AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500 September 25th | RESULTS Talladega Superspeedway Race Results YellaWood 500 Results October 2nd, 2022 Bank of America Roval 400 October 9th | 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 11:15:22 Lead Changes 57 Leaders 17 Cautions 6 Best Speed 196.499 RESULTS START POS FINAL STATUS LAPS COMPLETED LAPS LED POINTS PLAYOFF POINTS 1 Chase Elliott 9 | 16 Running 188 10 58 6 2 Ryan Blaney 12 | 19 Running 188 31 45 1 3 Michael McDowell 34 | 29 Running 188 0 34 0 4 Ross Chastain 1 | 6 Running 188 36 38 0 5 Denny Hamlin 11 | 3 Running 188 20 41 0 6 Erik Jones 43 | 12 Running 188 23 38 0 7 Todd Gilliland 38 | 34 Running 188 1 30 0 8 Daniel Suárez 99 | 14 Running 188 2 36 0 9 Austin Cindric 2 | 17 Running 188 0 35 0 10 Chase Briscoe 14 | 5 Running 188 0 28 0 11 Landon Cassill 77 | 33 Running 188 1 0 0 12 William Byron 24 | 9 Running 188 1 25 0 13 Austin Dillon 3 | 20 Running 188 0 24 0 14 Aric Almirola 10 | 4 Running 188 36 23 0 15 Justin Haley 31 | 21 Running 188 0 31 0 16 Bubba Wallace 45 | 27 Running 188 0 21 0 17 Christopher Bell 20 | 1 Running 188 0 20 0 18 Kyle Larson 5 | 2 Running 188 8 30 0 19 Noah Gragson 48 | 7 Running 188 0 0 0 20 Kyle Busch 18 | 26 Running 188 3 21 0 21 Cole Custer 41 | 28 Running 188 2 16 0 22 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 47 | 25 Running 188 0 20 0 23 Ty Dillon 42 | 30 Running 188 0 14 0 24 Brad Keselowski 6 | 18 Running 188 0 13 0 25 Chris Buescher 17 | 23 Running 188 1 15 0 26 Martin Truex Jr 19 | 22 Running 188 1 11 0 27 Joey Logano 22 | 11 Running 188 0 16 0 28 Tyler Reddick 8 | 8 Running 187 11 9 0 29 Kevin Harvick 4 | 24 Running 187 0 8 0 30 Justin Allgaier 62 | 31 Running 186 0 0 0 31 JJ Yeley 15 | 36 Running 184 0 0 0 32 Cody Ware 51 | 37 Running 184 0 5 0 33 BJ McLeod 78 | 35 Running 182 0 0 0 34 Daniel Hemric 16 | 13 Electrical 180 0 0 0 35 Corey Lajoie 7 | 32 Accident 44 1 2 0 36 Harrison Burton 21 | 15 Accident 23 0 1 0 37 Ty Gibbs 23 | 10 Accident 23 0 0 0 RAW FEED EXPAND Stage 1 of 3 188 / 188 Laps / Total 188 / 188 Time Elapsed 11:15:22 Lead Changes 57 Leaders 17 Cautions 6 Best Speed 196.499 POS 1 | LEADER POS1 LEADER Chase Elliott | POS 2 | 0.046 POS2 0.046 Ryan Blaney | POS 3 | 0.094 POS3 0.094 Michael McDowell | Timeline Compare Live Standings Chase Elliott wins at Talladega, advances to Round of 8 in playoffs TALLADEGA, Ala. — Always the unquestionable fan favorite at NASCAR‘s famed Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Georgia-native Chase Elliott made a last-lap pass to claim the NASCAR Cup Series YellaWood 500 victory Sunday afternoon — having to better one of his best friends, Ryan Blaney, to earn the first automatic bid into the next round of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.With two laps to go, Elliott pulled his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet from the bottom lane to the top lane and got a huge push from behind by Petty GMS Racing driver Erik Jones — the momentum enough to edge fellow playoff competitor Blaney by a slight 0.046 seconds at the line and give him a chance to hoist his series-best fifth trophy of the season; 18th of his seven-year NASCAR Cup Series career.RELATED: Race Rewind | Race results“Moments like that, you have to really cherish and you guys are what makes this special to me,” Elliott, 26, told the cheering fans. “So, thank you sincerely, I really appreciate it.”“It was a wild last couple laps. I wasn‘t super crazy about being on the bottom and fortunately I got just clear enough off of [Turn] 2 to slide up in front of Erik [Jones] and he gave me some great shoves, obviously a Team Chevy partner there. Just had a good enough run to get out front and then was able to stay far enough in front of Ryan [Blaney] at the line to get it done.