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William Byron Sets Sights on First Win

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William Byron, driver of the #9 Axalta/Priefert Chevrolet, sits in his car during practice for the NASCAR XFINITY Series My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 7, 2017 in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo – Sarah Crabill/Getty Images

William Byron has always been a quick study. He won four races as a rookie on his way to the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East championship in 2015. Last year, he set the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie record with seven victories. The 19-year-old Charlotte native was also a straight-A student in high school and is finishing up his sophomore year at Liberty University. Continue reading →

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series News and Notes – Friday, April 7, 2017

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After the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ visit to Martinsville Speedway, the series takes a six-week break and hits the track next at Kansas Speedway for the Toyota Tundra 250 on Friday, May 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1.

William Byron is the defending race winner. Matt Crafton (second), Christopher Bell (fourth), Ryan Truex (sixth) and Timothy Peters (eighth) all scored top-ten finishes at Kansas last season. Continue reading →

NASCAR XFINITY Series News and Notes – Friday, March 31, 2017

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NASCAR XFINITY Series teams are on break this weekend and will return to action at Texas Motor Speedway for the My Bariatric Solutions 300 at 1:30 pm ET on Saturday, April 8th.  Television coverage begins at 1 pm ET on FOX with radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Continue reading →

Larson Holds Off Logano for NASCAR XFINITY Win at Auto Club Speedway

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Kyle Larson kept polesitter Joey Logano at bay after a restart with four laps left in Saturday’s Service King 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Auto Club Speedway and held on to win by 0.127 seconds.

Larson and Logano had swapped the lead on three successive laps before Brandon Jones plowed into the outside wall on lap 142 to bring out the seventh and final caution of the afternoon. Continue reading →

Justin Allgaier Perseveres to Win NASCAR XFINITY Race in Phoenix

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Justin Allgaier popped a tire during his celebratory burnout after Saturday’s DC Solar 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.

But you can forgive the driver of the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet if he was a trifle rusty with his donuts—Allgaier hadn’t been to Victory Lane in the NASCAR XFINITY Series since August in 2012 at the road course in Montreal.

On a blistering afternoon that brought emotions to a boil at the one-mile race track in the Sonoran Desert, Allgaier sailed away with a magnificent restart with four laps left and finished 0.741 seconds ahead of runner-up Ryan Blaney, who started 33rd after inspection issues kept him off the grid during qualifying earlier in the day.

“You have no idea how proud I am of you,” Allgaier radioed to his team after he crossed the finish line and broke an 80-race drought.

After climbing from the car, Allgaier began to digest what he had just accomplished, not the least of which was claiming the $100,000 bonus in the first Dash 4 Cash race of the season. The victory was Allgaier’s fourth in the series.

“Last year was tough,” Allgaier said of a winless 2016, his first year with JRM. “We had really good runs all year but we weren’t able to get to Victory Lane. This was the same group of guys we had last year, and to be able to do it here in Phoenix and win the first Xfinity Dash 4 Cash race…

“This is a team effort. We had four really good JR Motorsports hot rods out there.”

In fact, with polesitter William Byron running fourth and series leader Elliott Sadler coming home fifth, JRM put three cars in the top-five and four in the top-nine (with Michael Annett finishing ninth).

With ten laps left, contact from Cole Custer’s Ford sent Austin Dillon’s No. 2 Chevrolet hard into the outside wall, collecting Ryan Sieg’s Chevrolet in the process. After caution flew on lap 191, Dillon rode Custer’s car into the outside wall, earning a summons to the NASCAR hauler for Dillon and crew chief Justin Alexander.

“He over-drove the corner and took us out with it,” Dillon said after exiting the infield care center.

Dillon wasn’t particularly apprehensive about the meeting with NASCAR.

“We’ll probably just have a Coke and discuss things,” he said optimistically.

Custer took full responsibility for the incident.

