Josh Berry leads JRM 1–2–3, clinches Championship Round berth

Josh Berry is the first to secure a chance to fight for a NASCAR Xfinity Series championship. He and his JR Motorsports team-mates put on a clinic in Saturday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as he and Noah Gragson combined to lead 152 of 200 laps and finish 1–2; Justin Allgaier, fresh off signing a contract extension with JRM, completed the podium sweep.

Berry took the lead on the final restart with thirty-five laps remaining, set up by future JRM driver Brandon Jones‘ spin on lap 162, and never let go. Gragson, the Stage #2 winner, settled for second after being in first for a race-high eighty-two circuits. Behind the JRM trio at the front, the team’s fourth driver Sam Mayer still had a solid day of his own in seventh.

“I never won at Vegas as a driver so I love when our JRM drivers do,” tweeted team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. “Plus 1-2-3 against a tough field is something to be very proud of.”

Ty Gibbs was the highest finishing non-JGR driver in fourth. Despite winning the first stage, he explained he “sucked on restarts and that was where people capitalised today with track position, and dirty air was very big. I feel like that was the spot we were not as good at as we needed to be to contend for the win, but I feel like we were capable of it, just needed to be in better lines on restarts. I don’t feel like it was because I spun the tyres, but there were still people getting runs. We were three-wide at one point, but people were getting runs on the top, so it was possible to move forward.”

Hailie Deegan finished thirteenth, the best performing Ford, in her Xfinity début.

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	12	8	Josh Berry	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
2	4	9	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
3	10	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
4	3	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	201	Running
5	2	18	Trevor Bayne^	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	201	Running
6	8	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	201	Running
7	5	1	Sam Mayer	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
8	6	11	Daniel Hemric	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	201	Running
9	7	19	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	201	Running
10	21	23	Anthony Alfredo	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
11	15	10	Landon Cassill	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	201	Running
12	22	48	Nick Sanchez	Big Machine Racing Team	Chevrolet	201	Running
13	20	07	Hailie Deegan*	SS-Green Light Racing	Ford	201	Running
14	26	34	Kyle Weatherman	Jesse Iwuji Motorsports	Chevrolet	201	Running
15	14	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	201	Running
16	11	26	John Hunter Nemechek*	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	200	Running
17	16	27	Jeb Burton	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	Running
18	36	98	Riley Herbst	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	200	Running
19	23	31	Myatt Snider	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
20	18	44	Rajah Caruth*	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	200	Running
21	27	02	Parker Retzlaff	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	Running
22	1	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	199	Running
23	17	45	Stefan Parsons*	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	198	Running
24	31	68	Kris Wright*	Brandonbilt Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	Running
25	25	78	Garrett Smithley	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	Running
26	38	28	Kyle Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	197	Running
27	32	35	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Emerling-Gase Motorsports	Toyota	197	Running
28	35	6	Ryan Vargas	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	197	Running
29	29	91	Mason Massey	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	196	Running
30	34	38	C.J. McLaughlin	RSS Racing	Ford	196	Running
31	37	08	David Starr	SS-Green Light Racing	Ford	196	Running
32	30	13	Matt Jaskol*	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	195	Running
33	24	4	Bayley Currey	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	195	Running
34	28	36	Josh Williams	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	195	Running
35	33	5	Matt Mills*	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Chevrolet	195	Running
36	19	66	J.J. Yeley	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	82	Engine
37	9	2	Sheldon Creed #	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	52	Engine
38	13	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	32	Steering