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Federated Auto Parts 400

Sunday, August 14th, 2022

Richmond Raceway, Richmond, VA

  • 15 Ford
  • 6 Toyota
  • 15 Chevrolet

  • Richmond Raceway
  • 65th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Kyle Larson
  • Age: 30
  • Team : No. 5 - HendrickCars.com Chevrolet
  • Owner: Rick Hendrick
  • Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels
  • Kyle Larson won the Pole Award for the 65th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400 with a lap of 23.042 seconds, 117.177 mph.
  • This is his 13th pole in 283 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his third pole and 17th top-10 start in 2022.
  • This is his first pole in 16 races at Richmond Raceway.
  • Ross Chastain (second) posted his ninth top-10 start of 2022 and his second in eight races at Richmond Raceway.
  • Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 21st top-10 start at Richmond Raceway. It is his 13th in 24 races this season.
  • Todd Gilliland (16th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Sunday, August 14th, 2022
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Kevin Harvick doubles up with NASCAR Cup victory at Richmond

Last Sunday at Michigan, Kevin Harvick broke a 65-race drought.

Now the driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford has a two-race winning streak.

Chased by runner-up Christopher Bell and third-place finisher Chris Buescher over the closing laps, Harvick threaded his way through traffic to win Sunday’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway by .441 seconds.

The NASCAR Cup Series victory was Harvick’s fourth at the .75-mile short track—his first there since 2013—and the 60th of his career, tying him with Kyle Busch for most among active drivers and ninth all-time.

Harvick led twice for 55 laps, passing eventual sixth-place finisher Joey Logano for the lead on Lap 334 and regaining it from Denny Hamlin on Lap 353 at the end of a cycle of green-flag pit stops.

“It’s like I said last week, the cars have been running good week-in and week-out,” Harvick said, “and you see that we have a lot better understanding of what’s going on with how we adjusted on the car after the first run and were able to get our car handling a lot better.

“I think as it got dark, the race track really came to our Mobil 1 Ford Mustang.”

By pitting one circuit earlier than Logano on Lap 340, Buescher leap-frogged the Team Penske driver and began to chase Harvick, who led the final 48 laps. Buescher got to Harvick’s bumper in traffic but couldn’t make a run for the lead.

The driver of the No. 17 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford lost his chance for a serendipitous victory when Harvick lapped Bubba Wallace and Buescher stayed trapped behind Wallace’s No. 23 Toyota and fell two seconds behind.

“Just burned the rear tires up,” said Buescher, who needs a victory to qualify for the Cup Playoffs. “Ultimately that’s on me. Lapped traffic didn’t do us any favors, either, but ultimately just got to keep the rears under us a little bit better so we can have a little bit better shot there to get after him for the win.”

On 12-lap fresher tires, Bell charged forward, slipped past Buescher on Lap 396 of 400 and closed on Harvick before running out of time.

“Well, I knew he was coming, but I forgot to shift down the front straightaway the last time,” Harvick said. “I was not paying attention, and he got closer than he should have. I made a mistake there a couple laps doing the same thing. I wasn’t shifting on the back, and I was shifting on the front. There was a lot going on, and made a couple mistakes, let him get too close.”

Bell, who already has a victory to his credit this season, seemed pleased with the runner-up result.

“Really, really proud of (crew chief) Adam Stevens, this entire 20 group,” Bell said. “The Rheem Camry didn’t feel very good at the beginning, and we had our fair share of troubles (including a spin on Lap 250), and the pit crew really came through at the end there with some blazing stops and allowed us to get in front of the 11 (Hamlin), who was on the same strategy as us and get up there and contend.”

In the battle for the last position in the Playoffs, Ryan Blaney widened his advantage over Martin Truex Jr. despite finishing 10th to Truex’s seventh. The difference was in stage points. Blaney scored 11 to none for Truex and now leads the 2017 series champion by 26 with two races left in the regular season.

Hamlin came home fourth, followed by Chase Elliott. Logano led a race-high 222 laps, but his No. 22 Ford wasn’t as strong in the twilight as it had been earlier in the race.

“Yeah, I think just as the sun went down and the track cooled off, (we) lost some turn on our car,” Logano said. “Kevin and some others got a lot better the last couple of runs in the race. When it was hot and slick, that was probably our strength with the Shell Pennzoil Mustang.”

The Cup Series heads for Watkins Glen next Sunday for the 25th regular-season race.

  • Drivers Entered: 36
  • Laps Scheduled: 400
  • Margin of Victory: 0.441 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 3 Minutes 27 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 98.110
  • Cautions: 5 for 28 laps
  • Lead Changes: 16
  • Green Flag Passes: 3,559 (9.6 passes per green flag lap)

