Who can stop the No. 20 team in the NASCAR Xfinity Series?
John Hunter Nemechek gained his second win of the season at a hot Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway as he pulled away from teammate Chandler Smith in the final 51-lap run to the finish, beating his teammate by .366 seconds, down from almost a 1.5-second lead before he approached lapped traffic in the final laps.
Jesse Love finished the race third, followed by Austin Hill and Noah Gragson in fourth and fifth.
Riley Herbst, AJ Allmendinger, Justin Allgaier, Cole Custer and Sam Mayer rounded out the top 10.
Nemechek battled back from a errant adjustment that slid him behind two of the fastest drivers of the day in Custer andAllmendinger.
The NASCAR Cup Series regular completed back-to-back wins for the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team. His Toyota Cup counterpart Christopher Bell won with the team last week at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The team has won five times this season, the most in the 2024 Xfinity season.
The Mooresville, N.C., native collected his 11th win of his Xfinity career, leading a race-high 76 laps.
Smith recovered from being involved in the only incident of the day, which was triggered by Allgaier getting into Smith’s JGR teammate Ty Gibbs.
Love had the drive of the day. He had to start at the rear of the field after he suffered a hole in his radiator prior to qualifying. He also had a slow pit stop during the stage three break that relegated him outside the top 20.
Love fought his way back to finish third despite having trouble with his cool suit in what was a hot day that saw track temperatures as high as 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Gragson, in his second Xfinity start of the season with Rette Jones Racing, scored the team’s first top five in its second series start. Gragson was part of the group of drivers who suffered a cool suit issue.
Herbst also experienced a cool suit failure early in the race. By the end of stage two and before pit road opened, he had enough and needed assistance draining the suit to eliminate the heat coming from the scorching water in the suit. Once his cool suit problem was resolved, he was able to recover and battle back to finish sixth for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Prior to the only caution for incident Custer and Allmendinger consistently ran in the top three and were running 1-2 before the caution in what was shaping to be a one vs. one fight for the win, however Allmendinger experienced a slow…
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