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07-05-2025
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Sovereignty rules Derby, Preakness may be next
Corey Heim: 'Wasn't going to let them take that from me' Corey Heim recaps his race from Texas and how he kept perfecting late restarts in NASCAR Overtime to win his 14th career Truck Series race.
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03-05-2025
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From elation to disappointment, Rhodes and Hemric reflect on overtime finish
FORT WORTH, Texas — A tale of two cities transpired on pit road as the checkered flag flew on the 25o from Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night. With Corey Heim standing tall, victorious at the start/finish line, Ben Rhodes and Daniel Hemric were left with mixed emotions after the final restart in NASCAR Overtime. RELATED: Unofficial Texas results | At-track photos: Texas Rhodes restarted on the outside front row on the final restart on Lap 172 and held pace with Heim, who had the dominant truck all night, leading 96 of the 174 total laps. Advertisement Heading into Turn 3, coming to the white flag, there was slight contact between the two front-runners, pushing the No. 99 of Rhodes up the race track and leaving the door open for the No. 19 of Daniel Hemric to charge to the bottom, making it three-wide at the white flag. When the race was all said and done, neither Hemric nor Rhodes would wind up in Victory Lane, with the No. 11 of Heim taking home the win. Exiting his ThorSport Racing in frustration, Rhodes said he felt he was raced unfairly and had no room to challenge for victory at the end. 'I think we got used up by the 11 being on the outside line with clean air on both of our noses,' Rhodes said on pit road post-race. 'He just decided to run us up the track and out of the groove at both ends of the track. So on the last restart, you know, we're in three and four. We're coming back around to the white; he runs me way high. We both have to lift, pretty unacceptable, in my opinion, because, you know, we could have wrecked there. 'So, you know, I'm not gonna cry about it, but it just stinks when you have a good opportunity to win a race and then you get run a little dirty. But you know, I know how it is with him, and he's got his third win of the season. We're still looking for our first right now, so when you have these opportunities, you need to seize them, and that's what we're trying to do.' Advertisement Parked one spot ahead of the two-time Craftsman Truck Series champion on pit road was the runner-up finisher, Hemric, who was able to capitalize on the Heim-Rhodes scrap to maneuver his Chevrolet to the inside of the two and have a shot at the win entering Turn 1. 'I knew when they got side by side I'd have a big run,' Hemric said. 'I didn't know if I have enough pure tire capability left to make the move, and kind of created just enough angle to get left of the 11 to get three-wide at the bottom, just didn't have enough left to make it stick through one and two.' 'So either way, we were not good when we started. (Crew chief) Josh Graham did the exceptional job of tuning on me correctly, in the right direction, and yeah, ultimately found ourselves with the opportunity and stayed quite close.' Close it was, as the Kannapolis, North Carolina native had a shot on the final lap to punch his ticket to Victory Lane for the second time this season. At the end of the night, that is all Hemric could ask for out of his No. 19 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing team. 'Just trying to win,' Hemric said. 'That's what this team deserves. That's what everyone on this No. 19 team deserves. I feel like, you know, we put so much into this deal, and we overcame some adjustments and stuff that we had to go through at the beginning of the race. You've got to go for the win. That's what we did. Came up short, but great execution today.'
