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Goodyear 400

Sunday, May 8th, 2022

Darlington Raceway, Darlington, SC

  • 15 Ford
  • 6 Toyota
  • 15 Chevrolet

  • Darlington Raceway
  • 3rd Annual Goodyear 400
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Joey Logano
  • Age: 31
  • Team: No. 22 - Shell Pennzoil Ford
  • Owner: Team Penske
  • Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
  • Joey Logano won the Pole Award for the 3rd Annual Goodyear 400 with a lap of 28.805 seconds, 170.720 mph.
  • This is his 23rd pole in 483 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first pole and seventh top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in 17 races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Kyle Larson (second) posted his eighth top-10 start of 2022 and his fifth in nine races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Christopher Bell (third) posted his first top-10 start at Darlington Raceway. It is his eighth in 12 races this season.
  • Austin Cindric (19th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

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Joey Logano bumps his way to NASCAR Cup Series victory at Darlington

Executing a decisive bash-and-run on the next-to-last-lap of Sunday’s Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway, Joey Logano wrested the lead from William Byron and ended a NASCAR Cup Series 40-race winless streak dating to March of 2021 at the Bristol Dirt Track.

After Logano gave Byron’s Chevrolet a jolt entering Turn 3 on the white-flag lap, Byron shot up the track into the outside wall and fell back to 13th at the finish.

Driving a No. 22 Ford sporting the throwback paint scheme of his first quarter-midget racer, Logano beat runner-up Tyler Reddick to the finish line by .775 seconds to earn his first victory at Darlington and the 28th of his career.

Logano now has won at least one race in 11 consecutive Cup Series seasons.

“Yeah, you’re not going to put me in the wall and not get anything back,” Logano said, apparently referring to earlier contact from Byron’s car. “That’s how that works. Man, super proud of the Shell-Pennzoil team, getting a victory here in Darlington. You know what it’s like—I’ve never won here in a Cup race before.

“So proud of this race team. Great execution all day long. I’ll tell you what, the coolest thing is getting this car into Victory Lane. This is the car where it all started for me back in ’95 in a quarter midget. Really, honestly, all the young kids racing out there right now—this could be you.”

An incensed Byron clearly thought Logano crossed the line with his aggressive maneuver.

“We were really close off of (Turn) 2, and I think it spooked him and got him tight, and he was right against the wall, and I got the lead,” Byron said of a restart on Lap 268. “He’s just an idiot. He does this stuff all the time. I’ve seen it with other guys.

“He drove in there 10 miles an hour too fast, and with these Next-Gen cars, he slammed me so hard it knocked the whole right side off the car, and no way to make the corner.

“Yeah, he’s just a moron. He can’t win a race, so he does it that way. I don’t know, we’ll… yeah, it was close racing on the restart. We were faster than him. Obviously, at the end the right rear (of Byron’s car) started to go away, and, yeah, he didn’t even make it a contest.”

Justin Haley ran third, followed by Kevin Harvick, who posted his 13th straight top-10 result at the Lady in Black—a track record. Chase Elliott started at the rear of the field in a backup car and finished fifth.

A massive wreck off Turn 2 on Lap 261 of 293 took out more than a handful of frontrunning cars and set up the final restart. Martin Truex Jr., who had restarted on the inside of Row 2, lost momentum in the corner and slid back between the Chevrolet of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the Ford of Kevin Harvick.

Truex’s Toyota made slight contact with Stenhouse’s Camaro in the outside—but enough to start Truex spinning sideways. The wreck collected the cars of Kurt Busch, Bubba Wallace, Cole Custer, Denny Hamlin, Erik Jones, Chase Briscoe, Ryan Blaney and Elliott, which suffered damage ranging from minimal to terminal.

Ill fortune led to the demise of three of the strongest cars before the race reached the halfway point. On Lap 114 second-place starter Kyle Larson brought his No. 5 Chevrolet to pit road and retired with engine failure.

Lap 167 brought the downfall of Kyle Busch, who had led 19 laps. The No. 6 Ford of Brad Keselowski pounded the outside wall in Turn 2 and collected the Toyota of Busch, eliminating both cars from the race.

Ross Chastain collected the second stage win of his career in Stage 2, but his elation was short-lived. Moments after the subsequent restart on Lap 196, Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet spun to the inside of Hamlin’s Toyota near the exit of Turn 2 and nosed into the inside wall, ending his race.

“We were fighting the balance all day,” Chastain said. “We were racing with those guys for the lead. I just thought I could run the bottom there off of Turn 2 at the exit of the patch (of new asphalt). I just got loose on the transition and spun out.”

By the time the race ended, 13 of the 36 cars already were in the garage, equaling the number of DNFs last month at Talladega.

Logano’s victory in a Ford kept Chevrolet winless at Darlington since Harvick’s victory there in 2014.

  • Drivers Entered: 36
  • Laps Scheduled: 293
  • Margin of Victory: 0.775 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 21 Minutes 32 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 119.158
  • Cautions: 9 for 47 laps
  • Lead Changes: 24
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,569 (10.4 passes per green flag lap)

