Justin Allgaier dominates Xfinity race at Nashville, scores third win of 2025 season: Justin Allgaier joked before the start of Saturday’s Tennessee Lottery 250 that he needed to win his second NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway so he could earn another guitar trophy and have one for each of his two young daughters.(Read more)(NASCAR)

In dominant fashion, #7-Justin Allgaier won the Tennessee Lottery 250 Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. He had a perfect race, leading 101 laps, sweeping all three stages and the fastest lap to earn 61 points. It’s his third win of the season and second at Nashville.
#88-Connor Zilisch earned his second straight runner-up finish on an oval since returning from injury. Haas Factory Team had a strong showing with its drivers #41-Sam Mayer and #00-Sheldon Creed finishing third and fourth. #9-Ross Chastain rounded out the top five.
#19-Airc Almirola finished sixth, as #21-Austin Hill, #2-Jesse Love, #1-Carson Kvapil and #8-Sammy Smith completed the top 10. #10-Daniel Dye crossed the finish line in ninth, but was disqualified for failing rear heights.
There were eight lead changes among seven drivers and six cautions for 39 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was 111.006 mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Points Standings, Owner Points Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report.

Nashville Paint Schemes

Race Fast Facts – Nashville:
Justin Allgaier won the Tennessee Lottery 250, his 28th victory in 485 Xfinity Series races.
This is his third victory and 10th top-10 finish in 2025.
This is his second victory and seventh top-10 finish in 11 races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Connor Zilisch # (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2025.
Sam Mayer (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in four races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Connor Zilisch (second) was the highest finishing rookie.
Justin Allgaier leads the point standings by 92 points over Austin Hill.

Xfinity Series Playoff Standings after Nashville (Race 14 of 33):
1)#7-Justin Allgaier 3 wins (21 playoff points, regular season championship leader)
2)#21-Austin Hill 3 wins (21 playoff points)
3)#88-Connor Zilisch 1 win (7 playoff points)
4)#2-Jesse Love 1 win (6 playoff points)
5)#8-Sammy Smith 1 win (6 playoff points)
6)#20-Brandon Jones 1 win (5 playoff points)
7)#41-Sam Mayer 473, +130
8)#00-Sheldon Creed 381, +38
9)#1-Carson Kvapil 380, +36
10)#27-Jeb Burton 365, +22
11)#39-Ryan Sieg 365, +22
12)#25-Harrison Burton 348, +5
Currently below elimination line 
13)#48-Nick Sanchez 343, -5
14)#54-Taylor Gray 316, -33
15)#10-Daniel Dye 300, -48
16)#26-Dean Thompson 285, -63
See the Driver Points Standings and Owner Points Standings.

