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Saturday, July 10th, 2021

Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA

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  • 28 Chevrolet
  • 8 Toyota
  • 4 Ford

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Credit Karma Money 250
  • Pole Winner: Kyle Busch
  • Age: 36
  • Team: No. 54 - Extra Gum Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • Kyle Busch won the Pole Award for the Credit Karma Money 250 by having the highest total PMQ.
  • PMQ is a total number calculated on four performance metrics from the previous race:
  • 15% of the driver's fastest lap time position.
  • 25% of the driver's final race finish position.
  • 25% of the owner's final race position.
  • 35% of the Owner Points position.

  • Saturday, July 10th, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Kyle Busch Earns Historic NASCAR Xfinity Series Victory in Overtime Thriller

Kyle Busch earned his record 102nd NASCAR Xfinity Series race victory Saturday afternoon in the Credit Karma Money 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway – taking the checkered flag in overtime to top a perfect 5-for-5 record in Xfinity starts this season.

The winningest driver in series history proclaimed Saturday's work to be his final curtain call, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion saying he would no longer compete in the Xfinity Series.

Ironically, in what should have been his biggest bow before the fans – his traditional victory celebration – Busch, 36, opted for a more subdued acknowledgement of the win. He placed the flag inside his Joe Gibbs Racing No. 54 Toyota and conceded the win wasn't exactly how he wanted to add to his historic victory tally.

On the previous restart with only six laps remaining, Busch was behind his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Daniel Hemric and gave him a bumper-push forward to help the two get in front of the field. But Hemric's No. 18 JGR Toyota instead wiggled sideways, made contact with another car and hooked into the outside wall; the wreck forcing the overtime finish.

It had looked as if Busch, who led a race best 98 laps, and Hemric were going to settle the trophy between themselves. A victory for the 30-year old Hemric, would have been his first in any of NASCAR's premier series. He now has 105 Xfinity Series starts and nine runner-up finishes. On Saturday, he finished 30th.

"Not quite the win we were hoping for," Busch said, "a little bit of a somber win, I guess, not just for it being it the last one, but for the way it kind of happened.

"Really hate it for my teammate Daniel Hemric there on the front stretch. Just trying to get to him, trying to push him, trying to hit him and get him moving forward. We hit that bump there on the track at the same time and it kind of juked his car and he was across traffic, I guess. Ended up wrecked, which was not all how I foresaw that all going.

"But we were able to push our way through and get on to victory lane."

Added Busch, who won both stages and now has led an Xfinity Series record 20,088 laps, "He probably was going to have us beat, you know. Whoever got ahead off of Turn 2 on a restart was probably going to circle back around and take the checkered."

For his part, an obviously disappointed Hemric had very little to say on the team radio when the incident happened on-track, but spoke to reporters on pit road after the race and remained upbeat despite the frustrating situation.

"What could have been, right, that's all you can think about," Hemric told NBCSN on pit road. "On the flipside, you can't change it. Obviously, I know it wasn't intentional by no means. I did spin the tires a little bit, we were on scuffed tires there.

"I thought we got rolling there the best we could, and Kyle just went to push me and help out momentum in the bottom lane. Right when he went to hook on my back bumper, there's a swell there right before you turn into one Turn 1. The way the car loads there, and the bumpers didn't align and it shot me right there.

"I know it wasn't intentional but at the end of the day, I'm talking to you guys with a torn-up race car. This sucks."

"I don't know if I should have been expecting something different than what happened," Hemric continued. "But as soon as he touched me I never had a chance. That's a product of taking off in a restart zone on older tires and we're all doing all we can.

"Just unfortunate, but congrats to those guys they've been on top of it and our day will come."

Kaulig Racing's Jeb Burton finished second to Busch by .550-seconds, followed by JR Motorsports driver Noah Gragson, who was leading the field to green following a caution period in the middle of the race only to have to drop into the pits to repair a punctured tire just before the restart. He was 31st at the time and rallied all the way to third. It was his best showing since a runner-up finish at Martinsville in early April – 12 races ago.

Burton's Kaulig teammate Justin Haley finished fourth and Ty Dillon earned his best showing of the season with a fifth-place run. Brett Moffitt, Justin Allgaier, Jeremy Clements, rookie Sam Mayer, championship leader Austin Cindric and Austin Dillon rounded out the Top-10.

It was a particularly impressive run for Austin Dillon, who got the call to substitute for Michael Annett in the JR Motorsports No. 1 Chevrolet only minutes before the race started. He was on the team radio asking for the name of his crew chief and his spotter just after the field took the green flag.

With only eight races remaining to set the 12-driver Xfinity Series Playoffs field, Cindric, a four-race winner, continues to lead the championship standings by 74 points over Allmendinger and Hemric is third.

  • Drivers Entered: 40 (2 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 163
  • Laps Actual: 164 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.550 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 18 Minutes 59 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 109.032
  • Cautions: 10 for 43 laps
  • Lead Changes: 16
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,896 (15.7 passes per green flag lap)

