2020 Toyota 200

2020 Toyota 200

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Race 5 of 33 in the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season
Date	May 19, 2020 (2020-05-19)
Location	Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina
Course	1.366 mi (2.198 km)
Distance	147 laps, 200.802 mi (323.16 km)
Pole position
Driver	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports
Grid positions set by ballot
Most laps led
Driver	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports
Laps	46
Winner
No. 98	Chase Briscoe	Stewart-Haas Racing
Television in the United States
Network	FS1
Announcers	Adam Alexander, Clint Bowyer, and Michael Waltrip
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Alex Hayden and Dave Moody
Turn Announcers	Dillon Welch and Steve Post

The 2020 Toyota 200 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on May 21, 2020—postponed from May 19, 2020 due to weather—at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. The race replaced the Chicagoland 300 for the 2020 season.^[7] Contested over 147 laps on the 1.366-mile (2.198 km) egg-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. Chase Briscoe took home his second victory of the season in NASCAR's return from the COVID-19 pandemic.^[8]

The Toyota 200 marked the Xfinity Series' return to racing following a 10-week break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which began with the postponement of the Atlanta race weekend on March 13 and continued through mid-May.^[9][10]

On April 30, NASCAR announced their return to racing with two Cup Series races and an Xfinity Series race at Darlington, with Cup races held Sunday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 20 and the Xfinity Series race held Tuesday, May 19 (later postponed to May 21 due to weather). Due to the pandemic, the race was held without fans in attendance.^[11][12]

This was the first Xfinity Series race held at Darlington in the spring since 2014, and the first Darlington race branded the Toyota 200 since 2004.^[13]

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

Under modified operational procedures, no qualifying sessions were held for this race. The starting order was determined by a random draw, with drivers grouped into pots of positions based on segments of the owners' points standings going into the race. Additionally, NASCAR announced they were expanding the field of Xfinity Series entries from 36 to 40 due to the lack of qualifying.^[14][15]

Stage One

Laps: 45

Stage Two

Laps: 45

Laps: 57

• Lead changes: 10 among 6 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 5 for 28
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 1 hour, 44 minutes, 26 seconds
• Average speed: 115.367 mph (185.665 km/h)

The Toyota 200 was carried by FS1 in the United States. Adam Alexander, Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyer, and Michael Waltrip called the race from the Fox Sports Studio in Charlotte, with Regan Smith covering pit road.

The Motor Racing Network (MRN) called the race for radio, which was simulcast on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden and Dave Moody anchored the action from the booth. Dillon Welch called the action from Turns 1 & 2 and Steve Post called the race through turns 3 & 4. Kim Coon and Hannah Newhouse provided reports from pit road.

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Chase Briscoe	223
1	2	Harrison Burton (R)	204 (-19)
	3	Austin Cindric	197 (-26)
2	4	Noah Gragson	193 (-30)
	5	Ross Chastain	188 (-35)
3	6	Justin Allgaier	186 (-37)
	7	Ryan Sieg	183 (-40)
	8	Justin Haley	168 (-55)
5	9	Brandon Jones	165 (-58)
	10	Michael Annett	139 (-84)
	11	Riley Herbst (R)	128 (-95)
	12	Brandon Brown	115 (-108)
Official driver's standings

Note: Only the first 12 positions are included for the driver standings.