{"id":208347,"date":"2025-10-12T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208347\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:39:09","slug":"live-updates-nascar-cup-series-playoffs-the-south-point-400-at-las-vegas-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208347\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2014 Follow along here for live updates for the opening Round of 8 race, the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway!<\/p>\n

LAP 3 \u2013 Bell gets tight off turn 2 which allows Hendrick teammates Chase Elliott and William Byron to pass.<\/p>\n

LAP 2 \u2013 Christopher Bell draws in Hamlin as the battle for 2nd heats up. Briscoe now has half a second on 2nd.<\/p>\n

LAP 1 \u2013 The field fans out as Chase Briscoe takes the lead into turn 3.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin chooses the inside lane as we are underway in the Round of 8 here at Las Vegas!<\/p>\n

RACE START<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Jonathan Fjeld\/TRE<\/p>\n

Joe Gibbs Racing teammates of Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe find themselves alongside each other on the front row for another intermediate race. Hamlin starts on the pole looking to become the first driver to lock himself into the Championship 4 and have two precious weeks to prepare for Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Ross Chastain made contact with the outside wall in practice and made repairs in time to qualify so no cars to the rear to start this event.<\/p>\n

USA, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio<\/p>\n

267 Laps \/ 400.5 miles<\/p>\n

Average time of race: 2:58.200<\/p>\n

Pit road speed: 45mph<\/p>\n

Caution vehicle speed: 55mph<\/p>\n

Fuel Window: 60-64 laps<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/p>\n

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Ryan Kemna is a photojournalist for The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2025.<\/p>\n

Currently residing in the Minneapolis, MN, area, Kemna brings his passion for motorsports, photography, and a good story to readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Follow along here for live updates for the opening Round of 8 race, the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-208347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}