TALLADEGA, Ala. — Jesse Love scored his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win and continued Richard Childress Racing’s superspeedway dominance in Saturday’s (April 20) AgPro 300 at Talladega Superspeedway, but a double-overtime finish coupled with two big crashes and multiple cars running out of fuel gave smaller teams the opportunity to shine and score top-10 finishes at Talladega.
Anthony Alfredo tied his career-best Xfinity finish of third, while Leland Honeyman recorded his first-ever top five (and top 10) in fourth.
The finish for Alfredo came after he made contact with Austin Hill in a crash with two laps to go; Alfredo powered through the field on the final two restarts to score the podium finish.
“Just super proud of Our Motorsports,” Alfredo said. “The guys are working so hard; they deserve this one. This is like the epitome of our season; we’re finishing well because we’re just staying in it and never giving up. Either way, we think we might be down or out, or we don’t have a shot, we just keep our head in the game. We put ourselves in position when it matters most and then from there executed.
“So I’m really proud of that, and I look forward to build on this plus the $100,000 (Dash4Cash) on the line next week [at Dover].”
Honeyman restarted on the outside of Love for the final restart, and he went into detail about the intensity of the final laps and how important the next race at Dover Motor Speedway will be, as he too will be eligible for the Dash4Cash bonus.
“The last restart is pretty intense just because you’re starting on the front row, inside,” Honeyman said. “You got a full-blown RCR car on your outside. The pressure is definitely high there and you definitely want to do the best you can and restart well and get a good launch without jumping the No. 2 car.
“So I think the Young’s Motorsports crew did a great job, Frankie Kimmel on top of the roof guiding me through this whole thing. I’m very excited to head to Dover this week with the Dash4Cash and see what we can do.”
Talladega saw Alpha Prime Racing score a double top 10, as Brennan Poole finished fifth and Caesar Bacarella finished seventh. Ryan Ellis also restarted in the top 10 but he ran out of gas in the final two laps.
For Poole, Saturday marked his second Xfinity top five at Talladega in a row.
“We were tight on fuel at the end,” Poole said. “These things, it just seems like they always go…
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