During the course of Saturday’s 200-lap event, three of the top contenders – including two of the top-three lap leaders – fell to the wayside.
Allgaier grabbed the lead for the first time on Lap 152, lost it to Landon Cassill and then regained it two laps later. He held off Trevor Bayne by 3.869 seconds to claim the victory.
The win is third this season for Allgaier and second in the past four races. It’s also the 19th of his career.
“I told these guys I really wanted to win here. This place has been so much fun over the years,” Allgaier said. “First of all, it’s wife’s birthday today (Ashley). If I can’t be with my wife on her birthday the best thing to do is take a trophy home to her.
“I didn’t do a good job early on in the race. I apologize to Julia (Landauer) and the No. 45 team. I got into her. I still don’t what happened. I still feel bad no matter what the case was. I just felt all day that I wasn’t doing a good job.
“The guys kept me calm. We had great pit stops all day. I’m just really proud of this team.”
Both Ty Gibbs and William Byron, who together led a combined 71 laps, fell out of contention. Gibbs suffered a broken bolt to the camber shaft at the end of Stage 2 and Byron blew an engine in the final stage.
Cassill finished third, Noah Gragson fourth and Brandon Brown rounded out the top-five.
Completing the top-10 were Jeremy Clements, Sheldon Creed, Ty Dillon, Austin Hill and Kyle Weatherman.
The race was slowed nine times by caution and there was one red flag that lasted nearly eight minutes for a multi-car accident.
Stage 3
Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, all the lead-lap cars pit with Byron the first off pit road. Gibbs had an extended stop on pit road to check his brakes and had to make a second stop.
On the restart on Lap 98, Byron was followed by Cassill, A.J. Allmendinger and Josh Berry.
Matt Mills and Julia Landauer spun and wrecked in Turn 1 shortly after the restart to bring out the fourth caution of the race.
The race resumed on Lap 104. Byron was followed by Cassill, Allmendinger and Berry.
Byron immediately fell off the pace, which turned the lead over to Cassill. Byron was forced to pit under green for a flat tire.
On Lap 106, Daniel Hemric wrecked in Turn 3 after suffering a left-rear tire failure, which again brought out a caution. When the race returned to green on Lap 112, Cassill led the way followed by Berry, Allgaier and Allmendinger.
Berry went to the outside of…
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