April 24, 2016
- Carl Edwards wins at Richmond: #19-Carl Edwards won the Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway for his 2nd win of the season, 2nd win at Richmond and 27th career win. Edwards led 151 of the 400 laps, but was trailing teammate #18-Kyle Busch on the final lap when he bumped him going into turn 4 to push Busch out of the groove and take the win.
#18-Busch held on for 2nd followed by #48-Johnson, #5-Kahne, pole sitter #4-Harvick, #11-Hamlin, #20-Kenseth, #22-Logano, #78-Truex, Jr., and #41-Busch.
#14-Stewart, in his first race of the year, lost a lap early but battled back for a 19th place, lead lap finish.
There were 22 lead changes among 8 drivers and 8 cautions for 49 yellow flag laps.
The average speed was 97.070mph.
See unofficial race results, awards, laps led, cautions and more [NOTE: money/winnings are no longer reported] at:
Unofficial Race Results page (pdf)
Lap Summary Report (pdf)
Penalty Report (pdf)
Pit Stop Times (pdf)
(4-24-2016) - Race Fast Facts – Richmond International Raceway:
Carl Edwards won the 62nd Annual Toyota Owners 400, his 27th victory in 418 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2016.
This is his second victory and 12th top-10 finish in 24 races at Richmond International Raceway.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his 16th top-10 finish in 22 races at Richmond International Raceway. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2016.
Jimmie Johnson (third) posted his 12th top-10 finish in 29 races at Richmond International Raceway.
Chase Elliott (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Carl Edwards leads the point standings by 7 points over Kevin Harvick.
(NASCAR Integrated Sports Marketing)(4-24-2016) - 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Points (not CHASE) Standings:
[after Richmond, race 9 of 36]
1) #19-Edwards [2 wins], 331
2) #4-Harvick [1 win], 324, -7
3) #48-Johnson [2 wins], 310, -21
4) #18-Busch, [2 wins], 302, -29
5) #22-Logano, 299, -32
6) #41-Busch, 279, -52
7) #88-Earnhardt Jr., 278, -53
8) #11-Hamlin [1 win], 258, -73
9) #2-Keselowski [1 win], 255, -76
10) #78-Truex Jr., 246, -85
See the Unofficial Drivers Points Standings page (pdf) and
Unofficial Owners Points Standings page (pdf) - 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup CHASE Standings:
[after Richmond, race 9 of 36, 16 drivers for the Chase]
Set by most wins, then by points standing
1) #19-Edwards [2 wins], 1st in driver points
2) #48-Johnson [2 wins], 3rd
3) #18-Busch [2 wins], 4th
4) #4-Harvick [1 win], 2nd
5) #11-Hamlin [1 win], 8th
6) #2-Keselowski [1 win], 9th
no wins, in by drivers points standings
7) #22-Logano, 299
8) #41-Busch, 279
9) #88-Earnhardt Jr., 278
10) #78-Truex, Jr., 246
11) #24-Elliott, 234
12) #3-Dillon, 234
13) #1-McMurray, 224
14) #5-Kahne, 222
15) #20-Kenseth, 212
16) #31-Newman, 205
(4-24-2016) - Stewart says he will continue to speak his mind: #14-Tony Stewart talked to Fox Sports during pre-race coverage at Richmond Sunday:
Q: Moving forward, will you hold back on any of those opinions?
