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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Pennzoil 150 presented by Advance Auto Parts

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

August 12th, 2023

Race #22 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 62
Miles Raced : 161.5
Time of Race : 01 Hours 57 minutes 34 seconds
Average Speed: 77.174 mph
Margin of Victory : 07.959 seconds
Cautions: 3
Caution Laps: 9
Lead Changes: 10

Daniel Hemric celebrates after winning the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship — Avondale, Arizona - November 6th, 2021: Daniel Hemric, driver of the #18 Poppy Bank Toyota, celebrates after winning the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. Photo by Sean Gardner | 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
Ty Gibbs	2	6	1	1	1	27	3.8	+1	54	53	+1	23	23	93.6%	28	62	143.8	0
Sam Mayer	15	1	3	2	1	33	7.3	+13	60	37	+23	21	5	87.1%	5	62	117.4	52
AJ Allmendinger	1	3	2	3	1	34	4.7	-2	51	25	+26	20	5	90.3%	21	62	127.8	0
Austin Hill	4	10	4	4	2	21	6.7	+0	45	61	-16	19	2	96.8%	0	62	110.0	38
Justin Allgaier	13	4	5	5	3	25	9.8	+8	58	74	-16	16	0	79.0%	0	62	94.5	38
Cole Custer	6	2	7	6	2	28	9.2	+0	55	76	-21	19	6	79.0%	0	62	98.9	32
Parker Kligerman	12	30	9	7	2	35	17.7	+5	51	55	-4	17	3	58.1%	0	62	94.9	37
Sheldon Creed	9	8	10	8	1	27	8.4	+1	61	32	+29	26	0	95.2%	1	62	101.7	36
Kaz Grala	21	16	6	9	6	30	13.9	+12	75	70	+5	22	0	56.5%	0	62	87.3	28
Brett Moffitt	23	5	11	10	3	29	14.0	+13	78	72	+6	14	0	64.5%	0	62	83.8	27
Alex Labbe	26	27	12	11	11	35	21.6	+15	65	68	-3	10	0	32.3%	0	62	69.0	26
Riley Herbst	10	9	13	12	4	28	10.7	-2	82	67	+15	29	3	87.1%	0	62	88.2	31
John Hunter Nemechek	8	13	8	13	1	28	10.3	-5	56	73	-17	26	0	88.7%	0	62	87.2	27
Josh Berry	3	7	15	14	1	28	12.6	-11	64	77	-13	12	1	71.0%	2	62	76.4	25
Sage Karam	27	23	16	15	4	27	18.2	+12	81	48	+33	11	0	19.4%	0	62	73.7	22
Jeb Burton	14	20	14	16	3	32	17.3	-2	69	62	+7	12	0	32.3%	0	62	67.8	21
Parker Retzlaff	24	18	17	17	2	37	15.3	+7	77	35	+42	18	0	40.3%	0	62	82.3	24
Josh Bilicki	19	25	18	18	1	30	17.6	+1	80	57	+23	11	0	24.2%	1	62	67.5	19
Jeremy Clements	20	17	19	19	2	33	20.6	+1	84	46	+38	12	0	21.0%	1	62	63.2	19
Kyle Weatherman	29	22	20	20	7	38	21.1	+9	82	43	+39	10	0	24.2%	0	62	66.5	17
Brandon Jones	25	21	22	21	8	31	21.5	+4	79	95	-16	11	0	14.5%	0	62	53.7	16
Miguel Paludo	22	15	24	22	9	27	18.8	+0	76	75	+1	10	0	29.0%	0	62	65.5	15
Anthony Alfredo	32	32	25	23	7	35	26.6	+9	49	47	+2	9	0	9.7%	0	62	47.2	14
Preston Pardus	11	24	23	24	4	36	23.3	-13	75	77	-2	5	0	9.7%	0	62	49.3	13
Brennan Poole	35	28	26	25	13	36	27.2	+10	65	72	-7	7	0	6.5%	0	62	44.0	12
Connor Mosack	16	19	21	26	6	38	21.6	-10	59	93	-34	7	0	24.2%	0	62	48.3	11
Daniel Hemric	5	14	28	27	1	29	15.0	-22	69	102	-33	21	1	53.2%	3	61	69.4	20
Sammy Smith	17	29	29	28	7	30	22.0	-11	88	107	-19	21	0	30.7%	0	61	51.8	9
Ryan Ellis	33	36	30	29	28	38	32.7	+4	35	24	+11	0	0	0.0%	0	61	35.2	8
Kyle Sieg	36	34	31	30	26	38	33.8	+6	35	38	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	61	30.3	7
Blaine Perkins	38	31	32	31	25	38	32.3	+7	46	44	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	60	47.5	6
Ryan Sieg	30	12	27	32	5	31	21.2	-2	65	96	-31	9	0	22.6%	0	57	46.0	5
Josh Williams	34	37	34	33	23	38	33.9	+1	29	40	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	57	33.7	4
Chandler Smith	18	11	33	34	5	36	19.5	-16	75	84	-9	19	0	41.9%	0	56	70.7	10
Joe Graf Jr	37	35	35	35	20	38	34.7	+2	30	36	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	46	26.3	2
Andre Castro	28	26	36	36	18	36	31.0	-8	40	51	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	39	33.2	1
Ross Chastain	7	33	37	37	7	36	29.8	-30	35	63	-28	2	0	17.7%	0	38	51.2	0
Brad Perez	31	38	38	38	15	38	35.5	-7	45	50	-5	2	0	0.0%	0	24	27.7	1

