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Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200

Saturday, September 2nd, 2023

Darlington Raceway, Darlington, SC

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  • 6 Toyota
  • 25 Chevrolet
  • 8 Ford

  • Darlington Raceway
  • Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200
  • Pole Winner: John Hunter Nemechek
  • Age: 26
  • Team : No. 20 - Pye Barker Fire & Safety Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
  • John Hunter Nemechek won the Pole Award for the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 with a lap of 29.804 seconds, 164.998 mph.
  • This is his third pole in 92 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second pole and 22nd top-10 start in 2023.
  • This is his second pole in five races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Denny Hamlin (second) posted his first top-10 start of 2023 and his ninth in 15 races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Justin Allgaier (third) posted his 11th top-10 start at Darlington Raceway. It is his 18th in 25 races this season.
  • Chandler Smith (10th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
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Denny Hamlin scores sixth win at Darlington in NASCAR Xfinity Series car

Denny Hamlin resumed his NASCAR Xfinity Series mastery of Darlington Raceway on Saturday, winning the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200 to raise his victory total at the track to six.

Hamlin passed series leader Austin Hill after a Lap 147 restart that pushed the race one circuit into overtime. Parker Kligerman’s consequential spin off Sam Mayer’s bumper on Lap 141 brought out the seventh caution of the race and set up the final two-lap shootout.

“I really needed some long runs,” said Hamlin, who led 14 laps and didn’t make his move until the final stage. “But I didn’t really want to show everything that we had till the very end of the race there.

“We really did a good job of maintaining everything that we had.”

Hamlin, who was running his annual Xfinity Series race for Joe Gibbs Racing, picked up his 18th victory in the series. On Sunday, he starts his quest for the NASCAR Cup Series title in the Playoff-opening Cook Out Southern 500 (6 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

John Hunter Nemechek ran third after leading 99 laps and sweeping the first two stages. Cole Custer was fourth, followed by Josh Berry and Riley Herbst, who passed Parker Kligerman for the final Playoff-eligible position with one race left to decide the postseason field.

Herbst holds a one-point lead over Kligerman, who finished 24th after contact from Mayer’s No. 1 Chevrolet sent him spinning from the 12th position with six laps left in regulation.

Kligerman was not pleased with Mayer and said so after the race, especially since the driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet had overcome a slow pit stop and a brush with the outside wall to gain on Herbst.

“To come back from that and have to make a bunch of adjustments, then just get flat run over by the 1 car,” Kligerman said. “It’s so disappointing… He’s got to clean it up.”

Mayer, who finished 11th, took responsibility for the incident with the concise admission: “I effed up.”

On multiple occasions, Hill took the lead with quick work on pit road but couldn’t hold it through the restarts. Nevertheless, he leaves Darlington with a 23-point lead over Nemechek in the battle for the Xfinity regular-season championship.

“I just need to go back to the drawing board and figure out what I’m doing wrong on the restarts there, because that was really frustrating all day today,” Hill said. “It didn’t matter where I was restarting, I would buzz the tires really bad and just lose track position every time I’d do it.

“So I got to do a better job of that if I’m going to win a championship. All in all, solid for us. That’s kind of something that we’ve been preaching the last six races that if you can’t be first, besecond. If you can’t be second, be third. We were second today, but it still stings a little bit when you want to win.”

  • Drivers Entered: 39 (1 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 147
  • Laps Actual: 148 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.657 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 1 Hours 53 Minutes 53 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 106.826
  • Cautions: 7 for 34 laps
  • Lead Changes: 15
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,061 (9.3 passes per green flag lap)

