NASCAR Cup Series: Kyle Busch wins 2019 Pocono 400

Kyle Busch earned his series-high fourth victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season by winning the season’s 14th race, the Pocono 400, at Pocono Raceway.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch is back in victory lane for the first time since he won the race at Bristol Motor Speedway in early April, as he earned his fourth victory of the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season by winning the season’s 14th race, the Pocono 400, at Pocono Raceway,

Busch started this 160-lap race around the three-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Pocono Raceway triangle in Long Pond, Pennsylvania in second place in his #18 Toyota, and he won it by 2.224 seconds over Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski in second.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones finished in third place in his #20 Toyota ahead of the race’s highest finishing Chevrolet driver, Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott, who finished in fourth in his #9 Chevrolet. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer rounded out the top five by finishing in fifth in his #14 Ford.

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Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, Team Penske’s Joey Logano, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Daniel Suarez, Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron, who started the race from the pole position, and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #11 Toyota, #22 Ford, #14 Ford, #24 Chevrolet and #10 Ford, respectively.

This race featured a total of 13 lead changes among nine drivers. Aside of Busch, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 79 laps led, eight drivers led at least one lap. These eight drivers were Keselowski, Elliott, Bowyer, Hamlin, Suarez, Byron, Richard Childress Racing rookie Daniel Hemric and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson.

Larson won both stage one and stage two but lost a potential top five finish late in the race by making contact with the wall, relegating him to 26th place, one lap off the lead lap.

The race also featured a total of eight caution flag periods, of which five took place as a result of on-track incidents, two took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two and one was a competition caution that took place in stage one as a result of the fact that the track had been rained on overnight. Of the 37 drivers who started the race, 34 finished it, and of these 34 drivers, 21 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway.

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

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Michigan International Speedway is scheduled to host the next race on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, the FireKeepers Casino 400, on Sunday, June 9. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET from the four-turn, 2.0-mile (3.219-kilometer) oval in Brooklyn, Michigan.

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