2024 Pennzoil 400

The 2024 Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on March 3, 2024, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mi asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the third race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. Kyle Larson won the race. Tyler Reddick finished 2nd, and Ryan Blaney finished 3rd. Ross Chastain and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top five, and Noah Gragson, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and William Byron rounded out the top ten.

Background
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1200 acre complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Entry list

 * (R) denotes rookie driver.
 * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice
Ross Chastain was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.305 seconds and a speed of 184.269 mph.

Qualifying
Joey Logano scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.291 and a speed of 184.357 mph. This was the first qualifying session where the inside & outside rows were set by times in Groups A & B respectively for 11th position on down.

Stage Results
Stage One Laps: 80

Stage Two Laps: 85

Final Stage Results
Stage Three Laps: 102

Race statistics

 * Lead changes: 24 among 15 different drivers
 * Cautions/Laps: 6 for 35 laps
 * Red flags: 1 for 10 minutes and 39 seconds
 * Time of race: 3 hours, 0 minutes and 25 seconds
 * Average speed: 133.192 mph

Television
Fox Sports was carried by Fox in the United States. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and two-time Las Vegas winner Kevin Harvick called the race from the broadcast booth. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio
PRN covered the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth where the field raced through the tri-oval. Rob Albright called the race from a billboard in turn 2 where the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 where the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, Wendy Venturini, and Heather Debeaux worked pit road for the radio side.

Standings after the race

 * Drivers' Championship standings


 * Manufacturers' Championship standings


 * Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.