Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman entered the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season’s 17th race, the Camping World four hundred, at Chicagoland Speedway, having competed in 133 races and documented a career-high end of 2d place on three occasions, all in advance this season. Bowman is now the maximum current first-time winner inside the Cup Series, as he drove his #88 Chevrolet to victory lane for the primary time in his profession after a tough-fought battle with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson, who finished in a season-high 2d place in this race for the second consecutive season in his #42 Chevrolet.
Bowman began this 267-lap race, which featured a 198-minute weather delay, around the four-flip, 1. Five-mile (2.414-kilometer) Chicagoland Speedway oval in Joliet, Illinois, in the eighth vicinity, and he gained it by using zero.546 seconds over Larson in 2d after the two drivers exchanged the lead twice and made contact over the race’s final few laps. Team Penske’s Joey Logano changed into the best completing Ford driver of the race. He completed in the third area in his #22 Ford. Hendrick Motorsports’ Jimmie Johnson and Team Penske’s Joey Logano rounded out the pinnacle 5 with the aid of finishing in a season-high fourth and fifth in their # forty-eight Chevrolet and #22 Ford, respectively.
Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney completed in the 6th area in his #12 Ford to give Team Penske 3 of the pinnacle six positions after what became not specifically an extraordinary race for the three-automobile Ford group. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones turned in the highest completing Toyota driver of the race. He finished in seventh in his #20 Toyota. Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr., and Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon, who started the race from the pole position, rounded out the top 10 by finishing in eighth, ninth, and 10th place in their #24 Chevrolet, #19 Toyota, and #3 Chevrolet, respectively.
This race was dominated by Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick, who led a race-high 132 laps in his #4 Ford. However, he hit the wall all through the third and final level of the race, and he should most effectively recover for a 14th-place finish. Hendrick Motorsports Chase Elliott, who fell laps down early, labored his way into 2d place inside the 0.33 and final stage of the race, but a problem with the hose on an overdue pit prevent dropped him 18 positions, right down to twentieth. The best controlled to recover to finish in the eleventh position in his #9 Chevrolet. He continues trying to find his first victory of the 2019 season.
Defending race winner Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing had a disastrous race, resulting in a 22nd location end, his 2d worst finish of the season. He hit the wall early, fell one lap down, was given the unfastened skip, and which he reduced a tire after making contact with Logano, causing him to fall one lap down again. Later in the race, he had to pit when smoke filled his #18 Toyota cockpit. This race featured a total of 23 lead adjustments among thirteen leaders. Aside from Harvick, 12 drivers led at least one lap of the race, a maximum appreciable. The driver of the #88 Chevrolet paradoxically led 88 laps en route to secure the primary victory of his Cup Series career.
The eleven different drivers who led this race were Larson, Johnson, Blaney, Jones, Dillon, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan Newman, Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell, and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Daniel Suarez. Hamlin received a degree even as Harvick won a level. This race additionally featured a complete of 5 caution flag intervals, of which three came about because of on-track incidents, and two took place because of the standard endings of ranges one and two. Of the 38 drivers who began this race, 36 completed it, and of these 36 drivers, 17 completed at the lead lap. Here are the entire race results of the 2019 Camping World 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
