NASCAR 2020 Race 4: Phoenix Fan Shield 500

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Fan Shield 500
Sunday, March 8, 2020 - Phoenix Raceway
3:30pm/et
Laps: 312 - Stages: Stages: 75/190/312
TV: FOX - Radio: MRN, Sirius XM NASCAR

(Times in Eastern)
Friday, March 6
3:35 PM-4:25 PM NCS 1ST PRACTICE
TV: TBA
5:35 PM-6:25 PM NCS 2ND PRACTICE
TV: TBA

Saturday, March 7
2:35 PM NCS QUALIFYING IMPOUND (SINGLE VEHICLE / TWO LAPS ALL POSITIONS)
TV: TBA

Sunday, March 8
3:30 PM NCS RACE (STAGES 75/190/312 LAPS = 312 MILES)
TV: FOX

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Track Specs:
Degree of Banking: Turns 1-2: 11 degrees; Turns 3-4: 9 degrees
Frontstretch: Length: 1,179 feet, Banking: None
Backstretch: Length: 1,551 feet, Banking: None
Pit Road: Length: 1,140
Grandstand seating: 51,000 [was 55,000, 67,000 and 76,812]

Pit Stalls:
Length: 30 feet
Width: 17 feet

Track Records & Stats

2019 November Race winner: Denny Hamlin, 111.429 mph, started 3rd
2019 March Race winner: Kyle Busch, 101.693 mph, started 4th

2019 November Pole winner: Kyle Busch, 140.116 mph, finished 2nd
2019 March Pole winner: Ryan Blaney, 141.287 mph, finished 3rd.

Race Record: Tony Stewart, Nov 1999, 118.132mph
Slowest Race Record: Al Kulwicki, 1988, 90.457mph
Track Qualifying Record: Jimmie Johnson, 11/15/2015, 143.158mph
Oldest Pole Winner: Mark Martin, 54 years, 1 month, 23 days, 3/1/2013
Youngest Pole Winner: Kyle Busch, 20 years, 11 months, 20 days, 4/22/2006

November 2019 Race Stats:

Lead changes: 8 among 5 different drivers
Cautions/Laps: 5 for 32
Red flags: 0
Time of race: 2 hours, 48 minutes and 0 seconds
Average speed: 111.429 miles per hour (179.328 km/h)

[4me2c]

1)... Kyle Busch
2)... Kevin Harvick
3)... Ryan Blaney
4)... Truex Jr.

[ranagee]

Martin Truex Jr.*****
Kyle Busch
Chase Elliot
Joey Logano

[Marley]

Kevin Harvick333333333
Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
Ryan Blaney

[Ryu]

Kyle Busch*
Joey Logano
Martin Truex Jr
Kevin Harvick

[82harley]

Kyle Busch***
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.
Denny Hamlin

[crazed 9.6]

Qualifying on live now.
With Harvick fastest so far, just tenths of a secs ahead of Hamlin.
DiBenedetto sitting 3rd fastest so far... but with Larson on the track and just a little faster then DiBenedetto ... and here comes Blaney and Elliott too :eek:

[crazed 9.6]

Chase Elliott***
Ryan Blaney
Kevin Harvick
Denny Hamlin

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NASCAR starting lineup at Phoenix
Position Driver
1. Chase Elliott
2. Kevin Harvick
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Kyle Larson
5. Ryan Blaney
6. Aric Almirola
7. Kurt Busch
8. Alex Bowman
9. Matt DiBenedetto
10. Kyle Busch
11. Erik Jones
12. Martin Truex Jr.
13. Joey Logano
14. Brad Keselowski
15. Christopher Bell
16. Cole Custer
17. William Byron
18. Clint Bowyer
19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
20. Ryan Preece
21. Jimmie Johnson
22. Michael McDowell
23. Chris Buescher
24. Ross Chastain
25. Ty Dillon
26. John H. Nemechek
27. Bubba Wallace
28. Corey LaJoie
29. Tyler Reddick
30. Austin Dillon
31. Daniel Suarez
32. Brennan Poole
33. JJ Yeley
34. Quin Houff
35. Reed Sorenson
36. Garrett Smithley
37. Joey Gase
38. Timmy Hill

[dara]

Kevin Harvick
Chase Elliott
Denny Hamlin***
Aric Almirola

[TimeKeeper]

Denny Hamlin*****
Kurt Busch
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.

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START TIME: 3:30 p.m. ET (12:30 p.m. local).

GREEN FLAG: 3:45 p.m. ET. (12:45 p.m. local).

Bryan Derbyshire, Founder and CEO of Protecht, the parent company of FanShield, and Casey Callinsky, Chief Operating Officer, will instruct drivers to start their engines at 3:37 p.m. ET (12:37 p.m. local).

TV: Fox. Pre-race broadcast begins at 3 p.m. ET. (Noon local).

RADIO: Motor Racing Network. STREAMING: Fox Sports Go.

