Ty Gibbs won the race and NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Phoenix Raceway Saturday (Nov. 5), getting by fellow title contender Justin Allgaier with about 20 laps to go and holding off Noah Gragson in the closing laps.
Gibbs was behind Allgaier on a restart with about 30 laps to go but after going side-by-side with Allgaier for a few laps, the No. 7 went wide up the racetrack, allowing for Gibbs to take the lead.
The No. 54 earned his seventh win of the season after starting on the pole.
Gragson was second, Allgaier was third and Josh Berry, who got in the wall after the last restart, finished 13th.
Landon Cassill and AJ Allmendinger took home fourth and fifth place.
One of the early frontrunners had issues to start stage three. Sammy Smith made contact with Sam Mayer and eventually got up into him, while Riley Herbst was close to Smith’s rear. Mayer spun around into traffic, and multiple cars ended up crashing, including Stefan Parsons, Ryan Sieg, Anthony Alfredo and several others.
Pileup!
Sammy Smith gets into Sam Mayer and multiple cars are collected.
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Smith then got more damage shortly after the next restart after Joey Gase got spun in front of him.
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