Big News for FRCS Subscribers!

I've spent the past year developing a brand-new, improved version of FRCS, and I'm excited to share it with you during the off-season! If your subscription is set to expire before race #36 (Phoenix), now is the perfect time to extend or renew and take advantage of this offer. Subscriptions that would normally expire after race #36 will remain valid through the off-season, giving you access to the upcoming FRCS updates until we get close to the 2025 Daytona 500. Don't miss out on these exclusive features - renew today and be ready for what's next!

You can verify your subscription expiration date by clicking 'My Account > Subscription Details' in the top navigation.

Loop Data Box Score

NASCAR Xfinity Series

Shriners Children's 200

Watkins Glen International

August 19th, 2023

Race #23 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

Previous Race
Shriners Children's 200
Next Race

Laps Scheduled: 82
- Extended to 86 laps
Miles Raced : 208.8
Time of Race : 02 Hours 25 minutes 33 seconds
Average Speed: 86.857 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.909 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 18
Lead Changes: 9

Sam Mayer takes the checkered flag — Watkins Glen, New York - August 19th, 2023: Sam Mayer, driver of the #1 Accelerate Pros Talent Chevrolet, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series Shriners Children's 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. 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
Sam Mayer	5	6	1	1	1	11	4.7	+4	22	11	+11	20	8	100.0%	8	86	125.3	53
Sheldon Creed	13	9	17	2	1	18	8.0	+11	27	20	+7	25	0	96.5%	0	86	106.3	41
Parker Kligerman	14	10	19	3	3	21	10.5	+11	32	11	+21	28	0	95.4%	0	86	93.8	36
Ross Chastain	17	17	9	4	4	23	15.6	+13	32	19	+13	15	0	43.0%	0	86	80.3	0
Connor Mosack	19	26	14	5	3	34	21.9	+14	35	42	-7	6	0	12.8%	0	86	66.5	32
John Hunter Nemechek	12	8	12	6	4	26	11.5	+6	52	37	+15	24	1	74.4%	0	86	92.1	39
Cole Custer	4	4	8	7	1	29	9.5	-3	56	41	+15	28	8	76.7%	1	86	99.2	38
Chandler Smith	18	27	20	8	6	34	20.5	+10	49	41	+8	15	0	31.4%	0	86	75.5	29
Alex Bowman	2	2	18	9	1	31	8.9	-7	40	20	+20	18	2	74.4%	4	86	102.1	0
Jeb Burton	25	22	22	10	6	32	20.6	+15	31	30	+1	4	0	9.3%	0	86	68.2	27
Brandon Jones	24	16	6	11	6	24	14.4	+13	35	21	+14	24	0	64.0%	0	86	79.5	26
Brennan Poole	32	21	15	12	10	37	22.3	+20	47	37	+10	4	0	12.8%	0	86	59.3	25
Kyle Weatherman	33	24	23	13	1	33	23.2	+20	29	45	-16	3	0	7.0%	2	86	55.8	24
Austin Hill	11	3	5	14	1	19	4.6	-3	32	45	-13	23	8	100.0%	0	86	108.5	37
Sage Karam	21	13	7	15	6	22	15.1	+6	33	25	+8	17	0	59.3%	0	86	74.5	22
Justin Allgaier	3	5	2	16	1	21	4.9	-13	20	12	+8	12	3	90.7%	1	86	106.4	37
Ty Gibbs	1	1	3	17	1	21	1.9	-16	18	32	-14	8	32	96.5%	70	86	132.3	0
Sammy Smith	9	15	10	18	4	27	15.0	-9	39	53	-14	16	0	58.1%	0	86	76.3	19
Kyle Sieg	37	25	21	19	16	37	25.8	+18	34	25	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	86	45.2	18
Josh Berry	7	7	16	20	2	20	8.3	-13	23	34	-11	20	0	93.0%	0	86	92.3	28
Ryan Sieg	26	18	13	21	10	26	18.8	+5	29	42	-13	3	0	20.9%	0	86	64.3	16
Joe Graf Jr	36	30	24	22	21	36	29.2	+14	17	13	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	85	35.2	15
Daniel Hemric	6	11	25	23	4	25	13.2	-17	18	35	-17	17	0	77.9%	0	84	76.5	14
Alex Labbe	22	31	26	24	18	35	27.6	-2	8	24	-16	0	0	0.0%	0	83	53.2	13
Parker Retzlaff	29	23	28	26	17	35	24.5	+3	32	13	+19	0	0	0.0%	0	82	51.2	11
Kyle Busch	8	12	4	27	3	37	14.6	-19	49	74	-25	17	0	66.3%	0	78	72.2	0
Kaz Grala	15	14	11	28	3	22	13.1	-13	45	29	+16	22	0	83.7%	0	78	74.7	9
Brett Moffitt	20	34	29	29	16	34	29.1	-9	23	0	+23	0	0	0.0%	0	66	58.8	8
Ryan Ellis	35	36	32	30	25	37	33.5	+5	15	11	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	65	38.8	7
Anthony Alfredo	27	20	30	31	12	28	24.2	-4	23	22	+1	0	0	2.3%	0	61	48.7	6
Stanton Barrett	38	28	31	32	27	38	31.1	+6	14	7	+7	0	0	0.0%	0	56	30.0	5
Stefan Parsons	23	19	33	33	11	26	25.5	-10	12	22	-10	0	0	1.2%	0	45	54.0	4
Max McLaughlin	31	29	34	34	26	37	32.2	-3	17	24	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	43	30.2	3
Riley Herbst	10	33	35	35	6	31	23.3	-25	11	41	-30	11	0	41.9%	0	37	63.2	5
Josh Williams	34	35	36	36	21	34	32.6	-2	13	6	+7	0	0	0.0%	0	23	33.8	1
Jeremy Clements	16	37	37	37	13	38	34.2	-21	7	28	-21	2	0	10.5%	0	21	33.7	1
Blaine Perkins	30	38	38	38	26	38	36.9	-8	5	19	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	11	26.8	1

