Stock car racing events in the NASCAR Cup Series have taken place at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on the 2.454-mile (3.949 km) road course annually since 1986. Since 2018, the 90-lap, 221-mile (356 km) race has been known as Go Bowling 220 at The Glen for sponsorship reasons.[2] In 2021, it was one of seven road courses. As of 2022[update], it is one of six road course races on the Cup Series schedule.
The Glen 101.2 (1957) The Glen 151.8 (1964–1965) The Budweiser At The Glen (1986–1989) Budweiser At The Glen (1990–1993) The Bud At The Glen (1994–1998) Frontier @ the Glen (1999) Global Crossing @ The Glen (2000–2001) Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen (2002–2005) AMD at the Glen (2006) Centurion Boats at the Glen (2007–2008) Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen (2009–2011) Finger Lakes 355 at The Glen (2012) Cheez-It 355 at the Glen (2013–2016) I Love New York 355 at The Glen (2017)
When NASCAR returned in 1986, they utilized the 1971 Six Hours course. In the 1991 race, J. D. McDuffie was killed in a crash in the Outer Loop, at the end of the backstretch. Following that crash, and another serious crash by IMSA driver, Tommy Kendall, the Inner Loop bus stop chicane was added just before the Outer Loop. NASCAR has since utilized this 2.45-mile (3.94 km) "short course," and has never utilized the "Boot" as IndyCar and Formula One have. Drivers, however, have been pushing for the use of the full course.
During a 2011 Mobil Oil "Car Swap" at Watkins Glen using the course, Tony Stewart pushed for using the Grand Prix course after driving demonstration laps in both his Chevrolet Impala and the majority of his laps in a McLaren MP4-23 as part of the event with Lewis Hamilton.[3]
ESPN broadcast the race from 1986 to 2000, then again in 2007 to 2014. Starting in 2015 (current contract), NBC had the rights to broadcast the race but the 2015 edition was aired on NBCSN. In 2016, the race was put on USA Network because of the 2016 Summer Olympics airing on NBC and NBCSN. Beginning in 2017, NBC decided to broadcast this race in the style of radio where various analysts would be placed on the course to report what they see in their section of the track to the viewer.
In 2015, more than 95,000 people watched the race.[4]
In 2020, the race was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The State of New York was requiring travelers from several states to isolate for 14 days (including North Carolina, where most of NASCAR's teams are located, and Florida, where NASCAR's corporate offices are), and not giving the series a quarantine waiver to enter the state.[5] NASCAR instead held a race on the Daytona International Speedway road course,[6] the Go Bowling 235.
In 2024 the race is scheduled to moved to September and will be the second race of the round of 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.[7]
1986: The true inaugural running of this race, resulted in Geoff Bodine leading the most laps. Tim Richmond won the race after Bodine made too long of a pit stop with less than 10 laps to go.
1989: On the day that Tim Richmond, who in 1986 won the first Budweiser at the Glen race since NASCAR returned to Watkins Glen, lost his battle with AIDS; eventual 1989 Winston Cup champion Rusty Wallace became the first driver to win this race a second time (Wallace having previously won in 1987).
1991: Ernie Irvan won the race but the race was overshadowed by the death of NASCAR pioneer J. D. McDuffie during a crash on lap 5. Also during this race Richard Petty collected his final Top 10 finish, coming in 9th.
1992: Rain pushed back the start of the race more than three hours, and with rain expected to move back into the area, teams expected the race to be a sprint to the halfway point. Kyle Petty won a heated battle for the lead with Ernie Irvan between laps 32–36. After a caution, the race was restarted on lap 44, one lap before the halfway point. Petty brushed off then-leader Dick Trickle on lap 45 and on lap 46, the skies opened. After five laps under caution, the race was red-flagged, with Petty declared the winner. 1992 would be the only season Kyle Petty won multiple races.
