Ryan Truex Surives Overtime For Second Consecutive Xfinity Win At Dover

The hometown favourite, Ryan Truex prevailed in an exciting double-overtime end within the BetRivers 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway, main solely the 2 ultimate laps to earn back-to-back victories on the one-mile monitor.

The New Jersey native and defending race winner began alongside 20-year outdated Carson Kvapil on the entrance row for the ultimate time beyond regulation re-start then pulled away to take the lead and in the end the white flag – signaling one lap to go. An accident elsewhere on monitor formally ended the race beneath warning.

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

“Shout out to Carson what a tremendous run for what, his second race. I felt slightly unhealthy operating him up the hill, however you’ve received to take this stuff when you’ll be able to.

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

While Truex hoisted and will definitely savor the Dover trophy, it was additionally an ideal day for Kvapil driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. The son of former NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil, completed fourth in his solely different sequence begin – at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway earlier this yr – giving him a really promising pair of high 5 ends in as many Xfinity Series races he’s competed in.

“This is pretty incredible,” Kvapil stated. “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 a lot of the ultimate laps, the end result regarded prefer it was going to be determined 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 entrance 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 previous the pair to take the lead with eight laps remaining.

Carson Kvapil, driver of the #88 Chevy Truck Season Chevrolet, drives through the NASCAR Xfinity Series BetRivers 200 at Dover International Speedway on April 27, 2024 in Dover, Delaware.

On the ultimate restart of regulation- with 5 laps remaining – Hill and Kvapil restarted alongside each other on the entrance row, however Hill spun out in tight-quarter motion between them in Turn 1, necessitating time beyond regulation. Kvapil was in a position to fend off the sector on that first re-start, solely to have one other warning come out. On the second re-start, he and Truex began alongside one another, however Truex was in a position to get round Kvapil initially and tempo the sector for the ultimate two laps.

The race was briefly halted beneath pink flag circumstances for a lightweight rain with 34 laps remaining. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer – who led a race greatest 95 of the 208 laps – was main on the time after which determined to pit for tires and gas throughout yellow flag laps simply earlier than the automobiles restarted. He needed to restart on the tail finish of the sector, however the reigning sequence champion rallied again to a fifth-place end – in a position to advance on three ensuing warning durations plus the double time beyond regulation.

JR Motorsports’ Sam Mayer completed third, with Creed fourth adopted by Custer. Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger was sixth, adopted 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 end was particularly large for Alfredo, incomes him the ultimate Dash 4 Cash $100,000 prize – besting Riley Herbst, Jesse Love and Ryan Sieg – within the final of the four-race incentive program sponsored by Xfinity.

Anthony Alfredo, driver of the #5 Dude Wipes Chevrolet, poses with the NASCAR Xfinity Series Dash 4 Cash winner $100,000 test after the NASCAR Xfinity Series BetRivers 200 at Dover International Speedway on April 27, 2024 in Dover, Delaware.

“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 stated. “You don’t perceive how small our price range is in comparison with these larger groups. People overlook it as a result of we’ve been operating so effectively. The final three weeks we’ve been operating top-10, and everybody 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, gained the opening stage of the race and ran up entrance – his 39 laps within the lead second solely to Custer. He additionally pit within the waning laps and managed to rally again to a Seventeenth-place end.

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