Keselowski, Logano lead active Cup drivers in Las Vegas wins
LAS VEGAS — Entering the NASCAR Cup Series’ third stop of the 2024 season, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano lead the field in wins at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with three apiece.
In total, eight active Cup Series Las Vegas winners will be in the 37-driver field Sunday in the Pennzoil 400.
The winners
Joey Logano won back-to-back Spring races in 2019 and 2020. He also won the Fall race in 2022 en route to his second Cup championship that year.
Keselowski earned all three of his wins as a teammate to Logano at Team Penske. The RFK Racing driver-owner won the Spring races in 2014 and 2016 — and the inaugural Fall Vegas race in 2018.
A pair of past Cup champions each have a pair of wins at the track.
Larson earned both Las Vegas wins driving for Hendrick Motorsports (Spring 2021 and Fall 2023).
Truex Jr. won the 2017 race with Furniture Row Racing and the Fall 2019 race with Joe Gibbs Racing.
The remaining four drivers have won at Las Vegas once.
William Byron is the defending winner of the Spring race, winning in 2023. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman won the year before. It is his most-recent Cup Series win to date.
Denny Hamlin won in Fall 2021.
Kyle Busch won at home in 2009 while driving for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Worth mentioning
Defending series champion Ryan Blaney has 1 pole, 5 Top-5 finishes, 9 Top-10 finishes and 80 laps led in 15 races. His highest finish is fifth (both 2018 races, Fall 2019, and both 2021 races).
Chase Elliott, Ross Chastain, Christopher Bell and Austin Dillon all have multiple Top-5 finishes in Cup at Las Vegas.
Last week’s Atlanta winner, Daniel Suarez has earned 2 Top-10 finishes in 13 starts. His highest finish was eighth in the 2018 Fall race with Joe Gibbs Racing.
Michael McDowell, who has led laps in multiple races at Las Vegas, has yet to score a Top-10 finish. Going into his 21st start at Vegas, he has the most starts without a Top-10 among active competitors.
Schedule
Qualifying for the Pennzoil 400 is scheduled for Saturday at 1:50 p.m. ET (PRN/FS1).
The race is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday (PRN/FOX).
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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