1995: Wally Dallenbach Jr. appeared to have had the win wrapped up, but a caution with 9 laps to go resulted in him being passed by former teammate Mark Martin on a final restart.
1996: Two weeks after suffering a broken collarbone and sternum in a crash at Talladega, and one week after stepping out of the car at Indianapolis, Dale Earnhardt won the pole position with a track record of 120.733 mph. Earnhardt was quoted as saying "It hurt so good." Earnhardt led 54 laps, but Geoff Bodine stole the victory when he short-pitted on his final stop. Bodine pitted early, and with newer tires, made up track position while everyone else pitted to hold the lead. It was Earnhardt's final career pole, and Bodine's final career win.
1999: Jeff Gordon started on pole, led the most laps and held off Ron Fellows for the win.
2000: After Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart tangled early, Jeff Gordon's hopes to win two consecutive Watkins Glen races ended. Steve Park won his first Cup series race.
2001: Jeff Gordon got redemption from his 2000 heartbreak by winning the race. Road expert Robby Gordon led the most laps and had the winning car but a pit road fire ended his hopes for his first Cup series victory.
2002: A week after nearly being fired by his team for an incident in the Brickyard 400, Tony Stewart led the most laps alongside Robby Gordon and won the race. The race ended in controversy because it was discovered that Stewart had jumped the final restart.
2004: A very sick Tony Stewart gutted through a sinus infection, food poisoning and stomach pains, and held off Ron Fellows to win the race.
2007: Jeff Gordon led the most laps, but spun out with 2 laps to go, handing the win to Stewart.
2009: Tony Stewart won his record 5th Watkins Glen race. The race was marred by a huge accident involving Sam Hornish Jr., Jeff Gordon, and Jeff Burton. Kasey Kahne was racing with Hornish out of turn 9 where Kasey got loose and got into Hornish sending Hornish into the tire barriers. Hornish shot back across the track right in front of Jeff Gordon which sent Gordon into the Armco barrier head on. Hornish's fuel cell came out of his car from Gordon's impact. Hornish was then hit again by Jeff Burton which nearly sent Hornish on his side. Other cars including Joey Logano and Andy Lally were involved for running over debris.
2010: Juan Pablo Montoya ended a 113 race winless streak and won in dominating fashion, beating Marcos Ambrose for the win, thus making him the first foreign-born driver to win multiple NASCAR Cup races.
2012: Oil that dropped on the track by Bobby Labonte led to a dramatic finish as a caution was not called. Leader Kyle Busch lost control and spun off the bumper of Brad Keselowski in the Esses on the final lap, leaving Keselowski and Ambrose to battle both each other and the adverse track conditions, banging off of and passing each other several times during the lap. They even went through the grass at one point. Ambrose won the race after Keselowski got loose in the oil off-turn eleven and backed out of the throttle.
2014: A. J. Allmendinger won his first Cup victory, after a lengthy marathon that included two red flags for track repair caused by serious accidents: the first for a severe accident in which Ryan Newman and Michael McDowell crashed in the exit to turn 5, which saw McDowell's rear wheel housing break off and puncture a hole in the Armco barriers, and a second one caused by Denny Hamlin crashing into the gravel barrels at the entrance to pit road.
2015: An accordion wreck happened on the front stretch, fluid was on the track, which led to a nine-minute three second red flag to facilitate cleanup on the track, A. J. Allmendinger's car lost power, and came to a stop past turn 10. Joey Logano took advantage of fuel problems for Kevin Harvick and won his first NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen and second of the season.
2016:Denny Hamlin passed Martin Truex Jr. late in the race to win his first road course victory and avenging his 2007 runner-up at the Glen. On the final lap, Truex got spun by Brad Keselowski and finished 8th while Kyle Larson expressed discontent with A. J. Allmendinger for spinning him on the final lap as well. Truex and Larson both voiced their displeasure with their adversaries through slight contact with Keselowski & Allmendinger after the race ended, during the cool-down lap.
