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The post-race loop data for the 2024 National Debt Relief 250 at Martinsville Speedway includes in-depth driver stats, average speeds, and key performance metrics from the NASCAR XFINITY Series race.

National Debt Relief 250

Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA

Previous race at Martinsville Speedway
  • 24 Chevrolet
  • 5 Toyota
  • 9 Ford

  • Thursday, October 31st, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Justin Allgaier looks for another shot at NASCAR Xfinity title

There truly is no “middle class” in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff standings, as drivers head for Martinsville Speedway for Saturday’s National Debt Relief 250 (4 p.m. ET on The CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

There are only “haves” and “have nots.” The former group includes Austin Hill and AJ Allmendinger, winners at Homestead and Las Vegas, respectively, in the Round of 8; and Justin Allgaier and defending series champion Cole Custer, who are significantly above the current elimination line for the Championship 4 Round (35 and 28 points, respectively).

The “have nots” include Chandler Smith, Jesse Love, Sam Mayer and Sammy Smith, who realistically must find a way to win at Martinsville to earn a spot in the Nov. 9 title race at Phoenix Raceway.

Allgaier, who has raced in the Xfinity Series full-time since 2009, is seeking the only significant accomplishment that has eluded him during that span—a series championship.

The 38-year-old from Riverton, Illinois, won last year’s elimination race at Martinsville to advance to the Championship 4 Round but finished second in the final standings behind Custer, who won the title race.

“We were in a similar position entering Martinsville last year and were fortunate enough to come away with the win and move on to the Championship Four,” said Allgaier, who has five top fives and seven top 10s in eight starts at the 0.526-mile short track. “That just further gives me all the confidence in the world in (crew chief) Jim (Pohlman) and everyone on this (team) as we look ahead to this weekend.

“Martinsville has been a strong track for us, and I know we will be just as solid once we hit the track for practice on Friday. We just need to be smart all day long and keep the fenders as clean as we can on our JR Motorsports Camaro.”

  • National Debt Relief 250
  • Pole Winner: Parker Retzlaff
  • Age: 21
  • Team : No 31 - The Visual Pak Companies Chevrolet
  • Owner: Jordan Anderson
  • Crew Chief: Chad Kendrick
  • Parker Retzlaff won the Pole Award for the National Debt Relief 250 with a lap of 19901 seconds, 95151 mph
  • This is his second pole in 74 NASCAR Xfinity Series races
  • This is his second pole and sixth top-10 start in 2024
  • This is his first pole in five races at Martinsville Speedway
  • Anthony Alfredo (second) posted his seventh top-10 start of 2024 and his third in six races at Martinsville Speedway
  • Chandler Smith (third) posted his second top-10 start at Martinsville Speedway It is his 26th in 32 races this season
  • Jesse Love (fourth) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Aric Almirola completes season sweep in Martinsville elimination race

Tickets punched and punches thrown—it was Martinsville after all, and in Saturday’s National Debt Relief 250, Aric Almirola made Martinsville Speedway his personal playground.

Leading 150 of 250 laps in a No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota that was the clear class of the field, Almirola won his second race in his second NASCAR Xfinity Series start at the 0.526-mile short track and earned a spot for his car in the series owners’ Championship 4.

In the process, Almirola denied JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith and JGR’s Chandler Smith a chance to advance to the Championship 4 Race for the drivers’ title.

Pulling away after a restart on Lap 235, the part-time Xfinity Series driver beat runner-up Sammy Smith to the finish line by 0.587 seconds, with Chandler Smith trailing in third.

With Almirola winning the race, Justin Allgaier (fifth Saturday) and defending series champion Cole Custer (fourth) qualified for the Nov. 9 Championship 4 Race at Phoenix on points, joining Round of 8 race winners AJ Allmendinger and Austin Hill.

Jesse Love (12th Saturday) and Sam Mayer (30th) were eliminated from the Playoffs along with the two Smiths, though Chandler gave a parting shot in the form of a punch to Custer, with whom he had tangled on the race track.

For Almirola, who won at Martinsville in April in his first Xfinity attempt, the victory was the third of the season in 13 starts and the seventh of his career.