Race Updates:
Lap 188: #7-Allgaier wins at Nashville. #88-Zilisch, #41-Mayer, #00-Creed and #9-Chastain round out the top five.
lap 186: #54-Gray is off the pace with car smoking from underneath his car.
Lap 183: #7-Allgaier has extended his lead to 1.2 seconds with five laps remaining.
Lap 176: #88-Zilisch has dropped to nearly one-second behind #7-Allgaier with 12 laps remaining in the race.
Lap 173: #41-Mayer passes his Haas Factory Team teammate #00-Creed for third position and is the fastest car on track.
Lap 167: Polesitter #18-Sawalich has gone to the garage after issues earlier in the race.
Lap 162: #7-Allgaier has caught lapped traffic with #88-Zilisch still in tow. #00-Creed remains in third, two seconds back. #41-Mayer and #19-Almirola are the current top five.
Lap 153: #7-Allgaier has held off #88-Zilisch since the restart, though Zilisch has remained in his tracks. #00-Creed is nearly two seconds back in third position.
Lap 146: #9-Chastain goes to the apron on the frontstretch, making contact with #10-Dye. Chastain jumped two spots to sixth.
Lap 140: #7-Allgaier makes it three-wide at the front of the field to take the lead. #20-Jones is dropping back quickly on older tires.
Lap 137: #20-Jones wins the race off pit road with a fuel-only stop. #88-Zilisch is the first driver off pit road of those that took four tires. #00-Creed gets ahead of #7-Allgaier.
Lap 135: #18-Sawalich went up to side draft #8-Smith off Turn 2 and made contact. Sawalich spun through the backstretch grass.
Lap 125: #88-Zilisch leads #7-Allgaier by six-tenths of a second. #2-Love has cracked the top 10. #27-Burton has rebounded to 14th after early struggles.
Lap 119: #88-Zilisch takes the lead from #00-Creed after he wiggled through Turns 3 and 4. #7-Allgaier clears for second.
Lap 112: #88-Zilisch clears #7-Allgaier for second spot and closing in on #00-Creed for the race lead.
Lap 109: #00-Creed slides up in front of #7-Allgaier on the restart to keep the lead. #88-Zilisch, #41-Mayer and #19-Almirola are the top five.
Lap 102: #20-Jones pits during the caution period for his last set of sticker tires.
Lap 98: The front row eased into the restart zone, triggering a big pileup in the middle of the field as other cars launched. #16-Eckes plowed into the rear of #25-Burton on the inside line. #20-Jones was turned by #71-Ellis. #42-Alfredo, #28-Sieg, #70-Annunziata and #11-Williams were all involved.
Lap 94: #00-Creed takes the lead off pit road with #7-Allgaier dropping to second. #41-Mayer jumped two spots to fourth; #54-Gray moved up three spots to eighth.
Lap 90: #7-Allgaier wins Stage 2, his sixth stage victory of the season. #00-Creed, #19-Almirola, #88-Zilisch, #9-Chastain, #41-Mayer, #21-Hill, #1-Kvapil, #16-Eckes and #10-Dye earn stage points.
Lap 80: #7-Allgaier has drove out to a 2.5-second lead over #00-Creed with 10 laps remaining in the second stage.
Lap 76: #19-Almirola continues marching forward, passing #21-Hill for third position.
Lap 71: #9-Chastain has made power moves since the restart, gaining four positions to sixth.
Lap 66: #7-Allgaier maintains the lead on the restart. #00-Creed passes #21-Hill for second position.
Lap 61: #70-Annunziata makes contact with #31-Perkins off Turn 4, spinning Perkins though the tri-oval grass.
Lap 56: #41-Mayer bounced off the Turn 4 wall on corner exit. Mayer has dropped to seventh position.
Lap 55:# 7-Allgaier escapes with the lead on the restart, pulling out to a three-quarter of second lead on #21-Hill.
Lap 45: #7-Clements wins Stage 1, his fifth stage victory of the season. #51-Clements, #99-DiBenedetto, #21-Hill, #10-Dye, #00-Creed, #41-Mayer, #20-Jones, #1-Kvapil and #88-Zilisch earn stage points.
Lap 44: #17-Day spins to bring out the caution.
Lap 42: #7-Allgaier drives by #51-Clements on the outside to take the race lead.
Lap 41: #10-Dye got tight on corner entry and washes up the track. #51-Clements takes the lead. #7-Allgaier has moved to third on new tires.
Lap 37: The majority of the field pits. #10-Dye, #20-Jones, #51-Clements, #27-Burton, #99-DiBenedetto and #91-Snider elect to stay out on track.
Lap 35: #28-Sieg gets loose under #4-Retzlaff through Turns 3 and 4 and both drivers spin. Retzlaff backed into the outside wall, receiving significant left-rear damage.
Lap 24: #18-Sawalich has caught the rear of the field and put #45-Massey a lap down. #7-Allgaier still trails by nearly one second.
Lap 18: #9-Chastain continues moving forward, now running fifth. #7-Allgaier has passed #21-Hill for second position.
Lap 15: #19-Almirola is moving forward, passing up to fifth. He’s in a three-car battle with #1-Kvapi; and #9-Chastain.
Lap 10: #18-Sawalich has opened up the lead to nearly one-second over #21-Hill. This is the most laps he’s led in a single race.
Lap 4: #2-Love makes a three-wide move to the inside of #20-Jones and #8-Smith to move up to 13th position.
Lap 1: #18-Sawalich leads the opening lap from the pole. #21-Hill filed in second, with #7-Allgaier, #41-Mayer and #1-Kvapil rounding out the top five.

