Sieg was making his 342nd profession NASCAR Xfinity Sequence begin, and was nonetheless trying to find his first-ever win after 12 years of competitors. He was main on the white flag, however Mayer was in a position to reduce beneath him and acquire the benefit down the backstretch.
However when Mayer slipped up in Flip 3, Sieg reduce beneath him and the 2 drag-raced to the end line. It was a very spectacular picture end with Sieg door-slamming Mayer, who was up towards the surface wall.
On the checkered flag, Mayer had the win by a mere 0.002s. Sieg was compelled to accept second.
“That is completely unreal,” stated an exasperated Mayer. “This staff … the quantity of adversity we needed to battle this complete 12 months to this point and to come back to a 1.5 miler that I wish to say I am good at, but it surely took each ounce of me to do this at the moment. So pleased with my staff.”
Sieg on the heartbreaking loss: “Simply powerful. I used to be doing all that I may do. I want we had been on the opposite facet of that .002. It’s what it’s. I feel we’re within the Sprint For Money now, so that could be a good constructive. We ran up entrance the place we would have liked to be. We had been in a position to make positive aspects on it. I really feel like there may be extra to come back. We simply must put a full race collectively. Ugh, we had been so shut. That simply sucks.”
Mayer was additionally a Sprint 4 Money driver, accumulating the $100,000 bonus. Justin Allgaier completed third, A.J. Allmendinger fourth, and Cole Custer fifth.
Rounding out the top-ten had been Austin Hill, Ryan Truex, Sammy Smith, Jesse Love, and Anthony Alfredo.
Stage 1
Love led the sector to the inexperienced flag. Firstly, Taylor Grey had a outstanding save, fishtailing down the backstretch earlier than lastly getting his automobile beneath management.
Chandler Smith was then in a position to get beneath Love and take the lead. The pole-sitter gave the impression to be struggling, and rapidly dropped by the pack.
The primary warning flag of the race was for a spin by Daniel Dye, who could have had somewhat assist from his Kaulig Racing teammate Josh Williams.
Later within the run, Allgaier was in a position to energy across the exterior of Smith and take the lead. He went on to win Stage 1 forward of C. Smith, Riley Herbst, Brandon Jones, R. Truex, Custer, A. Hill, R. Sieg, Allmendinger, and Parker Kligerman.
Stage 2
Throughout pitstops, Allmendinger missed his field, which price him all his monitor place as he needed to return to the pits for service. Allgaier was firmly accountable for the race at this level.
Kligerman was compelled to pit beneath inexperienced for a vibration, and an incident involving Leland Honeyman set-up a dash to the tip of the stage.
There have been six laps remaining within the stage on the restart, which noticed loads of motion. Ryan Truex slapped the wall, however was in a position to keep on. Chandler Smith additionally sustained harm in a separate stack-up.
Allgaier swept the levels, beating Custer, Herbst, B. Jones. R. Sieg, S. Smith. A. Hill, Love, Allmendinger, and Mayer.
Stage 3
The ultimate stage had a green-flag really feel to it, and the ultimate spherical of green-flag pitstops started with just below 60 laps to go. The cycle lasted for some time as a number of drives went lengthy, hoping to catch a yellow. Austin Hill lastly relinquished the lead with 30 laps to go, pitting.
Allgaier was again in management, however feeling the stress from Herbst, it pushed the problem with the slower automobile of Honeyman. Contact was made, Honeyman slammed the wall, and the warning flew as soon as once more.
Kligerman selected to remain out in the course of the warning and inherited the race lead whereas a two-tire name from Jones and Hill vaulted them in entrance of Allgaier.
A wild restart with 21 laps to go noticed Jones surge into the lead, however as he and JR Motorsports teammate Sam Mayer had been battling, an sudden challenger approached. After restarting tenth, R. Sieg had made his manner as much as third and rapidly took the lead.
The warning flag was then displayed as three automobiles crashed on the frontstretch. Kyle Weatherman, Sheldon Creed, and Hailie Deegan had been all concerned.
Sieg, a driver/proprietor who had by no means gained earlier than, obtained away on the following restart. Jones and Herbst slammed doorways, forcing Herbst to make an unscheduled pitstop.
Mayer was closing in on Sieg, catching him on the white flag. The spectacular picture end noticed Mayer eclipse Sieg by simply 0.002s, denying him the upset victory.
