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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Sparks 300

Talladega Superspeedway

October 2nd, 2021

Race #28 of the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 113
- Shortened to 107 laps
Miles Raced : 284.6
Time of Race : 02 Hours 04 minutes 55 seconds
Average Speed: 128.486 mph
Margin of Victory : Under caution
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 21
Lead Changes: 33

Brandon Brown celebrates in winning at Talladega Superspeedway — Talladega, Alabama - October 2nd, 2021: Brandon Brown, driver of the #68 The Original Larry's Hard Lemonade Chevrolet, celebrates in the Ruoff Mortgage victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Sparks 300 at Talladega Superspeedway. Photo by Chris Graythen | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Brandon Brown	19	8	5	1	1	25	11.2	+18	244	242	+2	156	0	79.4%	8	107	94.3	40
Brandon Jones	7	15	1	2	1	29	9.6	+5	209	195	+14	140	2	82.2%	12	107	91.0	38
Justin Allgaier	1	3	2	3	1	33	7.6	-2	265	273	-8	207	1	93.5%	7	107	99.3	44
Daniel Hemric	6	20	3	4	2	27	7.6	+2	209	215	-6	171	1	94.4%	0	107	101.2	34
Jordan Anderson	29	21	8	5	2	32	18.0	+24	168	152	+16	74	1	30.8%	0	107	79.5	0
Justin Haley	8	2	4	6	2	40	17.7	+2	189	175	+14	133	5	61.7%	0	107	74.4	34
Jeb Burton	14	13	7	7	1	21	7.6	+7	221	209	+12	201	4	97.2%	7	107	100.5	44
Austin Cindric	2	5	10	8	1	23	6.0	-6	208	224	-16	173	3	96.3%	10	107	108.5	38
Josh Berry	3	18	12	9	1	34	11.5	-6	249	238	+11	162	7	73.8%	3	107	89.9	28
Joe Graf Jr	40	30	13	10	1	40	26.2	+30	142	123	+19	32	2	15.0%	1	107	71.9	27
Ryan Sieg	17	14	14	11	7	34	17.7	+6	173	184	-11	98	2	44.9%	0	107	69.6	26
Jade Buford	26	10	6	12	4	27	15.2	+14	191	196	-5	83	4	49.5%	0	107	79.5	25
Blaine Perkins	23	12	23	13	1	34	13.6	+10	252	225	+27	139	2	58.9%	2	107	81.9	36
Josh Williams	24	19	17	14	8	34	19.3	+10	124	137	-13	25	5	16.8%	0	107	67.7	23
Joey Gase	39	26	21	15	11	39	27.7	+24	115	107	+8	11	1	7.5%	0	107	53.7	22
JJ Yeley	38	27	22	16	10	38	24.9	+22	119	120	-1	6	0	1.9%	0	107	59.8	21
Santino Ferrucci	33	17	26	17	9	36	25.2	+16	83	101	-18	1	2	5.6%	0	107	66.1	20
Tommy Joe Martins	18	23	16	18	14	36	23.3	+0	110	135	-25	6	6	2.8%	0	107	65.1	19
Garrett Smithley	35	22	24	19	13	35	23.2	+16	96	114	-18	8	1	1.9%	0	107	56.0	18
Kyle Weatherman	25	28	25	20	2	36	28.1	+5	69	67	+2	3	0	5.6%	0	107	43.0	17
Alex Labbe	32	29	18	21	1	34	22.7	+11	111	104	+7	5	6	5.6%	1	107	66.8	16
John Hunter Nemechek	11	4	11	22	1	31	9.2	-11	230	243	-13	184	3	89.7%	8	107	79.3	0
Matt Mills	30	36	27	23	23	36	32.2	+7	31	18	+13	0	0	0.0%	0	106	35.5	14
Jeremy Clements	15	11	29	24	2	34	20.1	-9	128	158	-30	64	1	29.0%	0	104	69.9	13
Harrison Burton	9	7	9	25	1	25	9.7	-16	250	267	-17	197	2	85.1%	2	101	75.2	22
Brett Moffitt	16	16	15	26	1	35	12.0	-10	285	247	+38	210	2	79.4%	3	101	82.6	20
Riley Herbst	13	1	20	27	1	25	9.3	-14	205	201	+4	154	3	75.7%	26	101	88.6	25
Jason A White	34	34	19	28	4	39	30.6	+6	69	50	+19	3	1	5.6%	0	101	35.4	9
Jeffrey Earnhardt	31	24	28	29	6	32	24.6	+2	108	112	-4	4	4	0.9%	0	93	59.3	8
Noah Gragson	4	9	30	30	1	32	12.3	-26	196	199	-3	151	2	74.8%	8	88	94.6	8
Myatt Snider	10	6	31	31	3	23	13.8	-21	212	220	-8	175	1	71.0%	0	88	81.7	11
Caesar Bacarella	37	25	32	32	4	38	31.0	+5	96	104	-8	3	0	0.9%	0	88	47.2	5
Ryan Vargas	22	33	33	33	2	35	28.6	-11	88	99	-11	5	0	4.7%	0	88	57.8	4
CJ McLaughlin	36	35	34	34	3	39	31.5	+2	71	47	+24	3	2	5.6%	0	88	46.6	3
Mason Massey	27	32	35	35	1	37	29.4	-8	79	42	+37	3	0	7.5%	4	88	53.1	2
Bayley Currey	20	31	36	36	1	36	28.8	-16	61	72	-11	6	1	4.7%	2	73	59.9	0
Landon Cassill	21	37	37	37	18	37	30.4	-16	10	28	-18	0	0	0.0%	0	50	42.3	1
Sam Mayer	12	38	38	38	6	19	32.5	-26	91	96	-5	70	2	17.8%	0	24	51.8	1
AJ Allmendinger	5	39	39	39	1	13	31.4	-34	66	76	-10	61	0	22.4%	3	24	69.3	1
David Starr	28	40	40	40	22	40	39.2	-12	11	24	-13	0	0	0.0%	0	20	23.2	1

