Every week after Justin Allgaier misplaced in heartbreaking vogue at Phoenix Raceway, the defending Xfinity Collection champion held off Aric Almirola to win his first race of 2025 and the twenty sixth of his Xfinity Collection profession.
Almirola acquired the deficit to Allgaier all the way down to as little as two-tenths of a second within the closing laps, however a bobble from Almirola with 4 laps to go was sufficient for Allgaier to tug away.
The victory ensures that Allgaier will return to the Xfinity Collection playoffs in 2025, and marks his ninth consecutive season with a minimum of one Xfinity Collection victory. The win can also be the ninetieth for Jr Motorsports in Xfinity Collection competitors.
“It feels wonderful,” Allgaier advised CW Sports activities. “Aric and I have been going at it, he ran a heck of a race. (I’ve) been fortunate to win a variety of races in my profession, and this one means rather a lot as a result of I really feel like we have been so shut (just lately).”
Almirola, Jesse Love, Austin Hill and Sam Mayer rounded out the top-five, with Brandon Jones, Ryan Sieg, Harrison Burton, Connor Zilisch and Sheldon Creed finishing the top-10.
Different notable finishers in Saturday’s race embody polesitter Sammy Smith in 14th, Carson Kvapil in seventeenth, Taylor Grey in nineteenth, Jeb Burton in twenty third and William Sawalich in thirty eighth.
The sixth race of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Collection season will happen on March 22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Arduous Rock Guess 300 will go inexperienced shortly after 4 p.m. ET on March 22, with protection on the CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
