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2024 AdventHealth 400

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2024 AdventHealth 400
Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Race 12 of 36 in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
Date May 5, 2024 (2024-05-05)
Location Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Course Permanent racing facility
1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance 268 laps, 402 mi (646.956 km)
Scheduled Distance 267 laps, 400.5 mi (644.542 km)
Average speed 126.481 miles per hour (203.551 km/h)
Pole position
Driver Joe Gibbs Racing
Time 29.491
Most laps led
Driver Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps 71
Winner
No. 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network FS1
Announcers Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and Kevin Harvick
Radio in the United States
Radio MRN
Booth Announcers Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and Todd Gordon
Turn Announcers Mike Bagley (1 & 2) and Kurt Becker (3 & 4)

The 2024 AdventHealth 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was held on May 5, 2024, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 268 laps -- extended from 267 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 12th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season and played host to the closest finish in NASCAR Cup series history at 0.001 seconds between the winner, Kyle Larson, and Chris Buescher, who finished 2nd.[9]

Report

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Background

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The layout of Kansas Speedway, the venue where the race was held.

Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The NTT IndyCar Series also raced there until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.

Entry list

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  • (R) denotes rookie driver.
  • (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
No. Driver Team Manufacturer
1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
2 Austin Cindric Team Penske Ford
3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
4 Josh Berry (R) Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
6 Brad Keselowski RFK Racing Ford
7 Corey LaJoie Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
10 Noah Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
12 Ryan Blaney Team Penske Ford
14 Chase Briscoe Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
15 Riley Herbst (i) Rick Ware Racing Ford
16 Derek Kraus Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing Ford
19 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
21 Harrison Burton Wood Brothers Racing Ford
22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford
23 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing Toyota
24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
31 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
33 Austin Hill (i) Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
34 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports Ford
38 Todd Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford
41 Ryan Preece Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
42 John Hunter Nemechek Legacy Motor Club Toyota
43 Corey Heim (i) Legacy Motor Club Toyota
45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota
47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet
48 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
51 Justin Haley Rick Ware Racing Ford
54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
71 Zane Smith (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
77 Carson Hocevar (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
84 Jimmie Johnson Legacy Motor Club Toyota
99 Daniel Suárez Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Official entry list

Practice

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Tyler Reddick was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.834 seconds and a speed of 181.002 mph (291.294 km/h).[10]

Practice results

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Pos No. Driver Team Manufacturer Time Speed
1 45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota 29.834 181.002
2 24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 29.963 180.222
3 23 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing Toyota 30.044 179.736
Official practice results

Qualifying

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Christopher Bell scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.491 and a speed of 183.107 mph (294.682 km/h).[11]

Qualifying results

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Pos No. Driver Team Manufacturer R1 R2
1 20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 29.667 29.491
2 1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 29.567 29.556
3 10 Noah Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 29.905 29.597
4 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 29.460 29.608
5 8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 29.644 29.659
6 54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 29.508 29.712
7 2 Austin Cindric Team Penske Ford 29.860 29.782
8 34 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports Ford 29.944 29.841
9 9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 29.653 29.998
10 14 Chase Briscoe Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 29.831 30.696
11 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 29.677
12 17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing Ford 29.946
13 19 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 29.686
14 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 29.972
15 45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota 29.695
16 3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 30.024
17 4 Josh Berry (R) Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 29.714
18 48 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 30.051
19 84 Jimmie Johnson Legacy Motor Club Toyota 29.810
20 43 Corey Heim (i) Legacy Motor Club Toyota 30.079
21 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 29.846
22 77 Carson Hocevar (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 30.105
23 23 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing Toyota 29.888
24 71 Zane Smith (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 30.226
25 38 Todd Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 29.892
26 12 Ryan Blaney Team Penske Ford 30.265
27 99 Daniel Suárez Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 29.913
28 7 Corey LaJoie Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 30.266
29 42 John Hunter Nemechek Legacy Motor Club Toyota 29.947
30 6 Brad Keselowski RFK Racing Ford 30.369
31 21 Harrison Burton Wood Brothers Racing Ford 29.964
32 41 Ryan Preece Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 30.376
33 31 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing Chevrolet 30.163
34 33 Austin Hill (i) Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 30.392
35 51 Justin Haley Rick Ware Racing Ford 30.164
36 24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 31.043
37 15 Riley Herbst (i) Rick Ware Racing Ford 30.179
38 16 Derek Kraus Kaulig Racing Chevrolet 31.266
Official qualifying results

