2024 Pennzoil 400 Explained

Type:	CUST
Description:	Race 3 of 36 in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
Race Name:	Pennzoil 400
Details Ref:	^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8]
Year:	2024
Location:	Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas
Course Mi:	1.5
Course Km:	2.4
Distance Laps:	267
Distance Mi:	400.5
Distance Km:	640.8
Avg:	133.192mph
Pole Driver:	Joey Logano
Pole Team:	Team Penske
Pole Time:	29.291
Most Driver:	Kyle Larson
Most Team:	Hendrick Motorsports
Most Laps:	181
Car:	5
First Driver:	Kyle Larson
First Team:	Hendrick Motorsports
Network:	Fox
Announcers:	Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and Kevin Harvick
Radio:	PRN
Booth Ann:	Doug Rice and Mark Garrow
Turn Ann:	Rob Albright (1 & 2) and Pat Patterson (3 & 4)

The 2024 Pennzoil 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 3, 2024, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5miles asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the third race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. Kyle Larson won the race. Tyler Reddick finished 2nd, and Ryan Blaney finished 3rd. Ross Chastain and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top five, and Noah Gragson, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and William Byron rounded out the top ten.

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Background

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1200acres complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Entry list

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1			Chevrolet
2			Ford
3		nowrap		Chevrolet
4	Josh Berry (R)		Ford
5			Chevrolet
6			Ford
7			Chevrolet
8			Chevrolet
9			Chevrolet
10			Ford
11			Toyota
12			Ford
14			Ford
15	Kaz Grala (R)		Ford
16			Chevrolet
17			Ford
19			Toyota
20			Toyota
21			Ford
22			Ford
23			Toyota
24			Chevrolet
31			Chevrolet
34			Ford
38			Ford
41			Ford
42			Toyota
43			Toyota
44	J. J. Yeley (i)		Chevrolet
45			Toyota
47	nowrap			Chevrolet
48			Chevrolet
51			Ford
54			Toyota
71	Zane Smith (R)		Chevrolet
77	Carson Hocevar (R)		Chevrolet
99			Chevrolet
Official entry list

Practice

Ross Chastain was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.305 seconds and a speed of 184.269mph.^[9]

Practice results

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time
1	1				29.305	184.269
2	10				29.402	183.661
3	54				29.531	182.859
Official practice results

Qualifying

Joey Logano scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.291 and a speed of 184.357mph.^[10] This was the first qualifying session where the inside & outside rows were set by times in Groups A & B respectively for 11th position on down.

Qualifying results

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	22			Ford	29.348	29.291
2	5			Chevrolet	29.227	29.312
3	2			Ford	29.309	29.333
4	24			Chevrolet	29.195	29.362
5	23			Toyota	29.382	29.404
6	14			Ford	29.228	29.430
7	19			Toyota	29.392	29.481
8	54			Toyota	29.356	29.484
9	17			Ford	29.335	29.520
10	20			Toyota	29.373	29.580
11	9			Chevrolet	29.357	—
12	34			Ford	29.413	—
13	47			Chevrolet	29.410	—
14	77	Carson Hocevar (R)		Chevrolet	29.479	—
15	12			Ford	29.438	—
16	99			Chevrolet	29.534	—
17	7			Chevrolet	29.441	—
18	45			Toyota	29.587	—
19	3			Chevrolet	29.498	—
20	1			Chevrolet	29.592	—
21	8			Chevrolet	29.554	—
22	43			Toyota	29.620	—
23	48			Chevrolet	29.575	—
24	71	Zane Smith (R)		Chevrolet	29.620	—
25	6			Ford	29.689	—
26	4	Josh Berry (R)		Ford	29.647	—
27	42			Toyota	29.730	—
28	11			Toyota	29.654	—
29	21			Ford	29.821	—
30	10			Ford	29.795	—
31	38			Ford	29.884	—
32	15	Kaz Grala (R)		Ford	29.795	—
33	16			Chevrolet	30.175	—
34	31			Chevrolet	29.936	—
35	51			Ford	0.000	—
36	41			Ford	0.000	—
37	44	J. J. Yeley (i)		Chevrolet	0.000	—
Official qualifying results

Race

Race results

Stage Results

Stage OneLaps: 80

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Points
1	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	10
2	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	9
3	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	8
4	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	7
5	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	6
6	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	5
7	7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	4
8	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	3
9	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	2
10	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	1
Official stage one results