Dabble in Draftkings or Fan Duel?

My OWNER Subscription has these DFS tools:
Dominator Points Cheatsheet.
Salary Cap Calculator.
Season Salary Trends.
Points by Track.
Points by Start Position.
Season Points Trend.
Points by Race.
Season Boxscore.

Race Weekend Links

New links are added as the race weekend progresses.

Watkins Glen International Track Page
Entry List
Practice 1
Practice to Qualifying
Lineup
Pit Stall Selections (pdf)
Results
Loop Data Box Score
Draftkings Fantasy Points
Accupredict Position Prediction Performance
Pit Stop Data

Race Fast Facts

Watkins Glen International
Shriners Children's 200
Race Winner: Sam Mayer
Age: 20
Team : No. 1 - Accelerate Pros Talent Chevrolet
Owner: L.W. Miller
Crew Chief: Mardy Lindley
Sam Mayer won the Shriners Children's 200, his second victory in 74 Xfinity Series races.
This is his second victory and 15th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Watkins Glen International.
Sheldon Creed (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Watkins Glen International. It is his eighth top-10 finish in 2023.
Parker Kligerman (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Watkins Glen International. It was his 12th top-10 finish in 2023.
Chandler Smith (eighth) was the highest finishing rookie.

Race Recap

Sam Mayer wins NASCAR Xfinity Series Thriller at Watkins Glen

August 19th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

JR Motorsports driver Sam Mayer survived a full-contact afternoon at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International – contributing his own bump and run on the final restart to take the lead in overtime and hold off the field for his second career NASCAR Xfinity Series win Saturday in the Shriners Children’s 200 at The Glen.

