As the laps reached single digits, Sam Mayer reeled in leader Ryan Sieg. On the last lap, Mayer drove alongside Sieg, the two drag raced to the finish line and Mayer bested Sieg, in the second-closest finish in series history. to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday (April 13).
Mayer earned his first win of the 2024 season and the fifth of his career.
“That’s absolutely unreal,” Mayer happily told FOX Sports 1 on the frontstretch. “This Carolina Carports Chevrolet was certainly as fast as Xfinity internet. This team, with the adversity we had to fight this entire year so far and it’s come to a mile and a half that I want to say I’m good at but it took a lot. It took every ounce of me to do that today. So proud of my team, Mardy [Lindley] on top of the box, Kevin on top of the roof. He might’ve won that race because he told me the bottom in [turns] 3-4 was better so props to him.”
In his 342nd career start, Sieg wound up runner up, inches away from capturing his first Xfinity victory.
“It sucks,” Sieg said post-race. “We had a really good car, just kind of, I got tight. Tried to change my line to do different things and fell behind. I saw him coming, I was doing all I could do and then I was just trying to run him into the wall. Trying to win the race, you know what I mean, we’re so close. Just, this sucks.
“You only have finished second before too many times. But this is a good thing. We’re running where we need to be in the top five. Just got to clean up a few things and it’ll come. Thanks to Stewart-Haas and Matt Noyce. This team, we got to keep fighting. We’re right there. Just got to keep it up and we’ll have our SciAps Ford in victory lane here shortly. Just sucks, you know what I mean? We had a super fast car; just got tight and… it sucks.”
Sieg wheeled his No. 39 RSS Racing Ford to the front on the previous restart, passing Mayer for the lead.
Justin Allgaier won both stages, led the most laps and appeared headed for victory, yet he made contact with the lapped car of Leland Honeyman, sending Honeyman into the wall and bringing out the caution.
On the two subsequent restarts, Allgaier got shuffled back a few positions. He ended up third, not indicative of the race-winning speed in his No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet.
Mayer won the Dash 4 Cash, earning a $100,000 prize on top of his victory. Mayer, Sieg, Allgaier and AJ…
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