  • Richmond Raceway
  • 65th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400
  • Race Winner: Kevin Harvick
  • Age: 46
  • Team : No. 4 - Mobil 1 Ford
  • Owner: Tony Stewart
  • Crew Chief: Rodney Childers
  • Kevin Harvick won the 65th Annual Federated Auto Parts 400, his 60th victory in 778 Cup Series races.
  • This is his second victory and 13th top-10 finish in 2022.
  • This is his fourth victory and 29th top-10 finish in 43 races at Richmond Raceway.
  • Christopher Bell (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Richmond Raceway. It is his 13th top-10 finish in 2022.
  • Chris Buescher (third) posted his first top-10 finish in 13 races at Richmond Raceway.
  • Austin Cindric (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Chase Elliott leads the point standings by 116 points over Ryan Blaney.
Kyle Larson, William Byron, and Denny Hamlin race
Richmond, Virginia - August 14, 2022 : Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, William Byron, driver of the #24 Liberty University Chevrolet, and Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway.
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Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway : Loop Data Box Score results
DRIVER ST MID CLO FIN HI LOW ARP PL DIF GFP GFxP PD QPS % QPS FST % T15 LED % LED LAPS DR TOT PTS
Kevin Harvick 13 4 1 1 1 26 7.5 12 106 96 10 52 49.06 22 83.0 55 13.8 400 120.60 47
Christopher Bell 21 19 6 2 2 29 13.3 19 131 109 22 52 39.69 32 56.0 0 0.0 400 92.50 35
Chris Buescher 18 7 2 3 2 26 9.2 15 136 127 9 59 43.38 26 78.5 0 0.0 400 104.70 38
Denny Hamlin 3 3 7 4 1 17 3.8 -1 93 86 7 66 70.97 36 100.0 22 5.5 400 121.50 50
Chase Elliott 23 8 4 5 1 23 8.7 18 119 103 16 71 59.66 11 90.8 1 0.3 400 101.40 35
Joey Logano 17 1 3 6 1 21 3.2 11 71 62 9 39 54.93 41 99.3 222 55.5 400 131.40 45
Martin Truex Jr 6 14 10 7 3 25 10.1 -1 117 125 -8 64 54.70 15 96.3 0 0.0 400 92.90 31
Aric Almirola 32 6 5 8 2 32 9.4 24 121 101 20 64 52.89 27 87.3 0 0.0 400 94.60 34
Kyle Busch 29 11 8 9 3 29 12.9 20 159 144 15 68 42.77 2 67.8 0 0.0 400 78.90 29
Ryan Blaney 10 5 11 10 1 21 7.0 0 105 100 5 63 60.00 11 98.8 1 0.3 400 104.40 38
William Byron 4 15 9 11 3 24 12.0 -7 121 128 -7 58 47.93 3 75.3 0 0.0 400 81.60 32
Austin Cindric 33 17 12 12 10 33 18.5 21 132 116 16 15 11.36 3 24.0 0 0.0 399 66.80 25
Bubba Wallace 11 16 13 13 3 25 15.6 -2 141 142 -1 49 34.75 3 52.3 0 0.0 399 70.10 24
Kyle Larson 1 2 14 14 1 21 5.4 -13 67 81 -14 38 56.72 28 97.5 11 2.8 399 101.80 40
Brad Keselowski 8 10 15 15 4 26 10.9 -7 73 77 -4 37 50.68 10 88.0 0 0.0 399 81.60 29
Austin Dillon 12 28 16 16 11 33 23.7 -4 86 92 -6 17 19.77 5 9.5 0 0.0 399 57.40 21
Ty Dillon 22 12 20 17 7 28 17.2 5 137 126 11 44 32.12 2 42.0 0 0.0 398 64.10 20
Ross Chastain 2 13 18 18 1 26 10.7 -16 120 140 -20 48 40.00 18 65.5 80 20.1 398 88.40 29
Daniel Suarez 24 26 19 19 6 29 23.0 5 117 112 5 8 6.84 7 2.5 0 0.0 398 52.30 18
Alex Bowman 5 27 17 20 4 28 19.1 -15 97 103 -6 18 18.56 21 23.5 0 0.0 398 63.60 20
Justin Haley 27 21 21 21 1 30 23.1 6 127 123 4 4 3.15 2 0.8 0 0.0 398 49.10 16
Ricky Stenhouse Jr 20 22 22 22 1 32 20.2 -2 121 127 -6 17 14.05 16 14.5 6 1.5 398 57.90 15
Chase Briscoe 15 9 26 23 2 27 13.7 -8 141 152 -11 88 62.41 8 74.8 0 0.0 397 73.90 16
Noah Gragson 19 18 23 24 2 30 22.1 -5 137 138 -1 8 5.84 6 5.0 0 0.0 397 48.10 0
Harrison Burton 30 23 24 25 17 35 24.8 5 88 83 5 0 0.00 1 0.0 0 0.0 397 45.40 12
Cole Custer 7 24 25 26 1 28 19.6 -19 126 137 -11 34 26.98 1 32.3 2 0.5 397 70.30 13
Todd Gilliland 16 25 28 27 3 29 25.0 -11 134 146 -12 7 5.22 1 0.8 0 0.0 397 47.50 10
Corey Lajoie 31 31 27 28 26 36 30.2 3 59 56 3 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 397 41.70 9
Michael McDowell 34 30 29 29 25 35 30.0 5 56 56 0 0 0.00 1 0.0 0 0.0 395 36.70 8
Landon Cassill 25 32 31 30 25 36 31.7 -5 43 46 -3 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 395 33.80 0
Tyler Reddick 26 29 30 31 24 35 30.3 -5 52 51 1 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 394 37.70 6
JJ Yeley 35 33 32 32 28 36 33.2 3 41 43 -2 0 0.00 7 0.0 0 0.0 393 28.70 0
BJ McLeod 36 34 33 33 30 36 34.2 3 37 37 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 392 26.00 0
Cody Ware 28 35 34 34 28 36 34.4 -6 25 31 -6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 391 27.30 3
Erik Jones 9 20 35 35 9 30 25.6 -26 58 76 -18 2 3.45 0 9.8 0 0.0 240 46.70 2
Ty Gibbs 14 36 36 36 12 24 27.1 -22 65 89 -24 19 29.23 0 24.8 0 0.0 180 43.00 0