  • Darlington Raceway
  • 3rd Annual Goodyear 400
  • Race Winner: Joey Logano
  • Age: 31
  • Team: No. 22 - Shell Pennzoil Ford
  • Owner: Team Penske
  • Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
  • Joey Logano won the 3rd Annual Goodyear 400, his 28th victory in 483 Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his first victory and ninth top-10 finish in 17 races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Tyler Reddick (second) posted his second top-10 finish in six races at Darlington Raceway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2022.
  • Justin Haley (third) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Harrison Burton (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Denny Hamlin celebrates after winning at Darlington Raceway
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Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway Entry List
ENTRY # DRIVER HOMETOWN DOB AGE MAKE SPONSOR TEAM CREW CHIEF
1 10 Aric Almirola Tampa, FL Mar 14, 1984 40 Ford Haas Automation \ Smithfield Stewart-Haas Racing Drew Blickensderfer
2 6 Brad Keselowski Auburn Hills, MI Feb 12, 1984 40 Ford Socios.com RFK Racing Matt McCall
3 11 Denny Hamlin Chesterfield, VA Nov 18, 1980 43 Toyota FedEx Express Joe Gibbs Racing Chris Gabehart
4 15 JJ Yeley Phoenix, AZ Oct 5, 1976 48 Ford Ollie's Bargain Outlet Rick Ware Racing Kevyn Rebolledo
5 22 Joey Logano Middleton, CT May 24, 1990 34 Ford Shell Pennzoil Team Penske Paul Wolfe
6 4 Kevin Harvick Bakersfield, CA Dec 8, 1975 48 Ford Rheem Chasing a Cure Stewart-Haas Racing Rodney Childers
7 45 Kurt Busch Las Vegas, NV Aug 4, 1978 46 Toyota McDonald's Throwback 23XI Racing Billy Scott
8 18 Kyle Busch Las Vegas, NV May 2, 1985 39 Toyota M&M's Joe Gibbs Racing Ben Beshore
9 19 Martin Truex Jr Mayetta, NJ Jun 29, 1980 44 Toyota Auto-Owners Insurance Joe Gibbs Racing James Small
10 34 Michael McDowell Phoenix, AZ Dec 21, 1984 39 Ford Navage Nasal Care Front Row Motorsports Blake Harris
11 77 Landon Cassill Cedar Rapids, IA Jul 7, 1989 35 Chevrolet Voyager: Crypto for All Spire Motorsports Kevin Bellicourt
12 3 Austin Dillon Lewisville, NC Apr 27, 1990 34 Chevrolet Huk Performance Fishing Richard Childress Racing Justin Alexander
13 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr Olive Branch, MS Oct 2, 1987 37 Chevrolet Kroger/ Nature Valley JTG Daugherty Racing Brian Pattie
14 5 Kyle Larson Sacremento, CA Jul 31, 1992 32 Chevrolet Hendrickcars.com Hendrick Motorsports Cliff Daniels
15 48 Alex Bowman Tuscon, AZ Apr 25, 1993 31 Chevrolet Ally Throwback Hendrick Motorsports Greg Ives
16 12 Ryan Blaney High Point, NC Dec 31, 1993 30 Ford Advance Auto Parts Team Penske Jonathan Hassler
17 7 Corey Lajoie Kannapolis, NC Sep 25, 1991 33 Chevrolet Stacking Pennies Spire Motorsports Ryan Sparks
18 42 Ty Dillon Lewisville, NC Feb 27, 1992 32 Chevrolet Petty GMS Petty GMS Motorsports Jerame Donley
19 9 Chase Elliott Dawsonville, GA Nov 28, 1995 28 Chevrolet NAPA Hendrick Motorsports Alan Gustafson
20 17 Chris Buescher Prosper, TX Oct 29, 1992 31 Ford Socios.com RFK Racing Scott Graves
21 43 Erik Jones Byron, MI May 30, 1996 28 Chevrolet FOCUSfactor Petty GMS Motorsports Dave Elenz
22 78 BJ McLeod Wauchula, FL Nov 17, 1983 40 Ford Live Fast Motorsports Live Fast Motorsports Christopher Stanley
23 99 Daniel Suarez Monterrey, Mexico Jan 7, 1992 32 Chevrolet Coca-Cola TrackHouse Racing Travis Mack
24 51 Cody Ware Greensboro, NC Nov 7, 1995 28 Ford Nurtec ODT Ford Mustang Rick Ware Racing Billy Plourde
25 1 Ross Chastain Alva, FL Dec 4, 1992 31 Chevrolet Coca-Cola TrackHouse Racing Phil Surgen
26 23 Bubba Wallace Mobile, AL Oct 8, 1993 31 Toyota MoneyLion 23XI Racing Bootie Barker
27 16 Daniel Hemric Kannapolis, NC Jan 27, 1991 33 Chevrolet AG1 by Athletic Greens Kaulig Racing Matt Swiderski
28 24 William Byron Charlotte, NC Nov 29, 1997 26 Chevrolet Axalta Hendrick Motorsports Rudy Fugle
29 41 Cole Custer Ladera Ranch, CA Jan 23, 1998 26 Ford HaasTooling.com Stewart-Haas Racing Mike Shiplett
30 8 Tyler Reddick Corning, CA Jan 11, 1996 28 Chevrolet 3CHI Richard Childress Racing Randall Burnett
31 31 Justin Haley Winamac, IN Apr 28, 1999 25 Chevrolet LeafFilter Gutter Protection Kaulig Racing Trent Owens
32 20 Christopher Bell Norman, OK Dec 16, 1994 29 Toyota Sirius XM Joe Gibbs Racing Adam Stevens
33 2 Austin Cindric Columbus, OH Sep 2, 1998 26 Ford Menards\Libman Team Penske Jeremy Bullins
34 14 Chase Briscoe Mitchell, IN Dec 15, 1994 29 Ford Mahindra Tractors Stewart-Haas Racing Johnny Klausmeier
35 21 Harrison Burton Huntersville, NC Oct 9, 2000 24 Ford Dex Imaging Wood Brothers Racing Brian Wilson
36 38 Todd Gilliland Sherrills Ford, NC May 15, 2000 24 Ford Black's Tire Front Row Motorsports Seth Barbour