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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Food City 300

Bristol Motor Speedway

September 17th, 2021

Race #26 of the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 300
- Extended to 306 laps
Miles Raced : 163.1
Time of Race : 02 Hours 10 minutes 26 seconds
Average Speed: 75.026 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.082 seconds
Cautions: 10
Caution Laps: 72
Lead Changes: 11
Cars in Race : 40
Finished On Lead Lap: 14 (35%)

AJ Allmendinger spins across the finish line with Austin Cindric — Bristol, Tennessee - September 17th, 2021: AJ Allmendinger, driver of the #16 Barger Precast Chevrolet, spins across the finish line after an incident with Austin Cindric, driver of the #22 Menards/Richmond Ford, to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Logan Riely | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	10	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	50	40	10	5	306	1	1	6	6	Running
2	9	22	Austin Cindric	Ford	45	35	10	0	306	75	2	7	5	Running
3	8	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	34	34	0	0	306	0	0	0	0	Running
4	2	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	52	33	19	1	306	92	3	1	2	Running
5	16	19	Brandon Jones	Toyota	38	32	6	0	306	0	0	8	8	Running
6	5	11	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	45	31	14	0	306	0	0	4	4	Running
7	6	20	Harrison Burton	Toyota	31	30	1	0	306	0	0	10	0	Running
8	17	2	Myatt Snider	Chevrolet	29	29	0	0	306	0	0	0	0	Running
9	22	8	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	34	28	6	0	306	49	1	5	0	Running
10	4	18	Daniel Hemric	Toyota	46	27	19	1	306	78	3	2	1	Running
11	3	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	32	26	6	0	306	0	0	9	7	Running
12	1	9	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	41	25	16	0	306	4	1	3	3	Running
13	13	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	306	0	0	0	0	Running
14	11	68	Brandon Brown	Chevrolet	23	23	0	0	306	0	0	0	0	Running
15	31	23	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
16	32	31	Sage Karam	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
17	36	7	Joe Graf Jr	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
18	39	52	Gray Gaulding	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
19	14	36	Alex Labbe	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
20	18	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
21	21	26	Brandon Gdovic	Toyota	16	16	0	0	305	0	0	0	0	Running
22	27	5	Stefan Parsons	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	304	0	0	0	0	Running
23	23	44	Tommy Joe Martins	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	304	0	0	0	0	Running
24	7	10	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	14	13	1	0	303	7	1	0	10	Running
25	29	0	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Chevrolet	12	12	0	0	303	0	0	0	0	Running
26	37	15	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	303	0	0	0	0	Running
27	30	48	Jade Buford	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	302	0	0	0	0	Running
28	25	78	Jesse Little	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	302	0	0	0	0	Running
29	19	47	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	8	8	0	0	301	0	0	0	0	Running
30	24	66	David Starr	Toyota	7	7	0	0	300	0	0	0	0	Running
31	33	90	Spencer Boyd	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	298	0	0	0	0	Running
32	34	17	Carson Ware	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	297	0	0	0	0	Running
33	38	61	Chad Finchum	Toyota	4	4	0	0	282	0	0	0	0	Running
34	12	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	5	3	2	0	259	0	0	0	9	Fuel Pump
35	15	1	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	215	0	0	0	0	Running
36	26	99	Matt Mills	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	108	0	0	0	0	Accident
37	28	6	Ryan Vargas	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	94	0	0	0	0	Brakes
38	40	74	Bayley Currey	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	53	0	0	0	0	Brakes
39	35	4	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	40	0	0	0	0	Electrical
40	20	2	Brett Moffitt	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Josh Berry	Pre-Race to the Rear Driver change	Tail End	0	0	White
Carson Ware	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	11	16	Yellow
Landon Cassill	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	41	51	Yellow
Landon Cassill	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	41	51	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	42	51	Yellow
Chad Finchum	Unspecified Equipment over the wall too soon	Tail End	43	51	Yellow
Spencer Boyd	Removing equipment from assigned pit area	Tail End	44	51	Yellow
Bayley Currey	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	49	51	Yellow
Josh Berry	Unspecified Pit- repair damage	Other - See Notes	77	79	Green
Stefan Parsons	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	155	161	Yellow
Myatt Snider	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	157	161	Yellow
Justin Allgaier	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	173	179	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	173	179	Yellow
Carson Ware	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	199	204	Yellow
David Starr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	240	247	Yellow
Ty Dillon	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	241	247	Yellow
Jade Buford	Tire violation	Tail End	300	304	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Bristol Motor Speedway
40th Annual Food City 300
Race Winner: AJ Allmendinger
Age: 39
Team : No. 16 - Barger Precast Chevrolet
Owner: Kaulig Racing
Crew Chief: Jason Trinchere
AJ Allmendinger won the 40th Annual Food City 300, his ninth victory in 53 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 17th top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in two races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Austin Cindric (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in seven races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 19th top-10 finish in 2021.
Riley Herbst (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Sam Mayer (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
AJ Allmendinger has won the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship.

