No. 1 NASCAR Chevy Beats Championship 4 To Phoenix Win: Video

Ross Chastain and the No. 1 NASCAR Chevy Camaro ZL1 didn’t make

Championship 4 in the 2023 Cup Series Playoffs, but that didn’t stop him from bringing

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race-winning performance to Phoenix Raceway on November 5th, 2023. I

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he beat all four of the championship contenders across the line to take the checkered f

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something that hasn’t been done since the Playoffs format was implemented in 2014.

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Chastain led 157 of 312 laps during the race, passing Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota

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TRD Camry after a restart on Lap 282. He never looked back, and went on to win by

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1.230 seconds ahead of Ryan Blaney, whose No. 12 Ford Mustang won the overall 2023

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Cup Series championship. In fact, Blaney and Chastain traded paint a few times

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the former attempted to make the pass for the win, but Chastain didn’t surrender the lead,

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even though he wasn’t racing for the title.“I was not going to crash him,”

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” Chastain said of Blaney in a postrace interview. “I was not going to use my front bumper,

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