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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Dead On Tools 250

Martinsville Speedway

October 28th, 2023

Race #32 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
- Extended to 256 laps
Miles Raced : 134.7
Time of Race : 02 Hours 26 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 55.294 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.032 seconds
Cautions: 15
Caution Laps: 101
Lead Changes: 13

Daniel Hemric and crew celebrate — Avondale, Arizona - November 6th, 2021: Daniel Hemric, driver of the #18 Poppy Bank Toyota, and crew celebrate with the 2021 Xfinity Series Championship flag after winning during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship at Phoenix 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
Justin Allgaier	2	11	4	1	1	25	8.7	+1	67	47	+20	33	13	77.3%	21	256	112.1	50
Sheldon Creed	8	7	5	2	1	29	6.8	+6	47	38	+9	38	0	95.3%	1	256	106.2	42
Sammy Smith	1	4	3	3	1	23	3.3	-2	33	17	+16	31	68	98.8%	147	256	139.2	50
Riley Herbst	4	9	8	4	2	20	7.5	+0	64	53	+11	58	3	98.1%	0	256	105.5	38
Josh Berry	12	5	12	5	2	34	10.1	+7	69	38	+31	46	4	77.7%	0	256	101.5	41
Daniel Hemric	14	19	13	6	6	31	12.5	+8	59	47	+12	35	0	81.3%	0	256	83.7	31
Parker Retzlaff	10	12	15	7	3	25	12.9	+3	74	61	+13	41	0	77.0%	0	256	87.7	35
Anthony Alfredo	22	27	22	8	2	35	22.2	+14	65	63	+2	10	0	20.3%	0	256	63.2	34
Jeb Burton	38	24	7	9	5	38	21.3	+29	63	49	+14	21	0	31.3%	0	256	63.8	28
Parker Kligerman	15	33	28	10	10	35	25.9	+5	60	60	+0	7	0	19.5%	0	256	58.2	27
Layne Riggs	19	1	9	11	1	33	16.1	+8	58	45	+13	15	2	38.7%	9	256	79.4	26
Rajah Caruth	26	22	27	12	6	32	21.9	+14	56	97	-41	7	0	14.8%	0	256	55.3	0
CJ McLaughlin	34	35	23	13	10	35	28.9	+21	53	87	-34	2	0	3.1%	0	256	48.5	24
Josh Williams	24	25	21	14	7	30	20.8	+10	55	76	-21	6	0	10.2%	0	256	60.0	23
Myatt Snider	11	6	11	15	1	29	8.4	-4	71	40	+31	60	13	91.0%	1	256	106.5	33
Brandon Jones	6	13	24	16	6	32	12.9	-10	57	62	-5	33	0	76.2%	0	256	79.3	23
Jeremy Clements	20	14	16	17	4	33	17.0	+3	78	73	+5	35	0	45.7%	0	256	74.8	20
John Hunter Nemechek	5	16	1	18	1	23	7.3	-13	52	50	+2	40	23	88.3%	54	256	94.9	27
Cole Custer	3	8	6	19	1	22	7.9	-16	55	43	+12	42	7	88.7%	1	256	98.4	30
Brett Moffitt	16	20	14	20	4	35	17.7	-4	73	68	+5	27	0	36.7%	0	256	61.0	17
Austin Hill	9	17	2	21	1	26	10.4	-12	45	33	+12	17	5	63.7%	22	255	76.6	23
Blaine Perkins	31	31	10	22	3	33	16.8	+9	59	50	+9	25	0	53.9%	0	255	59.3	15
Josh Bilicki	18	21	20	23	5	32	20.8	-5	70	69	+1	10	0	14.1%	0	255	58.2	15
Ryan Ellis	32	30	29	24	20	37	30.5	+8	26	40	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	245	43.0	13
Sam Mayer	17	3	17	25	2	32	17.7	-8	76	53	+23	10	0	27.3%	0	244	73.2	12
Jeffrey Earnhardt	29	23	18	26	17	35	26.3	+3	47	67	-20	0	0	0.0%	0	244	48.7	11
Chad Finchum	30	26	26	27	13	34	25.7	+3	41	78	-37	9	0	7.4%	0	244	48.5	10
Kaz Grala	23	10	25	28	5	29	14.7	-5	72	40	+32	34	0	57.0%	0	243	79.0	15
Joe Graf Jr	33	37	33	29	29	38	36.0	+4	5	8	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	240	28.8	8
Chris Hacker	35	29	30	30	20	37	30.6	+5	24	39	-15	0	0	0.0%	0	237	40.7	0
Connor Mosack	25	18	19	31	12	33	23.7	-6	51	75	-24	2	0	3.5%	0	232	53.2	6
Brennan Poole	27	28	31	32	8	33	26.3	-5	44	73	-29	4	1	6.6%	0	218	46.2	5
Akinori Ogata	36	32	32	33	14	37	32.4	+3	14	38	-24	1	0	1.2%	0	217	33.7	0
JJ Yeley	21	34	34	34	15	34	26.5	-13	51	58	-7	0	0	1.2%	0	207	52.8	3
Ryan Sieg	13	2	35	35	2	33	21.7	-22	60	56	+4	19	0	36.3%	0	203	67.8	2
Chandler Smith	7	15	36	36	2	33	17.9	-29	35	29	+6	25	0	57.8%	0	187	80.2	7
Devin Jones	37	36	37	37	32	38	36.5	+0	1	3	-2	0	0	0.0%	0	131	28.2	1
Kyle Sieg	28	38	38	38	26	30	36.6	-10	4	9	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	40	26.5	1

