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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Pennzoil 250

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

July 20th, 2024

Race #20 of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 100
Miles Raced : 250.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 28 minutes 08 seconds
Average Speed: 101.260 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.167 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 29
Lead Changes: 12

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
Riley Herbst	2	3	3	1	1	11	3.0	+1	27	24	+3	27	18	100.0%	30	100	133.0	58
Cole Custer	1	1	1	2	1	22	3.2	-1	42	25	+17	34	16	97.0%	47	100	141.2	45
Aric Almirola	3	2	2	3	1	35	8.6	+0	59	34	+25	31	11	78.0%	5	100	112.4	46
Shane van Gisbergen	23	11	7	4	4	30	10.8	+19	47	21	+26	31	1	82.0%	0	100	96.8	37
Sheldon Creed	12	10	6	5	5	27	13.2	+7	35	31	+4	18	0	69.0%	0	100	89.3	33
Austin Hill	14	9	13	6	5	29	10.6	+8	48	29	+19	33	1	82.0%	0	100	98.3	34
Daniel Dye	22	14	16	7	6	22	15.0	+15	54	50	+4	24	2	46.0%	0	100	86.4	0
AJ Allmendinger	8	7	4	8	1	12	5.2	+0	31	29	+2	30	6	100.0%	4	100	112.9	45
Justin Allgaier	9	4	12	9	1	18	5.9	+0	53	29	+24	46	4	96.0%	0	100	107.8	40
Carson Kvapil	7	6	14	10	5	21	9.3	-3	52	34	+18	42	0	96.0%	0	100	97.8	29
Ryan Sieg	27	8	19	11	1	30	12.2	+16	60	23	+37	30	3	70.0%	4	100	91.7	44
Parker Kligerman	38	17	21	12	4	38	16.6	+26	62	24	+38	20	0	44.0%	0	100	80.0	29
Jesse Love	15	20	5	13	4	35	18.7	+2	40	39	+1	17	0	40.0%	0	100	70.7	24
Conor Daly	16	12	10	14	7	36	13.5	+2	49	40	+9	35	0	78.0%	0	100	81.3	23
Brandon Jones	6	5	20	15	1	22	8.2	-9	45	34	+11	31	2	85.0%	10	100	101.6	29
Matt DiBenedetto	29	16	8	16	4	29	13.4	+13	28	39	-11	18	0	63.0%	0	100	76.2	22
Joe Graf Jr	17	13	17	17	9	36	17.4	+0	46	35	+11	18	0	57.0%	0	100	72.2	20
Sammy Smith	21	18	23	18	11	36	23.2	+3	47	37	+10	3	0	4.0%	0	100	63.0	19
Jeb Burton	11	21	18	19	11	35	22.5	-8	53	49	+4	8	0	8.0%	0	100	58.2	18
Leland Honeyman Jr	25	22	11	20	2	36	22.8	+5	49	56	-7	4	0	14.0%	0	100	56.2	19
Brennan Poole	30	23	22	21	8	35	22.8	+9	40	53	-13	0	0	6.0%	0	100	57.5	16
Kyle Sieg	31	25	27	22	9	31	20.0	+9	41	45	-4	6	0	15.0%	0	100	60.7	15
Ryan Ellis	34	26	25	23	15	34	25.2	+11	30	59	-29	0	0	1.0%	0	100	49.8	14
Joey Gase	35	31	29	24	23	36	30.8	+11	33	36	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	100	40.8	13
Kyle Weatherman	28	29	15	25	9	30	22.6	+3	31	63	-32	5	0	14.0%	0	100	50.0	12
David Starr	36	28	28	26	21	36	29.2	+10	22	28	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	100	42.5	11
Josh Bilicki	32	30	26	27	12	34	25.4	+5	27	57	-30	2	0	3.0%	0	100	44.5	10
BJ McLeod	33	35	9	28	7	35	29.3	+5	38	56	-18	4	0	6.0%	0	100	39.0	9
Blaine Perkins	24	33	24	29	8	35	26.5	-5	27	82	-55	2	0	10.0%	0	100	39.7	8
Jeremy Clements	18	34	30	30	9	36	32.4	-12	12	27	-15	2	0	2.0%	0	99	30.5	7
Garrett Smithley	26	27	32	31	6	35	26.5	-5	10	43	-33	0	0	8.0%	0	97	45.2	6
Greg Van Alst	37	32	31	32	23	37	31.2	+5	18	31	-13	0	0	0.0%	0	91	32.2	5
Chandler Smith	13	36	36	33	11	36	34.8	-20	18	12	+6	3	0	1.0%	0	86	42.0	4
Anthony Alfredo	5	15	33	34	4	28	14.8	-29	33	38	-5	20	0	73.0%	0	83	69.2	3
Parker Retzlaff	20	19	34	35	6	35	20.7	-15	36	24	+12	7	0	21.0%	0	83	57.7	2
Josh Williams	19	24	35	36	3	34	20.8	-17	36	32	+4	8	0	31.0%	0	83	56.0	1
Sam Mayer	4	37	37	37	4	4	37.0	-33	0	5	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	0	27.2	1
Josh Berry	10	38	38	38	10	10	38.0	-28	0	3	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	0	26.5	0

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Pennzoil 250 Presented by Advance Auto Parts
Race Winner: Riley Herbst
Age: 25
Team : No. 98 - Monster Energy Ford
Owner: Tony Stewart
Crew Chief: Davin Restivo
Riley Herbst won the Pennzoil 250 Presented by Advance Auto Parts, his second victory in 162 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Cole Custer (second) posted his third top-10 finish in four races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is his 16th top-10 finish in 2024.
Aric Almirola (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Shane Van Gisbergen (fourth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Cole Custer leads the point standings by 56 points over Justin Allgaier.

