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The 2024 Credit One NASCAR Amex Credit Card 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series practice results offer insights into driver performance, including lap times, top speeds, and practice session leaders at Homestead Miami Speedway.

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Saturday, October 26th, 2024

Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL

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  • 25 Chevrolet
  • 5 Toyota
  • 8 Ford

  • Thursday, October 24th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Homestead-Miami could be a springboard for Xfinity Series Playoff competitors

Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger proved to be a man of fine timing scoring his first win of the season in last week’s Playoff race at Las Vegas to earn an automatic bid into the Championship finale Nov. 9 at Phoenix Raceway.

The last two seasons, Playoff drivers have similarly celebrated their ticket to contend for the title at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where the NASCAR Xfinity Series Credit One NASCAR AMEX Credit Card 300 is the second half of a Saturday double-header (3:30 p.m. ET on The CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Two of the eight Playoff drivers have victories at Homestead-Miami, including defending race winner Sam Mayer and 2017 race winner Cole Custer. A win for either would be well-timed with only two races (at Homestead and then Martinsville, Va. next week) to decide which four drivers are championship eligible for the Phoenix race.

JR Motorsports’ veteran Justin Allgaier currently leads the points standings with a healthy 32-point advantage atop the four-driver cutoff line. The defending series champion Custer is next, 16 points to the good and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chandler Smith holds that final transfer position by a slim eight-points over Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill.

Hill’s RCR rookie teammate Jesse Love is 13 points below Chandler Smith. JR Motorsports’ teammates Mayer and Sammy Smith are 23 and 53 points back, respectively.

Of note, Allgaier’s points position now may prove especially helpful for the perennial championship contender considering he has only three top-10 finishes in 15 starts at the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami oval. His best career finish is sixth back in 2016. His only top-10 since then was a 10th place in 2022.

On the flip side, Hill has a perfect two-for-two top-10 showing at Homestead-Miami, including fourth place last year. Mayer is the defending winner and Sammy Smith started fifth and finished 10th last year in his only previous start at the track. This will be the 19-year-old rookie Love’s first Homestead race.

Practice for the race is at 4:05 p.m. ET on Friday with qualifying following at 4:40 p.m. ET – both sessions available to watch on the NBC Sports App.

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  • Pole Winner: Chandler Smith
  • Age: 22
  • Team : No 81 - QuickTie Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: Jeff Meendering
  • Chandler Smith won the Pole Award for the Credit One? NASCAR? AMEX Credit Card 300 with a lap of 33067 seconds, 163305 mph
  • This is his sixth pole in 67 NASCAR Xfinity Series races
  • This is his third pole and 25th top-10 start in 2024
  • This is his first pole in three races at Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • Sheldon Creed (second) posted his 22nd top-10 start of 2024 and his third in three races at Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • Aric Almirola (third) posted his fourth top-10 start at Homestead-Miami Speedway It is his ninth in 12 races this season
  • Jesse Love (14th) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Saturday, October 26th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Austin Hill earns a spot in Xfinity Championship Four with Homestead-Miami win

An emotional Austin Hill climbed out of his No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet on the Homestead-Miami Speedway frontstretch to celebrate one of the most significant race wins of his burgeoning career – claiming the Credit One NASCAR AMEX Credit Card 300 trophy Saturday and securing one of four positions to race for a trophy in the Nov. 9 series championship finale.

Hill – who also swept both of the race’s stage wins – took the lead from Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer with 11 laps remaining Saturday evening at the 1.5-mile South Florida track and raced off to a healthy 3.045-second win over the fellow Playoff driver and reigning series champion Custer.

It was the fourth win of the season for Hill and 10th of this career. But importantly, it is the first time the 30-year-old Georgia native will have a chance to race for the championship trophy after multi-win seasons the last three years.

“I worked so hard for this, a lot of people doubt me but I wake up every day to prove them wrong,” Hill said. “I deserve to be here and I deserve to race for a championship. This 21-team deserves it just as much as I do. They work their [butts] off each and every day just like I do. I’ve got to give it up to those guys. They gave me a hell of a car.

“I can honestly say I’ve never cried coming to the start-finish line, but I had to get my emotions together going into Turn 1 after the checkered, all the hard work and dedication that goes into this. I don’t think everyone’s going to understand what this means for me, for my family and for [sponsor] Bennett. … I had to be on it today.

