Jones snatches dramatic win at
Kansas Speedway
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[July 27, 2020]
On the final lap of overtime in
Saturday's Kansas Lottery 250, Brandon Jones stole a victory and a
piece of history from Austin Cindric.
Restarting from seventh place in the second overtime attempt, Jones
charged forward and wrested the lead from Cindric, who was less than
one lap away from tying Sam Ard's NASCAR Xfinity Series record of
four straight victories, a feat Ard accomplished in 1983.
After Cindric led Lap 174, the seventh circuit of overtime, Jones
got a run underneath the No. 22 Team Penske Ford and powered his No.
19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota past Cindric through Turn 1. Jones
crossed the finish line .405 seconds ahead of the No. 22 Mustang at
Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
Harrison Burton, who had the fastest long-run car in the race,
finished third. Burton had a comfortable lead over Cindric when Joe
Graf Jr.'s brush with the Turn 4 wall on Lap 164 of a scheduled 167
brought out the fourth caution and sent the race to overtime.
After the first attempt at overtime was foiled by Jesse Little's
spin in Turn 2, Jones came from the fourth row to score his second
victory of the year, his second straight at Kansas Speedway and the
third of his career.
"We're never out of this thing -- that's what I love about these
guys (the No. 19 team)," said Jones, who ran the Friday/Saturday
Truck Series doubleheader before climbing in the Xfinity car on
Saturday afternoon. "We keep our head in the game. We don't get
excited during these races. We continue to make changes.
"My feedback, I think, was pretty good. It's been a long two days. I
feel exhausted, and obviously, the heat is big here. Looking forward
to celebrating with these guys, and it feels great to be back in
Victory Lane."
Jones has finished seventh and first in the last two races, after a
hard-luck string of four events in which his best finish was 30th.
Cindric was gracious in defeat but had to second-guess his choice to
leave the inside lane open on the final lap.
"There's about 20 things I feel like I should have done
differently," Cindric said. "It was difficult, because up higher was
preferred all day, and you could usually generate momentum. I didn't
know that we didn't quite get the right adjustment there at the end,
so I was probably tighter than I needed to be, but, overall,
watching the replay, he (Jones) got a hell of a run on the bottom,
and I knew he had some momentum.
"If I maybe would have known he was coming from the bottom, I
probably would have pulled down to slide myself into (Turns) 1 and 2
and been able to fight for it in 3 and 4, but, overall, congrats to
him. He earned it. He went from seventh to the lead in two laps.
It's like the third or fourth time we've lost on a
green-white-checker after being the leader at the line. There are a
thousand different things you can do right and wrong and you've got
to trust your gut and trust the car is going to stick. Overall, it
just wasn't in the cards for four in a row."
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Cindric was strong on restarts, but Burton twice was able to run him
down from deficits of three seconds or more during long green-flag
runs. Burton had taken the lead with nine laps left in regulation
and pulled out to a cushion of more than one second before Graf's
incident in Turn 4.
The runner-up finish and a sweep of the first two stages propelled
Cindric past 14th-place finisher Chase Briscoe to the top of the
series standings. Cindric leads Briscoe by four points heading to
the Road America road course two weeks hence.
Ryan Sieg solidified his hold on a Playoff position by staying out
on older tires during the fourth caution and finishing fourth.
Eleventh in the standings, Sieg now has a 66-point lead over Jeremy
Clements in 13th. Twelve drivers will qualify for the Xfinity Series
postseason.
Ross Chastain ran fifth, his 15th top-10 result in 17 races this
season. Justin Haley, Daniel Hemric, Michael Annett, Riley Herbst
and Justin Allgaier completed the top 10.
NASCAR Xfinity Series Race -- Kansas Lottery 250
Kansas Speedway
Kansas City, Kansas
Saturday, July 25, 2020
1. (2) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 175.
2. (4) Austin Cindric, Ford, 175.
3. (5) Harrison Burton #, Toyota, 175.
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4. (16) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 175.
5. (7) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 175.
6. (12) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 175.
7. (9) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 175.
8. (1) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 175.
9. (8) Riley Herbst #, Toyota, 175.
10. (11) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 175.
11. (22) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 175.
12. (17) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 175.
13. (3) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 175.
14. (6) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 175.
15. (10) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 174.
16. (37) Colin Garrett, Toyota, 174.
17. (13) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 174.
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18. (28) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 174.
19. (21) Timmy Hill(i), Toyota, 174.
20. (24) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 174.
21. (19) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 174.
22. (33) Myatt Snider #, Chevrolet, 173.
23. (27) Bayley Currey(i), Chevrolet, 173.
24. (15) David Starr, Chevrolet, 173.
25. (30) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, 173.
26. (32) Matt Mills, Toyota, 171.
27. (29) Kody Vanderwal #, Chevrolet, 171.
28. (34) Joe Graf Jr #, Chevrolet, 171.
29. (31) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 171.
30. (36) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 171.
31. (20) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 171.
32. (26) Ja Junior Avila, Toyota, 170.
33. (14) Jesse Little #, Chevrolet, Accident, 165.
34. (23) Brett Moffitt(i), Chevrolet, Oil Leak, 91.
35. (18) Dexter Bean, Chevrolet, Power Steering, 43.
36. (35) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, Battery, 33.
37. (25) Stephen Leicht, Toyota, Transmission, 26.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 126.388 mph.
Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 4 Mins, 37 Secs. Margin of Victory: .405
Seconds.
Caution Flags: 5 for 22 laps.
Lead Changes: 9 among 5 drivers.
Lap Leaders: M. Annett 0;B. Jones 1-9;A. Cindric 10-126;R. Chastain
127;R. Sieg 128-144;A. Cindric 145-157;H. Burton # 158-165;R. Sieg
166-173;A. Cindric 174;B. Jones 175.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Austin Cindric 3
times for 131 laps; Ryan Sieg 2 times for 25 laps; Brandon Jones 2
times for 10 laps; Harrison Burton # 1 time for 8 laps; Ross
Chastain 1 time for 1 lap.
Stage #1 Top Ten: 22,10,20,19,7,11,8,02,18,21
Stage #2 Top Ten: 22,20,7,10,11,19,98,18,8,9
--By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level
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