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NASCAR Xfinity Series

United Rentals 300

Daytona International Speedway

February 17th, 2024

Race #1 of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 120
Miles Raced : 300.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 46 minutes 29 seconds
Average Speed: 108.119 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.591 seconds
Cautions: 9
Caution Laps: 44
Lead Changes: 19

Daniel Hemric celebrates with a burnout — Avondale, Arizona - November 6th, 2021: Daniel Hemric, driver of the #18 Poppy Bank Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. Photo by Christian Petersen | 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
Austin Hill	2	1	18	1	1	31	9.4	+1	177	120	+57	105	4	69.2%	9	120	119.8	59
Sheldon Creed	14	3	9	2	1	25	10.0	+12	131	136	-5	97	2	83.3%	2	120	103.0	48
Parker Retzlaff	9	14	13	3	1	22	13.3	+6	198	200	-2	112	3	63.3%	0	120	93.9	34
Jordan Anderson	29	18	14	4	1	38	20.7	+25	154	155	-1	43	5	25.8%	6	120	71.8	33
Chandler Smith	19	15	6	5	1	29	11.9	+14	165	173	-8	119	0	71.7%	1	120	81.7	32
Riley Herbst	11	7	2	6	1	25	7.7	+5	144	135	+9	126	1	87.5%	8	120	107.3	35
John Hunter Nemechek	8	28	15	7	3	33	15.2	+1	163	158	+5	106	2	60.0%	0	120	93.6	0
Justin Allgaier	6	8	11	8	1	28	9.6	-2	194	182	+12	156	1	85.8%	7	120	105.8	34
Brandon Jones	22	10	8	9	2	22	11.0	+13	202	199	+3	158	1	85.8%	0	120	89.0	29
AJ Allmendinger	3	9	7	10	1	32	11.7	-7	166	167	-1	124	0	81.7%	3	120	86.7	32
Ryan Ellis	36	25	21	11	1	38	21.6	+25	51	52	-1	14	0	23.3%	11	120	70.1	26
Shane van Gisbergen	5	17	26	12	4	31	19.9	-7	129	135	-6	40	2	20.8%	0	120	81.4	25
Cole Custer	17	4	4	13	1	23	8.4	+4	138	133	+5	99	1	90.0%	6	120	92.6	31
Blaine Perkins	34	12	16	14	1	38	20.0	+20	117	135	-18	63	0	42.5%	0	120	53.5	23
BJ McLeod	38	24	20	15	12	38	25.4	+23	38	54	-16	3	0	7.5%	0	120	46.8	22
Garrett Smithley	23	27	23	16	2	36	20.9	+7	55	36	+19	6	3	23.3%	0	120	62.9	21
Patrick Emerling	13	23	22	17	12	36	24.4	-4	56	97	-41	4	0	7.5%	0	120	45.7	20
Natalie Decker	30	26	24	18	1	34	20.7	+12	51	41	+10	8	1	22.5%	7	120	64.0	19
Brennan Poole	33	22	17	19	12	33	22.9	+14	74	84	-10	13	2	5.8%	0	120	51.6	18
Jesse Love	1	20	19	20	1	29	13.8	-19	110	115	-5	33	6	43.3%	34	120	77.8	27
Ryan Truex	20	6	10	21	1	24	10.5	-1	184	190	-6	150	1	93.3%	0	120	74.3	22
Ryan Sieg	31	5	1	22	1	31	10.4	+9	175	189	-14	127	1	71.7%	12	120	69.2	21
Sammy Smith	12	2	5	23	1	27	9.9	-11	180	190	-10	129	1	78.3%	6	119	95.9	23
Anthony Alfredo	10	30	28	24	3	32	22.3	-14	34	13	+21	12	3	28.3%	0	118	89.7	20
Parker Kligerman	4	29	27	25	2	34	21.8	-21	15	15	+0	8	1	28.3%	0	118	94.3	20
Jeb Burton	16	13	29	26	1	29	12.9	-10	171	160	+11	142	3	72.5%	8	118	77.8	0
Daniel Dye	26	16	12	27	6	30	18.4	-1	160	146	+14	42	7	26.7%	0	117	64.0	0
Sage Karam	32	11	3	28	2	36	18.3	+4	171	176	-5	92	2	48.3%	0	111	57.8	9
Jeremy Clements	7	19	25	29	2	34	20.6	-22	140	145	-5	45	3	20.0%	0	109	65.4	8
Leland Honeyman Jr	24	21	30	30	5	35	24.0	-6	98	93	+5	25	2	10.0%	0	102	53.8	7
Dawson Cram	35	31	31	31	12	38	29.6	+4	12	13	-1	0	0	1.7%	0	51	29.2	6
Josh Bilicki	27	32	32	32	15	34	28.0	-5	29	38	-9	0	0	1.7%	0	51	41.2	5
Frankie Muniz	37	33	33	33	13	38	32.9	+4	8	16	-8	0	1	0.8%	0	37	27.3	0
Josh Williams	21	34	34	34	12	30	30.5	-13	24	33	-9	1	0	1.7%	0	37	36.3	3
Daniel Suarez	18	35	35	35	8	35	30.7	-17	18	18	+0	15	1	15.8%	0	23	51.8	0
Sam Mayer	15	36	36	36	14	20	32.6	-21	25	27	-2	4	2	0.0%	0	22	45.2	1
Hailie Deegan	28	37	37	37	19	28	34.1	-9	22	19	+3	0	1	0.0%	0	22	33.0	1
Kyle Weatherman	25	38	38	38	22	27	35.4	-13	15	15	+0	0	2	0.0%	0	22	29.7	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
United Rentals 300
Race Winner: Austin Hill
Age: 29
Team : No. 21 - Bennett Transportation Chevrolet
Owner: Richard Childress Racing
Crew Chief: Andy Street
Austin Hill won the United Rentals 300, his seventh victory in 82 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his third victory and third top-10 finish in six races at Daytona International Speedway.
Sheldon Creed (second) posted his third top-10 finish in six races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2024.
Parker Retzlaff (third) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Daytona International Speedway.
Shane Van Gisbergen (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Hill is the third driver to win three or more consecutive Daytona International Speedway season-openers (2022, 2023, 2024); joining NASCAR Hall of Famers Dale Earnhardt ? (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993) and Tony Stewart (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).

