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Ross Chastain Wins in Nashville
Publish Date: June 27, 2023
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Ross Chastain won in Nashville arriving in victory lane to end the weekend festivities. The Ally 400 at the Nashville Superspeedway was pushed back to a 7 pm Eastern start time on Sunday as weather threatened the start of the race. The weekend festivities included Hall of Fame driver Carl Edwards being honored on the Walk of Fame. Edwards had six appearances in Victory Lane in Nashville over the course of his career.
In between concerts, there was some racing that took center stage.
Trackhouse Racing’s No. 1 Ross Chastain captured his first career pole at Nashville Superspeedway. Trackhouse Racing’s other car the No. 99 Daniel Suarez spun during his qualifying run. This caused enough damage that he had to go to a backup car and start in the rear of the field. The Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin-owned 23XI No. 45 Tyler Reddick would start on the front row alongside Chastain.
Chastain was able to clear Reddick at the start of the race and go ahead to lead the first 42 laps. On lap 43 Chastain and others would start making the first of the green flag pit stops. Chastain returned to the lead after the pit stops cycled through. On lap 61 Tyler Reddick would be able to pass Chastain, after Chastain was held up by Noah Gragson. Gragson was racing hard attempting to stay on the lead lap.
Reddick would go on to win stage one with Chastain finishing in 2nd.
Stage 1 Results per Toby Christie
During the stage break No. 24 William Byron won the race off pit road claiming the lead. Chastain would beat Reddick out of the pits moving the Stage one winner back to third place. Martin Truex Jr would force three wide racing on the restart for 3 laps until finally getting past both Chastain and Byron for the lead. On lap 138 Truex Jr would relinquish the lead as the start of green flag pit stops would ensue.
However, on lap 139 Tyler Reddick who had just pitted, attempted to come back down pit road and spun bringing out the caution. As he was backwards in the grass on pit road his right rear would fly off the car. This caused Reddick to be two laps down and would never get back on the lead lap. Truex Jr would regain the lead due to the Caution and everyone coming in for tires.