“It was 100-percent my fault,” said the Sunoco rookie driver. “I got in there too deep, got really loose going in and couldn’t put any wheel into it. That was pretty much it. Just all my fault. Something that won’t happen again. We had a great race leading up to that.

“We didn’t start out at all how we wanted to, but by the end we were probably a fifth- to eighth-place car. I thought that was a really good sign for us. I thought we had a really good Haas Automation Ford.

It’s unfortunate I cost us and the 2 car there.”

Under the circumstances, Custer wasn’t surprised at Dillon’s retaliation.

“It definitely sucks for us points-wise, but I guess you can kind of expect that when he gets taken out,” Custer said. “I can understand how frustrated he is about it. It is what it is. I will try not to have that happen again.”

 

NASCAR XFINITY Series Race – DC Solar 200

Phoenix Raceway

Avondale, Arizona

Saturday, March 18, 2017

  1. (5) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 200.
  2. (33) Ryan Blaney(i), Ford, 200.
  3. (2) Erik Jones(i), Toyota, 200.
  4. (1) William Byron #, Chevrolet, 200.
  5. (6) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 200.
  6. (7) Darrell Wallace Jr., Ford, 200.
  7. (35) Daniel Hemric #, Chevrolet, 200.
  8. (17) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 200.
  9. (12) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 200.
  10. (13) Ty Dillon(i), Chevrolet, 200.
  11. (11) Ryan Reed, Ford, 200.
  12. (8) Matt Tifft #, Toyota, 200.
  13. (4) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 200.
  14. (15) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 200.
  15. (37) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 200.
  16. (18) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 200.
  17. (36) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 200.
  18. (22) Spencer Gallagher #, Chevrolet, 200.
  19. (19) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 200.
  20. (14) Drew Herring, Toyota, 200.
  21. (9) Cole Custer #, Ford, 200.
  22. (38) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 200.
  23. (20) Harrison Rhodes, Chevrolet, 200.
  24. (23) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 200.
  25. (39) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 200.
  26. (31) Timmy Hill, Dodge, 200.
  27. (10) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 199.
  28. (28) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, 198.
  29. (21) Ray Black Jr., Chevrolet, 197.
  30. (24) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 197.
  31. (30) Mike Harmon, Dodge, 197.
  32. (27) David Starr, Chevrolet, 196.
  33. (3) Austin Dillon(i), Chevrolet, Accident, 190.
  34. (16) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, Accident, 189.
  35. (25) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, Accident, 151.
  36. (29) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, Brakes, 33.
  37. (40) Stephen Leicht, Chevrolet, Handling, 24.
  38. (32) Carl Long, Toyota, Rear Gear, 18.
  39. (34) Daniel Suarez(i), Toyota, Accident, 11.
  40. (26) Jordan Anderson(i), Chevrolet, Overheating, 3.

Average Speed of Race Winner:  91.013 mph.

Time of Race:  02 Hrs, 11 Mins, 51 Secs. Margin of Victory:  0.741 Seconds.

Caution Flags:  nine for 55 laps.

Lead Changes:  13 among five drivers.

Lap Leaders:    0; E. Jones(i) 1-19; J. Allgaier 20-28; E. Jones(i) 29-64; A. Dillon(i) 65-81; J. Allgaier 82-109; R. Blaney(i) 110-124; A. Dillon(i) 125-138; J. Allgaier 139-159; M. Tifft # 160-163; E. Jones(i) 164; J. Allgaier 165-172; E. Jones(i) 173-181; J. Allgaier 182-200.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led):  J. Allgaier five times for 85 laps; E. Jones(i) four times for 65 laps; A. Dillon(i) two times for 31 laps; R. Blaney(i) one time for 15 laps; M. Tifft # one time for four laps.

Stage #1 Top-Ten: 20,2,9,22,1,7,6,42,21,11

Stage #2 Top-Ten: 22,7,2,1,20,42,6,48,9,11