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Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube

Sunday, March 7th, 2021

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV

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  • 14 Ford
  • 6 Toyota
  • 18 Chevrolet

  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
  • Pole Winner: Kevin Harvick
  • Age: 45
  • Team : No. 4 - Mobil 1 Ford
  • Owner: Stewart-Haas Racing
  • Crew Chief: Rodney Childers
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • PMQ is a total number calculated on performance in the previous race.
  • Kevin Harvick won the Pole Award for the 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube by having the highest total PMQ.
  • 15% of a 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 7th, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Kyle Larson wins NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Kyle Larson left little to chance Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway leading a race best 103 laps and pulling away to a convincing 3.156-second win over former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski to win the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube - his first victory in two years.

Larson, 28, of Elk Grove, Calif. became the quickest winner in Hendrick Motorsports long and esteemed history, taking the checkered flag in only his fourth start in the team's famous No. 5 Chevrolet.

It was a hard-earned and highly-emotional win for Larson, who missed most of last season serving a suspension for using racially-insensitive language. The popular young Californian was reinstated by NASCAR in the offseason after following a course of rehabilitation and sensitivity training. He came into the season with the Hendrick Motorsports opportunity, grateful and ready to redeem himself.

Larson was exuberant speaking to the team on the radio while driving under the checkered flag as the race winner. He did celebratory burnouts on the backstretch and then again under the flag-stand on the frontstretch telling his Hendrick Motorsports team on the car radio, "What a car, what an opportunity. Thank you, guys."

Just as Larson was finishing his live television interview, Keselowski ran across the infield grass to shake Larson's hand and congratulate him on a powerful race performance.

"I'm just really happy for him, I know he's been through a lot in the last year and he's a good kid who I've known for a little while and has a good family and I'm just happy to see him bounce back," the Team Penske driver Brad Keselowski said.

"He was really fast - had a lot of speed in all the lanes which was really impressive, usually you have to make a compromise, but they were really good. If Kyle Larson wasn't here, we would have had a dominant day," Keselowski added with a smile.

It was a highly competitive race from green to checkered flag with 27 lead changes among 12 different drivers. Five drivers led at least 20 laps. Keselowski won Stage 1 and Larson won Stage 2 - the first stage victories for both drivers this season.

In all, Larson led a race best six times, working his Chevrolet back to the front no matter the challenge, ultimately pacing the field for the last 30 laps en route to his seventh career win. It is his first on a 1.5-mile track after nine previous runner-up finishes on mile-and-a-half venues.

"It was such an awesome car," Larson said. "Cliff (Daniels, crew chief) and everybody did a great job preparing this piece. It was so much fun to drive. I could go wherever I wanted to. I know we had a really good car once we would kind of get single-filed out; but just drafting early in the run was tough.

"But thank you so much Mr. Hendrick, Jeff Gordon and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports for the amazing opportunity I've been gifted. Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet everybody at the engine shop. Thank you so much for all the hard work. This is definitely special."

Larson and Keselowski managed to use the final portion of the race to get around the full-on Joe Gibbs Racing team, whose drivers combined to lead 53 laps on the afternoon. Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Kyle Busch - a Las Vegas native - and Denny Hamlin finished third and fourth. Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney was fifth, his first top 10 of the season.

Two more Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas, driven by Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell were sixth and seventh, followed by last week's winner, Hendrick Motorsport's William Byron. Team Penske driver Joey Logano and Richard Petty Motorsport's driver Erik Jones rounded out the top 10.

Larson's teammate Chase Elliott - the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion - finished 13th after overcoming several problems. His team had a jack issue in the pits and contact with another car made for multiple long pit stops.

"We were good on the short run, just didn't quite have enough long run speed," said Denny Hamlin, who led 47 laps on the day. "Certainly I thought it was a good start, we'll just gather our data and try to figure out what we need to do to be better when we come back here and it really counts."

Hamlin and Keselowski, who are still looking for their first wins of the 2021 season sit atop the championship points standings. Hamlin leads by 38 points over Keselowski and Larson is third.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 267
  • Margin of Victory: 03.156 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 52 Minutes 7 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 139.615
  • Cautions: 6 for 30 laps
  • Lead Changes: 27
  • Green Flag Passes: 4,057 (17.1 passes per green flag lap)

