FORT WORTH, Texas – After video and photo review, it was confirmed that Sam Mayer won Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race in the Andy’s Frozen Custard 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Officially, the margin of victory was a slim .002 seconds over Ryan Sieg who was mere inches away from his first career victory.
Instead, it was Mayer who would earn his fifth career win, first of the 2024 season and claiming the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus.
“That’s absolutely unreal,” the 20-year old Mayer said, shaking his head after climbing out of his car. “This team, the amount of adversity we’ve had to fight this entire year so far and to come to a mile-and-a-half that I want to say I’m good at, but it took a lot.
“It took every ounce of me for me to do that today.”
Sieg now has 342 career Xfinity Series starts, and is still in search of his first career win. He led all but one of the final 18 laps. The record-setting finish for the 1.5-mile oval in Fort Worth left fans speechless, but Sieg still positive about the growth and progress of his family operated team, RSS Racing.
“Awe, it sucks,” said an obviously disappointed Sieg, who has two other career runner-up finishes. “We had a really good car. I just got tight, so tried to change my lines, do everything. I saw him coming and I did all I could do and at the end I was just trying to run him up into the wall to try to win the race. We were so close. This sucks. I’ve been second before. Too many times. But this is a good thing, means we’re running where we need to be in the top-five.
“Just got to keep fighting, we’re right there, just got to keep it up,” he added. “We’ll have it in Victory Lane here shortly.”
Justin Allgaier, teammate to Mayer, would lead a race high 117 laps and sweep both stages, but fell to third at the checkered flag.
A.J. Allmendinger crossed the line fourth after an uphill battle from a pit road mishap during the conclusion of Stage 1. Reigning champion Cole Custer finished fifth, gaining on current point leader Chandler Smith.
Austin Hill finished sixth with Ryan Truex and Sammy Smith finishing in line behind him. Ninth belonged to polesitter Jesse Love, who earned his third career pole in just eight starts, making him only the seventh driver to accomplish the feat in series history. Anthony Alfredo earned his third top-10 of the year in his No. 5 Our Motorsports Chevrolet.
The top four finishers – Mayer, Sieg, Allgaier and Allmendinger – will fight next weekend for the Dash 4 Cash bonus at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in the Ag-Pro 300 (4 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).