2022 South Point 400

2022 South Point 400

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Race 33 of 36 in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series
Date	October 16, 2022 (2022-10-16)
Location	Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance	267 laps, 400.5 mi (640.8 km)
Average speed	130.480 miles per hour (209.987 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Tyler Reddick	Richard Childress Racing
Time	29.252
Most laps led
Driver	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing Team
Laps	68
Winner
No. 22	Joey Logano	Team Penske
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Radio in the United States
Radio	PRN
Booth Announcers	Doug Rice and Mark Garrow
Turn Announcers	Nick Yeoman (1 & 2) and Pat Patterson (3 & 4)

The 2022 South Point 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 16, 2022, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the 33rd race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, the seventh race of the Playoffs, and the first race of the Round of 8.

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 1,200-acre (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

Ryan Blaney was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.425 seconds and a speed of 183.517 mph (295.342 km/h).^[8]

Tyler Reddick scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.252 and a speed of 184.603 mph (297.090 km/h).^[9]

Stage One Laps: 80

Stage Two Laps: 85

Stage Three Laps: 102

• Lead changes: 18 among 11 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 8 for 42 laps
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 3 hours, 4 minutes and 10 seconds
• Average speed: 130.480 miles per hour (209.987 km/h)

On October 18, NASCAR handed Bubba Wallace a one-race suspension for an intentional retaliatory right-rear hook collision against Kyle Larson that collected playoff contender Christopher Bell and resulted in physical confrontation between Wallace and Larson. Wallace was the first driver since Matt Kenseth in 2015 (as a result of intentionally crashing into Joey Logano at that year's Martinsville playoff race) to be parked by NASCAR for on-track conduct; John Hunter Nemechek replaced Wallace for the Dixie Vodka 400.^[10]

NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. called the race from the broadcast booth. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.

The Performance Racing Network covered their final 2022 broadcast, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Nick Yeoman called the race from a billboard in turn 2, as he noted, at the Dan Wheldon memorial plaque ^[11] when the field raced through turns 1 and 2 & Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through turns 3 and 4. Heather Debeaux, Brett McMillan, Brad Gillie and Wendy Venturini handled the duties on pit lane.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Joey Logano 4,084 1 2 Ross Chastain 4,063 (–21) 2 3 Chase Elliott 4,062 (–22) 3 4 Denny Hamlin 4,051 (–33) 1 5 William Byron 4,045 (–39) 2 6 Chase Briscoe 4,042 (–42) 2 7 Ryan Blaney 4,040 (–44) 4 8 Christopher Bell 4,028 (–56) 9 Kyle Larson 2,206 (–1,878) 10 Daniel Suárez 2,199 (–1,885) 1 11 Tyler Reddick 2,186 (–1,898) 1 12 Austin Cindric 2,169 (–1,915) 13 Austin Dillon 2,161 (–1,923) 14 Kyle Busch 2,158 (–1,926) 15 Alex Bowman 2,104 (–1,980) 16 Kevin Harvick 2,035 (–2,049) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 1,215 2 Ford 1,144 (–71) 3 Toyota 1,087 (–128) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.