On a carnage-filled day at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, Jesse Love held off Sam Mayer and the remainder of the Xfinity Sequence subject to win Saturday’s United Leases 300.
Love acquired down in entrance of teammates Mayer and Sheldon Creed on the time beyond regulation restart, and when the warning flag flew simply after the white flag, Love was the chief.
An enormous crash on the frontstretch introduced out the warning simply after Love took the white flag to make the race official.
Mayer, Creed, Kvapil and Jordan Anderson rounded out the top-five, with Harrison Burton, Dean Thompson, Jeremy Clements, Patrick Emerling and Taylor Grey finishing the top-10.
Different notable finishers embody Christian Eckes in twelfth, Ryan Truex in seventeenth, Justin Allgaier in 18th, Ryan Sieg in nineteenth and Austin Hill in thirty third.
A mechanical problem took Hill — the dominant automotive of the day — out of the race in Stage 3. He completed 44 laps down, and was unable to win his fourth consecutive season-opening race at Daytona.
“It takes me slightly time to rise up entrance,” Love advised CW Sports activities. ‘I am making an attempt to play chess these days and never checkers at Daytona. I am puzzled. It is Daytona. I all the time cry right here after I hearken to the nationwide anthem, I am starstruck. This place is de facto particular to me.”
Jeb Burton, Allgaier, Sieg and Josh Williams have been among the many drivers concerned within the last-lap crash on the frontstretch.
The Xfinity Sequence will head to a different drafting-style subsequent week, taking over Atlanta Motor Speedway on Feb. 22. Hill gained each races at Atlanta in 2024.