“We had an amazing car here in the spring, and we made a few tweaks to it,” said Almirola, who also swept the first and second stages. “I wasn’t totally happy with it, honestly, in the spring. And we showed up (Friday) and we were awful. I was like ‘Oh, no, what did we do?’

“They went to work last night and came up with a lot of changes to make to the car, and it was so hooked up today. It would just do everything I wanted it to. This is such a special place. This is by far my favorite race track. I’m just so thankful.”

After Chandler Smith executed a bump-and run on Custer for a pass on Lap 220, Custer lined up behind Smith on the outside for a restart on Lap 227. In a race that produced 13 cautions for 84 laps, Custer shoved Smith’s Camry toward the wall in Turn 1, perhaps denying the latter a chance to race for the win.

After the race, Smith confronted Custer and threw a punch at the reigning champion.

“I was planning to do a lot more than that, to be completely frank with you,” Smith said. “I was extremely pissed off. I gave him five laps before that caution came out (for Brandon Jones spin on Lap 220). I beat his bumper off and never shipped him or anything. The laps were winding down, and I was in a must-win. The 20 (Almirola) started to drive away—he was really good all day—I can’t waste any more time with him.

“I finally had a good enough run and pushed him up the race track and went on our way. But I gave him a chance for five laps before that. I think he was the first guy all day that chose the outside lane from third place (for the Lap 227 restart). That was very interesting, and he didn’t even give me a chance to make the corner when we got to Turn 1.”

Custer thought that made the drivers all-square, though Smith disagreed.

“Obviously, he wasn’t happy, but what goes around comes around,” Custer said. “He put us in the wall a few times this year. He used the bump-and-run on me. I used the bump-and-run on him…

“I don’t know how we’re not even. And then he punched me in the face. I couldn’t really tell if he even punched me in the face, it was so soft.”

Along with Almirola, Hill and Allmendinger, Allgaier put his No. 7 Chevrolet in the Championship 4 for the owners’ title.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 250
  • Margin of Victory: 0.587 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 11 Minutes 30 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 60.000
  • Cautions: 13 for 84 laps
  • Lead Changes: 12
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,550 (9.3 passes per green flag lap)

