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Andy's Frozen Custard 300

Saturday, April 13th, 2024

Texas Motor Speedway , Fort Worth, TX

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  • Andy's Frozen Custard 300
  • Pole Winner: Jesse Love
  • Age: 19
  • Team : No 2 - Whelen Chevrolet
  • Owner: Richard Childress
  • Crew Chief: Danny Stockman, Jr
  • Jesse Love won the Pole Award for the Andy's Frozen Custard 300 with a lap of 29093 seconds, 185612 mph
  • This is his third pole in eight NASCAR Xfinity Series races
  • This is his third pole and fifth top-10 start in 2024
  • This is his first pole in one races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • Cole Custer (second) posted his sixth top-10 start of 2024 and his eighth in eight races at Texas Motor Speedway
  • Taylor Gray (third) posted his first top-10 start at Texas Motor Speedway It is his first in three races this season
  • Jesse Love (first) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Saturday, April 13th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Sam Mayer beats Ryan Sieg in Xfinity Series photo finish at Texas

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.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 200
  • Margin of Victory: 0.002 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 22 Minutes 53 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 125.977
  • Cautions: 7 for 35 laps
  • Lead Changes: 16
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,211 (13.4 passes per green flag lap)

  • 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 0002-second - the closest Margin of Victory in the Xfinity Series at Texas Motor Speedway Previous MOV record at Texas was 0128-second set in 2007
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Summary of each driver's pit stop during the race. Detailed Report is below the Summary Report.

Average Driver and Crew Pit Stop Time
Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway Pit Stop Summary
DRIVER ST FIN STATUS PIT STOPS AVG DRVR TIME DRVR RANK AVG CREW TIME CREW RANK AVG TTL TIME TTL RANK FST STOP SLW STOP
Austin Hill 13 6 Running 5 26.907 17 12.486 1 39.392 1 33.109 50.376
Justin Allgaier 6 3 Running 4 25.999 1 14.506 2 40.504 2 40.415 40.565
Cole Custer 2 5 Running 4 26.033 3 14.773 4 40.806 3 40.114 41.097
Sheldon Creed 15 19 Running 3 26.289 7 14.636 3 40.926 4 40.447 41.549
Brandon Jones 11 13 Running 4 26.010 2 14.998 5 41.008 5 33.917 44.506
Sammy Smith 9 8 Running 4 26.466 10 15.165 6 41.631 6 39.891 42.569
Riley Herbst 5 27 Running 4 26.186 5 15.482 8 41.668 7 40.559 43.197
Ryan Truex 7 7 Running 4 26.444 8 15.340 7 41.784 8 41.334 42.226
Sam Mayer 10 1 Running 4 26.628 12 15.549 9 42.177 9 40.738 44.635
Jeb Burton 21 32 Running 4 26.725 14 15.557 10 42.282 10 41.237 43.137
Parker Kligerman 16 25 Running 3 26.271 6 16.027 12 42.298 11 41.251 43.546
Chandler Smith 4 15 Running 4 26.597 11 15.715 11 42.313 12 41.312 42.774
Jesse Love 1 9 Running 4 26.167 4 16.550 15 42.716 13 41.738 43.867
Taylor Gray 3 11 Running 4 26.671 13 16.266 13 42.937 14 41.676 46.570
Josh Williams 22 12 Running 4 26.761 15 16.408 14 43.169 15 42.628 43.918
Ryan Sieg 14 2 Running 4 26.456 9 17.451 18 43.907 16 42.400 46.603
Corey Heim 17 17 Running 3 27.445 25 16.802 16 44.247 17 42.062 46.967
AJ Allmendinger 8 4 Running 4 27.770 30 17.017 17 44.786 18 41.555 49.732
Hailie Deegan 20 23 Running 4 27.699 26 17.692 19 45.391 19 41.905 48.331
Shane van Gisbergen 33 18 Running 4 26.942 18 19.160 24 46.103 20 42.613 50.094
Ryan Ellis 36 26 Running 3 27.237 21 18.908 22 46.144 21 45.265 47.380
Parker Retzlaff 29 22 Running 4 27.882 31 18.402 20 46.284 22 43.418 49.160
Daniel Dye 24 24 Running 5 27.102 20 19.532 25 46.634 23 44.375 48.474
Patrick Emerling 30 33 Running 3 27.088 19 19.586 26 46.674 24 44.289 48.334
Kyle Weatherman 19 36 Accident 3 27.309 22 19.686 28 46.995 25 42.480 50.647
Anthony Alfredo 12 10 Running 3 27.404 24 19.619 27 47.023 26 45.682 49.081
Kyle Sieg 23 14 Running 4 28.281 36 18.752 21 47.033 27 45.100 48.238
Blaine Perkins 26 35 Running 3 28.180 34 18.919 23 47.098 28 44.369 50.266
Jeremy Clements 18 16 Running 4 26.866 16 20.620 29 47.486 29 43.881 49.809
Brennan Poole 25 21 Running 4 27.733 27 21.057 32 48.790 30 44.805 54.106
Leland Honeyman Jr 31 31 Running 3 27.895 32 20.976 31 48.871 31 47.117 50.729
Matt DiBenedetto 27 20 Running 4 27.741 28 21.813 33 49.554 32 47.642 51.797
David Starr 38 28 Running 4 28.952 37 20.804 30 49.756 33 46.147 52.066
Dawson Cram 34 37 Running 3 27.749 29 23.423 34 51.172 34 50.332 52.505
Joey Gase 37 30 Running 3 28.208 35 23.701 35 51.909 35 48.140 53.903
Garrett Smithley 32 34 Running 3 27.362 23 25.258 37 52.620 36 50.668 55.849
Josh Bilicki 28 29 Running 3 28.169 33 25.247 36 53.416 37 50.198 57.909

