April 27, 2024 | By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service

Ryan Truex wins second straight Xfinity race at Dover

DOVER, Del. — The hometown favorite, Ryan Truex prevailed in a thrilling double-overtime finish in the BetRivers 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway, leading only the two final laps to earn back-to-back victories at the one-mile track.

The New Jersey native and defending race winner started alongside 20-year old Carson Kvapil on the front row for the final overtime re-start then pulled away to take the lead and ultimately the white flag – signaling one lap to go. An accident elsewhere on track officially ended the race under caution.

“I can’t believe it, our car was just good at the end when it mattered, I was so loose all day,” said Truex, 32, the younger brother of NASCAR Cup Series driver Martin Truex Jr.

“Shout out to Carson what an amazing run for what, his second race. I felt a little bad running him up the hill, but you’ve got to take these things when you can.

“I think I held my breath the last two laps. Love these fans. Love this track.”

While Truex hoisted and will certainly savor the Dover trophy, it was also a great day for Kvapil driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. The son of former NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil, finished fourth in his only other series start – at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway earlier this year – giving him a very promising pair of top five results in as many Xfinity Series races he’s competed in.

“This is pretty incredible,” Kvapil said. “Definitely felt like we had a fast car going into the day, but to be competing for the win on a green-white-checkered is pretty amazing. We’ve been in this situation before just not quite at this level.”

For much of the final laps, the outcome looked like it was going to be decided between former Richard Childress Racing teammates, Austin Hill and Sheldon Creed. Hill, driver of the No. 21 RCR Chevrolet and Creed, who now drives the No. 18 JGR Toyota restarted door-to-door on the front row on a re-start with 11 laps remaining. As that pair raced aggressively side-by-side for the lead, Kvapil put his Chevy down low, three-wide and drove past the pair to take the lead with eight laps remaining.

On the final restart of regulation- with five laps remaining – Hill and Kvapil restarted alongside one another on the front row, but Hill spun out in tight-quarter action between them in Turn 1, necessitating overtime. Kvapil was able to fend off the field on that first re-start, only to have another caution come out. On the second re-start, he and Truex started alongside each other, but Truex was able to get around Kvapil at the start and pace the field for the final two laps.

The race was briefly halted under red flag conditions for a light rain with 34 laps remaining. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer – who led a race best 95 of the 208 laps – was leading at the time and then decided to pit for tires and fuel during yellow flag laps just before the cars restarted. He had to restart at the tail end of the field, but the reigning series champion rallied back to a fifth-place finish – able to advance on three ensuing caution periods plus the double overtime.

JR Motorsports’ Sam Mayer finished third, with Creed fourth followed by Custer. Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger was sixth, followed by JGR’s Chandler Smith, Kyle Weatherman Racing’s Kyle Weatherman, Our Motorsports’ Anthony Alfredo and Jordan Anderson Racing’s Parker Retzlaff.

The ninth-place finish was especially big for Alfredo, earning him the final Dash 4 Cash $100,000 prize – besting Riley Herbst, Jesse Love and Ryan Sieg – in the last of the four-race incentive program sponsored by Xfinity.

“Really coming into this race, that was our motivation, it wasn’t something to just be a part of, yeah, I mean this was huge,” Alfredo said. “You don’t understand how small our budget is compared to these bigger teams. People overlook it because we’ve been running so well. The last three weeks we’ve been running top-10, and everyone asks, ‘who’s your alliance with.’

“… Coming into this race we knew if we could pull it off, we could invest in our team to be that much better.”

JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier, a two-time Dover winner, won the opening stage of the race and ran up front – his 39 laps in the lead second only to Custer. He also pit in the waning laps and managed to rally back to a 17th-place finish.

Smith now leads Custer by a single point in the Xfinity Series championship standings as the series heads into an off-week. It resumes racing at the historic Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in the Royal Purple Bag Project 200 on May 11 (1:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). NASCAR Cup Series regular Kyle Larson is the defending race winner.


NASCAR Xfinity Series Race Number 10
Race Results for the BetRivers 200 - Saturday, April 27, 2024
Dover Motor Speedway - Dover, DE - 1. - Mile Concrete

