Per week after Justin Allgaier misplaced in heartbreaking vogue at Phoenix Raceway, the defending Xfinity Sequence champion held off Aric Almirola to win his first race of 2025 and the twenty sixth of his Xfinity Sequence profession.
Almirola acquired the deficit to Allgaier all the way down to as little as two-tenths of a second within the closing laps, however a bobble from Almirola with 4 laps to go was sufficient for Allgaier to drag away.
The victory ensures that Allgaier will return to the Xfinity Sequence playoffs in 2025, and marks his ninth consecutive season with not less than one Xfinity Sequence victory. The win can be the ninetieth for Jr Motorsports in Xfinity Sequence competitors.
“It feels superb,” Allgaier advised CW Sports activities. “Aric and I had been going at it, he ran a heck of a race. (I’ve) been fortunate to win quite a lot of races in my profession, and this one means so much as a result of I really feel like we have been so shut (just lately).”
Almirola, Jesse Love, Austin Hill and Sam Mayer rounded out the top-five, with Brandon Jones, Ryan Sieg, Harrison Burton, Connor Zilisch and Sheldon Creed finishing the top-10.
Different notable finishers in Saturday’s race embody polesitter Sammy Smith in 14th, Carson Kvapil in seventeenth, Taylor Grey in nineteenth, Jeb Burton in twenty third and William Sawalich in thirty eighth.
The sixth race of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Sequence season will happen on March 22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Laborious Rock Wager 300 will go inexperienced shortly after 4 p.m. ET on March 22, with protection on the CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
