Xfinity Category

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service WATKINS GLEN, N. Y. – Joey Logano finally finished what he started. The driver of the No. 12 Ford won Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Watkins Glen International from the pole, giving Team Penske its first victory in what has been a disappointing season so far. The win in the Zippo 200 was the second straight at the 2.45-mile road course for the 26-year-old driver, who led 67 of 82 laps and drove his car to the limit, keeping teammate Brad Keselowski behindRead More

By Brian Eberly, NASCAR Wire Service NEWTON, Iowa – For 83 laps, it looked like Ty Dillon’s winless drought would finally end. That was until Erik Jones flashed the brilliance that has many predicting big things for the Joe Gibbs Racing prodigy. Jones led a race-high 154 laps in the No. 20 DeWalt Toyota en route to victory lane on Saturday night in the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway. Jones passed Dillon with 15 laps remaining to retake the lead for the final time of the night and beatRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Xfinity Series visited Iowa Speedway, Sam Hornish Jr. took home an emotional win on Father’s Day while substituting for Matt Tifft. Hornish beat out Ty Dillon by over a second. The last time a contender for the Xfinity Series Championship won at Iowa was Chris Buescher in 2015. Brad Keselowski, Sam Hornish Jr., and Elliott Sadler are the only former winners in the field. Keselowski is also the only Cup driver entered in this weekend’s race. Xfinity Series Chase 18Read More

By NASCAR Wire Service Stewart-Haas Racing announced Monday it will field a full-time, single-car NASCAR XFINITY Series team in 2017. The driver and sponsor lineup for the team will be announced prior to the conclusion of this season. The team will operate out of SHR’s headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina. “In order to maintain the competitiveness that has earned SHR two championships since our debut in 2009, we needed an outlet to develop drivers and team personnel for the Sprint Cup Series,” said Greg Zipadelli, Stewart-Haas Racing’s vice president ofRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Xfinity Series visited Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch took home the victory. Busch beat out Ryan Blaney by just over four tenths of a second. Daniel Suarez was the highest finishing Xfinity Series regular in third. The last time a contender for the Xfinity Series Championship won at Indianapolis was Ty Dillon in 2014. Busch and Dillon will be the only two former winners in the field on Saturday. Xfinity Series Chase 17 races into the 2016 Xfinity Series Season,Read More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Xfinity Series visited New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Denny Hamlin took home the victory. Hamlin beat out Austin Dillon by just over a half a second. Daniel Suarez was the highest finishing Xfinity Series regular. Suarez finished fifth. The last time a contender for the Xfinity Series Championship won at New Hampshire was Kyle Busch in 2009. Busch won the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship in 2009 while also competing full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The last time a contenderRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Xfinity Series visited Kentucky Speedway, Ryan Blaney took home the victory. Blaney was not competing full time in any NASCAR series last year. The last time a contender for the Xfinity Series Championship won at Kentucky was Brendan Gaughan in 2014. Xfinity Series Chase 15 races into the 2016 Xfinity Series Season, there have been 11 different winners, and only three of them, Erik Jones, Elliott Sadler, and Daniel Suarez are currently locked into the Xfinity Series Chase via wins.Read More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor Another NASCAR Xfinity Series race at a restrictor plate track, and another controversial finish decided by a yellow flag. On the final lap of the Subway FireCracker 250, a melee ensued on the backstretch. However NASCAR officials opted to let the finish of the race play out. Aric Almirola and Justin Allgaier were locked into a drag race to the start finish line, until the epic finish was called off. Just a few hundred feet from the finish line the yellow flag was displayed andRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Aric Almirola won his second NASCAR XFINITY Series race by much less than a nose. But to the driver of the No. 98 Fred Biagi-owned Ford, that was a vast improvement over his first victory in the series—when he wasn’t even in the car when the race ended. In Friday night’s Subway Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway, Almirola was inches ahead of Justin Allgaier off the final corner in overtime when NASCAR called the eighth caution of the raceRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer For Justin Allgaier, the superspeedways have been near misses this season. Allgaier started the weekend at Daytona International Speedway ninth fastest in the weather shortened practice, and then qualified seventh for the race. The JR Motorsports driver ran up front for the first run of the race, and was running well when the first caution flew. After the restart, the first big wreck of the race occurred directly in front of Allgaier, narrowly missing the spinning No.87 Toyota Camry of Joe Nemechek. Allgaier ended upRead More