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway Pit Stop Detail
DRIVER LDR LAP DRV LAP DRV TIME CREW TIME TOT TIME TYPE
AJ Allmendinger 174 174 26.674 14.881 41.555 4-wheel change
AJ Allmendinger 142 142 26.536 15.983 42.519 4-wheel change
AJ Allmendinger 80 80 27.255 18.084 45.339 4-wheel change
AJ Allmendinger 49 49 30.613 19.119 49.732 4-wheel change
David Starr 157 155 27.996 18.151 46.147 4-wheel change
David Starr 94 93 28.633 20.587 49.220 4-wheel change
David Starr 49 48 30.435 21.154 51.589 4-wheel change
David Starr 187 184 28.743 23.323 52.066 4-wheel change
Ryan Truex 175 174 26.953 14.381 41.334 4-wheel change
Ryan Truex 48 48 26.358 15.148 41.506 4-wheel change
Ryan Truex 158 157 25.955 16.116 42.071 4-wheel change
Ryan Truex 80 80 26.511 15.715 42.226 4-wheel change
Justin Allgaier 174 174 26.034 14.381 40.415 4-wheel change
Justin Allgaier 80 80 25.851 14.647 40.498 4-wheel change
Justin Allgaier 48 48 26.058 14.481 40.539 4-wheel change
Justin Allgaier 142 142 26.051 14.514 40.565 4-wheel change
Parker Kligerman 146 145 26.070 15.181 41.251 4-wheel change
Parker Kligerman 48 48 26.280 15.816 42.096 4-wheel change
Parker Kligerman 73 72 26.462 17.084 43.546 4-wheel change
Joey Gase 162 159 27.453 20.687 48.140 4-wheel change
Joey Gase 95 93 27.958 25.725 53.683 4-wheel change
Joey Gase 49 48 29.212 24.691 53.903 4-wheel change
Jeb Burton 48 48 26.589 14.648 41.237 4-wheel change
Jeb Burton 93 93 26.870 15.081 41.951 4-wheel change
Jeb Burton 157 154 26.821 15.982 42.803 4-wheel change
Jeb Burton 80 80 26.621 16.516 43.137 4-wheel change
Matt DiBenedetto 80 80 28.056 19.586 47.642 4-wheel change
Matt DiBenedetto 153 152 26.904 20.954 47.858 4-wheel change
Matt DiBenedetto 48 48 28.597 22.322 50.919 4-wheel change
Matt DiBenedetto 187 186 27.406 24.391 51.797 4-wheel change
Ryan Ellis 94 93 27.047 18.218 45.265 4-wheel change
Ryan Ellis 154 152 27.136 18.652 45.788 4-wheel change
Ryan Ellis 49 48 27.527 19.853 47.380 4-wheel change
Ryan Sieg 142 141 26.117 16.283 42.400 4-wheel change
Ryan Sieg 174 174 26.121 17.150 43.271 4-wheel change
Ryan Sieg 80 80 26.936 16.416 43.352 4-wheel change
Ryan Sieg 48 48 26.650 19.953 46.603 4-wheel change
Kyle Weatherman 162 161 26.431 16.049 42.480 4-wheel change
Kyle Weatherman 80 80 27.304 20.553 47.857 4-wheel change
Kyle Weatherman 48 48 28.191 22.456 50.647 4-wheel change
Brennan Poole 144 143 26.887 17.918 44.805 4-wheel change
Brennan Poole 49 48 28.863 18.619 47.482 4-wheel change
Brennan Poole 186 185 27.780 20.987 48.767 4-wheel change
Brennan Poole 94 93 27.403 26.703 54.106 4-wheel change
Cole Custer 141 140 25.800 14.314 40.114 4-wheel change
Cole Custer 80 80 26.138 14.814 40.952 4-wheel change
