Tulsa World Monday, April 22, 2024 B5 AUTO RACING GEICO 500 Sunday, Talladega Superspeedway Lap: 2.66 mi. (Start position in parentheses) 1. (18) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 188 laps, 47 points. 2. (22) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 188, 38.
3. (36) Noah Gragson, Ford, 188, 34. 4. (33) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 188, 33. 5.
(12) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 188, 33. 6. (24) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 188, 0. 7. (13) William Byron, Chevrolet, 188, 38.
8. (3) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 188, 29. 9. (19) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 188, 28. 10.
(16) Harrison Burton, Ford, 188, 32. 11. (6) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 188, 26. 12. (26) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 188, 25.
13. (32) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 188, 30. 14. (11) Ryan Preece, Ford, 188, 25. 15.
(9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 188, 34. 16. (29) Josh Berry, Ford, 188, 21. 17. (35) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 188, 20.
18. (31) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 188, 19. 19. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 188, 28. 20.
(21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 188, 24. 21. (38) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 188, 24. 22. (15) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 188, 16.
23. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 188, 33. 24. (34) Cody Ware, Ford, 188, 13. 25.
(8) Chris Buescher, Ford, 188, 16. 26. (4) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 188, 17. 27. (25) Daniel Chevrolet, 188, 10.
28. (17) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 188, 0. 29. (30) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 188, 8. 30.
(5) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 188, 14. 31. (1) Michael McDowell, Ford, accident, 187, 6. 32. (37) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 187, 0.
33. (20) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 184, 4. 34. (27) Justin Haley, Ford, 184, 3.
35. (28) Erik Jones, Toyota, accident, 154, 2. 36. (14) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, accident, 154, 1. 37.
(23) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, accident, 154, 1. 38. (10) Christopher Bell, Toyota, accident, 132, 5. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 155.08 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 13 minutes, 29 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.208 seconds. Caution Flags: 4 for 21 laps. Lead Changes: 73 among 23 drivers. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): M.McDowell, 7 times for 36 laps; J.Logano, 6 times for 22 laps; J.Nemechek, 3 times for 20 laps; M.Truex, 5 times for 16 laps; A.Cindric, 4 times for 16 laps; T.Reddick, 5 times for 13 laps; D.Hemric, 3 times for 8 laps; R.Chastain, 3 times for 6 laps; C.Buescher, 4 times for 6 laps; N.Gragson, 5 times for 5 laps; C.Elliott, 3 times for 5 laps; K.Busch, 3 times for 5 laps; B.McLeod, 4 times for 5 laps; A.Alfredo, 3 times for 4 laps; J.Haley, 2 times for 4 laps; D.Hamlin, 3 times for 4 laps; C.Briscoe, 2 times for 3 laps; J.Berry, 1 time for 3 laps; S.Van Gisbergen, 3 times for 3 laps; B.Keselowski, 2 times for 2 laps; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 1 lap; R.Blaney, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 1 lap. POINTS LEADERS The top 16 drivers qualify for the playoffs.
Drivers also can qualify with a regular season win. Wins in parentheses. 1. K. Larson (1) 360 9.
R. Chastain 2. M. Truex Jr. 344 10.
A. Bowman 3. C. Elliott (1) 337 11. B.
Wallace 4. W. Byron (3) 335 12. C. Briscoe 5.
T. Reddick (1) 316 13. C. Bell (1) 6. D.
Hamlin (2) 308 14. B. Keselowski 254 7. R. Blaney 304 14.
C. Buescher 8. Ty Gibbs 299 16. K. Busch 276 261 257 256 255 247 236 NASCAR TALLADEGA BRIEFLY CLEAN RACING: Unlike the wacky finish, the first two stages were caution-free the first time happened at Talladega since the stage system was instituted in 2017.
UP NEXT: The Cup series heads next Sunday to Dover Motor Speedway, where Martin Truex Jr. won the race a year ago. Associated Press PAUL NEWBERRY Associated TALLADEGA, Ala. Tyler Reddick stole a NASCAR Cup victory at Talladega Superspeed- way when front-runner Michael McDowell, swerving up and down the track trying to block Brad Ke- selowski, wound up crashing with the finish line in sight Sunday. It was another wild Talladega finish and it set off a raucous celebration on pit road with one of team owners, Bas- ketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.
is like an NBA playoff Jordan said in Victory Lane. so McDowell, the pole-sitter, dominated the closing laps and was in position to give Ford its much-needed first victory of the year. But his topsy-turvy efforts to block Keselowski another Ford driver wound up costing them both. McDowell spun out, Keselowski had to check up, and Reddick sped by to claim his sixth career Cup victory by 0.208 seconds. A pile of cars behind them was taken out, as well.
