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Hollywood Casino 400 Race Results

Kansas Speedway

September 10th, 2023

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RESULTS

START POS

FINAL STATUS

LAPS COMPLETED

LAPS LED

POINTS

PLAYOFF POINTS

1

Tyler Reddick

45 |

5

Running

268

2

51

5

2

Denny Hamlin

11 |

14

Running

268

63

48

0

3

Erik Jones

43 |

19

Running

268

0

39

0

4

Kyle Larson

5 |

2

Running

268

99

43

1

5

Joey Logano

22 |

11

Running

268

0

35

0

6

Chase Elliott

9 |

4

Running

268

47

41

0

7

Kyle Busch

8 |

35

Running

268

0

30

0

8

Christopher Bell

20 |

1

Running

268

15

38

0

9

Brad Keselowski

6 |

12

Running

268

23

41

1

10

Alex Bowman

48 |

23

Running

268

0

27

0

11

Kevin Harvick

4 |

20

Running

268

0

34

0

12

Ryan Blaney

12 |

17

Running

268

0

35

0

13

Ross Chastain

1 |

6

Running

268

0

31

0

14

Ty Gibbs

54 |

36

Running

268

0

23

0

15

William Byron

24 |

9

Running

268

0

22

0

16

Daniel Suárez

99 |

15

Running

268

12

21

0

17

Aric Almirola

10 |

25

Running

268

3

20

0

18

Ryan Preece

41 |

28

Running

268

0

19

0

19

Chase Briscoe

14 |

26

Running

268

0

18

0

20

Carson Hocevar

42 |

21

Running

268

0

0

0

21

Justin Haley

31 |

30

Running

268

0

16

0

22

Corey LaJoie

7 |

24

Running

268

0

15

0

23

Ricky Stenhouse Jr

47 |

16

Running

268

0

14

0

24

Cole Custer

51 |

27

Running

268

0

0

0

25

Todd Gilliland

38 |

32

Running

267

0

12

0

26

Michael McDowell

34 |

7

Running

267

0

11

0

27

Chris Buescher

17 |

13

Running

267

0

12

0

28

Ty Dillon

77 |

33

Running

267

0

9

0

29

Sheldon Creed

78 |

34

Running

266

0

0

0

30

AJ Allmendinger

16 |

22

Running

266

0

7

0

31

Austin Cindric

2 |

18

Running

266

0

6

0

32

Bubba Wallace

23 |

10

Running

264

3

14

0

33

Austin Dillon

3 |

8

Running

259

0

4

0

34

JJ Yeley

15 |

31

DVP

212

1

0

0

35

Harrison Burton

21 |

29

DVP

175

0

2

0

36

Martin Truex Jr

19 |

3

Accident

3

0

1

0

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  • POS 1 | LEADER

    headshot of Tyler Reddick

    POS1

    LEADER

    Tyler Reddick

    Driver badge number 45 |

  • POS 2 | 0.327

    headshot of Denny Hamlin

    POS2

    0.327

    Denny Hamlin

    Driver badge number 11 |

  • POS 3 | 0.516

    headshot of Erik Jones

    POS3

    0.516

    Erik Jones

    Driver badge number 43 |

Tyler Reddick cashes in at Kansas, advances in Cup Series Playoffs

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — With a bold move to the front of the field in overtime, Tyler Reddick won Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 and left his car owner frustrated at the end of the second NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race at Kansas Speedway.

Reddick beat Joe Gibbs Racing driver and 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin to the finish line by 0.327 seconds. Hamlin led 63 laps and was more than two seconds ahead of Reddick when playoff driver Chris Buescher blew a right-rear tire on Lap 261 of a scheduled 267 to cause the ninth and final caution.

Diverging strategies then gave Reddick the opening he needed to gain automatic entry into the Playoffs’ Round of 12. Daniel Suárez stayed out on 31-lap-old tires and inherited the lead. Erik Jones, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano made two-tire stops and restarted second, third and fourth.

RELATED: Official race results | At-track photos: Kansas

Reddick restarted on the bottom of the third row and surged forward while Hamlin hung back in the top lane. After the field rounded Turn 4 on the restart Lap, Reddick shot to the bottom of the track and took the lead right before the start/finish line.

On the final circuit, third-place finisher Erik Jones moved up the track on the backstretch to block Hamlin’s progress for a moment, and that gave Reddick all the breathing room he needed to secure his second victory of the season, his first at 1.5-mile Kansas and the fifth of his career.

“Just an outstanding job by this whole 23XI team,” Reddick said after climbing out of the window of his No. 45 Toyota during his celebratory burnout.

“We had really good pace, but just couldn’t get ahead of Denny there, but chaos ensued, people stayed out, some took two tires, and the bottom lane opened up. Pretty crazy.”

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Beaten by a car he owns, Hamlin took the defeat philosophically. The second-place run leaves him 49 points ahead of teammate Martin Truex Jr., the first driver below the current Round of 12 cut line.

“Well, the 5 (Kyle Larson, behind Hamlin in the top lane for the final restart) was just laying back so much,” Hamlin said. “I was trying to back up to him. Should have just kind of focused forward, probably.

“It gave the 45 (Reddick) an opportunity to get up there in front of us. Just kind of sleeping on the restart, looking in the rearview instead of looking in the front.

“Just another really, really fast car — just didn’t need that caution at the end.”

Larson finished fourth after leading a race-high 99 laps and winning the first stage. Logano came home fifth, thanks to the two-tire call by crew chief Paul Wolfe. Chase Elliott was sixth, followed by Kyle Busch, pole winner Christopher Bell and Brad Keselowski, who won the second stage.

The race, however, had dire consequences for playoff drivers now in danger of elimination next Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Disaster struck Regular Season Champion Martin Truex Jr. before the race was four laps old. As the field was working Lap 4, Truex started to slow on the backstretch and then slammed the wall in Turn 3, the result of a cut tire.

MORE: Truex sidelined early at Kansas

With the suspension on his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota damaged beyond repair, Truex retired to the garage in 36th place and fell seven points below the cut line for the Round of 12.

“Just unfortunate and very unlucky,” Truex said after exiting the infield care center. “I took off really tight, and I knew something was up, and then cut a right rear. Not really sure what happened, obviously, but it blew in the worst place possible.

“I hate it for my guys. We had an awesome Bass Pro Toyota Camry. We were going to have a great day, just not sure what we need to do to get some luck here.”

Bubba Wallace was next to have his hopes of advancement to the Round of 12 suffer a crippling blow. Wallace was running second on Lap 108 when his right rear tire exploded, sending his No. 23 Toyota hard into the outside wall.

RELATED: Wallace hindered after Stage 2 scrape

Wallace brought the car to pit road to repair a bent right-rear toe link and lost three laps in the process. After a second trip to pit road, he was five laps down in 34th place and could recover only to 32nd by the end of the event.

Now 14th in the Playoff standings, Wallace leaves Kansas 19 points behind Kevin Harvick in 12th.

After two brushes with the outside wall, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. came home 23rd and is 22 points behind Harvick. Michael McDowell dropped 40 points below the cut line with a 26th-place result and realistically needs a victory at Bristol to advance to the Round of 12.

The Cup Series’ next race is the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, scheduled Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, USA, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App) at Bristol Motor Speedway. The 500-lapper will conclude the Cup Series Playoffs’ Round of 16, and four drivers will be eliminated from title contention at the checkered flag.

Note: Post-race technical inspection in the Cup Series garage was completed without issue, confirming Reddick as the race winner.

Contributing: Staff reports