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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Andy's Frozen Custard 300

Texas Motor Speedway

April 13th, 2024

Race #8 of the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 300.0
Time of Race : 02 Hours 22 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 125.977 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.002 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 35
Lead Changes: 16
Cars in Race : 38
Finished On Lead Lap: 25 (66%)

Sam Mayer crosses the finish line ahead of Ryan Sieg — Fort Worth, Texas - April 13th, 2024: Sam Mayer, driver of the #1 Carolina Carports Chevrolet, crosses the finish line ahead of Ryan Sieg, driver of the #39 Sci Aps Ford, to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Photo by Jonathan Bachman | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	10	1	Sam Mayer	Chevrolet	41	40	1	5	200	5	4	0	10	Running
2	14	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	44	35	9	0	200	17	1	8	5	Running
3	6	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	54	34	20	2	200	117	4	1	1	Running
4	8	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	37	33	4	0	200	0	0	9	9	Running
5	2	00	Cole Custer	Ford	47	32	15	0	200	1	1	5	2	Running
6	13	21	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	39	31	8	0	200	25	1	7	7	Running
7	7	20	Ryan Truex	Toyota	35	30	5	0	200	0	0	6	0	Running
8	9	8	Sammy Smith	Chevrolet	34	29	5	0	200	0	0	0	6	Running
9	1	2	Jesse Love	Chevrolet	31	28	3	0	200	1	1	0	8	Running
10	12	5	Anthony Alfredo	Chevrolet	27	27	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
11	3	19	Taylor Gray	Toyota	0	0	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
12	22	11	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	25	25	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
13	11	9	Brandon Jones	Chevrolet	38	24	14	0	200	2	2	4	4	Running
14	23	28	Kyle Sieg	Ford	23	23	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
15	4	81	Chandler Smith	Toyota	31	22	9	0	200	26	1	2	0	Running
16	18	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
17	17	26	Corey Heim	Toyota	0	0	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
18	33	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
19	15	18	Sheldon Creed	Toyota	18	18	0	0	200	2	1	0	0	Running
20	27	38	Matt DiBenedetto	Ford	17	17	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
21	25	44	Brennan Poole	Chevrolet	16	16	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
22	29	31	Parker Retzlaff	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
23	20	15	Hailie Deegan	Ford	14	14	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
24	24	10	Daniel Dye	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	200	0	0	0	0	Running
25	16	48	Parker Kligerman	Chevrolet	13	12	1	0	200	4	1	10	0	Running
26	36	43	Ryan Ellis	Chevrolet	11	11	0	0	199	0	0	0	0	Running
27	5	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	26	10	16	0	199	0	0	3	3	Running
28	38	14	David Starr	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	198	0	0	0	0	Running
29	28	92	Josh Bilicki	Chevrolet	8	8	0	0	198	0	0	0	0	Running
30	37	35	Joey Gase	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	198	0	0	0	0	Running
31	31	42	Leland Honeyman Jr	Chevrolet	6	6	0	0	198	0	0	0	0	Running
32	21	27	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	197	0	0	0	0	Running
33	30	07	Patrick Emerling	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	197	0	0	0	0	Running
34	32	6	Garrett Smithley	Chevrolet	3	3	0	0	197	0	0	0	0	Running
35	26	29	Blaine Perkins	Ford	2	2	0	0	197	0	0	0	0	Running
36	19	91	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	191	0	0	0	0	Accident
37	34	4	Dawson Cram	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	191	0	0	0	0	Running
38	35	66	Chad Finchum	Ford	1	1	0	0	127	0	0	0	0	Suspension

Race Infractions

Andy's Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Matt DiBenedetto	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
Kyle Sieg	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Parker Retzlaff	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Daniel Dye	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	12	16	Yellow
Corey Heim	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	49	52	Yellow
Chad Finchum	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	50	52	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Tire violation	Tail End	81	84	Yellow
Brennan Poole	Equipment Interference	Tail End	94	97	Yellow
Ryan Truex	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	96	97	Yellow
Jeb Burton	Commitment Line Violation	Tail End	101	106	Yellow
Jeb Burton	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	101	106	Yellow
Chad Finchum	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	103	106	Yellow
Blaine Perkins	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	103	106	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	105	106	Yellow
Sheldon Creed	Safety violation	Pass Thru	146	152	Green
Patrick Emerling	Tire violation	Pass Thru	147	152	Green
Leland Honeyman Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	178	179	Yellow
Sheldon Creed	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	184	189	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	185	189	Yellow
Blaine Perkins	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	185	189	Yellow
Leland Honeyman Jr	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	187	189	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

Texas Motor Speedway
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 0.002-second - the closest Margin of Victory in the Xfinity Series at Texas Motor Speedway. Previous MOV record at Texas was 0.128-second set in 2007.

Race Recap

Sam Mayer beats Ryan Sieg in Xfinity Series photo finish at Texas

April 13th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

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.