2017:Martin Truex Jr. overcame adversity from the race last year by winning over Matt Kenseth and Clint Bowyer while saving fuel. The race was run in just over two hours, the shortest race by time in the Modern Era at the time.
2018:Chase Elliott earned his first Cup Series win after holding off Martin Truex Jr., the defending winner. Truex Jr.'s No. 78 ran out of fuel on the last lap while behind Elliott and he managed to hold on to 2nd place.
2019: Elliott won his second race in a row at the track, again beating Truex Jr.
2021: No race was held in 2020, but Truex led the most laps in the 2021 edition. However, he finished third to Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott.
2022: Elliott and Larson started up front, but the first part of the race was run under wet track conditions. After halfway, Elliott and Larson drove away from third-place Michael McDowell. Larson took the lead after contact with Elliott on a late restart to take the win, relegating Elliott to fourth.
Referencesedit
^. Watkins Glen International. January 18, 2018. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
^"Uncommonly calm race at The Glen could shape 16-driver Chase field". Fox Sports, Tom Jensen Aug 9, 2015
^Stewart: We should run the long course December 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Racer Magazine, June 15, 2011.
^"Record crowd flocked to Cheez-It 355 at The Glen". Star-Gazette, Ron Levanduski, August 11, 2015
^ abBove, Matt (July 8, 2020). "Watkins Glen NASCAR race canceled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions". WKBW. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
^"Revised schedule features Daytona road course". SaltWire Network. Reuters. July 9, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
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Stock car racing events in the NASCAR Cup Series have taken place at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen New York on the 2 454 mile 3 949 km road course annually since 1986 Since 2018 the 90 lap 221 mile 356 km race has been known as Go Bowling 220 at The Glen for sponsorship reasons 2 In 2021 it was one of seven road courses As of 2022 update it is one of six road course races on the Cup Series schedule Go Bowling 220 at The GlenNASCAR Cup SeriesVenueWatkins Glen InternationalLocationWatkins Glen New York United StatesCorporate sponsorGo Bowling 1 First race1957Distance220 86 miles 355 440 km Laps90Stages 1 2 20 eachFinal stage 50Previous namesThe Glen 101 2 1957 The Glen 151 8 1964 1965 The Budweiser At The Glen 1986 1989 Budweiser At The Glen 1990 1993 The Bud At The Glen 1994 1998 Frontier the Glen 1999 Global Crossing The Glen 2000 2001 Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen 2002 2005 AMD at the Glen 2006 Centurion Boats at the Glen 2007 2008 Heluva Good Sour Cream Dips at The Glen 2009 2011 Finger Lakes 355 at The Glen 2012 Cheez It 355 at the Glen 2013 2016 I Love New York 355 at The Glen 2017 Most wins driver Tony Stewart 5 Most wins team Hendrick Motorsports 11 Most wins manufacturer Chevrolet 22 Circuit informationSurfaceAsphaltLength2 454 mi 3 949 km Turns7William Byron is the defending race winner in 2023 Contents 1 History 2 Past winners 2 1 Notes 2 2 Multiple winners drivers 2 3 Multiple winners teams 2 4 Manufacturer wins 2 5 Sponsor wins 3 Race summaries 4 References 5 External linksHistory editWhen NASCAR returned in 1986 they utilized the 1971 Six Hours course In the 1991 race J D McDuffie was killed in a crash in the Outer Loop at the end of the backstretch Following that crash and another serious crash by IMSA driver Tommy Kendall the Inner Loop bus stop chicane was added just before the Outer Loop NASCAR has since utilized this 2 45 mile 3 94 km short course and has never utilized the Boot as IndyCar and Formula One have Drivers however have been pushing for the use of the full course During a 2011 Mobil Oil Car Swap at Watkins Glen using the course Tony Stewart pushed for using the Grand Prix course after driving demonstration laps in both his Chevrolet Impala and