95 0 8 0 31 Daniel Suárez 99 | 4 DVP 92 28 6 0 32 Joey Logano 22 | 13 Accident 89 1 5 0 33 Ty Dillon 42 | 20 Accident 89 0 4 0 34 Harrison Burton 21 | 25 Accident 89 0 3 0 35 Greg Biffle 44 | 35 Fuel Pump 79 0 2 0 36 Daniel Hemric 16 | 3 Accident 56 0 0 0 37 Chase Briscoe 14 | 17 Accident 56 0 1 0 38 Chris Buescher 17 | 30 Accident 56 0 1 0 39 Tyler Reddick 8 | 10 Engine 31 0 1 0 RAW FEED EXPAND Stage 1 of 3 188 / 188 Laps / Total 188 / 188 Time Elapsed 11:21:50 Lead Changes 41 Leaders 16 Cautions 6 Best Speed 195.796 POS 1 | LEADER POS1 LEADER Ross Chastain | POS 2 | 0.105 POS2 0.105 Austin Dillon | POS 3 | 0.225 POS3 0.225 Kyle Busch | Timeline Compare Live Standings Ross Chastain converts last-lap pass, wins Talladega thriller One lap. That‘s all it took for Ross Chastain to drop a watermelon and raise a trophy in celebration. The 29-year-old Floridian led only the last — typically frantic — lap in the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday to take his second career NASCAR Cup Series victory.Chastain was running third behind Erik Jones and Kyle Larson with one lap remaining. Larson pulled out of line to the outside, poised to make a pass for the lead. But Jones pulled in front of Larson to block the momentum while Chastain kept his No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet steady below them maintaining pace, ultimately pulling away to the win as the other two cars lost momentum battling each other.RELATED: Official results | At-track photos“Holy cow, we didn‘t do anything,‘‘ Chastain yelled on his team radio after taking the checkered flag by a mere 0.105 seconds. “We just stayed down there.‘‘And it worked.“I‘m always the one going to the top too early and making the mistake and there at the end, with like eight (laps) to go I was like ‘I‘m not going up there again, I did that a couple times today,‘ ” said Chastain, who earned his first career series victory at Austin‘s Circuit of The Americas on March 27.“I was like, I‘ll just drive the bottom, I‘m not going to lose the race for us. They just kept going up and moving out of the way.”Richard Childress Racing‘s Austin Dillon crossed the line in second, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Kyle Busch while the Hendrick Motorsports driver Larson was able to finish fourth for his first top-five finish in a superspeedway race in 31 tries.Joe Gibbs Racing driver Martin Truex Jr. was fifth followed by Jones, who came less than one lap away from giving Petty GMS Motorsports and team owner Richard Petty its first win since 2014.“Just the last lap, it‘s typical here,‘‘ said a disappointed Jones, who finished sixth. “I‘ve been close here so many times in this race and the fall race.‘‘“Looking back,‘‘ he continued. “I wish I‘d stayed in the bottom but didn‘t realize they were coming with that much speed. Tried to defend the 5 (Larson), but was too far ahead already and obviously it opened the door for the 1 (Chastain).He did take solace in the showing, however.“Happy to run up front and lead laps, just would really love to get that 43 to Victory Lane and thought today might be the day,‘‘ Jones said. “We were fast all day long, had speed and especially being out front there at the end I know we had a shot, just couldn‘t quite close it out.‘‘Larson was equally as disappointed hoping to turn his best race performance at Talladega into a trophy.“I felt like I did a pretty near perfect job for me at a superspeedway until the last lap there,‘‘ said Larson, the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion. “I should have faked going high and gone back low. I had that run there.