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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Wawa 250

Daytona International Speedway

August 25th, 2023

Race #24 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 100
- Extended to 110 laps
Miles Raced : 275.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 12 minutes 14 seconds
Average Speed: 124.779 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.005 seconds
Cautions: 6
Caution Laps: 32
Lead Changes: 20

Austin Hill and Sammy Smith lead the field — Daytona Beach, Florida - August 25th, 2023: Austin Hill, driver of the #21 Bennett/Realtree Chevrolet, and Sammy Smith, driver of the #18 Pilot Flying J Toyota, lead the field during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Wawa 250 powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | 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	12	6	1	1	1	35	15.9	+11	136	123	+13	103	1	60.0%	14	110	86.2	40
Sheldon Creed	2	5	4	2	1	26	3.5	+0	127	130	-3	123	1	98.2%	21	110	123.8	54
Daniel Hemric	6	3	12	3	2	16	7.0	+3	138	133	+5	131	0	99.1%	0	110	109.5	44
Parker Kligerman	5	4	2	4	1	16	6.3	+1	169	177	-8	163	5	97.3%	1	110	106.3	36
Cole Custer	11	12	8	5	1	29	11.8	+6	162	155	+7	131	1	74.6%	1	110	90.9	42
Parker Retzlaff	23	22	3	6	3	37	23.2	+17	114	102	+12	49	4	27.3%	0	110	61.5	30
Ryan Sieg	38	25	21	7	7	38	27.8	+31	54	38	+16	11	3	6.4%	0	110	54.6	31
Anthony Alfredo	20	11	5	8	3	20	9.8	+12	198	184	+14	179	1	94.6%	0	110	100.3	35
Gray Gaulding	33	13	7	9	5	33	19.1	+24	103	92	+11	44	1	35.5%	0	110	68.8	28
Justin Haley	9	30	20	10	3	31	20.4	-1	125	122	+3	86	6	24.6%	0	110	70.3	0
Jeffrey Earnhardt	27	21	13	11	7	35	19.1	+16	76	80	-4	26	1	30.0%	0	110	68.1	26
Jeb Burton	10	14	29	12	2	34	21.3	-2	181	161	+20	131	2	41.8%	0	110	67.7	25
Kyle Sieg	24	28	11	13	10	36	24.3	+11	32	39	-7	2	1	11.8%	0	110	53.3	24
Joey Gase	15	31	28	14	14	37	26.9	+1	23	38	-15	3	1	1.8%	0	110	60.9	23
Jordan Anderson	37	23	18	15	9	38	28.6	+22	45	42	+3	11	6	6.4%	0	110	53.7	22
Garrett Smithley	36	27	19	16	12	36	26.3	+20	16	30	-14	0	3	0.9%	0	110	48.9	21
Josh Berry	13	17	14	17	6	30	15.9	-4	137	136	+1	88	4	32.7%	0	110	76.5	20
Brett Moffitt	22	26	15	18	2	30	17.8	+4	86	76	+10	40	1	34.6%	0	110	74.3	26
Sam Mayer	14	8	22	19	1	24	9.1	-5	176	182	-6	170	3	90.9%	6	110	89.0	20
Kaz Grala	18	19	9	20	7	32	18.9	-2	46	84	-38	22	1	16.4%	0	109	64.3	17
Sammy Smith	3	9	6	21	1	28	9.7	-18	184	196	-12	181	2	88.2%	4	109	88.7	23
Chandler Smith	4	2	24	22	1	28	8.1	-18	126	123	+3	120	1	89.1%	1	109	94.3	24
Austin Hill	1	7	25	23	1	28	5.7	-22	103	103	+0	98	0	87.3%	36	109	107.3	33
Riley Herbst	16	32	30	24	7	38	30.4	-8	17	43	-26	14	1	6.4%	0	108	45.8	13
Blaine Perkins	25	20	16	25	12	34	22.6	+0	39	42	-3	3	1	5.5%	0	108	51.9	12
Jeremy Clements	32	16	17	26	4	32	15.3	+6	95	101	-6	64	2	50.0%	0	104	73.5	14
Josh Williams	21	18	10	27	8	27	18.6	-6	68	66	+2	20	4	19.1%	0	103	64.9	10
John Hunter Nemechek	7	10	26	28	2	26	11.1	-21	202	203	-1	183	4	80.9%	0	103	81.7	14
Trevor Bayne	8	1	23	29	1	23	8.0	-21	146	140	+6	134	0	89.1%	26	103	96.3	13
JJ Yeley	34	15	27	30	9	34	16.7	+4	123	110	+13	65	2	52.7%	0	98	77.0	7
Caesar Bacarella	30	29	31	31	16	36	28.8	-1	9	15	-6	0	1	0.0%	0	92	35.6	6
Ryan Ellis	28	24	32	32	5	34	26.7	-4	24	31	-7	0	0	3.6%	0	91	40.8	5
Kyle Weatherman	19	33	33	33	13	33	27.9	-14	28	33	-5	5	3	10.0%	0	45	55.1	4
Joe Graf Jr	26	34	34	34	15	34	28.8	-8	35	32	+3	3	1	0.0%	0	42	44.9	3
Natalie Decker	35	35	35	35	32	38	35.3	+0	6	6	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	42	24.8	2
Brandon Jones	17	36	36	36	6	28	26.9	-19	72	67	+5	56	2	30.9%	0	41	57.7	6
Connor Mosack	29	37	37	37	11	32	32.2	-8	33	23	+10	13	0	2.7%	0	41	36.5	1
Alex Guenette	31	38	38	38	21	36	35.6	-7	13	11	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	41	25.8	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola
Race Winner: Justin Allgaier
Age: 37
Team : No. 7 - Hellmann's Chevrolet
Owner: Kelley Earnhardt-Miller
Crew Chief: James Pohlman
Justin Allgaier won the Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola, his 21st victory in 429 Xfinity Series races.
This is his second victory and 14th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and 12th top-10 finish in 26 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Sheldon Creed (second) posted his second top-10 finish in five races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
Daniel Hemric (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 11 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Parker Retzlaff (seventh) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Hill leads the point standings by 27 points over Justin Allgaier.