Total Race Length - 208 Laps - 208. Miles

Provided by NASCAR Statistics - Saturday, 4/27/2024 @ 05:08 PM Eastern

Fin Str Car Driver Team Laps Stage 1 Pos Stage 2 Pos Pts Status Tms Laps Playoff Pts
1 12 20 Ryan Truex The Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 208 9 10 43 Running 1 2 5
2 26 88 Carson Kvapil Chevy Truck Season Chevrolet 208   35 Running 1 14
3 20 1 Sam Mayer NASCAR Refuel Chevrolet 208 10  35 Running  
4 5 18 Sheldon Creed Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Toyota 208 4 5 46 Running 1 3
5 11 00 Cole Custer Haas Automation Ford 208 3 1 50 Running 1 95 1
6 10 16 AJ Allmendinger LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet 208 8  34 Running  
7 7 81 Chandler Smith Smith General Contracting Toyota 208 7 8 37 Running  
8 6 91 Kyle Weatherman DriveSmartWarranty.com Chevrolet 208   29 Running  
9 21 5 Anthony Alfredo Dude Wipes Chevrolet 208   28 Running  
10 17 31 Parker Retzlaff FUNKAWAY Chevrolet 208  4 34 Running 1 3
11 19 27 Jeb Burton Bommarito Automotive Group Chevrolet 208   26 Running  
12 15 48 Parker Kligerman Motley Crue Dogs of War Chevrolet 208   25 Running  
13 23 43 Ryan Ellis Costa Oil Chevrolet 208   24 Running  
14 25 51 Jeremy Clements Nordic Logistics Chevrolet 208   23 Running  
15 4 21 Austin Hill Nuthin Fancy Collection Chevrolet 208 6 2 36 Running 2 17
16 2 98 Riley Herbst Monster Energy Ford 208 5 7 31 Running  
17 3 7 Justin Allgaier Jarrett Logistics Chevrolet 208 1 6 35 Running 2 39 1
18 31 97 Shane Van Gisbergen # WeatherTech Chevrolet 208   19 Running  
19 1 9 Brandon Jones Menards/Barracuda Chevrolet 208 2  27 Running 1 13
20 36 10 Daniel Dye(i) Race to Stop Suicide Chevrolet 208   0 Running  
21 28 42 Leland Honeyman # RANDCO Industries Chevrolet 207   16 Running  
22 27 44 Brennan Poole Prime Bites Brownie Chevrolet 207   15 Running  
23 18 92 Kaden Honeycutt(i) Drive Sober Arrive Alive DE Chevrolet 206   0 Running  
24 8 2 Jesse Love # Whelen Chevrolet 206  3 21 Running 1 21
25 38 11 Josh Williams Alloy Employer Services Chevrolet 206   12 Running  
26 37 14 David Starr Alarm Tech Chevrolet 206   11 Running  
27 24 28 Kyle Sieg Independent Metal Strap Ford 206   10 Running 1 1
28 30 07 Patrick Emerling Goon Tape Chevrolet 205   9 Running  
29 32 4 Dawson Cram # NJSP Troopers United Foundation Chevrolet 205   8 Running  
30 35 6 Garrett Smithley Heroes Haven Chevrolet 202   7 Running  
31 29 15 Hailie Deegan # AirBox Ford 200   6 Running  
32 16 38 Matt DiBenedetto Viking Motorsports Ford 196   5 Running  
33 13 8 Sammy Smith Pilot Flying J Chevrolet 192  9 6 Accident  
34 9 19 Taylor Gray(i) Operation 300 Toyota 183   0 Accident  
35 22 26 Corey Heim(i) Synergy Modular Toyota 85   0 Engine  
36 34 29 Blaine Perkins Ollie's Ford 47   1 Electrical  
37 14 39 Ryan Sieg Sci Aps Ford 25   1 Engine  
38 33 35 JJ Yeley  Toyota 4   1 Accident  

Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 22 Mins, 48 Secs. Average Speed: 87.395 MPH Margin of Victory: Under Caution

Stage 1 Top 10: 7, 9, 00, 18, 98, 21, 81, 16, 20, 1
Stage 2 Top 10: 00, 21, 2, 31, 18, 7, 98, 81, 8, 20

Caution Flags: 10 for 61 laps; Laps: 6-13 (#15, 35 Incident Frontstretch [None]); 27-32 (#39 Incident Turn 2 [15]); 47-51 (Stage 1 Conclusion [15]); 92-98 (Stage 2 Conclusion [44]); 160-172 (Weather [Red Flag: 00:12:49] [10]); 175-179 (#16, 9 Incident Backstretch [43]); 185-189 (#1, 19 Incident Turn 2 [51]); 195-200 (#7, 8, 10, 28, 42, 44, 98 Incident Turn 4 [None]); 202-206 (#21 Spin Turn 2 [97]); 208-208 (#7 Incident Frontstretch [None]).

Lead Changes: 11 among 10 drivers; B. Jones 0; B. Jones 1-13; J. Allgaier 14-47; K. Sieg 48; P. Retzlaff 49-51; J. Love # 52-72; C. Custer 73-167; J. Allgaier 168-172; A. Hill 173-188; S. Creed 189-191; A. Hill 192; C. Kvapil 193-206; R. Truex 207-208.

(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series

Next Race: May 11, 2024 - Darlington Raceway

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