Gulf Today
22-04-2025
- Automotive
- Gulf Today
Jesse Love fastest in Xfinity Series' return to Rockingham
After surviving a NASCAR Overtime restart on Saturday, Richard Childress Racing's Jesse Love won the first Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway in over two decades. In the 256-lap event, the driver of the No. 2 Chevrolet led 53 laps to pick up his second Xfinity Series win of the 2025 season. Sammy Smith, Parker Retzlaff, Harrison Burton and Brennan Poole rounded out the top five. Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, Josh Williams, Jeb Burton and Daniel Dye completed the top 10. Jesse Love celebrates with crew chief Danny Stockman Jr. AFP With a second-place finish, Smith picked up the final $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus prize of the year. The red flag came out after a wreck on the restart with 10 laps remaining. With drivers close on fuel, Kaulig Racing's Christian Eckes sputtered coming up to speed, causing a multicar incident that swept up Dash 4 Cash drivers Justin Allgaier and Brandon Jones. That led to another late-race stoppage. Jones and Allgaier finished 13th and 22nd, respectively. The final Dash 4 Cash competitor, Carson Kvapil, finished 17th. Ryan Sieg led a race-best 77 laps and finished 19th. The Xfinity Series returns to action next Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway for the Ag-Pro 300 (4 p.m. ET, The CW, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Reuters
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20-04-2025
- Automotive
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Sammy Smith snags Dash 4 Cash prize at Rockingham
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — Sammy Smith and the No. 8 JR Motorsports team walked away from Rockingham Speedway $100,000 richer Saturday evening. The third-year racer nabbed a second-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series' return to 'The Rock' to net the final bonus prize of the 2025 campaign with his best result of the season. Advertisement RELATED: Unofficial results | At-track photos: Rockingham Restarting in NASCAR Overtime, Smith held the top spot alongside Joe Gibbs Racing's Taylor Gray — a recent rival from an aggressive run-in at Martinsville Speedway on March 29. With Smith on the inside and Gray to his right, Smith got the better jump on the restart and cleared Gray for the lead entering Turn 1. But on corner entry, Jesse Love charged to Smith's bumper and moved him up the track, allowing Love to surge for the lead and eventual win in the North Carolina Education Lottery 250 presented by Black's Tire. 'That was good, hard racing,' Smith said. 'I was happy with our car all day. We did a really good job. Just hard racing there at the end, and we were stumbling on fuel. It was just an overall good day.' Advertisement While Smith jumped away with the lead on the overtime restart, it wasn't for Gray's lack of effort. Gray tried to match Love's timing on the re-fire, but a shove from Parker Retzlaff approaching the restart zone impacted Gray's ability to hit the throttle, dropping his No. 54 Toyota to a sixth-place finish. 'I still haven't seen a replay, but just from in the car, the 4 jacked me up in the restart box, and as soon as he popped me, Sammy launched,' Gray told 'I went to go launch with him, and obviously my back tires are jacked up off the ground, so I'm spinning the rear tires and trying to get hooked back up. And then once I get hooked back up, I didn't get the restart I would like to.' Sammy Smith races at Rockingham. Three weeks ago at Martinsville, Smith charged through Gray in the closing two corners, crashing Gray and costing either driver the victory and resulting in a 50-point penalty and a $25,000 fine to Smith. Any lingering emotions from that night didn't carry into Saturday's fight for the Rockingham win. Advertisement 'He raced me very clean all day,' Smith said. 'We raced hard and I'm happy with how we made it at the end.' Smith finds himself on a hot streak heading into next Saturday's race at Talladega Superspeedway (4 p.m. ET, The CW, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), with finishes of ninth (Darlington), fourth (Bristol) and now second in consecutive weeks. Gray, on the other hand, has struggled to find results in that same span, finishing 29th at Martinsville, 33rd at Darlington and 19th at Bristol. 'I'll be honest, we've struggled since Martinsville, so I haven't really been around (Smith),' Gray said. 'I mean, they've been running good, and we haven't been running very good — or at least had good finishes. So we haven't been around each other that much besides today, and today was kind of the first time we were back around each other. I thought the racing was fine between me and him. 'I had it set in my mind: I knew I could beat him on a restart. I've done it plenty of times, and I just know I'm better at restarts than he is, and I was going to sort of manipulate him on my restart, manipulate his air getting into (Turn) 1. I promise I'm not cocky; I was just, I was in my mindset, right? I was confident in the restart, and then once the 4 popped me, it kind of took me out of contention of being able to do that. So it's unfortunate, but I mean, they're fast. Honestly, probably a little better than us today.'
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19-04-2025
- Automotive
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Jesse Love takes Xfinity Series victory in Rockingham return
After surviving a NASCAR Overtime restart, Richard Childress Racing's Jesse Love won the first Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway in over two decades. In the 256-lap event, the driver of the No. 2 Chevrolet led a race-high 77 laps to pick up his second Xfinity Series win of the 2025 season. Advertisement Sammy Smith, Parker Retzlaff, Harrison Burton and Brennan Poole rounded out the top five. Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, Josh Williams, Jeb Burton and Daniel Dye completed the top 10. RELATED: Unofficial race results | At-track photos: Rockingham With a second-place finish, Smith picked up the final $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus prize of the year. The red flag came out after a wreck on the restart with 10 laps remaining. With drivers close on fuel, Kaulig Racing's Christian Eckes sputtered coming up to speed, causing a multicar incident that swept up Dash 4 Cash drivers Justin Allgaier and Brandon Jones. That led to another late-race stoppage. Advertisement Jones and Allgaier finished 13th and 22nd, respectively. The final Dash 4 Cash competitor, Carson Kvapil, finished 17th. The Xfinity Series returns to action next Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway for the Ag-Pro 300 (4 p.m. ET, The CW, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). This story will be updated.
