South Point 400

Date & Time
Sun 26th September 2021 4:00pm Local
Sun 26th September 2021 11:00pm UTC

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League
NASCAR Cup Series

Season
2021

Round
30

Status
FT

Location
Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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Description

The South Point 400 is a NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held annually at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the other one being the Pennzoil 400, The race is held on the last weekend of September and is the fourth race of the Cup Series playoffs, and the first race in the Round of 12.

Denny Hamlin led a race-best 137 of the 267 laps to earn his first Las Vegas victory in 20 starts and take an automatic bid into the next round of the NASCAR Playoffs.
Hamlin led seven different times, won Stage 2 and took the lead for good with 39 laps remaining — facing that challenge from Elliott in the waning laps of what was a relatively clean race with only one yellow flag outside of the competition caution and two stage breaks.
Elliott cut into Hamlin’s lead on every one of the closing 10 laps, taking full advantage of traffic, but was ultimately unable to catch Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Hamlin’s JGR teammates, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr., finished third and fourth, respectively, with Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney rounding out the top five – all playoff drivers.

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Result List

01	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	267 Laps
02	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	267 Laps
03	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	267 Laps
04	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	267 Laps
05	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske NASCAR	267 Laps
06	Tyler Reddick	Our Motorsports	267 Laps
07	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske NASCAR	267 Laps
08	Kurt Busch	Chip Ganassi NASCAR Racing	267 Laps
09	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	267 Laps
10	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	267 Laps