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Photo: Jonathan Fjeld\/TRE<\/p>\nAVONDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Follow here for live updates of the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix Raceway for the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n
Photo: Jonathan Fjeld\/TRE<\/p>\n
LAP 37: Cody Ware is the next driver to fall a lap down as the battle for the lead stays tight.<\/p>\n
LAP 35: Zane Smith loses his lap after a valiant effort to maintain the lead lap. Joey Logano still leads with Ryan Blaney two car lengths behind.<\/p>\n
LAP 30: Blaney has closed in on the lead by around two-tenths a lap. Kyle Larson continues to fight his loose condition and falls to ninth.<\/p>\n
LAP 25: Besides Larson, much of the top ten running order has stabilized. Joey Logano still leads but Blaney is closing in. He\u2019s under a second away from him.<\/p>\n
LAP 22: Larson loses his top five spot to Denny Hamlin now then sixth to Christopher Bell. His rear tires are slipping after twenty laps.<\/p>\n
LAP 19: Each of the Team Penske cars ran 27.7 second lap times. Tyler Reddick makes his move on Kyle Larson for fourth.<\/p>\n
LAP 16: Here comes Ryan Blaney! He\u2019s the fastest car on track and clears teammate Cindric for second, two seconds back from leader Logano.<\/p>\n
LAP 14: Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney pass Kyle Larson. Roger Penske is smiling somewhere, his cars are running 1-2-3 early.<\/p>\n
LAP 10: The biggest mover, Carson Hocevar, is up eight spots from the rear while Joey Logano stretches his lead by over a second to Kyle Larson.<\/p>\n
LAP 7: The outside lane has opened up. Tyler Reddick takes sixth from Byron after he lost two positions in the last two laps.<\/p>\n
LAP 4: William Byron is already up to fourth. Four spots ahead of his initial starting position. Zane Smith completes his pass-through penalty.<\/p>\n
LAP 1: We are underway at Phoenix! The field fans out in the dogleg as Joey Logano leds lap one. <\/p>\n
William Byron\u2019s crew found a cracked brake rotor while pushing his car to the gird. Per the NASCAR rule book, they were allowed to change the rotor without penalty. <\/p>\n
Brake rotor and tire failures will be an issue to watch for as the previous few Cup Series events had multiple per race.<\/p>\n
Race Start<\/p>\n
The Cup Series commences the annual West Coast swing and a return to the more \u201ctraditional\u201d track types at Phoenix Raceway<\/p>\n
Tyler Reddick will start his bid for four straight wins to start the 2026 Cup Series season in ninth today. <\/p>\n
Team Penske cars looked strong in the single lap runs as Joey Logano will lead the field to green with his remaining teammates starting in the top five as well.<\/p>\n
The 2-time defending spring Phoenix winner, Christopher Bell, starts 12th.<\/p>\n
Brad Keselowski will start in the rear with a backup car after his crash in practice due to a flat right-front tire. Carson Hocevar drops from his top ten starting spot after unapproved adjustments. Finally, Zane Smith will start in the rear and serve a pass through penalty for making an adjustment after tech inspection was complete.<\/p>\n
Straight Talk Wireless 500<\/p>\n
Broadcast:\u00a0FOX, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio<\/p>\n
Distance:\u00a0312 laps<\/p>\n
Stages:\u00a060 \/ 185 \/ 312<\/p>\n
Fuel Window: 95-100 laps<\/p>\n
Average time of race:\u00a03:02:32<\/p>\n
Pit road speed:\u00a045 mph<\/p>\n
Caution car speed:\u00a050 mph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AVONDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Follow here for live updates of the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix Raceway for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-523150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523150","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=523150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}