The 2017 Go Bowling 400 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 13, 2017, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 11th race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.
Entry list Driver Team Manufacturer 1 Jamie McMurray Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 2 Brad Keselowski Team Penske Ford 3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 4 Kevin Harvick Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 6 Trevor Bayne Roush Fenway Racing Ford 10 Danica Patrick Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 13 Ty Dillon (R) Germain Racing Chevrolet 14 Clint Bowyer Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 15 Reed Sorenson Premium Motorsports Chevrolet 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Roush Fenway Racing Ford 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 19 Daniel Suárez (R) Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 20 Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 21 Ryan Blaney Wood Brothers Racing Ford 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 23 Gray Gaulding (R) BK Racing Toyota 24 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 27 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 31 Ryan Newman Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 32 Matt DiBenedetto Go Fas Racing Ford 33 Jeffrey Earnhardt Circle Sport – The Motorsports Group Chevrolet 34 Landon Cassill Front Row Motorsports Ford 37 Chris Buescher JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 38 David Ragan Front Row Motorsports Ford 41 Kurt Busch Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 42 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 43 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 47 A. J. Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 51 Timmy Hill (i) Rick Ware Racing Chevrolet 55 Derrike Cope Premium Motorsports Toyota 66 Carl Long (i) MBM Motorsports Chevrolet 72 Cole Whitt TriStar Motorsports Chevrolet 77 Erik Jones (R) Furniture Row Racing Toyota 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 83 Corey LaJoie (R) BK Racing Toyota 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 95 Michael McDowell Leavine Family Racing ChevroletOfficial entry list
Practice
First practice Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.179 seconds and a speed of .
Pos Driver Team Manufacturer Time 1 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 29.179 185.065 2 21 Ryan Blaney Wood Brothers Racing Ford 29.200 184.932 3 77 Erik Jones (R) Furniture Row Racing Toyota 29.253 184.596Official first practice results
Final practice Kyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.729 seconds and a speed of .
Pos Driver Team Manufacturer Time 1 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 28.729 187.963 2 42 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 28.749 187.833 3 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 28.830 187.305Official final practice results
Qualifying
Ryan Blaney scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.481 and a speed of . He said afterwards that 2017 "has been a big step up in qualifying. Your car and track changes and you have to be on top of that. Everyone has done a great job of staying on top of that. We have been really close a couple times this year but it feels good to get it done. I know it is only qualifying but it feels really cool to get this first pole. It says a lot about this entire team.”
Qualifying results Pos Driver Team Manufacturer 121 Ryan Blaney Wood Brothers Racing Ford 28.602 28.499 28.481 222 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 28.664 28.493 28.490 378 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 28.703 28.526 28.541 417 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Roush Fenway Racing Ford 28.584 28.610 28.594 518 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 28.373 28.331 28.648 641 Kurt Busch Stewart–Haas RacingFord 28.642 28.620 28.648 711 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 28.984 28.688 28.680 84 Kevin Harvick Stewart–Haas RacingFord 28.387 28.361 28.685 942 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 28.555 28.515 28.731 1024 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 28.778 28.605 28.801 113 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 28.862 28.689 28.840 121 Jamie McMurray Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 28.717 28.625 28.895 1343 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 28.536 28.712 — 1420 Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 28.887 28.726 — 1519 Daniel Suárez (R) Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 29.013 28.728 — 166 Trevor Bayne Roush Fenway Racing Ford 28.990 28.744 — 172 Brad Keselowski Team Penske Ford 28.767 28.750 — 1827 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 28.795 28.766 — 1931 Ryan Newman Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 28.883 28.775 — 2037 Chris Buescher JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 29.077 28.895 — 2147 A. J. Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 28.938 28.898 — 2213 Ty Dillon (R) Germain Racing Chevrolet 29.061 29.013 — 2332 Matt DiBenedetto Go Fas Racing Ford 28.991 29.103 — 2410 Danica Patrick Stewart–Haas RacingFord 28.833 29.252 — 2523 Gray Gaulding (R) BK Racing Toyota 29.339 — — 2672 Cole Whitt TriStar Motorsports Chevrolet 29.783 — — 2733 Jeffrey Earnhardt Circle Sport – The Motorsports Group Chevrolet 30.313 — — 2855 Derrike Cope Premium Motorsports Toyota 30.875 — — 2948 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 0.000 — — 3014 Clint Bowyer Stewart–Haas RacingFord 0.000 — — 315 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 0.000 — — 3277 Erik Jones (R) Furniture Row Racing Toyota 0.000 — — 3388 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 0.000 — — 3438 David Ragan Front Row Motorsports Ford 0.000 — — 3595 Michael McDowell Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet 0.000 — — 3634 Landon Cassill Front Row Motorsports Ford 0.000 — — 3715 Reed Sorenson Premium Motorsports Chevrolet 0.000 — — 3883 Corey LaJoie (R) BK Racing Toyota 0.000 — — 3951 Timmy Hill (i) Rick Ware Racing Chevrolet 0.000 — — 4066 Carl Long (i) MBM Motorsports Chevrolet 0.000 — — Official qualifying results
Race First stage Ryan Blaney led the field to the green flag at 7:53 p.m. Martin Truex Jr. shot past his outside exiting Turn 2 to take the lead on lap 11. The first caution of the race flew on lap 29 when Landon Cassill's right-front tire went flat and he slammed the wall in Turn 1.
