NASCAR Xfinity Series Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas Race Results

In one of the best NASCAR Xfinity Series events in quite some time, the battle between Aric Almirola, Connor Zilisch, and Jesse Love for the victory in Saturday’s Focused Health 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway fed families all night long and resulted in an epic battle for the win between Almirola and Zilisch.

Almirola, the semi-retired veteran of the NASCAR Cup Series, ultimately came out on top after a hard-fought battle with the 19-year-old phenom out of the JR Motorsports stable, winning his 10th NASCAR Xfinity Series event, and his first at the 1.5-mile racetrack located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Tampa, Florida-native led a race-high 107 laps on the evening in the No. 19 YoungLife Toyota GR Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing, and went to Victory Lane by 0.696 seconds over Zilisch, who extends his record-setting streak of top-five finishes to now include the last 18 NASCAR Xfinity Series events.

Justin Allgaier came home third place in the No. 7 BRANDT Chevrolet, giving himself a substantial points buffer heading into the superspeedway of Talladega for the series’ next event, and the middle event in the semi-final round of the post-season.

Corey Day, driving the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, earned a career-best fourth after steadily improving throughout the entire event. Nick Sanchez, who made a late run at Almirola and Zilisch on the final restart of the race, rounded out the top-five.

Jesse Love, who had his No. 2 Whelen Chevrolet in the fight all evening long at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, ended up fading to sixth on a late-race restart, an effort that doesn’t match the performance out of the Richard Childress Racing driver and team on Saturday evening.

Ryan Sieg brought his No. 39 RSS Racing Ford Mustang home in seventh after an unscheduled pit stop to begin the final stage, while Taylor Gray, Sam Mayer, and Austin Hill completed the top-10. Four of the eight remaining post-season drivers finished outside the top-10 on Saturday, those being Sheldon Creed (P11), Brandon Jones (P13), Carson Kvapil (P15), and Sammy Smith (P20).

Now, the NASCAR Xfinity Series will head to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway next weekend, where they’ll join both the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for a tripleheader weekend of chaos and unpredictability. Coverage of the event will take place Saturday, October 18 at 4:00 PM ET on The CW.

Pos	Car	Driver	Laps	Diff
1	19	Aric Almirola	201	--
2	88	Connor Zilisch (P)	201	0.696
3	7	Justin Allgaier (P)	201	1.484
4	17	Corey Day	201	3.551
5	48	Nick Sanchez	201	4.053
6	2	Jesse Love (P)	201	5.047
7	39	Ryan Sieg	201	5.868
8	54	Taylor Gray	201	6.577
9	41	Sam Mayer (P)	201	7.014
10	21	Austin Hill	201	7.199
11	00	Sheldon Creed (P)	201	7.804
12	18	William Sawalich	201	9.431
13	20	Brandon Jones (P)	201	10.077
14	25	Harrison Burton	201	10.350
15	1	Carson Kvapil (P)	201	10.481
16	11	Daniel Hemric	201	11.325
17	10	Daniel Dye	201	11.408
18	16	Christian Eckes	201	11.798
19	99	Matt DiBenedetto	201	12.437
20	8	Sammy Smith (P)	201	13.674
21	28	Kyle Sieg	201	19.051
22	24	Trevor Bayne	201	19.890
23	91	Josh Williams	201	25.649
24	42	Anthony Alfredo	201	29.046
25	44	Brennan Poole	201	30.860
26	27	Jeb Burton	201	31.681
27	31	Blaine Perkins	201	31.682
28	26	Dean Thompson	200	1 lap
29	71	Ryan Ellis	200	1 lap
30	4	Parker Retzlaff	200	1 lap
31	32	Austin Green	199	2 laps
32	14	Garrett Smithley	199	2 laps
33	35	Mason Maggio	198	3 laps
34	07	Nick Leitz	198	3 laps
35	53	Joey Gase	196	5 laps
36	51	Jeremy Clements	146	55 laps
37	45	Mason Massey	84	117 laps
38	70	Thomas Annunziata	68	133 laps

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