Pausing to take it in, he added, “This is amazing. To be able to go the Final Four. I’ve worked so hard at this and my dreams came true.”

With his win and A.J. Allmendinger’s victory last week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, now only two positions remain for the title chase with one more race remaining – at the Martinsville (Va.) Speedway half-miler next week – to establish the championship foursome.

JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier – who only had three previous top-10 finishes at Homestead – took the checkered flag in eighth place which was good enough to keep the driver of the No. 7 JRM Chevrolet with the points lead in third place should he need that to advance to the championship race.

Custer, whose No. 00 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford led a race best 87 of the 200 laps, is now on that fourth-place cutoff line with a 28-point advantage over Saturday’s race pole-winner Chandler Smith. Smith, finished 13th and as with the bottom four ranked drivers is essentially in a must-win situation next weekend.

Hill’s rookie teammate Jesse Love ran up front much of the day and finished fourth. He’s now sixth in the points standings – 35 points below Custer.

“It just shows you how good you have to be to get in the Championship Four,” Love said, noting of the Phoenix finale, “I feel like if we could get there we have a shot to win.”

JR Motorsports teammates Sam Mayer and Sammy Smith finished ninth and 22nd, respectively and find themselves in a similar must-win situation to Chandler Smith and Love next week at Martinsville.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Aric Almirola finished third Saturday behind the Playoff drivers, with Love and JGR’s Sheldon Creed rounding out the top-five. Custer’s SHR teammate Riley Herbst, RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg, Allgaier, Mayer and last week’s race winner Allmendinger completed the top-10.

Of note, 18-year-old William Sawalich finished 24th in his much-anticipated Xfinity Series debut.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series moves to the Martinsville (Va.) Speedway half-miler next week for Saturday’s National Debt Relief 200 (4 p.m. ET on The CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Allgaier is the defending race winner. Almirola won at the track this Spring.

  • Drivers Entered: 38
  • Laps Scheduled: 200
  • Margin of Victory: 03.045 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 20 Minutes 23 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 128.220
  • Cautions: 3 for 19 laps
  • Lead Changes: 10
  • Green Flag Passes: 2,008 (11.1 passes per green flag lap)

