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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200

Darlington Raceway

September 2nd, 2023

Race #25 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 147
- Extended to 148 laps
Miles Raced : 202.2
Time of Race : 01 Hours 53 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 106.826 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.657 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 34
Lead Changes: 15

Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson race — Darlington, South Carolina - September 2nd, 2023: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #19 Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway. 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
Denny Hamlin	2	5	1	1	1	22	3.7	+1	19	8	+11	18	21	98.7%	14	148	131.6	0
Austin Hill	9	2	2	2	1	10	3.6	+7	20	15	+5	19	10	100.0%	29	148	120.5	49
John Hunter Nemechek	1	1	3	3	1	23	2.2	-2	9	3	+6	8	28	99.3%	99	148	141.5	54
Cole Custer	4	6	4	4	2	14	4.4	+0	18	8	+10	14	5	100.0%	0	148	112.7	44
Josh Berry	7	14	5	5	3	17	9.4	+2	33	24	+9	32	2	98.0%	0	148	94.8	32
Riley Herbst	15	7	6	6	3	24	8.6	+9	35	25	+10	33	1	97.3%	0	148	99.7	34
Justin Allgaier	3	4	12	7	2	20	6.4	-4	17	20	-3	17	3	98.0%	0	148	104.0	43
Sheldon Creed	16	17	11	8	6	21	14.6	+8	30	20	+10	16	1	52.7%	0	148	83.2	29
Kyle Busch	14	12	10	9	7	25	11.0	+5	33	26	+7	30	1	95.3%	0	148	89.8	0
Daniel Hemric	6	11	9	10	4	16	9.2	-4	27	23	+4	27	0	99.3%	0	148	94.3	32
Sam Mayer	5	23	16	11	5	37	20.3	-6	78	21	+57	8	2	21.0%	0	148	73.8	26
Chandler Smith	10	8	7	12	2	18	8.7	-2	30	28	+2	27	2	97.3%	0	148	95.2	31
Parker Retzlaff	19	10	8	13	1	22	12.0	+6	30	33	-3	18	0	64.2%	5	148	82.8	27
Brandon Jones	8	15	15	14	7	32	15.5	-6	42	36	+6	22	1	71.6%	0	148	77.5	23
Corey Heim	17	16	18	15	2	38	19.6	+2	38	57	-19	14	8	49.3%	0	148	79.9	0
Rajah Caruth	22	24	21	16	10	28	22.6	+6	30	31	-1	1	0	2.7%	0	148	58.3	0
Sammy Smith	11	25	22	17	5	38	26.3	-6	45	38	+7	1	5	6.8%	0	148	60.8	20
Jeb Burton	24	13	14	18	13	27	16.3	+6	46	36	+10	14	0	45.3%	0	148	72.5	19
Stefan Parsons	27	29	25	19	7	30	25.8	+8	21	54	-33	0	0	3.4%	0	148	49.8	18
Brennan Poole	31	28	26	20	14	35	27.5	+11	28	30	-2	0	0	0.7%	0	148	48.2	17
Jeremy Clements	26	20	30	21	1	35	22.8	+5	35	22	+13	0	0	2.7%	0	148	61.7	16
Chad Finchum	33	26	24	22	4	33	24.6	+11	19	53	-34	0	0	6.1%	0	148	50.2	15
Ross Chastain	21	19	17	23	12	31	19.4	-2	43	35	+8	6	0	10.1%	0	148	64.0	0
Parker Kligerman	13	9	13	24	5	31	13.5	-11	39	32	+7	17	0	79.7%	0	148	74.7	13
Brett Moffitt	18	27	20	25	11	37	21.2	-7	58	48	+10	7	1	17.6%	0	148	60.7	12
Joe Graf Jr	34	30	29	26	8	34	28.4	+8	26	52	-26	0	0	4.1%	0	148	40.8	11
Matt Mills	32	32	23	27	9	34	27.7	+5	38	44	-6	0	0	2.0%	0	148	44.8	0
Kaz Grala	30	21	19	28	16	31	22.3	+2	29	40	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	148	53.5	9
Ryan Ellis	36	31	28	29	12	36	30.0	+7	18	27	-9	0	0	2.0%	0	148	37.3	8
Ryan Sieg	20	18	31	30	4	32	19.4	-10	27	41	-14	4	0	10.1%	0	148	59.3	7
Kyle Weatherman	28	35	27	31	21	38	32.7	-3	16	19	-3	0	3	0.0%	0	148	40.5	6
Timmy Hill	29	36	32	32	28	38	34.4	-3	6	20	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	148	30.0	0
Anthony Alfredo	23	34	34	33	11	36	29.5	-10	12	17	-5	0	0	0.7%	0	147	39.8	4
Blaine Perkins	35	33	33	34	14	36	32.9	+1	9	21	-12	0	0	0.7%	0	147	30.8	3
Kyle Sieg	25	22	35	35	16	36	26.6	-10	26	30	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	147	44.5	2
Patrick Emerling	38	37	36	36	32	38	35.7	+2	5	5	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	145	26.8	1
Josh Williams	37	38	37	37	31	38	37.0	+0	9	13	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	143	24.5	1
Kyle Larson	12	3	38	38	1	38	15.5	-26	17	4	+13	10	12	63.5%	1	117	89.3	0

