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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Andy’s Frozen Custard 300

Texas Motor Speedway

September 23rd, 2023

Race #28 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 300.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 47 minutes 59 seconds
Average Speed: 107.153 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.005 seconds
Cautions: 12
Caution Laps: 65
Lead Changes: 9

Justin Allgaier and Austin Hill lead the field — Fort Worth, Texas - September 23rd, 2023: Justin Allgaier, driver of the #7 Reese's Ice Cream/Sam's Club Chevrolet, and Austin Hill, driver of the #21 Global Industrial Chevrolet, lead the field on a restart during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. 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
John Hunter Nemechek	11	3	3	1	1	15	3.9	+10	36	28	+8	31	32	100.0%	38	200	133.3	53
Parker Kligerman	7	5	5	2	1	16	6.6	+5	41	38	+3	35	3	99.5%	1	200	108.9	42
Sammy Smith	15	8	14	3	2	16	8.4	+12	49	39	+10	41	2	96.5%	0	200	105.1	37
Chandler Smith	9	4	11	4	2	28	8.9	+5	59	43	+16	36	1	86.0%	0	200	100.1	38
Justin Allgaier	1	2	1	5	1	18	2.7	-4	27	29	-2	27	59	98.0%	133	200	140.8	52
Cole Custer	3	1	4	6	1	21	3.2	-3	41	42	-1	30	8	99.0%	28	200	116.3	48
Austin Hill	5	18	2	7	1	21	6.8	-2	37	14	+23	24	7	87.5%	0	200	103.9	47
Sheldon Creed	24	11	12	8	5	25	15.7	+16	40	61	-21	16	0	48.0%	0	200	80.5	29
Brandon Jones	8	6	10	9	4	19	7.9	-1	44	52	-8	36	1	98.5%	0	200	95.1	35
Brett Moffitt	22	12	18	10	4	31	14.7	+12	61	55	+6	28	0	57.5%	0	200	84.0	27
Ryan Sieg	17	14	15	11	5	21	12.3	+6	56	34	+22	46	0	82.0%	0	200	88.7	26
Kyle Sieg	19	17	17	12	3	23	16.0	+7	40	25	+15	12	0	28.5%	0	200	74.5	25
Ryan Ellis	30	22	9	13	3	36	21.3	+17	39	38	+1	11	0	18.5%	0	200	67.2	24
Anthony Alfredo	33	23	6	14	3	33	20.7	+19	37	31	+6	4	0	22.0%	0	200	65.8	23
Kyle Weatherman	12	19	21	15	9	22	16.7	-3	41	30	+11	24	1	50.5%	0	200	68.1	22
Daniel Dye	26	21	19	17	8	37	22.9	+9	28	45	-17	6	0	12.0%	0	199	54.2	0
Jeremy Clements	14	7	8	18	6	20	12.7	-4	45	68	-23	35	1	74.5%	0	199	78.5	19
Layne Riggs	38	27	24	19	19	38	28.5	+19	24	13	+11	0	0	0.0%	0	198	48.7	18
Josh Williams	23	30	23	20	16	31	23.2	+3	34	20	+14	0	0	0.0%	0	198	56.3	17
Dawson Cram	25	15	22	21	5	26	20.9	+4	33	24	+9	2	0	7.0%	0	198	49.0	16
David Starr	32	26	25	22	22	36	27.4	+10	20	32	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	197	46.8	15
Sage Karam	20	28	26	23	20	36	28.1	-3	12	21	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	197	42.2	14
Daniel Hemric	13	20	13	24	1	34	19.5	-11	39	49	-10	19	1	42.5%	0	195	63.2	13
CJ McLaughlin	37	32	27	25	21	37	28.1	+12	10	7	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	195	41.2	12
Joey Gase	27	29	28	26	24	33	28.3	+1	12	7	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	194	42.0	11
Josh Berry	4	25	29	27	3	29	17.3	-23	23	27	-4	14	2	48.5%	0	193	72.3	18
JJ Yeley	31	16	7	28	4	31	18.0	+3	52	42	+10	11	0	27.0%	0	183	60.8	9
Kaz Grala	16	9	16	29	6	20	13.8	-13	44	48	-4	28	0	64.0%	0	183	72.0	8
Parker Retzlaff	18	13	30	30	10	29	20.9	-12	23	34	-11	22	0	49.5%	0	108	68.5	7
Jeb Burton	28	33	31	31	8	33	23.6	-3	19	20	-1	11	0	34.5%	0	108	60.7	6
Jeffrey Earnhardt	34	24	32	32	11	34	27.2	+2	27	28	-1	4	0	3.0%	0	106	46.8	5
Trevor Bayne	2	31	33	33	2	14	18.9	-31	8	10	-2	8	3	48.5%	0	97	74.0	17
Brennan Poole	21	34	34	34	13	23	29.7	-13	15	10	+5	0	0	0.5%	0	55	45.8	3
Patrick Emerling	29	35	35	35	22	35	34.5	-6	5	4	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	24	31.0	2
Joe Graf Jr	35	36	36	36	28	36	35.7	-1	7	4	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	11	26.8	1
Riley Herbst	10	37	37	37	10	37	36.9	-27	2	26	-24	2	0	0.0%	0	2	25.7	1
Sam Mayer	6	38	38	38	6	6	38.0	-32	0	33	-33	0	0	0.0%	0	0	26.0	1

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Texas Motor Speedway
Andy's Frozen Custard 300
Race Winner: John Hunter Nemechek
Age: 26
Team : No. 20 - Romco Equipment Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
John Hunter Nemechek won the Andy's Frozen Custard 300, his ninth victory in 95 Xfinity Series races, and advances to the next round of the Playoffs.
This is his seventh victory and 21st top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in six races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Parker Kligerman (second) posted his first top-10 finish in four races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his 15th top-10 finish in 2023.
Sammy Smith (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Sammy Smith (third) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

John Hunter Nemechek Capitalizes Late to Claim Victory at Texas

September 23rd, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

John Hunter Nemechek made the winning pass with seven laps remaining in Saturday’s Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas Motor Speedway to punch his ticket to the next round of the series Playoffs and increase his series-best and career-best single season total to seven victories.

