2019 Quaker State 400

The 2019 Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 13, 2019 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky. Contested over 269 laps – extended from 267 laps due to an overtime finish – on the 1.5-mile (2.4-kilometre) speedway, it was the 19th race of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

On the final restart, Kurt Busch (Chip Ganassi Racing) worked the outside line to pass erstwhile leader Joey Logano (Team Penske) and his brother Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing) and held off the latter by 0.076 seconds to win the race – his first victory of the season, and his first for Chip Ganassi Racing – qualifying him for the NASCAR playoffs.

Report

Background

Kentucky Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4km) tri-oval speedway owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which has also hosted the ARCA Racing Series, NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and the Indy Racing League, and has a grandstand seating capacity of 107,000.

Entry list

• (i) denotes driver who are ineligible for series driver points.
• (R) denotes rookie driver.

Practice

First practice

Kurt Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.389 seconds and a speed of 183.742mph (295.704km/h).

Final practice

Brad Keselowski was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.621 seconds and a speed of 182.303mph (293.388km/h).

Qualifying

Daniel Suárez scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.254 and a speed of 184.590mph (297.069km/h).

Qualifying results

Race

Stage results

Stage One Laps: 80

Stage Two Laps: 80

Final stage results

Stage Three Laps: 107

Race statistics

• Lead changes: 15 among 10 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 7 for 35 laps
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 2 hours, 51 minutes and 37 seconds
• Average speed: 141.070 miles per hour (227.030km/h)

Media

Television

NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. called the race from the broadcast booth, while Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane.

Radio

PRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on SiriusXM's NASCAR Radio channel. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the action from the booth when the field raced down the front straightaway. Doug Turnbull called the action from turns 1 & 2 and Pat Patterson called the action from turns 3 & 4. Brad Gillie, Wendy Venturini, Steve Richards, and Brett McMillan reported from pit lane.

Standings after the race

Notes