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Race Fast Facts

Darlington Raceway
Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 42
Team : No. 19 - Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs
Crew Chief: Jason Ratcliff
Denny Hamlin won the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200, his 18th victory in 164 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his sixth victory and 13th top-10 finish in 15 races at Darlington Raceway.
Austin Hill (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2023.
John Hunter Nemechek (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway.
Chandler Smith (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Hill leads the point standings by 23 points over John Hunter Nemechek.

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin scores sixth win at Darlington in NASCAR Xfinity Series car

September 2nd, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin resumed his NASCAR Xfinity Series mastery of Darlington Raceway on Saturday, winning the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200 to raise his victory total at the track to six.

Hamlin passed series leader Austin Hill after a Lap 147 restart that pushed the race one circuit into overtime. Parker Kligerman’s consequential spin off Sam Mayer’s bumper on Lap 141 brought out the seventh caution of the race and set up the final two-lap shootout.

“I really needed some long runs,” said Hamlin, who led 14 laps and didn’t make his move until the final stage. “But I didn’t really want to show everything that we had till the very end of the race there.

“We really did a good job of maintaining everything that we had.”

Hamlin, who was running his annual Xfinity Series race for Joe Gibbs Racing, picked up his 18^th victory in the series. On Sunday, he starts his quest for the NASCAR Cup Series title in the Playoff-opening Cook Out Southern 500 (6 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

John Hunter Nemechek ran third after leading 99 laps and sweeping the first two stages. Cole Custer was fourth, followed by Josh Berry and Riley Herbst, who passed Parker Kligerman for the final Playoff-eligible position with one race left to decide the postseason field.

Herbst holds a one-point lead over Kligerman, who finished 24^th after contact from Mayer’s No. 1 Chevrolet sent him spinning from the 12^th position with six laps left in regulation.

Kligerman was not pleased with Mayer and said so after the race, especially since the driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet had overcome a slow pit stop and a brush with the outside wall to gain on Herbst.

“To come back from that and have to make a bunch of adjustments, then just get flat run over by the 1 car,” Kligerman said. “It’s so disappointing… He’s got to clean it up.”

Mayer, who finished 11^th, took responsibility for the incident with the concise admission: “I effed up.”

On multiple occasions, Hill took the lead with quick work on pit road but couldn’t hold it through the restarts. Nevertheless, he leaves Darlington with a 23-point lead over Nemechek in the battle for the Xfinity regular-season championship.

“I just need to go back to the drawing board and figure out what I’m doing wrong on the restarts there, because that was really frustrating all day today,” Hill said. “It didn’t matter where I was restarting, I would buzz the tires really bad and just lose track position every time I’d do it.

“So I got to do a better job of that if I’m going to win a championship. All in all, solid for us. That’s kind of something that we’ve been preaching the last six races that if you can’t be first, besecond. If you can’t be second, be third. We were second today, but it still stings a little bit when you want to win.”