• Saturday’s ALSCO UNIFORMS 250 Atlanta Motor Speedway
WINNER: AUSTIN HILL
Radio trouble prevented driver Austin Hill from being able to speak to his Richard Childress Racing crew during the Alsco Uniforms 250 Saturday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but he sure understood the final hand signal. Number one.
The Georgia native, 28, won at his hometown track for the first time in his NASCAR career – holding off JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry by a mere .111-second –the closest Xfinity Series race finish in track history.
His 73 laps led in the No. 21 RCR Chevrolet was most on the day and the most of his young Xfinity Series career.
There were 17 lead changes in the race, but Hill took the lead for good on a restart with 48 laps remaining and held off Berry, Ryan Truex, Daniel Hemric and Tyler Reddick – sure that they would try to pass him in the final lap. The frontrunners got dicey as expected, but Hill was able to pull away and was never challenged heading to the checkered flag to take his second series victory in 2022.
Truex finished third, followed by Reddic and reigning Xfinity Series champion Daniel Hemric.
Noah Gragson and Justin Allgaier were sixth and seventh, followed by Landon Cassill, Riley Herbst and A.J. Allmendinger.