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Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500

Sunday, March 21st, 2021

Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA

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  • 15 Ford
  • 6 Toyota
  • 18 Chevrolet

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
  • Pole Winner: Denny Hamlin
  • Age: 40
  • Team: No. 11 - FedEx Express Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gabehart
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • Denny Hamlin won the Pole Award for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 by having the highest total PMQ.
  • PMQ is a total number calculated on four performance metrics from the previous race:
  • 15% of the driver's fastest lap time position.
  • 25% of the driver's final race finish position.
  • 25% of the owner's final race position.
  • 35% of the Owner Points position.

  • Sunday, March 21st, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Ryan Blaney wins at Atlanta, spoils Kyle Larson's dominant run

You can call Ryan Blaney "The Spoiler."

With a pass for the lead with eight laps left in Sunday's Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Blaney took the air out of an otherwise dominating performance by Kyle Larson, who had to settle for second place after winning the first two stages and leading 269 of 325 laps.

"Gosh, we had a great long-run car all day," Blaney said after climbing from his No. 12 Team Penske Ford. "It took us a little bit to get going. I was pretty free all day, so we made a really good change to tighten me up where I needed it.

"It looked like Kyle was getting loose, and I'm happy it worked into our favor that there were a couple of long runs at the end (that) let us kind of get there, and he got slowed up behind some lapped traffic… It's nice to close out a race like that—it was awesome."

Blaney's first victory at Atlanta and the fifth of his career extended the streak of different NASCAR Cup Series winners this season to six. The victory was the fifth straight at the 1.54-mile track for Ford drivers.

For the fourth time in his career, Larson swept the first two stages of a race and failed to win the event.

"I think he (Blaney) just got a lot better that last stage, and that changed up my flow of the race a little bit," said Larson, who won each of the first two stages by more than six seconds. "I could get out to such big leads, and I could take care of my stuff and run the bottom where it was maybe slower, but I could take care of my tires.

"He was fast there (in the final run), and I just wanted to maintain that gap that I had, so I had to run in the faster part of the race track and just used my stuff up. He was a lot better than me there late in the run. I hate to lead a lot of laps and lose, but we had a really good car that we brought to the track. Our (No. 5) Hendrick Cars Chevy was stupid-fast there for a long time. I don't know if we got that much worse, or if he got way better."

Alex Bowman ran third, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. Austin Dillon, Chris Buescher, William Byron, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick completed the top 10.

The first two stages featured only one caution for an on-track incident. On a restart on Lap 113, after the break at the end of Stage 1, Kyle Busch spun his tires at the front of the pack in the outside lane, causing Chase Elliott and Kurt Busch to check up behind him.

Kurt Busch steered down to the middle lane, but off-center contact from Hamlin's Toyota sent the No. 1 Chevrolet into the Turn 1 wall and out of the race.

"Yeah, I think the No. 18 (Kyle Busch) was the outside-lead car," said Kurt Busch, who ran near the front of the field throughout the first stage. The No. 9 (Elliott) kind of checked-up, too. I checked up… It was just the accordion effect and then I jumped to the middle. I'm like ‘I'm here'; I positioned myself. It wasn't like I rearranged my lanes and made another block.

"He (Hamlin) didn't do anything vicious or malicious there. It's a 500-miler, and these are the days that it hurts the worst. This absolutely hurts the worst because we had a top-five, winning Monster Energy Chevy."

Elliott, the reigning series champion, sustained damage on that same restart, but his troubles didn't become terminal until the third stage, when his engine blew to cause the fifth caution of the afternoon.

"Yeah, obviously we broke a motor there later on," Elliott said. "We got some damage there on that restart. Kyle (Busch) kind of spun his tires and then I was pushing him, and Kurt (Busch) was pushing me. We all just really jammed together hard and ended up hurting the nose some. I don't know if that had something to do with breaking the engine or not."

Early tire troubles ruined the afternoon for defending race winner Harvick, who pitted with a flat left rear as the rest of the field restarted on Lap 32 after a competition caution. Larson lapped Harvick later in the first stage, and the 2014 series champion didn't get the lap back until he took a wave-around under the fifth caution, for Elliott's blown engine.

Harvick battled back to finish 10th but could advance no further.

  • Drivers Entered: 39
  • Laps Scheduled: 325
  • Margin of Victory: 02.083 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 27 Minutes 41 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 144.595
  • Cautions: 5 for 25 laps
  • Lead Changes: 11
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,386 (8.0 passes per green flag lap)

