A 21-car wreck in the first 100 laps of the Quaker State 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at EchoPark Speedway on June 28 flipped the NASCAR in-season tournament on its head.
1-seed Denny Hamlin, 2-seed Chase Briscoe and others were knocked out of the race in the major crash on Saturday, and out of the in-season tournament in the first round.
Chase Elliott is advancing via his win at Atlanta, locking into the NASCAR playoffs and into a second-round matchup against John Hunter Nemechek next week in Chicago.
Here are the in-season tournament results from Atlanta and the matchups for next week’s race at Chicago.
- Ty Dillon (8th) over Denny Hamlin (31st)
- Brad Keselowski (2nd) over Kyle Busch (21st)
- Alex Bowman (3rd) over Joey Logano (36th)
- Bubba Wallace (22nd) over Daniel Suarez (34th)
- Chase Elliott (1st) over Austin Dillon (20th)
- John Hunter Nemechek (26th) over Josh Berry (32nd)
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (6th) over Christopher Bell (30th)
- Erik Jones (5th) over Ross Chastain (33rd)
- Ty Gibbs (14th) over Justin Haley (23rd)
- AJ Allmendinger (12th) over Michael McDowell (18th)
- Chris Buescher (9th) over Todd Gilliland (27th)
- Zane Smith (7th) over Austin Cindric (28th)
- Carson Hocevar (10th) over Ryan Blaney (40th)
- Tyler Reddick (4th) over Kyle Larson (17th)
- Noah Gragson (25th) over Chase Briscoe (35th)
- Ryan Preece (15th) over William Byron (37th)
- 17-seed Brad Keselowski vs. 32-seed Ty Dillon
- 8-seed Alex Bowman vs. 9-seed Bubba Wallace
- 5-seed Chase Elliott vs. 12-seed John Hunter Nemechek
- 20-seed Erik Jones vs. 29-seed Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- 6-seed Ty Gibbs vs. 22-seed AJ Allmendinger
- 3-seed Chris Buescher vs. 14-seed Zane Smith
- 23-seed Tyler Reddick vs. 26-seed Carson Hocevar
- 15-seed Ryan Preece vs. 31-seed Noah Gragson
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