Mayer’s No. 1 JRM Chevrolet tagged the back of the day’s most dominant driver and then-race leader Ty Gibbs, spinning Gibbs’ No. 19 Toyota which then collected a handful of other lead pack cars. The 21-year old Wisconsin-native Mayer was able to pull away from the mayhem behind and raced off to a .909-second victory over Richard Childress Racing’s Sheldon Creed.

Gibbs, who races full time as a rookie in the NASCAR Cup Series, led a race high 70 of the 86 laps and won both Stage 1 and Stage 2 on the 3.45-mile, 11-turn historic road course in upstate New York. But it was Mayer using that aggressive move forward, that hoisted the trophy.

“On that first one, I got used up, thought I had a good one there’’ Mayer said of the two overtime restarts. “All glory to God for this one because we had to work our tails off for it.

“I wheel-hopped it, that’s unfortunate and I feel bad for doing that, obviously you don’t want to take out any car like that’’ Mayer added. “Just trying to get another win in the Xfinity Series. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I was in there, I put my nose in there and that’s part of it.

“That’s an accident, but I think everyone can agree it’s okay for an Xfinity Series regular to win this race.’’

There is history between the two young drivers, Mayer and the 2022 Xfinity Series champion Gibbs. There was even a physical confrontation between the two after a race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway last year.

Gibbs, 20, none too surprisingly, didn’t take kindly to the race ending. He was credited with 17th place on the day.

“I think when you have to race out of desperation like that and you wheel-hop and take the leader out, I guess you can call it a racing incident but it just really sucks,’’ Gibbs said. “We had a really fast Toyota Supra and I really appreciate all the team’s hard work. We had a really good time out there and wish that caution didn’t come. Definitely sucks to get cleaned out there.

“It’s a part of life and a part of racing and you just get over it and when stuff like that happens, desperate moves like that happen, it’s just part of it and you try to keep going. We were really fast.

“I don’t know really know how much of a conversation you can really have with him in that situation,’’ Gibbs said when asked if wanted to have words with Mayer.

“We kind of grew up racing around each other and I think he has more starts than I do and this is his second win so congratulations to him on his second win. Definitely wish I could have gotten my 13th there.’’

Parker Kligerman came through the wreck to finish third in the No. 48 Big Machine Racing Chevrolet, followed by NASCAR Cup Series regular Ross Chastain in the No. 91 DGM Chevrolet and Connor Mosack in the No. 24 Sam Hunt Racing Toyota.

Kligerman’s third-place showing was important as the series heads towards its Playoffs next month. He pulled to within three-points of Riley Herbst for that final transfer position. Herbst’s No. 98 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford had a rough day, retiring on Lap 37 and taking a 35th place finish. He had led Kligerman by 17 points coming into the Watkins Glen race.

“We had a great finish and salvaged great points,’’ Kligerman said. “We kept ourselves in the fight, but I’ve got to sort through this one.

“To me, three [points], 15 [points], it all feels the same. It’s so close that can happen in a stage essentially. We’ve just got to keep doing what we’re doing. We scored stage points in all stages today so that is a big deal for us.’’

“I think we’re doing the right things, just need a little more,’’ he added with a smile.

Herbst was frustrated, but said he was optimistic about upcoming races – at Daytona Beach, Darlington, S.C. and Kansas to set the 12-driver Playoff field.

“I don’t think we should be in this situation as it is, it’s just frustrating,’’ Herbst said. “We have some good tracks for us and good tracks for Stewart-Haas Racing, I’m excited. It’s just frustrating that things like this beyond our control keep happening, but it’ll turn around one day and when it does we’ll be happy.”

John Hunter Nemechek, Cole Custer, Chandler Smith, Alex Bowman and Jeb Burton rounded out the top 10. Austin Hill, who was among those collected in the overtime re-start finished 14th and now holds a nine-point advantage over Nemechek atop the championship standings.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series moves to Daytona International Speedway next week for Friday’s Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola (7:30 p.m. ET, USA Network, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Jeremy Clements is the defending race winner. Hill won at Daytona in February.