WHAT: WÜRTH 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY,11th race of the NASCAR Cup Series season.

WHERE: Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile tri-oval in Fort Worth, Texas. 

WHEN: Sunday (May 4) @ 2:30 p.m. CT.

TV AND RADIO:

RACE LENGTH: 267 laps | 400.5 miles. 

RACE STAGE LENGTHS: 1-80 | 81-165 | 166-267.

PREVIOUS RACE: Talladega Superspeedway, won by Austin Cindric, on Sunday, April 27.

NEXT RACE: Sunday, May 11, Kansas Speedway.

ENTRY LIST: Click here for the WÜRTH 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY entry list.

2024 RACE WINNER: Chase Elliott, Hendrick Motorsports. 

2024 POLE WINNER: Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports.

2024 TOP-FIVE FINISHERS: 1. Chase Elliott, Hendrick Motorsports; 2. Brad Keselowski, RFKRacing; 3. William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports; 4.Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing; 5. Daniel Suarez, Trackhouse Racing.

TMS CAREER LEADERS

WINS                                      POLES                                   TOP-5 FINISHES

Jimmie Johnson        7          Kurt Busch                 3          Jimmie Johnson        16       

Carl Edwards             4          Dale Earnhardt Jr.     2          Kyle Busch               14       

Kyle Busch               4          Carl Edwards             2          Matt Kenseth             14

Denny Hamlin          3          Jeff Gordon                2          Kevin Harvick             13          

Kevin Harvick             3          Kevin Harvick             2          Joey Logano            12

Greg Biffle                  2          Jimmie Johnson        2          Jeff Gordon                  9          

Jeff Burton                 2          Brad Keselowski     2          Greg Biffle                    8

Tony Stewart             2          Bobby Labonte          2          Carl Edwards               8

Matt Kenseth             2          Tony Stewart             2          Denny Hamlin            8          

Martin Truex Jr.         2          Mark Martin                  8          

Ryan Newman           2

Bold denotes current full-time Cup Series driver.

NCS SEASON NOTES: Hendrick Motorsports, led by William Byron, owns three of the top four positions in the NASCAR Cup Series points standings. Kyle Larson is second, trailing Byron by 31 points, and Chase Elliott is fourth, 72 back. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin (-52) is third while his teammate Christopher Bell (-82) rounds out the top five. … Bell leads the series with three wins (Atlanta, Circuit of The Americas, Phoenix) while Larson (Homestead-Miami, Bristol) and Hamlin (Martinsville, Darlington) also are multiple winners. … Larson is the series leader in top-five finishes (6) and co-leader with Byron for top 10s (7). … Larson also is the series leader in laps led with 506 and followed by Byron (364) and Hamlin (315). … Byron has finished sixth of better in his last three races, paced by a runner-up finish at Darlington. … Larson has finished fifth or better in four of his last five, including wins at Homestead-Miami and Bristol. … Hamlin has top-five finishes in four of his last five races. … Elliott and Bell have finished eighth or better in three of their last four starts. … Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain has finished seventh or better in three of his last four races. … Team Penske driver Austin Cindric’s win at Talladega this past Sunday was the third of his career and first since winning at World Wide Technology Raceway in June of last season. It was just his second top-10 finish in the last nine races on the season. … Noah Gragson of Front Row Motorsports is coming off a season-best, fourth-place finish at Talladega. It was his first top-five effort since finishing a career-best third in that same event last season for Stewart-Haas Racing.

NCS RACE NOTES: This will be the 45^th NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Last season’s race was held Sunday, April 14, and served as the ninth race of the NCS season. Chase Elliott of Hendrick Motorsports won in double overtime to snap a 42-race winless streak and earn his first victory since Talladega Superspeedway on Oct. 2, 2022. It was his first Cup Series victory in 14 starts at Texas Motor Speedway. … Texas Motor Speedway has produced 22 or more lead changes in the last three races and seven of the last eight. The high during that stretch was a track-record 36 in 2022 when Tyler Reddick won. … Chevrolet is riding a four-race winning streak in large part to Hendrick Motorsports. The organization won in 2021 with Kyle Larson, ’23 with William Byron and Elliott last season. The other Chevy win came from Reddick in 2022 while with Richard Childress Racing. … Byron has finished among the top three in three of his last four visits, with a runner-up finish in 2021, a victory in ’23 and third last season. He also is riding a four-race, top-10 streak at TMS. … Brad Keselowski of RFK Racing arrives with a streak of six consecutive top-10 finishes, including a runner-up finish last season that matched his best performance in 29 starts at TMS. He ranks 10^th all time at TMS for laps led (685) but can move up to sixth if he can lead seven more in Sunday’s race. He would move past Martin Truex Jr. (689) and the trio of Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards, who are tied at 691. … Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing has been all or nothing in his six career starts. He has finished among the top five in three races and 17^th or worse in the other three. His best finish of third came on two occasions (2020, ’21). … Reddick has posted top-five finishes in half of his six visits, including fourth last season. The 23XI Racing driver also owns a win in 2022 and runner-up effort in ‘20. He has finished among the top 10 in three of his last four starts.  … Chase Briscoe of Joe Gibbs Racing has a run of three consecutive top-10 finishes at TMS. He finished fifth in 2022, 10^th in ’23 and sixth last season, all coming with now-defunct Stewart-Haas Racing. … Daniel Suarez of Trackhouse Racing has top-10 finishes in three of his last four, including fifth last season. His best finish is third, which came in both Texas races during the 2019 season. … Spire Motorsports driver Michael McDowell is chasing his first top-10 finish at TMS after 26 career starts. His best finish was 11^th in 2022 for Front Row Motorsports. … RFK Racing’s Chris Buescher, a native of nearby Prosper, Texas, is looking to secure his first top-10 finish at his home track after 15 career starts. His best finish of 14^th came in 2023. Last season, he was 15^th. … Ty Gibbs of Joe Gibbs Racing leads all active drivers (three or more starts) with an average starting position of 7.3 at Texas. Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney is second at 9.8 and teammate Joey Logano is third at 12.2. … Briscoe leads all active drivers (four or more starts) with a 9.0 finishing average. Reddick is second at 9.3, Byron third at 11.2, Elliott and Kyle Busch of Richard Childress Racing are tied for fourth at 12.2, and followed by Legacy Motor Club’s Erik Jones (12.3). . … Busch and Hamlin are the only active drivers with multiple wins at Texas. Busch owns four while Hamlin has three. … Busch leads active drivers in laps led with 1,069. … Fulltime NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Jesse Love of Richard Childress Racing will be performing double duty as the 20-year-old is scheduled to compete in the No. 62 Chevrolet for Beard Motorsports in the WÜRTH 400 presented by LIQUI MOLY. It also will mark the first appearance for Beard Motorsports at TMS since the organization’s NCS debut in 2017.