Race

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Stage 1

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The race was scheduled to start at 2 pm Central time but rain fell which caused a nearly 4 hour delay and the green flag fell at around 5:43 Central. Pole sitter Christopher Bell and outside pole sitter Ross Chastain battled for the lead and Bell beat Chastain to lead lap 1. Chastain led lap 2 before he got infront of Bell on lap 3 and held on to it. At around lap 31, green flag pit stops would begin. Chastain would come in on lap 33 giving the lead back to Christopher Bell. Bell would pit on lap 35 giving the lead to Derek Kraus. On lap 42, Ross Chastain took the lead from Kraus. On lap 44, Kyle Larson took the lead but Chastain immeadietly took it back. On lap 49, Larson took the lead again but Chastain immeadietly passed him and Chastain took the lead back. Larson got infront again on lap 50 but couldn't hold the lead and was immeadietly passed by Chastain. Larson led lap 51 before he got infront of Chastain and held on to it. On lap 63, Denny Hamlin went to take the lead and led that lap and the following lap but could not get infront of Larson and Larson took it back on lap 65. On lap 66, Hamlin went to take the lead and led that lap and the following two laps before he got infront of Larson on lap 69. Hamlin would hold off Ross Chastain and win stage 1.

Stage 2

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Ross Chastain won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart on lap 89. On the restart, Chastain and Christopher Bell fought hard for the lead but Kyle Larson made a 3 wide pass on the both of them and Larson took the lead. Behind Larson, Chastain, Bell, Martin Truex Jr., Chris Buescher, and Ty Gibbs went 5 wide for second place at the start-finish line in which they were all the keep their cars under control to not cause a wreck. At around lap 117, green flag pit stops began once again. Larson would pit on lap 119 giving the lead to Tyler Reddick. Reddick would pit on lap 125 and after everything cycled through, Chris Buescher was the new leader. Buescher was looking to give Ford their first win in all of NASCAR of the season as the manufacturer had none of their teams win in the Truck Series, Xfinity Series, and Cup Series at this point in the season. Buescher would hold on and win stage 2.

Final stage

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Kyle Larson won the race off of pit road with Buescher in second. Unfourtunetly for Buescher, he was penalized for his crew going over the wall too soon and had to start from the rear. To make matters worse, a piece of his windshield tear off landed on the rear part of his roof which could possibly affect his aerodynamics but Buescher elected not to pit. The race would restart on lap 174 and Buescher's tear off would get blown off the car once he picked up speed and out of the way. On lap 176, the first caution for incident and the third of the day would occur when Jimmie Johnson got bumped by Corey LaJoie in turn 1 which caused Johnson to spin to the apron, come up the track, and hit the outside wall. The wreck also collected LaJoie and Austin Hill after LaJoie spun and hit the outside wall along with Hill. Unhappy, Johnson had gotten into the AMR Safety team pickup to drive him to the infield care center but decided to come back out and stared down LaJoie as LaJoie went by Johnson to show him how mad he was. The race would restart on lap 184. On the restart, Kyle Busch took the lead from Kyle Larson. On the next lap, the fourth caution would fly when Austin Cindric spun down the backstretch and collected Bubba Wallace and Michael McDowell that almost had McDowell flip. The race would restart on lap 191. On the next lap, the 5th caution would fly once again when Harrison Burton spun off of turn 2. The race would restart on lap 198. On the restart, Kyle Larson would take the lead from Kyle Busch. At the same time, the 6th caution flew when Joey Logano spun off of turn 4 after he got checked up by Chase Briscoe. Kyle Busch won the race off of pit road but Todd Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher, Justin Haley, Bubba Wallace, and Michael McDowell did not pit and Gilliland led the field to the restart on lap 206. On the restart, Denny Hamlin took the lead. On lap 208, Chris Buescher went to battle with Hamlin for the lead and led that lap before he got infront of Hamlin on the next lap. On lap 215, Hamlin took the lead back from Buescher. With 40 laps to go, Buescher went to take the lead on Hamlin and led that lap but could not get infront of Hamlin. Hamlin held on to the lead and began to pull away from Buescher. Depending if Hamlin could save enough fuel, it looked like it was going to be Hamlin to win it. But, Martin Truex Jr. came and took 2nd from Buescher with 8 laps to go and began to close in quickly to Hamlin after Truex had recently made a pit stop. It looked like it was going to be a finish between Hamlin and Truex. But with 7 laps to go, the 7th and final caution flew when Kyle Busch spun in turn 2. This would eventually have cars make pitstops and force the race into overtime.

