2024 Cook Out Southern 500

2024 Cook Out Southern 500

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Race 26 of 36 in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series
The commemorative logo for the event.
Date	September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01)
Location	Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Distance	367 laps, 501.322 mi (806.666 km)
Average speed	127.800 miles per hour (205.674 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing
Time	29.421
Most laps led
Driver	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	263
Winner
No. 14	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing
Television in the United States
Network	USA
Announcers	Leigh Diffey, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1–2) and Mike Bagley (3–4)

The 2024 Cook Out Southern 500, the 75th running of the event, was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 1, 2024, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina on the 1.366-mile (2.198 km) speedway, it was the 26th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, last race of the regular season, and the final Crown Jewel of the year. Chase Briscoe won the race, his first win since the 2022 Ruoff Mortgage 500. Kyle Busch finished 2nd, and Christopher Bell finished 3rd. Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain rounded out the top five, and Chris Buescher, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Corey LaJoie, and Tyler Reddick rounded out the top ten.

This was Stewart-Haas Racing's final win in the Cup Series.

Darlington Raceway is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is nicknamed "The Lady in Black" and "The Track Too Tough to Tame" by many NASCAR fans and drivers and advertised as "A NASCAR Tradition." It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that is effective at both ends.

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

Erik Jones was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 29.542 seconds and a speed of 166.461 mph (267.893 km/h).

Bubba Wallace scored the pole for the race with a time 29.421 of and a speed of 167.146 mph (268.995 km/h).^[10] Rookie Carson Hocevar scored a personal and team best qualifying effort in 2nd.

Stage One Laps: 115

Stage Two Laps: 115

Stage Three Laps: 137

• Lead changes: 26 among 11 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 7 for 39
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 3 hours, 55 minutes and 14 seconds
• Average speed: 127.800 miles per hour (205.674 km/h)

USA covered the race on the television side. Leigh Diffey, two–time Darlington winner Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Dave Burns, Kim Coon and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.

MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

Drivers' Championship standings after Playoffs reset Pos Driver Points 1 1 Kyle Larson 2,040 4 2 Christopher Bell 2,032 (–8) 2 3 Tyler Reddick 2,028 (–12) 1 4 William Byron 2,022 (–18) 1 5 Ryan Blaney 2,018 (–22) 2 6 Denny Hamlin 2,015 (–25) 4 7 Chase Elliott 2,014 (–26) 1 8 Brad Keselowski 2,008 (–32) 6 9 Joey Logano 2,007 (–33) 9 10 Austin Cindric 2,007 (–33) 6 11 Daniel Suárez 2,006 (–34) 12 Alex Bowman 2,005 (–35) 5 13 Chase Briscoe 2,005 (–35) 20 14 Harrison Burton 2,005 (–35) 5 15 Ty Gibbs 2,004 (–36) 7 16 Martin Truex Jr. 2,004 (–36) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 944 2 Toyota 929 (–15) 3 Ford 908 (–36) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.