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Justin Allgaier holds off Aric Almirola to win Las Vegas Xfinity Series race

JHby:Jonathan Howard•about 21 hours•

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Justin Allgaier Las Vegas win
Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

That was a LOT of green flag racing, folks! Good, old-fashioned stock car racing and Justin Allgaier wins at Las Vegas. The defending NASCAR Xfinity Series champion has his first win of the season.

JR Motorsports started the race with pretty much a 1 through 4 lock for a few laps. That didn’t end up holding, but Justin Allgaier made it through to the end.

Aric Almirola looked like he had a better car with 30 laps to go. Allgaier kept making blocks, ran his line, and won the race. This was a dominant performance that didn’t end in heartbreak for Allgaier.

A wreck on Lap 1 was the only caution for cause. This was pure racing and the fastest cars rose to the top. Justin Allgaier wins at Las Vegas.

Justin Allgaier is showing that he is still the one to beat in this series. Three top-five finishes on the season now and a win included in that. Not to mention Allgaier’s P9 finish in the Daytona 500. He is having quite a year and doing it quietly while others pay attention to more catchy names.

Winning Stage 1 and finishing second in Stage 2, Allgaier almost had a perfect day. His 59 points will put him into first in points. He led 102 laps total. You couldn’t really ask for a better day.

Jesse Love, Austin Hill, Sam Mayer, Brandon Jones, Ryan Sieg, Harrison Burton, Connor Zilisch, and Sheldon Creed made up the rest of the top-10. Carson Kvapil fell off at the end and out of the top-10 despite another strong performance for most of the race.

Justin Allgaier flexes veteran prowess

This season, especially at JR Motorsports, is about the young drivers in the Xfinity Series. Kvapil, Zilisch, Jesse Love, Christian Eckes, Sammy Smith, and others get the eyeballs. Everyone is waiting to see what they are going to do next and which will rise to be the next big thing in NASCAR.

Today, Justin Allgaier reminded everyone that experience matters. He has been around for quite some time and knew exactly what to do to win this race. A rookie may have cracked under pressure when Almirola got close in the final laps. The champ was not going to.

We are starting to see the Xfinity Series work itself out. The best are rising to the top, we see them racing up front constantly. All four of the JR Motorsports cars are bad fast. Any of them could win on any given day. The Richard Childress Racing duo isn’t too bad, either.

Next week at Homestead-Miami, Justin Allgaier could run it back. That track will give the same drivers who led laps today to have another strong race. Perhaps Austin Hill gets back in victory lane?