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Inaugural Credit Karma Money 250
  • Race Winner: Kyle Busch
  • Age: 36
  • Team : No. 54 - Extra Gum Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
  • Kyle Busch won the Inaugural Credit Karma Money 250, his 102nd victory in 363 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his fifth victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2021.
  • This is his third victory and 11th top-10 finish in 14 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Jeb Burton (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It is his 11th top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Noah Gragson (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in four races at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Sam Mayer (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
green flag to start the Credit Karma Money 250
Hampton, Georgia - July 10, 2021 : Kyle Busch, driver of the #54 Extra Gum Toyota, leads Daniel Hemric, driver of the #18 Poppy Bank Toyota, AJ Allmendinger, driver of the #16 Hyperice Chevrolet, and Austin Cindric, driver of the #22 Car Shop Ford, to the green flag to start the NASCAR Xfinity Series Credit Karma Money 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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FINISH & PLACE DIFFERENTIAL POINTS FAST LAP POINTS LAPS LED POINTS TOTAL POINTS
RNK SLRY DRIVER TEAM # MAKE LAPS DR ST FIN FIN PTS PD PTS FST % FST FST PTS LED % LED LED PTS TOT PTS
1 14,000 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing 54 Toyota 164 150.00 1 1 45 0 49 44.95 22.05 97 59.2 24.25 91.30
4 7,300 Jeb Burton Kaulig Racing 10 Chevrolet 164 82.20 11 2 42 9 0 0 0.00 1 0.6 0.25 51.25
5 9,200 Noah Gragson JR Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 164 103.30 9 3 41 6 5 4.59 2.25 5 3.1 1.25 50.50
9 8,400 Justin Haley Kaulig Racing 11 Chevrolet 164 105.20 7 4 40 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 43.00
2 9,700 Ty Dillon Our Motorsports 23 Chevrolet 164 92.20 30 5 39 25 0 0 0.00 4 2.4 1.00 65.00
3 7,800 Brett Moffitt Our Motorsports 02 Chevrolet 164 109.00 20 6 38 14 7 6.42 3.15 0 0.0 0.00 55.15
10 10,600 Justin Allgaier JR Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 164 102.80 8 7 37 1 7 6.42 3.15 4 2.4 1.00 42.15
7 7,000 Jeremy Clements Jeremy Clements Racing 51 Chevrolet 164 91.20 19 8 36 11 1 0.92 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 47.45
6 9,400 Sam Mayer JR Motorsports 8 Chevrolet 164 85.00 22 9 35 13 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 48.00
17 11,000 Austin Cindric Team Penske 22 Ford 164 86.50 4 10 34 -6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 28.00
18 0 Austin Dillon N/A N/A N/A 164 90.00 6 11 32 -5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 27.00
13 7,100 Ryan Sieg RSS Racing 39 Ford 164 81.20 16 12 31 4 1 0.92 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 35.45
16 10,300 AJ Allmendinger Kaulig Racing 16 Chevrolet 164 113.10 3 13 30 -10 19 17.43 8.55 2 1.2 0.50 29.05
8 5,800 Ryan Vargas JD Motorsports 6 Chevrolet 164 53.00 32 14 29 18 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 47.00
15 6,000 Alex Labbe DGM Racing 36 Chevrolet 164 69.00 17 15 28 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 30.00
19 5,500 Tommy Joe Martins Martins Motorsports 44 Chevrolet 164 69.30 14 16 27 -2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 25.00
12 5,400 Jade Buford Big Machine Racing 48 Chevrolet 164 58.50 27 17 26 10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 36.00
19 5,700 Josh Williams DGM Racing 92 Chevrolet 164 59.30 18 18 25 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 25.00
26 7,500 Riley Herbst Stewart Haas Racing 98 Ford 164 75.70 10 19 24 -9 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 15.00
11 6,100 Colby Howard JD Motorsports 15 Chevrolet 164 64.00 36 20 23 16 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 39.00
26 7,700 Myatt Snider Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevrolet 164 72.30 15 21 21 -6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 15.00
14 6,900 Jeffrey Earnhardt JD Motorsports 0 Chevrolet 164 46.20 37 22 20 15 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 35.00
22 10,000 Josh Berry Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Chevrolet 164 51.50 28 23 19 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 24.00
32 9,000 Harrison Burton Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 164 97.70 5 24 18 -19 5 4.59 2.25 3 1.8 0.75 2.00
19 5,300 Joe Graf Jr N/A 07 Chevrolet 164 43.20 33 25 17 8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 25.00
28 4,600 Matt Mills BJ McLeod Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 164 44.00 24 26 16 -2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 14.00
23 6,500 Ronnie Bassett Jr DGM Racing 90 Chevrolet 164 44.80 29 27 15 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 17.00
23 4,800 Jesse Little BJ McLeod Motorsports 78 Toyota 164 39.80 31 28 14 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 17.00
31 4,500 Mason Massey BJ McLeod Motorsports 99 Ford 164 33.50 23 29 13 -6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
33 8,600 Daniel Hemric Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 164 107.70 2 30 12 -28 14 12.84 6.30 45 27.4 11.25 1.55
38 8,200 Brandon Brown Brandonbilt Motorsports 68 Chevrolet 163 63.70 12 31 10 -19 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -9.00
25 5,000 Kyle Weatherman Mike Harmon Racing 47 Chevrolet 162 55.70 38 32 9 6 0 0 0.00 3 1.9 0.75 15.75
35 8,000 Santino Ferrucci Sam Hunt Racing 126 Toyota 162 43.80 25 33 8 -8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 0.00
29 5,900 Bayley Currey Mike Harmon Racing 74 Chevrolet 162 44.50 39 34 7 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 12.00
30 6,600 Gray Gaulding N/A 52 Chevrolet 160 37.50 40 35 6 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 11.00
37 4,700 Carson Ware Rick Ware Racing 17 Chevrolet 139 27.20 26 36 5 -10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -5.00
34 6,300 CJ McLaughlin Motorsports Business Management 66 Toyota 139 26.80 34 37 4 -3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 1.00
39 6,800 Landon Cassill JD Motorsports 4 Chevrolet 128 52.80 21 38 3 -17 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -14.00
40 8,800 Brandon Jones Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 118 77.50 13 39 2 -26 1 0.92 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 -23.55
36 5,100 David Starr Hattori Racing Enterprises 61 Toyota 50 26.30 35 40 1 -5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -4.00