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Cabo Wabo 250

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI

  • 25 Chevrolet
  • 8 Ford
  • 7 Toyota

  • Michigan International Speedway
  • Cabo Wabo 250
  • Pole Winner: Josh Berry
  • Age: 32
  • Team : No. 8 - LubeZone Chevrolet
  • Owner: Dale Earnhardt, Jr
  • Crew Chief: Taylor Moyer
  • Josh Berry won the Pole Award for the Cabo Wabo 250 with a lap of 37.985 seconds, 189.549 mph.
  • This is his third pole in 83 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second pole and 10th top-10 start in 2023.
  • This is his first pole in three races at Michigan International Speedway.
  • Justin Allgaier (second) posted his 16th top-10 start of 2023 and his eighth in 12 races at Michigan International Speedway.
  • Austin Hill (third) posted his first top-10 start at Michigan International Speedway. It is his 14th in 21 races this season.
  • Chandler Smith (sixth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

  • Saturday, August 5th, 2023
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
John Hunter Nemechek scores milestone win for Joe Gibbs Racing

Overcoming an early wreck, a late caution and an angry teammate, John Hunter Nemechek claimed a milestone victory in Saturday’s Cabo Wabo 250 at Michigan International Speedway.

The NASCAR Xfinity win was the 200th in the series for Joe Gibbs Racing. For Nemechek, it was the fifth victory of the season and the seventh of his career—all at different tracks.

After Patrick Emerling pounded the Turn 3 wall to cause the seventh and final caution of the race on Lap 112, Nemechek pulled away from pole winner Josh Berry after a restart with seven of the scheduled 125 laps left.

Nemechek crossed the finish line 1.495 seconds ahead of Berry, with Brandon Jones, defending race winner Ty Gibbs and Sam Mayer finishing third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

After he took the checkered flag, however, Nemechek tempered his victory celebration with contrition for a Lap 11 incident where he, Gibbs and fellow JGR teammate Sammy Smith stacked up on the backstretch.

Nemechek slid up behind Gibbs and got Gibbs’ No. 19 Toyota loose. A tap from Nemechek sent his teammate spinning. When Nemechek checked up, Smith rear-ended the No. 20 Toyota and turned Nemechek down toward the apron.

As the cars circled under the ensuing caution, Gibbs pulled up beside Nemechek and expressed his displeasure with an angry gesture.

The wreck knocked Smith’s car out of the race and also critically damaged the No. 77 Chevrolet of Carson Hocevar, who finished two laps down in 32nd.

“I have to apologize to Ty,” Nemechek said after exiting his car. “I’ve been the one who’s been very vocal about teammates here recently. I put him in a bad aero spot. I got him loose, and he couldn’t check up.

“It’s my mistake. I hate that we both spun early, but at least we were able to rebound. I know he’s not too happy with me, and he has every right not to be.”

Berry’s No. 8 JR Motorsports Chevrolet wasn’t handling well enough to allow the polesitter to take advantage of the final restart.

“We just felt really tight that last run,” Berry said. “I was kind of inching in on him for a while (before the last caution), and then we kind of leveled out… Overall, we were a little too tight to make a run at him there.”

Berry’s teammate, Justin Allgaier, had ample reason to be the race’s most disappointed driver. Allgaier won the first 30-lap stage wire-to-wire, but a slow pit stop during the break cost him eight positions in the running order.

After Allgaier worked his way to second by the end of Stage 2, a pit road penalty for a crewman over the wall too soon during a green-flag stop on Lap 97 sent him deep in the field. Allgaier finished 14th in arguably the fastest car in the race.

With the victory, Nemechek gained a tie with Austin Hill for the series lead. Nemechek owns the potential tiebreaker with five victories to Hill’s four.

Riley Herbst, Ross Chastain, Parker Kligerman, Parker Retzlaff and Jeb Burton completed the top 10.

  • Drivers Entered: 40 (2 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 125
  • Margin of Victory: 01.495 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 0 Minutes 4 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 124.931
  • Cautions: 7 for 31 laps
  • Lead Changes: 7
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,181 (23.2 passes per green flag lap)