Cole Custer 174 174 26.012 15.048 41.060 4-wheel change
Cole Custer 48 48 26.182 14.915 41.097 4-wheel change
Garrett Smithley 95 93 26.578 24.090 50.668 4-wheel change
Garrett Smithley 151 148 26.787 24.557 51.344 4-wheel change
Garrett Smithley 49 48 28.722 27.127 55.849 4-wheel change
Josh Bilicki 154 152 26.975 23.223 50.198 4-wheel change
Josh Bilicki 81 81 27.183 24.958 52.141 4-wheel change
Josh Bilicki 49 49 30.348 27.561 57.909 4-wheel change
Austin Hill 174 174 26.436 6.673 33.109 Left-sides only
Austin Hill 169 169 26.279 7.074 33.353 Right-sides only
Austin Hill 80 80 26.087 13.179 39.266 4-wheel change
Austin Hill 48 48 26.377 14.481 40.858 4-wheel change
Austin Hill 103 103 29.355 21.021 50.376 4-wheel change
Brandon Jones 174 174 25.976 7.941 33.917 Right-sides only
Brandon Jones 80 80 25.748 16.983 42.731 4-wheel change
Brandon Jones 142 142 26.295 16.583 42.878 4-wheel change
Brandon Jones 48 48 26.021 18.485 44.506 4-wheel change
Jeremy Clements 80 80 26.998 16.883 43.881 4-wheel change
Jeremy Clements 176 175 26.374 20.987 47.361 4-wheel change
Jeremy Clements 146 145 26.671 22.221 48.892 4-wheel change
Jeremy Clements 48 48 27.420 22.389 49.809 4-wheel change
Josh Williams 174 174 26.579 16.049 42.628 4-wheel change
Josh Williams 145 144 26.131 16.882 43.013 4-wheel change
Josh Williams 80 80 26.666 16.449 43.115 4-wheel change
Josh Williams 48 48 27.668 16.250 43.918 4-wheel change
Riley Herbst 48 48 26.278 14.281 40.559 4-wheel change
Riley Herbst 80 80 26.408 14.347 40.755 4-wheel change
Riley Herbst 142 142 26.244 15.916 42.160 4-wheel change
Riley Herbst 174 174 25.813 17.384 43.197 4-wheel change
Anthony Alfredo 80 80 27.198 18.484 45.682 4-wheel change
Anthony Alfredo 144 143 27.555 18.752 46.307 4-wheel change
Anthony Alfredo 48 48 27.460 21.621 49.081 4-wheel change
Patrick Emerling 49 48 27.439 16.850 44.289 4-wheel change
Patrick Emerling 147 145 26.611 20.787 47.398 4-wheel change
Patrick Emerling 94 93 27.213 21.121 48.334 4-wheel change
Sheldon Creed 145 145 26.166 14.281 40.447 4-wheel change
Sheldon Creed 48 48 26.534 14.247 40.781 4-wheel change
Sheldon Creed 80 80 26.168 15.381 41.549 4-wheel change
Blaine Perkins 163 160 27.853 16.516 44.369 4-wheel change
Blaine Perkins 49 48 27.574 19.086 46.660 4-wheel change
Blaine Perkins 94 93 29.112 21.154 50.266 4-wheel change
Kyle Sieg 80 80 27.316 17.784 45.100 4-wheel change
Kyle Sieg 186 185 27.787 19.519 47.306 4-wheel change
Kyle Sieg 48 48 28.668 18.819 47.487 4-wheel change
Kyle Sieg 142 141 29.352 18.886 48.238 4-wheel change
Sam Mayer 174 174 26.190 14.548 40.738 4-wheel change
Sam Mayer 143 143 26.436 15.082 41.518 4-wheel change
