NASCAR at Texas live race updates, results, highlights from Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

The NASCAR playoff race is nearer than ever heading into the 1st race of the Spherical of 8 on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.

Chaos undoubtedly will unfold on the 1.five-mile keep track of as playoff drivers scramble to land or stay previously mentioned the slice line for the period-ending Championship 4 race. 

Sixth-area driver Chase Elliott is forty three factors behind first-area driver Kyle Larson, who received previous week’s race on Charlotte’s Roval system. Elliott rallied to finish 12th in that race right after becoming wrecked by Kevin Harvick. If the wreck hadn’t happened, Elliott would have experienced a chance at earning extra factors and securing a place in the prime 4. Harvick himself crashed late in the race and was eradicated from the playoffs. 

Extra: Harvick wrecks Elliott, then crashes out of playoffs

The feud between the two escalated at Charlotte right after an incident 3 months earlier at Bristol. NASCAR took more steps previous 7 days to be certain that the feud would not continue on. It executed a conference phone Wednesday with the two drivers, their crew chiefs, auto owners and producer representatives to warn of serious implications if they failed to squash their beef. 

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Sporting Information is monitoring are living updates and lap-by-lap highlights from NASCAR’s playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. Stick to for comprehensive outcomes from the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500.

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NASCAR at Texas are living update, highlights from Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500

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3:thirty: Denny Hamlin drops to 12th and reports that his tires are “rolling around and chattering.”

3:27: Harvick races to catch up Elliott and passes him to get up to fourth.  

3:twenty five: Kyle Busch sales opportunities coming off the restart at lap 114 followed by Byron and Larson battling for next. 

3:19: Kyle Busch is 1st off pit street followed by Kyle Larson, Kurt Busch and Ryan Blaney. The cars and trucks are lining up in advance of the green flag for phase two. 

3:thirteen: Busch scores 10 factors as he wins the 1st phase at Texas Motor Speedway.

3:10: Kyle Busch takes the lead coming off pit street with seven laps to go in the 1st phase. Ryan Blaney is battling to retain his situation as he runs minimal on gas. 

3:04: Kyle Busch’s workforce reports that the driver has attained a lap by saving gas. He was reportedly instructed that he is racing Kurt Busch for the phase get. 

3:00: Larson takes the lead from within and passes Byron ahead of producing it to turn 3. 

two:58: Larson creeps up on Byron and cuts his lead down to beneath a fifty percent-next.

two:50: Kyle Larson passes Chase Elliott and Denny Hamlin for third at lap 77. 

two:45: Chase Elliott helps make his way to the fifth at lap fifty two.

two:38: Byron retains his lead coming off the warning followed intently a small pack. Truex Jr. Reddick and Dibenedetto are all battling for next. 

two:32: Multiple drivers are done for the working day, including Stenhouse, Newman, Preece, Haley, Ware and Gase. The crash marks the most cars and trucks ever concerned in an accident at Texas Motor Speedway. 

two:28: Bubba Wallace spins to crash into Ross Chastain and into the wall. The crash results in a big wreck on the backstretch coming off the levels of competition warning. Kyle Busch escapes with slight damages. 

two:24: Byron sales opportunities off of pit street followed by Martin Truex Jr. Kyle Busch was referred to as for rushing on pit street and will be despatched to the rear. 

two:22: Larson sales opportunities at lap 25 followed by Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, William Byron and Kyle Busch. 

two:19: Larson holds a two-next lead around Joey Logano with 3 laps to go ahead of the levels of competition warning.  

two:14: Kevin Harvick is witnessed battling at 29th. Chase Elliott is creeping up at twenty second right after setting up from the rear. 

two:eleven: Kyle Larson takes an early lead five laps in followed by Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin. 

two:08: The Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 is underway in Texas. 

two:00: Engines are fired in advance of the green flag at Texas Motor Speedway.

1:45: Bowman will also go to the rear for unapproved adjustments.

1:thirty: Chase Elliott will fall to the rear right after failing twice. 

NASCAR begin time right now

• Time: two p.m. ET
• Tv channel: NBC
• Dwell stream: NBCSports.com, NBC Athletics Application, Peacock, fuboTV

The green flag for Sunday’s NASCAR playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway is scheduled to fall at two:08 p.m. ET. 

How to observe NASCAR at Texas

• Tv channel: NBC
• Dwell stream: NBCSports.com, NBC Athletics Application, fuboTV
• Radio: PRN

NBC’s programming will begin at 1:thirty p.m. ET with the network’s “Countdown to Inexperienced” prerace show, hosted by Marty Snider with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Daugherty. Rick Allen will handle the participate in-by-participate in phone of the race. Earnhardt, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte will give assessment. 

Snider, Kelli Stavast and Parker Kligerman will be the pit reporters. Daugherty will give extra reporting from all over the keep track of.

NASCAR Cup playoff standings

The Spherical of 8 discipline was set previous weekend with the Bank of The usa ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kyle Larson exited that race with the win and a forty two-level lead around Kyle Busch, the 1st driver down below the slice line for the period-ending Championship 4 race.

The discipline is bunched tightly right after Larson the next- via sixth-area drivers are separated by just 8 factors. That closeness helps make winning
1 of the subsequent three races vitally critical. A playoff driver who wins a race in the Spherical of 8 immediately qualifies for the Championship 4 race on Nov. 7 at Phoenix Raceway.

“You’ve got received to be seriously great. You’ve got received to do a great job every lap of every race. You’ve got received to get your phase factors,” Larson stated of the obstacle of becoming the front-runner. “You can not allow your guard down and shed floor on fellas that are gaining factors on you. Indeed, it is really wonderful to have the (65) reward factors that we have but I’m hoping we do not have to lean on them like we did at Talladega, or heading into (Charlotte).”

Larson completed 37th at Talladega right after wrecking. That final result charge him more than fifty percent his lead around the 1st driver down below the slice line, which was Kevin Harvick for the Charlotte race.

5 earlier Cup Collection champions are in this year’s final 8: Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski.

NASCAR setting up lineup at Texas

NASCAR applied a mathematical method to set the setting up lineup for Sunday’s playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway, the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500. 30-nine cars and trucks have been entered for the race, which is 1 shorter of a whole discipline. Playoff drivers are denoted by a “P” subsequent to their names. 

For every NASCAR’s playoff guidelines, the prime 8 spots in the discipline went to the 8 remaining playoff drivers, but the setting up get was centered on the mathematical method NASCAR has applied for the majority of its races this period.

Tom Gatto contributed to this report.