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Race Fast Facts

Talladega Superspeedway
2nd Annual Sparks 300 at Talladega
Race Winner: Brandon Brown
Age: 28
Team : No. 68 - Original Larry's Hard Lemonade Chevrolet
Owner: Jerry Brown
Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
Brandon Brown won the 2nd Annual Sparks 300 at Talladega, his first victory in 115 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in six races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Brandon Jones (second) posted his third top-10 finish in nine races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his 15th top-10 finish in 2021.
Justin Allgaier (third) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 14 races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Josh Berry (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Cindric leads the point standings by 22 points over Justin Allgaier.

Race Recap

As darkness falls on Talladega, Brandon Brown gets breakthrough NASCAR Xfinity win

October 2nd, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

As he crossed the finish line under caution on a dark race track, Brandon Brown surrendered to the emotion of his first victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. "Thank God," Brown exulted. "We did it. We did it. We won!"

On a day of unexpected victories at Talladega Superspeedway—a track where the unexpected sometimes seems commonplace—Brown had a narrow lead three-wide with Justin Allgaier and Brandon Jones at the previous scoring loop when NASCAR called the fifth caution of the race on Lap 102 for a multicar wreck in Turn 4.

With darkness preventing the resumption of the race, NASCAR showed the checkered flag to Brown under yellow on Lap 107 of a scheduled 113, with Jones credited with second and Allgaier third.

Brown's excitement hadn't abated one iota by the time he got to Victory Lane.

"You can ask my neighbors at Coastal Carolina, I did plenty of burnouts to practice for this moment," said Brown, who drives for his family-owned team, Brandonbilt Motorsports. "Oh, my god. It's a dream come true. A Talladega winner. Oh my god, Dad, we did it!

"This is everything we hoped and dreamed for. Everything I've ever wanted to do is take the trophy home to Mom and Dad. Oh, my god. Thank you so much Larry's Lemonaid…all of our partners. It's unbelievable."

Brown was a keen student of the action during the first two stages of the race, won by John Hunter Nemechek and Blaine Perkins. He noticed major changes in momentum between the top and bottom lanes at the 2.66-mile track.

"Everything shifted top to bottom so much, it was like, 'OK, let's just stay patient where we're at and hope for the best'," Brown said. "We saw our moment and we seized it. God, I'm just so proud of Brandonbilt Motorsports and so proud of our team, here and at home and everyone that worked on our team since the beginning.

"We did it. We did it. We did it."

Brown, Jones and Allgaier were trading the lead three-wide when the No. 20 Toyota of Harrison Burton broke loose in Turn 4 and ignited an eight-car crash that slowed the race for the final time.

Daniel Hemric finished fourth, followed by Jordan Anderson, Justin Haley, Jeb Burton and defending series champion Austin Cindric, who clinched a spot in the Round of 8 in the Xfinity Playoff with an insurmountable points edge over ninth-place Jeb Burton.

On the final lap of the first stage, the cars of Sam Mayer and regular-season champion AJ Allmendinger collided in Turn 3, demolishing both vehicles. The No. 8 JR Motorsports Chevrolet of Mayer slammed the outside wall so heavily that NASCAR had to red-flag the race for repairs to the SAFER barrier.

Allmendinger took a heavy hit in the points, but he's still 33 above the cut line heading to next Saturday's Round of 12 elimination race at the Charlotte Roval, a track where he is expected to excel.v"That's why you work so hard during the regular season to build up bonus points," Allmendinger said after a trip to the infield care center. "We'll see where it puts us going into the Roval. It's a minor setback in a great year."

If Allmendinger's setback was minor, the hit Noah Gragson suffered in a Lap 88 wreck was a major one. Gragson was running at the front of the field in the inside lane when slight contact from Jeb Burton's Chevrolet to the left rear of Brett Moffitt's Camaro—after Moffitt's car had gotten loose—triggered the first major wreck of the event.

Moffitt's Chevy slid down the track into Gragson's No. 9 Camaro, which rocketed nose-first into the outside wall. As Gragson slipped back down the track, Myatt Snider—with nowhere to go—plowed into the rear of Gragson's car.

Like Allmendinger, Gragson suffered a significant blow in the standings but remained 18 points above the current cut line for the Round of 8.

"The 02 (Moffitt) just got turned by the 10 (Burton), and I got it head-on and got cleaned out by the 2 (Snider)," Gragson said. "So, just a bummer. We had a fast car."

Brown's victory was the nightcap—literally—of a Playoff doubleheader with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Earlier on Saturday, Tate Fogleman secured his first Truck Series win in the Chevrolet Silverado 250.