“These things are so so hard to win, you gotta enjoy them and just appreciate everyone‘s effort today.”Former Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell was third, followed by two more playoff drivers, Trackhouse Racing‘s Ross Chastain and Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Denny Hamlin.Chastain and Stewart-Haas Racing‘s Aric Almirola led the most laps on the day — each out front 36 laps — in an afternoon that featured the most lead changes of the season (57) set by 17 different drivers.Although it was a typically dramatic superspeedway ending, the action was tame by Talladega standards. Only one of the six caution periods was for a multi-car accident. Two were scheduled stage breaks and the other two for single-car incidents. The final caution — which set up the two-lap shootout ending — came for Daniel Hemric‘s stalled car on pit road.That bunched up the field again and ultimately positioned Elliott (who restarted on the inside of the third row) to make his run forward. Blaney, who led 31 laps in the No. 12 Penske Racing Ford, had been trading the lead with Jones in the laps immediately before that final caution flag.“I thought about it,” Blaney said of making a different move for the lead. “The second lane was kind of the strongest, definitely the second half of the race. And I thought about (throwing a block on Elliott) but when you go to the middle without a Ford or teammate behind you, the chances of getting split are so high.“As much as I trust Chase, I don‘t trust him enough for him not to take me three-wide and leave me in the middle so I chose to stay down in front of (fellow Ford driver) Michael (McDowell). He was awesome at pushing me on the last restart and giving me great shots. Just a little bit too late.“Maybe I could have faked the top and gone to the bottom there on the frontstretch, but I don‘t know if I could have gotten there anyway, but overall, not a bad day. Just probably going to replay in my head five different things I could have done different.”RELATED: Best photos from Talladega | Sunday’s race in GIFsEach of the stage finishes came down to the moves made in the tri-oval. Blaney snatched the Stage 1 victory by just .009 seconds over Hamlin with a charge through the outside lane, while Elliott snookered Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson exiting the tri-oval for the Stage 2 win.It was a big boost for Elliott, who had a rough outing last week in the opening race of this playoff round in Texas. Elliott crashed out and finished 32nd and came into Talladega ranked eighth — after earning the regular season championship and leading the standings for a season-best 23 weeks prior to Sunday.The opening four 2022 playoff races were won by non-playoff drivers — an unprecedented occurrence. So Elliott‘s advancement to the next round is the first “automatic” advancement by a playoff-eligible driver.Beyond Elliott, Blaney now leads the points standings — 34 points ahead of Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Austin Cindric in ninth place with the top eight drivers advancing to the Round of 8 next playoff round.Chastain is ranked third, followed by Hamlin and Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who finished 27th on Sunday. Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Larson — who finished 18th at Talladega — is ranked sixth in the standings, followed by Trackhouse Racing‘s Daniel Suárez and Stewart-Haas Racing‘s Chase Briscoe in that final eighth place.Cindric is tied with Briscoe in points. William Byron (-11), Christopher Bell (-33) and Alex Bowman (-54) complete the current playoff 12.The Hendrick Motorsports driver Bowman did not race this week as he is recovering from concussion-like symptoms after an accident in Texas last week. Team owner Rick Hendrick said Bowman would be re-examined by doctors this week in hopes of getting clearance to return to competition.Bell and Byron, who both entered Sunday’s race beneath the elimination line, failed to score stage points at Talladega. Byron charged to the lead in Stage 1 but ultimately finished the respective stages in 11th and 13th, taking the checkered flag 12th. Bell, who finished 20th in Stage 1, spun entering pit road at Lap 100 and lost a lap before the conclusion of Stage 2, taking the green-checkered flag in 30th before ending the race 17th.The next race, the Bank of America ROVAL 400, is Sunday at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval (2 p.m. ET, NBC, NBC Sports App, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — the final road-course event of the season. Larson is the defending race winner. Blaney won the inaugural race at the Charlotte Roval and Elliott is a two-time winner there as well (2019 and 2020).NOTE: Post-race inspection is clear, confirming Elliott as the race winner. The Nos. 4 and 19 cars will be brought back to the NASCAR R&D Center for teardown.Elliott vs. Larson: Who wins match at Charlotte Roval? - Powered By PickUp DRIVERS COMPARISON Position Speed Time Chase Elliott (P) Ryan Blaney (P) Flag State Fastest Lap #1 Chase Elliott (P) Ryan Blaney (P) Michael McDowell Ross Chastain (P) Denny Hamlin (P) Erik Jones Todd Gilliland # Daniel Suarez (P) Austin Cindric # (P) Chase Briscoe (P) Landon Cassill(i) William Byron (P) Austin Dillon Aric Almirola Justin Haley Bubba Wallace (P) Christopher Bell (P) Kyle Larson (P) Noah Gragson(i) (P) Kyle Busch Cole Custer Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ty Dillon Brad Keselowski Chris Buescher Martin Truex Jr. Joey Logano (P) Tyler Reddick Kevin Harvick Justin Allgaier(i) JJ Yeley(i) Cody Ware BJ McLeod(i) Daniel Hemric(i) Corey LaJoie Harrison Burton # Ty Gibbs(i) #1 LAP SPEED 194.987MPH LEADER LEADER AVG RUNNING POS 7.905 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 49.111 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH) 194.987 LAPS LED 0 #2 Ryan Blaney (P) Chase Elliott (P) Michael McDowell Ross Chastain (P) Denny Hamlin (P) Erik Jones Todd Gilliland # Daniel Suarez (P) Austin Cindric # (P) Chase Briscoe (P) Landon Cassill(i) William Byron (P) Austin Dillon Aric Almirola Justin Haley Bubba Wallace (P) Christopher Bell (P) Kyle Larson (P) Noah Gragson(i) (P) Kyle Busch Cole Custer Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ty Dillon Brad Keselowski Chris Buescher Martin Truex Jr. Joey Logano (P) Tyler Reddick Kevin Harvick Justin Allgaier(i) JJ Yeley(i) Cody Ware BJ McLeod(i) Daniel Hemric(i) Corey LaJoie Harrison Burton # Ty Gibbs(i) #2 LAP SPEED 194.634MPH 0.045999999998457 (Time Behind) 0.045999999998457 (Time Behind) AVG RUNNING POS 11.286 BEST LAP TIME (SEC) 49.2 XFINITY FASTEST LAP (MPH)) 194.634 LAPS LED 0 LIVE STANDINGS FAVORITES POINTS BEHIND DELTA STAGE ONE POINTS STAGE TWO POINTS STAGE THREE POINTS RACE POINTS 1 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 2 Martin Truex Jr. 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 A.J. Allmendinger 17 | 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 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 3 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 4 A.J. Allmendinger 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 5 Martin Truex Jr. 17 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 6 Martin Truex Jr. 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 7 Martin Truex Jr. 2 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 8 Brad Keselowski 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 9 Martin Truex Jr. 41 | 999 -- 99.999 99 99 99 99 10 Martin Truex Jr. 2 | 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