NASCAR Cup Series: Kyle Busch dominates 2019 Auto Club 400

Kyle Busch overcame a pit road speeding penalty to win the fifth race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Auto Club 400, at Auto Club Speedway.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch earned his second victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season and his second consecutive victory by winning the season’s fifth race, the Auto Club 400, at Auto Club Speedway. In doing so, he became the first driver to win multiple Cup Series races this season.

This victory is Busch’s 53rd career Cup Series victory, and it is his 200th career NASCAR victory, as he has also earned an all-time record 94 Xfinity Series victories and an all-time record 53 Truck Series victories. He and Richard Petty now share the all-time NASCAR wins record, as Petty earned 200 Cup Series victories over the course of his career in the sport.

Busch, who started the 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.0-mile (3.219-kilometer) Auto Club Speedway oval in Fontana, California in fourth place in his #18 Toyota, won it by 2.354 seconds over Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who finished in second in his #22 Ford. Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski finished in third in his #2 Ford.

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Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick and Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five by finishing in fourth and fifth place in their #4 Ford and #12 Ford, respectively. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kurt Busch was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver for the third time in the last four races, as he finished in sixth in his #1 Chevrolet.

Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr., Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola and Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon, who started the race from the pole position, rounded out the top 10 by finishing in seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #11 Toyota, #19 Toyota, #10 Ford and #3 Chevrolet, respectively.

The race featured a total of 17 lead changes among eight drivers. Aside of Busch, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 134 laps lad despite the fact that he was issued a penalty for speeding in the pits during the race’s third and final stage and was sent to the back of the lead lap as a result of it, seven drivers led at least one lap of the race.

These seven drivers were Logano, Keselowski, Blaney, Hamlin, Almirola, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Hendrick Motorsports’ Williams Byron. In addition to winning the race, Busch also won stages one and two.

The race also featured a total of four caution flag periods, of which two took place as a result of on-track incidents and two took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two, for 20 laps. Of the 38 drivers who started the race, 36 finished it, and of the 36 drivers who finished it, 21 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Kyle Busch
2nd – Joey Logano
3rd – Brad Keselowski
4th – Kevin Harvick
5th – Ryan Blaney
6th – Kurt Busch
7th – Denny Hamlin
8th – Martin Truex Jr.
9th – Aric Almirola
10th – Austin Dillon
11th – Chase Elliott
12th – Kyle Larson
13th – Daniel Suarez
14th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
15th – William Byron
16th – Chris Buescher
17th – Jimmie Johnson
18th – Matt DiBenedetto
19th – Erik Jones
20th – Paul Menard
21st – Alex Bowman
22nd – Ryan Newman
23rd – Ryan Preece
24th – Michael McDowell
25th – David Ragan
26th – Matt Tifft
27th – Ty Dillon
28th – Ross Chastain
29th – Landon Cassill
30th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
31st – Corey LaJoie
32nd – Cody Ware
33rd – Daniel Hemric
34th – Reed Sorenson
35th – Joey Gase
36th – Garrett Smithley
37th – B.J. McLeod
38th – Clint Bowyer

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NASCAR Cup Series action is scheduled to continue on Sunday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. ET with the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1, so be sure not to miss it.

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