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Race Fast Facts

Martinsville Speedway
Dead On Tools 250
Race Winner: Justin Allgaier
Age: 37
Team : No. 7 - Hellmann's Chevrolet
Owner: Kelley Earnhardt-Miller
Crew Chief: James Pohlman
Justin Allgaier won the Dead On Tools 250, his 23rd victory in 437 Xfinity Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 19th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in seven races at Martinsville Speedway.
Sheldon Creed (second) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his 14th top-10 finish in 2023.
Sammy Smith (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Martinsville Speedway.
Sammy Smith (third) was the highest finishing rookie.
Sam Mayer, Justin Allgaier, John Hunter Nemechek and Cole Custer advance to the Championship Four in Phoenix.

Race Recap

Justin Allgaier avoids last-lap melee to win NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville

October 28th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

At the end of Saturday’s chaotic Dead on Tools 250, Justin Allgaier rescued his season with an improbable victory that earned the driver of the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet a berth in the Nov. 4 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship 4 event at Phoenix Raceway.

Allgaier’s Camaro crossed the finish line glued to the side of Sheldon Creed’s No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, scoring his first win at Martinsville, his fourth of the season and the 23rd of his career by 0.032 seconds over Creed, who needed a victory to advance to the title race.

Repeated contact between Creed’s car and the Chevrolet of teammate Austin Hill during two overtime laps eventually victimized Hill, the regular-season champion, in a chain-reaction wreck in the final corner and deprived Hill of a chance to race for the championship next weekend.

Before the final restart, Allgaier’s chances of qualifying for the title race had dimmed, as both Hill, the race leader at the time, and Cole Custer (seventh for the restart) had control of the final two Championship 4 spots.

Though Custer was collected in the last-lap wreck, which produced the 16th caution of the race, he was credited with a 19th-place finish to Hill’s 21st and bumped the RCR driver out of the Playoffs by seven points.

But no one benefited from the closing mayhem more than Allgaier, who got repeated encouragement from spotter Eddie D’Hondt and crew chief Jim Pohlman during the late stages of the race.

“Both of those guys kept telling me, ‘It’s not over,’” Allgaier said. “Coming to the start/finish line, I don’t think I saw a single person sitting down. I was just hanging on… This car has been lights-out fast all year.

“We’ve got a shot at going for a championship at Phoenix. This is an emotional one. I’ve wanted to win at Martinsville for a long time, and I’ve been on the other end of that (pointing at the crashed cars on the frontstretch) too many times.”

The overtime restart was a recipe for disaster. Hill had lane choice and picked the bottom, with Creed lined up to his outside. Hill initially cleared Creed’s Chevrolet, but the driver of the No. 2 Chevy used his bumper to force Hill up the track and draw alongside.

As the cars ran through Turns 3 and 4 for the final time, John Hunter Nemechek turned Hill’s Camaro and ignited the last-lap wreck that ultimately settled the field for the Championship 4.

Creed, who is leaving RCR at the end of the season, was subdued but unapologetic.

“I’m not proud of racing like that, but I didn’t blast him,” Creed said. “He was still with me (on the final lap)… I feel like I raced pretty fair for the situation, and he’s going to be mad, but it’s for a Championship 4 spot, and I’m going to fight for my guys all the way to the end.”

As might be expected, Hill had a different view of the final two laps.

“Man, it’s uncalled for for that to happen, and then for neither of the RCR guys to make it to the final four,” Hill said. “It’s frustrating. I’m pretty excited for him to go to his next adventure over at Gibbs, and I don’t have to put up with him anymore.”

(Hill may have anticipated Creed’s next move, which is yet to be announced.)

Pole winner Sammy Smith, another driver in a must-win situation to continue in the Playoffs, led 147 of the 256 laps and finished third. But Smith also left Martinsville with a grudge against a teammate—John Hunter Nemechek, who had clinched a Championship 4 berth on points by the end of the second stage.

In Smith’s view, Nemechek made it impossible for him to fight for the win in overtime.

“They were telling me that he wasn’t going to make any enemies,” Smith said. “I asked him if he was going to choose the top, and he said he wasn’t going to do that. I had a good run on him, and he went to block me down to the bottom.

“He didn’t want to make any enemies, but I’m really frustrated right now. He definitely made one. I’m not going to let that one go, and we will see how things go.”

In a race that started in daylight and ended under a full moon after a 28-minute stoppage to clear the track after a 12-car wreck on Lap 244, Riley Herbst ran fourth, followed by Josh Berry and Daniel Hemric.

Parker Retzlaff, Anthony Alfredo, Jeb Burton and Parker Kligerman completed the top 10.

Sam Mayer, already part of the Championship 4 by virtue of last week’s victory at Homestead, was knocked out of the race in the Lap 244 wreck and finished 25th. Playoff driver Chandler Smith completed 187 laps before being sidelined by an accident and eliminated from the postseason.