Kyle Larson and the No. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM Camaro ZL1 team captured their first victory of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) season in dominating fashion on Sunday in the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS). This win extended Chevrolet’s winning streak as the only manufacturer to win a points-paying race this season and Chevrolet’s 854th all-time victory.
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Larson led 181 of 267 laps at the 1.5-mile track, swept the first two stages, and took the checkered flag to secure his third victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, tying Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski for most among full-time active NCS drivers. This was Larson’s 24th NCS victory in 334 career starts.
“I knew Tyler (Reddick) was going to be the guy to beat. From the first stage, he was really fast there. I was hoping those guys were going to get racing a little bit longer behind me because I felt it was going to time out to where he was running really hard and getting the tow to catch me at the end. Thankfully, I was able to air lock him a couple of laps and get him tight.” Larson said.
The victory was Larson’s second straight and the 10th at LVMS for team owner Rick Hendrick, whose cars have won four straight spring races. Larson’s performance culminated in a well-deserved victory, solidifying his status as one of the top drivers again this season. With his win at the LVMS, Larson clearly showed his competitors that he will be a force to be reckoned with this season.
“All in all, such a great, great job by this No. 5 HENDRICKCARS.COM Chevy team. Just their execution, restarts, pit road.. all of that was great. Cool to get a win here in Las Vegas again, back-to-back, and swept all the stages. Can’t ask for much more than that.” Larson added.
Tyler Reddick led Toyota and captured the runner-up finish, just 0.143 seconds behind Larson. Reddick finished second in the first two stages and closed late on Larson before coming up just short of the victory.
“I kept trying to run higher and higher and you know, he’s kind of running in the middle of the race track, which is pretty efficient to block both lanes. Every time I sort of got close, I mean, we’re running just wide open enough in turn one and two, you can kind of defend pretty well. It’s frustrating. I feel like we were never up front really all day long, until it got to the stage ends. We had a really good Nasty Beast Toyota Camry.” Reddick said.
Reigning series champion Ryan Blaney finished third in the No. 12 Menards/Pennzoil Ford Mustang.
“It was a long day. We started 15th and just kind of slowly worked our way up. The top two guys were pretty quick. It was hard to catch them. We never really had the speed of those guys, but I’m proud of the effort. We got better all day, which was good.” said Blaney
Ross Chastain overcame a pit road speeding penalty incurred during a green-flag stop on Lap 121 and finished fourth in the No. 1 Kubota Camaro ZL1.
“This speed. I mean the handling of the car is incredible for our Kubota Chevy. It’s everything that I wanted, dream about, and wake up and train for is to drive cars like this. That’s what makes it hurt so much worse. When we finish fourth and we were legitimately an eighth-place car, it’s something we’re high-fiving.” Chastain said.
Ty Gibbs finished fifth in the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing and added his first top-five and second top-10 this season as the reigning Rookie of the Year battled transmission issues throughout the second half of the race.
“Yeah, I kind of stuck us in a hole there and we broke the transmission, which is kind of unfortunate that has to happen, that’s just part of it and we fought back. I put my team in a hole there. No excuses. And we just kind of fought back and my team gave me a really great He Gets Us Camry XSE this weekend and we drove back to the front. So, just need a little bit more to get to the lead so we can go get a win, but really happy with my team.” Gibbs said.
Larson took over the series lead from Kyle Busch, who finished 26th after a pit road penalty for pitting outside his box in the final stage. Blaney is second, eight points behind Larson.
Busch finished 26th. “We had a faster BetMGM Chevrolet today than what the results show. Our Richard Childress Racing team had speed early in the race.” Busch said. “We led some laps in the BetMGM Chevrolet and ran up front. We had a tough day on pit road and didn’t get the finish that we deserved.”
The NCS season continues next week at Phoenix Raceway with the Shriners Children’s 500 on Sunday, March 10, at 3:30 P.M. ET. with live coverage on FOX, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
NASCAR Cup Series Race Results – Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday, March 3, 2024
1. (2) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 267.
2. (18) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 267.
3. (15) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 267.
4. (20) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 267.
5. (8) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 267.
6. (30) Noah Gragson, Ford, 267.
7. (7) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267.
8. (28) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267.
9. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 267.
10. (4) William Byron, Chevrolet, 267.
11. (16) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 267.
12. (11) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 267.
13. (25) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267.
|14. (22) Erik Jones, Toyota, 267.
15. (14) Carson Hocevar #, Chevrolet, 267.
16. (19) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 267.
17. (13) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 267.
18. (23) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 267.
19. (34) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 267.
20. (26) Josh Berry #, Ford, 267.
21. (6) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 267.
22. (27) John Hunter Nemechek, Toyota, 267.
23. (36) Ryan Preece, Ford, 267.
24. (31) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 267.
25. (12) Michael McDowell, Ford, 267.
26. (21) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 267.
27. (35) Justin Haley, Ford, 267.
28. (33) Derek Kraus, Chevrolet, 267.
29. (3) Austin Cindric, Ford, 267.
30. (29) Harrison Burton, Ford, 267.
31. (32) Kaz Grala #, Ford, 267.
32. (17) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 266.
33. (10) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 265.
34. (37) JJ Yeley(i), Chevrolet, 261.
35. (5) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 254.
36. (24) Zane Smith #, Chevrolet, 254.
37. (9) Chris Buescher, Ford, Accident, 27.
