Berry and Allgaier never seemed to stray far from each other throughout the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allgaier came away with the lead on Lap 163 of 200 following a final round of green-flag pit stops.
By Lap 176, Berry had caught back up with Allgaier and the two raced side-by-side and traded crossover moves before Berry reclaimed the lead on Lap 178 as Allgaier hit the wall.
Allgaier hit the wall again on Lap 186 and this time was forced to pit under green for a flat tire, which left Berry to cruise to the victory by 18.039 seconds over Ty Gibbs.
After taking the checkered flag, Berry said over his team radio, “I’m doing things I never thought I could do. Thank you all. I’m not gonna do a burnout because you don’t tear up a car this good.”
The win was the second of the season for Berry and fourth of his career. Despite all its successes in the series, it was also JRM’s first victory at Charlotte.
“This car was so good. We’ve been getting better every week. I think the sky’s the limit,” Berry said. “That was a battle with Justin – it always is with us. I don’t know, we always seem to run good at the same places and always have to race each other.
“But he slipped up in (Turn) 1 and I got loose, too, and it all worked out.”
JRM driver Sam Mayer finished third after starting on the pole, Noah Gragson was fourth and Ryan Preece rounded out the top-five.
Allgaier recovered from his late pit stop to finish seventh.
“At the beginning of the race, I thought we were going to battle for the win. To get three of our four JR Motorsports cars in Victory Lane (this season) is huge,” he said. “Just battling Josh, he got really close to the left rear getting into (Turn) 1 and just got me loose.”
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Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, all the lead-lap cars elected to pit with Berry first off pit road. Sheldon Creed had an uncontrolled tire and had to restart from the rear of the field.
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