FireKeepers Casino 400

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Date & Time
Sun 22nd August 2021 3:00pm Local
Sun 22nd August 2021 7:00pm UTC

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League
NASCAR Cup Series

Season
2021

Round
Round 25

Status
FT

Location

Michigan International Speedway

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The FireKeepers Casino 400 is a 400-mile (643.737 km) NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held annually at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. It is the first of two NASCAR Cup Series races at Michigan, with the other one being the Consumers Energy 400 in mid-August.
This particular event had one of the longer title sponsorship arrangements. Miller Brewing Company sponsored the race from 1984 to 1998. In 2006, 3M signed a three-year agreement to sponsor the race, but after one year moved its sponsorship to the August race. Starting with the 2008 race, LifeLock had title sponsorship rights for three years pending the announcement by the speedway but left after two. The LifeLock 400 was the name of the race formerly known as the Banquet 400 in 2007. From 2012 to 2015, Quicken Loans sponsored the race and was replaced by FireKeepers Casino in 2016. On October 7, 2020, the track announced that FireKeepers Casino will continue as the race sponsor.

Ryan Blaney took the lead on a restart with eight laps remaining and skillfully held off a frantic field to earn the victory Sunday in the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway in the penultimate race of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season.
Those eight laps out front were the only laps Blaney’s No. 12 Team Penske Ford led on the afternoon but it was good enough to give him his second victory of the season — by a modern-day track-record margin of .077 seconds over Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron, who had teammate Kyle Larson close behind.

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01	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske NASCAR	200 Laps
02	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	200 Laps
03	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	200 Laps
04	Kurt Busch	Chip Ganassi NASCAR Racing	200 Laps
05	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	200 Laps
06	Matt DiBenedetto	Wood Brothers Racing	200 Laps
07	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	200 Laps
07	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	200 Laps
09	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske NASCAR	200 Laps
09	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	200 Laps