Jesse Love wins in an accident race in Daytona

Jesse Love took home his second career in the Nascar Xfinity series at the United Rentals 300 on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. Richard Childress racing driver became the dominant pilot of the race once his teammate Austin Hill withdrew from the race due to mechanical problems after completing 82 laps.

While before he has experienced a victory in the Nascar Xfinity series, this is the first victory in his career of the young driver in Daytona International Speedway, and winning in the legendary Superspeedway brought to light the emotions in love.

“I mean, this is the only place where I cry during the national anthem, or it excites me. I am an emotional guy, as everyone knows, and I try not to hide it,” said Love. “But this place is special. You see here when I was in New Smyrna and just wanting to be part of him, wanting to have the prestige of winning here and saying the name of the Lord in a great scenario.”

Love led three times for a total of 30 laps on the 32 final circuits of the race, including the final 18 laps.

When Love took over the race, the race became a shock festival in the section. Three big accidents exploded around the final 13. The final accident, which arrived in extra time, He spent the end of the race when the caution was called just after love took the white flag.

Justin Allgaier got into the back of Taylor Gray while running around the sixth place to activate the final caution of the race. That bump disturbed Allgaier’s car and sent it to No. 32 Chevrolet by Jordan Anderson. And from there a rain of sparks, smoke and grated body panels occurred.

Love praised Josh Wise and a wise optimization to help him learn recently to keep calm in extra time.

“Josh Wise changed my life the other week helping me to compartmentalize my mind, and it is easy because green white checkers stink,” said Love. “I take a lot of what Josh Wise says seriously and took advantage of the mentality of not being afraid, without emotion and no, I suppose, anxiety. Only direct will to succeed and will be will win.”

At the end of love was Sam Mayer, who collected a finalist in his first race with the Factory Haas team, and his teammate Sheldon Creed arrived home in third place.

While he would have liked to win the race, since Mayer, the finalist, marked his first first result in the top five on a track where he has fought to finish along his young Nascar Xfinity series career.

“First Top 5 finish (in Daytona), Yikes,” Mayer said. “Yes, we only did everything we wanted. The car was able to do it, and (the chief of the crew) Tyler Green on the roof, he is new to me, so we worked very well today together. So, I ” M Super pumped to see what we can do for the rest of the year. “

Creed, who has 18 race finals in second or third .

When asked what could have done to win the race, Creed said: “Get control of the race, obviously. I mean, I tried. I tried to go for the 2 there with 15, 20 (turns) to go and pass He once and then came to his side at another time and did not have the help he needed.

One of the two rookie contenders of the JR motor sports, Carson Kvapil ended fourth, despite suffering a lot of damage to his car in a six -car accident in Tour 6, and Taylor Gray, another contender As a rookie of the year- he caught a result of the fifth place that led No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

In the rear half of the 10 best there were a lot of stories of feeling good among some of the helpless of the Nascar Xfinity series.

Harrison Burton, who won the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar 400 of the Nascar Cup for the Wood Brothers racing team last season, snatched a sixth-place race in his first race with Am Racing, where he will lead to full time this year.

While Burton admits that he had some things during the race he could clean behind the steering wheel, he was happy to make his mandate with the Am Racing team began with his right foot.

“It’s a good start, right? I felt honestly, we were lucky with how some things worked and they didn’t have some accidents that we might have,” Burton said. “I would like to control the race a little better when I put myself in front. But with the damage, and everything that was fine. Honestly, just one day, I feel that there is more potential in the equipment and the car, we can do a lot for improve “.

Jordan Anderson, a part -time runner and owner of a full -time team, kept the nose race for a long time, and ended seventh, which marks the fourth top 10 of the South Carolina race in 26 beginnings of the series Nascar Xfinity.

Dean Thompson, another member of the talented 2025 rookie kind, arrived at Eighth House at Toyota No. 26 for Sam Hunt Racing. Thompson was happy with the fight in his team after some mistakes at the beginning of the race.

“We faced ourselves at the wrong time, and I missed my stalls in boxes. Thompson.

The 23 -year -old corridor says that despite being together for a few months, he and Sam Hunt Racing’s team are gelizing.

“That’s why I’m here, man,” Thompson said enthusiastically. “We gelify very well, and complete what we need for each other, and that is why we are working so well together. Very happy with that.”

Patrick Emerling potentially crowned the best week of his professional career career with his first final of the first race, since the tenth ended. At the beginning of the week, Emerling captured four modified series victories on New Smyrna on its way to a modified championship.

To collect the end of the 10 best at Chevrolet No. 07 SS-GREENlight Racing, Emerling had to recover from great adversity at night.

“Yes, I mean, really great. We overcome a lot here,” Emerling explained. “We had some radio problems, really intermittent, I was very hard to hear there. But we also had problems lowering the green flag well (stop), I think my teammate accidentally entered my position there, and we set a lap down.

Daniel Dye, who competes for the honors of the rookie of the year as the driver of the Kaulig Racing Chevrolet No. 10, was annoying because he was swept in a return 5 melee, who considered that it was caused by love, the eventual winner of the race, being too aggressive than early in the race.

“Jesse was only pressing Brandon very well (Jones) there all the time, and once Brandon checked so as not to run over the two guys in front of him, and turned around,” Dye explained. “I mean, Jesse was pressing very hard, and simply not the time for that. I think Jesse knows it.”

Jones, the pilot of No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, also saw his career to come to an end in this incident.

The following for the Nascar Xfinity series is the Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. That race is scheduled for Saturday, February 22. The CW will provide television coverage of that race from 5:00 pm et.

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