Sam Mayer 80 80 26.603 15.215 41.818 4-wheel change
Sam Mayer 48 48 27.284 17.351 44.635 4-wheel change
Dawson Cram 95 89 28.778 21.554 50.332 4-wheel change
Dawson Cram 187 177 27.389 23.290 50.679 4-wheel change
Dawson Cram 147 139 27.079 25.426 52.505 4-wheel change
Chandler Smith 164 163 26.331 14.981 41.312 4-wheel change
Chandler Smith 48 48 26.477 15.982 42.459 4-wheel change
Chandler Smith 80 80 26.823 15.882 42.705 4-wheel change
Chandler Smith 185 185 26.758 16.016 42.774 4-wheel change
Hailie Deegan 143 142 26.223 15.682 41.905 4-wheel change
Hailie Deegan 48 48 27.458 16.950 44.408 4-wheel change
Hailie Deegan 80 80 28.703 18.217 46.920 4-wheel change
Hailie Deegan 186 185 28.411 19.920 48.331 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 174 174 26.713 15.349 42.062 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 141 140 26.562 17.150 43.712 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 49 49 29.061 17.906 46.967 4-wheel change
Taylor Gray 174 174 26.261 15.415 41.676 4-wheel change
Taylor Gray 146 145 26.462 15.215 41.677 4-wheel change
Taylor Gray 48 48 26.274 15.549 41.823 4-wheel change
Taylor Gray 104 103 27.685 18.885 46.570 4-wheel change
Parker Retzlaff 80 80 28.270 15.148 43.418 4-wheel change
Parker Retzlaff 143 142 27.294 18.452 45.746 4-wheel change
Parker Retzlaff 48 48 27.992 18.819 46.811 4-wheel change
Parker Retzlaff 175 174 27.972 21.188 49.160 4-wheel change
Sammy Smith 174 174 26.077 13.814 39.891 4-wheel change
Sammy Smith 80 80 26.871 14.747 41.618 4-wheel change
Sammy Smith 140 139 26.330 16.116 42.446 4-wheel change
Sammy Smith 48 48 26.587 15.982 42.569 4-wheel change
Leland Honeyman Jr 49 48 27.664 19.453 47.117 4-wheel change
Leland Honeyman Jr 104 103 28.348 20.420 48.768 4-wheel change
Leland Honeyman Jr 167 166 27.673 23.056 50.729 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 146 145 26.525 17.850 44.375 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 186 185 26.912 18.985 45.897 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 48 48 27.216 19.386 46.602 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 80 80 27.336 20.486 47.822 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 12 11 27.520 20.954 48.474 4-wheel change
Jesse Love 174 174 26.022 15.716 41.738 4-wheel change
Jesse Love 142 141 26.228 16.049 42.277 4-wheel change
Jesse Love 80 80 26.066 16.916 42.982 4-wheel change
Jesse Love 48 48 26.350 17.517 43.867 4-wheel change
Shane van Gisbergen 93 93 26.230 16.383 42.613 4-wheel change
Shane van Gisbergen 80 80 27.544 17.917 45.461 4-wheel change
Shane van Gisbergen 165 164 26.156 20.086 46.242 4-wheel change
Shane van Gisbergen 48 48 27.839 22.255 50.094 4-wheel change