  • Darlington Raceway
  • Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200
  • Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
  • Age: 42
  • Team : No. 19 - Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Jason Ratcliff
  • Denny Hamlin won the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200, his 18th victory in 164 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his sixth victory and 13th top-10 finish in 15 races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Austin Hill (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2023.
  • John Hunter Nemechek (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Darlington Raceway.
  • Chandler Smith (12th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Austin Hill leads the point standings by 23 points over John Hunter Nemechek.
Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson race
Darlington, South Carolina - September 2, 2023 : Denny Hamlin, driver of the #19 Sport Clips Haircuts Toyota, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #17 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway.
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Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway Draftkings results
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
3 11,500 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 148 131.60 2 1 45 1 21 19.81 9.45 14 9.5 3.50 58.95
2 9,600 Austin Hill Richard Childress Racing 21 Chevrolet 148 120.50 9 2 42 7 10 9.43 4.50 29 19.6 7.25 60.75
1 10,300 John Hunter Nemechek Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 148 141.50 1 3 41 -2 28 26.42 12.60 99 66.9 24.75 76.35
6 9,800 Cole Custer Stewart Haas Racing 00 Ford 148 112.70 4 4 40 0 5 4.72 2.25 0 0.0 0.00 42.25
7 10,000 Josh Berry JR Motorsports 8 Chevrolet 148 94.80 7 5 39 2 2 1.89 0.90 0 0.0 0.00 41.90
4 7,800 Riley Herbst Stewart Haas Racing 98 Ford 148 99.70 15 6 38 9 1 0.94 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 47.45
10 10,600 Justin Allgaier JR Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 148 104.00 3 7 37 -4 3 2.83 1.35 0 0.0 0.00 34.35
5 9,300 Sheldon Creed Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevrolet 148 83.20 16 8 36 8 1 0.94 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 44.45
8 11,000 Kyle Busch Kaulig Racing 10 Chevrolet 148 89.80 14 9 35 5 1 0.94 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 40.45
17 7,900 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing 11 Chevrolet 148 94.30 6 10 34 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 30.00
19 8,800 Sam Mayer JR Motorsports 1 Chevrolet 148 73.80 5 11 32 -6 2 1.89 0.90 0 0.0 0.00 26.90
18 8,100 Chandler Smith Kaulig Racing 16 Chevrolet 148 95.20 10 12 31 -2 2 1.89 0.90 0 0.0 0.00 29.90
9 6,400 Parker Retzlaff Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Chevrolet 148 82.80 19 13 30 6 0 0 0.00 5 3.4 1.25 37.25
22 9,000 Brandon Jones JR Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 148 77.50 8 14 29 -6 1 0.94 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 23.45
12 7,000 Corey Heim Sam Hunt Racing 24 Toyota 148 79.90 17 15 28 2 8 7.55 3.60 0 0.0 0.00 33.60
13 6,200 Rajah Caruth Alpha Prime Racing 45 Chevrolet 148 58.30 22 16 27 6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 33.00
23 8,300 Sammy Smith Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 148 60.80 11 17 26 -6 5 4.72 2.25 0 0.0 0.00 22.25
15 6,700 Jeb Burton Jordan Anderson Racing 27 Chevrolet 148 72.50 24 18 25 6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 31.00
14 5,400 Stefan Parsons SS-Green Light Racing 07 Chevrolet 148 49.80 27 19 24 8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 32.00
11 5,100 Brennan Poole JD Motorsports 6 Chevrolet 148 48.20 31 20 23 11 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 34.00
20 6,000 Jeremy Clements Jeremy Clements Racing 51 Chevrolet 148 61.70 26 21 21 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 26.00
15 4,600 Chad Finchum SS-Green Light Racing 08 Ford 148 50.20 33 22 20 11 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 31.00
26 8,500 Ross Chastain DGM Racing 91 Chevrolet 148 64.00 21 23 19 -2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 17.00
31 7,600 Parker Kligerman Big Machine Racing 48 Chevrolet 148 74.70 13 24 18 -11 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
28 7,200 Brett Moffitt AM Racing 25 Ford 148 60.70 18 25 17 -7 1 0.94 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 10.45
21 5,200 Joe Graf Jr N/A 38 Ford 148 40.80 34 26 16 8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 24.00
24 4,700 Matt Mills N/A 53 Toyota 148 44.80 32 27 15 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 20.00
27 6,600 Kaz Grala Sam Hunt Racing 26 Toyota 148 53.50 30 28 14 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 16.00
24 5,300 Ryan Ellis Alpha Prime Racing 43 Chevrolet 148 37.30 36 29 13 7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 20.00
35 7,400 Ryan Sieg N/A 39 Ford 148 59.30 20 30 12 -10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 2.00
29 5,800 Kyle Weatherman JD Motorsports 4 Chevrolet 148 40.50 28 31 10 -3 3 2.83 1.35 0 0.0 0.00 8.35
33 5,000 Timmy Hill Motorsports Business Management 66 Ford 148 30.00 29 32 9 -3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 6.00
36 6,300 Anthony Alfredo BJ McLeod Motorsports 78 Chevrolet 147 39.80 23 33 8 -10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -2.00
30 4,800 Blaine Perkins Our Motorsports 02 Chevrolet 147 30.80 35 34 7 1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 8.00
37 5,700 Kyle Sieg N/A 28 Ford 147 44.50 25 35 6 -10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -4.00
31 4,900 Patrick Emerling N/A 35 Chevrolet 145 26.80 38 36 5 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 7.00
34 5,500 Josh Williams DGM Racing 92 Chevrolet 143 24.50 37 37 4 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 4.00
38 11,300 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports 17 Chevrolet 117 89.30 12 38 3 -26 12 11.32 5.40 1 0.9 0.25 -17.35