Corey No. 7 machine slid across the fin- ish line on its side, pinned against the wall in front the massive grandstands. Reddick climbed out of his No. 45 car and scurried up the fence like Spider-Man. was crazy, he screamed.
Typical Tal- Keselowski settled for the run- ner-up spot, failing again to pick up his first win since 2021 at this 2.66-mile trioval in east Ala- bama. went to make a move and Michael covered Keselowski said. went the other way and had nowhere to go when Michael came back down. just the way this stuff victory redeemed a botched strategy that knocked out a bunch of Toyota contend- ers, including his team co-owner, Denny Hamlin. All three Toyota teams pitted in tandem with 37 laps to go, going with a strategy that al- lowed them to push the pace on the rest of the fuel-saving field with an idea of drafting all the way to the front for the checkered flag.
Unfortunately, they keep their cars straight. Reddick steals win in wild finish Jordan driver picks up victory after McDowell spins out at the end MIKE STEWART, ASSOCIATED Tyler Reddick celebrates his victory on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega. Ala. GREG MCWILLIAMS, ASSOCIATED Chase Briscoe (14), Ryan Blaney (12) and Justin Haley (51) spin out after a collision during race. SPORTS JENNA FRYER Associated LONG BEACH, Ca- lif.
Scott Dixon used mind-boggling fuel-saving strategy Sunday to win the Grand Prix of Long Beach and move closer to A.J. Foyt on all-time win list with his 57th career vic- tory. Foyt is winnin- gest driver with 67 victories a mark the 43-year-old Dixon sure he can hit. sounds like a he said. years there you could knock out five, six or seven (wins).
If a good year, you can possi- bly get four or five. strong. just keep our head down, man. one of those things that I always say hopefully when you leave the sport, happy with the stats. course, these are big stats.
This is a big deal. still a long way away from Colton Herta and reign- ing IndyCar champion Alex Palou were baffled by Dix- ability to stretch his fuel for nearly 50 of the 85 laps. he took (the lead), I was like, going to make it said Dixon team- mate Palou. cheating and he has an extra fuel cell that I know about. Yeah, it.
Runner-up Herta said Dixon needed both a fast car and his fuel-saving skills to pull it off. need to be good at fuel saving, but you also need a good car to do Herta said. a few guys in the series that are probably capable of doing it, but they need a lot of things to go right, a lot of things for their car to be able to handle saving fuel. seems like Dixon is the only one that goes for these things some- times, and they always work Dixon, with a sly smile, downplayed how easy he made it look. think it was definitely a bit sketchy in the fact that the pressure is coming hard and he said.
have a light that comes on that gives you a couple of laps heads up that actually going to run out of fuel. I see it with two laps to go. They came on the radio saying, flat out, overtake, whatever you was definitely nice to hear at that point because the stress level was pretty high. To get after it for the last two laps without a con- cern was win is his sec- ond in the most prestigious street course race in the United States and gave Chip Ganassi Racing a sweep of the weekend. sports car team of Renger van der Zande and Sebastian Bourdais won the IMSA race on Saturday.
The victory also makes it two straight for Ganassi in IndyCar as reigning series champion Palou won the exhibition race last month in California. He was third behind Dixon and Herta on Sunday. Dixon was being chased over the final 20 laps by Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden, who seemed to have the speed to run Dixon down for the victory. But the race changed when Herta ran into the back of Newgarden as they all slowed through the hairpin with lapped traf- fic ahead. It knocked Newgarden out of the way as both Herta and Palou passed him.
just stopped in the middle of the Herta complained of Newgarden. Herta finished 0.9798 sec- onds behind Dixon for An- dretti Global and later apol- ogized to Newgarden. you want to exit the corner as straight as possible to get the best run onto the straight. You do that by opening up the en- try. But it slows down your speed so much on the en- try, if not doing that every lap, tough to kind of gauge how fast he was going to be going there.
He opened it Herta said. his right to do that. my right to not run into the back of him Dixon stretches fuel, inches closer to Foyt in Long Beach Former champ stands 10 victories short of IndyCar career mark JENNA FRYER, ASSOCIATED Chip Ganassi Racing driver Scott Dixon speaks during press conference after winning the IndyCar Grand Prix of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Enjoy resources and entertainment from our partners: SATURDAY May 4, 2024 THE EXCHANGE CENTER AT EXPO SQUARE 4145 East 21st Street Tulsa, OK 74114 8:30 A.M. 2:00 P.M.
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