Denny Hamlin won the race off of pit road with Chris Buescher in second and Kyle Larson in third and Hamlin led the field to the restart. On the restart, Larson went to make it a 3 wide pass for the lead but Buescher would get infront of Larson and take the lead while Hamlin began to fall back out of contention. On the last lap, Buescher remained infront even makes blocks on Larson for the lead. But off of turn 2, Larson got a run on Buescher and Larson was able to close in and got to Buescher's outside in turn 3. The two remained side by side with the third and fourth place cars in Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr., who restart 10th but closed in since he got four fresh tires on the pit stop, closing in on the two. Both Buescher and Larson remained side by side coming towards the finish line with both of them making contact twice and Buescher and Larson crossed the finish line together in a finish that looked too close to call from the naked eye. At first, the timing and scoring had Buescher ahead of Larson which caused Buescher's crew to start celebrating believing they had won. But upon further replay, it showed that Larson barely got ahead of Buescher across the finish line and they changed the decision saying Larson had won and Buescher finished in second. This would be Larson's second win of the season. The Margin of victory was 0.001 seconds, the closest finish ever recorded in NASCAR Cup Series history and the second closest finish ever recorded in all of NASCAR history behind the 2018 PowerShares QQQ 300 at Daytona in the Xfinity Series that saw Tyler Reddick beat Elliott Sadler by 0.0004 seconds. It was also the third time this season in the Top 3 Series of NASCAR that Ford had finished second in a photo finish. Even more interesting, all three have been to a Chevy car. The two previous photo finish losses for Ford against a Chevy was when Ryan Blaney lost to Daniel Suárez in the Cup Atlanta race by 0.003 seconds and Ryan Sieg lost to Sam Mayer in the Xfinity Texas race by 0.002 seconds. Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top 5 while Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, Noah Gragson, and Michael McDowell rounded out the top 10.[12]

Race results

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Stage results

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Stage One Laps: 80

Pos No Driver Team Manufacturer Points
1 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 10
2 1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 9
3 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 8
4 20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 7
5 17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing Ford 6
6 54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 5
7 19 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 4
8 8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 3
9 10 Noah Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 2
10 9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 1
Official stage one results

Stage Two Laps: 85

Pos No Driver Team Manufacturer Points
1 17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing Ford 10
2 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 9
3 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 8
4 8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 7
5 19 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 6
6 54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 5
7 48 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 4
8 45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota 3
9 1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 2
10 10 Noah Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 1
Official stage two results

