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NASCAR Xfinity Series

DoorDash 250

Sonoma Raceway

June 10th, 2023

Race #14 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 70
- Extended to 79 laps
Miles Raced : 157.2
Time of Race : 02 Hours 03 minutes 29 seconds
Average Speed: 76.388 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.868 seconds
Cautions: 2
Caution Laps: 8
Lead Changes: 10

Kyle Larson leads the field — Sonoma, California - June 10th, 2023: Kyle Larson, driver of the #17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, leads the field during the NASCAR Xfinity Series DoorDash 250 at Sonoma Raceway. Photo by Logan Riely | 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
Aric Almirola	4	6	1	1	1	15	4.8	+3	29	19	+10	17	5	100.0%	17	79	124.6	0
AJ Allmendinger	5	2	3	2	1	19	2.8	+3	42	31	+11	20	15	100.0%	2	79	123.0	0
Kyle Larson	1	1	2	3	1	11	1.9	-2	17	13	+4	11	30	100.0%	53	79	143.8	0
Ty Gibbs	7	3	4	4	2	14	4.8	+3	34	21	+13	24	5	100.0%	0	79	115.9	0
Parker Kligerman	12	9	6	5	2	17	8.9	+7	42	33	+9	24	0	100.0%	0	79	101.3	37
Cole Custer	26	15	8	6	5	31	15.1	+20	64	40	+24	18	1	53.2%	0	79	87.1	31
Justin Allgaier	2	5	5	7	2	22	5.5	-5	37	39	-2	15	0	97.5%	0	79	106.3	44
Austin Hill	13	4	7	8	1	26	7.6	+5	28	37	-9	15	1	97.5%	4	79	99.0	35
Sammy Smith	10	11	9	9	2	19	11.2	+1	45	38	+7	25	4	94.9%	0	79	94.7	29
Sam Mayer	6	10	10	10	2	26	9.5	-4	48	48	+0	19	2	96.2%	0	79	96.5	32
Sheldon Creed	3	13	11	11	3	22	10.9	-8	39	43	-4	15	0	97.5%	0	79	86.3	28
Brett Moffitt	14	16	13	12	11	24	15.0	+2	40	31	+9	14	0	62.0%	0	79	82.0	25
Daniel Hemric	8	14	14	13	2	30	12.4	-5	48	44	+4	12	0	77.2%	0	79	83.8	29
Chandler Smith	20	12	15	14	4	20	14.9	+6	46	38	+8	16	0	59.5%	0	79	80.7	23
Riley Herbst	23	8	16	15	1	37	14.5	+8	46	66	-20	12	0	62.0%	0	79	80.0	25
John Hunter Nemechek	9	7	12	16	1	32	9.5	-7	31	54	-23	11	0	87.3%	1	79	85.0	25
Jeremy Clements	24	28	17	17	7	36	24.1	+7	58	45	+13	3	0	3.8%	0	79	55.3	20
Ross Chastain	15	18	20	18	12	27	17.7	-3	37	28	+9	10	0	27.9%	0	79	69.0	0
Josh Bilicki	25	20	19	19	4	25	19.6	+6	52	41	+11	6	0	5.1%	0	79	62.3	18
Kaz Grala	27	23	23	20	12	29	23.7	+7	57	52	+5	2	0	1.3%	0	79	55.5	17
Brandon Jones	28	24	25	21	7	32	24.3	+7	59	52	+7	3	0	2.5%	0	79	57.2	16
Kyle Weatherman	18	22	22	22	6	27	21.6	-4	43	42	+1	1	0	3.8%	0	79	58.3	15
Ty Dillon	32	25	26	23	7	32	25.7	+9	55	43	+12	7	0	6.3%	0	79	48.8	0
Dylan Lupton	33	27	24	24	22	37	28.7	+9	43	36	+7	0	0	0.0%	0	79	45.7	13
Jeb Burton	30	21	21	26	18	31	25.0	+4	40	44	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	79	45.0	11
Daniel Suarez	17	17	31	27	1	32	19.0	-10	52	67	-15	9	1	17.7%	0	79	61.8	0
Ryan Sieg	34	26	28	28	25	37	29.4	+6	32	29	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	79	41.2	9
Brad Perez	31	30	29	29	17	36	30.8	+2	51	52	-1	2	0	0.0%	0	79	38.8	8
Blaine Perkins	36	31	30	30	25	36	31.2	+6	32	23	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	79	36.2	7
Joe Graf Jr	38	34	32	31	30	38	34.3	+7	17	13	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	79	28.8	6
Connor Mosack	29	33	33	32	29	36	32.2	-3	18	22	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	78	32.3	5
Josh Berry	19	36	34	33	14	38	30.9	-14	9	19	-10	2	1	7.6%	0	76	57.8	4
Sage Karam	21	35	18	34	3	35	23.3	-13	46	76	-30	0	2	16.5%	0	71	52.7	3
Josh Williams	22	37	36	35	19	37	31.0	-13	7	24	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	60	39.0	2
Jeffrey Earnhardt	35	32	35	36	28	37	33.5	-1	25	20	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	59	28.0	1
Anthony Alfredo	37	29	37	37	27	37	34.1	+0	19	18	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	44	27.5	1
Parker Retzlaff	16	38	38	38	14	37	33.2	-22	10	33	-23	2	0	6.3%	0	21	45.0	1

