William Byron, coming off a victory at Martinsville, returns to the Texas Motor Speedway quad-oval where he won last year.
No driver on the NASCAR Cup Series is hotter than William Byron, who picked up his third victory in eight starts this season last week at Martinsville. The scene shifts this week to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth for the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400, a race in which Byron took the checkered flag last fall. The event moved to the spring this year after being run in the fall annually since 2005, with Byron looking to join a list of four multiple-time winners of the race. Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup champion, arrives in Fort Worth with a 14-point lead in the points race.
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Date: April 13, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m. ET
TV: FOX Sports 1
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Texas Motor Speedway opened in 1996 and for 18 years hosted two races annually. The O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 left the NASCAR schedule after the 24th running in 2020 and the NASCAR All-Star Race called Fort Worth home in 2021-22. The 267-lap race covers 400 miles, with Stage 1 wrapping in the first 80 laps, Stage 2 pulling in the next 85 and the final 102 laps serving as the final stage.
Jimmie Johnson owns the record with five wins in the race, with Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick each taking three. Tony Stewart is the only other multiple-time winner with two. Among active full-time drivers, Byron joined Denny Hamlin (2010), Kyle Busch (2020), Larson (2021) and Tyler Reddick (2022) with trips to victory lane in Texas.
2017 Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. trails Larson in the standings, with Hamlin 17 points back in third. Byron and defending champion Ryan Blaney are 48 points off the pace.
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