Stage TwoLaps: 85

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Points
1	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	10
2	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	9
3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	8
4	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	7
5	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	6
6	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	5
7	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	4
8	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	3
9	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	2
10	43	Erik Jones	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	1
Official stage two results

Final Stage Results

Stage ThreeLaps: 102

Pos	Grid		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	2	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	60
2	18	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	267	53
3	15	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	267	41
4	20	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	267	36
5	8	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	37
6	30	10	Noah Gragson	Stewart–Haas Racing	Ford	267	31
7	7	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	44
8	28	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	43
9	1	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	267	30
10	4	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	27
11	16	99	Daniel Suárez	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	267	26
12	11	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	30
13	25	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford	267	24
14	22	43	Erik Jones	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	267	24
15	14	77	Carson Hocevar (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	22
16	19	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	267	25
17	13	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	267	20
18	23	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	22
19	34	31	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	267	18
20	26	4	Josh Berry (R)	Stewart–Haas Racing	Ford	267	17
21	6	14	Chase Briscoe	Stewart–Haas Racing	Ford	267	16
22	27	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Legacy Motor Club	Toyota	267	15
23	36	41	Ryan Preece	Stewart–Haas Racing	Ford	267	14
24	31	38	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	267	13
25	12	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	267	12
26	21	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	267	18
27	35	51	Justin Haley	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	267	10
28	33	16	Derek Kraus	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	267	9
29	3	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	267	10
30	29	21	Harrison Burton	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	267	7
31	32	15	Kaz Grala (R)	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	267	6
32	17	7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	266	9
33	10	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	265	5
34	37	44	J. J. Yeley (i)	NY Racing Team	Chevrolet	261	0
35	5	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	254	2
36	24	71	Zane Smith (R)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	254	1
37	9	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford	27	1
Official race results

Race statistics

• Lead changes: 24 among 15 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 6 for 35 laps
• Red flags: 1 for 10 minutes and 39 seconds
• Time of race: 3 hours, 0 minutes and 25 seconds
• Average speed: 133.192mph

Media

Television

Fox Sports was carried by Fox in the United States. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and two-time Las Vegas 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.

Radio

PRN covered the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth where the field raced through the tri-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 where the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 where the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Wendy Venturini, and Heather Debeaux worked pit road for the radio side.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
10	1	Kyle Larson	118
3	2	Ryan Blaney	110 (–8)
7	3	Martin Truex Jr.	104 (–14)
2	4	William Byron	103 (–15)
3	5	Ross Chastain	98 (–20)
5	6	Kyle Busch	95 (–23)
1	7	Chase Elliott	95 (–23)
1	8	Daniel Suárez	90 (–28)
5	9	Ty Gibbs	87 (–31)
9	10	Denny Hamlin	87 (–31)
8	11	Austin Cindric	86 (–32)
13	12	Tyler Reddick	84 (–34)
4	13	Alex Bowman	82 (–36)
10	14	Bubba Wallace	76 (–42)
2	15	Erik Jones	71 (–47)
3	16	John Hunter Nemechek	68 (–50)
Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings

	Pos	Manufacturer	Points
	1	Chevrolet	120
	2	Toyota	101 (–19)
	3	Ford	97 (–23)

• Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024 schedule . Jayski.com. . January 17, 2024.
2. Web site: Las Vegas Motor Speedway. NASCAR.com. NASCAR Media Group, LLC.. February 14, 2023. April 28, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170428042515/http://www.nascar.com/en_us/nascar-tracks/las-vegas-motor-speedway.html. dead.
3. Web site: NASCAR reveals 2024 Cup schedule as Atlanta, Watkins Glen move to playoffs . Zach . Sturniolo . . October 4, 2023 . October 4, 2023.
4. Web site: Entry List. Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. February 26, 2024. February 26, 2024.
5. Web site: Practice Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. March 2, 2024. March 2, 2024.
6. Web site: Qualifying Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. March 2, 2024. March 2, 2024.
7. Web site: Pennzoil 400 Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. March 3, 2024. March 3, 2024.
8. Web site: Points standings. Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. March 3, 2024. March 3, 2024.
9. Web site: Utter. Jim. Ross Chastain leads windy NASCAR Cup practice at Las Vegas. Motorsport Network. March 2, 2024. Las Vegas. March 2, 2024.
10. Web site: Utter. Jim. Joey Logano earns third straight front row start with Vegas pole. Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. March 2, 2024. Las Vegas. March 2, 2024.