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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Food City 300

Bristol Motor Speedway

September 15th, 2023

Race #27 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 300
Miles Raced : 159.9
Time of Race : 01 Hours 52 minutes 11 seconds
Average Speed: 85.521 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.695 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 48
Lead Changes: 8

Justin Allgaier celebrates with his daughter in victory lane — Bristol, Tennessee - September 15th, 2023: Justin Allgaier, driver of the #7 BRANDT Chevrolet, celebrates with his daughter, Harper Allgaier in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | 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
Justin Allgaier	10	1	5	1	1	14	2.7	+9	58	35	+23	57	63	100.0%	110	300	138.8	59
Daniel Hemric	5	13	1	2	1	15	8.9	+3	66	71	-5	66	6	100.0%	33	300	103.3	39
John Hunter Nemechek	3	3	2	3	1	9	4.1	+0	34	30	+4	34	18	100.0%	1	300	116.0	46
Cole Custer	1	2	3	4	1	10	2.9	-3	42	34	+8	41	28	100.0%	109	300	130.0	52
Chandler Smith	4	15	6	5	1	15	7.1	-1	61	67	-6	61	3	100.0%	0	300	100.9	39
Ryan Sieg	7	14	7	6	2	16	9.6	+1	70	67	+3	69	4	99.7%	0	300	97.3	31
Trevor Bayne	12	10	8	7	2	12	6.6	+5	53	44	+9	52	4	100.0%	0	300	103.9	42
Riley Herbst	16	12	9	8	4	35	11.6	+8	100	82	+18	77	9	80.3%	0	300	86.5	32
Sammy Smith	6	5	11	9	3	16	7.5	-3	72	80	-8	71	10	99.0%	0	300	98.2	29
Kaz Grala	31	24	13	10	10	36	22.7	+21	36	30	+6	6	1	24.3%	0	300	75.2	27
Sheldon Creed	21	18	12	11	8	24	16.0	+10	51	40	+11	28	1	44.3%	0	300	80.4	26
Derek Kraus	18	20	10	12	6	36	19.3	+6	52	36	+16	18	0	31.0%	0	300	73.3	25
Jeb Burton	38	9	14	13	4	38	17.6	+25	42	38	+4	13	2	41.7%	0	300	66.1	24
Connor Mosack	29	26	16	14	14	33	23.6	+15	40	33	+7	3	0	10.0%	0	300	53.7	23
Parker Retzlaff	14	16	15	15	4	17	14.2	-1	28	40	-12	25	0	67.3%	0	299	72.0	22
Brett Moffitt	36	22	17	16	16	36	24.8	+20	49	35	+14	0	3	0.0%	0	299	48.7	21
Rajah Caruth	25	19	18	17	17	26	20.6	+8	21	18	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	298	55.5	0
Ryan Ellis	22	21	19	18	17	29	22.1	+4	18	29	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	298	48.5	19
Stefan Parsons	35	31	20	19	19	37	28.8	+16	23	20	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	298	41.2	18
Josh Williams	20	27	21	20	14	34	24.2	+0	38	35	+3	3	0	2.7%	0	298	58.2	17
Kyle Sieg	27	30	22	21	20	33	26.7	+6	52	47	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	298	48.5	16
Brennan Poole	28	29	23	22	22	33	26.4	+6	31	39	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	297	46.2	15
Kyle Weatherman	30	28	24	23	22	30	25.4	+7	36	37	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	297	49.5	14
Jeremy Clements	9	34	25	24	9	38	28.8	-15	34	53	-19	2	20	10.7%	0	297	59.3	13
Anthony Alfredo	32	23	26	25	17	38	26.8	+7	41	32	+9	0	4	0.0%	0	296	46.6	12
Joe Graf Jr	19	32	27	26	16	32	24.8	-7	41	38	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	295	55.2	11
Josh Bilicki	24	25	28	27	16	28	21.7	-3	22	34	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	294	48.7	10
Blaine Perkins	33	35	29	28	28	37	33.1	+5	16	19	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	294	30.8	9
Chad Finchum	23	33	30	29	23	35	32.2	-6	22	28	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	276	34.7	8
Dale Earnhardt Jr	15	7	4	30	1	16	8.3	-15	38	49	-11	38	34	89.3%	47	271	96.6	16
Parker Kligerman	13	36	33	31	7	36	22.9	-18	26	42	-16	23	2	47.0%	0	246	60.0	10
Jeffrey Earnhardt	17	17	31	32	4	26	18.6	-15	30	54	-24	19	0	39.3%	0	229	60.5	6
Austin Hill	26	6	32	33	3	26	17.8	-7	49	41	+8	35	6	47.0%	0	217	66.7	12
Brandon Jones	8	8	34	34	2	33	17.5	-26	24	24	+0	24	16	55.3%	0	178	87.5	11
Sam Mayer	11	11	35	35	8	14	20.6	-24	32	25	+7	32	8	55.7%	0	166	70.9	5
Josh Berry	2	4	36	36	2	15	22.4	-34	21	29	-8	21	2	55.3%	0	166	63.9	1
BJ McLeod	37	37	37	37	37	38	37.2	+0	2	4	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	117	23.7	1
Timmy Hill	34	38	38	38	24	34	35.2	-4	27	36	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	81	31.5	0