  • National Debt Relief 250
  • Race Winner: Aric Almirola
  • Age: 40
  • Team : No 20 - He Gets Us Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Tyler Allen
  • Aric Almirola won the National Debt Relief 250, his seventh victory in 117 Xfinity Series races
  • This is his third victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2024
  • This is his second victory and second top-10 finish in two races at Martinsville Speedway
  • Sammy Smith (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Martinsville Speedway It is his 16th top-10 finish in 2024
  • Chandler Smith (third) posted his third top-10 finish in four races at Martinsville Speedway
  • Jesse Love (12th) was the highest finishing rookie
  • Justin Allgaier leads the point standings by 7 points over Cole Custer
Ryan Blaney celebrates after winning
Martinsville, Virginia - November 3, 2024 : Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Discount Tire Ford, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
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National Debt Relief 250 at Martinsville 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
Aric Almirola 9 1 1 1 1 11 2.2 8 24 9 15 20 83.33 48 100.0 150 60.0 250 147.10 60
Sammy Smith 7 4 7 2 2 27 8.2 5 37 32 5 32 86.49 14 94.4 0 0.0 250 108.30 45
Chandler Smith 3 6 2 3 1 12 4.1 0 31 19 12 28 90.32 41 100.0 34 13.6 250 126.90 46
Cole Custer 10 7 3 4 1 28 7.2 6 56 28 28 38 67.86 9 88.8 17 6.8 250 105.80 46
Justin Allgaier 5 5 4 5 2 13 4.2 0 29 21 8 27 93.10 5 100.0 0 0.0 250 114.10 46
Sheldon Creed 8 3 13 6 1 29 8.4 2 56 37 19 44 78.57 13 91.2 13 5.2 250 108.60 41
Anthony Alfredo 2 12 9 7 2 26 10.4 -5 40 40 0 38 95.00 1 92.0 0 0.0 250 95.00 30
Parker Kligerman 18 17 10 8 2 33 14.7 10 72 45 27 37 51.39 0 62.4 0 0.0 250 84.80 29
Jeb Burton 21 10 6 9 5 21 9.7 12 41 39 2 32 78.05 3 90.4 0 0.0 250 94.00 29
Myatt Snider 22 14 17 10 2 35 18.5 12 57 58 -1 9 15.79 0 18.0 0 0.0 250 71.80 27
Riley Herbst 13 8 8 11 3 15 7.5 2 60 55 5 57 95.00 8 100.0 0 0.0 250 99.40 34
Jesse Love 4 11 15 12 3 32 13.2 -8 51 42 9 24 47.06 0 66.0 0 0.0 250 82.00 31
Brennan Poole 19 31 14 13 2 33 17.3 6 59 60 -1 21 35.59 0 36.0 0 0.0 250 74.70 25
Austin Hill 6 15 26 14 5 27 13.6 -8 61 58 3 41 67.21 0 70.8 0 0.0 250 81.20 23
Ryan Sieg 38 2 12 15 1 38 13.0 23 58 38 20 21 36.21 2 71.2 13 5.2 250 83.30 31
Matt DiBenedetto 16 23 16 16 10 36 21.0 0 62 58 4 6 9.68 0 8.8 0 0.0 250 62.80 21
Josh Williams 23 18 27 17 5 31 18.5 6 73 51 22 13 17.81 0 24.8 0 0.0 250 65.50 24
Ryan Ellis 26 29 18 18 13 35 24.5 8 44 51 -7 2 4.55 0 5.2 0 0.0 250 54.80 19
Blaine Perkins 24 24 20 19 9 35 22.7 5 49 63 -14 5 10.20 0 7.6 0 0.0 250 56.30 18
Dylan Lupton 31 20 19 20 13 31 22.2 11 44 53 -9 0 0.00 0 0.4 0 0.0 250 58.50 17
Kyle Sieg 27 22 22 21 1 36 25.7 6 49 56 -7 0 0.00 0 1.6 3 1.2 250 50.30 16
Mason Maggio 36 33 24 22 21 36 30.2 14 31 33 -2 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 250 40.70 0
Patrick Emerling 35 30 23 23 15 35 27.8 12 45 62 -17 0 0.00 1 0.4 0 0.0 250 44.00 14
Preston Pardus 32 28 29 24 22 36 29.1 8 26 32 -6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 250 43.30 13
Dawson Cram 28 26 28 25 15 34 25.7 3 44 69 -25 3 6.82 0 2.0 0 0.0 250 45.80 0
Greg Van Alst 37 27 25 26 22 37 30.7 11 15 31 -16 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 250 36.30 11
Jeremy Clements 29 25 21 27 10 31 23.6 2 42 58 -16 0 0.00 0 3.6 0 0.0 249 44.50 10
Shane van Gisbergen 20 16 11 28 2 32 16.4 -8 58 51 7 19 32.76 0 50.8 0 0.0 249 65.80 9
Brandon Jones 14 19 30 29 11 30 16.7 -15 33 42 -9 24 72.73 0 58.4 0 0.0 234 65.20 8
Sam Mayer 12 13 5 30 3 32 12.8 -18 55 35 20 39 70.91 2 74.0 0 0.0 228 75.90 7
Bubba Pollard 17 21 32 31 12 34 23.4 -14 31 52 -21 17 54.84 0 23.2 0 0.0 223 59.30 6
Garrett Smithley 30 32 31 32 4 35 26.6 -2 29 72 -43 0 0.00 0 2.8 0 0.0 205 40.70 5
William Sawalich 15 9 33 33 7 38 24.5 -18 50 27 23 22 44.00 1 26.8 0 0.0 164 57.30 0
Logan Bearden 34 34 34 34 20 36 32.6 0 10 18 -8 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 162 29.20 3
Leland Honeyman Jr 25 35 35 35 7 36 31.9 -10 16 26 -10 1 6.25 0 2.8 0 0.0 56 40.00 2
Parker Retzlaff 1 36 36 36 1 36 28.7 -35 1 11 -10 1 100.00 4 21.2 20 37.7 53 77.60 1
Carson Ware 33 38 37 37 33 38 37.9 -4 1 6 -5 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 44 23.70 1
AJ Allmendinger 11 37 38 38 8 37 35.9 -27 10 9 1 10 100.00 0 4.4 0 0.0 13 27.20 1