STEWART: “No. I understand what NASCAR is trying to do, but I’m always going to speak my mind. I don’t know what the key word or key phrase was that got me fined. But when it comes to safety, I’m not going to hold back. That’s $35,000 well-invested if it makes it safer for these guys. I think they’re (NASCAR) doing something different today with rules on trying to keep everybody … making sure we get enough lug nuts on the cars. You just don’t want to be in a position where, with 20 laps to go and you’re leading the race and you haven’t won a race and you need that to get in the Chase, to have to make a decision as a driver whether to come in or whether to ride down and hope it stays. That’s not a good position for us to be in. I think some of the people at NASCAR took it the wrong way. They’ve done an awesome job with safety and this is one thing we still need to look at. It wasn’t saying they’re not doing their job. I just felt like this is one thing they dropped the ball on. So, they’re doing a good job. They’re looking at it. They’re going to address it and make it right, and down the road, we won’t have to worry about this again, hopefully.” (Fox Sports)(4-24-2016) - Vickers still possible for an Indy 500 ride UPDATE – No: Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team owner Sam Schmidt says NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and the late Justin Wilson’s brother, Stefan, are still possibilities for the team’s third car in the Indy 500. The team owner, whose other candidates include – but are not confined to – trusty veteran Oriol Servia and Verizon IndyCar Series sophomore Gabby Chaves, said: “The same four or five guys have been circling the sandbox for the last 45 days. One week one of them will be all fired up and there’ll be LOIs [letters of intent] exchanged…and then nothing happens and it’s left hanging. We seem to be spending a lot of time on it at the moment, which I hoped not to be doing by now, but that’s the nature of the business. So let me put it this way: as of this morning, the door’s still open to all!” Schmidt, whose team took pole at the 2011 Indy 500 with Alex Tagliani, confirmed that rookies Vickers and Wilson remain in the running for the third SPM seat on Memorial Day Weekend. Schmidt said no clear favorite had emerged among his potential third drivers for the 100th Indy 500.(Motorsport)(4-14-2016)
UPDATE: Veteran IndyCar Series driver Oriol Servia was confirmed Saturday to the #77 Honda of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for next month’s Indianapolis 500. The team co-owned by Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson fields full-season cars for James Hinchcliffe and Mikhail Aleshin. Schmidt also considered Gabby Chaves, Katherine Legge and Jay Howard. At one point NASCAR driver Brian Vickers was considered for the SPM ride, but he has been focused on serving as the temporary Sprint Cup Series replacement for Tony Stewart, who is returning this weekend from a late-January back injury.(Indianpolis Star)(4-24-2016) - Frustrations continue for Bowyer: With less than five minutes remaining in Happy Hour at Richmond International Raceway, Clint Bowyer was far from pleased with the #15 car. Bowyer, who has struggled to get up to speed since joining HScott Motorsports, suffered another rant on Saturday when smoke started spewing from his car. “Right front smoking, real bad, real bad, real bad,” spotter Brett Griffin reported to the #15. Bowyer was 37th on the speed chart in single-lap runs during final practice – at a track where he’s won twice and enjoys his second-best career average finish (11.3) behind Sonoma. Yet on Saturday, he was one of just two cars not to post a 10 best consecutive lap run. “I’ve never been with such a (expletive) unprepared (expletive) team in my life,” Bowyer replied via team radio. “It’s a (expletive) joke. No power steering. (Expletive) put this in the truck and go home.” Bowyer is coming off of a season-best eighth place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend. His performance matched the organization’s career-high result posted by former driver Justin Allgaier at BMS in 2015. But as Bowyer acknowledged – quite honestly, two weeks ago – this season has been “tough”.(Motorsport)(4-24-2016)
- Richmond Race Notes & Facts:
� There have been 119 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Richmond International Raceway, one NSCS event from 1953 – 1958 and two races per year since 1959.
� 486 drivers have competed in at least one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond; 316 in more than one.
� Petty Enterprises has the most wins at Richmond in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with 15; followed by Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing with 10 each and Richard Childress Racing with nine.
� Nine different manufacturers have won at Richmond. Chevrolet leads the series in wins at Richmond with 37 victories; followed by Ford with 31 and Toyota with eight.
� Only four of the 119 races at Richmond International Raceway have been shortened due to weather conditions: spring of 1962, spring of 1977, spring of 1982 and spring of 2003.
� Since the advent of electronic scoring the closest margin of victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Richmond International Raceway was the (09/12/1998) race won by Jeff Burton with a MOV of 0.051 second.
� There have been two NSCS races resulting with a green-white-checkered finish at Richmond International Raceway: spring of 2008 (400/410) and spring of 2013 (400/406).
(NASCAR)
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