  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
  • Race Winner: Kyle Larson
  • Age: 28
  • Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
  • Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
  • Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
  • Kyle Larson won the 24th Annual Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, his seventh victory in 227 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2021.
  • This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 10 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Kyle Busch (third) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 20 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Chase Briscoe (21st) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • This is Hendrick Motorsport's 265th NASCAR Cup Series victory and the sixth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • This is Chevrolet's ninth victory in the NASCAR Cup Series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas 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
1 9,400 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 267 142.60 3 1 45 2 57 24.78 25.65 103 38.6 25.75 98.40
2 10,300 Brad Keselowski Team Penske 2 Ford 267 123.50 10 2 42 8 30 13.04 13.50 27 10.1 6.75 70.25
5 11,400 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 267 95.20 14 3 41 11 9 3.91 4.05 0 0.0 0.00 56.05
4 9,200 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Toyota 267 116.60 6 4 40 2 13 5.65 5.85 47 17.6 11.75 59.60
3 10,800 Ryan Blaney Team Penske 12 Ford 267 111.50 26 5 39 21 16 6.96 7.20 1 0.4 0.25 67.45
11 11,100 Martin Truex Jr Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 267 103.40 4 6 38 -2 6 2.61 2.70 6 2.3 1.50 40.20
8 7,700 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 267 99.80 16 7 37 9 6 2.61 2.70 0 0.0 0.00 48.70
7 8,300 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports 24 Chevrolet 267 111.40 2 8 36 -6 31 13.48 13.95 25 9.4 6.25 50.20
9 10,000 Joey Logano Team Penske 22 Ford 267 90.60 15 9 35 6 1 0.43 0.45 7 2.6 1.75 43.20
6 7,100 Erik Jones Richard Petty Motorsports 43 Chevrolet 267 81.70 29 10 34 19 5 2.17 2.25 0 0.0 0.00 55.25
13 6,800 Ricky Stenhouse Jr JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Chevrolet 267 81.60 17 11 32 6 1 0.43 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 38.45
16 7,600 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing 3 Chevrolet 267 78.50 12 12 31 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 31.00
12 10,600 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 267 89.70 8 13 30 -5 18 7.83 8.10 22 8.2 5.50 38.60
14 6,400 Chris Buescher RFK Racing 17 Ford 267 74.00 18 14 29 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 33.00
15 5,800 Ryan Preece JTG Daugherty Racing 37 Chevrolet 266 69.30 19 15 28 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 32.00
10 9,000 Matt DiBenedetto Wood Brothers Racing 21 Ford 266 84.70 30 16 27 14 3 1.3 1.35 0 0.0 0.00 42.35
21 6,000 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports 34 Ford 266 69.30 5 17 26 -12 0 0 0.00 9 3.4 2.25 16.25
19 6,700 Ryan Newman RFK Racing 6 Ford 266 61.20 13 18 25 -5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 20.00
26 8,100 Kurt Busch Chip Ganassi Racing 1 Chevrolet 266 77.00 7 19 24 -12 2 0.87 0.90 0 0.0 0.00 12.90
35 9,700 Kevin Harvick Stewart Haas Racing 4 Ford 266 66.40 1 20 23 -19 1 0.43 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 4.45
17 7,400 Chase Briscoe Stewart Haas Racing 14 Ford 266 49.90 24 21 21 3 1 0.43 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 24.45
24 7,900 Tyler Reddick Richard Childress Racing 8 Chevrolet 266 60.10 11 22 20 -11 6 2.61 2.70 7 2.6 1.75 13.45
20 7,300 Ross Chastain Chip Ganassi Racing 42 Chevrolet 266 55.60 21 23 19 -2 1 0.43 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 17.45
18 5,600 Anthony Alfredo Front Row Motorsports 38 Ford 266 50.70 27 24 18 3 0 0 0.00 1 0.4 0.25 21.25
27 6,500 Cole Custer Stewart Haas Racing 41 Ford 266 47.70 20 25 17 -5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 12.00
23 6,100 Daniel Suarez Trackhouse Racing 99 Chevrolet 265 51.10 22 26 16 -4 0 0 0.00 12 4.5 3.00 15.00
36 8,800 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports 48 Chevrolet 265 85.90 9 27 15 -18 14 6.09 6.30 0 0.0 0.00 3.30
25 7,000 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing 23 Toyota 262 49.40 23 28 14 -5 9 3.91 4.05 0 0.0 0.00 13.05
31 5,400 Justin Haley Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 262 40.20 25 29 13 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 9.00
22 5,100 BJ McLeod Live Fast Motorsports 78 Ford 260 37.30 34 30 12 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 16.00
29 4,700 Garrett Smithley Rick Ware Racing 53 Chevrolet 259 34.80 31 31 10 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 10.00
31 4,500 Cody Ware Rick Ware Racing 51 Chevrolet 259 34.50 32 32 9 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 9.00
28 5,300 Quin Houff StarCom Racing 00 Chevrolet 256 29.70 36 33 8 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 11.00
29 4,600 Joey Gase Rick Ware Racing 15 Chevrolet 255 27.50 37 34 7 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 10.00
34 4,800 Josh Bilicki Rick Ware Racing 52 Ford 252 28.80 35 35 6 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 6.00
33 5,000 Timmy Hill MBM Motorsports 66 Toyota 246 24.20 38 36 5 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
37 6,300 Corey Lajoie Spire Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 188 41.30 33 37 4 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 0.00
38 8,600 Aric Almirola Stewart Haas Racing 10 Ford 178 48.20 28 38 3 -10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -7.00