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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Call 811 Before You Dig 250

Martinsville Speedway

April 15th, 2023

Race #8 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 250
Miles Raced : 131.5
Time of Race : 02 Hours 12 minutes 50 seconds
Average Speed: 59.398 mph
Cautions: 10
Caution Laps: 82
Lead Changes: 7
Cars in Race : 38
Finished On Lead Lap: 27 (71%)

John Hunter Nemechek and crew celebrate in victory lane — Martinsville, Virginia - April 15th, 2023: John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #20 Pye Barker Fire & Safety Toyota, and crew celebrate in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity SeriesCall811.com Before You Dig. 250 at Martinsville Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	2	20	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	60	40	20	7	250	198	3	1	1	Running
2	7	18	Sammy Smith	Toyota	51	35	16	0	250	6	1	2	4	Running
3	1	00	Cole Custer	Ford	50	34	16	0	250	5	1	3	3	Running
4	6	8	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	42	33	9	0	250	27	1	0	2	Running
5	10	9	Brandon Jones	Chevrolet	38	32	6	0	250	0	0	10	6	Running
6	8	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	36	31	5	0	250	6	1	6	0	Running
7	13	11	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	40	30	10	0	250	0	0	7	5	Running
8	12	10	Derek Kraus	Chevrolet	30	29	1	0	250	0	0	0	10	Running
9	16	25	Brett Moffitt	Ford	28	28	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
10	11	16	Chandler Smith	Chevrolet	32	27	5	0	250	0	0	8	9	Running
11	4	31	Parker Retzlaff	Chevrolet	28	26	2	0	250	0	0	9	0	Running
12	14	19	Ryan Truex	Toyota	29	25	4	0	250	0	0	0	7	Running
13	23	2	Blaine Perkins	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
14	31	27	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	23	23	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
15	19	26	Kaz Grala	Toyota	22	22	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
16	15	21	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	250	8	1	0	0	Running
17	21	48	Parker Kligerman	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
18	17	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	19	19	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
19	20	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
20	25	44	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
21	36	35	Patrick Emerling	Toyota	16	16	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
22	26	53	Matt Mills	Ford	0	0	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
23	37	8	Gray Gaulding	Ford	14	14	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
24	38	78	Anthony Alfredo	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
25	30	45	Leland Honeyman Jr	Chevrolet	12	12	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
26	24	91	Alex Labbe	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
27	3	2	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	250	0	0	0	0	Running
28	35	43	Ryan Ellis	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	249	0	0	0	0	Running
29	32	6	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	8	8	0	0	246	0	0	0	0	Running
30	9	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	16	7	9	0	222	0	0	5	8	Accident
31	5	1	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	13	6	7	0	221	0	0	4	0	Accident
32	22	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	210	0	0	0	0	Accident
33	18	24	Connor Mosack	Toyota	4	4	0	0	205	0	0	0	0	Running
34	27	96	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	198	0	0	0	0	Suspension
35	28	28	Kyle Sieg	Ford	2	2	0	0	145	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	29	7	Dawson Cram		1	1	0	0	143	0	0	0	0	Accident
37	34	38	Joe Graf Jr	Ford	1	1	0	0	133	0	0	0	0	Accident
38	33	74	Kaden Honeycutt	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	83	0	0	0	0	Engine

Race Infractions

Call 811 Before You Dig 250 at Martinsville Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Alex Labbe	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Jeremy Clements	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Anthony Alfredo	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Sheldon Creed	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Kaden Honeycutt	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Brennan Poole	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	38	40	Yellow
Kaden Honeycutt	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	63	65	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	135	137	Yellow
Josh Berry	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	137	139	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	145	147	Yellow
Kyle Sieg	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	145	0	Yellow
Connor Mosack	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	148	0	Yellow
Josh Williams	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	163	165	Yellow
Ryan Sieg	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	210	212	Yellow
Jeremy Clements	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	211	213	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	222	0	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Martinsville Speedway
Call811.com Before You Dig. 250
Race Winner: John Hunter Nemechek
Age: 25
Team : No. 20 - Pye Barker Fire & Safety Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
John Hunter Nemechek won the Call811.com Before You Dig. 250, his fourth victory in 75 Xfinity Series races.
This is his second victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in one race at Martinsville Speedway.
Sammy Smith (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2023.
Cole Custer (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Martinsville Speedway.
Sammy Smith (second) was the highest finishing rookie.
John Hunter Nemechek won the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash at Martinsville. Nemechek, Cole Custer, Sammy Smith and Jsoh Berry have qualified for the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash at Talladega Superspeedway.

Race Recap

John Hunter Nemechek Wins with Dominating Performance in Martinsville

April 15th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

John Hunter Nemechek led a dominating 198 of 250 laps to win Saturday night's Call811.com Before You Dig 250 – besting his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Sammy Smith by 1.518-seconds to earn his second NASCAR Xfinity Series victory of the 2023 season and first win in his first series-start at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

The 25-year-old Nemechek, of Mooresville, N.C., took the lead for good on a race restart with 32 laps remaining after winning the first two stages of the race. He, Smith and third place finisher Cole Custer were easily the class of the field all night running some version of 1-2-3 for most of the race.

Smith was able to nudge his way past Custer on the final lap for that runner-up showing.

As Nemechek took his No. 20 JGR Toyota to the front stretch to do a traditional burnout celebration, he literally set the track on fire briefly – perhaps a fitting finale to his hot night behind the wheel. Not only did he win the race, he won the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash incentive prize awarded by series sponsor Xfinity.

"I can't say enough about this whole team, if you would have asked me yesterday if we would have won, I thought we were a 10th place car in practice," said Nemechek, whose car was ironically sponsored by a fire extinguisher company (Pye Barker Fire & Safety). "Just grateful the guys made the right adjustments.

"Let's celebrate."

While Nemechek's car was so good on the night, there was still a lot of compelling wheel-to-wheel competition behind him. Fourth place finisher Josh Berry, for example, led the next highest number of laps (27) – his No. 8 JR Motorsport Chevrolet looking especially strong until a tire situation forced a long pit stop midway through the race. He rallied back through the field, however, to take his seventh-consecutive top-10 finish on the year tying the the longest stretch of his career.

Berry's JR Motorsports teammate Brandon Jones finished fifth – his first top 10 of the season in the No. 9 JRM Chevrolet – followed by another teammate, Justin Allgaier, who was able to keep his No. 7 JRM Chevy in the lead group of cars despite not feeling well himself and finishing the race on much older tires than the rest of the lead group.

Nemechek – who swept both stage wins – Smith, Custer and Berry are now eligible for the next installment of the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash $100,000 award – next week at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. The top finishing driver from among that four gets the big check.

"Congrats to them, they were the best car all night," Smith said.

Kaulig Racing teammates Daniel Hemric and Derek Kraus, AM Racing's Brett Moffitt and Kaulig's Chandler Smith rounded out the top 10.

Austin Hill – who leads all drivers with three wins this season – finished 16th and with Nemechek's win the second-generation driver takes over the points lead by 21 points over Hill.