HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Noah Gragson gave JR Motorsports two motorists in the Xfinity Collection championship finale with his acquire Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Gragson led 127 of the 200 laps then held off Ty Gibbs and AJ Allmendinger on a late restart to receive his eighth gain of the time and the 13th of his Xfinity Series vocation.
Gragson joins teammate Josh Berry, who gained very last 7 days at Las Vegas for the Chevrolet workforce owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., as the initially two motorists locked into the championship finale at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 5. The remaining two spots will be determined following 7 days at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.
“Tonight’s not about locking in the championship 4,” Gragson explained. “It’s about all the hardship that we’ve had below at Homestead.”
Last February, Gragson was on the verge of victory at Homestead when he slammed into a lapped car that had blown a tire forward of him.
“I really wanted to gain this one particular,” Gragson reported, “more than any other race in my vocation.”
Gragson was dominant during, sweeping the phases and holding off runner-up Gibbs and Allmendinger on a late restart.
Gibbs will head to Martinsville 3rd in the playoff standings.
“That’s a place we had been really quick at previously this yr and almost certainly experienced a shot to acquire,” Gibbs stated. “I’m fired up to go back there.”
Allmendinger, the common-season winner, completed 3rd soon after entering the race beneath the playoffs cutline soon after a late pit end for two free wheels caused him to end 22nd very last weekend.
Gragson, with a few victories additional than any other driver in the sequence this time, opened the playoffs by starting to be the 1st driver in 39 yrs to earn 4 races in a row.
“We’re likely to exhibit up well prepared,” Gragson claimed. “We’re heading to execute at the greatest amount. We have been executing as a championship group, and I just hope that after the year ends, men and women bear in mind the time as the 9 group was the dominant group.”
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