Race Results: 2025 NXS Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway

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Aric Almirola hasn’t competed in a NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway in eight years (since 2017), but that lack of recent experience didn’t hinder the Tampa, Florida-native in Friday’s Food City 300.

The veteran driver out of the Joe Gibbs Racing stable was able to defend against a hard-charging Sheldon Creed in the closing laps of the 300-lap content, remaining steady for the final 40 laps of the race to collect his ninth win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Sheldon Creed finished in the runner-up spot on Friday, his 15th second-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series – which allows the Alpine, California-native to continue to extend upon his record of most runner-up finishes without a victory.

Sam Mayer, a teammate to Creed at Haas Factory Team, finished in third, while JR Motorsports teammates Carson Kvapil, Connor Zilisch, and Justin Allgaier finished fourth through sixth. With a fifth-place finish, Zilisch ties Sam Ard as the driver with the most consecutive top-fives in NASCAR Xfinity Series history.

Harrison Burton had a fantastic showing in seventh for AM Racing, while non-playoff drivers Christian Eckes, Jeremy Clements, and Brennan Poole completed the top-10.

The rest of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff drivers that finished outside the top-10 include Brandon Jones (11th), Nick Sanchez (13th), Taylor Gray (14th), Austin Hill (19th), Jesse Love (25th), and Sammy Smith (37th).

Food City 300 Race Results:

Pos	#	Driver	Laps	Diff
1	19	Aric Almirola	300
2	00	Sheldon Creed (P)	300	0.381
3	41	Sam Mayer (P)	300	0.543
4	1	Carson Kvapil (P)	300	2.101
5	88	Connor Zilisch (P)	300	2.367
6	7	Justin Allgaier (P)	300	3.181
7	25	Harrison Burton (P)	300	3.244
8	16	Christian Eckes (P)	300	4.145
9	51	Jeremy Clements	300	4.251
10	44	Brennan Poole	300	4.629
11	20	Brandon Jones (P)	300	5.672
12	26	Dean Thompson	300	5.839
13	48	Nick Sanchez (P)	300	5.912
14	54	Taylor Gray (P)	300	6.059
15	18	William Sawalich	300	6.366
16	4	Parker Retzlaff	300	7.048
17	17	Corey Day	300	7.175
18	27	Jeb Burton	300	8.208
19	21	Austin Hill	300	8.387
20	11	Brenden Queen	300	8.471
21	28	Kyle Sieg	300	10.602
22	42	Anthony Alfredo	300	10.757
23	39	Ryan Sieg	299	1 lap
24	99	Matt DiBenedetto	299	1 lap
25	2	Jesse Love (P)	299	1 lap
26	10	Daniel Dye	299	1 lap
27	24	Jeffrey Earnhardt	299	1 lap
28	45	Josh Williams	298	2 laps
29	91	Josh Bilicki	296	4 laps
30	14	Logan Bearden	296	4 laps
31	32	Austin Green	295	5 laps
32	70	Leland Honeyman	294	6 laps
33	07	Carson Ware	288	12 laps
34	31	Blaine Perkins	287	13 laps
35	53	Joey Gase	268	32 laps
36	35	Stefan Parsons	81	219 laps
37	8	Sammy Smith (P)	56	244 laps
38	71	Ryan Ellis	55	245 laps