FireKeepers Casino 400

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Start Time: approximately 3:00pm EDT on August 22nd

Television: NBCSN @ 3:00pm EDT

Radio: MRN @ 3:00pm EDT

Race Length: 200 laps (400 mi / 643.74 km)

Race Stages: 60-60-80

Track Information: Michigan International Speedway is a 2 mile (3.22 kilometer) D-shaped oval located in Brooklyn, MI USA.

Cars to the rear: #7-Berry (driver change)

Tire: Goodyear Eagle Speedway Radials

Set limits:
Cup – 7 sets for the race

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-4976; Right-side — D-4986

Tire Circumference:
Left-side — 2,224 mm (87.56 in.);
Right-side — 2,248 mm (88.50 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front — 19 psi; Left Rear – 19 psi;
Right Front — 52 psi; Right Rear — 48 psi

 

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Invocation and Anthems done, 5 minutes to the command.

 

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Green flag!!

Also if anyone wants to watch stock cars on dirt, ARCA is running at Springfield and just took the green.

 

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Left rear damage on the 19 who has fallen to the mid 30s.

 

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Caution lap 21, Competition Caution. 53 is the beneficiary

 

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Caution lap 31, 15 car into the wall off turn 2. No beneficiary as Gase was the only car not on the lead lap.

 

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End of Stage 1

Top 10:

1. Elliott
2. Larson
3. Austin Dillon
4. Hamlin
5. Byron
6. Logano
7. Dibenedetto
8. Kurt Busch
9. Kyle Busch
10. Keselowski

The 00 is the beneficiary.

 

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Caution End of Stage 2 and huge wreck on the front stretch. The 2 turned the 3 car into the wall after the end of hte stage

Stage 2 Top 10:

1. Kyle Busch
2. Bell
3. Larson
4. Elliott
5. Hamlin
6. Austin Dillon
7. Keselowski
8. Reddick
9. Byron
10. DiBenedetto

77 is the beneficiary.

 

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Caution lap 179. Debris / precipitation in turn 1. 43 is the beneficiary.

 

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Caution lap 187. 22, 6, 7, 20 cars spin coming back to the line after the restart. 78 is the beneficiary.

 

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Incredible finish with the 12 of Ryan Blaney taking the win.

Unofficial Top 10:

1. YRB, Ryan Blaney
2. William Byron
3. Yung Money, Kyle Larson
4. Kurt Busch
5. James Dennis Alan "Denny" Hamlin
6. Matt DiBenedetto
7. KFB Kyle Busch
8. Chase Elliott
9. Brad Keselowski
10. Martin Truex Jr

 

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