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Ty Gibbs dominates Indy Road Course for NASCAR Xfinity Series victory

August 12th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

In Saturday's Pennzoil 150 presented by Advance Auto Parts NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, the fastest car met superior strategy.

In this case, the fastest car—Ty Gibbs' No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota won the battle—decisively—over the craftiness of AJ Allmendinger, as the two full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers stole the show and potential Playoff points from the Xfinity regulars.

Allmendinger, the pole winner, parlayed pit strategy into a pair of stage wins, but Gibbs charged ahead after a restart with 16 of 62 laps left and beat Sam Mayer to the finish line by 7.959 seconds at the 2.439, 14-turn circuit. Mayer passed a disappointed Allmendinger for the runner-up spot on the penultimate lap.

The victory was the first of the season for Gibbs, who won last year's Xfinity title before moving up to his full-time Cup ride. It was his first victory on the Indy Road Course and his 12^th win in 58 starts in the series.

"Awesome car—great car—thank you, (crew chief) Jason Ratcliff," exulted Gibbs, who will try to hold onto the final Playoff-eligible position in Sunday's Verizon 200 at the Brickyard Cup Series race (2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, IMS Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

"I raced go-karts down the street with a bunch of kids…it's really special."

His strategy for Sunday is uncomplicated.

"Just have a good car, set the car up right and go win," Gibbs said.

Mayer, who won the first Xfinity Series race of his career on July 29 at Road America, was satisfied with second on Saturday.

"That was all I had right there to catch the 10 (Allmendinger) and get us some more points," said Mayer, who scored his fourth straight top-five finish. "I'm really proud of our guys here today. Our Chevrolet was really fast. But a lot of positivity going into the next couple of weeks because we are clicking off top fives like it's easy.

"These road courses have been good to us the last couple of weeks—and the ovals are just as good. I'm looking forward to what we have going into (Watkins) Glen next week and then a bunch of ovals after that."

Series leader Austin Hill finished fourth, followed by Justin Allgaier, Cole Custer and Parker Kligerman. Sheldon Creed, Kaz Grala and Brett Moffitt completed the top 10. Allgaier clinched a spot in the Xfinity Series Playoffs.

Allmendinger started from the pole but surrendered the lead to Ty Gibbs on Lap 3. Gibbs remained out front until lightning in the area forced NASCAR to red-flag the race at 6:04 p.m.

During the delay, rain soaked the track, but the skies began to clear before the cars restarted. A strategic call by Allmendinger put the driver of the No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet back in the lead.

Before the field took the green flag after the resumption of the race, Allmendinger and Mayer pitted for slick tires, while the vast majority of the field stayed on slower treaded rain tires.

Allmendinger rapidly gained ground from the back of the field, and after Gibbs pitted for slicks on lap 14, Allmendinger held a lead of more than 16 seconds in the exchange. He lost just over one second of that advantage before the Brad Perez's Chevrolet stopped on the track on Lap 27 to cause the second caution of the afternoon.

"We were never fast enough to win the race," Allmendinger said. "I thought Ty was the class of the field… We got in a good rhythm there, maybe if it would've stayed green. We just needed a 52-lap green run there to win today."

In short order after a restart on Lap 31, Allmendinger regained the lead from Mayer, who had stayed out on older tires during the caution.

Gibbs restarted three positions deeper in the field than Allmendinger and began to close the gap to the leader. After Gibbs out braked Mayer into Turn 7 and took the second spot on Lap 38, he trailed Allmendinger by 3.049 seconds.

When both Allmendinger and Gibbs pitted for tires and fuel on Lap 43, however, Gibbs won the race off pit road, right before NASCAR called the third caution when Andre Castro stopped on the track.

On the subsequent restart on Lap 47, Gibbs, wh