Ryan Truex led the final two laps — his only led laps on Saturday (April 27) — of the second overtime of the BetRivers 200 to win his second consecutive race at Dover Motor Speedway.
Truex passed Carson Kvapil on the final restart and fended off the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet until a caution on the final lap ended the race. Truex’s pair of NASCAR Xfinity Series wins at the Monster Mile are his only wins in his NASCAR national series career.
Kvapil, in the second start of his Xfinity Series career, took the lead late from Austin Hill, who spun on the first overtime restart. Kvapil pulled a sizeable lead before NASCAR threw the caution to send the race to a second overtime. The son of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Travis Kvapil was unable to keep the now-two-time Dover race winner at bay.
Kvapil’s teammate Sam Mayer battled his way to third by the moment of the final caution, and late-race contender Sheldon Creed finished fourth. Cole Custer, who led the most laps of the day at 94, completed the top five.
AJ Allmendinger, Chandler Smith, Kyle Weatherman, Dash 4 Cash winner Anthony Alfredo and Parker Retzlaff rounded out the top 10.
Brandon Jones started from the pole, and he led the short opening green-flag run that ended on lap five when Dawson Cram made contact with Hailie Deegan, sending her No. 15 AM Racing Ford into JJ Yeley‘s No. 35 Toyota for Joey Gase Motorsports. Yeley would not continue after the crash.
“Stupidity,” Yeley told Frontstretch. “We’re at lap five. I was racing with the [No.] 4 car. He was having a rough time keeping his lane, but caught the [No.] 15. I know this is her [Deegan] first time here. It looked like she was struggling a bit.
“She moved up a little bit on the front straightaway. He hooked her in the right rear. It looked like she started to go to the outside wall, so I went as low as I could trying to get away from her. I thought I was going to be clear, and then, obviously, I wasn’t far enough away. She caught me in the right rear and just turned me up to the fence.”
The first restart of the race on lap 14 saw…
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