RACE DISTANCE: 312 laps around the 1-mile track for a total of 312 miles — or 500 kilometers.

STAGE LENGTHS (laps per stage): Stage 1: 75, Stage 2: 115, Stage 2: 122.
Joey Logano, left, Denny Hamlin, center, and Ryan Blaney race three-wide on a green flag restart during the 2019 playoff race at Phoenix Raceway.

WEATHER: Should be about perfect, with mostly-sunny to sunny skies with a 0% chance of rain and temperatures in the low 70s.

LAST TIME: Denny Hamlin led 143 of 312 laps, edging Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch by .377 seconds in the November playoff race. And one year ago, Kyle Busch led 177 of 312 laps, holding off JGR teammate Martin Truex Jr. by 1.259 seconds in March.

[Orziz]

Chase Elliot*
Kevin Harvick
Ryan Blaney
Kyle Busch

[superbox]

Denny Hamlin*
Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.

[minitor]

Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick*
Martin Truex Jr.
Denny Hamlin

[bigstar]

Martin Truex Jr.
Kyle Busch *
Denny Hamlin
Chase Elliott

[dara]

Green Flag!


1)... Kyle Busch
2)... Kevin Harvick
3)... Ryan Blaney
4)... Truex Jr.


Martin Truex Jr.*****
Kyle Busch
Chase Elliot
Joey Logano


Kevin Harvick333333333
Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
Ryan Blaney


Kyle Busch*
Joey Logano
Martin Truex Jr
Kevin Harvick


Kyle Busch***
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.
Denny Hamlin


Chase Elliott***
Ryan Blaney
Kevin Harvick
Denny Hamlin


Kevin Harvick
Chase Elliott
Denny Hamlin***
Aric Almirola


Denny Hamlin*****
Kurt Busch
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.


Chase Elliot*
Kevin Harvick
Ryan Blaney
Kyle Busch


Denny Hamlin*
Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick
Martin Truex Jr.




Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick*
Martin Truex Jr.
Denny Hamlin


Martin Truex Jr.
Kyle Busch *
Denny Hamlin
Chase Elliott

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Favorites by driver:
Kyle Busch: bigstar, 4me2c. 82harley, Ryu
Elliott: crazed, orziz
Hamlin: superbox, dara, TimeKeeper
Harvick: Marley, minitor
Truex: ranagee

Other drivers:
Almirola
Blaney
Kurt Busch
Logano

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Blaney first out, and Hamlin with significant damage.

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Kevin Harvick wins stage 1. 10 bonus points to Marley and minitor.

[crazed 9.6]

oh noooooo !!!
Chase had wheel troubles :(

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Lap 190, Brad Keselowski wins stage 2 under caution.

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Going to overtime.

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Joey Logano wins, second of the season.

[dara]

Congrats to Ryu with the high score of 152.

https://i.imgur.com/GHYJcaz.png

If there are any DQs or order change, I'll update.

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Podium order, no change:

bigstar 542
4me2c 503
Marley 499

Standings posted in the Rules thread

Next race is Atlanta, next Sunday.

[4me2c]

Congratz to Logano for the Race Win and Congratz to Ryu on the Pool Win...! :cool:

[4me2c]

By
Staff Report NASCAR.com March 8, 2020 at 3:37 PM

A multi-car crash damaged three early contenders Sunday at Phoenix Raceway as contact between the cars of Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski collected and knocked Ryan Blaney out of the NASCAR Cup Series points lead.

RELATED: Race results

The melee caused the second caution period in the FanShield 500. Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and Keselowski’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford made contact as the two entered Turn 3 on Lap 64. Both cars slid out of the groove, gathering up Blaney’s No. 12 Penske Ford.

All three cars swept into the outside retaining wall. Hamlin and Keselowski continued, but Blaney took his damaged car to the garage, ending his day.

“From the car, I couldn’t really see,” Blaney said after an evaluation at the infield care center. “A couple of us were three-wide. I was happy to be on the top. I thought we were going to roll the top pretty good through (Turns) 3 and 4 there. It looks like the 11 tried to send it in there below the 2 and got loose and hit him and then overcorrected and got us. We got up in the dirt, and we just ran right into the fence. Just an innocent bystander there. It sucks to have it end so early like that and have that happen so early in the race.

“I do really hate it for Menards and Tarkett and Ford. We didn’t even have a chance to work on our car. We weren’t great the first run, but we made a big swing at it and we don’t know how that change was. It stinks when you are taken out like that. We will just go on to Atlanta (Motor Speedway) and see what we can do.”

Blaney entered the event atop the Cup Series standings, but he absorbed a 37th-place finish and his first DNF since last October at Dover International Speedway. Hamlin continued at a reduced pace and finished 20th.

Keselowski fared the best, recovering nicely with minor damage and charging back to win Stage 2. He led 82 laps but slipped to an 11th-place result after a series of late restarts gummed up his team’s pit strategy and victory chances.