Saturday, August 20, 2016

Austin Dillon wins XFINITY race at Bristol

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

 Austin Dillon #2 won the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his 8th XFINITY Series win and 2nd of the year. #7-Justin Allgaier finished second, followed by #42-Lyle Larson, #1-Elliott Sadler, #62-Brendan Gaughan, #51-Jeremy Clements (2nd best career finish), #6-Darrell Wallace, Jr., #11-Blake Koch (ties career best finish), #33-Brandon Jones, and #24-Corey LaJoie (career best finish).
Pole sitter #20-Erik Jones got into the rear of teammate #19-Daniel Suarez late in the race and wrecked. He finished 33rd.
After staying out under caution, #2-Brad Keselowski led most of the final 60 laps, but run out of fuel while the race was under caution waiting for the final restart. He finished 12th.
There were 8 cautions for 54 laps and 16 lead changes among 7 leaders.
The average speed was 84.827mph.

Finished 15, Started 18th   Connecticut Modified shoe Ryan Preece #01 # Flex Seal Liquid Chevrolet 301 Running 26 had another disappointing finish finishing up down 7 laps behind the 7 race cars on the lead lap.at the checkers.

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