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Echopark Automotive Grand Prix

Sunday, March 26th, 2023

Circuit of The Americas, Austin, Texas

  • 19 Chevrolet
  • 14 Ford
  • 6 Toyota

  • Circuit of The Americas
  • EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: William Byron
  • Age: 25
  • Team : No. 24 - Liberty University Chevrolet
  • Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
  • Crew Chief: Brian Campe
  • William Byron won the Busch Light Pole Award for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix with a lap of 130.76 seconds, 93.882 mph.
  • This is his ninth pole in 186 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first pole and third top-10 start in 2023.
  • This is his first pole in three races at Circuit of The Americas. William Byron becomes the first driver in the NASCAR Cup Series to win a pole at four different road courses - Charlotte Roval (2019), Road America (2021), Indianapolis Road Course (2021) and Circuit of The Americas (2023).
  • Tyler Reddick (second) posted his first top-10 start of 2023 and his third in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Austin Cindric (third) posted his third top-10 start at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth in six races this season.
  • Noah Gragson (10th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Sunday, March 26th, 2023
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Tyler Reddick wins first race with 23XI Racing at Circuit of The Americas

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime re-starts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing, with a 1.411-second victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix – the NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season.

It was a field of international champions and NASCAR’s very best at the famed Circuit of The Americas course but for most of the race the outcome looked to be decided in a good ole Texas duel between the two fastest cars all weekend driven by Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The pair exchanged the lead, lap after exciting lap for most of the afternoon.

And on the final two-lap restart Reddick was able to put his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front exiting Turn 1 - a tight left-hander - and power forward to the lead; while Busch and third-place finisher Alex Bowman, fourth-place finisher – and defending race winner - Ross Chastain and fifth-place Byron fought door-to-door bumper-to-bumper as they chased after him.

“I’ve been wanting to win here in a Cup car for a long time," the 27-year-old Californian Reddick said, who now has four NASCAR Cup Series wins, but noted this was his first as a Toyota driver and with his 23XI Racing Team – co-owned by fellow competitor Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“It means the world," said Reddick, who sat down on the track and leaned against his car with a bag of ice after winning to cool down on the typically Texas-hot afternoon. “This whole 23XI team has been working hard all winter long to make the road course program better and was extremely motivated to come in here and improve performance. Just so proud of this Monster Energy team and TRD (Toyota Racing Development). All the resources they’ve put in to turn around the road course program means a lot.”

As often happens late in a road course race, patience lags and urgency increases. That was certainly the case Sunday with three different overtime restarts deciding the outcome. Reddick and Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet combined to lead 69 of the race’s 75 laps with Reddick out front a race best 41 of those, most of them after hard-fought challenges and back-and-forth corner after corner with the race polesitter Byron.

“It feels good to get a top five, but we had a top-two race car really with the 45, he was really better than everybody, but I thought we were a close second," said Byron, a two-race winner already in 2023, whose fifth-place finish at COTA was his career best on a road course. “We’ll keep building on it."

Busch’s runner-up effort was an impressive comeback. He had been mid-pack for most of the afternoon but gambled on fuel strategy to move forward during some late race cautions in regulation.

“Even if we were on equal tires, they were lights out," said Busch, driver of the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“Overall, for as much effort as we put into coming here and focusing on this place and all the testing we did in the offseason, we’re coming out of here with a good finish. Tyler’s obviously a really good road course racer."

In addition to the NASCAR stars, the field that raced Sunday included four big names from other racing genres including IMSA champion Jordan Taylor, who drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for injured former COTA winner Chase Elliott; a pair of former Formula One champions in Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and popular IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly.

Among these four, the Englishman Button – the 2009 Formula One champion – claimed the top finishing position, 18th in the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford. Taylor, a two-time winner at COTA in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Series finished 24th but made a huge impression in his debut after qualifying fourth.

Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 World Champion from Finland, finished 29th but ran as high as fourth place late in the race. Daly only got 16 laps into the race before his team had to take his No. 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet behind the wall for extended repairs. He finished 36th.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t even get a full lap of green flag racing in only his second start of the 2023 season. The owner-driver of the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was collected in a multi-car accident that eliminated his Chevrolet and left him 38th in the standings.

Team Penske's Austin Cindric, 2023 DAYTONA 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., RFK Racing's Chris Buescher, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs and Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland rounded out the top-10.

Chastain takes over the championship lead by 19 points over Busch. Ty Gibbs, who finished ninth, continues to lead the Sunoco Rookie of the Year points standings.

  • Drivers Entered: 39
  • Laps Scheduled: 68
  • Laps Actual: 75 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 01.411 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 30 Minutes 32 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 72.886
  • Cautions: 8 for 17 laps
  • Lead Changes: 16
  • Green Flag Passes: 3,110 (53.6 passes per green flag lap)

