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Race Results

NASCAR Xfinity Series

Henry 180

Road America

July 29th, 2023

Race #20 of the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 45
- Extended to 49 laps
Miles Raced : 200.9
Time of Race : 03 Hours 02 minutes 21 seconds
Average Speed: 65.265 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.368 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 15
Lead Changes: 2
Cars in Race : 37
Finished On Lead Lap: 27 (73%)

Sam Mayer celebrates in victory lane — Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin - July 29th, 2023: Sam Mayer, driver of the #1 Accelerate Pros Talent Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Road America 180 at Road America. 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	5	1	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	48	40	8	5	49	2	1	9	5	Running
2	17	48	Parker Kligerman	Chevrolet	38	35	3	0	49	0	0	0	8	Running
3	14	21	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	37	34	3	0	49	0	0	8	0	Running
4	6	24	Sage Karam	Toyota	47	33	14	0	49	0	0	5	3	Running
5	4	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	37	32	5	0	49	0	0	6	0	Running
6	13	8	Josh Berry	Chevrolet	35	31	4	0	49	0	0	0	7	Running
7	9	26	Kaz Grala	Toyota	39	30	9	0	49	0	0	7	6	Running
8	11	91	Josh Bilicki	Chevrolet	30	29	1	0	49	0	0	0	10	Running
9	1	10	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	49	5	1	3	4	Running
10	33	9	Brandon Jones	Chevrolet	27	27	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
11	32	11	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	26	26	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
12	19	27	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	25	25	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
13	34	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	24	24	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
14	20	31	Parker Retzlaff	Chevrolet	23	23	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
15	26	6	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
16	23	78	Anthony Alfredo	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
17	25	2	Blaine Perkins	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
18	3	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	39	19	20	2	49	42	1	1	1	Running
19	21	44	Brad Perez	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
20	38	4	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
21	18	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	16	16	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
22	29	53	Patrick Emerling	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
23	35	38	Joe Graf Jr	Ford	14	14	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
24	28	35	Stanton Barrett	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
25	30	66	Dexter Stacey	Toyota	12	12	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
26	12	2	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
27	31	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	10	10	0	0	49	0	0	0	0	Running
28	22	45	Leland Honeyman Jr	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	45	0	0	0	0	Transmission
29	7	19	Connor Mosack	Toyota	8	8	0	0	44	0	0	0	0	Rear Gear
30	2	0	Cole Custer	Ford	25	7	18	0	41	0	0	2	2	Accident
31	10	18	Sammy Smith	Toyota	9	6	3	0	41	0	0	10	9	Accident
32	27	28	Kyle Sieg	Ford	5	5	0	0	39	0	0	0	0	Brakes
33	37	8	Alex Labbe	Ford	4	4	0	0	38	0	0	0	0	Accident
34	8	20	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	10	3	7	0	31	0	0	4	0	Accident
35	36	43	Ryan Ellis	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	25	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	15	25	Brett Moffitt	Ford	1	1	0	0	23	0	0	0	0	Hub
37	16	16	Chandler Smith	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	20	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Henry 180 at Road America

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Ryan Ellis	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Ryan Sieg	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Kyle Weatherman	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Daniel Hemric	Pre-Race to the Rear Engine	Tail End	0	0	White
Brandon Jones	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup	Tail End	0	0	White
Jeremy Clements	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup	Tail End	0	0	White
Joe Graf Jr	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Josh Berry	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Josh Berry	Pre-Race to the Rear Engine	Tail End	0	0	White
Sammy Smith	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup	Tail End	0	0	White
Kyle Sieg	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	4	12	Green
Justin Allgaier	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	10	0	Yellow
Ryan Ellis	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	25	0	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	25	27	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	39	41	Yellow
Sheldon Creed	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	39	41	Yellow
Dexter Stacey	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	40	42	Yellow
AJ Allmendinger	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	42	44	Yellow
Leland Honeyman Jr	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	45	0	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Road America
Road America 180
Race Winner: Sam Mayer
Age: 20
Team : No. 1 - Accelerate Pros Talent Chevrolet
Owner: L.W. Miller
Crew Chief: Mardy Lindley
Sam Mayer won the Road America 180, his first victory in 72 Xfinity Series races.
This is his first victory and 12th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in four races at Road America.
Parker Kligerman (second) posted his third top-10 finish in four races at Road America. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
Austin Hill (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Road America.
Parker Retzlaff (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Austin Hill leads the point standings by 14 points over John Hunter Nemechek.

Race Recap

Wisconsin native Sam Mayer wins first career NASCAR Xfinity Series race at home track

July 29th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Sam Mayer took a dramatic double overtime victory in Saturday’s Road America 180 at the iconic Elkhart Lake, Wisc. road course – the 21-year old hometown favorite claiming his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at his home race track; rolling into victory lane, climbing onto his driver’s side window and pulling apart his drivers suit like Superman to a happy and familiar crowd.