Race Recap

Austin Hill wins third straight NASCAR Xfinity opener at Daytona

February 19th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

While other NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers were competing, and crashing, in Monday night’s United Rentals 300 at Daytona International Speedway, Austin Hill was playing a different game — Monopoly.

At the 2.5-mile superspeedway roughly two miles away from Atlantic Avenue, Hill beat former teammate Sheldon Creed to the finish line by 0.591 seconds to earn his third straight victory in the Xfinity season opener at the World Center of Racing.

The third win came on Monday because of weekend-long rain that forced NASCAR to reschedule the race from Saturday afternoon. The event served as the second leg of a doubleheader with the DAYTONA 500, which was postponed from Sunday and won by William Byron.

Hill has now owned Victory Lane at Daytona long enough to build a house there.

“It tops it off—three-peat,” Hill exclaimed. “You know how hard it is to win at Daytona? God almighty!”

Not that the driver of the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet didn’t have his share of adversity. Hill overcame an early wreck on Lap 37 of 120, a flat tire and a self-destructive bent on pit road.

He crossed the finish line in a car that was heavily taped on the right front, but none of the obstacles could stop him from displaying his superiority on superspeedways once again.

“I don’t know what was going on with me on pit road today,” Hill said. “But my guys just kept telling me, ‘Look, man, dig deep; you’re really good at these superspeedways.’ I tried to screw it up on pit road—sped on pit road, slid through the box…

“I don’t even know what time it is. I know it’s past my bedtime, but we’re about to party tonight, I can tell you that.”

After pitting with a flat tire on Lap 97, Hill restarted 22nd but quickly worked his way forward. Two more cautions helped, and after lining up third for the final restart on Lap 118, he made quick work of Jordan Anderson and Chandler Smith ahead of him.

Hill was out front by more than a car-length when Ryan Sieg spun behind him off Turn 2 on the final lap. From that point, Hill simply had to steer his car to the finish line and won by a comfortable margin.

Parker Retzlaff ran third, one spot in front of his owner/driver Anderson.

“The little team that could is getting bigger,” Anderson said proudly.

Chandler Smith came home fifth, followed by Riley Herbst, John Hunter Nemechek, Justin Allgaier, Brandon Jones and AJ Allmendinger.

The race featured nine cautions for 44 of the 120 laps. There were 19 lead changes among 14 different drivers., with Sunoco rookie Jesse Love, the pole winner, leading a race-high 32 laps from the opening green flag.

Love, however, suffered more damage in the Lap 37 wreck than did his RCR teammate Hill. He finished 20th in an aerodynamically-challenged Chevrolet.

New Zealander Shane van Gisbergen, winner of last year’s NASCAR Cup Series Chicago Street Race, drove his battered Kaulig Racing Chevrolet to a 12th-place finish in his Xfinity debut.