Justin Allgaier appeared to have Saturday’s win nicely in hand with a greater than two-second benefit over Smith when a flat left-front tire despatched his No. 7 Chevrolet into the Flip wall with 5 laps remaining.
The wreck and cleanup despatched the race right into a two-lap additional time, the place Smith obtained a superb run on the beginning and held off a fast-charging Jesse Love by 0.365 seconds to say the shock win.
The victory is the second of Smith’s profession and first since he joined Joe Gibbs Racing within the offseason.
“What a day. We went from dominating, to we weren’t nice, to dominating once more, to wasn’t nice once more, simply lacked slightly bit on (Allgaier),” Smith mentioned. “I hate that occurred to him. He positively had it within the bag.
“I’m so happy with all people at Joe Gibbs Racing. It’s to lastly get this primary one off the again with these guys. We have to hold racking them up.”
Smith’s JGR teammate, Sheldon Creed, completed third, Austin Hill was fourth and Cole Custer accomplished the highest 5.
Rounding out the highest 10 have been three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen, Brandon Jones, Parker Kligerman, Sammy Smith and Anthony Alfredo.
Stage 1
Chandler Smith cruised to a dominating Stage 1 win over Custer, main all 45 laps. Allgaier was third, Aric Almirola fourth and Riley Herbst rounded out the highest 5.
Jeremy Clements, Josh Williams, Dawson Cram and Patrick Emerling have been concerned in an early-race incident that knocked Emerling out of the race and despatched Williams a number of laps down.
Stage 2
Custer held off a late cost by Allgaier to say the Stage 2 win by 0.457 seconds, his first stage victory of the 2024 season. Almirola was third, Chandler Smith fourth and Herbst rounded out the highest 5.
Stage 3
In the course of the break between Levels 2 and three, the lead lap automobiles all pit with Custer first off pit highway. When the ultimate stage obtained below means, Custer led Allgaier and Herbst with 100 laps remaining.
NASCAR threw a warning on lap 138 for particles on the monitor after Hailie Deegan tagged the wall. That despatched all of the automobiles down pit highway for brand spanking new tires and gasoline to make it to the tip of the race. John Hunter Nemechek was the primary off pit highway and led Allgaier and Herbst on the restart on lap 144.
Simply after the restart, Chandler Smith and Nemechek made contact off Flip 2, which triggered a multi-car wreck that collected practically a dozen automobiles.
The race was halted for about 11 minutes so the monitor might be cleared of particles and fluid. Among the many contenders knocked out of the race have been Nemechek, Sam Mayer and Jeb Burton.
Allgaier led Chandler Smith and Custer when the race resumed with 49 laps remaining.
With 20 laps to go, Allgaier maintained a greater than 2-second lead over Chandler Smith as Creed moved as much as third.
The race modified dramatically with 5 laps remaining, when Allgaier had a tire go down coming into Flip 1, spun and backed into the wall, which destroyed his No. 7 Chevrolet and despatched the race into additional time.
Coming into the two-lap additional time, Chandler Smith was the chief, adopted by Creed, Love, Custer and Hill.