The race restarted on lap 35. Cassill brought out the second caution on lap 50 when he slammed the wall a second time. Kevin Harvick opted not to pit and assumed the lead. During the caution period, Chase Elliott was exiting his pit box just as Michael McDowell was entering his when McDowell came across the nose of Elliott, causing damage to Elliott's car.
The race restarted on lap 55. The third caution flew on lap 58 when Ty Dillon spun out in Turn 2.
The race restarted on lap 62. Harvick spun his tires on the restart, Kyle Busch took over the race lead and drove on to win the first stage. The fourth caution flew on lap 80 for the conclusion of the stage. Truex exited pit road with the race lead. Jimmie Johnson restarted from the tail-end of the field for driving through too many pit boxes.
Second stage The race restarted on lap 88. Erik Jones brought out the fifth caution on lap 97 when he spun out in Turn 2.
The race restarted on lap 100 and Busch took back the lead exiting Turn 2. Debris in Turn 2, from Johnson's car, brought out the sixth caution on lap 102.
The race restarted on lap 105. Brad Keselowski, who was running fifth, made an unscheduled stop for a loose wheel on lap 120. He was then hit with a pass through penalty for driving through too many pit boxes. He rejoined the race 35th two laps down. The seventh caution flew on lap 136 when Corey LaJoie suffered cuts on both right-side tires and slammed the wall in Turn 3.
The race restarted on lap 142. The eighth caution flew on lap 146 when Gray Gaulding slammed the wall in Turn 4, and his right-rear tire shredded in Turn 2.
The race restarted on lap 152. Blaney won the second stage and the ninth caution flew for the conclusion of the stage.
Final stage
The race restarted on lap 167. Truex took the lead going into Turn 3 with 87 laps to go. The 10th caution flew with 74 to go for a two-car wreck in Turn 1 involving A. J. Allmendinger and Paul Menard.
The race restarted with 69 to go. The following lap, Joey Logano went to the outside of Danica Patrick for position going into Turn 1 when he suffered a right-front brake failure, veered down and hooked Patrick, sending her head-on into the outside wall. Logano's car got loose and slid backwards into the wall not far ahead of her. Aric Almirola, who was seven car length's back of the wreck when it started, got loose in the top lane, couldn't slow it down in time, clipped the left-rear corner of Patrick's car and slammed into the drivers-side of Logano's car, lifting his car in the air for a few seconds. Logano and Patrick exited their wrecked cars under their own power, but Almirola, who put his window net down (to signal the safety crews that he was "alert"), required the safety team to extract him, and air lift to a local hospital, due to an injury that he sustained. This violent three-car wreck brought out the 11th caution with 68 to go, and cleanup necessitated a red flag for roughly 30 minutes.
Logano said after he was released from the infield care center that all three drivers involved "took a hard hit. Something broke on (my) car - I don't know what it was. I noticed it going in (to the turn) and tried to back off but you're going 215 (mph). I took a hard left. I just hope everyone is OK. I hooked Danica. I haven't seen the replay (until now). don't know what happened. The right-front popped and I took a hard left. I hope Aric is alright. That's the last thing you want to see is a big hit like that for anyone. It came out of nowhere. Everything was fine and I just took a hard one. I'm praying for Aric right now. I hate to be the part that started it but there was nothing I could have done. Something broke and we tore up a lot of cars."
The race restarted with 63 to go. The 12th caution flew with 52 to go when Jones got loose in the speedy dry in the top lane of Turns 1 and 2, laid down for the previous three-car wreck with 68 to go, and spun out in Turn 2. Dale Earnhardt Jr. opted not to pit and assumed the lead.
The race restarted with 47 to go and Blaney edged out Busch at the line to retake the lead. Truex passed him exiting Turn 2 with 24 to go to retake the lead. The 13th caution flew with 22 to go when LaJoie slammed the wall in Turn 1. Jones opted not to pit and assumed the lead.
The race restarted with 19 to go. Truex went to Blaney's outside and powered around him and teammate Jones in Turn 1 to take the lead with 18 to go. The 14th caution flew with nine to go when Jones got turned by Dillon exiting Turn 4 and spun through the infield grass.
The race restarted with five to go and Johnson and Kurt Busch made contact, sending Johnson spinning through Turn 1 and put the race under caution for the 15th time.
The race restarted with two laps to go. Truex drove on to score the victory.
Race results
Stage results
Stage 1 Laps: 80
Pos Driver Team Manufacturer Points1 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 102 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 93 21 Ryan Blaney Wood Brothers Racing Ford 84 42 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 75 2 Brad Keselowski Team Penske Ford 66 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 57 4 Kevin Harvick Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 48 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 39 5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 210 41 Kurt Busch Stewart–Haas Racing Ford 1Official stage one results
Stage 2 Laps: 80