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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Tennessee Lottery 250

Nashville Superspeedway

June 24th, 2023

Race #15 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 188
- Extended to 196 laps
Miles Raced : 261.3
Time of Race : 02 Hours 40 minutes 21 seconds
Average Speed: 97.542 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.323 seconds
Cautions: 11
Caution Laps: 58
Lead Changes: 17
Cars in Race : 38
Finished On Lead Lap: 16 (42%)

AJ Allmendinger celebrates in victory lane — Lebanon, Tennessee - June 24th, 2023: AJ Allmendinger, driver of the #10 Bailey Zimmerman - Religiously Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway. 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	11	10	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	196	25	3	3	0	Running
2	5	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	45	35	10	0	196	0	0	7	5	Running
3	34	1	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	44	34	10	0	196	6	2	8	4	Running
4	7	21	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	33	33	0	0	196	3	1	0	0	Running
5	23	8	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	35	32	3	0	196	1	1	0	8	Running
6	21	20	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	38	31	7	0	196	0	0	9	6	Running
7	6	28	Zane Smith	Ford	0	0	0	0	196	0	0	0	7	Running
8	33	11	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	37	29	8	0	196	1	1	0	3	Running
9	1	0	Cole Custer	Ford	46	28	18	0	196	32	4	2	2	Running
10	10	31	Parker Retzlaff	Chevrolet	29	27	2	0	196	3	1	0	9	Running
11	13	48	Parker Kligerman	Chevrolet	27	26	1	0	196	22	1	10	0	Running
12	2	16	Chandler Smith	Chevrolet	40	25	15	1	196	74	2	6	1	Running
13	12	27	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	24	24	0	0	196	0	0	0	0	Running
14	26	25	Brett Moffitt	Ford	24	23	1	0	196	0	0	0	10	Running
15	16	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	196	0	0	0	0	Running
16	20	26	Kaz Grala	Toyota	21	21	0	0	196	0	0	0	0	Running
17	19	2	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
18	32	4	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
19	14	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	18	18	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
20	35	6	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
21	17	38	Joe Graf Jr	Ford	16	16	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
22	24	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
23	28	78	Anthony Alfredo	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
24	15	9	Brandon Jones	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
25	9	29	Kyle Sieg	Ford	12	12	0	0	195	0	0	0	0	Running
26	27	2	Blaine Perkins	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	194	0	0	0	0	Running
27	30	45	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	194	0	0	0	0	Running
28	25	43	Ryan Ellis	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	194	0	0	0	0	Running
29	22	91	Chad Chastain	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	194	0	0	0	0	Running
30	36	35	David Starr	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	193	0	0	0	0	Running
31	37	53	Joey Gase		6	6	0	0	193	0	0	0	0	Running
32	31	8	Mason Massey	Ford	5	5	0	0	186	0	0	0	0	Running
33	29	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	111	0	0	0	0	Alternator
34	3	18	Sammy Smith	Toyota	9	3	6	0	68	1	1	5	0	Accident
35	38	24	Connor Mosack	Toyota	2	2	0	0	61	0	0	0	0	DVP
36	8	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	53	0	0	4	0	Accident
37	4	19	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	0	0	0	0	53	28	1	1	0	Accident
38	18	7	Stefan Parsons	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
CJ McLaughlin	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup Car	Tail End	0	0	White
Zane Smith	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Connor Mosack	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Justin Allgaier	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	2	8	Yellow
Jeb Burton	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	10	14	Yellow
Austin Hill	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	10	14	Yellow
Josh Berry	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	12	14	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	20	21	Yellow
Josh Williams	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	46	0	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	49	52	Yellow
John Hunter Nemechek	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	49	52	Yellow
AJ Allmendinger	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	53	59	Yellow
Ty Gibbs	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	53	0	Yellow
Carson Hocevar	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	53	0	Yellow
Josh Berry	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	55	59	Yellow
Connor Mosack	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	61	65	Yellow
Josh Williams	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	64	65	Yellow
Josh Berry	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	64	65	Yellow
Brandon Jones	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	70	75	Yellow
Kyle Sieg	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	71	75	Yellow
Ryan Sieg	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	94	97	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Tire violation	Tail End	94	97	Yellow
CJ McLaughlin	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	95	97	Yellow
Jeffrey Earnhardt	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	96	97	Yellow
Ryan Sieg	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	96	97	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	108	109	Yellow
Sheldon Creed	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	147	150	Green
Chad Chastain	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	184	188	Yellow
Chad Chastain	Unspecified Improper Tire Change	Tail End	184	188	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	190	194	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Nashville Superspeedway
Tennessee Lottery 250
Race Winner: AJ Allmendinger
Age: 41
Team : No. 10 - Bailey Zimmerman - Religiously Chevrolet
Owner: Matthew Kaulig
Crew Chief: Alex Yontz
AJ Allmendinger won the Tennessee Lottery 250, his 17th victory in 96 Xfinity Series races.
This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Riley Herbst (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2023.
Sam Mayer (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Parker Retzlaff (10th) was the highest finishing rookie.
John Hunter Nemechek leads the point standings by 9 points over Austin Hill.