the majority of his laps in a McLaren MP4 23 as part of the event with Lewis Hamilton 3 ESPN broadcast the race from 1986 to 2000 then again in 2007 to 2014 Starting in 2015 current contract NBC had the rights to broadcast the race but the 2015 edition was aired on NBCSN In 2016 the race was put on USA Network because of the 2016 Summer Olympics airing on NBC and NBCSN Beginning in 2017 NBC decided to broadcast this race in the style of radio where various analysts would be placed on the course to report what they see in their section of the track to the viewer In 2015 more than 95 000 people watched the race 4 In 2020 the race was not held due to the COVID 19 pandemic The State of New York was requiring travelers from several states to isolate for 14 days including North Carolina where most of NASCAR s teams are located and Florida where NASCAR s corporate offices are and not giving the series a quarantine waiver to enter the state 5 NASCAR instead held a race on the Daytona International Speedway road course 6 the Go Bowling 235 In 2024 the race is scheduled to moved to September and will be the second race of the round of 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs 7 Past winners editYear Date No Driver Team Manufacturer Sponsor Race distance Race time Average speed mph Report RefLaps Miles km 2 3 miles 3 7 km Layout1957 August 4 87 Buck Baker Buck Baker Chevrolet Oates Motor Company 44 101 2 162 865 1 13 06 83 064 Report 8 1958 1963 Not held1964 July 19 1 Billy Wade Bud Moore Engineering Mercury N A 66 151 8 244 298 1 32 57 97 988 Report 9 1965 July 18 21 Marvin Panch Wood Brothers Racing Ford Harvest Ford 66 151 8 244 298 1 32 46 98 182 Report 10 1966 1985 Not held2 428 miles 3 907 km Layout Pre inner loop chicane 1986 August 10 25 Tim Richmond Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Folgers 90 218 52 351 673 2 12 56 90 463 Report 11 1987 August 10 27 Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac Kodiak 90 218 52 351 673 2 24 36 90 682 Report 12 1988 August 14 26 Ricky Rudd King Racing Buick Quaker State 90 218 52 351 673 2 56 58 74 096 Report 13 1989 August 13 27 Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac Kodiak 90 218 52 351 673 2 26 55 87 242 Report 14 1990 August 12 5 Ricky Rudd Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Levi Garrett 90 218 52 351 673 2 21 49 92 452 Report 15 1991 August 11 4 Ernie Irvan Morgan McClure Motorsports Chevrolet Kodak Film 90 218 52 351 673 2 12 28 98 977 Report 16 2 454 miles 3 949 km Layout with Inner Loop chicane1992 August 9 42 Kyle Petty SABCO Racing Pontiac Mello Yello 51 125 154 201 415 1 27 21 88 980 Report 17 1993 August 8 6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford Valvoline 90 220 5 354 86 2 36 04 84 771 Report 18 1994 August 14 6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford Valvoline Reese s 90 220 5 354 86 2 21 07 93 752 Report 19 1995 August 13 6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford Valvoline 90 220 5 354 86 2 11 54 103 030 Report 20 1996 August 11 7 Geoffrey Bodine Geoff Bodine Racing Ford QVC 90 220 5 354 86 2 23 17 92 334 Report 21 1997 August 10 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet DuPont 90 220 5 354 86 2 24 55 91 294 Report 22 1998 August 9 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet DuPont 90 220 5 354 86 2 20 03 94 466 Report 23 1999 August 15 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet DuPont 90 220 5 354 86 2 30 49 87 722 Report 24 2000 August 13 1 Steve Park Dale Earnhardt Inc Chevrolet Pennzoil 90 220 5 354 86 2 24 51 91 336 Report 25 2001 August 12 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet DuPont 90 220 5 354 86 2 28 31 89 081 Report 26 2002 August 11 20 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac The Home Depot 90 220 5 354 86 2 40 56 82 208 Report 27 2003 August 10 31 Robby Gordon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet Cingular Wireless FDNY USA Special Olympics 90 220 5 354 86 2 26 17 90 441 Report 28 2004 August 15 20 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet The Home Depot 90 220 5 354 86 2 23 25 92 249 Report 29 2005 August 14 20 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet The Home Depot 92 225 4 362 746 2 35 48 86 804 Report 30 2006 August 13 29 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet GM Goodwrench 90 220 5 354 86 2 52 27 76 718 Report 31 2007 August 12 20 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet The Home Depot 90 220 5 354 86 2 50 38 77 535 Report 32 2008 August 10 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota M amp M s 90 220 5 354 86 2 16 11 97 148 Report 33 2009 August 10 14 Tony Stewart Stewart Haas Racing Chevrolet Old Spice Office Depot 90 220 5 354 86 2 26 31 90 297 Report 34 2010 August 8 42 Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet Target 90 220 5 354 86 2 23 52 91 960 Report 35 2011 August 15 9 Marcos Ambrose Richard Petty Motorsports Ford Stanley DeWalt 92 225 4 362 746 2 16 02 99 417 Report 36 2012 August 12 9 Marcos Ambrose Richard Petty Motorsports Ford Stanley DeWalt 90 220 5 354 86 2 14 48 98 145 Report 37 2013 August 11 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota M amp M s 90 220 5 354 86 2 32 04 87 001 Report 38 2014 August 10 47 A J Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet Scott Kingsford 90 220 5 354 86 2 26 48 90 123 Report 39 2015 August 9 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford Shell Pennzoil 90 220 5 354 86 2 24 43 91 42 Report 40 2016 August 7 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota FedEx Freight 90 220 5 354 86 2 27 48 89 513 Report 41 2017 August 6 78 Martin Truex Jr Furniture Row Racing Toyota Furniture Row Denver Mattress 90 220 5 354 86 2 07 03 104 132 Report 42 2018 August 5 9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Sun Energy 1 90 220 5 354 86 2 13 44 98 928 Report 43 2019 August 4 9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet NAPA Auto Parts 90 220 5 354 86 2 14 17 98 523 Report 44 2020 August 16 Moved to Daytona road course due to COVID 19 pandemic 5 2021 August 8 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet HendrickCars com 90 220 5 354 86 2 10 57 101 031 Report 45 2022 August 21 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet HendrickCars com 90 220 5 354 86 2 17 52 95 962 Report 46 2023 August 20 24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Valvoline 90 220 5 354 86 1 58 44 111 426 Report 47 Notes edit 1987 2009 amp 2011 Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain 1992 Race shortened due to rain 2005 amp 2011 Race extended due to NASCAR Overtime 2020 Race canceled and moved to the Daytona road course due to quarantine requirements in New York associated with the COVID 19 pandemic 2023 Fastest race in the Modern Era of NASCAR race must go the advertised distance taking just 1 hour 58 minutes and 44 seconds to complete Multiple winners drivers edit of wins Driver Years won5 Tony Stewart 2002 2004 2005 2007 20094 Jeff Gordon 1997 1999 20013 Mark Martin 1993 1994 19952 Rusty Wallace 1987 1989Ricky Rudd 1988 1990Marcos Ambrose 2011 2012Kyle Busch 2008 2013Chase Elliott 2018 2019Kyle Larson 2021 2022Multiple winners teams edit of wins Team Years won11 Hendrick Motorsports 1986 1990 1997 1999 2001 2018 2019 2021 20237 Joe Gibbs Racing 2002 2004 2005 2007 2008 2013 20163 Roush Racing 1993 19952 Blue Max Racing 1987 1989Richard Childress Racing 2003 2006Richard Petty Motorsports 2011 2012Manufacturer wins edit of wins Manufacturer Years won22 Chevrolet 1957 1986 1990 1991 1997 2001 2003 2007 2009 2010 2014 2018 2019 2021 20238 Ford 1965 1993 1996 2011 2012 20154 Pontiac 1987 1989 1992 2002Toyota 2008 2013 2016 20171 Mercury 1964Buick 1988Sponsor wins edit of wins Sponsor Years won4 DuPont 1997 1999 2001The Home Depot 2002 2004 2005 2007Valvoline 1993 1995 20232 Kodiak 1987 1989Pennzoil 2000 2015M amp M s 2008 2013Stanley 2011 2012DeWalt 2011 2012HendrickCars com 2021 2022Race summaries edit1986 The true inaugural running of this race resulted in Geoff Bodine leading the most laps Tim Richmond won the race after Bodine made too long of a pit stop