AJ Allmendinger<\/strong><\/a> complained of a loose wheel on the right side of his car. His Kaulig Racing crew claimed that they \u201cchecked the video\u201d and told Allmendinger all his wheels were tight, and any problem would have been the tires.<\/span><\/p>\nThat would not be the case. Allmendinger chose to pit a handful of laps after the restart where the team found that not one, but both wheels on the right side of the #16 Chevrolet were loose, and AJ\u2019s suspicions were indeed correct.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI wish I was wrong when I thought they were loose.\u201d Said AJ Allmendinger on TV following the race. \u201cI didn\u2019t know which one was loose, but I knew something was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAllmendinger was fighting his car through the first half of the race, but his Chevy started to come to him in the latter half before the late restart. After pitting to fix his loose wheel issue, he finished 22nd, two laps down, and most importantly below the playoff cutline.<\/span><\/p>\nAJ dropped from second in the \u00a0Xfinity Series Playoff standings to sixth because of the bad pit stop from the caution. Yet again, a late and controversial caution dictates NASCAR playoff results. Allmendinger will likely need a victory at either Homestead or Martinsville to fight for the Xfinity Series Championship at the season finale in Phoenix.<\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR_Xfinity\/status\/1581439791433859072<\/p>\n
Playoff Standings<\/b><\/h4>\n
IN:<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Josh Berry, JR Motorsports – 1 Win, Clinched Championship Berth<\/span><\/li>\n
- Noah Gragson, JR Motorsports – 3109 points, +44 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n
- Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing – 3090 points, +25 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n
- Justin Allgaier, JR Motorsports – 3080 points, +15 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
——–PLAYOFF CUTLINE——–<\/span><\/p>\nOUT:<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Austin Hill, Richard Childress Racing – 3065 points, -15 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n
- AJ Allmendinger, Kaulig Racing – 3064 points, -16 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n
- Brandon Jones, Joe Gibbs Racing – 3053 points, -27 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sam Mayer, JR Motorsports – 3044 points, -36 from cutoff<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
A Day of Firsts<\/b><\/h4>\n
In her Xfinity Series debut, Hailie Deegan<\/strong> had a strong race and finished 13th. After the race, she told NBC Sports\u2019 Parker Kligerman she was \u201cecstatic\u201d with her performance and was aiming for a top 15 finish.<\/span><\/p>\nWith the 13th place result, Deegan finished higher than any woman has in their Xfinity Series debut, topping Shawna Robinson\u2019s 15th place debut at Orange County Speedway in 1991. Deegan also had the second-best series debut of any woman in any of NASCAR\u2019s National Series.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m pretty excited right now. The guys gave me an amazing car,\u201d Deegan said in her post-race interview. <\/span><\/p>\n\u201c<\/span>I have always wanted to come out here and just be able to experience what it\u2019s like to run the Xfinity Series. The guys gave me a car as fast as Xfinity internet and we were able to do something with it. So, I was really happy with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cI\u2019d be more than happy to do more Xfinity races,\u201d Deegan added. \u201cIf anybody is willing to pay the bills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nFeatured Image Credit: Sean Gardner\/Getty Images<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brandon Jones spin brought out a controversial late caution at Las Vegas and Josh Berry came out on top of a wild sprint to the finish to earn a place in the Xfinity Series Championship 4 in Phoenix. A great day for JR Motorsports in Las Vegas was capped by Josh Berry taking the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[557,396,1214,1474,335,1315,514,992],"class_list":["post-11887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nascar","tag-aj-allmendinger","tag-brandon-jones","tag-hailie-deegan","tag-josh-berry","tag-justin-allgaier","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-motor-speedway","tag-noah-gragson"],"modified_by":"Nathan Reynolds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}