Race Recap

AJ Allmendinger’s 17th career NASCAR Xfinity Series win proves his versatility

June 24th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger held off an especially spirited field in double overtime to claim his first oval race victory of the season in a dramatic Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway Saturday afternoon.

The popular veteran led the final 20 laps and got an impressive final restart to launch his No. 11 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet from the pack and drive off to a 1.323-second win over runner-up Riley Herbst in a race that included a record-tying 11 caution periods and 17 lead changes among 11 different drivers.

The caution-punctuated ending was perhaps suitable for a race that saw three yellow flags within the first 20 laps. Fifteen cars in the 38-car field had been involved in incidents before the Stage 2 break.

Yet ultimately it came down a veteran’s purposeful, patient afternoon-long pursuit. And the 41-year old Californian Allmendinger was up for the challenge, claiming his 17th victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and second of the season.

“I love winning on ovals because I know a lot of people doubt me on an oval,” a smiling Allmendinger said, a nod to his former open-wheel days and his reputation as one of the best road course drivers in the history of the sport.

Certainly his experience paid off on Saturday with an especially active day. Ty Gibbs, the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion and now a NASCAR Cup Series rookie, won the first Stage and showed himself among the class of the field. But on the next restart his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was hit while racing for the lead with one of this year’s championship favorites, Austin Hill, who was restarting up front on older tires. Allmendinger’s Chevy also suffered a little damage in the five-car melee near the front of the pack, but he – and Hill – were able to continue, while Gibbs’ car suffered too much damage.

Chandler Smith, Allmendinger’s Kaulig Racing teammate won the race’s second stage and kept the lead pack honest for most of the day. He and Allmendinger exchanged the lead and ran 1-2 for much of the second half of the race around the 1.333-mile oval.

After a series of final scheduled pit stops, Parker Kligerman settled in for the biggest strategic gamble of the day. While the lead cars were making their way back through the field following stops, Kligerman kept his No. 48 Big Machine Racing Chevrolet out front willing to take a chance on a fuel-saving strategy. But with 12 laps remaining, Kligerman’s team told him to drop in line behind Allmendinger to start conserving and Allmendinger passed him for the lead with 11 laps of regulation to go.

JR Motorsports driver Sam Mayer finished third with Hill fourth and JR Motorsports’ – and Tennessee native – Josh Berry rounding out the Top-5.

“That was the most up and down day I’ve ever had in racing,” Mayer said, managing a smile on pit road afterward.

John Hunter Nemechek finished sixth in the No. 20 JGR Toyota. Although he never led a lap his rally forward after a 21st starting position was good enough for him to hold onto the championship lead by nine points over Hill.

Reigning NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series champion Zane Smith turned in an impressive seventh-place finish in the No. 28 Ford. Allmendinger’s Kaulig teammate Daniel Hemric was eighth. Herbst’s Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Cole Custer was ninth followed by rookie Parker Retzlaff.

“We got a little fortunate there, when the accident happened, it didn’t really do anything too bad to the quarter panels .. and the guys did a good job of fixing it there,” Allmendinger said of the early damage, noting that the rash of early cautions actually helped his team have time to restore his car competitively.

“I will be honest, I was shocked on the initial start, I went down and made it three wide and thought nothing on it, didn’t even drive my car that hard and started wrecking so that kind of raised my eyebrows, it’s a lot slicker than I expected,” Allmendinger said. “So the next couple starts, just tried to chill and get into the rhythm of the race.

“I just knew more than anything I needed a good re-start and to get in Turn 1 clean,’’ he said of the final restart and ultimate winning move.