Race Recap

Riley Herbst grabs Xfinity Series win at Indianapolis

July 20th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

In one of the most dramatic NASCAR Xfinity Series finishes in recent memory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst took the lead in the final corner of the final lap to claim his first victory of the season in Saturday’s Pennzoil 250 – formally punching his ticket to the 2024 Playoffs.

Three different drivers led the final three laps in the series’ return to the famous speedway’s 2.5-mile oval after four years of competing on the track’s road course. Ultimately, the 25-year-old Herbst drove his No. 98 SHR Ford sideways exiting Turn 4 to negotiate his way past veteran Aric Almirola and race off to a .167-second win over his SHR teammate Cole Custer and Almirola.

Custer led Lap 98. Almirola led Lap 99. And Herbst held the lead for the most important, Lap 100. The three were three-wide on the white flag lap, signaling one lap to-go with Almirola taking the white flag out front. Herbst caught him and dove low to claim the lead coming out of Turn 4 on the next lap and Custer raced past Almirola in the closing feet to give SHR a 1-2 finish.

“This is Indianapolis, this is the most famous race track in the world and it’s an honor just to walk into the place, let alone win,” said Herbst, whose only other series win was in at his hometown Las Vegas track last year. “We’ve had speed all year and I felt like we could win. I just messed up on restarts a little bit but just continued to work and continued to work.

“I’m proud of these guys. Proud of Stewart-Haas Racing. Obviously, with the news of us (the current Stewart-Haas Racing team) shutting down these guys could have given up on me and Cole but they stuck behind me and Cole and it’s back-to-back wins for Stewart-Haas Racing.”

The teammates combined to lead 77 of the 100 laps with Custer’s 47 laps out front most in the field. Custer, Saturday’s polesitter was smiling when he climbed out of his No. 00 SHR Ford and was the first to congratulate Herbst.

“What an awesome day for SHR, two cars up front all day, qualified one-two and finished one-two, so an unbelievable day for SHR,” said Custer, who started his day with a big announcement that he would be driving for the new single-car Haas Factory Team in the NASCAR Cup Series next year.

The defending series champion – who claimed his first win of 2024 last week at Pocono, Pa. – continues to lead the points standings and with his second place showing now has a 56-point advantage over JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier, who finished ninth Saturday.

The former fulltime NASCAR Cup Series driver Almirola, 40, making his first start in the Xfinity Series since May 11, finished third in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. The former Stewart-Haas Racing driver was also among the first to congratulate Herbst on the hard-fought victory.

“They (Herbst and Custer) were the class of the field but I knew if they got racing there was going to be an opportunity to steal it and I got the lead and thought and just got too tight in [turn] three and he got back inside me,” Almirola said, adding, “Those guys deserve it. I know all the guys on the team. They’re a great group of guys and proud and happy for those guys.”

Rookie Shane Van Gisbergen, the former Australian SuperCars champion, finished a strong fourth-place, making his way forward after opting for fresh tires on a final pit stop and turning in an inspired final restart with 10 laps remaining. A three-time road course winner this season, that fourth place was his best finish on an oval since a third place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in February.

“It’s tough and I’m obviously still learning and I’m probably still a bit too conservative but I feel like the car got better and I got better,” Van Gisbergen said. “This Xfinity Series is so fun, the way the cars move around and the way they’re all sliding.

“I had a blast.”

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Sheldon Creed finished fifth. Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill, who started from the rear of the field after some last minute adjustments on his Chevrolet, rallied to a sixth-place finish.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular Daniel Dye was seventh, followed by two-time Indy winner A.J. Allmendinger, Allgaier and 21-year-old Carson Kvapil, who was making his sixth start of the year driving for JR Motorsports.

It was perhaps a fittingly dramatic ending to a race that got off to a tumultuous start with a 12-car accident taking multiple cars out of contention early. JR Motorsports Sam Mayer, a two-time race winner this year, spun out after making a three-wide move in Turn 3 collecting multiple cars and damaging more as they tried to avoid.

Fulltime NASCAR Cup Series driver Josh Berry, who was driving the No. 15 AM Racing Ford was among those collected in the melee and was officially scored last. He and Mayer were unable to complete one lap.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chandler Smith retired on Lap 37, his No. 81 Toyota never able to overcome the damage from the first lap incident.

RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg holds a slim three-point edge over JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith for the final points Playoff transfer position with six races remaining to set the 12-driver Playoff field.