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The NASCAR Cup Collection tackled Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the third race of the season. Right here’s a take a look at the “Energy Rankings” after Sunday’s “Pennzoil 400:”

William Byron

Profession Cup win quantity 5 got here for Byron is dramatic trend in Las Vegas. Whereas he did dominate the race main 176 laps, he needed to get pit cease and even higher restart to wrestle the lead away in time beyond regulation and drive into Victory Lane for the primary time this season.

Level Standings: thirteenth
Final Week: NR

2. Ross Chastain

Perhaps it wasn’t as robust of a efficiency as in current outings for Chastain however he nonetheless stored his Trackhouse Racing No. 1 Chevrolet within the entrance half of the sector lastly ended his journey to Vegas with a Twelfth-place end.

Level Standings: 1st
Final Week: 2nd

3. Kyle Busch

He wasn’t capable of finding the contact that helped Busch rating his first win for Richard Childress Racing the week prior. The weekend did begin off with a Truck Collection win on Friday however ended with Busch taking the checkered flag 14th in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400.

Level Standings: eighth
Final Week: 1st

4. Kyle Larson

A really good rebound for Larson and the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 workforce after experiencing mechanical points the prior race at Auto Membership Speedway. Larson led 63 laps and was in place to win till a late race warning arrange a restart that finally ended up within the second place end.

Level Standings: 14th
Final Week: NR

5. Joey Logano

Velocity on Saturday that equated to successful the pole was only a reminiscence for Logano in Sunday’s race. He pale comparatively rapidly as soon as the inexperienced flag flew and his day ended after a visit into the wall and a broken racecar that was credited with a thirty sixth place end.

Level Standings: ninth
Final Week: third

6. Daniel Saurez

He began twenty fourth and completed contained in the top-10 but once more as Suarez continued his constant begin to the 2023 season. Trackhouse Racing hasn’t misplaced a step from its breakout season a yr in the past at the least thus far this yr.

Level Standings: 4th
Final Week: sixth

7. Alex Bowman

Final yr’s Las Vegas spring race winner was once more within the combine this time round and Bowman recorded a really spectacular third-place end. It’s been a pleasant begin for the No. 48 workforce in 2023 as new crew chief Blake Harris places his contact on the efficiency.

Level Standings: 2nd
Final Week: seventh

8. Denny Hamlin

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver hung across the top-10 for a lot of the afternoon. A two-tire cease late within the race didn’t pay sufficient dividends to provide Hamlin the monitor place he wanted to compete and he settled for an Eleventh-place efficiency.

Level Standings: sixth
Final Week: ninth

9. Brad Keselowski

He certified contained in the top-10 and had a good automotive till issues started to fade for Keselowski because the race wore on. He got here out of Vegas with a top-twenty end after taking the checkered flag in seventeenth on Sunday.

Level Standings: Eleventh
Final Week: 4th

10. Kevin Harvick

The regular begin to 2023 continued for Harvick at Las Vegas as he introduced house one other top-10 end. Whereas the remainder of the Stewart-Haas Racing secure struggles, Harvick has as per traditional been the workforce’s one fixed.

Level Standings: third
Final Week: NR

Dropped Out: Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

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