The JR Motorsports driver was certainly super in the closing laps on Saturday.

Mayer’s win in the No. 1 JRM Chevrolet makes him the 14th different driver to take the trophy at Road America in as many NASCAR Xfinity Series races there. He is the sixth different driver to earn his first career win at the 4.048-mile road course and the fourth different driver to claim his first series trophy in 2023.

“It was just about getting track position," a grinning Mayer said of the frantic second overtime start that featured door-to-door racing among the top four cars and multiple leaders on a single lap before Mayer emerged out front and was able to drive away to a .368-second win over Parker Kligerman that has landed him an automatic position in the 2023 Playoffs.

“We got it there at the end, I lost it for a second and then all hell broke loose there at the end and we ended up on top," Mayer continued. “This team, it’s so special to get that first win, that monkey off your back. It feels so good. I felt it all day. I felt like if I can do this one, I can do anything and we came here today and did that.

“It’s so cool to get it done," the Franklin, Wisc. native added with a smile.

Four of the top-five drivers on the final overtime restart had never hoisted a series trophy before and pursued then-race leader Justin Allgaier with all the zeal and motivation that you would expect of the situation. Allgaier, Mayer’s JR Motorsports teammate, led a dominating 42 of the 49 laps on the day and swept both stage wins.

But not too-surprisingly that last restart resulted in a manic push among those drivers racing for that coveted first trophy. The racing was three-wide, four-wide, high energy, back-and-forth with so much on the line.

“Second’s not fun," said Kligerman, the driver of the No. 48 Big Machine Racing Chevrolet who is just on the outside of the playoff bubble, now 22 points behind Sheldon Creed for that 12th and final transfer points position with six regular season races remaining.

“When I got the lead, I just played it a little safer than I should have, I didn’t think the 1 (Mayer) would get to me like that. Then I tried to get to him and just couldn’t get to him.

“But I know here in Wisconsin that’s huge for him and his family," he added. “And our day is coming."

Last week’s race winner, Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill rallied for a third-place finish after a busy day navigating dicey action mid-pack. And former open-wheel standout Sage Karam, finished fourth in the No. 24 Sam Hunt Racing Toyota.

“It was a great race all around," said Karam, who earned his first career Top-5 in his seventh start of the season. “The last restart was very aggressive. I just had to get to the lead and had a good move on Allgaier, it was really aggressive and got three-wide.

“I can’t thank Sam Hunt Racing enough.”

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst turned in arguably the most persevering performances of the day, finishing fifth in the No. 98 SHR Ford after being collected in multiple incidents throughout the day.

Another of Mayer’s JR Motorsports teammate, Josh Berry rallied to a sixth place finish with Kaz Grala, Josh Bilicki, polesitter A.J. Allmendinger and JRM driver Brandon Jones rounding out the Top-10.

Allmendinger won the pole position and as one of the sports’s all-time best road course racers – even opting to have Derek Kraus qualify his NASCAR Cup Series car at Richmond, Va. so that he could compete on the iconic Wisconsin track Saturday. But Allmendinger struggled from nearly the drop of the green flag. Allgaier passed him for the lead six laps into the race and he was never able to challenge for the top spot with issues essentially all day.

Allmendiger’s Kaulig Racing teammate Chandler Smith also had a rough day. The Xfinity Series rookie - last year’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion - was travelling at high speed on a straightaway headed to Turn 1 when his car suffered a massive brake rotor failure. Fortunately the young driver smartly turned the car to the left immediately after hearing parts break and was able to slow it down against a side retaining wall instead of going full-speed head-on into the Turn 1 run off area. He was fine afterward, grateful for the solid construction of the cars.

“I was definitely having some brake fade throughout the run, but I didn’t think I was abusing them by any means to make them fail," Smith said. “I was going up the hill on the front straight and I heard something snap and I felt something come off the car and the whole front nose just dropped and when that happened, I was like, ‘what in the world was was that.’

“I went to pump the brakes but there was nothing there," he added, “I was just trying to scrub speed at that point."

That was certainly part of a dramatic Saturday afternoon with incidents involving several of Playoff drivers – and several close to the Playoff cutoff.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s John Hunter Nemechek, who was leading the championship at the drop of the green flag was not at the wave of the checkered flag. He took a wild ride off track with 14 laps remaining. His No. 20 JGR Toyota suffered enough damage going off-track in T13 he had to retire landing Nemechek only his second DNF of the season and costing him those valuable points in the standings.

Interviewed afterward, Nemechek was clearly frustrated, “Who needs enemies when you have teammates."