Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR Xfinity Series Driver, Riley Herbst, won the Alsco Uniforms 302 at Las Vegas after dominating the race coming to the end of the 2nd stage and leading 103 laps in total to capture his 1st NXS Victory in his 139th start in the series.
Herbst had to start at the rear due to unapporved adjustments and found himself in the Top 10 at the end of stage 1.
He was then able to catch the leaders with 6 laps to go in the stage and passing both John Hunter Nemechek and Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Cole Custer for the Stage 2 victory and again come out the leader ahead of Custer after pit stops.
Then on Riley Herbst lead the way from Lap 97 to Lap 201 leading all but 1 lap due to green flag pit stops and catching the checkered flag leading by almost 15 seconds over 2nd place John Hunter Nemechek.
He went on to say this:
We just beat everybody in the playoffs, trying to go to Phoenix. They all brought their best stuff and we whooped them by about 10 seconds. Everybody said, “I can’t do it. Couldn’t do it. Won’t win. Not good enough.” I just flat out beat them. So I’m pretty happy with myself.
Riley Herbst in his post race press conference linked below.
Cautions and Incidents:
1st Caution: Patrick Emering and the #53 Emerling-Gase Motorsports Chevrolet blew up on Lap 4 and put oil all over the frontstretch leading to 6 caution laps of clean up.
2nd Caution: The #25 Ford of Brett Moffitt would hit the the Turn 4 wall collecting the #38 Ford of Joe Graf Jr causing him to be the race’s 2nd DNF on Lap 14. Graf was not happy after the incident but would say afterwards it wasn’t Brett’s fault and hope his luck turns around at Homestead-Miami
3rd Caution: End of Stage 1. Winner was Cole Custer. Top 10: 00,16,18,10,21,20,7,9,48,98.
4th Caution: The Big one would strike on Lap 55 after the #26 Toyota Supra of Kaz Grala would blow up heading into Turn 1 collecting: #45 Rajah Caruth, #51 Jeremy Clements, #6 Brennan Poole, #08 Stefan Parsons, #78 Anthony Alfredo, #91 Kyle Weatherman, and #92 Josh Williams. The 78, 91, and 92 cars would all DNF from the incident, which also brought out the red flag for cleanup. It lasted 8 minutes and 34 seconds.
The 5th and Final Caution: End of Stage 2. Winner was Riley Herbst. Top 10: 98,00,20,7,10,16,8,1,18,9.
Only 10 cars would finish on the lead lap with the race ending in 2 hours, 18 minutes, and 31 seconds.
Thank you for reading my review on the NXS race at Las Vegas! The NASCAR Xfinity Series heads to Homestead-Miami next for the Contender Boats 250 on October 21st on USA Network!
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