Final Stage results

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Stage Three Laps: 102

Pos Grid No Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Points
1 4 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 268 57
2 12 17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing Ford 268 51
3 9 9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 268 35
4 13 19 Martin Truex Jr. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 268 43
5 14 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 268 50
6 1 20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 268 38
7 18 48 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 268 34
8 5 8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 268 39
9 3 10 Noah Gragson Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 268 31
10 8 34 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports Ford 268 27
11 30 6 Brad Keselowski RFK Racing Ford 268 26
12 26 12 Ryan Blaney Team Penske Ford 268 25
13 29 42 John Hunter Nemechek Legacy Motor Club Toyota 268 24
14 25 38 Todd Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Ford 268 23
15 17 4 Josh Berry (R) Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 268 22
16 21 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 268 21
17 23 23 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing Toyota 268 20
18 35 51 Justin Haley Rick Ware Racing Ford 268 19
19 2 1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 268 29
20 15 45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota 268 20
21 10 14 Chase Briscoe Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 268 16
22 20 43 Corey Heim (i) Legacy Motor Club Toyota 268 0
23 36 24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 268 14
24 22 77 Carson Hocevar (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 268 13
25 16 3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 268 12
26 28 7 Corey LaJoie Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 268 11
27 27 99 Daniel Suárez Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet 268 10
28 32 41 Ryan Preece Stewart-Haas Racing Ford 268 9
29 24 71 Zane Smith (R) Spire Motorsports Chevrolet 268 8
30 33 31 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing Chevrolet 268 7
31 38 16 Derek Kraus Kaulig Racing Chevrolet 268 6
32 6 54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 15
33 34 33 Austin Hill (i) Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 267 0
34 11 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 266 3
35 37 15 Riley Herbst (i) Front Row Motorsports Ford 266 0
36 31 21 Harrison Burton Wood Brothers Racing Ford 262 1
37 7 2 Austin Cindric Team Penske Ford 184 1
38 19 84 Jimmie Johnson Legacy Motor Club Toyota 175 1
Official race results

Race statistics

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  • Lead changes: 27 among 10 different drivers
  • Cautions/Laps: 7 for 43 laps
  • Red flags: 0
  • Time of race: 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 42 seconds
  • Average speed: 126.481 miles per hour (203.551 km/h)
  • Margin of Victory: 0.001 seconds

Media

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Television

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Fox Sports covered their 13th race at the Kansas Speedway. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer and three-time Kansas winner Kevin Harvick called the race from the broadcast booth. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Due to the rain delay, an MLS match originally scheduled for FS1 was moved entirely to FS2 to accommodate the delayed start of the race.

FS1
Booth announcers Pit reporters In-race analyst
Lap-by-lap: Mike Joy
Color-commentator: Clint Bowyer
Color-commentator: Kevin Harvick
Jamie Little
Regan Smith
Larry McReynolds

Radio

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MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and former crew chief Todd Gordon called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Mike Bagley covered the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Kurt Becker called the race from a platform outside turn 4. Steve Post, Kim Coon & Chris Wilner worked pit road for the radio side.

MRN
Booth announcers Turn announcers Pit reporters
Lead announcer: Alex Hayden
Announcer: Jeff Striegle
Announcer: Todd Gordon
Turns 1 & 2: Mike Bagley
Turns 3 & 4: Kurt Becker
Steve Post
Kim Coon
Chris Wilner

Standings after the race

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References

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  1. ^ "2024 schedule". Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  2. ^ "Kansas Speedway". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Media Group, LLC. January 3, 2013. Archived from the original on April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  3. ^ Sturniolo, Zach (October 4, 2023). "NASCAR reveals 2024 Cup schedule as Atlanta, Watkins Glen move to playoffs". NASCAR. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  4. ^ "Entry List" (PDF). Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  5. ^ "Practice Results". NASCAR.com. NASCAR. May 4, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
  6. ^ "Qualifying Results". NASCAR.com. NASCAR. May 4, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
  7. ^ "AdventHealth 400 Results". NASCAR.com. NASCAR. May 5, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2024.
  8. ^ "Points standings" (PDF). Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. May 5, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2024.
  9. ^ "Kyle Larson beats Chris Buescher to line at Kansas; scores second win of 2024". NASCAR. May 5, 2024. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
  10. ^ Utter, Jim (May 4, 2024). "Kansas NASCAR Cup: Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing top practice". Motorsport.com. Kansas City, Kansas: Motorsport Network. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
  11. ^ Utter, Jim (May 4, 2024). "Kansas NASCAR Cup: Christopher Bell beats Ross Chastain for pole". Motorsport.com. Kansas City, Kansas: Motorsport Network. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
  12. ^ "NASCAR highlights: Kyle Larson wins AdventHealth 400". Retrieved May 5, 2024.


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