Cars to the rear: None reported

Pit-Stall Selections

Winning a much-needed pole award, #18-William Sawalich will bring the field to the green flag for the Tennessee Lottery 250 Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway (155.152 mph). It’s his second career pole award (Phoenix II, 2025).
#21-Austin Hill will start alongside from the front row in second (154.731 mph). #41-Sam Mayer will start from third position (154.496 mph), with #7-Justin Allgaier (154.327 mph) and #00-Sheldon Creed (154.282 mph) rounding out the top five.
#1-Carson Kvapil, #48-Nick Sanchez, #19-Aric Almirola, #9-Ross Chastain and #88-Connor Zilisch complete the top 10.
Did Not Qualify: #32-Katherine Legge, #35-Glen Reen.
See the complete Nashville Starting Lineup

Qualifying Fast Facts — Nashville Superspeedway:
William Sawalich # won the Pole Award for the Tennessee Lottery 250 with a lap of 30.86 seconds, 155.152 mph.
This is his second pole in 17 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
This is his first pole and sixth top-10 start in 2025.
This is his first pole in one races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Austin Hill (second) posted his ninth top-10 start of 2025 and his fourth in five races at Nashville Superspeedway.
Sam Mayer (third) posted his first top-10 start at Nashville Superspeedway. It is his ninth in 14 races this season.
William Sawalich (first) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

Qualifying Order

Practice for the Tennessee Lottery 250 Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway is complete. The top five, slowest, news and notes:
#28-Kyle Sieg 153.910 mph
#8-Sammy Smith 153.846 mph
#10-Daniel Dye 152.693 mph
#54-Taylor Gray 152.566 mph
#9-Ross Chastain 152.024 mpg
Slowest: #35-Glen Reen 147.604 mph
Most laps run: #16-Christian Eckes, 41
Best 10 consecutive lap avg (of 28 drivers): #8-Sammy Smith 151.731 mph.
Notes: There were no issues in the session.
See full Charlotte Practice Results.

Crew Rosters

NASCAR National Series News & Notes:

• This will be the 26th NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway all-time and the fifth since the series returned in 2021. NASCAR didn’t race at Nashville between 2012-2020.
• Five different drivers won the last five NASCAR Xfinity Series Nashville races.
• 2022 winner Justin Allgaier is the only past Xfinity Series Nashville winner in the field.
• Austin Hill is the only active driver to finish inside the top-10 all four Nashville races since return in 2021.
• The 2024 race featured the fewest leaders (3), lead changes (4) and DNFs (0) in Nashville NXS history, it was also tied for the fewest cautions (3).
• Chevrolet has won 11 of the first 13 races, tied for the most wins by a manufacturer in the first 13 races in series history (Chevrolet won 11 of the first 13 in 1994).
• 2025 is the first season since 2017 without a first time winner in the first 13 races.

Goodyear Tire Notes

There are 40 drivers/teams on the entry list for Tennessee Lottery 250 Xfinity Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. Two drivers will miss the race.
Notables: #07-Nick Leitz, #9-Ross Chastain, #14-Logan Bearden, #17-Corey Day, #19-Aric Almirola, #24-Jeffrey Earnhardt, #32-Katherine Legge, #35-Glen Reen, #53-Mason Maggio, #70-Thomas Annunziata, #91-Myatt Snider.
See the full Nashville entry list.

2025 practice and qualifying procedures

Nashville At-Track Schedule

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Race rules and information:

• Inspection Penalty Protocol
• Pit Road Penalties
• Pit Road Speeds
• Points Explanation
• Qualifying Procedures