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • 63rd Annual Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
  • Race Winner: Ryan Blaney
  • Age: 27
  • Team : No. 12 - BodyArmor Ford
  • Owner: Roger Penske
  • Crew Chief: Todd Gordon
  • Ryan Blaney won the 63rd Annual Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, his fifth victory in 204 Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
  • This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Kyle Larson (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in seven races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Alex Bowman (third) posted his first top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Chase Briscoe (23rd) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ryan Blaney hands the flag to a young NASCAR fan
Hampton, Georgia - March 21, 2021 : Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 BodyArmor Ford, hands the Sunoco flag to a young NASCAR fan after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 21, 2021 in Hampton, Georgia.
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Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Draftkings results
FINISH & PLACE DIFFERENTIAL POINTS FAST LAP POINTS LAPS LED POINTS TOTAL POINTS
RNK SLRY DRIVER TEAM # MAKE LAPS DR ST FIN FIN PTS PD PTS FST % FST FST PTS LED % LED LED PTS TOT PTS
2 9,200 Ryan Blaney Team Penske 12 Ford 325 127.90 10 1 45 9 28 9.59 12.60 25 7.7 6.25 72.85
1 10,400 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 325 144.80 6 2 42 4 104 35.62 46.80 269 82.8 67.25 160.05
4 8,800 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports 48 Chevrolet 325 114.10 14 3 41 11 14 4.79 6.30 0 0.0 0.00 58.30
6 10,000 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Toyota 325 114.20 1 4 40 -3 10 3.42 4.50 27 8.3 6.75 48.25
3 10,700 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 325 108.20 19 5 39 14 15 5.14 6.75 0 0.0 0.00 59.75
7 7,300 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing 3 Chevrolet 325 95.80 13 6 38 7 6 2.05 2.70 0 0.0 0.00 47.70
5 6,000 Chris Buescher RFK Racing 17 Ford 325 94.20 17 7 37 10 10 3.42 4.50 0 0.0 0.00 51.50
10 9,000 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports 24 Chevrolet 325 98.70 9 8 36 1 5 1.71 2.25 2 0.6 0.50 39.75
17 9,600 Martin Truex Jr Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 325 92.60 2 9 35 -7 5 1.71 2.25 0 0.0 0.00 30.25
14 11,000 Kevin Harvick Stewart Haas Racing 4 Ford 325 85.40 7 10 34 -3 12 4.11 5.40 0 0.0 0.00 36.40
9 8,100 Matt DiBenedetto Wood Brothers Racing 21 Ford 325 93.20 20 11 32 9 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 41.45
16 6,300 Ricky Stenhouse Jr JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Chevrolet 325 81.20 12 12 31 0 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 31.45
8 7,100 Ryan Newman RFK Racing 6 Ford 325 78.90 28 13 30 15 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 45.45
13 6,600 Ross Chastain Chip Ganassi Racing 42 Chevrolet 325 71.00 21 14 29 7 3 1.03 1.35 0 0.0 0.00 37.35
25 9,400 Joey Logano Team Penske 22 Ford 324 79.30 3 15 28 -12 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 16.00
19 7,400 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing 23 Toyota 324 69.50 15 16 27 -1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 26.00
11 6,500 Daniel Suarez Trackhouse Racing 99 Chevrolet 324 75.40 25 17 26 8 9 3.08 4.05 1 0.3 0.25 38.30
15 7,600 Cole Custer Stewart Haas Racing 41 Ford 324 66.30 27 18 25 9 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 34.00
20 6,100 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports 34 Ford 324 60.80 18 19 24 -1 2 0.68 0.90 0 0.0 0.00 23.90
24 8,000 Aric Almirola Stewart Haas Racing 10 Ford 324 61.80 16 20 23 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 19.00
32 7,800 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 323 60.20 8 21 21 -13 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 8.45
12 8,600 Austin Cindric Team Penske 33 Ford 323 54.60 39 22 20 17 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 37.45
22 6,800 Chase Briscoe Stewart Haas Racing 14 Ford 323 50.20 24 23 19 1 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 20.45
25 7,000 Erik Jones Richard Petty Motorsports 43 Chevrolet 323 53.80 22 24 18 -2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 16.00
27 5,800 Ryan Preece JTG Daugherty Racing 37 Chevrolet 323 51.40 23 25 17 -2 1 0.34 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 15.45
21 8,400 Tyler Reddick Richard Childress Racing 8 Chevrolet 323 49.60 29 26 16 3 4 1.37 1.80 0 0.0 0.00 20.80
23 5,500 Anthony Alfredo Front Row Motorsports 38 Ford 322 44.80 32 27 15 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 20.00
37 10,200 Brad Keselowski Team Penske 2 Ford 321 64.10 4 28 14 -24 5 1.71 2.25 0 0.0 0.00 -7.75
18 5,300 Corey Lajoie Spire Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 319 50.10 30 29 13 1 29 9.93 13.05 0 0.0 0.00 27.05
28 5,600 Justin Haley Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 319 42.00 26 30 12 -4 9 3.08 4.05 0 0.0 0.00 12.05
29 4,500 Cody Ware Rick Ware Racing 51 Chevrolet 316 36.30 33 31 10 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 12.00
30 5,100 James Davison Rick Ware Racing 15 Chevrolet 316 35.20 34 32 9 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 11.00
31 4,700 Quin Houff StarCom Racing 00 Chevrolet 314 36.70 35 33 8 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 10.00
35 4,600 BJ McLeod Live Fast Motorsports 78 Ford 313 31.20 31 34 7 -3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 4.00
33 5,000 Joey Gase Rick Ware Racing 53 Chevrolet 308 29.00 36 35 6 1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
33 4,900 Timmy Hill MBM Motorsports 66 Toyota 305 26.20 38 36 5 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
35 4,800 Josh Bilicki Rick Ware Racing 52 Ford 285 25.30 37 37 4 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 4.00
39 9,800 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 220 74.00 5 38 3 -33 8 2.74 3.60 0 0.0 0.00 -26.40
38 8,300 Kurt Busch Chip Ganassi Racing 1 Chevrolet 113 67.20 11 39 2 -28 7 2.4 3.15 1 0.9 0.25 -22.60