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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Andy's Frozen Custard 300

Texas Motor Speedway

April 13th, 2024

Race #8 of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 300.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 22 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 125.977 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.002 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 35
Lead Changes: 16

Jesse Love drives during the Andy's Frozen Custard 300 — Fort Worth, Texas - April 13th, 2024: Jesse Love, driver of the #2 Whelen Chevrolet, drives during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | 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	10	7	2	1	1	20	8.5	+9	64	55	+9	44	15	97.5%	5	200	114.1	41
Ryan Sieg	14	6	4	2	1	28	8.6	+12	66	46	+20	45	8	95.5%	17	200	110.7	44
Justin Allgaier	6	1	8	3	1	20	2.6	+3	45	40	+5	30	44	98.5%	117	200	141.1	54
AJ Allmendinger	8	8	5	4	3	26	9.6	+4	66	41	+25	35	7	86.5%	0	200	102.8	37
Cole Custer	2	4	9	5	1	30	4.8	-3	58	64	-6	32	3	97.0%	1	200	114.2	47
Austin Hill	13	11	6	6	1	29	8.0	+7	66	58	+8	41	5	89.5%	25	200	101.8	39
Ryan Truex	7	29	14	7	2	34	11.5	+0	76	69	+7	39	9	62.5%	0	200	96.8	35
Sammy Smith	9	3	11	8	3	33	11.5	+1	63	65	-2	37	1	76.0%	0	200	90.4	34
Jesse Love	1	9	7	9	1	30	11.6	-8	60	68	-8	41	0	86.0%	1	200	87.7	31
Anthony Alfredo	12	12	15	10	6	29	15.7	+2	68	64	+4	31	0	51.0%	0	200	79.0	27
Taylor Gray	3	27	12	11	3	31	15.9	-8	79	77	+2	36	5	57.5%	0	200	82.4	0
Josh Williams	22	15	13	12	5	27	16.5	+10	74	75	-1	34	0	40.5%	0	200	76.5	25
Brandon Jones	11	5	1	13	1	24	6.6	-2	65	62	+3	45	16	98.0%	2	200	107.6	38
Kyle Sieg	23	14	25	14	12	35	22.0	+9	74	73	+1	11	0	21.0%	0	200	63.7	23
Chandler Smith	4	31	19	15	1	35	12.0	-11	66	60	+6	19	13	58.0%	26	200	88.5	31
Jeremy Clements	18	18	18	16	6	37	20.4	+2	88	72	+16	11	2	4.0%	0	200	64.7	21
Corey Heim	17	24	16	17	10	34	20.4	+0	80	68	+12	8	1	15.0%	0	200	66.9	0
Shane van Gisbergen	33	23	22	18	2	33	20.3	+15	84	73	+11	11	0	13.5%	0	200	64.3	19
Sheldon Creed	15	10	24	19	1	32	13.5	-4	63	73	-10	24	8	73.5%	2	200	80.5	18
Matt DiBenedetto	27	21	27	20	7	36	24.4	+7	75	67	+8	5	0	5.0%	0	200	52.5	17
Brennan Poole	25	33	20	21	13	38	28.5	+4	54	57	-3	2	0	0.0%	0	200	50.0	16
Parker Retzlaff	29	13	17	22	9	35	19.5	+7	86	84	+2	19	1	36.0%	0	200	62.8	15
Hailie Deegan	20	16	26	23	14	35	20.5	-3	56	64	-8	4	0	9.5%	0	200	63.0	14
Daniel Dye	24	17	21	24	11	38	24.0	+0	82	83	-1	5	0	1.5%	0	200	51.5	0
Parker Kligerman	16	22	10	25	1	30	14.8	-9	79	99	-20	34	4	63.0%	4	200	73.0	13
Ryan Ellis	36	28	28	26	8	36	29.4	+10	52	52	+0	5	0	5.0%	0	199	41.3	11
Riley Herbst	5	2	3	27	2	27	5.5	-22	55	72	-17	38	14	93.5%	0	199	99.7	26
David Starr	38	30	30	28	15	38	31.3	+10	38	46	-8	1	0	1.5%	0	198	35.8	9
Josh Bilicki	28	26	29	29	5	34	27.7	-1	36	50	-14	0	0	1.0%	0	198	40.0	8
Joey Gase	37	35	31	30	26	37	33.6	+7	30	39	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	198	29.2	7
Leland Honeyman Jr	31	34	32	31	5	35	26.2	+0	49	52	-3	13	0	12.0%	0	198	45.8	6
Jeb Burton	21	19	36	32	5	36	23.7	-11	44	32	+12	12	1	39.0%	0	197	54.1	5
Patrick Emerling	30	25	33	33	15	36	29.7	-3	47	63	-16	2	0	0.0%	0	197	37.7	4
Garrett Smithley	32	36	35	34	30	37	35.1	-2	11	20	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	197	29.7	3
Blaine Perkins	26	32	34	35	22	36	31.2	-9	35	55	-20	0	0	0.0%	0	197	32.8	2
Kyle Weatherman	19	20	23	36	4	36	22.6	-17	65	55	+10	10	0	12.0%	0	191	48.0	1
Dawson Cram	34	38	37	37	31	38	37.4	-3	3	8	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	191	23.7	1
Chad Finchum	35	37	38	38	29	38	36.0	-3	9	12	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	127	29.3	1

