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NASCAR Cup Series race number 27 of 36
Sunday, September 5, 2021 at Darlington Raceway, Darlington, SC
367 laps on a 1.366 mile paved track (501.322 miles)

Time of race: 4:08:01 Average speed: 121.279 mph Pole speed: metric qualifying	Cautions: 11 for 52 laps Margin of victory: .212 sec Attendance: n/a Lead changes: 18
Green flag passes: 3,290 (10.4 per green flag lap)
(Source: NASCAR loop data)

Glossary 2021 NASCAR Cup Series results / 2021 standings

Chase drivers are highlighted in green in the qualifying and race results.

Driver	Start	Mid Race	Finish	High Pos.	Low Pos.	Avg. Pos.	Pass Diff.	Green Flag Passes	Green Flag Times Passed	Quality Passes	Pct. Quality Passes	Fastest Lap	Top 15 Laps	Pct. Top 15 Laps	Laps Led	Pct. Laps Led	Total Laps	DRIVER RATING

Loop data for this race:
Denny Hamlin	2	2	1	1	15	2	0	52	52	35	67.3	43	367	100.0	146	39.8	367	137.0
Kyle Larson	6	1	2	1	24	3	2	78	76	39	50.0	86	364	99.2	156	42.5	367	135.8
Ross Chastain	23	6	3	1	30	9	19	122	103	52	42.6	18	287	78.2	1	0.3	367	105.0
Martin Truex Jr	10	24	4	1	24	11	40	142	102	67	47.2	26	270	73.6	1	0.3	367	102.4
Kevin Harvick	9	9	5	1	23	7	0	107	107	58	54.2	14	350	95.4	20	5.4	367	110.1
Kurt Busch	3	3	6	1	20	5	11	87	76	53	60.9	30	364	99.2	13	3.5	367	115.2
Brad Keselowski	16	13	7	3	24	14	-2	125	127	47	37.6	4	247	67.3	0	0.0	367	83.7
Joey Logano	11	5	8	3	25	8	5	106	101	57	53.8	3	359	97.8	0	0.0	367	102.7
Chris Buescher	34	14	9	3	34	15	8	125	117	29	23.2	2	204	55.6	0	0.0	367	75.3
Austin Dillon	21	22	10	4	32	17	12	129	117	29	22.5	1	155	42.2	0	0.0	367	72.9
Cole Custer	31	21	11	4	31	20	-15	133	148	16	12.0	1	56	15.3	0	0.0	367	63.9
Ryan Preece	18	16	12	5	29	15	-2	129	131	43	33.3	2	161	43.9	0	0.0	367	76.8
Daniel Suarez	26	18	13	10	34	20	8	139	131	21	15.1	2	85	23.2	0	0.0	367	65.6
Ryan Newman	19	20	14	3	31	17	-1	134	135	32	23.9	4	154	42.0	0	0.0	367	70.4
Corey LaJoie	25	19	15	3	25	13	7	122	115	47	38.5	1	282	76.8	0	0.0	367	77.7
Aric Almirola	8	15	16	4	22	12	-12	93	105	45	48.4	4	264	72.1	0	0.0	366	79.4
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	29	12	17	9	34	18	-5	135	140	31	23.0	3	99	27.0	0	0.0	366	64.7
Tyler Reddick	7	11	18	3	23	10	-14	93	107	56	60.2	1	295	80.6	0	0.0	366	83.9
Chase Briscoe	24	23	19	5	34	23	-25	114	139	9	7.9	0	8	2.2	0	0.0	366	54.0
Christopher Bell	13	4	20	1	24	13	4	108	104	45	41.7	19	244	66.7	10	2.7	366	79.7
Bubba Wallace	17	17	21	10	30	19	-17	108	125	11	10.2	0	41	11.2	0	0.0	366	58.3
Ryan Blaney	1	8	22	1	23	10	4	81	77	48	59.3	20	279	76.2	17	4.6	366	91.1
Matt DiBenedetto	30	28	23	10	35	23	-1	84	85	4	4.8	1	24	6.6	0	0.0	365	49.9
Anthony Alfredo	32	29	24	11	34	28	-8	72	80	2	2.8	1	1	0.3	0	0.0	364	41.6
Justin Haley	20	26	25	19	35	27	-10	49	59	0	0.0	3	0	0.0	0	0.0	364	44.7
Alex Bowman	5	25	26	1	36	26	6	84	78	6	7.1	3	17	4.7	0	0.0	363	47.2
B.J. McLeod	27	30	27	3	35	29	-15	58	73	5	8.6	0	6	1.7	0	0.0	359	40.2
Josh Bilicki	28	31	28	1	36	30	2	60	58	6	10.0	0	7	1.9	0	0.0	359	36.2
Joey Gase	35	32	29	1	37	32	3	27	24	0	0.0	0	4	1.1	1	0.3	357	31.5
Quin Houff	37	33	30	11	37	33	-1	20	21	0	0.0	0	1	0.3	0	0.0	355	30.2
Chase Elliott	4	10	31	2	34	12	11	115	104	46	40.0	3	280	85.6	0	0.0	327	78.9
Erik Jones	22	27	32	1	35	28	-21	58	79	1	1.7	0	5	1.9	2	0.8	264	44.8
Cody Ware	33	34	33	8	36	33	-15	47	62	4	8.5	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	209	32.7
William Byron	14	7	34	6	36	25	28	101	73	19	18.8	3	82	41.2	0	0.0	199	61.8
Kyle Busch	12	35	35	6	24	27	-6	34	40	25	73.5	1	121	96.8	0	0.0	125	54.2
James Davison	36	36	36	26	36	36	-7	2	9	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	50	24.7
Michael McDowell	15	37	37	6	22	35	13	17	4	11	64.7	2	22	73.3	0	0.0	30	33.2

Green Flag Passes: Green flag passes for position.Pass Diff.: Difference between Green Flag Passes and Green Flag Times Passed. Quality Passes: Number of times passing a car running in the Top 15 while under a green flag. Fastest Lap: How many times a driver had the fastest lap of all drivers.

Driver Rating: A formula combining the following categories: Win, Finish, Top-15 Finish, Average Running Position while on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. Maximum: 150 points per race.