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Race Fast Facts

Sonoma Raceway
DoorDash 250
Race Winner: Aric Almirola
Age: 39
Team : No. 28 - Michael Roberts Construction Ford
Owner: Pam Sieg
Crew Chief: Allen Chambers
Aric Almirola won the DoorDash 250, his fourth victory in 104 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Sonoma Raceway.
AJ Allmendinger (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Sonoma Raceway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2023.
Kyle Larson (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one races at Sonoma Raceway.
Sammy Smith (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
John Hunter Nemechek leads the point standings by 4 points over Austin Hill.

Race Recap

Opportunistic Aric Almirola grabs NASCAR Xfinity win at Sonoma Raceway

June 10th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Aric Almirola knew Sonoma Raceway is a track that wouldn’t make him look like a “wanker.”

Far from it. Holding off the dominant car of Kyle Larson—until Larson made a critical mistake—and then outrunning road course ace AJ Allmendinger over the final laps, Almirola won Saturday’s DoorDash 250 at the 1.99-mile road course.

The victory was Almirola’s fourth in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and his first since 2017, when he won at Talladega for owner Fred Biagi.

The win also was the first-ever for Georgia-based RSS Racing, which fields cars for brothers Ryan and Kyle Sieg. The Stewart-Haas Racing shop prepared the car for Almirola.

Driving the No. 28 Ford, Almirola took the checkered flag 1.868 seconds ahead of runner-up Allmendinger, with Larson running third 3.329 seconds back. Almirola had taken the lead from the fifth position on a Lap 65 restart, an advantage he held the rest of the way.

“Oh, man, this is so special,” said Almirola, who was making his second Xfinity start of the season after a 24th-place finish at Circuit of the Americas in April. “It’s hard to explain. I know it’s an Xfinity win—it’s not a Cup win, but after COTA (I said) I don’t think I should run any more road course races in an Xfinity car.

“It makes me look like a wanker, and I lose self-confidence going into Sunday. But I knew that this racetrack, this is one I that can run good at. I’ve run good here my whole career. I don’t know what it is about this place, but I love racing here.”

Larson swept the first two stages and held a lead of more than 13 seconds over Allmendinger when Jeffrey Earnhardt backed into the barrier in Turn 10 on Lap 60 and caused the race’s second caution.

If the subsequent restart on Lap 65 was crucial to Almirola’s victory, Larson’s mistake on Lap 72 was even more so. On Lap 72 of 79, Larson drove hard into the Turn 11 hairpin within inches of Almirola’s back bumper and clipped one of the stacks of tires defining the corner.

Larson’s Chevrolet shot to the left of the racing line, and by the time he had righted the car, Allmendinger had passed him for second.

“I just got too greedy,” said Larson, who led a race-high 53 laps to Almirola’s 17. “I was kind of tucked up right behind him, clipped the tires, and it knocked the wheel out of my hands. After that the toe was off. I was really tight in the left and really loose in the right, so I couldn’t make runs at it…

“I’m really mad at myself right now, but I’m really proud of the car they (Hendrick Motorsports) brought. Congrats to Aric, too. He did a really good job out in front of me, hitting his marks. He could kind of get away from me in a couple of important areas and would make me have to work hard behind him. So hats off to him and that team.”

Ty Gibbs ran fourth, as full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers claimed the top four finishing positions. Parker Kligerman led the Xfinity regulars in fifth, followed by Cole Custer, Justin Allgaier, Austin Hill, Sammy Smith and Sam Mayer.