Ty Gibbs wins Alsco Uniforms 300, 2-time winner in first 6 starts

This Ty Gibbs kid is good. The 18-year-old has just six career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts yet he is already a two-time race winner after triumphing in Saturday’s Alsco Uniforms 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Stewart-Haas Racing‘s Riley Herbst won his first career pole ahead of SHR’s Cup Series driver Chase Briscoe. Timmy Hill was ordered to the rear due to unapproved adjustments after his right-rear tyre hit the track bar mount during qualifying, but he had already been set to start last.

Herbst led the first seven laps before Briscoe passed him, leading until Daniel Hemric took the spot on lap 40. During Briscoe’s run, two cautions were called with the competition yellow on lap 20 and Xfinity newcomer Grant Enfinger‘s wreck after contact with Chad Finchum on lap 26. Hemric would lead to the stage conclusion ahead of A.J. Allmendinger, Gibbs, Austin Cindric, Jeb Burton, Briscoe, Noah Gragson, Harrison Burton, Ryan Sieg, and Tyler Reddick.

Hemric continued to lead to start the second stage. On lap 90, Gibbs spun while racing Briscoe to result in a caution that ended the stage; the two would tangle again later in the race. By the segment’s end, Hemric was once again on top. Gragson, Cindric, Briscoe, Gibbs, Harrison and Jeb Burton, Justin Allgaier, and Brandon Jones closed out the top ten.

The final stage commenced with Hemric continuing to lead until Briscoe took the lead on lap 114. Five laps later, Jeb Burton spun to force a caution. Another yellow for debris came on lap 144 to break up Briscoe’s lead.

On lap 150, Sieg got loose and slid through turn two before his car turned up exiting the corner into Josh Berry and Brett Moffitt. The impact briefly sent Sieg’s car into the air before sliding through the apron, with Tommy Joe Martins barely squeezing by. Briscoe retook the lead during the ensuing caution and continued to hold it until his next bout with Gibbs: with twenty laps to go, Briscoe and Gibbs were fighting for the lead when the former got loose exiting turn two, causing him to spin through the backstretch apron but avoiding the wall.

“I want to say sorry to Briscoe and the #99 crew,” Gibbs said after the race. “That was not my intention at all to wreck them. I just got on his left rear and didn’t help him out with the air and he kind of hopped the cushion so it didn’t really help that. That was partially my fault and I take that for sure.”

The following restart marked even more chaos when Hemric was turned as the field approached turn one, triggering a pile-up that collected Gragson, Herbst, Jones, Martins, Michael Annett, and Justin Haley, and resulted in a red flag.

While Hemric was knocked out of the race, Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Gibbs took the lead. Gibbs would lead the final laps en route to his second career victory. He had won at the Daytona Road Course in his series début in February.

“It’s definitely nice to win on the oval, especially in my hometown,” added Gibbs. “I’m 30 minutes away from here, so it’s nice to have a win at least once today.

“[…] I was definitely frustrated with myself (after the spin). I completely wrecked myself, but didn’t really make myself look good today and made some mistakes. Definitely still learning how the air works and I’ll take full responsibility for all the mistakes I made. Overall, we ended up in Victory Lane.”

Brandon Brown finished fourth for his second top five of the year, while Briscoe settled for sixth and B.J. McLeod Motorsports‘s second-best finish behind SHR team-mate Kevin Harvick‘s fourth at COTA last week. Ty Dillon, running his first race for Our Motorsports, finally notched his first top ten in seventh. Tyler Reddick, in Jordan Anderson Racing‘s second ever Xfinity race, finished fifth.

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	8	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	200	Running
2	4	22	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	200	Running
3	13	20	Harrison Burton	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	200	Running
4	32	68	Brandon Brown	Brandonbilt Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
5	16	31	Tyler Reddick*	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
6	2	99	Chase Briscoe*	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Ford	200	Running
7	10	23	Ty Dillon	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
8	14	19	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	200	Running
9	9	10	Jeb Burton	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
10	6	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
11	26	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
12	1	98	Riley Herbst	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	200	Running
13	28	6	Landon Cassill	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
14	33	36	Alex Labbé	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
15	22	13	Chad Finchum	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	200	Running
16	20	4	Ryan Vargas	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
17	25	48	Jade Buford	Big Machine Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
18	30	78	Jesse Little	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Toyota	200	Running
19	11	11	Justin Haley	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
20	31	17	Cody Ware	SS-Green Light Racing	Toyota	200	Running
21	34	92	Josh Williams	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
22	17	0	Jeffrey Earnhardt	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
23	21	76	Stefan Parsons	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
24	19	1	Michael Annett	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
25	15	02	Brett Moffitt	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	198	Running
26	7	2	Myatt Snider	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	196	Running
27	23	9	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	187	Accident
28	3	18	Daniel Hemric	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	186	Accident
29	27	44	Tommy Joe Martins	Martins Motorsports	Chevrolet	186	Accident
30	29	15	Colby Howard	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	184	Running
31	12	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	151	Accident
32	18	8	Josh Berry	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	150	Accident
33	5	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	128	Brakes
34	36	66	Timmy Hill*	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	114	Engine
35	24	5	Matt Mills	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	103	Accident
36	35	26	Grant Enfinger*	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	26	Accident

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