David beat Goliath Friday night (Sept. 16) at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The smaller team of Ryan Sieg‘s RSS Racing topped the much bigger entries of Kaulig Racing’s Landon Cassill and Richard Childress Racing’s Sheldon Creed to claim the 12th and final NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff spot. Problems for both Cassill and Creed, along with a 10th-place finish for Sieg, was enough to get the No. 39 team the final spot by just five points over Cassill.
“Amazing to find ourselves going to the next round with our small CMR 39 team going to the big boys and trying to get all we can get going to Texas, Talladega and the [Charlotte Motor Speedway] Roval,” Sieg told Frontstretch. “It’s pretty exciting right now. We were pretty much out of it going into this race, but find ourselves on the other side of it, which is a positive.”
“Hopefully, we’ll get some more faster cars coming to the next coming tracks.”
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Sieg came into the race 19 points behind Cassill for the final spot. Creed, meanwhile, essentially needed to win to take the spot.
Cassill passed Sieg in the closing laps of stage 1 to finish ninth and add one more point to his lead. But shortly after, Cassill pulled the car into the garage after smoke started pouring out of the hubs.
“I don’t know what happened, you would have to ask my crew,” Cassill said. “Something mechanical.”
The Kaulig crew made repairs on it, but Cassill lost 112 laps in the process. The result was a 35th-place finish for the No. 10 team, completely evaporating Cassill’s lead over Sieg. From that point, Sieg only had to finish in the top 14, and he brought it home in 10th.
“My emotions are not the best at the moment,” Cassill said. “I’m pretty angry and disappointed. But it’s been a long regular season up to this point. I’ve had a lot of opportunities to score points.
“Five points doesn’t seem like much right now.”
Sieg said that the crew wasn’t informing him of the point situation and that he was racing hard until the closing laps. Then the team had him pull back the reins a little bit and cruise to the finish.
As for Creed, the No. 2 squad went for the Hail Mary to try to get the win, and it seemed for a bit that it might work. Creed stayed out…
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