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  • Race Winner: Austin Hill
  • Age: 30
  • Team : No 21 - Bennett Transportation Chevrolet
  • Owner: Richard Childress
  • Crew Chief: Andy Street
  • Austin Hill won the Credit One? NASCAR? AMEX Credit Card 300, his 10th victory in 112 Xfinity Series races
  • This is his fourth victory and 19th top-10 finish in 2024
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • Cole Custer (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in six races at Homestead-Miami Speedway It is his 21st top-10 finish in 2024
  • Aric Almirola (third) posted his third top-10 finish in six races at Homestead-Miami Speedway
  • Jesse Love (fourth) was the highest finishing rookie
  • Justin Allgaier leads the point standings by 7 points over Cole Custer
Jesse Love and Sam Mayer race
Homestead, Florida - October 26, 2024 : Jesse Love, driver of the #2 Whelen Chevrolet, and Sam Mayer, driver of the #1 10X Health Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Credit One NASCAR Amex Credit 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Credit One NASCAR Amex Credit Card 300 at Homestead Miami Speedway Practice results
# DRIVER MAKE RNK SPD TME BHND LAP LAPS 5- 10- 15- 20- 25- 30- 10-LAP FRM TO
16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 20 158.242 34.125 0.496 2 15 34.760 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
20 Aric Almirola Toyota 2 160.576 33.629 0.000 1 22 34.226 34.678 35.048 35.383 0 0 155.760 1 10
26 Ryan Truex Toyota 11 159.316 33.895 0.266 1 17 34.423 35.001 0 0 0 0 154.332 1 10
7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 19 158.488 34.072 0.443 1 23 34.355 34.801 35.095 35.336 0 0 155.199 1 10
48 Parker Kligerman Chevrolet 10 159.476 33.861 0.232 1 20 34.337 34.931 35.256 35.493 0 0 154.648 1 10
27 Jeb Burton Chevrolet 29 156.644 34.473 0.844 2 13 35.001 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
38 Matt DiBenedetto Ford 38 0.000 0.000 -33.629 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
43 Ryan Ellis Chevrolet 31 155.378 34.754 1.125 1 18 35.023 35.536 0 0 0 0 151.996 1 10
15 Dylan Lupton Ford 32 155.061 34.825 1.196 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
28 Ryan Sieg Ford 23 157.752 34.231 0.602 1 22 34.391 34.767 35.083 35.374 0 0 155.340 1 10
91 Kyle Weatherman Chevrolet 16 158.679 34.031 0.402 1 13 34.952 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
44 Brennan Poole Chevrolet 26 157.398 34.308 0.679 1 12 35.771 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
00 Cole Custer Ford 5 160.299 33.687 0.058 1 18 34.231 34.734 35.062 0 0 0 155.515 1 10
21 Austin Hill Chevrolet 12 158.950 33.973 0.344 2 23 34.235 34.805 35.203 35.406 0 0 155.211 1 10
9 Brandon Jones Chevrolet 9 159.683 33.817 0.188 1 22 34.282 34.857 35.143 35.379 0 0 154.970 1 10
51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 13 158.922 33.979 0.350 1 14 34.600 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
11 Josh Williams Chevrolet 18 158.507 34.068 0.439 1 20 34.944 35.248 35.486 35.675 0 0 153.231 1 10
98 Riley Herbst Ford 3 160.466 33.652 0.023 1 18 34.281 34.730 35.042 0 0 0 155.526 1 10
5 Anthony Alfredo Chevrolet 21 158.117 34.152 0.523 1 21 34.620 35.093 35.474 35.748 0 0 153.912 1 10
18 Sheldon Creed Toyota 7 159.991 33.752 0.123 1 21 34.336 34.896 35.111 35.235 0 0 154.802 1 10
29 Blaine Perkins Ford 28 156.744 34.451 0.822 1 14 35.295 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
39 Kyle Sieg Ford 25 157.453 34.296 0.667 1 22 34.849 35.421 35.835 36.163 0 0 152.505 1 10
1 Sam Mayer Chevrolet 8 159.726 33.808 0.179 1 20 34.513 34.897 35.134 35.418 0 0 154.770 1 10
74 Dawson Cram Chevrolet 33 153.745 35.123 1.494 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
81 Chandler Smith Toyota 4 160.456 33.654 0.025 1 19 34.232 35.811 0 0 0 0 150.803 9 18
35 Armani Williams Ford 37 144.644 37.333 3.704 6 6 37.799 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
31 Parker Retzlaff Chevrolet 15 158.810 34.003 0.374 1 13 34.620 35.171 0 0 0 0 153.586 1 10
07 Brad Perez Chevrolet 24 157.457 34.295 0.666 1 10 34.912 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
45 Mason Maggio Chevrolet 36 152.737 35.355 1.726 1 9 35.901 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
92 Nick Leitz Chevrolet 30 155.638 34.696 1.067 1 16 35.275 35.704 0 0 0 0 151.299 1 10
8 Sammy Smith Chevrolet 17 158.576 34.053 0.424 1 24 34.440 35.068 35.412 35.629 0 0 154.048 1 10
42 Leland Honeyman Jr Chevrolet 27 157.164 34.359 0.730 1 13 35.047 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
19 William Sawalich Toyota 6 160.209 33.706 0.077 1 16 34.536 34.802 0 0 0 0 155.193 1 10
2 Jesse Love Chevrolet 14 158.838 33.997 0.368 1 22 34.341 34.916 35.182 35.353 0 0 154.709 1 10
97 Shane van Gisbergen Chevrolet 22 157.881 34.203 0.574 1 19 34.527 34.843 0 0 0 0 154.997 1 10
88 Connor Zilisch Chevrolet 1 160.576 33.629 0.000 1 20 34.319 34.879 0 0 0 0 154.880 1 10
14 Austin Green Chevrolet 35 152.788 35.343 1.714 1 13 35.676 36.194 0 0 0 0 149.231 1 10
53 Thomas Annunziata Chevrolet 34 153.144 35.261 1.632 2 10 35.548 35.774 0 0 0 0 150.957 1 10