  • Circuit of The Americas
  • EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix
  • Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
  • Age: 27
  • Team : No. 45 - Monster Energy Toyota
  • Owner: 23XI Racing
  • Crew Chief: Billy Scott
  • Tyler Reddick won the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, his fourth victory in 116 NASCAR Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Kyle Busch (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
  • Alex Bowman (third) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Circuit of The Americas.
  • Ty Gibbs (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • This is the fourth win for 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series - Talladega (2021), Kansas-1 (2022), Kansas-2 (2022), Austin (2023).
William Byron and Tyler Reddick lead the field on a pace lap
Austin, Texas - March 26, 2023 : William Byron, driver of the #24 Liberty University Chevrolet, and Tyler Reddick, driver of the #45 Monster Energy Toyota, lead the field on a pace lap prior to the NASCAR Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas.
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Echopark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas : 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
Tyler Reddick 2 2 1 1 1 25 3.7 1 57 28 29 32 56.14 13 93.3 41 54.7 75 141.80 50
Kyle Busch 9 6 3 2 2 31 11.1 7 85 80 5 23 27.06 3 74.7 0 0.0 75 101.10 39
Alex Bowman 6 7 6 3 2 24 7.3 3 55 45 10 25 45.45 1 89.3 0 0.0 75 108.40 41
Ross Chastain 12 5 15 4 2 28 9.1 8 73 61 12 25 34.25 2 85.3 0 0.0 75 107.10 39
William Byron 1 1 2 5 1 15 3.0 -4 32 32 0 19 59.38 6 100.0 28 37.3 75 128.80 42
Austin Cindric 3 10 12 6 1 31 11.7 -3 91 79 12 31 34.07 4 69.3 2 2.7 75 96.10 40
Ricky Stenhouse Jr 18 19 29 7 3 33 19.1 11 105 87 18 15 14.29 0 22.7 0 0.0 75 76.20 35
Chris Buescher 32 16 13 8 1 36 15.8 24 95 80 15 34 35.79 0 64.0 1 1.3 75 84.00 35
Ty Gibbs 17 31 14 9 7 33 18.8 8 117 99 18 30 25.64 1 40.0 0 0.0 75 76.50 28
Todd Gilliland 36 17 16 10 7 36 20.2 26 115 93 22 18 15.65 1 20.0 0 0.0 75 68.40 27
Corey Lajoie 27 35 20 11 11 37 29.4 16 75 66 9 8 10.67 0 8.0 0 0.0 75 53.30 26
Michael McDowell 20 12 7 12 3 36 14.8 8 127 97 30 41 32.28 1 68.0 0 0.0 75 92.20 33
Kevin Harvick 29 14 18 13 4 29 15.1 16 93 88 5 26 27.96 0 58.7 0 0.0 75 88.00 31
Kyle Larson 13 26 32 14 5 36 22.9 -1 89 100 -11 21 23.60 3 34.7 0 0.0 75 81.80 27
Chase Briscoe 19 22 11 15 6 37 16.6 4 87 89 -2 31 35.63 0 50.7 0 0.0 75 71.50 24
Denny Hamlin 21 20 22 16 3 37 21.6 5 141 156 -15 4 2.84 0 12.0 0 0.0 75 63.50 21
Martin Truex Jr 25 13 5 17 3 31 14.7 8 103 94 9 27 26.21 1 62.7 0 0.0 75 77.40 20
Jenson Button 24 25 28 18 15 34 26.6 6 104 92 12 0 0.00 0 1.3 0 0.0 75 48.70 19
Justin Haley 23 32 23 19 12 36 25.5 4 115 86 29 2 1.74 0 0.0 0 0.0 75 50.80 18
Noah Gragson 10 23 9 20 7 31 16.9 -10 111 115 -4 23 20.72 0 44.0 0 0.0 75 65.00 18
Ryan Blaney 38 34 19 21 14 38 29.3 17 89 69 20 1 1.12 0 0.0 0 0.0 75 44.70 16
Harrison Burton 16 27 31 22 2 35 25.8 -6 75 99 -24 1 1.33 0 9.3 0 0.0 75 45.80 15
Erik Jones 8 21 30 23 2 32 17.2 -15 81 80 1 15 18.52 0 34.7 0 0.0 75 71.80 17
Jordan Taylor 4 18 21 24 4 32 17.5 -20 95 109 -14 13 13.68 2 36.0 0 0.0 75 66.40 16
Cody Ware 37 33 24 25 4 37 28.0 12 97 131 -34 1 1.03 0 2.7 0 0.0 75 36.80 12
Josh Bilicki 33 30 25 26 12 38 26.9 7 100 100 0 3 3.00 0 6.7 0 0.0 75 43.00 0
Daniel Suarez 5 4 4 27 1 31 7.1 -22 54 70 -16 29 53.70 7 86.7 1 1.3 75 101.60 15
Joey Logano 15 8 10 28 1 37 15.1 -13 70 118 -48 23 32.86 0 61.3 1 1.3 75 65.50 9
Kimi Raikkonen 22 29 17 29 4 33 23.9 -7 100 111 -11 9 9.00 0 14.7 0 0.0 75 48.30 8
Aric Almirola 39 28 27 30 12 39 27.6 9 92 95 -3 4 4.35 0 4.0 0 0.0 74 36.20 7
Christopher Bell 14 11 26 31 1 31 14.7 -17 79 97 -18 27 34.18 0 66.7 1 1.4 73 71.50 8
Ryan Preece 26 15 8 32 7 33 20.8 -6 73 102 -29 12 16.44 0 30.7 0 0.0 68 53.70 6
Austin Dillon 28 9 33 33 2 33 16.5 -5 59 53 6 19 32.20 1 56.0 0 0.0 62 80.10 13
AJ Allmendinger 7 3 34 34 2 32 12.5 -27 37 45 -8 21 56.76 2 73.3 0 0.0 60 91.50 11
Brad Keselowski 30 24 35 35 14 37 27.4 -5 95 108 -13 2 2.11 1 5.3 0 0.0 56 45.40 2
Conor Daly 35 36 36 36 25 37 35.5 -1 21 15 6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 16 27.70 1
Bubba Wallace 11 37 37 37 11 33 33.6 -26 10 31 -21 8 80.00 0 13.3 0 0.0 10 40.70 1
Jimmie Johnson 31 39 39 38 31 39 39.0 -7 7 6 1 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 27.00 1
Ty Dillon 34 38 38 39 34 38 38.0 -5 6 10 -4 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 26.70 1