AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500

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Date & Time
Sun 24th September 2023 12:00am Local
Sun 24th September 2023 12:00am UTC

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League
NASCAR Cup Series

Season
2023

Round
Round 35

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Location

Texas Motor Speedway

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Description

The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 is a NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The inaugural race took place on November 6, 2005. The race has always started in the late afternoon, gone through sunset and twilight, and ended under the lights at night, much like the Coca-Cola 600 in May, but it is not considered a night event.
The race was acquired as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, which forced NASCAR to relinquish the sport's fourth major, the Mountain Dew Southern 500 and in the process end its Grand Slam, as the Southern 500 was one of the four races that made it up. This race has been derisively referred to as the Francis Ferko 500, mostly by traditionalist fans upset by the demise of the Southern 500.
The trophy is in the shape of a cowboy hat on top of a piston.

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Result List

01	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	267 Laps
02	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing Team	267 Laps
03	Darrell Wallace Jr.	23XI Racing	267 Laps
04	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	267 Laps
05	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	267 Laps
06	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	267 Laps
07	Brad Keselowski	Roush Fenway Racing	267 Laps
08	Daniel Suárez	Trackhouse Racing Team	267 Laps
09	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Hyak Motorsports	267 Laps
10	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing	267 Laps

Result Description

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron took the lead on a restart with six laps remaining and held off the field to claim Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 victory on a highly dramatic afternoon of NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs action at Texas Motor Speedway.
It marks a historic 300th victory for the championship Hendrick Motorsports organization – the most in NASCAR history for a Cup Series team – and is the series-best, personal-high single-season sixth victory of the year for the 25-year-old Charlotte native Byron. He came from third place on the final restart to ultimately drive away from the field and take a 1.863-second victory ahead of Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain to claim an automatic berth in the Round of 8, which starts in three weeks.

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