The 2019 Hollywood Casino 400 was a

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, ...

race held on October 20, 2019, at Kansas Speedway in

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. Contested over 277 laps—extended from 267 laps due to an overtime finish, on the intermediate speedway, it was the 32nd race of the

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season, sixth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 12.

Report

Background

Kansas Speedway is a tri-oval race track in

. It was built in 2001 and it currently hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.

Entry list

* (i) denotes driver who are ineligible for series driver points. * (R) denotes rookie driver.

Practice

First practice

Brad Keselowski was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.595 seconds and a speed of .

Final practice

Daniel Hemric was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 30.366 seconds and a speed of .

Qualifying

Daniel Hemric scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.329 and a speed of .

Qualifying results

Race

Stage results

Stage One ''Laps:'' 80 Stage Two ''Laps:'' 80

Final stage results

Stage Three ''Laps:'' 107

Race statistics

* Lead changes: 15 among 12 different drivers * Cautions/Laps: 7 for 32 * Red flags: 0 * Time of race: 3 hours, 2 minutes and 39 seconds * Average speed:

Media

Television

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covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.

Radio

MRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace had the call of the race for MRN when the field raced thru the front straightaway. Dave Moody called the race for MRN from Turns 1 &2, and Mike Bagley called the race for MRN from turns 3 &4. Winston Kelley, Steve Post, Kim Coon, and Dillon Welch covered the action for MRN from pit lane.

Standings after the race

;Manufacturers' Championship standings *Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

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