Ryan Truex claimed his second NASCAR Xfinity Sequence win of the season – the second of his profession – main the sphere to the yellow and checkered flags on the ultimate lap of extra time in Saturday evening’s Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
With very restricted inexperienced flag runs and the tempo interrupted all evening with incidents, in the end it was an accident among the many front-running automobiles that ended the extra time interval with Truex out entrance as he was so often via the evening.
Operating amongst that entrance group of automobiles, Parker Kligerman’s No. 48 Huge Machine Racing Chevrolet hit the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet pushed by A.J. Allmendinger from behind, sending Allmendinger’s Chevy onerous into the wall bringing out the ultimate warning and ending the evening.
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Truex, 32, the youthful brother of NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Martin Truex Jr., crossed the road simply forward of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chandler Smith within the No. 81 JGR Toyota. Kligerman completed in third place. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst and RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg rounded out the highest 5.
“Oh my gosh, thanks to those followers, it’s so superb to race right here,’’ stated Truex, who’s racing part-time this season however now has two wins in eight begins this season.
“Simply thanks to those guys,’’ Truex, driver of the No. 20 JGR Toyota, stated of his crew. “I don’t get to race that always and I don’t know what I’m going to do subsequent yr. It’s all a piece in progress. Only a nice automobile [tonight].”
The veteran Allmendinger, who was operating second on the time of his final lap accident, completed twenty fourth. A pissed off Kligerman insisted he didn’t imply to wreck Allmendinger particularly as a result of the pair had labored properly collectively all through the race.
“I simply had a run and I needed to go. I felt it was the run I needed to take to place myself on the underside if I used to be going to win this race,’’ Kligerman added. “I like him like a brother; he and I’ve been on this a very long time collectively.”
In some ways, the ending was indicative of the entire night – onerous racing adopted by the type of contact so widespread on the well-known 2.5-mile Daytona excessive banks.
Driver-owner Jordan Anderson, who competes part-time within the sequence and was making solely his fourth begin of yr, completed sixth answering a fourth-place effort within the Daytona season-opener.
Justin Allgaier, who led a race finest 35 laps, was seventh, adopted by Sheldon Creed, Leland Honeyman and Kyle Weatherman.
The factors standings have been majorly affected with season-long chief, the defending NASCAR Xfinity Sequence champion Cole Custer shedding the factors result in JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier, who gained each phases.
Custer had a tough evening, colliding together with his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Herbst on pit highway on the primary pit cease – his No. 00 SHR Ford struggling harm that required consideration the remainder of the race and relegated him to a thirty second place end. Custer, who held a 50-point benefit over Allgaier within the championship simply two races in the past, now trails Allgaier by 33 factors with 5 races remaining to determine the common season champion.
The opposite finish of the present 12-driver Playoff discipline additionally featured loads of vital motion. JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith dropped out of the final Playoff place after being collected in a seven-car accident on lap 26. In the meantime, Sieg’s fifth place end vaulted him contained in the Playoff standings and he sits in that all-important twelfth place place now – 15 factors up on Smith.
One other championship favourite, Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill additionally took a giant hit within the standings – his evening started robust even earlier than the inexperienced flag flew to start out the race. His No. 21 RCR Chevrolet needed to pit for consideration as automobiles have been making tempo laps and as an alternative of beginning on the skin of the entrance row the place he certified, he began from the rear of the sphere.
The precarious place ended up costing Hill instantly as he was collected in a multi-car accident on the very first lap of racing. After pitting all through the evening for repairs he in the end parked the automobile, ending thirty fourth. Now Hill, who gained the opening two races of the season, is ranked fourth – greater than 100 factors behind Allgaier — heading into the ultimate summer season stretch earlier than the Playoffs begin.
The Xfinity Sequence will likely be heading to Darlington Raceway for the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Assist A Hero 200 on Sept. 7 (USA Community, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Denny Hamlin is the defending winner of the race. Justin Allgaier is the latest winner on the observe.