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway
Food City 300
Race Winner: Justin Allgaier
Age: 37
Team : No. 7 - BRANDT Chevrolet
Owner: Kelley Earnhardt-Miller
Crew Chief: James Pohlman
Justin Allgaier won the Food City 300, his 22nd victory in 432 Xfinity Series races.
This is his third victory and 16th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his second victory and 15th top-10 finish in 23 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Daniel Hemric (second) posted his sixth top-10 finish in eight races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2023.
John Hunter Nemechek (third) posted his third top-10 finish in four races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Chandler Smith (fifth) was the highest finishing rookie.
John Hunter Nemechek leads the point standings by 10 points over Justin Allgaier.

Race Recap

Pit strategy propels Justin Allgaier to NASCAR Xfinity Playoff victory at Bristol

September 15th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

On an ambivalent night for JR Motorsports, Justin Allgaier took advantage of a brilliant strategic call by crew chief Jim Pohlman to win Friday night’s Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the first event in the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs.

Charging from 13^th after restart on Lap 257 of 300, Allgaier passed Daniel Hemric for the lead on Lap 288 and pulled away to win by 1.695 seconds, securing a spot in the Round of 8 of the Playoffs.

Allgaier also broke news in Victory Lane, announcing off the cuff that he had re-signed for another season with JR Motorsports.

That was the good news. In a rare appearance as a driver team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. led 47 laps before pulling off the track on lap 271 with a fireball in his car licking at his firesuit. Earnhardt made a quick exit and finished 30^th.

And that was after three JR Motorsports cars were eliminated from the race in the same wreck.

Without hesitation, Pohlman called Allgaier to the pits when Josh Bilicki’s spin in Turn 1 caused the sixth and final caution on Lap 248. Allgaier rocketed through the field until he caught Hemric, harrying the driver of the No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet until he slipped past with just over 12 laps left.

The victory was Allgaier’s second at the 0.533-mile short track and his first since his initial Xfinity Series win in 2010. Between victories Allgaier led plenty of laps but couldn’t return to Victory Lane—until Friday night.

“This team has done an amazing job at this racetrack since I started at JR Motorsports,” Allgaier said. “We led a lot of laps, and the monkey was definitely on our back. The pit strategy there… coming down pit road by myself was nerve-wracking, right?

“I’m speechless, man. This place, Jim Pohlman and I circled this place on our calendar when we started the year, before we ever even took a green flag lap, we said we want to win Bristol. Man, we won Bristol! It’s Bristol, baby—let’s go!”

The victory was Allgaier’s third of the season and 22^nd of his career.

Hemric floundered early in the race until the top lane came in. Then his car came to life.

“We just enough race car there that once the top came in, I was going to live by it,” Hemric said. “I thought it would be OK. I thought if I could hold the 7 (Allgaier) off to get to that next group of traffic maybe I’d have a chance to at least race him down in the last five or 10 laps.

“Yeah, the tires were just too much there. Him and Dale Jr. had the best cars all night. So yeah, proud of this group. We definitely stole a finish tonight but came a long way through traffic.”

Playoff drivers John Hunter Nemechek, Cole Custer and Chandler Smith finished third through fifth, respectively. Custer led 109 laps, one fewer than Allgaier.

A four-car wreck in Turn 1 on Lap 167 sidelined three JR Motorsports cars, two of them driven by Playoff contenders Josh Berry and Sam Mayer. After slight side-to-side contact with the No. 1 Chevrolet of Mayer, Berry’s No. 8 Chevy cut a right front tire and turned up the track into Mayer, knocking him into the outside wall.

Running behind his JR Motorsports teammates, Brandon Jones also was collected in the wreck, as was the No. 39 Ford of Ryan Sieg.

Those weren’t the only teammates who ran afoul of each other. On Lap 217, Sheldon Creed clipped regular-season winner Austin Hill just short of the start/finish line. Out of control, Hill’s Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet bounced off the inside wall and nosed into the outside SAFER barrier in Turn 1. Hill was unable to continue.

Hill finished 33^rd. Creed came home 11^th.

As if that weren’t enough drama, Earnhardt ran in or near the lead until his car began to smoke with 30 laps left.

“The shifter tunnel column was on fire,” Earnhardt explained. “I saw some smoke in the car, and I felt that I was like, ‘Hopefully that’s not me,’ but it was. That last lap, I saw a big fireball down in the tunnel of the car and I felt it.

“Obviously, my uniform was burning up. I was like, ‘I can’t keep going. I got to stop.’ And usually when you stop the fire gets bigger.

“So I pulled over by the pit stall and some of the guys were pretty alert, and they helped me out. We were going to finish with a top 10, maybe top five. We had a shot at winning it, if the car was going to run good at the end.”

Mayer, Berry, Parker Kligerman (who lost 53 laps under repairs in the garage) and Jeb Burton (who started from the rear in a backup car and finished 13^th) all dropped below the cut line for the Round of 8 as the series heads for the second Round of 12 Playoff race Sept. 23 at Texas Motor Speedway.