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Race Fast Facts

Texas Motor Speedway
Andy's Frozen Custard 300
Race Winner: Sam Mayer
Age: 20
Team : No. 1 - Carolina Carports Chevrolet
Owner: JR Motorsports
Crew Chief: Mardy Lindley
Sam Mayer won the Andy's Frozen Custard 300, his fifth victory in 92 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in five races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Ryan Sieg (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in 20 races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his second top-10 finish in 2024.
Justin Allgaier (third) posted his 15th top-10 finish in 27 races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Jesse Love (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chandler Smith leads the point standings by 19 points over Cole Custer.
The Margin of Victory for today's race was 0.002-second - the closest Margin of Victory in the Xfinity Series at Texas Motor Speedway. Previous MOV record at Texas was 0.128-second set in 2007.

Race Recap

Sam Mayer beats Ryan Sieg in Xfinity Series photo finish at Texas

April 13th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

In a race decided by less than the length of a Texas hot chili pepper, JR Motorsports driver Sam Mayer pulled off a last lap pass of veteran Ryan Sieg to claim his first victory of the season Saturday in the Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Officially, the margin of victory was .002-second as Mayer’s No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet and Sieg’s No. 39 Ryan Sieg Racing Ford crossed the finish line door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper – the cars so close officials took a brief extra look to formally declare Mayer the winner. It was Mayer’s first win of the year and fifth of his career.

It would have been Sieg’s first win in 342 career starts in the series.

“That’s absolutely unreal,” the 20-year old Mayer said, shaking his head after climbing out of his car. “This team, the amount of adversity we’ve had to fight this entire year so far and to come to a mile-and-a-half that I want to say I’m good at, but it took a lot.

“It took every ounce of me for me to do that today.”

Sieg led 17 of the final 18 laps and raced off to the front on a pair of late race restarts in the closing 20 laps of the 200-lap race on the 1.5-mile Texas high banks. With nine laps remaining Sieg held a 1.2-second advantage over Mayer. But Mayer cut into that margin with each lap, trailing by only .25-second with two laps remaining and then catching Sieg’s car on the back stretch on the final lap. They exchanged the lead briefly, racing door-to-door and then Sieg pulled alongside as they took the checkered flag in a photo finish – the closest ever for an Xfinity Series race at Texas.

“Awe, it sucks,” said an obviously disappointed Sieg, who has two other career runner-up finishes. “We had a really good car. I just got tight, so tried to change my lines, do everything. I saw him coming and I did all I could do and at the end I was just trying to run him up into the wall to try to win the race. We were so close. This sucks.

“I’ve been second before. Too many times. But this is a good thing, means we’re running where we need to be in the top-five.

“Just got to keep fighting, we’re right there, just got to keep it up,” he added. “We’ll have it in Victory Lane here shortly.”

All the late race drama came at the expense of veteran Justin Allgaier, who led a race best 117 laps and swept both stage victories, but ultimately finished third in the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. It was disappointing DeJa’Vu for Allgaier, who a year ago led a dominating 133 of the 200 laps only to finish fifth.

A.J. Allmendinger finished fourth in the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet – a huge rally for the perennial championship contender after he missed his pit stall during the Stage 1 caution, which put him back in the field and forced him to race through the field – again.

Reigning Xfinity Series champion Cole Custer, who started from outside the front row, was a top five car all day and finished fifth in the No. 00 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. Custer now trails championship leader Chandler Smith – who finished 15th – by 19 points in the standings.

Two-race winner, Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill finished sixth, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ryan Truex, JR Motorsports Sammy Smith, polesitter, RCR’s Jesse Love and Anthony Alfredo, who earned his third top-10 of the season in the Our Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet.

With the win Mayer not only course-corrects a rough start to the 2024 season – he suffered DNFs in three of the first four races – but he earns the coveted $100,000 prize from Xfinity as the Dash 4 Cash winning driver.

He’ll compete against Sieg, Allgaier and Allmendinger for the big Dash 4 Cash check again next week at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.

It was a rally not just for driver but for his JR Motorsports team. The perennial championship favorite has struggled early in the 2024 season – its four talented drivers not earning a top-five until last week at Martinsville. On Saturday, not only did the team – co-owned by Kelley Earnhardt Miller and her brother Dale Earnhardt Jr. – win the race but all four cars finished in the top-13 and three of the four drivers (also Brandon Jones) led laps.