‘“Just that little inexperience there, probably,‘‘ he added.Larson‘s Hendrick teammate Chase Elliott, a former Talladega winner, finished seventh, followed by former Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell, Hendrick‘s Alex Bowman and Stewart-Haas Racing‘s Kevin Harvick.The race ending capped off a typically dramatic day featuring 41 lead changes among 16 drivers. Hendrick Motorsports‘ William Byron led a race-best 38 of the 188 laps and won Stage 2, but finished 15th, unable to make up ground after his final pit stop in the dicey closing laps.Bubba Wallace, who won last fall at Talladega and led 15 laps on Sunday, won Stage 1 — his first stage win of the season — but as with Byron, lost positions in the final laps. He was involved in a wreck coming to the checkered flag and finished 17th in the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota.A multi-car crash on a Stage 2 restart thinned the field of contenders. Joey Logano’s No. 22 Ford was shuffled out of line into the outside retaining wall, bouncing back into traffic and collecting several others. The No. 99 Chevrolet of Daniel Suárez, who had led 28 laps early, joined the cars of Logano, Ty Dillon and Harrison Burton among the eliminated.MORE: Logano, Suárez out earlyElliott‘s top-10 result was good enough for him to extend the championship lead over the 11th-place finisher, Team Penske‘s Ryan Blaney. He‘s now 21 points up on the field heading to Dover Motor Speedway next weekend, where the NASCAR Cup Series will race Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Bowman is the defending race winner.Note: Post-race inspection was completed in the Cup Series garage without issue, confirming Chastain’s victory. NASCAR officials indicated that six cars (Nos. 4, 5, 6, 11, 19 and 48) will be taken back to the wind tunnel and NASCAR’s R&D Center for further inspection.Contributing: Staff reportsChastain vs. Larson: Who wins at Dover? - Powered By PickUp DRIVERS COMPARISON Position Speed Time Ross Chastain Austin Dillon Flag State Fastest Lap #1 Ross Chastain Austin Dillon Kyle Busch Kyle Larson Martin Truex Jr. Erik Jones Chase Elliott Michael McDowell Alex Bowman Kevin Harvick Ryan Blaney Justin Haley Aric Almirola Corey LaJoie William Byron Kurt Busch Bubba Wallace Denny Hamlin Landon Cassill(i) * Noah Gragson(i) Austin Cindric # Christopher Bell Brad Keselowski David Ragan * JJ Yeley(i) BJ McLeod Todd Gilliland # Cody Ware Cole Custer Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Daniel Suarez Joey Logano Ty Dillon Harrison Burton # * Greg Biffle Daniel Hemric(i) Chase Briscoe Chris Buescher Tyler Reddick #1 LAP SPEED 190.446MPH LEADER LEADER AVG RUNNING POS 16.995 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 49.328 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH) 194.129 LAPS LED 0 #2 Austin Dillon Ross Chastain Kyle Busch Kyle Larson Martin Truex Jr. Erik Jones Chase Elliott Michael McDowell Alex Bowman Kevin Harvick Ryan Blaney Justin Haley Aric Almirola Corey LaJoie William Byron Kurt Busch Bubba Wallace Denny Hamlin Landon Cassill(i) * Noah Gragson(i) Austin Cindric # Christopher Bell Brad Keselowski David Ragan * JJ Yeley(i) BJ McLeod Todd Gilliland # Cody Ware Cole Custer Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Daniel Suarez Joey Logano Ty Dillon Harrison Burton # * Greg Biffle Daniel Hemric(i) Chase Briscoe Chris Buescher Tyler Reddick #2 LAP SPEED 192.193MPH 0.10499999999956 (Time Behind) 0.10499999999956 (Time Behind) AVG RUNNING POS 13.307 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 49.343 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH)) 194.07 LAPS LED 0 LIVE STANDINGS FAVORITES POINTS BEHIND DELTA STAGE ONE POINTS STAGE TWO POINTS STAGE THREE POINTS RACE POINTS 1 Brad Keselowski 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 2 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 Brad Keselowski 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 Brad Keselowski 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 2 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 A.J. Allmendinger 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 4 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 5 Martin Truex Jr. 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 6 A.J. Allmendinger 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 7 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 8 Martin Truex Jr. 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 9 Brad Keselowski 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 10 Brad Keselowski 41 | 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