  • Michigan International Speedway
  • Cabo Wabo 250
  • Race Winner: John Hunter Nemechek
  • Age: 26
  • Team : No. 20 - Mobil 1 Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
  • John Hunter Nemechek won the Cabo Wabo 250, his seventh victory in 88 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his fifth victory and 16th top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in four races at Michigan International Speedway.
  • Josh Berry (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Michigan International Speedway. It is his 13th top-10 finish in 2023.
  • Brandon Jones (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in seven races at Michigan International Speedway.
  • Parker Retzlaff (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • John Hunter Nemechek leads the point standings by 0 points over Austin Hill.
John Hunter Nemechek leads Josh Berry and Ty Gibb
Brooklyn, Michigan - August 5, 2023 : John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #20 Mobil 1 Toyota, leads Josh Berry, driver of the #8 LubeZone Chevrolet, and Ty Gibbs, driver of the #19 He Gets Us Toyota, during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Cabo Wabo 250 at Michigan International Speedway.
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Cabo Wabo 250 at Michigan International Speedway 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
1 10,600 John Hunter Nemechek Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 125 146.30 10 1 45 9 16 18.6 7.20 65 52.0 16.25 77.45
7 10,300 Josh Berry JR Motorsports 8 Chevrolet 125 120.90 1 2 42 -1 8 9.3 3.60 0 0.0 0.00 44.60
2 8,900 Brandon Jones JR Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 125 112.70 14 3 41 11 12 13.95 5.40 0 0.0 0.00 57.40
3 10,800 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 125 114.50 8 4 40 4 9 10.47 4.05 22 17.6 5.50 53.55
11 9,100 Sam Mayer JR Motorsports 1 Chevrolet 125 100.00 4 5 39 -1 1 1.16 0.45 0 0.0 0.00 38.45
12 8,300 Riley Herbst Stewart Haas Racing 98 Ford 125 109.00 5 6 38 -1 0 0 0.00 1 0.8 0.25 37.25
9 10,000 Ross Chastain Kaulig Racing 10 Chevrolet 125 91.80 11 7 37 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 41.00
6 7,900 Parker Kligerman Big Machine Racing 48 Chevrolet 125 89.20 17 8 36 9 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 45.00
4 6,800 Parker Retzlaff Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Chevrolet 125 81.00 24 9 35 15 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 50.00
5 7,200 Jeb Burton Jordan Anderson Racing 27 Chevrolet 125 77.50 23 10 34 13 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 47.00
19 9,800 Austin Hill Richard Childress Racing 21 Chevrolet 125 98.80 3 11 32 -8 3 3.49 1.35 0 0.0 0.00 25.35
13 8,800 Sheldon Creed Richard Childress Racing 2 Chevrolet 125 82.70 15 12 31 3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 34.00
10 7,700 Ryan Sieg N/A 39 Ford 125 77.80 22 13 30 9 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 39.00
8 10,500 Justin Allgaier JR Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 125 105.90 2 14 29 -12 36 41.86 16.20 32 25.6 8.00 41.20
15 8,200 Daniel Hemric Kaulig Racing 11 Chevrolet 125 76.20 16 15 28 1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 29.00
23 10,100 Cole Custer Stewart Haas Racing 00 Ford 125 92.50 13 16 27 -3 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 24.00
24 7,500 Brett Moffitt AM Racing 25 Ford 125 75.20 12 17 26 -5 1 1.16 0.45 4 3.2 1.00 22.45
21 6,300 Anthony Alfredo BJ McLeod Motorsports 78 Chevrolet 125 68.20 18 18 25 0 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 25.00
18 6,000 Kyle Sieg N/A 28 Ford 125 61.80 21 19 24 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 26.00
30 9,500 Chandler Smith Kaulig Racing 16 Chevrolet 125 79.80 6 20 23 -14 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 9.00
21 7,300 Kaz Grala Sam Hunt Racing 26 Toyota 124 58.70 25 21 21 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 25.00
17 5,700 Josh Williams DGM Racing 92 Chevrolet 124 54.00 29 22 20 7 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 27.00
14 5,200 Ryan Ellis Alpha Prime Racing 43 Chevrolet 124 60.30 35 23 19 12 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 31.00
16 5,800 Jeffrey Earnhardt Alpha Prime Racing 45 Chevrolet 124 48.50 34 24 18 10 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 28.00
20 6,100 Sage Karam Motorsports Business Management 66 Ford 124 49.90 33 25 17 8 0 0 0.00 1 0.8 0.25 25.25
27 7,000 Jeremy Clements Jeremy Clements Racing 51 Chevrolet 124 53.00 27 26 16 1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 17.00
28 5,300 Joe Graf Jr N/A 38 Ford 124 49.50 28 27 15 1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 16.00
26 4,500 Dawson Cram CHK Racing 74 Chevrolet 124 42.20 32 28 14 4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 18.00
25 5,500 Brennan Poole JD Motorsports 6 Chevrolet 123 36.80 37 29 13 8 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 21.00
33 5,000 Garrett Smithley JD Motorsports 4 Chevrolet 123 39.50 26 30 12 -4 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 8.00
30 4,600 Stefan Parsons SS-Green Light Racing 07 Chevrolet 123 33.50 30 31 10 -1 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 9.00
37 8,600 Carson Hocevar Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 123 31.70 7 32 9 -25 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -16.00
29 5,400 Blaine Perkins Our Motorsports 02 Chevrolet 123 28.70 38 33 8 5 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 13.00
30 5,100 Patrick Emerling N/A 35 Toyota 120 37.50 36 34 7 2 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 9.00
35 6,600 Kyle Weatherman DGM Racing 91 Chevrolet 91 55.70 20 35 6 -15 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -9.00
36 6,400 Connor Mosack Sam Hunt Racing 24 Toyota 39 33.70 19 36 5 -17 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -12.00
34 4,900 Mason Maggio SS-Green Light Racing 08 Ford 16 23.70 31 37 4 -6 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -2.00
38 9,300 Sammy Smith Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 11 30.70 9 38 3 -29 0 0 0.00 0 0.0 0.00 -26.00