with less than 10 laps to go 1989 On the day that Tim Richmond who in 1986 won the first Budweiser at the Glen race since NASCAR returned to Watkins Glen lost his battle with AIDS eventual 1989 Winston Cup champion Rusty Wallace became the first driver to win this race a second time Wallace having previously won in 1987 1991 Ernie Irvan won the race but the race was overshadowed by the death of NASCAR pioneer J D McDuffie during a crash on lap 5 Also during this race Richard Petty collected his final Top 10 finish coming in 9th 1992 Rain pushed back the start of the race more than three hours and with rain expected to move back into the area teams expected the race to be a sprint to the halfway point Kyle Petty won a heated battle for the lead with Ernie Irvan between laps 32 36 After a caution the race was restarted on lap 44 one lap before the halfway point Petty brushed off then leader Dick Trickle on lap 45 and on lap 46 the skies opened After five laps under caution the race was red flagged with Petty declared the winner 1992 would be the only season Kyle Petty won multiple races 1995 Wally Dallenbach Jr appeared to have had the win wrapped up but a caution with 9 laps to go resulted in him being passed by former teammate Mark Martin on a final restart 1996 Two weeks after suffering a broken collarbone and sternum in a crash at Talladega and one week after stepping out of the car at Indianapolis Dale Earnhardt won the pole position with a track record of 120 733 mph Earnhardt was quoted as saying It hurt so good Earnhardt led 54 laps but Geoff Bodine stole the victory when he short pitted on his final stop Bodine pitted early and with newer tires made up track position while everyone else pitted to hold the lead It was Earnhardt s final career pole and Bodine s final career win 1999 Jeff Gordon started on pole led the most laps and held off Ron Fellows for the win 2000 After Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart tangled early Jeff Gordon s hopes to win two consecutive Watkins Glen races ended Steve Park won his first Cup series race 2001 Jeff Gordon got redemption from his 2000 heartbreak by winning the race Road expert Robby Gordon led the most laps and had the winning car but a pit road fire ended his hopes for his first Cup series victory 2002 A week after nearly being fired by his team for an incident in the Brickyard 400 Tony Stewart led the most laps alongside Robby Gordon and won the race The race ended in controversy because it was discovered that Stewart had jumped the final restart 2004 A very sick Tony Stewart gutted through a sinus infection food poisoning and stomach pains and held off Ron Fellows to win the race 2007 Jeff Gordon led the most laps but spun out with 2 laps to go handing the win to Stewart 2008 Michael McDowell punted David Gilliland into the barriers on the frontstretch and caused a huge melee including Sam Hornish Jr hitting the sand barriers and Bobby Labonte hitting the armco hard and going to the hospital for a hand injury Gilliland got hit by other cars 3 times A total of 9 cars were involved including Dave Blaney Reed Sorenson Michael Waltrip Max Papis and Joe Nemechek Kyle Busch won the race the 8th and final win of his 2008 campaign 2009 Tony Stewart won his record 5th Watkins Glen race The race was marred by a huge accident involving Sam Hornish Jr Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton Kasey Kahne was racing with Hornish out of turn 9 where Kasey got loose and got into Hornish sending Hornish into the tire barriers Hornish shot back across the track right in front of Jeff Gordon which sent Gordon into the Armco barrier head on Hornish s fuel cell came out of his car from Gordon s impact Hornish was then hit again by Jeff Burton which nearly sent Hornish on his side Other cars including Joey Logano and Andy Lally were involved for running over debris 2010 Juan Pablo Montoya ended a 113 race winless streak and won in dominating fashion beating Marcos Ambrose for the win thus making him the first foreign born driver to win multiple NASCAR Cup