![]() Allmendinger battled for the lead throughout the opening stage, but their duel would result in the segment ending under yellow when Cindric turned Allmendinger coming to the finish. Before the race, Kamara and fellow NFL RB Antonio Williams made a friendly bet in which the loser (whoever’s driver finished behind the other for Williams, it was Joe Graf Jr.) had to donate money to the victor’s charity of choice Graf finished twentieth to win the wager.Ĭindric and fellow road course expert A.J. A second yellow flag waved for Ryan Vargas, running with sponsorship from NFL running back Alvin Kamara, losing power on the track Vargas eventually returned to the race and finished thirty-seventh. The first caution of the day came on lap four when Natalie Decker, making her series début, spun in the frontstretch chicane and dropped fluid on the track. Noah Gragson quickly faced an uphill battle when his car failed to start for pace laps and needed a replacement ignition box, causing him to fall three laps down when he joined the race. JGR team-mate Daniel Hemric started at the back after failing pre-race inspection three times.Ĭindric, the defending winner on the Daytona RC and a road course ace in general, led the way. Gibbs began his maiden Xfinity race in fifteenth after taking over the #54 of his grandfather’s Joe Gibbs Racing from a fellow Ty in Ty Dillon. In fact, Gibbs is only in his rookie season in the ARCA Menards Series, a series in which his 2020 slate was limited due to age restrictions, and he had finished second in ARCA’s stop on the road course in 2020.īrett Moffitt and Cindric, who respectively finished second and first in last Saturday’s season opener on the Daytona oval, started on the front row for the road race. Unlike the five who came before him, Gibbs is the only one without prior experience in any of NASCAR’s three national series ( Cup, Xfinity, Truck) and is the youngest by a wide margin. In just his very first race, the Super Start Batteries 188 on the Daytona International Speedway road course, he held off reigning series champion Austin Cindric in overtime to become the sixth driver in series history to win in his début. ![]() The 18-year-old Gibbs did not have to spend much time in the Xfinity Series before visiting Victory Lane. Welcome to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Ty Gibbs! It is not an easy series to win in… wait, you already did it?
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