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Alsco Uniforms 302

Saturday, September 25th, 2021

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV

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  • 30 Chevrolet
  • 8 Toyota
  • 3 Ford

  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • Alsco Uniforms 302
  • Pole Winner: Austin Cindric
  • Age: 23
  • Team: No. 22 - Odyssey Battery Ford
  • Owner: Team Penske
  • Crew Chief: Brian Wilson
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • Austin Cindric won the Pole Award for the Alsco Uniforms 302 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, September 25th, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Josh Berry Steals Spotlight in Xfinity Series Playoff Opener

Josh Berry seized opportunity and drove away from the competition Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Tabbed to substitute for injured JR Motorsports driver Michael Annett, the Tennessee late model champion Berry earned his second win of the NASCAR Xfinity Series season claiming an impressive 4.396-second victory in the Playoff opener.

Berry, 30, led a 1-2-3 JR Motorsports team sweep in the Alsco Uniforms 302 – besting his teammates Justin Allgaier and Noah Gragson, whose second and third place finishes were tops among the 12 Playoff eligible drivers.

It was the second consecutive night one team showed the way up front at the Vegas 1.5-miler. On Friday, the ThorSport Racing team swept the top four positions in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Playoff race.

Berry's win proves himself versatile and up for the challenge. He won at the Martinsville, Va. short track earlier this year in the No. 8 JR Motorsports Chevrolet that he will drive fulltime next year. He matched that standard Saturday in the No. 1 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. And he drove four other races this season in the No. 31 Chevrolet for team owner Jordan Anderson.

"Oh my gosh, that thing was so fast, it just took me a while to figure out," Berry said, adding, "I just had to stay disciplined and keep working on it and the guys made the right adjustments. And it was fast, man. Finally got a long run and got it all together."

As for racing his teammates, who are fighting for the championship.

"It was tough," Berry said smiling. "Me and Justin raced together a lot this year and most of them, he's gotten the better of me. Today we were able to get one. This is cool."

Eight of the 12 Xfinity Series Playoff drivers finished among the Top-10, including championship leader, Penske Racing's Austin Cindric in fourth and Joe Gibbs Racings drivers Daniel Hemric and Brandon Jones in fifth and sixth.

Regular season champion A.J. Allmendinger, who won Stage 1 for a season best 10th stage win – was seventh. Ty Gibbs, who joined Berry as the only two non-Playoff drivers among the Top-10 finished eighth. Allmendinger's Kaulig Racing teammate Justin Hailey was ninth and JGR's Harrison Burton 10th. Playoff driver Myatt Snider finished 15th, the last Playoff driver running at the end of the race.

The sweep up front was indicative of the evening as the JR Motorsports teammates paced the field all night. Allgaier led a race best 90 laps and won the Stage 2.

Berry took the lead from Allgaier with 42 laps remaining, relinquishing it only during final late race pit stops. He re-took the position with 17 laps and drove away for the victory.

Gragson's third place finish was remarkable considering the Las Vegas native was penalized twice on pit road and still drove through the field multiple times.

"I need to be better and they brought an unbelievable race car to the track and I'm happy for Josh and happy for everyone at Junior Motorsports, just wish we could have been the guy.

"We have really fast race cars at Junior Motorsports and everyone is super proud."

A handful of Playoff drivers were on the other end of fortune Saturday with Riley Herbst, Jeb Burton and Jeremy Clements all having their race cut short because of a 12-car accident on the restart following the Competition Caution period.

"I don't really think we need to be four-wide getting into [turn] one on lap 26,'' Burton said. "Nothing we could do there, frustrating. We needed a good run today, but we'll go to Talladega next week and win a race.

"Won there earlier in the year and almost won Daytona a couple weeks ago so I know I can go do it. Have the best team in the garage at speedway tracks so we'll go get it done next week and then go to the ROVAL."

With his fourth place finish at Vegas, Cindric takes a seven-point lead over Allmendinger in the Playoff standings. Allgaier is 28 points back, followed by Gragson (-29) and Hemric (-32).

Round 2 of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs, the Sparks 300 at Talladega, takes place next Saturday (4:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) on the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway. Jeb Burton won at Talladega this Spring. Justin Haley is the defending Playoff race winner.

  • Drivers Entered: 41 (3 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 200
  • Laps Actual: 201 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 04.398 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 26 Minutes 28 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 123.509
  • Cautions: 6 for 32 laps
  • Lead Changes: 13
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,352 (8.0 passes per green flag lap)

  • Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  • 4th Annual Alsco Uniforms 302
  • Race Winner: Josh Berry
  • Age: 30
  • Team : No. 1 - PFJ Thank A Trucker Chevrolet
  • Owner: L.W. Miller
  • Crew Chief: Mike Bumgarner
  • Josh Berry won the 4th Annual Alsco Uniforms 302, his second victory in 28 Xfinity Series races.
  • This is his second victory and 11th top-10 finish in 2021.
  • This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Justin Allgaier (second) posted his 12th top-10 finish in 16 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Noah Gragson (third) posted his sixth top-10 finish in seven races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
  • Josh Berry (first) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Austin Cindric leads the point standings by 7 points over AJ Allmendinger.
Josh Berry celebrates after winning at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Las Vegas, Nevada - September 25, 2021 : Josh Berry, driver of the #1 PFJ Thank A Trucker Chevrolet, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Alsco Uniforms 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Alsco Uniforms 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Loop Data Box Score results
DRIVER ST MID CLO FIN HI LOW ARP PL DIF GFP GFxP PD QPS % QPS FST % T15 LED % LED LAPS DR TOT PTS
Josh Berry 15 6 1 1 1 18 6.8 14 64 43 21 63 98.44 29 95.0 38 18.9 201 123.20 47
Justin Allgaier 3 1 6 2 1 29 4.2 1 36 26 10 28 77.78 36 92.0 90 44.8 201 139.60 45
Noah Gragson 9 14 3 3 1 21 6.5 6 73 39 34 59 80.82 14 95.5 1 0.5 201 109.50 47
Austin Cindric 1 2 9 4 1 15 3.2 -3 49 49 0 48 97.96 26 100.0 33 16.4 201 123.70 49
Daniel Hemric 7 4 7 5 2 10 5.2 2 49 49 0 47 95.92 9 100.0 0 0.0 201 108.80 47
Brandon Jones 8 10 11 6 1 22 9.3 2 53 34 19 42 79.25 4 97.5 0 0.0 201 98.40 34
AJ Allmendinger 2 3 4 7 1 13 5.3 -5 35 40 -5 31 88.57 17 100.0 20 10.0 201 111.40 42
Ty Dillon 28 12 12 8 1 28 10.0 20 53 48 5 28 52.83 4 82.1 17 8.5 201 95.30 38
Justin Haley 4 7 2 9 1 19 8.6 -5 37 48 -11 34 91.89 3 99.0 2 1.0 201 96.50 29
Harrison Burton 5 11 8 10 3 14 9.0 -5 49 55 -6 45 91.84 2 100.0 0 0.0 201 92.20 32
Ty Gibbs 6 5 10 11 2 14 5.4 -5 51 58 -7 47 92.16 7 100.0 0 0.0 200 106.40 37
Brett Moffitt 27 9 14 12 4 27 10.9 15 72 55 17 54 75.00 0 92.5 0 0.0 200 86.00 29
Bayley Currey 36 16 13 13 11 36 15.8 23 56 43 13 23 41.07 3 61.7 0 0.0 200 81.00 0
Tommy Joe Martins 19 17 15 14 8 26 16.6 5 41 50 -9 16 39.02 0 50.8 0 0.0 200 78.00 23
Myatt Snider 12 8 5 15 2 16 11.8 -3 55 64 -9 45 81.82 0 99.5 0 0.0 200 82.70 22
Landon Cassill 37 15 18 16 8 37 18.0 21 46 42 4 11 23.91 0 19.4 0 0.0 200 71.50 21
Ryan Sieg 20 13 17 17 7 24 16.0 3 46 34 12 23 50.00 6 48.3 0 0.0 199 78.50 24
Kyle Weatherman 26 18 19 18 9 26 17.4 8 40 38 2 4 10.00 0 11.9 0 0.0 199 71.30 19
Ryan Vargas 31 19 21 19 14 34 20.2 12 35 39 -4 2 5.71 0 1.5 0 0.0 199 65.80 18
Blaine Perkins 24 20 20 20 12 38 22.0 4 31 48 -17 1 3.23 0 2.0 0 0.0 198 59.20 17
David Starr 38 21 16 21 12 38 23.0 17 39 29 10 1 2.56 0 0.5 0 0.0 197 58.20 16
Brandon Brown 16 30 22 22 2 31 23.2 -6 15 39 -24 0 0.00 0 6.0 0 0.0 197 66.50 15
Mason Massey 30 27 24 23 22 39 26.2 7 41 30 11 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 197 48.70 14
Josh Williams 18 23 23 24 17 40 25.2 -6 21 31 -10 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 196 50.00 13
Spencer Boyd 32 25 26 25 23 39 29.0 7 23 38 -15 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 196 38.20 0
Jade Buford 23 24 25 26 23 35 26.8 -3 40 44 -4 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 195 49.30 11
Matt Jaskol 34 29 28 27 23 38 28.6 7 24 31 -7 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 195 41.00 10
Matt Mills 29 22 27 28 20 36 25.6 1 21 27 -6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 194 42.20 9
Jeffrey Earnhardt 22 26 29 29 19 37 28.8 -7 30 43 -13 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 194 43.50 8
BJ McLeod 39 28 30 30 8 39 26.6 9 26 26 0 0 0.00 0 1.0 0 0.0 193 50.30 0
Carson Ware 35 31 31 31 24 40 31.7 4 5 13 -8 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 113 35.20 6
CJ McLaughlin 40 32 32 32 31 40 33.2 8 0 2 -2 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 100 27.30 5
Riley Herbst 10 33 33 33 9 21 29.4 -23 6 7 -1 6 100.00 0 14.9 0 0.0 31 55.80 4
Sam Mayer 11 34 34 34 11 22 30.9 -23 9 15 -6 7 77.78 0 11.4 0 0.0 31 48.20 3
Dylan Lupton 25 35 35 35 17 29 33.0 -10 19 14 5 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 31 40.30 0
Jeb Burton 14 36 36 36 10 15 32.4 -22 12 13 -1 12 100.00 0 14.9 0 0.0 30 48.80 1
JJ Yeley 33 37 37 37 15 33 34.5 -4 22 7 15 1 4.55 0 0.0 0 0.0 30 40.50 1
Alex Labbe 17 38 38 38 17 24 35.6 -21 6 12 -6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 30 35.00 1
Jeremy Clements 13 39 39 39 13 25 35.8 -26 3 6 -3 1 33.33 0 2.5 0 0.0 30 40.50 1
Joe Graf Jr 21 40 40 40 21 32 38.2 -19 19 24 -5 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 30 26.80 1