Race Recap

Justin Allgaier wins by inches in wild NASCAR Xfinity race at Daytona

August 25th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Justin Allgaier survived a trip to the rear of the field, a pass-through penalty after the initial start and a war of attrition to win Friday night’s Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway in overtime.

Allgaier didn’t win by much. On the final lap of the two-circuit overtime, Allgaier bumped side-to-side with Sheldon Creed coming to the finish line and beat Creed to the stripe by .005 seconds—approximately 12 inches at the 2.5-mile track.

Allgaier was penalized after his No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet failed pre-qualifying inspection three times on Thursday. He started from the rear of the field and was forced to serve a pass-through penalty with four other cars after the first lap.

But Allgaier, who won at Daytona for the first time after two runner-up finishes in 25 previous starts at the speedway, stayed on the lead lap for the first stage, and vaulted into the third position with a fuel-only pit stop during the break after Stage 2.

“I’ve been coming to this place for a long time,” said Allgaier, who won for the second time this season and the 21st time in his career. “I wanted to win here so bad—we’ve been so close. I just can’t say enough about (crew chief) Jim Pohlman and everybody on this 7 team.

“We had an oversight yesterday when we brought a car to the track and put it through inspection, and it wasn’t where we wanted… and that cost us a pass-through, but the team never quit, never gave up and we rallied, and obviously we put ourselves in a good position. The strategy was awesome.”

Allgaier’s battle with Creed followed a massive wreck in Turn 3 that sent the race to overtime.

A late block attempt by Trevor Bayne moments after a restart on Lap 99 of 100 robbed many contenders for the win. Bayne shared the front row with Allgaier for the restart. Running behind Bayne in the top lane, Austin Hill made a bold move to the outside, and Bayne moved up to cover, perhaps with Hill’s car dragging his bumper to the right.

Bayne turned into the outside wall, and chaos reigned behind him. All told, nine cars were involved, including those of John Hunter Nemechek and Josh Berry.

That set up the two-lap shootout, with Allgaier prevailing by the smallest of margins.

“Another great run for us—my best speedway race,” said Creed, who is still seeking his first Xfinity Series win. “I hated speedway racing two years ago. My teammate (Hill) was kicking my butt at it, and I had to get it together, right?

“So asking him questions, just trying to learn and watch and get better at this stuff because speedway racing is so hard mentally. It’s probably harder than any kind of racing mentally, just knowing where to go and what moves to make.”

Daniel Hemric ran third, followed by Parker Kligerman who moved into the final Playoff-eligible position in the standings with two races left before the Xfinity Playoffs begin.

Cole Custer was fifth, followed by Ryan Sieg, Parker Retzlaff, Alfredo, Gray Gaulding and Justin Haley.

As Hill was taking the green/checkered flag to win the 30-lap first stage, Riley Herbst’s left front tire exploded and obliterated the fender above it. Herbst brought the severely damaged No. 98 Ford to pit road where his crew effected repairs and beat the damaged vehicle policy clock.

Herbst, who had complained of steering issues before the tire blew, rejoined the field three laps down. The diagnosis? The top bolt had backed out of the steering box on the No. 98 Stewart-Haas Ford. That problem was solved, and Herbst continued—without a left-front quarterpanel.

Herbst benefited from late-race attrition to finish 24^th, but he fell out of the top 12 and trails Kligerman by 20 points for the final Playoff berth.