races 2011 Marcos Ambrose s first career Cup series victory over Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch David Reutimann flipped over violently after hitting the armco barrier head on into the fence after contact from Boris Said and David Ragan 2012 Oil that dropped on the track by Bobby Labonte led to a dramatic finish as a caution was not called Leader Kyle Busch lost control and spun off the bumper of Brad Keselowski in the Esses on the final lap leaving Keselowski and Ambrose to battle both each other and the adverse track conditions banging off of and passing each other several times during the lap They even went through the grass at one point Ambrose won the race after Keselowski got loose in the oil off turn eleven and backed out of the throttle 2014 A J Allmendinger won his first Cup victory after a lengthy marathon that included two red flags for track repair caused by serious accidents the first for a severe accident in which Ryan Newman and Michael McDowell crashed in the exit to turn 5 which saw McDowell s rear wheel housing break off and puncture a hole in the Armco barriers and a second one caused by Denny Hamlin crashing into the gravel barrels at the entrance to pit road 2015 An accordion wreck happened on the front stretch fluid was on the track which led to a nine minute three second red flag to facilitate cleanup on the track A J Allmendinger s car lost power and came to a stop past turn 10 Joey Logano took advantage of fuel problems for Kevin Harvick and won his first NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen and second of the season 2016 Denny Hamlin passed Martin Truex Jr late in the race to win his first road course victory and avenging his 2007 runner up at the Glen On the final lap Truex got spun by Brad Keselowski and finished 8th while Kyle Larson expressed discontent with A J Allmendinger for spinning him on the final lap as well Truex and Larson both voiced their displeasure with their adversaries through slight contact with Keselowski amp Allmendinger after the race ended during the cool down lap 2017 Martin Truex Jr overcame adversity from the race last year by winning over Matt Kenseth and Clint Bowyer while saving fuel The race was run in just over two hours the shortest race by time in the Modern Era at the time 2018 Chase Elliott earned his first Cup Series win after holding off Martin Truex Jr the defending winner Truex Jr s No 78 ran out of fuel on the last lap while behind Elliott and he managed to hold on to 2nd place 2019 Elliott won his second race in a row at the track again beating Truex Jr 2021 No race was held in 2020 but Truex led the most laps in the 2021 edition However he finished third to Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott 2022 Elliott and Larson started up front but the first part of the race was run under wet track conditions After halfway Elliott and Larson drove away from third place Michael McDowell Larson took the lead after contact with Elliott on a late restart to take the win relegating Elliott to fourth References edit Watkins Glen International Go Bowling announce striking partnership Watkins Glen International January 18 2018 Archived from the original on January 20 2021 Retrieved January 22 2020 Uncommonly calm race at The Glen could shape 16 driver Chase field Fox Sports Tom Jensen Aug 9 2015 Stewart We should run the long course Archived December 30 2013 at the Wayback Machine Racer Magazine June 15 2011 Record crowd flocked to Cheez It 355 at The Glen Star Gazette Ron Levanduski August 11 2015 a b Bove Matt July 8 2020 Watkins Glen NASCAR race canceled due to COVID 19 travel restrictions WKBW Retrieved December 30 2021 Revised schedule features Daytona road course SaltWire Network Reuters July 9 2020 Retrieved December 30 2021 https www nascar com news media 2023 10 04 nascar reveals 2024 cup schedule as atlanta watkins glen move to playoffs 1957 The Glen 101 2 Racing Reference Retrieved December 30 2021 1964 The Glen 151 8 Racing Reference Retrieved 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