Race Recap

AJ Allmendinger triumphs at Bristol, wins Xfinity regular-season crown in slugfest

September 17th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

With cars bouncing off each other like pinballs through two laps of overtime, AJ Allmendinger took his No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet three-wide to the bottom, passed Justin Allgaier and Austin Cindric on the final lap and won Friday night's Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The victory gave Allmendinger the NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship by 10 points over Cindric, who held the race lead when the 10th and final caution flag flew on Lap 297 of 300 after Allgaier turned JR Motorsports teammate Sam Mayer in Turn 1.

In the overtime, things got crazy. Cindric and Allgaier picked the top lane, and Allmendinger chose the inside of the front row. On the white-flag lap, Allmendinger drove hard into Turns 3 and 4 and slid up into Cindric's No. 22 Team Penske Ford.

Allmendinger fell back to third, but contact between Allgaier's Camaro and Cindric's Mustang gave Allmendinger a chance to slip beneath both cars into the lead.

But the race wasn't over. On the final lap, Cindric charged off the final corner, slammed into Allmendinger, and both cars slid sideways across the finish line, with Allmendinger the winner by .082 seconds.

After taking the checkered flag, Allmendinger careened off the inside wall, slid across the track into traffic and took a huge hit from Kaulig Racing teammate Justin Haley.

But the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship was his.

"I expected to get run into," Allmendinger said. "It happened that previous corner. It's frustrating getting hit that hard coming to checker, but we're battling for the win. It's Bristol, baby. That's what it's all about.

"I haven't had a lot of chances to get a win at Bristol, so you know what? When you have a chance to do it, you've got to go do it. If I don't take that chance, I don't belong in a race car, because my team deserves the win."

Under the circumstances, Cindric exhibited remarkable restraint in his post-race interview.

"I thought we had a great battle all season long up to this point, so congratulations to Kaulig and AJ," said Cindric, who led 75 laps, third-most behind Allgaier's 92 and Daniel Hemric's 78. "Those guys didn't want us to win really bad, and I hate that it completely destroyed our Ford Mustang.

"That's all I've got, man...It's looks like the 7 (Allgaier) just got loose there (in spinning Mayer), and AJ obviously just drove straight through us. You'll have that in green-white-checkered racing."

The victory was Allmendinger's first at Bristol, his fourth of the season and the ninth of his career. The final lap of overtime was the only lap he led, as the race went six laps past its scheduled distance of 300 circuits.

The regular-season cutoff race also set the final positions for the Round of 12 in the Xfinity Series Playoff. With no new winner, Brandon Jones, Riley Herbst and Jeremy Clements clinched the final three spots on points, as expected, as the series heads for the Playoff opener Sept. 25 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Herbst finished third behind the wrecking cars of Allmendinger and Cindric. Allgaier fell to fourth on the final lap, with Jones and Haley running fifth and sixth. Harrison Burton, Myatt Snider, Mayer and Hemric completed the top 10.