Ruoff Mortgage 500

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Date & Time
Sun 13th March 2022 Local
Sun 13th March 2022 12:00am UTC

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League
NASCAR Cup Series

Season
2022

Round
Round 4

Status
FT

Location

Phoenix Raceway

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Description

The Ruoff Mortgage 500 is a NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held annually at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona since 2005. It is one of two Cup Series races at the track, the other being the Season Finale 500.
With the new 2010 NASCAR start time rule change that starts races only at 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm, and 7:30 pm Eastern Time, track officials were concerned that the new start time (45 minutes earlier than in the past) would put the majority of the race in the day instead of the planned night. At that time of year in Phoenix, sunset takes place at roughly 7:00 pm MST (because Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, this is the same as Pacific Daylight Time). As a result, the race was stretched to 600 km (372.8 mi) so that the extra 100 km (62.1 mi) would take place during the day, and most of the race would still take place at night as planned. However, in 2011, the race moved one week after the Daytona 500 in February. The race returned to 312 laps and was run on Sunday in the daytime for the first time. In 2015, Phoenix moved from the second to the fourth race of the season in mid-March.

There was no shortage of motivation as three drivers all vying for their first-career victory in the marquee NASCAR Cup Series decided the dramatic outcome at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday afternoon.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe had to hold off the field on not one, but two late-race restarts on the one-mile desert oval, including the final restart with three laps remaining to earn his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in the Ruoff Mortgage 500.
The 27-year-old Briscoe is the 200th different winner in NASCAR’s premier series and last year’s Rookie of the Year earned the victory- by .771-seconds over Ross Chastain – in only his 40th start.

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Result List

01	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing	312
02	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing Team	312
03	Tyler Reddick	Richard Childress Racing	312
04	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske NASCAR	312
05	Kurt Busch	23XI Racing	312
06	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	312
07	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	312
08	Joey Logano	Team Penske NASCAR	312
09	Daniel Suárez	Trackhouse Racing Team	312
10	Chris Buescher	Roush Fenway Racing	312