2022 WISE Power 400

2022 WISE Power 400

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Race 2 of 36 in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series
The 2022 WISE Power 400 program cover.
Date	February 27, 2022 (2022-02-27)
Location	Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	2 miles (3.22 km)
Distance	200 laps, 400 mi (640 km)
Average speed	114.222 miles per hour (183.822 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Austin Cindric	Team Penske
Time	41.226
Most laps led
Driver	Tyler Reddick	Richard Childress Racing
Laps	90
Winner
No. 5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	Fox
Announcers	Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer, and Matt Kenseth
Nielsen ratings	2.61, 4.570 Million Viewers
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth announcers	Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and Todd Gordon
Turn announcers	Dan Hubbard (1 & 2) and Kurt Becker (3 & 4)

The 2022 WISE Power 400 was the second stock car race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series and the 25th running of the event. The race was held on Sunday, in Fontana, California, at Auto Club Speedway, a 2 miles (3.2 km) permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete. At race's end, Kyle Larson, driving for Hendrick Motorsports, would win a drama-filled race after a controversial block on teammate Chase Elliott within the closing laps of the race had put Elliott in the wall. Larson would defend the field on the final restart to win his 17th career NASCAR Cup Series race and his first of the season.^[8] To fill out the top 3, Austin Dillon of Richard Childress Racing and Erik Jones of Petty GMS Motorsports would finish second and third, respectively.

Auto Club Speedway (previously California Speedway) was a two-mile (3.2 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which hosted NASCAR racing annually from 1997 to 2023. It was also used for open wheel racing events. The racetrack was located near the former locations of Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway. The track was owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and was the only track owned by ISC to have its naming rights sold. The speedway was served by the nearby Interstate 10 and Interstate 15 freeways as well as a Metrolink station located behind the backstretch.

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

Denny Hamlin was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 41.519 seconds and a speed of 173.415 mph (279.084 km/h).^[9]

Austin Cindric scored the pole for the race with a time of 41.226 and a speed of 174.647 mph (281.067 km/h).^[10]

Stage One Laps: 65

Stage Two Laps: 65

Stage Three Laps: 70

• Lead changes: 32 among 9 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 12 for 59 laps
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 3 hours, 3 minutes and 7 seconds
• Average speed: 114.222 miles per hour (183.822 km/h)

The race was the 21st race Fox Sports covered at the Auto Club Speedway. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer and three-time Auto Club winner Matt Kenseth called the race in the booth for Fox. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled the pit road duties, and Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and 2018 NASCAR Cup Championship crew chief Todd Gordon called the race from the booth when the field raced their way down the front stretch. Dan Hubbard called the race from a billboard outside turn 2 when the field raced their way through turns 1 and 2, and Kurt Becker called the race from a billboard outside turn 3 when the field raced their way through turns 3 and 4. Steve Post and Jason Toy had the pit road duties for MRN.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Austin Cindric 85 9 2 Joey Logano 77 (–8) 3 Martin Truex Jr. 73 (–12) 2 4 Ryan Blaney 70 (–15) 5 Chase Briscoe 69 (–16) 16 6 Erik Jones 68 (–17) 5 7 Aric Almirola 66 (–19) 18 8 Kyle Larson 65 (–20) 5 9 Bubba Wallace 65 (–20) 8 10 Brad Keselowski 64 (–21) 3 11 Kyle Busch 61 (–24) 4 12 Kurt Busch 53 (–32) 2 13 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 53 (–32) 7 14 Austin Dillon 52 (–33) 4 15 Daniel Suárez 52 (–33) 4 16 Cole Custer 48 (–37) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Ford 72 1 2 Chevrolet 67 (–5) 1 3 Toyota 64 (–8) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.