His No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota led only 38 of the day’s 200 laps, but managed to get around Big Machine Racing’s Parker Kligerman and race off to a 1.005-second victory – his second at the 1.5-mile Texas track.

The winning move came after Kligerman and the day’s most dominant driver, Justin Allgaier dueled side-by-side at the front of the field. Allgaier, who swept both stage victories and led a race best 133 laps, got loose in a door-to-door battle for the race lead with Kligerman and drifted up track following a restart with 10 laps remaining. Kligerman pushed forward but was unable to hold off Nemechek.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Sammy Smith finished third followed by Kaulig Racing’s Chandler Smith. Allgaier recovered from the tight racing with Kligerman to finish fifth. The top eight finishing drivers at Texas – also including Cole Custer, Austin Hill and Sheldon Creed – are all Playoff contenders.

“I messed up that restart, but I knew I had to push hard and try to recover right there and man, hats off to this team, Joe Gibbs Racing, it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to accomplish this year and we’re not done yet,’’ said Nemechek, 26.

“We’re preparing for the Round of 8,’’ he continued. “My goal coming into today was to lock ourselves into the next round. Our road courses haven’t been that great for myself. Joe Gibbs as an organization has been really good on road courses. But going into the [Charlotte] ROVAL and hot having to worry about that is definitely a relief.’’

Kligerman, who is racing in his first NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs, was hugely disappointed on pit road despite tying a career best runner-up effort (also at Road America this summer) in the No. 48 Big Machine Racing Chevrolet. His work at Texas brought him to within a single point of the eight drivers who can advance to the next Playoff round following the Oct. 7 Charlotte ROVAL race – the elimination event of this round.

“Had a great run, got to him [Allgaier] and I don’t know how much we got squeezed or didn’t. I thought I could clear him super easily, but I got super loose,’’ he said. “Feels like I got choked, he says he gave a lot of room. I’ll have to look at it.’

“I’m really disappointed right now,’’ Kligerman added. “I could see that one, I could feel it. That was the best restart I’ve ever had in my life, put us in perfect position and had the tire advantage, just choked. This one will hurt, but we’ll go make up for it next weekend.’’

For his part, Allgaier was equally as disappointed and frustrated. He approached Kligerman on pit road after the race to discuss the close racing and fallout from it. He had battled from the back after being squeezed out of the lead pack earlier in the race by Chandler Smith which forced him to take his last set of fresh tires earlier than his competitors. Nemechek and Kligerman were able to take new tires on their last stop during a caution with 20 laps remaining while Allgaier’s tires had 11 laps on them at that point and stayed out – in the lead – during that final caution.

Kligerman and Nemechek made their way back toward Allgaier quickly on their fresh tires with Kligerman pulling forward to try and make the winning move in the final 10 laps.

“At that point, obviously we had a really fast Camaro all day,’’ said Allgaier, who already advanced to the next Playoff round by winning the Playoff opener at Bristol, Tenn. last week.

“We put ourselves in good position. That last caution kind of hurt us because we didn’t have tires, but still thought we’d do a good job.

“Parker, when I went and I talked to him, said I squeezed him. I felt like I left him plenty of room there knowing he’d go to the bottom and he drove it in super, super deep into [turn] three. And he’s been around the sport long enough to know what’s going to happen. Just disappointed. Not only did it mess up battling for second it put us way up in the marbles.”

With a season-high 12 caution periods on Saturday, there was plenty of drama. Only 17 cars in the 38-car field managed to avoid any kind of accident involvement. And by mid-race, half of the 12-driver Playoff field had dealt with some incident.

JR Motorsports’ driver Sam Mayer, a two-time race winner this season and Playoff contender hit the wall on the opening lap doing enough damage to his No. 1 JRM Chevrolet he couldn’t continue and suffered a last place finish (38th).

He started the Texas race ranked 10th only 14 points behind Sheldon Creed in the final cutoff position – but left the Lone Star State ranked last among the Playoff competitors, 34 points back and essentially needing a walk-off victory in the next Playoff race at the Charlotte ROVAL.

“We’re going to have to make something happen,” Mayer said, “our backs are up against the wall.’’

With one race remaining in this opening Playoff round, Nemechek and Allgaier have automatically secured their next round positions as has Custer, who clinched Saturday by virtue on points earned. The regular season champion Hill holds a 44-point edge on the Playoff elimnation line. Chandler Smith and Sammy Smith are 32 and 18 points to the good, respectively. Creed takes a nine-point edge to the good into the Charlotte ROVAL race. Daniel Hemric – who finished 24th Saturday – holds a tenuous single-point edge over Kligerman, who is in the ninth position.

Jeb Burton (-19), Josh Berry (-27) and Mayer (-34) are behind Kligerman – all three involved in incidents at Texas.