Justin Allgaier won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Michigan International Speedway Saturday (Aug. 17) after holding onto the lead through an overtime finish.
A crash for Kyle Weatherman set off overtime, and after a small red flag period for rain, the race went back to green.
Allgaier set sail for the lead, while others jockeyed for positions behind him. Then, after the No. 7 took the white flag, there was a big accident on the backstretch in which Carson Kvapil spun and hit the wall, and Chandler Smith and Kyle Sieg spinning down onto the apron. Sieg ended up flipping over on his roof and sliding all the way into the grass before flipping back over on his wheels.
With the caution out, Allgaier was scored as the leader and took home his second win of the season and 25th of his career.
Stage one featured a couple of solo spins by Taylor Gray and Sheldon Creed, the latter of which was leading the race when he got loose off of Riley Herbst. Additionally, after a restart, Sammy Smith had to make an unscheduled pit stop for a tire going down.
The battle for the stage one win picked up on a restart with about three laps remaining. Herbst restarted out front, but Justin Allgaier was able to get to the lead with some help from Ryan Sieg. Then, on the final lap of the first stage, Sieg got by Allgaier to claim the stage one win.
The red flag then came out for precipitation after the stage ended.
But after a few minutes, drivers returned to their cars and the race went back to yellow.
Shortly after the next restart, Austin Hill slid down from the top lane and attempted to get in line in front of Carson Kvapil. He wasn’t quite clear and spun in the grass, without any other contact.
One of the bigger incidents involved several of the top runners, including Riley Herbst, Ryan Sieg, Brandon Jones and Cole Custer. Herbst went below the No. 39 of Sieg to try to pass him, and attempted to slide back up in front of Sieg. It appeared that Jones bump-drafted Sieg just as Herbst moved up, and the No. 98 got turned and hit the outside wall hard.
Sam Mayer and Custer ended up colliding with Jones as the No. 9 spun down the track.
Another fairly big wreck occurred when Lawless Alan, making his Xfinity debut, got loose while running three-wide and spun around, tagging Jeb Burton and hitting Daniel Dye.
During stage three, Kvapil passed John Hunter Nemechek for the lead in a strategy play. The No. 88 team hoped that rain…
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